英語單詞超好背 第0269期

terminable

英 [?t??m?n?b(?)l]

adj. 可終止的；有期限的

cellar

英 [?sel?(r)] 美 [?sel?r]

n. 地窖；酒窖；地下室

vt. 把…藏入地窖

n. (Cellar)人名；(捷)采拉爾

例句：

Suddenly she dashed down to the cellar.
她猛地朝地窖沖過去。

He shone the flashlight around the cellar.
他用手電筒往地窖各處照了照。

Water had started to leak into the cellar.
水已開始滲入地下室。

brightness

英 [?bra?tn?s] 美 [?bra?tn?s]

n. [光][天] 亮度；聰明，活潑；鮮艷；愉快

例句：

The star varies in brightness by about three magnitudes.
星體的亮度大約分三個(gè)星等。

Her burst of exuberance and her brightness overwhelmed me.
她的活力勃發(fā)和她的聰明智慧征服了我。

But his night paintings don't exactly lack brightness.
但他的夜景畫并不缺乏亮度。

warranted

英 [?w?r?nt?d] 美 ['w?r?nt]

adj. 保證的；擔(dān)保的

v. 批準(zhǔn)（warrant的過去分詞）；授權(quán)

例句：

Further investigation is clearly warranted.
進(jìn)一步調(diào)查顯然是必要的。

The boss just isn't convinced that his work attitude warranted it.
老板只是不相信他的工作態(tài)度值得他這樣做。

This is an event contrived to create news coverage where none had been considered warranted.
這是一件刻意制造新聞報(bào)道的事件，且沒有人認(rèn)為這是有根據(jù)的。

linger

英 [?l??ɡ?(r)] 美 [?l??ɡ?r]

vi. 徘徊；茍延殘喘；磨蹭

vt. 消磨；緩慢度過

n. (Linger)人名；(德、捷、瑞典)林格；(法)蘭熱

例句：

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
我偷偷朝雞尾酒桌的方向溜去——這是花園中唯一一個(gè)可以讓一個(gè)人在這里逗留而不會(huì)顯得毫無目的和孤獨(dú)的地方。

It's strange how childhood impressions linger.
童年的印象經(jīng)久不忘，真是不可思議。

When apartheid is over the maladies will linger on.
種族隔離廢止后，這種社會(huì)弊病還會(huì)繼續(xù)。

回顧

1. terminable
2. cellar
3. brightness
4. warranted
5. linger