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from a president who has called climate change a “hoax”

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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.

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vamp (countable)

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If you describe a woman as a vamp, you mean that she uses her sexual attractiveness to get what she wants from men.

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If you describe a woman as a vamp, you mean that she uses her sexual attractiveness to get what she wants from men.

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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.
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designating a shotgun shell that disperses the shot in a broad pattern
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covering many points in a random way

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write a biography of him

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特定できない場合は、his biographyではない

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Hunt wanted to know, would I be prepared to take over the whole operation and supervise it? At first I demurred.

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If you demur, you say that you do not agree with something or will not do something that you have been asked to do.

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Now experts are extolling the virtues of the humble potato. [VERB noun]
They kept extolling my managerial skills. [VERB noun]

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If you extol something or someone, you praise them enthusiastically.

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His critics say he’s just being silly and petulant.

He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.

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Someone who is petulant is unreasonably angry and upset in a childish way.

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…a revealing interview.

…Sophie Tucker’s revealing autobiography.

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A revealing statement, account, or action tells you something that you did not know, especially about the person doing it or making it.

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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]

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If someone touts something, they try to sell it or convince people that it is good.

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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]

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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.

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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.

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Homage is respect shown towards someone or something you admire, or to a person in authority.

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Someone had fed him a lethal dose of cyanide.

The police say he swallowed a cyanide capsule to avoid arrest.

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Cyanide is a highly poisonous substance.

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I found myself gathering string on the subject

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the act of picking up seemingly unconnected facts

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An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts.

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If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it. 当惑、困惑

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HE was going to be operated on for his cancer.

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The doctor was going to operate on him for his cancer.

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the writer Mona Simpson

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あの文筆家の

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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.

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If someone or something is imbued with an idea, feeling, or quality, they become filled with it.

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I would have to interview scores of people he had fired.

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scores of = a lot of

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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]

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If something or someone infuriates you, they make you extremely angry.

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The declining dollar gave heart to skittish investors.

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If you describe a person or animal as skittish, you mean they are easily made frightened or excited.

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A one-mile area around the wreck is still off limits.

These establishments are off limits to ordinary citizens.

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If an area or a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there.

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He gave his assent to the proposed legislation. [+ to/for]

Without their assent a political settlement cannot be reached.

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If someone gives their assent to something that has been suggested, they formally agree to it.

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The government has said it was an inadvertent error.

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An inadvertent action is one that you do without realizing what you are doing. 不注意

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Family and old friends help me stay grounded.

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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.

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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.
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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.
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A daredevil parachutist jumped from the top of Tower Bridge today.
Daredevil people enjoy doing physically dangerous things.
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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.
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...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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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suffer an ectopic pregnancy
子宮外妊娠
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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
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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.
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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.
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Her father was in the army and the family led a peripatetic existence. ...a hectic, peripatetic life full of people and parties.
If someone has a peripatetic life or career, they travel around a lot, living or working in places for short periods of time.
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t makes the hairs at the nape of the neck bristle. [VERB] | Cats yowl. My dog's hair bristles in response. [VERB]
f the hair on a person's or animal's body bristles, it rises away from their skin because they are cold, frightened, or angry.
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Her tone of voice was curt. | 'The matter is closed,' was the curt reply.
If you describe someone as curt, you mean that they speak or reply in a brief and rather rude way. 素っ気ない
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..a small development of tract houses.
A tract house or a tract home is a house that is mass produced by a builder in an area with other houses that have similar floor plans and styles.
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The temples are festooned with lights. [be V-ed + with/in] | ...a lamppost festooned in political stickers. [VERB-ed]
If something is festooned with, for example, lights, balloons, or flowers, large numbers of these things are hung from it or wrapped around it, especially in order to decorate it.
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..old-fashioned chrome taps.
Chrome is metal plated with chromium.
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Dungarees
Dungarees are a one-piece garment consisting of trousers, a piece of cloth which covers your chest, and straps which go over your shoulders. In American English, dungarees can also refer to jeans.
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She helped to build a house, learning the rudiments of brick-laying as she went along.
When you learn the rudiments of something, you learn the simplest or most essential things about it.
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Many are orphans, their parents killed as they scavenged for food. [VERB + for] Children scavenge through garbage. [VERB preposition/adverb] The foxes come and scavenge the bones. [VERB noun] Cruz had to scavenge information from newspapers and journals. [VERB noun]
If people or animals scavenge for things, they collect them by searching among waste or unwanted objects.
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cabulator
キャブレーター。燃料と空気を混合する機械
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radiant heating
放射熱
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The heating system knows to make the temperature toasty on a cold morning before a guest is out of bed.
If something is toasty, it is comfortably warm.
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His father never adopted a servile attitude or slick style that may have made him a better salesman.
If you say that someone is servile, you disapprove of them because they are too eager to obey someone or do things for them. servile = 卑屈な（ほど服従する）、こびへつらう、へいこらする slick=〔人や話が〕口先だけの、ペラペラとしゃべる、調子のいい
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You had to suck up to people to sell real estate.
suck up = ごまをする
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She came over one night, scared out of her wits.
正気を失って、取り乱して | ・When the monster jumped out in the last scene, it scared me out of my wits. : 最後のシーンで怪獣が飛び出してきたとき、私は驚いて心臓が止まりそうになった。
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...an idyllic setting for a summer romance. | Married life was not as idyllic as he had imagined.
If you describe something as idyllic, you mean that it is extremely pleasant, simple, and peaceful without any difficulties or dangers. 牧歌的
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Brian was ensconced behind the bar. | She looked at Miss Melville, snugly ensconced among her new friends.
If you are ensconced somewhere, you are settled there firmly or comfortably and have no intention of moving or leaving.
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...the growing demand in Wales for recognition that it was not just an appendage to England. [+ to/of] Macmillan must have loathed being judged as a mere appendage to domestic politics.
An appendage is something that is joined to or connected with something larger or more important.
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He's not a fool. He is no fool.
He is no fool. 強調
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He took off for Helsinki like a bat out of hell.
If you drive like a bat out of hell, you drive extremely fast.
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The reception desk is not at street level, which is a little disconcerting.
If you say that something is disconcerting, you mean that it makes you feel anxious, confused, or embarrassed.
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Sometimes a light remark jarred on her father. [VERB + on] ...televised congressional hearings that jarred the nation's faith in the presidency. [VERB noun] You shouldn't have too many colours in a small space as the effect can jar. [VERB] jarring adjective In the context of this chapter, Dore's comments strike a jarring note.
If something jars on you, you find it unpleasant, disturbing, or shocking.
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defer to
言うことに従う
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by both nature and narture
生まれも育ちも
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by playing pranks
いたずら
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If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media. [VERB] ...a monk who had transgressed against the law of celibacy. [VERB + against] It seemed to me that he had transgressed the boundaries of good taste. [VERB noun]
If someone transgresses, they break a moral law or a rule of behaviour.
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...an admixture of fact and fantasy. [+ of]
Admixture means the same as mixture.
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They issued an ultimatum to the police to rid an area of racist attackers, or they will take the law into their own hands. [+ to] ...a 48-hour ultimatum.
An ultimatum is a warning to someone that unless they act in a particular way, action will be taken against them. 最後通牒
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a lathe
旋盤
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However difficult she might have been, this book exalts her as both mother and muse. [VERB noun] His work exalts all those virtues that we, as Americans, are taught to hold dear. [VERB noun] exaltation uncountable noun [also a N , usually NOUN of noun] The poem, which appeared in 1890, is an exaltation of married love.
To exalt someone or something means to praise them very highly.
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As you listen, you notice how every single word is imbued with a breathless sense of wonder. [be VERB-ed + with] ...men who can imbue their hearers with enthusiasm. [VERB noun + with]
If someone or something is imbued with an idea, feeling, or quality, they become filled with it.
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Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances. | ...a chunky sweater.
A chunky object is large and thick.
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She was taller than he was and stooped slightly. [VERB]
If you stoop, you stand or walk with your shoulders bent forwards.
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reams of information Their specific task is to sort through the reams of information and try to determine what it may mean. reams of paper Kelly spent three hours going through reams of paper. She's written reams of poetry.
a large quantity, esp of written matter
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...grateful recipients of their largesse. | ...his most recent act of largesse.
Largesse is a generous gift of money or a generous act of kindness.
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His body is wiry and athletic.
Someone who is wiry is rather thin but is also strong.
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You're being very scrupulous, but to what end? I have been scrupulous about telling them the dangers. [+ about] The Board is scrupulous in its consideration of all applications for licences. [+ in]
Someone who is scrupulous takes great care to do what is fair, honest, or morally right.
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...the scene of Robin Hood's escapades.
An escapade is an exciting and rather dangerous adventure.
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His face contorts as he screams out the lyrics. [VERB] The gentlest of her caresses would contort his already tense body. [VERB noun] Brenner was breathing hard, his face contorted with pain. [VERB-ed] ...their contorted bodies. [VERB-ed]
If someone's face or body contorts or is contorted, it moves into an unnatural and unattractive shape or position.
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A phone phreaker
a person who gains unauthorized access into a telecommunication system
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as a whippet
ウィペット犬
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He spoke in Arabic, a short staccato burst. | ...the staccato chattering of several machine-guns.
A staccato noise consists of a series of short, sharp, separate sounds.
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bummed
depressed, upset, distressed, annoyed, etc.
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Fantasies cannot harm you, no matter how bizarre or far out they are.
If you describe something as far out, you mean that it is very strange or extreme.
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He was exposed as a charlatan.
You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess. ペテン師
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Although sentenced to life, he will become eligible for parole after serving 10 years.
If a prisoner is given parole, he or she is released before the official end of their prison sentence and has to promise to behave well.
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As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved. ...the slightly self-effacing manner adopted by many diplomats.
Someone who is self-effacing does not like talking about themselves or drawing attention to themselves.
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He was about to offer enough wattage to light Wembley Stadium.
The wattage of a piece of electrical equipment is the amount of electrical power which it produces or uses, expressed in watts.
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Her fellow members marveled at her seemingly infinite energy. [VERB + at] Sara and I read the story and marveled. [VERB] 'That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen,' marveled Carl. [VERB with quote] He marvelled that a man in such intense pain could be so coherent. [VERB that]
If you marvel at something, you express your great surprise, wonder, or admiration.
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Jobs eked out a bohemian existence.
If you eke out something, you make your supply of it last as long as possible. You can use bohemian to describe artistic people who live in an unconventional way.
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B.O.
B.O. is an unpleasant smell caused by sweat on a person's body. B.O. is an abbreviation for 'body odour'.
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Mucus is a thick liquid that is produced in some parts of your body, for example the inside of your nose.
粘液
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The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp. The grass was prickly and cold.
Something that is prickly feels rough and uncomfortable, as if it has a lot of prickles.
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On stage she seems hard, brash and uncompromising.
If you describe someone or their behaviour as brash, you disapprove of them because you think that they are too confident and aggressive.
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"Six," Sara confirmed, feeling some of his excitement rub off on her.
to be left on (something or someone) as a mark, as by rubbing or, figuratively, by close contact
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From that time forward everybody shunned him. [VERB noun] He has always shunned publicity. [VERB noun] This extremist organization has shunned conventional politics. [VERB noun]
If you shun someone or something, you deliberately avoid them or keep away from them.
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Father Whittaker appeared to be in a jovial mood. | Grandma was plump and jovial.
If you describe a person as jovial, you mean that they are happy and behave in a cheerful way.
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The two leaders were flummoxed by the suggestion. [be VERB-ed]
If someone is flummoxed by something, they are confused by it and do not know what to do or say.
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Tarmac
Tarmac is a material used for making road surfaces, consisting of crushed stones mixed with tar
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160 pounds = 72.6 kg, 120 pounds = 54.4 kg
1 pound = 0.454 kg

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