101-200 Flashcards
from a president who has called climate change a “hoax”
A hoax is a trick in which someone tells people a lie, for example that there is a bomb somewhere when there is not, or that a picture is genuine when it is not.
vamp (countable)
If you describe a woman as a vamp, you mean that she uses her sexual attractiveness to get what she wants from men.
If you describe a woman as a vamp, you mean that she uses her sexual attractiveness to get what she wants from men.
A scattershot approach or method involves doing something to a lot of things or people in disorganized way, rather than focusing on particular things or people.
1.
designating a shotgun shell that disperses the shot in a broad pattern
2.
covering many points in a random way
write a biography of him
特定できない場合は、his biographyではない
Hunt wanted to know, would I be prepared to take over the whole operation and supervise it? At first I demurred.
If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.
Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato. [VERB noun]
They kept extolling my managerial skills. [VERB noun]
If you extol something or someone, you praise them enthusiastically.
His critics say he’s just being silly and petulant.
He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.
Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way.
…a revealing interview.
…Sophie Tucker’s revealing autobiography.
A revealing statement, account, or action tells you something that you did not know, especially about the person doing it or making it.
It has the trappings of an election campaign in the United States, with slick television ads touting the candidates. [VERB noun]
…a popular advertising industry practice of using performers to tout products. [VERB noun]
He was being touted as the most interesting thing in pop. [be V-ed as n/adj/-ing]
The product is touted as being completely natural. [be V-ed as n/adj/-ing]
…a couple of highly touted novels. [VERB-ed]
If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.
Cage changed his name to deflect accusations of nepotism. [VERB noun]
It’s a maneuver to deflect the attention of the people from what is really happening. [VERB noun + from]
If you deflect something such as criticism or attention, you act in a way that prevents it from being directed towards you or affecting you.
Palace has released two marvellous films that pay homage to our literary heritage. [+ to]
At his coronation he received the homage of kings from Wales, Northumbria and Scotland.
Homage is respect shown towards someone or something you admire, or to a person in authority.
Someone had fed him a lethal dose of cyanide.
The police say he swallowed a cyanide capsule to avoid arrest.
Cyanide is a highly poisonous substance.
I found myself gathering string on the subject
the act of picking up seemingly unconnected facts
An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.
If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it. 当惑、困惑
HE was going to be operated on for his cancer.
The doctor was going to operate on him for his cancer.
the writer Mona Simpson
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his more important goal was to create a company that was so imbued with innovative creativity that it would outlive them.
If someone or something is imbued with an idea, feeling, or quality, they become filled with it.
I would have to interview scores of people he had fired.
scores of = a lot of
Jimmy’s presence had infuriated Hugh. [VERB noun]
The champion was infuriated by the decision. [VERB noun]
It infuriates us to have to deal with this particular mayor. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
If something or someone infuriates you, they make you extremely angry.
The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.
If you describe a person or animal as skittish, you mean they are easily made frightened or excited.
A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits.
These establishments are off limits to ordinary citizens.
If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.
He gave his assent to the proposed legislation. [+ to/for]
Without their assent a political settlement cannot be reached.
If someone gives their assent to something that has been suggested, they formally agree to it.
The government has said it was an inadvertent error.
An inadvertent action is one that you do without realizing what you are doing. 不注意
Family and old friends help me stay grounded.
If you say that someone is grounded, you mean that they are sensible and reasonable, and that they understand the importance of ordinary things in life.
The Rashomon effect
The Rashomon effect occurs when the same event is given contradictory interpretations by different individuals involved. The effect is named after Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon, in which a murder is described in four mutually contradictory ways by its four witnesses.
Grass fires have seared the land near the farming village of Basekhai. [VERB noun]
To sear something means to burn its surface with a sudden intense heat.
A daredevil parachutist jumped from the top of Tower Bridge today.
Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
Sons are traditionally expected to emulate their fathers. [VERB noun]
If you emulate something or someone, you imitate them because you admire them a great deal.
…his callous disregard for human life.
A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings. 冷淡、無神経
Kennedy exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence. [VERB noun to-infinitive]
He exhorted his companions, ‘Try to accomplish your aim with diligence’. [VERB noun with quote]
If you exhort someone to do something, you try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it.
He travelled around West Africa trying to muster support for his movement. [VERB noun]
Mustering all her strength, Nancy pulled hard on both oars. [VERB noun]
If you muster something such as support, strength, or energy, you gather as much of it as you can in order to do something.
Just because people wagered on the Yankees did not mean that they liked them. [VERB + on]
Golfers had wagered a good deal of money on Nick Faldo winning the championship. [VERB noun + on]
If you wager on the result of a horse race, football match, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
HMS Warspite was decommissioned as part of defence cuts. [be VERB-ed]
…a decommissioned power plant in Colorado. [VERB-ed]
When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken to pieces because it is no longer going to be used.
When muscles are taut or cold there is more chance of injury or strain.
The clothes line is pulled taut and secured.
Something that is taut is stretched very tight.
Hamnett does not believe environmental concern is a passing fad.
He had never taken more than a passing interest in the girl.
A passing fashion, activity, or feeling lasts for only a short period of time and is not worth taking very seriously.
His hair and beard are both untidy and his skin is quite leathery.
If the texture of something, for example someone’s skin, is leathery, it is tough and hard, like leather.
suffer an ectopic pregnancy
子宮外妊娠
There is no sign of an end to the stand-off between Mohawk Indians and the Quebec provincial police.
The State Department was warning that this could lead to another diplomatic stand-off.
A stand-off is a situation in which neither of two opposing groups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so nothing can happen until one of them gives way. 膠着状態
Finally his mother relented and gave permission for her youngest son to marry. [VERB]
If you relent, you allow someone to do something that you had previously refused to allow them to do.
Surgery to a balky ankle was required.
…balky kids.
Someone or something that is balky does not behave or work the way you want them to.
