6.11 Flashcards
(29 cards)
subtle
You know, it’s very subtle, but it’s a new form of fascism, really.
很难形容，是一种新的法西斯主义。
nudge
Rachel: That was her idea, I just gave her a nudge.
是她自己想剃，我只是给了她建议。
ken
Woman, you are playing with forces beyond your ken.
小妞，你这点小伎俩可别玩过火了。
raffle
Absolutely not. If we win that raffle, we’re keeping it.
当然不。如果我们中了奖，就能拿回来了。
I don’t know. It’s just weird, you know, me being raffled off like a disney cruise.
不知道。感觉有点奇怪啊，像迪斯尼巡游里的抽奖礼品一样。
onerous
It imposes onerous registration and reporting requirements on them.
它又把那些繁琐的登记手续和报告需求强加到他们身上。
cosmopolitan
This is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.
这里是最国际性的大都市之一。
enervate
Or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?”
还是一看见就激起你令人丧气和难受的回忆？”
tiff
It was not a tiff. We broke up. It’s over.
那不是“小吵一架”。我们分手了。我们完了。
In a troubled world of trade tiffs and nuclear braggadocio, such advice should be especially worth heeding.
在一个贸易争端与核武口水战的乱世中，这类建议应当尤其值得听从。
pacify
It is a pacifying move to try to “save” the young chieftain, says Lee Jong-tae.
Lee Jong-tae说到，试图“挽救”这位年轻的首领是令人欣慰的行动。
She pacified the crying child by giving him milk.
她用牛奶使这个哭泣的小孩镇定下来。
flinch
The water was scalding hot, but Daenerys did not flinch or cry out.
洗浴水滚烫无比，但丹妮莉丝没有丝毫退缩，也没有吭声。
He never flinched from asking tough questions, but also loved to share a laugh.
他从来不害怕问刁难的问题，但也喜欢分享笑声。
mollycoddle
In Spain 46% of young people under the age of 25 are out of work because there is a two-tier system, with mollycoddled “permanent” workers and easy-to-fire “temporary” workers, who are disproportionately young.
在西班牙，25岁以下的46%的年轻人由于受双层体制-一方面是娇生惯养中永久的工作者，一方面是随时可以被解雇的临时工作者-的影响而失业。后者和他们的年纪轻轻相比不成比例。
nonentity
Alright then, well, even if that were all absolutely true, then one day, I should like to show by my work what such a nonentity, such a nobody has in his heart.
那么好吧，即使这些绝对都是真的，若有机会的话，我希望能通过我的作品向大家展示，一个像我这样无足轻重的人，他的心中究竟有些什么东西。
A nonentity? An eccentric? An unpleasant person?
一个无足轻重的人？一个行为古怪的人？一个令人生厌的人？
plummet
As hunting intensified, wild turkey populations plummeted.
随着捕杀的加剧，野生火鸡数量急剧下降。
Temperatures will plummet to almost minus 40 degree Celsius.
气温将骤降到零下40摄氏度。
talisman
Here is a talisman will remove all difficulties,’ and she held out a pretty gold ring.
这里有个护身符，可以排除—切障碍。’她递过来一个漂亮的金戒指。
ephemeral
My other writings are very ephemeral, but this book will be remembered forever.
我其它的作品很短命，但这本书将永远为人记住。
hone
It’s mostly broad strokes, but we can hone it.
大部分还很宽泛，但我们可以再打磨。
He was honing the edge of his sword, wide awake; the sellsword did not seem to sleep like other men.
他睡意全无地磨着利剑；这佣兵似乎不像别人那般需要睡眠。
analgesic
Now, scientists have engineered yeast that can also make one of the most powerful analgesics: morphine.
现在科学家发现酵母也可以用于制作最有效的止痛剂之一：吗啡。
politic
It is politic for Indian bosses to talk up their ability to invent things that all can afford.
对印度的老板而言，宣扬自己有能力生产每个人都能买得起的产品是个上策。
contradict
Hitler does not like generals who dare to contradict him.
希特勒并不喜欢胆敢反驳他的将军。
asunder
I stopped in my tracks, my heart torn asunder; but still I did not understand.
我停止了我的追踪，我的心碎成了片，但我仍然不明白是怎么回事。
Vision, too, could go a long way to restoring ties that history has cut asunder, such as those between Karachi and Mumbai, once sister commercial cities but now as good as on different planets; and Kolkata and its huge former hinterland in Bangladesh.
同样，要修复被历史切割为碎片的联系，这一怀远之道还有相当长的一段路要走。例如，卡拉奇和孟 买在历史上是姊妹商业城市，现在却形同陌路，仿佛不在一个星球之上；还有加尔各答和原其孟加拉国巨大腹地亦是如此。
acrimonious
But his actions have been the source of acrimonious division in the Mandela family.
但他的举动导致曼德拉家族严重的分裂。
In the end, after months of at times acrimonious debate, the consensus was…that there was no consensus.
最后，在经过几个月的激烈辩论后，共识是…没有形成共识。
martinet
The martinet governed his classroom with procrustean discipline, assigning a week’s detention to all offenders, no matter what the offense.
厉行严格纪律的人以硬性规定来管理他的班级，规定不管触犯什么，只要是违规者都要监禁一星期。
prepossessing
As everybody knows, fine feathers make fine birds; a peasant girl but very moderately prepossessing to the casual observer in her simple condition and attire, will bloom as an amazing beauty if clothed as a woman of fashion with the aids that Art can render, while the beauty of the midnight crush would often cut but a sorry figure if placed inside the field-woman’s wrapper upon a monotonous acreage of turnips on a dull day.
正如所有的人知道的那样，人是树桩，还要衣妆；一个农村女孩子穿着简单的服饰，随随便便看上去就让人喜爱，要是像一个时髦女人加以打扮，加上艺术的修饰，就会光彩照人美不胜收了。而半夜舞会里的那些美女们，要是穿上乡村种地妇女的衣服，在沉闷的天气里站在单调的胡萝卜地里，她们就会常常显得可怜寒酸了。
fledgling
By naming things it gives shape to the fledgling science.
通过命名不同的行为模式，精神病学这门刚起步的学科逐渐成型。
