201-300 Flashcards
Dysentery is an infection in a person’s intestines that causes them to pass a lot of waste, in which blood and mucus are mixed with the person’s faeces.
赤痢
The regime was the very incarnation of evil. [+ of]
She is a perfect incarnation of glamour.
If you say that someone is the incarnation of a particular quality, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.
…the demise of the reform movement.
Smoking, rather than genetics, was the cause of his early demise.
The demise of something or someone is their end or death.
I’m dreading Christmas this year. [VERB noun/verb-ing]
I dreaded coming back, to be honest. [VERB noun/-ing]
I suffer badly from cold sores and dread them appearing on my wedding day. [V n -ing]
I’d been dreading that the birth would take a long time. [VERB that]
If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting.
Advertisements attempt to project a latent meaning behind an overt message.
Latent is used to describe something which is hidden and not obvious at the moment, but which may develop further in the future.
‘What if they gave a war and nobody came?’ was one of his generation’s favored aphorisms.
An aphorism is a short witty sentence which expresses a general truth or comment.
The terrain changed quickly from arable land to desert.
…a tortuous eight-hour coach ride around 1,200 bends of rough terrain.
Terrain is used to refer to an area of land or a type of land when you are considering its physical features.
She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel gazing.
If you refer to an activity as navel-gazing, you are critical of it because people are thinking about something for a long time but take no action on it.
He sat down, straddling the chair. [VERB noun]
If you straddle something, you put or have one leg on either s
The company’s closure has left many small businessmen in desperate financial straits.
If we had a child, we’d be in really dire straits.
to be in a position of acute difficulty
pore over
熟読する
…the demise of the reform movement.
Smoking, rather than genetics, was the cause of his early demise.
The demise of something or someone is their end or death.
This may well be an apocryphal story.
There is a story, probably apocryphal, about a British motorcyclist on holiday in America.
An apocryphal story is one which is probably not true or did not happen, but which may give a true picture of someone or something.
Shaw took me to his rather dingy office.
A dingy building or place is rather dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty.
The decor is simple–black lacquer panels on white walls.
The decor of a house or room is its style of furnishing and decoration.
His indefatigable spirit helped him to cope with his illness.
He was indefatigable in his efforts to secure funding for new projects.
You use indefatigable to describe someone who never gets tired of doing something.
When the client was murdered, his wife took the rap, but did she really do it?
take the blame, be blamed, be punished, suffer the consequences, pay for something
If you take the rap, you are blamed or punished for something, especially something that is not your fault or for which other people are equally guilty.
He often appeared angry and frustrated by the intransigence of both sides. [+ of]
If you talk about someone’s intransigence, you mean that they refuse to behave differently or to change their attitude to something.
She feels a shiver creep up her spine.
背筋がぞくっとする
Michael Fish is my favourite. He’s a hoot, a real character.
If you say that someone or something is a hoot, you think they are very amusing.
He began to talk in his most gentle and avuncular manner.
An avuncular man or a man with avuncular behaviour is friendly and helpful towards someone younger.
…the ebullient Russian President.
If you describe someone as ebullient, you mean that they are lively and full of enthusiasm or excitement about something.
docket
- a summary, as of a legal proceeding, or a list of legal decisions
- US
a list of cases to be tried by a law court - any list or summary of things to be done; agenda
- a label listing the contents of a package, directions, etc.
verb transitive - US
to enter in a docket - to put a docket, or label, on; ticket
The wound is festering, and gangrene has set in. [VERB]
Many of the children are afflicted by festering sores. [VERB-ing]
If a wound festers, it becomes infected, making it worse. 化膿
His music is sheer delight.
Sheer chance quite often plays an important part in sparking off an idea.
…acts of sheer desperation.
You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else.
There was a dicey moment as one of our party made a risky climb up the cliff wall.
Something that is dicey is slightly dangerous or uncertain.
he numbers don’t jibe. [VERB]
How did your expectations jibe with the reality? [VERB + with]
If numbers, statements, or events jibe, they are exactly the same as each other or they are consistent with each other.
When the rubber meets the road,
肝心な時に
Rolodex
a desktop file in the form of a rotating device or a shallow tray, in which cards containing names, addresses, etc. are held securely in place for ready reference
…a company car, private medical insurance and other perks.
One of the perks of being a student is cheap travel.
Perks are special benefits that are given to people who have a particular job or belong to a particular group.
The overall ambience of the room is cosy. [+ of]
The ambience of a place is the character and atmosphere that it seems to have.
He stowed away on a ferry and landed in North Shields. [VERB PARTICLE]
If someone stows away, they hide in a ship, aeroplane, or other vehicle in order to make a journey secretly or without paying.
Their decision to do nothing makes them culpable.
…manslaughter resulting from culpable negligence.
If someone or their conduct is culpable, they are responsible for something wrong or bad that has happened.
Today his company continues to thrive. [VERB]
Lavender thrives in poor soil. [VERB]
…the river’s thriving population of kingfishers. [VERB-ing]
If someone or something thrives, they do well and are successful, healthy, or strong.
Pollard continues to languish in prison. [VERB preposition/adverb]
No one knows for certain how many refugees wander the world today, or languish in camps without a permanent place of settlement. [VERB preposition/adverb]
If someone languishes somewhere, they are forced to remain and suffer in an unpleasant situation.
The barb stung her exactly the way he hoped it would.
A barb is an unkind remark meant as a criticism of someone or something.
White House officials ordered Williams to recant. [VERB]
…a man who had refused after torture to recant his heresy. [VERB noun]
If you recant, you say publicly that you no longer hold a set of beliefs that you had in the past.
…a long, hot and arduous journey.
The task was more arduous than he had calculated.
Something that is arduous is difficult and tiring, and involves a lot of effort.
London has 9 miles of such subterranean passages.
A subterranean river or tunnel is under the ground.
…mistakes arising from ignorance of the nomenclature of woody plants. [+ of]
…the internationally agreed rules of chemical nomenclature.
The nomenclature of a particular set of things is the system of naming those things.
