20180416 Flashcards
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glean Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls—occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaning mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr.
英[gli:n] 美[ɡlin]
vi. 捡拾落穗;
vt. 收集;拾落穗;
- NIV They gather fodder in the fields and glean in the vineyards of the wicked.
6[和合]收割别人田间的禾稼;摘取恶人余剩的葡萄. - From what I was able to glean, it appears they don’t intend to take any action yet.
根据我所收集到的资料分析, 他们看来还不打算采取任何行动. - So she went out and began to glean in the fields behind the harvesters.
3路得就去了,来到田间,在收割的人身后拾取麦穗. - From these I glean an approach: I admit we harvested the beavers.
我从这些案例中摸索出了一个办法: 先承认我们是在清理海狸. - Teri’s suspicion passes quickly as she tries to glean information about Jack and Kimberly wellbeing.
泰瑞的疑心很快就过去了,她试图探明是否杰克和金伯利是真的安然无恙.
singular A singular notion dawned upon me.
英[ˈsɪŋgjələ(r)] 美[ˈsɪŋɡjəlɚ]
adj. 单数的;突出的;奇特的;非凡的;
n. 单数形式(的词);
- Words using the singular or plural number also include the plural or singular number.
采用单数或复数的单词也包括复数或单数. - Where applicable, words in the singular include plural and in the plural include the singular.
如情形适用, 单数词形包含复数含义,复数词形包含单数含义. - Where applicable in the singular include the plural in the plural include the singular.
如情形使用,单数词形包含复数含义,复数词形包含单数含义. - Where applicable, words in the singular include the plural and in the plural include the singular.
在适用的条款中, 词汇的单复数同义. - This thicket was a singular - an exceedingly singular one.
这片林子很怪 —— 怪得出奇.
intrude It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
英[ɪnˈtru:d] 美[ɪnˈtrud]
vi. 侵入,侵扰,打扰;闯入;打扰;
vt. 把观点强加于他人;[地质]侵入其他地层;把…硬挤;
- He had no wish to intrude on their privacy.
他原本就不想触犯他们私人活动的自由. - I am afraid that I intrude upon you.
恐怕我打扰你了. - He tried to intrude his opinions on me.
他想把他的意见强加给我. - Don’t intrude your own views upon others.
不要把你自己的意见强加给别人! - Big - breasted, narrow - waisted and long - legged, she has helped sex intrude into childhood.
每秒钟至少有3个芭比娃娃卖出, 零售额每年可达36亿元.
uncongenial It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
英[ˌʌnkənˈdʒi:niəl] 美[ˌʌnkənˈdʒinjəl]
adj.志趣不相投的;忤;
- The uncongenial roommates were always fighting.
意气不相投的室友们经常争吵. - The task was uncongenial to one sensitive to rebuffs.
这个工作不太适合对于严厉回绝敏感的人. - China can undertake and complete any risky projects at any uncongenial terrain in the world.
中国可以在世界上任何不适宜的地域上建设好任何危险的工程. - Their work had been uncongenial to the social structure and traditions of the land.
他们的工作对此地的社会结构及传统已不合适了. - Our first impulse is to accept the plausible as true and to the uncongenial as false.
我们总是先将似是而非的东西视为真理,将貌似相异的东西斥为谬误.
stead It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
英[sted] 美[stɛd]
n. 代替;用处,好处;有帮助;
v. 对。。有用;
- Here again my old caution stood me in good stead.
这一次我那种向来不变的谨慎又给我许多好处. - His personal relationship with the electorate stands in good stead ( John Sears )
他与选民的个人关系是有很大帮助的 ( 约翰西尔斯 ) - And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
约巴死了, 毯螅地的人户珊接续他作王. - She asked me to attend the meeting in her stead.
她要我替她去参加会议. - Two valiant heroes, blooded and fierce in battle, command in my stead.
两个勇敢的英雄, 骁勇善战, 替我指挥军队.
irksome It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a parent to a strange child she could not love, and to see an uncongenial alien permanently intruded on her own family group.
英[ˈɜ:ksəm] 美[ˈɜrksəm]
adj.令人厌烦的;
- She always speaks irksome complaints.
她总是发出令人厌烦的牢骚. - She desired a fixed occupation - no matter how onerous, how irksome.
她希望有个固定的职业,不管这个职业多么繁重, 多么令人厌倦. - And then all ties were irksome, all earthly attachments unnecessary.
于是,一切联系都是讨厌的, 所有尘世的依附都无必要了. - It is an irksome task.
那是件令人厌烦的工作. - It is irksome to listen to his constant complaints.
听他无休无止地抱怨真使人心烦.
interloper Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband’s death, by any tie?
英[ˈɪntələʊpə(r)] 美[ˈɪntərloʊpər]
n.闯入者;干涉他人事务者;
- In the constituencies of Great Britain she was still an interloper - cold, affected, and unacceptably right wing.
在大不列颠国内的各选区,人们仍然把她视为半路闯出来的陌生人 —— 一个冷漠, 矫揉造作的极右派. - Both creatures shrunk back into the rocks, even though Judith’s attention was fixed on the interloper.
即使是现在茱蒂丝的注意力被入侵者完全吸引了,他俩还是不由自主地退回到了石堆里. - Pauline is conniving interloper, befriending the lonely wife while the husband is busy working.
宝琳则是默认的第三者, 在丈夫忙于工作时照顾那位孤独的妻子. - She felt like an interloper in her own family.
她感到在自己家里像个外人。
vault Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?
英[vɔ:lt] 美[vɔlt]
n. 拱顶,穹窿;地下室;撑物跳;墓穴;
vt. 进行撑竿跳;做成圆拱形;成穹状;(以手撑物或撑竿)跳过;
vi. 跳跃;成穹状弯曲;
- Vault can even host multiple repositories on the same Vault server.
Vault甚至可以在同一台Vault服务器上建立多个库. - The Vault server guarantees that all operations within a transaction will stay together.
Vault服务器确保了一个事务中的所有操作将停留在一个状态. - As far as I know, Vault is the only product that offers this flexibility.
我所知道的, Vault是 唯一的一个产品支持这种弹性选择的产品. - Vault persists the pending change set between sessions.
Vault在会话之间持续的保持着变更集合. - Subversion and Vault are examples of tools which use binary file deltas for repository storage.
Subversion和Vault是使用了二进制文件增量的存储库的工具实例.
ember My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
英[ˈembə(r)] 美[ˈɛmbɚ]
n.余烬,余火;
- Instead , the devil gave him a single ember to light the frigid darkness.
恶魔给了他一把余火,去照亮寒冷的黑夜. - Sarah Long and Steve Ember tell about Doctor Seuss.
莎拉·朗和史蒂夫·安博来告诉我们他的故事. - And that’s the VOA Special English Economics Report, written by Mario Ritter.’m Steve Ember.
以上VOA特别英语的经济报道是由马里奥·里特尔撰稿. 我是史蒂夫·安贝. - And that is the VOA special English economics report, written by Mario Ritter. I Ember.
这就是今天的美国之音特别英语经济报道, 是由码瑞欧瑞特撰稿的, 我是史帝文安博. - STEVE EMBER : Others praise hot soups prepared in their childhood homes.
史蒂夫·恩伯: 另有一些人则对他们小时候喝过的热汤赞叹不已.
forlorn 1) Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.”
2) My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
英[fəˈlɔ:n] 美[fərˈlɔrn]
adj.绝望的,孤立无助的;凄凉的,荒凉的;被弃置的;渺茫的;
- The village went to its rest on Tuesday night, sad and forlorn.
晚上整个村庄在一片悲哀和绝望的氛围里静了下来. - No smoke came from the chimney and the little lattice windows gaped forlorn.
烟囱不再飘起袅袅青烟.一扇扇小花格窗凄凉地洞开着. - Forlorn and woeful the old capital lay in gray morning light as we entered.
当我们进入南京的时候,这古老的京城正孤独地,忧郁地躺在灰色的晨曦中. - Wilson was elected, the twins were defeated - crushed , in fact, and left forlorn and substantially friendless.
威尔逊当选了, 那两兄弟却遭到了惨败 – 事实上是一败涂地, 弄得晦气不堪,没人理睬. - She felt a hopelessness of their even being extricated together from that forlorn place.
她感到他们没有摆脱那个苦恼地方的希望了.
romp I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs.
英[rɒmp] 美[rɑmp]
vi. 嬉笑玩闹;欢快地迅速奔跑;[俚]轻易地取胜,不费力地完成;
n. 顽皮嬉闹,玩闹;顽童;轻易取得的胜利;
- Liz do not enjoy romp as much as other girls do.
莉丝不像别的女孩那样喜欢嬉戏吵闹. - She was a hundred flowers bloom, Tianchi in the water, to romp down the mountain.
百花为她盛开了, 天池里的水, 欢蹦乱跳地流下了山. - Prepare yourself for a Dickensian romp complete with snow, street urchins and gentlemen in waistcoats.
准备好迎接狄更生式的,包含积雪 、 街头顽童和穿着马甲的绅士的轻松情节. - He was on song in the romp over their rivals.
他在最佳状态中大胜对手. - Why are you so anxious? You should romp through the test, it’s an easy one for you.
你为何如此担心 呢 ?你会轻松地通过这次考试的,对你来说, 这并不难.
sanguine I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs.
英[ˈsæŋgwɪn] 美[ˈsæŋɡwɪn]
adj. 乐观的,充满希望的;面色红润的;血红色的;
n. 血红色;自信,乐观;
- He is sanguine about the possibility of change.
他觉得改革的可能还是非常乐观的. - I’m sanguine of success.
我对成功抱乐观态度. - Murray or sanguine - Not hasty in battle, and yet a victor.
血红色 - 象征在战场上向来应对谨慎, 却依然总受到胜利之神眷顾的人. - We are sanguine that we shall be succeeding.
我们自信会成功. - I have a sanguine outlook on everything.
我对每件事都持乐观看法.
indignation They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.
英[ˌɪndɪgˈneɪʃn] 美[ˌɪndɪɡˈneʃən]
n.愤怒,愤慨,气愤;
- The vindictive feeling called ‘’ moral indignation ‘’ is merely a form of cruelty.
所谓 “ 义愤 ” 的复仇感,不过是残忍的一种形式. - Whatever the case , Chinese are well acquainted with Americans’feelings of indignation mixed with powerlessness.
不论如何, 中国人熟谙美国人这种愤慨和无奈交织的心态. - Indignation rose up when he found he was cheated.
发觉自己受骗后,他非常愤慨. - My heart often burned with indignation I knew not how to express.
我经常感到义愤填膺,我真不知道如何表达. - And when the ten heard it, they were with indignation against the two brethren.
24那十个门徒听见, 就恼怒他们弟兄二人.
sympathize They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.
英[ˈsɪmpəθaɪz] 美[ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪz]
vi.同情,怜悯;共鸣,同感;支持,赞成;安慰;
- I inquired perceiving that wretched creature had no power to sympathize with his cousin’s mental tortures.
我看出来这个下贱的东西没有力量同情他表姐心灵上所受到的折磨,便盘问着. - They can debate educational policies. Or they can just sympathize with each other.
他们可以讨论教育政策或者表示彼此的意见一致. - Men can think , feel , and sympathize with each other through their favorite author.
人们可以通过共同爱好的作家沟通思想感情, 彼此息息相通. - It’s hard to sympathize with her political opinions.
她的政治观点很难使人赞同. - We sympathize with his desire to live his life as well as utter it.
我们谅解他所向往的和他所表达的那种生活.
propensity They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.
英[prəˈpensəti] 美[prəˈpɛnsɪti]
n.倾向,习性,癖好,偏爱;
- They are growing slowly with a propensity for local recurrence and metastasis.
肿瘤本身特性为缓慢变大,具有局部再发和转移现象. - He showed a propensity for violence.
他表现出暴力倾向. - Results Under model misspecification conditions, propensity score methods had better robustness than model based methods.
结果当存在模型误定时, 倾向指数方法比基于模型的方法具有较好的稳健性. - Flame synthesis of carbon nanotubes have low cost and high efficiency and wide development propensity.
火焰合成碳纳米管成本低、率高,开发应用前景广阔. - A high marginal propensity to consume increases the effect of any expansion in autonomous spending.
3一个高的边际消费倾向增大了任意的自发支出扩张的影响.
temperament They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.
英[ˈtemprəmənt] 美[ˈtɛmprəmənt, ˈtɛmpərə-]
n.性格;(人或动物的)气质;易冲动;(性情)暴躁;
- Work temperament is an important part of personality which includes motivation, aptitude and temperament.
职业气质是职业人格(职业动机 、 性向和气质)中相当重要的一方面. - A person if could not control from the sixth branch temperament, the temperament will control you.
一个人如果控制不了自巳的脾气, 脾气将控制你. - What do you think of your personality, or temperament?
周奔驰:你觉得你是个什么性格的人? - The elegant art temperament.
优雅的艺术气质. - Success often depends on temperament.
成功常常取决于一个人的性格.
vassal Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage.
英[ˈvæsl] 美[ˈvæsəl]
n. 奴仆;(封建时代)诸侯;从属者;下属;
adj. 奴仆的;奴隶的;臣的;附庸的;
- You’re a student you’re an empty vassal and you don’t.
你是学生,是个空容器,没有知识. - The lord in return owed his vassal protection and an assured livelihood.
主返回欠他的附庸保护和有保证的生计. - You can now airlift into cities of your vassal.
可以空运部队到附庸国城市. - He, in turn, was vassal to the Great Khan of China.
而这个满族头人又藩属于中国大可汗. - The fidelity owed by a vassal to his feudal lord.
效忠诸侯对封建领主的忠诚.
discord I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs.
英[ˈdɪskɔ:d] 美[ˈdɪskɔrd]
n. 不和;不调和;嘈杂声;
v. 不一致;[乐]不谐和,发乱音;
- Do I sense an apple of discord in dawn eager arrive?
你问我有无有感觉出你们两人之间的不和,是 吗 ? - The discord of his music was hard on the ear.
他演奏的不和谐音很刺耳. - Boys seem to suffer more than girls when family discord occurs.
家庭不和谐时,男孩似乎比女孩遭受更多痛苦. - This silver spoon of the dead sister was quite an apple of discord.
已故姐姐留下的这把银匙子倒真成了争吵的原因. - Formost of their first month in operation , however, they seem to havecreated discord instead.
然而,在它们第一个月运行的大部分期间里, 似乎产生了些杂音.
tumult How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection!
英[ˈtju:mʌlt] 美[ˈtumʌlt]
n.吵闹;喧哗;激动的吵闹声;心烦意乱;
- Nothing asserted its size in a brutal tumult of wind and thunder.
没有任何东西以风啸雷鸣般的喧嚣显示其威势. - A reef of a thousand islands kept out the Atlantic tumult of the waves.
散布在海上的上千个礁岛挡住了喧嚣的大西洋波涛. - The tumult and evil of life dropped from him like foul and ragged cloak.
人生的扰乱和丑恶,就像腐臭、破烂的衣服一样,从他身上褪落下来. - In the increasing tumult questions, answers, and the admonitions of the judge began to overlap.
人群中骚乱声越来越大,质问 、 辩驳以及法官的频频警告开始乱作一团. - And what was it that had suggested the tremendous tumult?
到底是什么东西令人联想那极大的骚扰 呢 ?
dreary 1) Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with “the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.”
2) Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker’s men; and, since that day, a sense of dreary consecration had guarded it from frequent intrusion.
3) What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon!
英[ˈdrɪəri] 美[ˈdrɪri]
adj. 沉寂的;阴沉的;令人厌烦的;枯燥的;
n. 可怕的人物;
- O the dreary , dreary moorland! O the barren , barren shore!
噢这乏味的高沼地, 噢这贫瘠的海岸! - It’s a dreary morning isn’t it?
今天早晨很闷,是不是? - Is there no way out of this dreary cycle of excess and outrage?
难道没有办法摆脱这种无节制和愤怒的循环 吗 ? - Nowadays, dreary old comprehensibility is still very much around.
如今, 令人生厌的容易理解的老派作品还是很多. - But, whatever the case, there was at least one dreary jail in Turkey.
但是, 不管怎么说, 土耳其至少还是有一幢监狱是让人无比郁闷的.
consternation What a consternation of soul was mine that dreary afternoon!
英[ˌkɒnstəˈneɪʃn] 美[ˌkɑnstərˈneɪʃn]
n.惊愕;惊惶失措;惊恐;
- To our consternation the train rushed on toward the burning bridge.
火车朝向火烧的桥梁冲去而使我们惊慌. - China’s commercial encroachment on the terrain of traditional aid providers has caused consternation among western policymakers.
在商业领域,中国侵犯了传统援助提供者的“地盘”,这引起了西方决策者们的惊愕. - The spiralling costs of the new building have caused consternation and anger.
新大楼的不断攀升的花费令人感到惊愕和愤怒. - It’s something that causes a lot of consternation both for patients and physicians.
这让病人和医生们都是大为吃惊的. - Sigh Tu Xi to urge before consternation dare not.
惊愕不敢前,叹息徒嘻吁.
insupportable said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
英[ˌɪnsəˈpɔ:təbl] 美[ˌɪnsəˈpɔrtəbl]
adj.忍耐不住的,不能忍受的;
- It is ludicrous to argue that this would be an insupportable burden.
认为这种负担不可承受的说法是荒谬的. - The heat of this summer is really insupportable.
今年夏天的酷暑实在令人无法忍受. - It would be insupportable if these were to be examined one at a time.
如果一次只查看一个形象,那就难以忍受了. - At such an assembly as this, it would be insupportable.
在这样的舞会上跳舞, 简直叫人受不了. - The power of the nobility continuously increased, until about the year 600 B.C. it became insupportable.
贵族的统治日益加强, 到了公元前600年左右,已经变得令人不能忍受了.
instigate said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
英[ˈɪnstɪgeɪt] 美[ˈɪnstɪˌɡet]
vt.教唆;煽动;激起;
- A few days later, scar and lure simba into a valley, then instigate hyenas JiaoMa pursuits.
几天以后, 刀疤又引诱辛巴到了一个山谷, 然后指使土狼们追击角马. - In 74 percent of cases it is women who now instigate divorce proceedings.
现在74%的案例是由女人提出离婚诉讼的. - Presently, the advent of the Chinese AP test and classes will instigate a great change!
现在, 这样的情况随着中文AP课程和考试的开设,已经出现了重大的改变! - Possibly is receives the media to instigate only then such the extreme.
可能是受到媒体的挑拨才这么极端. - Do you think Hong Kong people have a responsibility to instigate economic development in China?
你觉得香港人有冇责任推动中国既经济发展?