再要你命3001-3071 Flashcards
restitution
補償,賠償:for some injury
resurrect
使重生,使復蘇:bring back to life
retentive
記性好的:retain knowledge or information
retrieve
尋回,找回:get back again
reverberate
回蕩,迴響:continue or be repeated sound waves
rhetorical
語言上的,文字上的:words or language;言辭華麗(卻往往無內涵)的:fancy but meaningless
rigmarole
混亂而無意義的話:confused or meaningless talk
ruthless
沒有憐憫心的,殘忍的:no pity
sacrosanct
極為神聖的,不可侵犯的:most sacred
scourge
禍害:source of harm
screen
掩護物,屏障:shelters, protects, or hides;保護,使…免受攻擊:drive attack away;掩護,遮蔽:shut off from view
scrimp
節儉:avoid waste
scruple
(良心上的)不安:uneasy feeling about the rightness
secede
脫離,拖出(組織、團體、聯盟等):withdraw from an organization
sectarianism
宗派主義,頑固:adherence prejudices
secular
世俗的,塵世的:worldly or temporal
sequel
結果:result
shift
改變…的位置:change position;改變,變化:pass from;交換:in return
shifty
(顯得)狡詐的,(顯得)欺詐的:deceitful character
simile
明喻:comparing two unlike things
skittish
容易受到驚嚇的,膽小的:easily frightened;容易激動的:easily excited;善變的,多變的:likely to change
sparing
節儉的,節約的:careful restraint;不足的,缺乏的:less plentiful
splinter
尖細條,刺:sharp, slender piece;將…切成細條:break into sharp, slender pieces
splutter
急切而不清楚地說:hastily and incoherently
squeamish
噁心的,暈船的:nausea
stasis
平衡,停滯:balance
staunch
忠誠的,堅定的:steadfast in loyalty
stereotype
成見,老套的理念:conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified opinion