每天背單詞 第135期

indifferent

英 [?n?d?fr?nt] 美 [?n?d?fr?nt]

adj. 冷淡的；不關心的；中等的；平庸的；一般的；相當差的；中立的；不分化的

n. 冷漠的人

例句：

He was mute, distant, and indifferent.
他緘默無言，對人疏遠而且冷漠。

She had starred in several very indifferent movies.
她領銜主演過好幾部非常平庸的電影。

Her dull and indifferent husband replied that he had not.
她那遲鈍而冷漠的丈夫回答說他沒有。

loose

英 [lu?s] 美 [lu?s]

adj. 寬松的；散漫的；不牢固的；不精確的

vt. 釋放；開船；放槍

vi. 變松；開火

adv. 松散地

n. 放縱；放任；發(fā)射

n. (Loose)人名；(捷、瑞典)洛塞；(英)盧斯；(德)洛澤

例句：

The screw had worked loose.
這螺絲釘松動了。

One of the screws is loose.
有一顆螺絲松了。

The handle came loose.
這把手松了。

burdensome

英 [?b??dns?m] 美 [?b??rdns?m]

adj. 繁重的；累贅的；惱人的

例句：

Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty.
自從人類有了聰明才智以來，人們就設計出越來越狡猾的工具來從事危險、枯燥、繁重或純粹是骯臟的工作。

As the report authors point out, even near-misses might lead to the "creation of a burdensome regulatory framework and affect the future disposition of science Cube Sats".
正如報告的作者所指出的，即使是差之毫末也可能導致“產(chǎn)生一個繁重的監(jiān)管框架，并影響科學立方體衛(wèi)星的未來部署”。

The load was too burdensome.
負擔太繁重了。

dictation

英 [d?k?te??n] 美 [d?k?te??n]

n. 聽寫；口述；命令

例句：

She is transcribing, from his dictation, the diaries of Simon Forman.
她正在根據(jù)他的口述記錄西蒙·福曼的日記。

I wrote the letter at his dictation.
我照他的口述寫信。

I wrote the letter at my boss' dictation.
我照我老板的口述寫了這封信。

descendant

英 [d??send?nt] 美 [d??send?nt]

n. 后裔，子孫；（由過去類似物發(fā)展來的）派生物；（機器等）后繼型產(chǎn)品

adj. 下降的；祖?zhèn)鞯?/p> 例句：

He was an O'Conor and a direct descendant of the last High King of Ireland.
他屬于奧康納家族，是愛爾蘭最后一位君王的嫡系后裔。

These adaptations served their descendant well as they invaded land.
這些適應機制在它們的后代進化成陸生生物時起了很好的協(xié)助作用。

This method tells you all information you need to know: whether one node is descendant of an ancestor of the other, whether it is before or after, and so on.
這個方法告訴您所有想知道的信息：一個節(jié)點是否是另一個節(jié)點的祖先的后代，它是在前面還是后面呢，等等。

回顧

1. indifferent
2. loose
3. burdensome
4. dictation
5. descendant