joan8611tw的部落格

Surreptitious(a.)祕密的；暗中的

definition: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack";

Incontrovertible(a.)無疑的

definition: Not controvertible; too clear or certain to admit of dispute;indisputable

Dismantle(v.)分解

definition:

     1. To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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     2. To strip of furniture and equipments, guns, etc.; to

        unrig; to strip of walls or outworks; to break down; as,

        to dismantle a fort, a town, or a ship.

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              A dismantled house, without windows or shutters to

              keep out the rain.                    --Macaulay.

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Sumptuous(a.)奢侈的

definition:   rich and superior in quality; "a princely sum"; "gilded

             dining rooms" [syn: {deluxe}, {gilded}, {grand},

             {luxurious}, {opulent}, {princely}, {sumptuous}]

Parsimonious(a.)節儉的

definition:   excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift

             relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most

             penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence" [syn:

             {parsimonious}, {penurious}]

Pedagogue (n.)教師

definition:

     1. (Gr. Antiq.) A slave who led his master's children to

        school, and had the charge of them generally.

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     2. A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach

        the young; a schoolmaster.

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     3. One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or

        pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a

        schoolmaster; a pedant.

Anthropologist(n.)學者

definition: a social scientist who specializes in anthropology

Incompatibility(n.)不兩立；不相容

definition:

      1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true

           at the same time [syn: {incompatibility}, {mutual

           exclusiveness}, {inconsistency}, {repugnance}]

      2: (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system

         will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or

         transplanted tissue)

      3: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial

         combination [ant: {compatibility}]

platitude(n.)單調；陳腐

definition:

    1. The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat

        commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.

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              To hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of

              infinite platitude.                   --Motley.

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     2. A thought or remark which is flat, dull, trite, or weak; a

        truism; a commonplace.

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Dispersed(a.)分散的

definition:

   1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to

        distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are

        dispersed among all nations.

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              The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. --Prov. xv.

                                                    7.

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              Two lions, in the still, dark night,

              A herd of beeves disperse.            --Cowper.

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     2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to

        disperse vapors.

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              Dispersed are the glories.            --Shak.

Vehement(a.)熱烈的

definition:

1. Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous;

        forcible; mighty; as, a vehement wind; a vehement torrent;

        a vehement fire or heat.

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     2. Very ardent; very eager or urgent; very fervent;

        passionate; as, a vehement affection or passion. "Vehement

        instigation." --Shak. "Vehement desire." --Milton.

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     Syn: Furious; violent; raging; impetuous; passionate; ardent;

          eager; hot; fervid; burning.

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Chicanery(n.)強詞奪理

definition:

the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: {trickery}, {chicanery}, {chicane},{guile}, {wile}, {shenanigan}]