address
熟义:n.地址
僻义:V.解决; 向…致辞,演说
e.g. You can address this problem with a single gateway event engine.
e.g. an address to the European Parliament 致欧洲议会的演讲(向…致辞,演说)
novel
熟义:n.小说
僻义:adj.新奇的
It’ll be a novel experience that can be a subject of future conversations and, yes, a promiseof a next date.
它将成为一次新奇的经历,可能成为你们今后的谈话的一个话题,是的,也是下次约会的一个约定。
Novelty n. 新奇;新奇的事物
Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight. (TPO12 – 2: TRANSITION TO SOUND IN FILM )
虽然从后来的角度很难想象,但20世纪20年代的一种批评性观点预测有声电影将是一种技术上的新事物,这种新事物很快就会从人们的视野中消失。
sound
熟义:n.声音,语音,噪音v.听起来
僻义:adj.健全的,合理的,有效彻底的,健康的
There are sound reasons for being skeptical of theories like this one(TPO 18 – 2: THE MYSTERY OF YAWNING)
对这样的理论持怀疑态度是有充分理由的
weather
熟义:n.天气
僻义:V经受风雨,度过难关
Groundwater is stored in the pore spaces and joints of rocks and unconsolidated (unsolidified) sediments or in the openings widened through fractures and weathering. (TPO 12 – 3: WATER IN THE DESERT)
地下水储存在岩石的孔隙空间和节理以及未固结(未凝固)的沉积物中,或储存在裂隙和风化作用加宽的开口中
might
熟义:may的过去式
僻义:n.力量,威权( with might and main:尽全力)
By the seventeenth century, however, other European powers had taken over, as the Italian cities lost much of their economic might. (TPO 25 – 2: THE DECLINE OF VENETIAN SHIPPING)
然而,到了17世纪,随着意大利城市丧失了大部分经济实力,其他欧洲强国取而代之。
game
熟义:n游戏比赛
僻义:n.猎物
The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal.(TPO 4 – 1: DEER POPULATIONS OF THE PUGET SOUND)
早期的探险者和定居者在19世纪初就谈论过大量的鹿,但几乎是在同一时间,他们都在哀叹这种多肉的狩猎动物的缺乏。