20230321單詞匯總

· brainchild /?bre?n?t?a?ld/ ?

o N-SING Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created. 智慧結晶

? ?The record was the brainchild of rock star Bob Geldof. 這張唱片是搖滾明星鮑勃·格爾多夫的智慧結晶。

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pro·hibi·tive adj. ? /pr??h?b?t?v/ ?NAmE also /pro??h?/

1.( of a price or a cost 價格或費用 ) so high that it prevents people from buying sth or doing sth 高昂得令人難以承受的；貴得買不起的

SYN exorbitant

?prohibitive costs 難以承受的費用

?The price of property in the city is prohibitive. 城市的房地產(chǎn)價格令人望而卻步。

2.preventing people from doing sth by law （以法令）禁止的

?prohibitive legislation 禁律

DERIVATIVES 派生詞

pro·hibi·tive·ly adv

· ?Car insurance can be prohibitively expensive for young drivers. 汽車保險費有時高得讓年輕開車人承受不起。

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de·plor·able adj. ? /d??pl??r?bl/ ?

( formal ) very bad and unacceptable, often in a way that shocks people 糟透的；令人震驚的；令人憤慨的

SYN appalling

· ? a deplorable incident 令人憤慨的事件

· ? They were living in the most deplorable conditions. 他們生活在最糟糕的環(huán)境里。

· ? The acting was deplorable. 那演技糟透了。

DERIVATIVES 派生詞

de·plor·ably /??bli/ ? ?/??bli/ ?adv

· ?They behaved deplorably. 他們的表現(xiàn)糟透了。

· ?deplorably high/low/bad 高╱低╱糟得令人吃驚

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· roundabout /?ra?nd??ba?t/ ?

o 1.ADJ If you go somewhere by a roundabout route, you do not go there by the shortest and quickest route. 迂回的

? ?He left today on a roundabout route for Jordan and is also due soon in Egypt. 他今天繞道前往約旦，也將很快到達埃及。

o 2.ADJ If you do or say something in a roundabout way, you do not do or say it in a simple, clear, and direct way. 拐彎抹角的

? ?We made a little fuss in a roundabout way. 我們拐彎抹角地發(fā)了點牢騷。

o 3.N-COUNT A roundabout is a circular structure in the road at a place where several roads meet. You drive around it until you come to the road that you want. (交通) 環(huán)島

o 4.N-COUNT A roundabout at an amusement park is a large, circular mechanical device with seats, often in the shape of animals or cars, on which children sit and go around and around. (游樂園的) 旋轉木馬

o 5.N-COUNT A roundabout in a park or school play area is a circular platform that children sit or stand on. People push the platform to make it spin around. (公園、學校的) 轉椅

· stint /st?nt/ ?

o 1.N-COUNT A stint is a period of time which you spend doing a particular job or activity or working in a particular place. 一段時間

? ?He is returning to this country after a five-year stint in Hong Kong. 他在香港呆了5年后就要返回這個國家了。

o 2.N any of various small sandpipers of the chiefly northern genus Calidris (or Erolia), such as C. minuta (little stint) 濱鷸屬鳥

o 3.V to be frugal or miserly towards (someone) with (something) 吝惜

· smoulder /?sm??ld?/

o 1.V-I If something smoulders, it burns slowly, producing smoke but not flames. 悶燒

? ?The wreckage was still smouldering several hours after the crash. 殘骸在墜機數(shù)小時后還在悶燒著。

o 2.V-I If a feeling such as anger or hatred smoulders inside you, you continue to feel it but do not show it. (憤怒或仇恨等情感) 郁積

? ?...the guilt that had so long smouldered in her heart. …她心里郁積已久的愧疚。

o 3.V-I If you say that someone smoulders, you mean that they are sexually attractive, usually in a mysterious or very intense way. (神秘或強烈的性吸引而產(chǎn)生的) 放電

? ?He was good-looking, with dark eyes which could smoulder with just the right intimation of passion. 他長得很帥，黑色的眼睛只要遇到恰當?shù)募で榘凳揪蜁烹姟?/p>