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graft
vi. 移植；嫁接；贪污
Extra pay for combat (real or invented ), and the kickbacks required to claim it, were only the most mundane form of graft .
奖励战斗（真实的或捏造的），以及辩护必须的酬金都只不过是最普通的贪污腐化形式
vi. 移植；嫁接；贪污
Extra pay for combat (real or invented ), and the kickbacks required to claim it, were only the most mundane form of graft .
奖励战斗（真实的或捏造的），以及辩护必须的酬金都只不过是最普通的贪污腐化形式
grate
vt. 装格栅于；磨擦
vi. 发摩擦声
n. 壁炉；格栅
2.As everyone knows , this kind of voice can grate on your nerves.
这是谁也可以想象出来的一种难听的声音。
vt. 装格栅于；磨擦
vi. 发摩擦声
n. 壁炉；格栅
2.As everyone knows , this kind of voice can grate on your nerves.
这是谁也可以想象出来的一种难听的声音。
gripe
n. 控制；发牢骚；肠绞痛
vt. 绞痛；握紧；惹恼
vi. 抱怨，发牢骚；肠绞痛
3.Japanese bosses gripe about activism , yet privately concede that the pressure is spurring many firms to increase returns to shareholders .
日本的老板抱怨激进主义，然而，私下却承认这种压力刺激了很多公司给股东增加了投资回报。
n. 控制；发牢骚；肠绞痛
vt. 绞痛；握紧；惹恼
vi. 抱怨，发牢骚；肠绞痛
3.Japanese bosses gripe about activism , yet privately concede that the pressure is spurring many firms to increase returns to shareholders .
日本的老板抱怨激进主义，然而，私下却承认这种压力刺激了很多公司给股东增加了投资回报。
grit
vt. 研磨；在…上铺砂砾
vi. 摩擦作声
n. 粗砂，砂砾
1.Free the nose and mouth of a casualty from dust and grit to ease breathing .
替伤员清理鼻子和嘴里的尘土、沙砾，使其呼吸顺畅。
vt. 研磨；在…上铺砂砾
vi. 摩擦作声
n. 粗砂，砂砾
1.Free the nose and mouth of a casualty from dust and grit to ease breathing .
替伤员清理鼻子和嘴里的尘土、沙砾，使其呼吸顺畅。
hectic 繁忙的
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3.They plead for criticism , but what could one say except to congratulate them all for making so much headway in so shout a time ?
他们诚恳地请求给予批评，可是我们除了祝贺他们大家在这样短短的时间里取得了这么大的成绩以外，还能讲些什么呢？
headway 进展
他们诚恳地请求给予批评，可是我们除了祝贺他们大家在这样短短的时间里取得了这么大的成绩以外，还能讲些什么呢？
headway 进展
hearken 倾听
1."Hearken unto me , Hester Prynne! " said the voice .
“听我说，海丝特·白兰！”那声音喊道。
1."Hearken unto me , Hester Prynne! " said the voice .
“听我说，海丝特·白兰！”那声音喊道。
1.Then she hastily blundered into the opening bars of "Jacket of Gray " and stopped heartrending that selection was too .
接着，她匆忙地唱起《灰夹克》的头几小节来，可是很快便觉得这也太平惨，便草草结束了。
heartrending 令人心碎的
接着，她匆忙地唱起《灰夹克》的头几小节来，可是很快便觉得这也太平惨，便草草结束了。
heartrending 令人心碎的
2.He had scarcely begun his speech when the audience began to heckle him .
他一开始演讲，听众就开始诘问他。
heckle 诘问
他一开始演讲，听众就开始诘问他。
heckle 诘问
hermetic 密封的，炼金术的
23.The physical , chemical and biological harm of working in hermetic space are narrated , and the corresponding prevention countermeasures are put forward at this paper .
列述了密闭空间作业的物理、化学、生物性危害，提出了相应的预防对策。
23.The physical , chemical and biological harm of working in hermetic space are narrated , and the corresponding prevention countermeasures are put forward at this paper .
列述了密闭空间作业的物理、化学、生物性危害，提出了相应的预防对策。
2.Five hundred years ago , the chief of an hexagon came upon a book as confusing as the others, but which had nearly two pages of homogeneous lines .
五百年前，一位高楼层六边形回廊的主管偶然发现一本同样让人困惑的书，同样的文字几乎占了两页。
hexagon 六边形
五百年前，一位高楼层六边形回廊的主管偶然发现一本同样让人困惑的书，同样的文字几乎占了两页。
hexagon 六边形
heterodox 异端
2.During this period , can be seen holding heterodox intellectuals still have a certain survival "freedom " in.
这一时期，可以看出持异端的知识分子还是有一定生存“自由度”的。
2.During this period , can be seen holding heterodox intellectuals still have a certain survival "freedom " in.
这一时期，可以看出持异端的知识分子还是有一定生存“自由度”的。
heretic 异教徒
1.Burn heretic .
烧死异教徒。
1.Burn heretic .
烧死异教徒。
hemorrhage 出血，番茄汁
30.Former British ice-skating champion Jayne Soliman gave birth to a healthy baby girl (see photo ) 48 hours after she died from a hemorrhage with the baby being delivered by caesarean section .
近日，英国前滑冰冠军珍妮·索里曼在脑出血死亡48小时后，以剖腹产方式产下一名健康女婴（见图），取名艾雅。
30.Former British ice-skating champion Jayne Soliman gave birth to a healthy baby girl (see photo ) 48 hours after she died from a hemorrhage with the baby being delivered by caesarean section .
近日，英国前滑冰冠军珍妮·索里曼在脑出血死亡48小时后，以剖腹产方式产下一名健康女婴（见图），取名艾雅。
hidebound 死板的；保守的；顽固的；墨守成规的
1.You will never change their ideas . They are far too hidebound .
你无法改变他们的意思，因为他们太墨守成规。
hie
vt. 催促；快走；使赶紧
vi. 赶快；催促
1.Hie to high fortune ! Honest nurse, farewell .
我要找寻我的幸运去！好奶妈，再会。
hieroglyph
n. 象形文字；图画文字；秘密符号
2.Each picture , or hieroglyph , represents either an idea or a sound .
每一图画或者每一个象形代表着一种想法或者一种声音。
hirsute
adj. 多毛的；[昆] 有粗毛的
2.Leaf sheaths hirsute , densely so at mouth ;
叶鞘具粗毛，浓密如此在嘴；
1.You will never change their ideas . They are far too hidebound .
你无法改变他们的意思，因为他们太墨守成规。
hie
vt. 催促；快走；使赶紧
vi. 赶快；催促
1.Hie to high fortune ! Honest nurse, farewell .
我要找寻我的幸运去！好奶妈，再会。
hieroglyph
n. 象形文字；图画文字；秘密符号
2.Each picture , or hieroglyph , represents either an idea or a sound .
每一图画或者每一个象形代表着一种想法或者一种声音。
hirsute
adj. 多毛的；[昆] 有粗毛的
2.Leaf sheaths hirsute , densely so at mouth ;
叶鞘具粗毛，浓密如此在嘴；
histrionic
adj. 戏剧的；演员的，表演的
n. 演员
1.Fortune or misfortune , I feel this world is full of histrionic .
无论幸运或不幸时，我都觉得这世界充满了戏剧性。
adj. 戏剧的；演员的，表演的
n. 演员
1.Fortune or misfortune , I feel this world is full of histrionic .
无论幸运或不幸时，我都觉得这世界充满了戏剧性。
hodgepodge
n. 大杂烩；混煮；一团糟
vt. 使混乱
2.The region became a hodgepodge of languages and dialects , some from the East , some from the South and some from other countries entirely .
这个地区成为语言和方言的大杂烩，有些来自东部，有些来自南部，而有些完全是来自别的国家。
n. 大杂烩；混煮；一团糟
vt. 使混乱
2.The region became a hodgepodge of languages and dialects , some from the East , some from the South and some from other countries entirely .
这个地区成为语言和方言的大杂烩，有些来自东部，有些来自南部，而有些完全是来自别的国家。
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hoist
n. 起重机；升起，吊起
vi. 升起；吊起
vt. （用绳索，起重机等）使升起
1.They hoist cargo with a crane .
他们用起重机吊起货物。
n. 起重机；升起，吊起
vi. 升起；吊起
vt. （用绳索，起重机等）使升起
1.They hoist cargo with a crane .
他们用起重机吊起货物。
hold 货舱
holster n. 手枪皮套
2.Perfect. He put it in its holster under his jacket , and put the silencer in his pocket .
他把它放在了他夹克下的枪套里，消音器在他口袋。
2.Perfect. He put it in its holster under his jacket , and put the silencer in his pocket .
他把它放在了他夹克下的枪套里，消音器在他口袋。
homeostasisi
n. [生理] 体内平衡；[自] 内稳态
3.In this one of the important aspects of sustainable development to use the land reasonably and realize it ' s homeostasis .
合理利用土地资源，实现耕地总量的动态平衡，是广州市实现可持续发展的一项重要内容。
n. [生理] 体内平衡；[自] 内稳态
3.In this one of the important aspects of sustainable development to use the land reasonably and realize it ' s homeostasis .
合理利用土地资源，实现耕地总量的动态平衡，是广州市实现可持续发展的一项重要内容。
honorarium
n. 报酬，酬金；谢礼
8.I will send $ 1000 , plus VOA's honorarium , we will send $ 1500 US dollars to you first .
我将会送 $1000 的 ，加上美国之音的报酬，我们将会首先送 $1500 美元给你。
n. 报酬，酬金；谢礼
8.I will send $ 1000 , plus VOA's honorarium , we will send $ 1500 US dollars to you first .
我将会送 $1000 的 ，加上美国之音的报酬，我们将会首先送 $1500 美元给你。
huckster
vt. 叫卖；讨价还价
n. 叫卖的小贩；小商人；吃广告饭的人
vi. 叫卖；做小商贩
1.They tried to huckster red socks to me .
他们企图强行向我推销红色短袜。
vt. 叫卖；讨价还价
n. 叫卖的小贩；小商人；吃广告饭的人
vi. 叫卖；做小商贩
1.They tried to huckster red socks to me .
他们企图强行向我推销红色短袜。
1.Didn't I say once before that Miss Sun was conniving ?
我不是跟你讲过，孙小姐这人很深心么？
conniving
adj. 纵容的；默许的
v. 纵容；默许；假装不见；共谋（connive的ing形式）
我不是跟你讲过，孙小姐这人很深心么？
conniving
adj. 纵容的；默许的
v. 纵容；默许；假装不见；共谋（connive的ing形式）
dhow
n. 单桅三角帆船；独桅帆船的一种
n. 单桅三角帆船；独桅帆船的一种
inane
adj. 空洞的，空虚的；愚蠢的
1.We rush to fill it inane talks and nervous gestures , and the silence loses its value .
我们迫不及待地在沉默中加入毫无意义的对话和紧张的手势，使得沉默失去了它的价值。
adj. 空洞的，空虚的；愚蠢的
1.We rush to fill it inane talks and nervous gestures , and the silence loses its value .
我们迫不及待地在沉默中加入毫无意义的对话和紧张的手势，使得沉默失去了它的价值。
inappreciable
adj. 微不足道的
1.Compared with the victory of conquering ourselves , all of the victories are inappreciable .
所有的胜利，与征服自己的胜利比起来，都是微不足道。
adj. 微不足道的
1.Compared with the victory of conquering ourselves , all of the victories are inappreciable .
所有的胜利，与征服自己的胜利比起来，都是微不足道。
incandescence
n. 炽热
9.In the face of increasingly fierce market competition , and changing market , the competition is almost incandescence of human resources .
面对日趋激烈的市场竞争，以及不断变化的市场，人力资源的竞争已近白炽化。
n. 炽热
9.In the face of increasingly fierce market competition , and changing market , the competition is almost incandescence of human resources .
面对日趋激烈的市场竞争，以及不断变化的市场，人力资源的竞争已近白炽化。
incantation
咒语
9.There'll be no foolish wand waving or silly incantation in this class .
在我的课上，不要随意挥动你们愚蠢的魔杖和胡乱施咒语。
咒语
9.There'll be no foolish wand waving or silly incantation in this class .
在我的课上，不要随意挥动你们愚蠢的魔杖和胡乱施咒语。
incarcerate
vt. 监禁；下狱；禁闭
adj. 监禁的；禁闭的
2.Why do you incarcerate yourself in the room every afternoon ?
你为何每天下午将自己关在房间里?。
vt. 监禁；下狱；禁闭
adj. 监禁的；禁闭的
2.Why do you incarcerate yourself in the room every afternoon ?
你为何每天下午将自己关在房间里?。
incendiary
n. 燃烧弹；纵火犯，放火者；煽动者
adj. 煽动的；放火的，纵火的
2.This activity has generated politically incendiary profits for banks and bonuses for bankers .
这类业务为银行带来了利润，为银行家带来了奖金，这些在政治上都具有煽动性。
n. 燃烧弹；纵火犯，放火者；煽动者
adj. 煽动的；放火的，纵火的
2.This activity has generated politically incendiary profits for banks and bonuses for bankers .
这类业务为银行带来了利润，为银行家带来了奖金，这些在政治上都具有煽动性。
incense
vt. 向…焚香；使…发怒
n. 香；奉承
vi. 焚香
1.Every New Year's Eve she would go to its bank, and in heartfelt gratitude burn incense and paper money there.
每年过年的三十晚上，她定要走到水边，点起香烛纸钱，诚心诚意表示她的感谢。
vt. 向…焚香；使…发怒
n. 香；奉承
vi. 焚香
1.Every New Year's Eve she would go to its bank, and in heartfelt gratitude burn incense and paper money there.
每年过年的三十晚上，她定要走到水边，点起香烛纸钱，诚心诚意表示她的感谢。
inception
n. 起初；获得学位
2.Greece 's struggles threaten the first real fractures in the European currency union inception in 1999 .
希腊的困境可能会使得欧元区出现自1999年创建以来的首个真正裂缝。
克里斯托弗诺兰大作《盗梦空间》(Inception)即将于9月2日正式公映，讲述一个经验老道的窃贼潜入别人梦中，窃取潜意识中有价值的信息和秘密。
n. 起初；获得学位
2.Greece 's struggles threaten the first real fractures in the European currency union inception in 1999 .
希腊的困境可能会使得欧元区出现自1999年创建以来的首个真正裂缝。
克里斯托弗诺兰大作《盗梦空间》(Inception)即将于9月2日正式公映，讲述一个经验老道的窃贼潜入别人梦中，窃取潜意识中有价值的信息和秘密。
inchoate
刚开始的
3.His belief that his inchoate economic reforms would spur a new level of production and productivity was a delusion .
他认为，自己刚刚启动的经济改革，能够推动产出和生产率达到一个新高度，但这只是一种妄想。
刚开始的
3.His belief that his inchoate economic reforms would spur a new level of production and productivity was a delusion .
他认为，自己刚刚启动的经济改革，能够推动产出和生产率达到一个新高度，但这只是一种妄想。
incinerate
vi. 把……烧成灰；烧弃
vt. 焚化；烧成灰
2.Raj:Maybe so , but you can't incinerate a Bengal tiger with a magnifying glass .
也许是这样，但是你不能用放大镜把一只孟加拉虎烧成灰。
vi. 把……烧成灰；烧弃
vt. 焚化；烧成灰
2.Raj:Maybe so , but you can't incinerate a Bengal tiger with a magnifying glass .
也许是这样，但是你不能用放大镜把一只孟加拉虎烧成灰。
incipient
adj. 初期的；初始的；起初的；发端的
1.Beijing 's Olympics may themselves be a sign of this incipient democracy .
可能北京奥运会本身就是这种初始民主的一个迹象。
adj. 初期的；初始的；起初的；发端的
1.Beijing 's Olympics may themselves be a sign of this incipient democracy .
可能北京奥运会本身就是这种初始民主的一个迹象。
incise
vt. 切；切割；雕刻
3.But now they wanton the ground is an and once to incise our heart !
而如今他们却放肆地一次又一次切割着我们的心！
incite
vt. 煽动；激励；刺激
2.You incite them to outrage for bad purposes of your own .
你是为了你自己的恶毒目的而挑拨他们犯法的。
vt. 切；切割；雕刻
3.But now they wanton the ground is an and once to incise our heart !
而如今他们却放肆地一次又一次切割着我们的心！
incite
vt. 煽动；激励；刺激
2.You incite them to outrage for bad purposes of your own .
你是为了你自己的恶毒目的而挑拨他们犯法的。
incommensurate
1.A reward incommensurate with their efforts .
与他的努力不相称的报酬。
incongruity
n. 不协调；不一致；不适宜
2.Outraged politicians lambasted them for their extravagance , and commentators noted incongruity of travelling by luxury jet to ask for money .
政客们怒骂其奢华，时事评论员们也强调坐豪华飞机去要钱之不合时宜。
incorrigible
不可救药的
2.By setting out his stall first , the Treasury secretary managed to avoid the impression of being an incorrigible wastrel , summoned to see his suspicious bank manager .
盖特纳首先把自己的计划展示出来，避免给人留下这样一种印象：他是一个无可救药的挥霍者，被起了疑心的银行经理唤来见面。
increment
n. [数] 增量；增加；增额；盈余
11.Sells the room to exempt the land increment duty personally .
个人卖房免土地增值税。
incubate
vt. 孵化；培养；温育；逐渐发展，深思熟虑
vi. 孵化；酝酿
n. 孵育物
3.The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days .
蛋孵化需要的时间是九到十天。
1.A reward incommensurate with their efforts .
与他的努力不相称的报酬。
incongruity
n. 不协调；不一致；不适宜
2.Outraged politicians lambasted them for their extravagance , and commentators noted incongruity of travelling by luxury jet to ask for money .
政客们怒骂其奢华，时事评论员们也强调坐豪华飞机去要钱之不合时宜。
incorrigible
不可救药的
2.By setting out his stall first , the Treasury secretary managed to avoid the impression of being an incorrigible wastrel , summoned to see his suspicious bank manager .
盖特纳首先把自己的计划展示出来，避免给人留下这样一种印象：他是一个无可救药的挥霍者，被起了疑心的银行经理唤来见面。
increment
n. [数] 增量；增加；增额；盈余
11.Sells the room to exempt the land increment duty personally .
个人卖房免土地增值税。
incubate
vt. 孵化；培养；温育；逐渐发展，深思熟虑
vi. 孵化；酝酿
n. 孵育物
3.The time needed for the eggs to incubate is nine or ten days .
蛋孵化需要的时间是九到十天。
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文化艺术出版社 2005
中文图书2.浮世欢 I247.5/*2656
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中文图书3.亲爱的阿X小姐 I247.57/*955
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云南人民出版社 2004
3.His confusion and his ingenuous air were new delights to Bertha .
他的慌乱，他的憨厚的样子，重新又使伯莎感到高兴。
ingenuous 天真的，坦白的
他的慌乱，他的憨厚的样子，重新又使伯莎感到高兴。
ingenuous 天真的，坦白的
insignia
n. 记号，标志；徽章；荣誉
2.In Jamaica's Long Bay , a snorkeler watches a school of sergeant major fish , named for the colorful stripes that resemble a sergeant insignia .
在牙买加长湾，一名潜水员在观察一群军士长鱼（雀鲷），它因身上的彩色条纹颇似军士的徽章而得名。
n. 记号，标志；徽章；荣誉
2.In Jamaica's Long Bay , a snorkeler watches a school of sergeant major fish , named for the colorful stripes that resemble a sergeant insignia .
在牙买加长湾，一名潜水员在观察一群军士长鱼（雀鲷），它因身上的彩色条纹颇似军士的徽章而得名。
interim
adj. 临时的，暂时的；中间的；间歇的
n. 过渡时期，中间时期；暂定
1.The interim government needs and deserves help .
临时政府需要帮助，也值得帮助。
adj. 临时的，暂时的；中间的；间歇的
n. 过渡时期，中间时期；暂定
1.The interim government needs and deserves help .
临时政府需要帮助，也值得帮助。
intrepid
无畏的
1.His intrepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time.
他那勇敢的对手准备打第十三回合。
无畏的
1.His intrepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time.
他那勇敢的对手准备打第十三回合。
irreducible
[数] 不可约的；不能削减的；不能复归的
8.We report a case of a 6 -month-old infant with an irreducible left inguinal ovarian hernia .
我们提出一个六岁小孩发生难以恢复的卵巢会阴脱出之病例之影像表现。
[数] 不可约的；不能削减的；不能复归的
8.We report a case of a 6 -month-old infant with an irreducible left inguinal ovarian hernia .
我们提出一个六岁小孩发生难以恢复的卵巢会阴脱出之病例之影像表现。
ingestion
摄取；吸收；咽下
1.ingestion is the most common method of drug administration . It is also the safest , most convenient , and most economical .
口服是最常用的给药方法，也是最安全，最方便和最经济的方法。
摄取；吸收；咽下
1.ingestion is the most common method of drug administration . It is also the safest , most convenient , and most economical .
口服是最常用的给药方法，也是最安全，最方便和最经济的方法。
insinuate
vt. 暗示；使逐渐而巧妙地取得；使迂回地潜入
vi. 暗讽；说含沙射影的话
1.One can only insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
你只能缓和而巧妙地让另一种东西进入痉挛的头脑中。
3.They insinuate that Israel had Hariri killed and that the effect of these events on Syria stands to benefit Israel more than any other country .
他们暗示说，以色列刺杀了哈里里，而且相对于其它国家，（最近）这些事件对叙利亚的影响一定是对以色列更为有利。
vt. 暗示；使逐渐而巧妙地取得；使迂回地潜入
vi. 暗讽；说含沙射影的话
1.One can only insinuate something else into its convulsive grasp.
你只能缓和而巧妙地让另一种东西进入痉挛的头脑中。
3.They insinuate that Israel had Hariri killed and that the effect of these events on Syria stands to benefit Israel more than any other country .
他们暗示说，以色列刺杀了哈里里，而且相对于其它国家，（最近）这些事件对叙利亚的影响一定是对以色列更为有利。
interlocking
adj. 连锁的
n. 连锁；咬合作用
2.And he was not alone in employing it to emphasise the interlocking fortunes of the two nations .
维吉尔不是唯一借此强调两国错综复杂命运的人。
8.Beijing 's Bird's Nest stadium is an interlocking mesh of steel that looks much like a roost for birds.
北京的鸟巢体育馆是复杂交错的钢架结构，看上很像一个鸟窝。
11.Three interlocking factors shaped the Afghan election day : large disparities in turnout across the country ;
三大纵横交错的因素构成了这次阿富汗总统大选：全国各地投票率相差悬殊；
adj. 连锁的
n. 连锁；咬合作用
2.And he was not alone in employing it to emphasise the interlocking fortunes of the two nations .
维吉尔不是唯一借此强调两国错综复杂命运的人。
8.Beijing 's Bird's Nest stadium is an interlocking mesh of steel that looks much like a roost for birds.
北京的鸟巢体育馆是复杂交错的钢架结构，看上很像一个鸟窝。
11.Three interlocking factors shaped the Afghan election day : large disparities in turnout across the country ;
三大纵横交错的因素构成了这次阿富汗总统大选：全国各地投票率相差悬殊；
introspective
内省的
3.He allowed his works to express an introspective consciousness of individual isolation .
他使自己的作品表现了孤独的个人内省的意识。
3.SINCE apartheid , white South Africans have become introspective .
自从种族隔离后，南非白人变得很自省。
内省的
3.He allowed his works to express an introspective consciousness of individual isolation .
他使自己的作品表现了孤独的个人内省的意识。
3.SINCE apartheid , white South Africans have become introspective .
自从种族隔离后，南非白人变得很自省。
isthmus
地峡
地峡（Isthmus）是连接两大型陆地之中的一个较窄的陆地地区，往往成为两个水体之间的通航障碍。
1.FOR decades Costa Rica has been an oasis of stability in the troubled isthmus .
几十年来，哥斯达黎加的社会稳定在颇具动荡的中美洲显得格外引人注目。
3.THE foolhardy attempt by the Scots to establish a foreign colony of their own at Darién on the isthmus of Panama in the 1690s has all the ingredients for a perfect drama .
1690年代在巴拿马地峡处的达连，苏格兰人试图建立其自己的海外殖民地的鲁莽尝试，已经具备的一出精彩戏剧作品的所有元素。
地峡
地峡（Isthmus）是连接两大型陆地之中的一个较窄的陆地地区，往往成为两个水体之间的通航障碍。
1.FOR decades Costa Rica has been an oasis of stability in the troubled isthmus .
几十年来，哥斯达黎加的社会稳定在颇具动荡的中美洲显得格外引人注目。
3.THE foolhardy attempt by the Scots to establish a foreign colony of their own at Darién on the isthmus of Panama in the 1690s has all the ingredients for a perfect drama .
1690年代在巴拿马地峡处的达连，苏格兰人试图建立其自己的海外殖民地的鲁莽尝试，已经具备的一出精彩戏剧作品的所有元素。
2.With patience and diplomacy , she can inveigle him into marrying her .
她靠耐心和交际手腕，到头来是能引诱他与她结婚的。
inveigle 引诱
她靠耐心和交际手腕，到头来是能引诱他与她结婚的。
inveigle 引诱
iniquitous
不公正的
2.Men of feeling may at any moment be killed outright by the iniquitous and the callous .
多愁善感的人会立即被罪恶的人和无情的人彻底消灭。
不公正的
2.Men of feeling may at any moment be killed outright by the iniquitous and the callous .
多愁善感的人会立即被罪恶的人和无情的人彻底消灭。
1.The detective had, indeed, good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him .
说实在话，一点也不能怪费克斯咒骂他一再碰上的坏运气。
inveigh 痛骂
说实在话，一点也不能怪费克斯咒骂他一再碰上的坏运气。
inveigh 痛骂
3.If there is one market that sums up the insouciant attitude to risk , it would have to be corporate debt .
如果有一个市场总结了这种对待风险的漫不经心的态度，它必然会是公司债务市场。
insouciant
漫不经心的
如果有一个市场总结了这种对待风险的漫不经心的态度，它必然会是公司债务市场。
insouciant
漫不经心的
flank [flæŋk] 基本释义
词组短语
同近义词 n. 侧面；侧翼；侧腹
vt. 守侧面；位于…的侧面；攻击侧面
vi. 侧面与…相接
adv. 在左右两边
词组短语
同近义词 n. 侧面；侧翼；侧腹
vt. 守侧面；位于…的侧面；攻击侧面
vi. 侧面与…相接
adv. 在左右两边
Sheldon: We flank the Tennessee volunteers. flank:攻击侧面Tennessee:田纳西州volunteer:志愿者我们从侧翼包围了田纳西的志愿兵
蕾切尔清醒地呼喊普劳费恩：从你的海螺壳钻出来吧！可普劳费恩是害怕一切温情和依赖感的。对他而言，溜溜球的拉线挥到哪里，他就随之被抛到哪里，普劳费恩这个名字 Profane 就意味着“不信神”“渎神”，对外在的偶然性他并无异议，宁愿相信自己没有灵魂，也不抱救赎的幻想。
profane
profane
3.At last , bearing in her arms the progeny of Jove , she reached Lycia , weary with her burden and parched with thirst.
最后她来到吕西亚，怀里抱着朱庇特幼小的子嗣，疲乏不堪，口渴难耐
progeny 子嗣
最后她来到吕西亚，怀里抱着朱庇特幼小的子嗣，疲乏不堪，口渴难耐
progeny 子嗣
The Third Tradition: The Progeny
只有在得到你的长老同意才能创造新的吸血鬼。如果你没有得到长老的同意而创造了新的吸血鬼，你和你的后裔都将被处死。
这道传统中所谓的长老，本来是指自己的尊长，不过现在密党通常解释为该地的亲王。也就是说，如果吸血鬼要创造新的血脉，必须征得所属地亲王的同意。亲王对于新创造的吸血鬼，拥有绝对的处置权，他可以承认其资格、纳为己出、将其放逐或甚至杀掉。密党赋予亲王这项权力，以控制叛逆者的数量。
只有在得到你的长老同意才能创造新的吸血鬼。如果你没有得到长老的同意而创造了新的吸血鬼，你和你的后裔都将被处死。
这道传统中所谓的长老，本来是指自己的尊长，不过现在密党通常解释为该地的亲王。也就是说，如果吸血鬼要创造新的血脉，必须征得所属地亲王的同意。亲王对于新创造的吸血鬼，拥有绝对的处置权，他可以承认其资格、纳为己出、将其放逐或甚至杀掉。密党赋予亲王这项权力，以控制叛逆者的数量。
prognosis n. [医] 预后；预知
2.In those parts with plentiful rainfall and rich soil —wet Africa —the prognosis is reasonably good .
在有大量降雨和肥沃土地的地区（湿润的非洲），前景是很不错的
generally self-limiting dengue fever, a good prognosis, mortality is very low. The mortality of dengue haemorrhagic fever is high, the key decision is whether the prognosis of early, aggressive treatment.
2.In those parts with plentiful rainfall and rich soil —wet Africa —the prognosis is reasonably good .
在有大量降雨和肥沃土地的地区（湿润的非洲），前景是很不错的
generally self-limiting dengue fever, a good prognosis, mortality is very low. The mortality of dengue haemorrhagic fever is high, the key decision is whether the prognosis of early, aggressive treatment.
2.At what precise moment will the moon be in the most favourable position to be reached by the projectile ?
月球在什么时候出现在抛射体最容易击中的位置上？
月球在什么时候出现在抛射体最容易击中的位置上？
So whatever verbal projectile you launch in my direction is reflected off
projectile：子弹 adj. 抛射的；抛掷的；供抛射用的；（触角等）能伸出的
n. 射弹；抛射体；自动推进武器
不管你朝我的方向发射什么语言子弹
projectile：子弹 adj. 抛射的；抛掷的；供抛射用的；（触角等）能伸出的
n. 射弹；抛射体；自动推进武器
不管你朝我的方向发射什么语言子弹
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北京外国语大学 2007 年语言学考研真题 考试科目：语言学和应用语言学 1．...According to M-principle , the speaker normally will not use a prolix , obscure..
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prolix 冗长的
北京外国语大学 2007 年语言学考研真题 考试科目：语言学和应用语言学 1．...According to M-principle , the speaker normally will not use a prolix , obscure..
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prolix 冗长的
香港大学附近海滨长廊的延伸/Extension of the Promenade close to HKU
promenade散步长廊
promenade散步长廊
在天师大新闻传播学院网站的英文翻译中，News and Promulgate显然无法涵盖这一宏观...作为知名大学的新闻传播研究机构，将“传播”译为Promulgate ，令人匪夷所思。在
adj. 显著的；断然的；讲出来的 pronounced
1.Nor , if the expansion stumbles , can they prop it up alone .
如果扩张是失策，这些措施也不能单独撑起一片天空。
prop 支撑
如果扩张是失策，这些措施也不能单独撑起一片天空。
prop 支撑
dachshund
1.Dachshund and Basset Hound gave birth to a mongrel.
前腿向内弯曲，通常发生在一些短腿的犬种如巴塞特猎犬。
腊肠犬
1.Dachshund and Basset Hound gave birth to a mongrel.
前腿向内弯曲，通常发生在一些短腿的犬种如巴塞特猎犬。
腊肠犬
parlance ['pɑ:ləns] n. 说法；用语；语调；发言
3.But in todayparlance , the idea of a "clash of civilisations " has taken on a fresh resonance, and that is presumably why the subtitle was chosen.
但是套一句时下流行的话，“文化的冲突”又重焕生机----这句话不定还是副标题的出处。
3.But in todayparlance , the idea of a "clash of civilisations " has taken on a fresh resonance, and that is presumably why the subtitle was chosen.
但是套一句时下流行的话，“文化的冲突”又重焕生机----这句话不定还是副标题的出处。
paroxysm 突发
Consequently , madness could be seen as a sort of paroxysm of lyricism .
因此，疯癫有可能被当成某种抒情性的突然发作。
If this Paroxysm of sorrow was to assail him again that night , there was but one place for him to be.
如果这一晚，这种排山倒海式的哀愁又要来折磨他，那他只有一个好地方可去。
Consequently , madness could be seen as a sort of paroxysm of lyricism .
因此，疯癫有可能被当成某种抒情性的突然发作。
If this Paroxysm of sorrow was to assail him again that night , there was but one place for him to be.
如果这一晚，这种排山倒海式的哀愁又要来折磨他，那他只有一个好地方可去。
peremptory [pə'remptəri, 'perəmp-] adj. 强制的；绝对的；断然的；专横的
per全部+empt+ory→全部拿了→武断的
1.The officer peremptory commands .
军官命令士兵们开火。
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2.She was the mother of two peremptory little boys .
她现在已是两个无法无天的小男孩的母亲。
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3.peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody .
的口气激怒了大家。
per全部+empt+ory→全部拿了→武断的
1.The officer peremptory commands .
军官命令士兵们开火。
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2.She was the mother of two peremptory little boys .
她现在已是两个无法无天的小男孩的母亲。
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3.peremptory tone of voice irritated everybody .
的口气激怒了大家。
pelf [pelf] n. 钱财；不义之财，赃物
1.After plundering enough pelf , he took a train bound for the border .
在抢得足够的钱财后，他乘上开往边境的火车。
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2.This pelf has very little to say about the real world , much less American society .
这些虚幻的大制作及少触及真实世界，更别提美国社会了。
1.After plundering enough pelf , he took a train bound for the border .
在抢得足够的钱财后，他乘上开往边境的火车。
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2.This pelf has very little to say about the real world , much less American society .
这些虚幻的大制作及少触及真实世界，更别提美国社会了。
piddling ['pidliŋ] adj. 琐屑的；无用的；不重要的
v. 撒尿；鬼混（piddle的ing形式）
1.Why don 't you get on with some work instead of piddling away the whole morning doing nothing?
你难道不能找点事做做，而不是整个上午闲混过去吗？
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2.Generally , Scarlett would not have cared whether she received at Melly 's piddling parties or not.
在通常情况下，思嘉并不在意是否在媚兰举办的家宴上参加接待客人。
v. 撒尿；鬼混（piddle的ing形式）
1.Why don 't you get on with some work instead of piddling away the whole morning doing nothing?
你难道不能找点事做做，而不是整个上午闲混过去吗？
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2.Generally , Scarlett would not have cared whether she received at Melly 's piddling parties or not.
在通常情况下，思嘉并不在意是否在媚兰举办的家宴上参加接待客人。
1.He is philatelist ;
他是一位集邮家。
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2.I am a committee member of the Philatelist Association of our university .
我是我们大学里集邮家协会的成员。
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3.He is philatelist ; part of his collection is rare sets of postage stamps of the Qing Dynasty.
他是一位集邮家。他藏品的一部分是罕见的套头的大清国邮票。
他是一位集邮家。
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2.I am a committee member of the Philatelist Association of our university .
我是我们大学里集邮家协会的成员。
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3.He is philatelist ; part of his collection is rare sets of postage stamps of the Qing Dynasty.
他是一位集邮家。他藏品的一部分是罕见的套头的大清国邮票。
1.A petroglyph emerges from the sands of the Sahara in Chad .
这是非洲乍得境内撒哈拉大沙漠里的一块岩石画。
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2.Upon landing , he drew a petroglyph on Second Mesa, showing a maiden riding in a wingless , dome-shaped craft .
当他落地后，他在第二块岩石平顶绘一岩石雕刻，显示一位少女（具有传说的“蝴蝶”发型）骑在一没有翅膀的、圆形飞行器上。
这是非洲乍得境内撒哈拉大沙漠里的一块岩石画。
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2.Upon landing , he drew a petroglyph on Second Mesa, showing a maiden riding in a wingless , dome-shaped craft .
当他落地后，他在第二块岩石平顶绘一岩石雕刻，显示一位少女（具有传说的“蝴蝶”发型）骑在一没有翅膀的、圆形飞行器上。
peruse [pə'ru:z] vt. 详细考察；精读
1.Settling into one of the carved lounge chairs, you peruse vintage photos of earlier guests (Mountbatten, Elizabeth II).
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2.Before checking out in the morning, peruse 49 Hours of SF: Arts and Culture for more weekend suggestions.
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3.You follow your favorite blogs, surf Twitter and, in a few cases but not all, peruse the financial press.
1.Settling into one of the carved lounge chairs, you peruse vintage photos of earlier guests (Mountbatten, Elizabeth II).
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2.Before checking out in the morning, peruse 49 Hours of SF: Arts and Culture for more weekend suggestions.
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3.You follow your favorite blogs, surf Twitter and, in a few cases but not all, peruse the financial press.
pertinacious [,pə:ti'neiʃəs] adj. 顽固的；执拗的
1.the most pertinacious of all the critics ;
批评家都是最能说和固执的；
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2.Questions buzzed in his head like pertinacious bees .
一连串问题在他脑子里盘旋着，就象纠缠不休的蜜蜂。
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3.He had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French.
弗伦奇小姐的再接再厉的巧妙手腕逼得他一点办法也没有。
1.the most pertinacious of all the critics ;
批评家都是最能说和固执的；
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2.Questions buzzed in his head like pertinacious bees .
一连串问题在他脑子里盘旋着，就象纠缠不休的蜜蜂。
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3.He had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French.
弗伦奇小姐的再接再厉的巧妙手腕逼得他一点办法也没有。
pertain [pə:'tein, pə-] vi. 属于；关于；适合
1.These nouns all pertain to what underlies and supports .
这些名词都与基础与支撑物有关。
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1.These nouns all pertain to what underlies and supports .
这些名词都与基础与支撑物有关。
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pernicious [pə'niʃəs] adj. 有害的；恶性的；致命的；险恶的
1.State control has other pernicious effects .
国家管理还有另一个坏处。
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2.Today 's investment slump may have particularly pernicious effects on productivity because , unlike Japan's , it does not follow a capital -spending binge .
如今的投资减少可能会对生产力有特殊的伤害作用，因为和日本不同，它不是发生在资本支出高峰之后的。
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3.In this sense they are even more pernicious than the coup makers of 2006 , who at least promised to restore elected government and , under popular pressure , did so .
在这个意义上，他们甚至比2006年政变发动者更为要命，政变者至少许诺了恢复经选举产生的政府，而且在民意压力下，他们做到了。
1.State control has other pernicious effects .
国家管理还有另一个坏处。
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2.Today 's investment slump may have particularly pernicious effects on productivity because , unlike Japan's , it does not follow a capital -spending binge .
如今的投资减少可能会对生产力有特殊的伤害作用，因为和日本不同，它不是发生在资本支出高峰之后的。
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3.In this sense they are even more pernicious than the coup makers of 2006 , who at least promised to restore elected government and , under popular pressure , did so .
在这个意义上，他们甚至比2006年政变发动者更为要命，政变者至少许诺了恢复经选举产生的政府，而且在民意压力下，他们做到了。
peroration [,perə'reiʃən] n. 结束语；结论；夸夸其谈
1.chapter eight is the third part , as peroration .
第八章构成本文的第三部分，为结束语。
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2.We had to listen to a peroration on the evils of drink ! .
我们得听一个关于酗酒害处的冗长报告！。
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3.In all likelihood , my father had kept this peroration as a threat intended to undermine my last defences.
我父亲很可能有意把这句威胁的话留在最后讲，当作对我的最后一击。
1.chapter eight is the third part , as peroration .
第八章构成本文的第三部分，为结束语。
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2.We had to listen to a peroration on the evils of drink ! .
我们得听一个关于酗酒害处的冗长报告！。
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3.In all likelihood , my father had kept this peroration as a threat intended to undermine my last defences.
我父亲很可能有意把这句威胁的话留在最后讲，当作对我的最后一击。
singly ['siŋɡli] adv. 逐一地；个别地；各自地；直截了当地
seldom favor even singly, our wave-girt land
seldom favor even singly, our wave-girt land
He also presents evidence that Saddam “had not abandoned the strategy of WMD, merely made a tactical decision to put it into abeyance”.
他还提供证据，表明萨达姆“并未放弃大规模杀伤性武器战略，只是出于权宜之计，将该计划暂时搁置。”
abeyance
中止，搁置
他还提供证据，表明萨达姆“并未放弃大规模杀伤性武器战略，只是出于权宜之计，将该计划暂时搁置。”
abeyance
中止，搁置
Acclivity n. 向上的斜坡；[建] 上斜
It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way - as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
因此这位家庭主妇说，她要送姑娘一程——要把姑娘送到山谷斜坡上的那个地点，那个斜坡是通向外部世界的第一个制高点。
Accolade 推崇，赞扬
If so, which accolade would you most like: European/World Player of the Year, World Cup golden boot or become England's all-time record goalscorer?
如果是的，下面哪项荣誉你更看重：欧洲足球先生，世界足球先生，世界杯金靴，还是英格兰队史上的最佳射手？
Accord 同意
Accouter 供给服装
Accrete 渐增
If the neutron star were near the centre of the galaxy, for example, and surrounded by an abundance of dark matter, then it would continue to accrete dark matter.
假如这个中子恒星靠近星系的中心，又被大量的暗物质所包围，这个在中子恒星中央的稠密恒星将继续吸收暗物质而逐渐增大。
It prompted the matron to say that she would walk a little way - as far as to the point where the acclivity from the valley began its first steep ascent to the outer world.
因此这位家庭主妇说，她要送姑娘一程——要把姑娘送到山谷斜坡上的那个地点，那个斜坡是通向外部世界的第一个制高点。
Accolade 推崇，赞扬
If so, which accolade would you most like: European/World Player of the Year, World Cup golden boot or become England's all-time record goalscorer?
如果是的，下面哪项荣誉你更看重：欧洲足球先生，世界足球先生，世界杯金靴，还是英格兰队史上的最佳射手？
Accord 同意
Accouter 供给服装
Accrete 渐增
If the neutron star were near the centre of the galaxy, for example, and surrounded by an abundance of dark matter, then it would continue to accrete dark matter.
假如这个中子恒星靠近星系的中心，又被大量的暗物质所包围，这个在中子恒星中央的稠密恒星将继续吸收暗物质而逐渐增大。
Abstinent 禁欲的
Teens in serious relationships did not differ from their abstinent counterparts in terms of their grade-point average, how attached they are to school or college expectations.
有着固定性关系的青少年在成绩方面与那些禁欲的同龄人相比，学习成绩并无差异，有着差异的是他们对于学习的期望值及对大学的期望值。
Abut 毗连
In this Germany has been blessed by geography, as some of its main manufacturing regions abut formerly communist states with cheaper but still well-educated workforces.
对于这一点，地理上的优势帮了德国大忙。 一些制造业中心地区毗邻原共产主义国家，存在大量便宜但受过良好教育的劳动力。
Accede 同意
In addition, China has decided to accede to the Information Technology Agreement and started negotiations on relevant issues.
中国决定加入《信息技术协议》，并就有关事宜开始谈判。
Acclaim 欢呼，称赞
Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord .
知道向你欢呼的，那民是有福的。 耶和华阿，他们在你脸上的光里行走。
Acclimate 使适应
Yet as challenging as heat and humidity are, people can acclimate.
虽然热度和湿度都有影响，但人们能够适应。
Teens in serious relationships did not differ from their abstinent counterparts in terms of their grade-point average, how attached they are to school or college expectations.
有着固定性关系的青少年在成绩方面与那些禁欲的同龄人相比，学习成绩并无差异，有着差异的是他们对于学习的期望值及对大学的期望值。
Abut 毗连
In this Germany has been blessed by geography, as some of its main manufacturing regions abut formerly communist states with cheaper but still well-educated workforces.
对于这一点，地理上的优势帮了德国大忙。 一些制造业中心地区毗邻原共产主义国家，存在大量便宜但受过良好教育的劳动力。
Accede 同意
In addition, China has decided to accede to the Information Technology Agreement and started negotiations on relevant issues.
中国决定加入《信息技术协议》，并就有关事宜开始谈判。
Acclaim 欢呼，称赞
Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord .
知道向你欢呼的，那民是有福的。 耶和华阿，他们在你脸上的光里行走。
Acclimate 使适应
Yet as challenging as heat and humidity are, people can acclimate.
虽然热度和湿度都有影响，但人们能够适应。
Abrade 磨损，变形
We can experience what it feels like to be another person – perhaps with a personality that would normally abrade us.
我们可以经历另外一个人的经历——也许这个人的个性和我们大相径庭。
Abrogate 废除，取消
However, abandoning the Cold War mindset is not to abrogate arms control treaties concluded in that era.
但是，摆脱冷战思维不应被简单地理解为废除冷战时达成的军控条约。
Abscond 潜逃
Yet because living on a public sex-offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.
但因为在性罪犯资料库的阴影下生活是十分悲惨的，所以很多案犯都潜逃了。
Abstain 弃绝
To abstain from using the negative means half of one’s vision is obscured – which is catastrophic in business.
想避免使用消极言论，就意味着一个人失去了一半的远见——这在商界是灾难性的。
Abstemious 节制
The Norwegian adolescents who said they regularly use alcohol and cigarettes were no more likely to report acne than those who were abstemious.
说自己长了青春痘的那些经常抽烟喝酒的挪威青少年并不比说自己长了青春痘的有节制的孩子们多。
We can experience what it feels like to be another person – perhaps with a personality that would normally abrade us.
我们可以经历另外一个人的经历——也许这个人的个性和我们大相径庭。
Abrogate 废除，取消
However, abandoning the Cold War mindset is not to abrogate arms control treaties concluded in that era.
但是，摆脱冷战思维不应被简单地理解为废除冷战时达成的军控条约。
Abscond 潜逃
Yet because living on a public sex-offender registry is so wretched, many abscond.
但因为在性罪犯资料库的阴影下生活是十分悲惨的，所以很多案犯都潜逃了。
Abstain 弃绝
To abstain from using the negative means half of one’s vision is obscured – which is catastrophic in business.
想避免使用消极言论，就意味着一个人失去了一半的远见——这在商界是灾难性的。
Abstemious 节制
The Norwegian adolescents who said they regularly use alcohol and cigarettes were no more likely to report acne than those who were abstemious.
说自己长了青春痘的那些经常抽烟喝酒的挪威青少年并不比说自己长了青春痘的有节制的孩子们多。
Abiding 持久的
Elections come and go and usually they are without deep or abiding consequence for either party.
选举活动你方唱罢我登场，但通常不会对任一政党产生深远持久的影响。
Abnegation 放弃，克制
Only spontaneous love flowing with sincere generosity and self-abnegation can fertilize the soul of others.
唯有自发爱，富有真挚的宽容与自我克制的爱才能够丰富他人的灵魂。
Abominate 厌恶，憎恨
Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration.
我平常虽然最讨厌写信，可是我无论如何也不愿和柯林斯断绝书信往来。
Aboveboard 光明正大的
You can rebuild trust, but only if your husband behaves in a manner that is completely aboveboard.
只要你的丈夫的行为方式完全光明正大，你们完全可以重新建立信任。
Elections come and go and usually they are without deep or abiding consequence for either party.
选举活动你方唱罢我登场，但通常不会对任一政党产生深远持久的影响。
Abnegation 放弃，克制
Only spontaneous love flowing with sincere generosity and self-abnegation can fertilize the soul of others.
唯有自发爱，富有真挚的宽容与自我克制的爱才能够丰富他人的灵魂。
Abominate 厌恶，憎恨
Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration.
我平常虽然最讨厌写信，可是我无论如何也不愿和柯林斯断绝书信往来。
Aboveboard 光明正大的
You can rebuild trust, but only if your husband behaves in a manner that is completely aboveboard.
只要你的丈夫的行为方式完全光明正大，你们完全可以重新建立信任。
Stolid 无动于衷的
Charles Stuart Calverley: "White is the world, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees; And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's: 'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted, The sheep stands, mute and stolid: And ducks find out, disgusted, That all the ponds are solid." # Age and Aging
Given the stolid nature of IBM, Palmisano's decision now appears like a huge punt.
Stonewall
Stowaway 偷乘者
A young stowaway aboard a whaler becomes involved in a mutiny, then in a storm which claims the lives of almost the entire ship 's company .
一个年轻的偷渡者躲在捕鲸船上，先被拖进一场叛变，又遭遇到一场风暴，这场风暴几乎使整船人同归于。
Straggle迷路；落伍，掉队；四散，蔓延
n. 散乱
迷路，掉队，落伍：
to straggle in the woods
在森林中迷了路
四散，散落，零星(或散乱)地出现(或发生、离开、到达)：
The villages straggle in the mountains.
村庄散布在山林之中。
(胡须等)蓬乱生长；(植物等)蔓生，蔓延：
His beard straggles because he hasn't shaven for a week.
他的胡须蓬乱，他有一个星期没刮胡子了。
Henry Van Dyke: "One should always learn to enjoy the neighbor's garden, however small; the roses straggling over the fence, the scent of lilacs drifting across the road." # Spring # Neighbors # Friends and Friendship
Strand
Stranded
The receding tide stranded the whale.
退潮把鲸鱼搁浅在海滩上。
Edmund Burke: "Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."
Owen Felltham: "Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment."
Stratum
Strew散播
撒，使散落：
Strew sawdust before painting.
刷漆之前先撒些锯末。
to strew salt on the street covered with snow
往积雪覆盖的马路上撒盐
把…撒在…上，往…上撒…(与 with 连用)：
to strew a cake with granulated sugar
往蛋糕上撒砂糖
被…撒上(或撒满)：
Flowers strewed the floor.
地板上撒满了鲜花。
散播；散布于，点缀：
to strew seeds
播种
The black sky was strewn with twinkle stars.
夜空中布满了闪亮的星星。
Amy Lowell: "Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart." # Growth # Life and Living # Heart
Striate
Stricture 责难
Healthy banks would have to "increase lending above baseline levels", a stricture that could lead to more bad loans.
运营良好的银行必须“增加放贷到平均水平以上”，紧缩会导致更多的坏账。
Strident 刺耳的
In the final chapter, however, he adopts a far more strident voice.
然而，在最后的章节中，它却采取了更为尖锐的表达
King Jr. Martin Luther: "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." # America
Stringent
Samuel Smiles: "No laws, however Stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober." # Books - Classics # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Law and Lawyers
Stuffy
We both felt down because I was working in a stuffy shop and you in a sorting office.
我们的情绪都很低落，因为我正在一家闷热的商店里工作，而你在信件分拣室干活。
Stultify
使显得愚蠢，愚弄；使显得荒谬可笑；使变得迟钝：
Don't be convulsed with laughter, which stultifies you.
别咧着嘴大笑，你不觉得有点傻吗!
使变得无用，使徒劳，使无效：
Your efforts would be stultified by one word of mine.
只要我说一句话就能使你的一切努力化为灰烬。
Henry Miller: "The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis动脉硬化of culture." # Civilization # Love
Stunning
I like jasmine not because it has stunning beauty, but because it gives off elegance and fragrance.
我喜欢茉莉花不是因为它有惊人的美丽，而是因为它散发出来的香气和优雅。
Stunt 阻碍
阻碍…的正常发育(或成长)：妨碍…的正常增长(或发展)；使停止(发育、发展等)：
An abnormal climate stunted the crops.
不正常的气候妨碍了庄稼的正常生长。
His personality was stunted by the brutal treatment in his childhood.
儿童期间受到的虐待对他人格的形成构成了障碍。
阻止，妨碍：
Wars stunted the development of science in the world.
战争使世界的科学发展受到了抑制。
Barbara Ehrenreich: "A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person." # Children # Love # Peace [-]
Stupor
When the girl came out of her stupor, she probably wouldn’t even notice the sweater or wonder where it had come from.
当那个女孩从昏迷中醒来，她或许甚至没有注意那件毛衣或根本不会好奇它从哪里来的。
Soren Kierkegaard: "People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something." # Travel and Tourism # Death and Dying # Love [-]
Sturdy
Stygian
adj. 阴暗的，幽暗的；地狱的
I will find him here in this Stygian landscape and we will settle our affairs, once and for all.
我发现他这里这个地狱风景和我们的将安定我们的事理，永远
William Shakespeare: "I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the stygian banks staying for wattage." # Infatuation # Bankers and Banking # Opportunity
Subdue
征服，制服，使屈服：
Rome subdued Gaul.
罗马帝国征服了高卢。
to subdue the world
征服世界
(以劝说或威胁等)使服从，使顺从：
to subdue one's parents
顺从父母
抑制，克制：
I tried to subdue my fury.
我强忍住胸中的怒火。
to subdue one's passion
克制自己的感情
Subjugate制服，征服，使屈从：
He has subjugated a male lion.
他制服了一头雄狮。
You'd better manage to subjugate him.Otherwise it will be all over with you.
你得设法让他俯首帖耳，否则的话你就完了。
使从属，使隶属：
the air force subjugated to the Navy
隶属于海军部队的空军
克制，抑制：
to subjugate one's passion
克制住感情
Bertolt Brecht: "To live means to finesse策略the processes to which one is subjugated." # Music
Subliminal
Suborn 收买
收买，贿赂；教唆，唆使：
He tried to suborn the police.
他企图贿赂警方。
He was suborned into killing the old Tom.
他受唆使杀死了老汤姆。
Subpoena 传票
传唤，传讯；(发出传票)命令交出(或索取)(证据等)：
(用传票)传唤，传讯；(发出传票)命令交出(或索取)(证据等)：
He's subpoenaed to go to the court.
他被传唤到庭。
You must hand the evidence over to the police that was subpoenaed by the police.
你必须交出警方索要的证据。
Hillary Clinton: "Heavens, no! It could get Subpoenaed. I can't write anything." # Writers
Subservient
Subside 下陷，平息
下降，下沉，下陷；沉到底；沉淀：
The foundations of the building have subsided.
该建筑的地基已下沉了。
After a few minutes,the amylum began to subside.
几分钟之后，淀粉开始沉淀。
平静，平息：
The laughter subsided.
笑声平息了下来。
减弱，消退；消失，退落：
The storm has subsided.
暴风已经停息了下来。
His figure soon subsided into darkness.
他的身影很快消失在黑暗之中。
Once the excitement, the motivation and the initial momentum subside (and they will), what will keep you doing what you need to do, to create the change you want to see in your world?
人一旦兴奋，动机和最初的动力就会减弱（他们会这样），什么会让你保持做你要做的，去创造出这种在你的世界里你想看到的改变？
Subsidiary
Substantiate 证实
Substantive
Subsume 包含
把…归类；将…列入某一类:
to subsume the books.
把图书分类 。
把(观念、条款、命题、词语、原理等)归入，把…纳入：
How can subsume these items?
这些条款应归入到什么项目上?
把…归入法规(或规则)之下：
His case should be subsumed under the title of criminal offence.
他的案子应归入刑事犯罪。
Subterfuge 诡计
Men and women were equally guilty of subterfuge.
男人和女人都有一样的诡计.
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Their communication is natural and direct, without subterfuge or cunning, and every movement has meaning.
它们的交流自然而直接，没有诡计没有欺骗，每一分每一秒都是那么的有意义。
Subtract 减去
The pupil could add and subtract but hadn't learned to divide.
这名小学生能做加法和减法，但还没学会做除法。
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Subtract that from one, 100 multiply it by 100 and you have something between zero and 100.
用一减去后面那部分，再整体乘以,你就能得到0-100间的一些数值。
Subvert 推翻
颠覆，推翻(政权等)：
The rebellious troops attempted to subvert the present government.
叛军曾企图推翻现政府。
to subvert a state
颠覆一个国家
使覆灭，使毁灭；破坏：
The whole city was subverted in the war.
在那场战争中，该城被整个毁灭了。
to subvert the financial policy
破坏金融政策
腐蚀，败坏(道德等)：
to subvert one's spirit
腐蚀人的灵魂
to subvert morality
败坏道德
Succor 救助
What succor is there for the dollar bulls?
有什么拉高美元的救援方法呢？
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And for all the abundance he sees, he finds the questions put to him ask where men may repair for succor from the troubles that beset them.
在他所看见的所有富饶的一切中，他发现这些问题被放到自己面前：问从困扰着他们的困难中人们到哪儿才能得到援助。
Robert G Ingersoll: "Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed." # Enthusiasm # Age and Aging # Innocence [-]
Succulent 多汁
The green fruit ripens and turns yellow, the white flesh inside is succulent and has a very distinct flavor.
果实未成熟时呈青色，成熟后变成黄色，果肉为白嫩多汁，并有一种奇特的香味。
Charles Stuart Calverley: "White is the world, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees; And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's: 'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted, The sheep stands, mute and stolid: And ducks find out, disgusted, That all the ponds are solid." # Age and Aging
Given the stolid nature of IBM, Palmisano's decision now appears like a huge punt.
Stonewall
Stowaway 偷乘者
A young stowaway aboard a whaler becomes involved in a mutiny, then in a storm which claims the lives of almost the entire ship 's company .
一个年轻的偷渡者躲在捕鲸船上，先被拖进一场叛变，又遭遇到一场风暴，这场风暴几乎使整船人同归于。
Straggle迷路；落伍，掉队；四散，蔓延
n. 散乱
迷路，掉队，落伍：
to straggle in the woods
在森林中迷了路
四散，散落，零星(或散乱)地出现(或发生、离开、到达)：
The villages straggle in the mountains.
村庄散布在山林之中。
(胡须等)蓬乱生长；(植物等)蔓生，蔓延：
His beard straggles because he hasn't shaven for a week.
他的胡须蓬乱，他有一个星期没刮胡子了。
Henry Van Dyke: "One should always learn to enjoy the neighbor's garden, however small; the roses straggling over the fence, the scent of lilacs drifting across the road." # Spring # Neighbors # Friends and Friendship
Strand
Stranded
The receding tide stranded the whale.
退潮把鲸鱼搁浅在海滩上。
Edmund Burke: "Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe."
Owen Felltham: "Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment."
Stratum
Strew散播
撒，使散落：
Strew sawdust before painting.
刷漆之前先撒些锯末。
to strew salt on the street covered with snow
往积雪覆盖的马路上撒盐
把…撒在…上，往…上撒…(与 with 连用)：
to strew a cake with granulated sugar
往蛋糕上撒砂糖
被…撒上(或撒满)：
Flowers strewed the floor.
地板上撒满了鲜花。
散播；散布于，点缀：
to strew seeds
播种
The black sky was strewn with twinkle stars.
夜空中布满了闪亮的星星。
Amy Lowell: "Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart." # Growth # Life and Living # Heart
Striate
Stricture 责难
Healthy banks would have to "increase lending above baseline levels", a stricture that could lead to more bad loans.
运营良好的银行必须“增加放贷到平均水平以上”，紧缩会导致更多的坏账。
Strident 刺耳的
In the final chapter, however, he adopts a far more strident voice.
然而，在最后的章节中，它却采取了更为尖锐的表达
King Jr. Martin Luther: "History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." # America
Stringent
Samuel Smiles: "No laws, however Stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober." # Books - Classics # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Law and Lawyers
Stuffy
We both felt down because I was working in a stuffy shop and you in a sorting office.
我们的情绪都很低落，因为我正在一家闷热的商店里工作，而你在信件分拣室干活。
Stultify
使显得愚蠢，愚弄；使显得荒谬可笑；使变得迟钝：
Don't be convulsed with laughter, which stultifies you.
别咧着嘴大笑，你不觉得有点傻吗!
使变得无用，使徒劳，使无效：
Your efforts would be stultified by one word of mine.
只要我说一句话就能使你的一切努力化为灰烬。
Henry Miller: "The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis动脉硬化of culture." # Civilization # Love
Stunning
I like jasmine not because it has stunning beauty, but because it gives off elegance and fragrance.
我喜欢茉莉花不是因为它有惊人的美丽，而是因为它散发出来的香气和优雅。
Stunt 阻碍
阻碍…的正常发育(或成长)：妨碍…的正常增长(或发展)；使停止(发育、发展等)：
An abnormal climate stunted the crops.
不正常的气候妨碍了庄稼的正常生长。
His personality was stunted by the brutal treatment in his childhood.
儿童期间受到的虐待对他人格的形成构成了障碍。
阻止，妨碍：
Wars stunted the development of science in the world.
战争使世界的科学发展受到了抑制。
Barbara Ehrenreich: "A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person." # Children # Love # Peace [-]
Stupor
When the girl came out of her stupor, she probably wouldn’t even notice the sweater or wonder where it had come from.
当那个女孩从昏迷中醒来，她或许甚至没有注意那件毛衣或根本不会好奇它从哪里来的。
Soren Kierkegaard: "People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something." # Travel and Tourism # Death and Dying # Love [-]
Sturdy
Stygian
adj. 阴暗的，幽暗的；地狱的
I will find him here in this Stygian landscape and we will settle our affairs, once and for all.
我发现他这里这个地狱风景和我们的将安定我们的事理，永远
William Shakespeare: "I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the stygian banks staying for wattage." # Infatuation # Bankers and Banking # Opportunity
Subdue
征服，制服，使屈服：
Rome subdued Gaul.
罗马帝国征服了高卢。
to subdue the world
征服世界
(以劝说或威胁等)使服从，使顺从：
to subdue one's parents
顺从父母
抑制，克制：
I tried to subdue my fury.
我强忍住胸中的怒火。
to subdue one's passion
克制自己的感情
Subjugate制服，征服，使屈从：
He has subjugated a male lion.
他制服了一头雄狮。
You'd better manage to subjugate him.Otherwise it will be all over with you.
你得设法让他俯首帖耳，否则的话你就完了。
使从属，使隶属：
the air force subjugated to the Navy
隶属于海军部队的空军
克制，抑制：
to subjugate one's passion
克制住感情
Bertolt Brecht: "To live means to finesse策略the processes to which one is subjugated." # Music
Subliminal
Suborn 收买
收买，贿赂；教唆，唆使：
He tried to suborn the police.
他企图贿赂警方。
He was suborned into killing the old Tom.
他受唆使杀死了老汤姆。
Subpoena 传票
传唤，传讯；(发出传票)命令交出(或索取)(证据等)：
(用传票)传唤，传讯；(发出传票)命令交出(或索取)(证据等)：
He's subpoenaed to go to the court.
他被传唤到庭。
You must hand the evidence over to the police that was subpoenaed by the police.
你必须交出警方索要的证据。
Hillary Clinton: "Heavens, no! It could get Subpoenaed. I can't write anything." # Writers
Subservient
Subside 下陷，平息
下降，下沉，下陷；沉到底；沉淀：
The foundations of the building have subsided.
该建筑的地基已下沉了。
After a few minutes,the amylum began to subside.
几分钟之后，淀粉开始沉淀。
平静，平息：
The laughter subsided.
笑声平息了下来。
减弱，消退；消失，退落：
The storm has subsided.
暴风已经停息了下来。
His figure soon subsided into darkness.
他的身影很快消失在黑暗之中。
Once the excitement, the motivation and the initial momentum subside (and they will), what will keep you doing what you need to do, to create the change you want to see in your world?
人一旦兴奋，动机和最初的动力就会减弱（他们会这样），什么会让你保持做你要做的，去创造出这种在你的世界里你想看到的改变？
Subsidiary
Substantiate 证实
Substantive
Subsume 包含
把…归类；将…列入某一类:
to subsume the books.
把图书分类 。
把(观念、条款、命题、词语、原理等)归入，把…纳入：
How can subsume these items?
这些条款应归入到什么项目上?
把…归入法规(或规则)之下：
His case should be subsumed under the title of criminal offence.
他的案子应归入刑事犯罪。
Subterfuge 诡计
Men and women were equally guilty of subterfuge.
男人和女人都有一样的诡计.
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Their communication is natural and direct, without subterfuge or cunning, and every movement has meaning.
它们的交流自然而直接，没有诡计没有欺骗，每一分每一秒都是那么的有意义。
Subtract 减去
The pupil could add and subtract but hadn't learned to divide.
这名小学生能做加法和减法，但还没学会做除法。
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Subtract that from one, 100 multiply it by 100 and you have something between zero and 100.
用一减去后面那部分，再整体乘以,你就能得到0-100间的一些数值。
Subvert 推翻
颠覆，推翻(政权等)：
The rebellious troops attempted to subvert the present government.
叛军曾企图推翻现政府。
to subvert a state
颠覆一个国家
使覆灭，使毁灭；破坏：
The whole city was subverted in the war.
在那场战争中，该城被整个毁灭了。
to subvert the financial policy
破坏金融政策
腐蚀，败坏(道德等)：
to subvert one's spirit
腐蚀人的灵魂
to subvert morality
败坏道德
Succor 救助
What succor is there for the dollar bulls?
有什么拉高美元的救援方法呢？
www.ecocn.org
And for all the abundance he sees, he finds the questions put to him ask where men may repair for succor from the troubles that beset them.
在他所看见的所有富饶的一切中，他发现这些问题被放到自己面前：问从困扰着他们的困难中人们到哪儿才能得到援助。
Robert G Ingersoll: "Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed." # Enthusiasm # Age and Aging # Innocence [-]
Succulent 多汁
The green fruit ripens and turns yellow, the white flesh inside is succulent and has a very distinct flavor.
果实未成熟时呈青色，成熟后变成黄色，果肉为白嫩多汁，并有一种奇特的香味。
1. Anthology
n. （诗、文、曲、画等的）[图情]选集
selection , selected works
1630s, "collection of poetry," from L. anthologia, from Gk. anthologia "collection of small poems and epigrams by several authors," lit. "flower-gathering," from anthos "a flower" (see anther) + logia "collection, collecting," from legein "gather" (see lecture (n.)). Modern sense (which emerged in Late Greek) is metaphoric, "flowers" of verse, small poems by various writers gathered together.
Having said that, there's really nothing so dead as The Norton Anthology, or ponderous, and I do order it with a little--well, some misgivings for that.
说到这儿呢，其实《诺顿文学选集》是一本比较死板的书，而且还那么厚，定这本书作为教科书，其实我还是有些抱歉。
2. Anthropomorphic
anthropomorphic [,ænθrəpəu'mɔ:fik]
adj. (动物、无生命物、神灵等)拟人(说)的，被赋予人形(或人性)的，被描绘为具有人形的，被认为具有人的特性的 [亦作 anthropomorphous]
3. Antic
adj. 古怪的；滑稽可笑的
odd , curious
n. 滑稽动作；丑角
jack-pudding , buffoon
Walker Percy: "She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness. [citation needed]" # Plagiarism # Fashion # Despair
4.Antidote
(用解毒药)消解，消毒，解毒，中和：
"remedy counteracting poison," 1510s (earlier in English as a Latin word), from M.Fr. antidot and directly from L. antidotum "a remedy against poison," from Gk. antidoton "given as a remedy," lit. "given against," verbal adjective of antididonai "give in return," from anti- "against" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)). Cf. Middle English antidotarie "treatise on drugs or medicines" (c.1400).
Joan Baez: "Action is the Antidote to despair." # Despair # Action # Science and Scientists
Karl Marx: "The only Antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." # Pain # Suffering # Age and Aging
They kept whiskey to antidote themselves against snake bike.
他们保存威士忌酒以便在被蛇咬时用以解毒。
给…以解毒药：
Medication was given to antidote the poison the young girl had swallowed.
那个吞下毒物的少女已服用了解毒药。
5. Antihistamine n. 抗组胺剂
Antiseptic
adj. [助剂]防腐的，[药]抗菌的；非常整洁的
rotproof , germproof
n. [助剂]防腐剂，[药]抗菌剂
conserving agent , corrosion preventive
Aorta n. 【解剖学】主动脉
Apathetic
adj. 冷漠的；无动于衷的，缺乏兴趣的
distant , impassive
Aperture
n. 孔，穴；（照相机，望远镜等的）光圈，孔径；缝隙
early 15c., from L. apertura "an opening," from apertus, pp. of aperire "to open" (see overt).
Roger Scruton: "The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac adj. 氨的；含氨的smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction n. [生化]腐败；腐败物of the body." # Sexuality # Sex # Greatness
hole , foramen
Adjust the shutter speed and aperture.
校准快门速度和光圈
Apex
n. [数]顶点；尖端
height , summit , sky , peak , point
c.1600, from L. apex "summit, peak, tip, top, extreme end;" probably related to apere "to fasten, fix," hence "the tip of anything" (one of the meanings in Latin was "small rod at the top of the flamen's cap"), from PIE *ap- "to take, reach." Proper plural is apices.
Henry David Thoreau: "The stars are the apexes of what triangles!" # Stardom
Aphsia
. 失语症
"loss of ability to speak," especially as result of brain injury or disorder, 1867, from Mod.L. aphasia, from Gk. aphasia "speechlessness," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + phasis "utterance," from phanai "to speak," related to pheme "voice, report, rumor" (see fame).
APHASIA is the term which has recently been given to the loss of the faculty of articulate
Apiary
1650s, from L. apiarium "beehouse, beehive," neut. of apiarius "of bees," from apis "bee," a mystery word unrelated to any similar words in other Indo-European languages.
Aplomb
n. 沉着；垂直；泰然自若
self-possession , composedness
"assurance, confidence," 1828, from Fr. aplomb (16c.), lit. "perpendicularity," from phrase à plomb "poised upright, balanced," lit. "on the plumb line," from L. plumbum "(the metal) lead" (see plumb (n.)), of which the weight at the end of the line was made.
George Galloway: "Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the Aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club." # Television # Lies and Lying # Gentlemen
Apocalyptic
adj. 启示录的；天启的
revelational
1660s, "pertaining to the 'Revelation of St. John' in the New Testament," from Gk. apokalyptikos, from apokalyptein (see apocalypse). Meaning "pertaining to the imminent end of the world" evolved by 1880s.
Clive Lewis: "Christian apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play — "Halt!"" # America # Christians and Christianity # Habit [-]
Morris L West: ""O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums."" # Vision # Music # Love
Wallpaper
Be First To
Burton L Mack: "The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision." # Vision # Change # Education [-]
John N Gray: "Terror is not now, if it ever was, something that comes to us from outside. It is a part of the society in which we live. Both liberals and neoconservatives believe terrorism can be dealt with by removing its causes. The truth is less reassuring. Al-Qaeda has mutated into a decentralised, often locally based type of apocalyptic terrorism and, in this new guise, seems to be acquiring a formidable momentum." # Conservatives # Truth # Love
Richard Hofstadter: "The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millennialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse." # Vision # Death and Dying # Politicians and Politics [-]
Then, again, all of this apocalyptic speculation about takeovers and bankruptcies could be overblown.
不过，所有这些有关收购、破产的末日猜想都有可能被夸大了。
Apocryphal
adj. 伪的；可疑的
suspicious , doubtful
This is almost surely apocryphal because anyone who knew Rand's work would know how much she disliked religion in almost any form.
几乎可以肯定，这句话是杜撰的，因为读过兰德作品的每个人都知道，她非常厌恶任何形式的宗教。
Ann Coulter: "If Americans support abortion, let's vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the Apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby." # Voting # Babies # Aborti
Ann Coulter: "For six years, the Bush administration has kept America safe from another terrorist attack, allowing the Democrats to claim that the war on terrorism is a fraud, a "bumper sticker," a sneaky ploy by a power-mad president to create an Apocryphal enemy so he could spy on innocent librarians in Wisconsin. And that's the view of the moderate Democrats. The rest of them think Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks." # Drugs # Politics
Apophasis
Apoplectic
adj. [医]中风的；易怒的
passionate , irascible
n. 中风患者
paralytic
1610s, "involving apoplexy," from Fr. apoplectique (16c.), from L. apoplecticus, from Gk. apoplektikos "disabled by a stroke, crippled, struck dumb," from apoplektos, verbal adjective of apoplessein (see apoplexy). Meaning "showing symptoms of apoplexy" (1721) gradually shaded into "enraged, very angry."
More to the point, her father would be apoplectic at the idea.
还有，孩子他爸可能会被女儿的这个主意引发中风的。
Apostasy
变节；脱党；背教
treachery , tergiversation
late 14c., "renunciation, abandonment or neglect of established religion," from L. apostasia, from later Gk. apostasia, from apostasis "revolt, defection," lit. "a standing off" (see apostate). General (non-religious) sense is attested from 1570s.
At its sternest, Islamic law prescribes the death penalty for anybody who commits “apostasy”—or abandons the faith.
最残酷的是，伊斯兰教法规定，对任何“变节者”或背弃信仰的人，都判处死刑。
Sam Harris: "The penalty for apostasy is death. We would do well to linger over this fact for a moment, because it is the black pearl of intolerance that no liberal exegesis will ever fully digest." # Death and Dying # Intolerance # Liberals [-]
Thomas Traherne: "All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason." # Knowledge # Beauty # Intuition [-]
Thomas Traherne: "All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My kno [+]
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Apostrophe
n. 省略符号，[计]撇号；呼语，顿呼
ellipsis
mark indicating omitted letter, 1580s, from M.Fr. apostrophe, from L.L. apostrophus, from Gk. apostrophos (prosoidia) "(the accent of) turning away," thus, a mark showing where a letter has been omitted, from apostrephein "avert, turn away," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + strephein "to turn" (see strophe).
To add a comment to a statement in these files, type a comment after an apostrophe (').
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George Carlin: "I don't call him "Clinton", I call him "Clittin'." C-L-I-T, T-I-N-apostrophe." # Politi
In English, the mark often represents loss of -e- in -es, possessive ending. It was being extended to all possessives, whether they ever had an -e- or not, by 18c. Greek also used this word for a "turning aside" of an orator in speech to address some individual, a sense first recorded in English 1530s.
Apothecary
. [药]药剂师；药师；药材商
pharmacist , dispenser
mid-14c., "shopkeeper, especially one who stores, compounds, and sells medicaments," from O.Fr. apotecaire (13c., Mod.Fr. apothicaire), from L.L. apothecarius "storekeeper," from L. apotheca "storehouse," from Gk. apotheke "barn, storehouse," lit. "a place where things are put away," from apo- "away" (see apo-) + tithenai "to put," from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (see factitious). Same root produced Fr. boutique and Sp. bodega. Cognate compounds produced Skt. apadha- "concealment," O.Pers. apadana- "palace."
Drugs and herbs being among the chief items of non-perishable goods, the meaning narrowed 17c. to "druggist" (Apothecaries' Company of London separated from the Grocers' in 1617). Apothecaries formerly were notorious for "the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language" [Francis Grose, "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]. Hence, Apothecary's Latin, barbarously mangled, also known as Dog Latin.
Gustave Flaubert: ""What an unutterable catastrophe!" The Apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion." # Things and Little Things # Happiness # Death and Dying
Joseph Addison: "Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an Apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador." # Things and Little Things [-]
Georg C Lichtenberg: "As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an Apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown..." # Things and Little Things # Love # Happiness [-]
Terry Pratchett: "The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse." # Love # Books - Reading # Age and Aging [-]
Terry Pratchett: "The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse." # [+]Gift it . Facebook • Email • Download •• Bookmark • Source
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries." # Things and Little Things Gift it . Facebook • Email • Download •• Bookmark • Source
Apothegm
"pithy saying," 1550s, from Gk. apophthegma "terse, pointed saying," lit. "something clearly spoken," from apophthengesthai "to speak one's opinion plainly," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + phthengesthai "to utter." See aphorism for nuances of usage. Spelling apophthegm, restored by Johnson, is preferred in England, according to OED.
apophthegm (n.)
W R Inge: "apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings." # Q
Apotheosis
1600s, from L.L. apotheosis "deification," from Gk. apotheosis, from apotheoun "deify, make (someone) a god," from apo- special use of this prefix, meaning, here, "change" + theos "god" (see Thea).
Henry David Thoreau: "A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his Apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams." # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power
Apparition
Appellation
n. 称呼；名称；名目
name , a form of address
late 15c., "action of appealing" (to a higher authority), from O.Fr. apelacion (13c.), from L. appellationem (nom. appellatio) "an addressing, accosting; an appeal; a name, title," noun of action from pp. stem of appellare (see appeal). Meaning "designation, name given to a person, thing, or class" is from mid-15c., from a sense also found in M.Fr. appeler.
George Washington: "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power
Lord Byron: "This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description."
Apprieciable
Apprehension
Apprise
vt. 通知；报告
message , inform of
"to notify," 1690s, from Fr. appris, pp. of apprendre "to inform, teach," lit. "to lay hold of (in the mind)," another metaphoric meaning of L. apprehendere (see apprehend). Related: Apprised; apprising
Approbation
n. 认可；赞许；批准
confirmation , authorization , endorsement
Charles Caleb Colton: "We ask advice but we mean approbation." # Advice
late 14c., "proven effectiveness, excellence," from O.Fr. aprobacion or directly from L. approbationem (nom. approbatio) "an approval," noun of action from pp. stem of approbare (see approve). Meaning "approval, endorsement" is from early 15c.
Appropriation
Aqueduct
Arabesque
1610s, "Moorish or Arabic ornamental design," from Fr. arabesque (16c.), from It. arabesco, from Arabo "Arab," with reference to Moorish architecture. As a ballet pose, first attested 1830. Musical sense, in reference to an ornamented theme, is from 1864, originally the title given by Robert Schumann to one of his piano pieces.
Arable
early 15c., "suitable for plowing" (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from O.Fr. arable (12c.), from L. arabilis, from arare "to plow," from PIE *are- "to plow" (cf. Gk. aroun, O.C.S. orja, Lith. ariu "to plow;" Goth. arjan, O.E. erian, M.Ir. airim, Welsh arddu "to plow;" O.N. arþr "a plow"). Replaced by late 18c. native erable, from O.E. erian "to plow," from the same PIE source.
Eric Hoffer: "One would like to see mankind spend the balance of the century in a total effort to clean up and groom the surface of the globe — wipe out the jungles, turn deserts and swamps into Arable land, terrace barren mountains, regulate rivers, eradicate all pests, control the weather, and make the whole land mass a fit habitation for Man. The globe should be our and not nature's home, and we no longer nature's guests." # Twentieth Century # America
Arbor
Charles Roberts Buxton: "Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." # Ancestry # Habit # Dogs
c.1300, herber, "herb garden," from O.Fr. erbier "field, meadow; kitchen garden," from L. herba "grass, herb" (see herb). Later "a grassy plot" (early 14c., a sense also in Old French), "a shaded nook" (mid-14c.). Probably not from L. arbor "tree," though perhaps influenced by its spelling.
Arcade
1731 (as arcado, from 1640s), from It. arcata "arch of a bridge," from arco "arc," from L. arcus (see arc). Applied to passages formed by a succession of arches, avenues of trees, and ultimately to any covered avenue, especially one lined with shops (1731) or amusements; hence arcade game (1977).
Cormac McCarthy: "In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand." # Regret # Laughter # Adversity
n. （诗、文、曲、画等的）[图情]选集
selection , selected works
1630s, "collection of poetry," from L. anthologia, from Gk. anthologia "collection of small poems and epigrams by several authors," lit. "flower-gathering," from anthos "a flower" (see anther) + logia "collection, collecting," from legein "gather" (see lecture (n.)). Modern sense (which emerged in Late Greek) is metaphoric, "flowers" of verse, small poems by various writers gathered together.
Having said that, there's really nothing so dead as The Norton Anthology, or ponderous, and I do order it with a little--well, some misgivings for that.
说到这儿呢，其实《诺顿文学选集》是一本比较死板的书，而且还那么厚，定这本书作为教科书，其实我还是有些抱歉。
2. Anthropomorphic
anthropomorphic [,ænθrəpəu'mɔ:fik]
adj. (动物、无生命物、神灵等)拟人(说)的，被赋予人形(或人性)的，被描绘为具有人形的，被认为具有人的特性的 [亦作 anthropomorphous]
3. Antic
adj. 古怪的；滑稽可笑的
odd , curious
n. 滑稽动作；丑角
jack-pudding , buffoon
Walker Percy: "She can only believe I am serious in her own fashion of being serious: as an antic sort of seriousness, which is not seriousness at all but despair masquerading as seriousness. [citation needed]" # Plagiarism # Fashion # Despair
4.Antidote
(用解毒药)消解，消毒，解毒，中和：
"remedy counteracting poison," 1510s (earlier in English as a Latin word), from M.Fr. antidot and directly from L. antidotum "a remedy against poison," from Gk. antidoton "given as a remedy," lit. "given against," verbal adjective of antididonai "give in return," from anti- "against" + didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)). Cf. Middle English antidotarie "treatise on drugs or medicines" (c.1400).
Joan Baez: "Action is the Antidote to despair." # Despair # Action # Science and Scientists
Karl Marx: "The only Antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." # Pain # Suffering # Age and Aging
They kept whiskey to antidote themselves against snake bike.
他们保存威士忌酒以便在被蛇咬时用以解毒。
给…以解毒药：
Medication was given to antidote the poison the young girl had swallowed.
那个吞下毒物的少女已服用了解毒药。
5. Antihistamine n. 抗组胺剂
Antiseptic
adj. [助剂]防腐的，[药]抗菌的；非常整洁的
rotproof , germproof
n. [助剂]防腐剂，[药]抗菌剂
conserving agent , corrosion preventive
Aorta n. 【解剖学】主动脉
Apathetic
adj. 冷漠的；无动于衷的，缺乏兴趣的
distant , impassive
Aperture
n. 孔，穴；（照相机，望远镜等的）光圈，孔径；缝隙
early 15c., from L. apertura "an opening," from apertus, pp. of aperire "to open" (see overt).
Roger Scruton: "The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac adj. 氨的；含氨的smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction n. [生化]腐败；腐败物of the body." # Sexuality # Sex # Greatness
hole , foramen
Adjust the shutter speed and aperture.
校准快门速度和光圈
Apex
n. [数]顶点；尖端
height , summit , sky , peak , point
c.1600, from L. apex "summit, peak, tip, top, extreme end;" probably related to apere "to fasten, fix," hence "the tip of anything" (one of the meanings in Latin was "small rod at the top of the flamen's cap"), from PIE *ap- "to take, reach." Proper plural is apices.
Henry David Thoreau: "The stars are the apexes of what triangles!" # Stardom
Aphsia
. 失语症
"loss of ability to speak," especially as result of brain injury or disorder, 1867, from Mod.L. aphasia, from Gk. aphasia "speechlessness," from a- "without" (see a- (3)) + phasis "utterance," from phanai "to speak," related to pheme "voice, report, rumor" (see fame).
APHASIA is the term which has recently been given to the loss of the faculty of articulate
Apiary
1650s, from L. apiarium "beehouse, beehive," neut. of apiarius "of bees," from apis "bee," a mystery word unrelated to any similar words in other Indo-European languages.
Aplomb
n. 沉着；垂直；泰然自若
self-possession , composedness
"assurance, confidence," 1828, from Fr. aplomb (16c.), lit. "perpendicularity," from phrase à plomb "poised upright, balanced," lit. "on the plumb line," from L. plumbum "(the metal) lead" (see plumb (n.)), of which the weight at the end of the line was made.
George Galloway: "Pipe down Mr Indignation. We'll see what the viewers thought of your double standards, your indignation about me and the Aplomb with which you become a lying plutocrat in your gentleman's club." # Television # Lies and Lying # Gentlemen
Apocalyptic
adj. 启示录的；天启的
revelational
1660s, "pertaining to the 'Revelation of St. John' in the New Testament," from Gk. apokalyptikos, from apokalyptein (see apocalypse). Meaning "pertaining to the imminent end of the world" evolved by 1880s.
Clive Lewis: "Christian apocalyptic offers us no such hope. It does not even foretell, (which would be more tolerable to our habits of thought) a gradual decay. It foretells a sudden, violent end imposed from without; an extinguisher popped onto the candle, a brick flung at the gramophone, a curtain rung down on the play — "Halt!"" # America # Christians and Christianity # Habit [-]
Morris L West: ""O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums."" # Vision # Music # Love
Wallpaper
Be First To
Burton L Mack: "The kingdom of God could be realized simply by daring to live differently from the normal conventions. The kingdom of God in the teachings of Jesus was not an apocalyptic or heavenly projection of otherworldly desire. It was driven by a desire to think that there must be a better way to live together than the present state of affairs. And it called for a change of behavior in the present on the part of individuals invested in the vision." # Vision # Change # Education [-]
John N Gray: "Terror is not now, if it ever was, something that comes to us from outside. It is a part of the society in which we live. Both liberals and neoconservatives believe terrorism can be dealt with by removing its causes. The truth is less reassuring. Al-Qaeda has mutated into a decentralised, often locally based type of apocalyptic terrorism and, in this new guise, seems to be acquiring a formidable momentum." # Conservatives # Truth # Love
Richard Hofstadter: "The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millennialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse." # Vision # Death and Dying # Politicians and Politics [-]
Then, again, all of this apocalyptic speculation about takeovers and bankruptcies could be overblown.
不过，所有这些有关收购、破产的末日猜想都有可能被夸大了。
Apocryphal
adj. 伪的；可疑的
suspicious , doubtful
This is almost surely apocryphal because anyone who knew Rand's work would know how much she disliked religion in almost any form.
几乎可以肯定，这句话是杜撰的，因为读过兰德作品的每个人都知道，她非常厌恶任何形式的宗教。
Ann Coulter: "If Americans support abortion, let's vote. . . Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the Apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby." # Voting # Babies # Aborti
Ann Coulter: "For six years, the Bush administration has kept America safe from another terrorist attack, allowing the Democrats to claim that the war on terrorism is a fraud, a "bumper sticker," a sneaky ploy by a power-mad president to create an Apocryphal enemy so he could spy on innocent librarians in Wisconsin. And that's the view of the moderate Democrats. The rest of them think Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks." # Drugs # Politics
Apophasis
Apoplectic
adj. [医]中风的；易怒的
passionate , irascible
n. 中风患者
paralytic
1610s, "involving apoplexy," from Fr. apoplectique (16c.), from L. apoplecticus, from Gk. apoplektikos "disabled by a stroke, crippled, struck dumb," from apoplektos, verbal adjective of apoplessein (see apoplexy). Meaning "showing symptoms of apoplexy" (1721) gradually shaded into "enraged, very angry."
More to the point, her father would be apoplectic at the idea.
还有，孩子他爸可能会被女儿的这个主意引发中风的。
Apostasy
变节；脱党；背教
treachery , tergiversation
late 14c., "renunciation, abandonment or neglect of established religion," from L. apostasia, from later Gk. apostasia, from apostasis "revolt, defection," lit. "a standing off" (see apostate). General (non-religious) sense is attested from 1570s.
At its sternest, Islamic law prescribes the death penalty for anybody who commits “apostasy”—or abandons the faith.
最残酷的是，伊斯兰教法规定，对任何“变节者”或背弃信仰的人，都判处死刑。
Sam Harris: "The penalty for apostasy is death. We would do well to linger over this fact for a moment, because it is the black pearl of intolerance that no liberal exegesis will ever fully digest." # Death and Dying # Intolerance # Liberals [-]
Thomas Traherne: "All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason." # Knowledge # Beauty # Intuition [-]
Thomas Traherne: "All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My kno [+]
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Apostrophe
n. 省略符号，[计]撇号；呼语，顿呼
ellipsis
mark indicating omitted letter, 1580s, from M.Fr. apostrophe, from L.L. apostrophus, from Gk. apostrophos (prosoidia) "(the accent of) turning away," thus, a mark showing where a letter has been omitted, from apostrephein "avert, turn away," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + strephein "to turn" (see strophe).
To add a comment to a statement in these files, type a comment after an apostrophe (').
为了向这些文件中的声明添加一条注释，您可以在一个撇号后（'）添加一条注释。
George Carlin: "I don't call him "Clinton", I call him "Clittin'." C-L-I-T, T-I-N-apostrophe." # Politi
In English, the mark often represents loss of -e- in -es, possessive ending. It was being extended to all possessives, whether they ever had an -e- or not, by 18c. Greek also used this word for a "turning aside" of an orator in speech to address some individual, a sense first recorded in English 1530s.
Apothecary
. [药]药剂师；药师；药材商
pharmacist , dispenser
mid-14c., "shopkeeper, especially one who stores, compounds, and sells medicaments," from O.Fr. apotecaire (13c., Mod.Fr. apothicaire), from L.L. apothecarius "storekeeper," from L. apotheca "storehouse," from Gk. apotheke "barn, storehouse," lit. "a place where things are put away," from apo- "away" (see apo-) + tithenai "to put," from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (see factitious). Same root produced Fr. boutique and Sp. bodega. Cognate compounds produced Skt. apadha- "concealment," O.Pers. apadana- "palace."
Drugs and herbs being among the chief items of non-perishable goods, the meaning narrowed 17c. to "druggist" (Apothecaries' Company of London separated from the Grocers' in 1617). Apothecaries formerly were notorious for "the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language" [Francis Grose, "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]. Hence, Apothecary's Latin, barbarously mangled, also known as Dog Latin.
Gustave Flaubert: ""What an unutterable catastrophe!" The Apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion." # Things and Little Things # Happiness # Death and Dying
Joseph Addison: "Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an Apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador." # Things and Little Things [-]
Georg C Lichtenberg: "As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an Apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown..." # Things and Little Things # Love # Happiness [-]
Terry Pratchett: "The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse." # Love # Books - Reading # Age and Aging [-]
Terry Pratchett: "The sign outside the shop said Apothecary, which meant that the shop was owned by a sort of early chemist, who would give you herbs and things until you got better or at least stopped getting any worse." # [+]Gift it . Facebook • Email • Download •• Bookmark • Source
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries." # Things and Little Things Gift it . Facebook • Email • Download •• Bookmark • Source
Apothegm
"pithy saying," 1550s, from Gk. apophthegma "terse, pointed saying," lit. "something clearly spoken," from apophthengesthai "to speak one's opinion plainly," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + phthengesthai "to utter." See aphorism for nuances of usage. Spelling apophthegm, restored by Johnson, is preferred in England, according to OED.
apophthegm (n.)
W R Inge: "apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings." # Q
Apotheosis
1600s, from L.L. apotheosis "deification," from Gk. apotheosis, from apotheoun "deify, make (someone) a god," from apo- special use of this prefix, meaning, here, "change" + theos "god" (see Thea).
Henry David Thoreau: "A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his Apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams." # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power
Apparition
Appellation
n. 称呼；名称；名目
name , a form of address
late 15c., "action of appealing" (to a higher authority), from O.Fr. apelacion (13c.), from L. appellationem (nom. appellatio) "an addressing, accosting; an appeal; a name, title," noun of action from pp. stem of appellare (see appeal). Meaning "designation, name given to a person, thing, or class" is from mid-15c., from a sense also found in M.Fr. appeler.
George Washington: "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation." # Friends and Friendship # Freedom # Power
Lord Byron: "This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, dispute and pun, the employments of the undergraduates you will probably conjecture without my description."
Apprieciable
Apprehension
Apprise
vt. 通知；报告
message , inform of
"to notify," 1690s, from Fr. appris, pp. of apprendre "to inform, teach," lit. "to lay hold of (in the mind)," another metaphoric meaning of L. apprehendere (see apprehend). Related: Apprised; apprising
Approbation
n. 认可；赞许；批准
confirmation , authorization , endorsement
Charles Caleb Colton: "We ask advice but we mean approbation." # Advice
late 14c., "proven effectiveness, excellence," from O.Fr. aprobacion or directly from L. approbationem (nom. approbatio) "an approval," noun of action from pp. stem of approbare (see approve). Meaning "approval, endorsement" is from early 15c.
Appropriation
Aqueduct
Arabesque
1610s, "Moorish or Arabic ornamental design," from Fr. arabesque (16c.), from It. arabesco, from Arabo "Arab," with reference to Moorish architecture. As a ballet pose, first attested 1830. Musical sense, in reference to an ornamented theme, is from 1864, originally the title given by Robert Schumann to one of his piano pieces.
Arable
early 15c., "suitable for plowing" (as opposed to pasture- or wood-land), from O.Fr. arable (12c.), from L. arabilis, from arare "to plow," from PIE *are- "to plow" (cf. Gk. aroun, O.C.S. orja, Lith. ariu "to plow;" Goth. arjan, O.E. erian, M.Ir. airim, Welsh arddu "to plow;" O.N. arþr "a plow"). Replaced by late 18c. native erable, from O.E. erian "to plow," from the same PIE source.
Eric Hoffer: "One would like to see mankind spend the balance of the century in a total effort to clean up and groom the surface of the globe — wipe out the jungles, turn deserts and swamps into Arable land, terrace barren mountains, regulate rivers, eradicate all pests, control the weather, and make the whole land mass a fit habitation for Man. The globe should be our and not nature's home, and we no longer nature's guests." # Twentieth Century # America
Arbor
Charles Roberts Buxton: "Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits." # Ancestry # Habit # Dogs
c.1300, herber, "herb garden," from O.Fr. erbier "field, meadow; kitchen garden," from L. herba "grass, herb" (see herb). Later "a grassy plot" (early 14c., a sense also in Old French), "a shaded nook" (mid-14c.). Probably not from L. arbor "tree," though perhaps influenced by its spelling.
Arcade
1731 (as arcado, from 1640s), from It. arcata "arch of a bridge," from arco "arc," from L. arcus (see arc). Applied to passages formed by a succession of arches, avenues of trees, and ultimately to any covered avenue, especially one lined with shops (1731) or amusements; hence arcade game (1977).
Cormac McCarthy: "In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand." # Regret # Laughter # Adversity