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Acumen

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n.敏锐；聪明
His business acumen helped him to succeed where others had failed.
他在商业上的敏锐帮他在其他人失败的地方获得成功

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Adulterate

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v.搀 … 使品质变劣
It is a crime to adulterate foods without informing the buyer.
不告知买主就对食物掺杂是犯罪。

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Amalgamate

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v.合并；混合
Our local brewery has amalgamated with another firm.
我们本地的酿酒厂与另一个公司合并了。

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Archaic

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adj.已不通用的；古老的；古代的
The students are seeing the archaic film.
学生们在看那部古老的电影

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Aver

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v.极力声明；断言
He avers he will not attend the meeting.
他断言不会参加那个会议。

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Bolster

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vt.支持；鼓励
Both sides offered statistics to bolster their arguments.
双方都拿出统计数字来支持他们的论点。

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Bombastic

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adj.夸大的
The orator spoke in a bombastic manner.
这位演说家的讲话言过其实

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Diatribe

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n.长篇抨击；长时间谩骂
The book is a diatribe against the academic left.
这本书对学术左派进行了长时间的谩骂

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Dissemble

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v.掩饰；假装
She tried to dissemble her anger with a smile on her face.
她试图用她脸上的微笑来掩饰她的愤怒。

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Eccentric

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adj.古怪的；反常的；不同圆心的
She put him down as an eccentric person.
她认为他是个行为古怪的人

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Endemic

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adj.风土的；地方的

With the efforts for many years, great achievements have been made in the prevention of the endemic diseases

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Evanescent

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adj.迅速消失的；短暂的
The evanescent post-war economic boom was quickly followed by a deep recession.
大萧条紧随短暂的战后经济繁荣而来。

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Exacerbate

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vt.加重(使 … 恶化；激怒)
Her mother’s interference exacerbated the difficulties in their marriage.
她母亲从中干预使他们的婚姻雪上加霜。

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Fervent

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adj.热情的；强烈的；炎热的；热心的
She had a fervent farewell speech.
她发表了热情的告别演说。

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Fortuitous

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adj.偶然的；幸运的
The occurrence of such things is by no means fortuitous.
出现这种问题绝不是偶然的。

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Germane

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adj.有密切关系的；恰当的
He asks questions that are germane and central to the issue.
他问了一些与论点有密切关系的重要问题。

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Grandiloquence

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n.大话；夸口；豪言壮语
We always heard his grandiloquence in stock aspect, and we still remember his accurate prediction in stock market in 2000.
我们经常听到他对股市的精辟分析,我们至今都仍然记得他在2000年时对股市的准确预

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Hackneyed

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adj.（指词语﹑ 言辞等）陈腐的；老生常谈的
The hackneyed phrase came unintended to his lips.
他顺口说了这句老掉牙的套话。

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Halcyon

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adj.宁静的；平稳的
He yearned for the halcyon daysof his childhood.
他怀念儿时宁静幸福的日子。

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Hedonism

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n.快乐论；快乐主义；享乐主义
here was room, it was felt, for both idealism and hedonism.
他们感到人要有点理想主义和乐天主义

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Hegemony

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n.霸权；领导权
It was a struggle between the United States and Japan for hegemony in the Far East.
这是一个美国与日本争夺远东霸权的会议。

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Iconoclaust

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n.毁坏宗教神像的人；提倡打破旧习的人
But Gregory Cochran, a noted scientific iconoclast, is prepared to say it anyway.
不过著名的科学狂人GregoryCochran决意要做第一个吃螃蟹的人。

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Idolatrous

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adj.偶像崇拜的
When the beast and his prophet were thrown into the fiery lake, the rule of Antichrist and idolatrous Rome ended.
当兽和牠的先知被扔在火湖中时，敌基督的权柄和充满偶像的罗马就消灭了。

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Impassive

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adj.无感情的；无表情的；冷漠的；平静的
He was content to stand by as an impassive spectator.
他满足于站在旁边做一个冷漠的旁观者。

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Imperturbable

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adj.沉着的；泰然自若的；镇静的
She was one of those imperturbable people who never get angry or upset.
她是那种从不生气也不烦恼的人。

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Implacable

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adj.难宽恕的；难和解的；执拗的
There is implacable hatred between the two nations.
两国之间有无法消除的仇恨。

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Impunity

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n.不受惩罚；免罚
The days of impunity seem to be over.
免受惩罚的日子似乎已经完结。

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Inchoate

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adj.刚开始的；早期的；不成熟的
Her early works are an inchoate idea, nothing but full of lush rhetoric.
她的早期作品都不太成熟,除了华丽的词藻外就没什么内容了。

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Infelicitous

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adj.不妥当的；不幸的
the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy.
错误的排版是因为原稿潦草难认。
Chinese people generally chase for double gifts, because odd number is seemed to be infelicitous.

中国人一般讲究礼品成双，因为奇数被视为不吉利。

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Insipid

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adj.没有味道的；枯燥乏味的
The food was rather insipid and needed gingering up.
这食物缺少味道，需要加点作料

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Loquacious

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adj.多话的；唠叨的
Kennedy had become almost as loquacious as Joe.
肯尼迪变得和乔一样唠叨了。

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Luminous

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adj.发光的；发亮的；清楚的；明白易懂的
These reactions are not luminous.
这些反应是不发光的。

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Malevolent

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adj.有恶意的；恶毒的
But those strikeouts are malevolent surgery.
但是这些失败是恶意的外科手术

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Malleable

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adj.可塑的；易改变的；有延展性
Lead and tin are malleable metals.
铅和锡是可锻的金属。

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Mendacity

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n.虚假；撒谎
So dogs may be able to sniff out bombs.But they can’t pick up the smell of mendacity.
因此，狗狗们可以嗅出爆炸物，但是他们不能嗅出撒谎的人。

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Meticulous

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adj.一丝不苟的；缜密的
He is noted for his meticulous scholarship.
他以治学严谨著称。

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Misanthrope

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n.厌恶人类的人；不愿与人来往者
Nice try, but you’re a misanthrope, not a misogynist.
|不错了,你讨厌的是世界, 不是女人

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Mitigate

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vt.减轻；缓和
Her words mitigated my suffering.
她的话减轻了我的痛苦。

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Obdurate

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adj.固执的；顽固的；冷酷的
He is obdurate in his convictions.
他执着于自己所坚信的事。

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Obsequious

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adj.谄媚的；奉承的；顺从的
He is obsequious to men in power.
他对有权势者谄媚。

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occlude

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v.使闭塞；封闭；(牙齿)咬合
This structure lets to determine how polygons occlude each other.
这个结构让确定多边形是怎么互相遮罩。

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Opprobrium

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n.耻辱；咒骂

That drunkard was the opprobrium of our community.
那个酒鬼是我们社区里可耻的人物。

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Pedagogy

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n.教育学；教授法；教育
Paulo Freire is a representative of the Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
摘要弗莱雷是被压迫教育学的代表人物。

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Pedantic

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adj.迂腐的；卖弄学问的；学究式的
They tend to make your style heavy, dry, and pedantic.
它们会使你的文体沉重、干涩而且迂腐。

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Penury

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n.贫穷；拮据
Laid-off workers fall into penury.
下岗职工陷入贫困

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Pervasive

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adj.普遍的；渗透的；遍布的
It is the most pervasive compound on earth.
它是地球上最普遍的化合物。

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Pine

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vi.消瘦；渴望
He pined away after his daughter died.
他的女儿死后，他逐渐变得憔悴了

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Pirate

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v.盗版；抢劫；剽窃
A gang of bandits pirated the cargo ship.
一帮土匪抢劫了那艘货船。

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Pith

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n.（木）髓；精髓；要旨
That was the pith of his argument.
那就是他论据的要点。

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Pithy

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adj.简练的；有髓的
His pithy comments knocked the bottom out of my argument.
他精辟的评论驳倒了我的论点。

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Placate

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v.抚慰；平息；和解
The concessions did little to placate the students.
让步根本未能平息学生的愤怒。

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Platitude

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n.陈词滥调；平凡；陈腐
It was a platitude to maintain the fiction that he was conferring a great boon on me.
这是一种陈腐的老生常谈，旨在维护似乎他给了我极大恩惠的假象。

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Plummet

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vi.垂直落下；暴跌
House prices have plummeted in this area.
此地房价大跌。

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Polemical

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adj.辩论的；争论的；争议的
=polemic.
The letter was probably written for polemical impact.
这封信可能是为了造成争论性影响而写的。

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Prodigal

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adj.挥霍的；(物产等)丰富的；慷慨的
They are prodigal in their expenditures.
他们挥霍无度。

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Profuse

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adj.很多的；丰富的；慷慨的；浪费的
He made profuse apologies.
他再三道歉。

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Proliferate

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v.繁殖；增生；使 … 激增；使 … 扩散
Health food shops proliferate in this region.
保健食品店在这个地区增加了。

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Queries

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n.疑问；质问；疑问号
Your interesting report raises several important queries.
你的精彩报告引出了几个重要问题。

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Querulous

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adj.抱怨的；发牢骚的；爱挑剔
The child’s querulous questions were driving me crazy.
那小孩所抱怨的问题快令我发疯了。

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Rancorous

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adj.怨恨的；憎恨的
He has no rancor at heart against you .
他心中对你并无怨恨

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Recalcitrant

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adj.反抗的；顽强的
Donkeys are reputed to be the most recalcitrant animals.
驴被认为是最倔强的牲畜。

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Repudiate

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v.拒绝；拒付；断绝；否认
The new government repudiated the treaty signed by the former government.
新政府拒绝履行前任政府签订的条约。

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Rescind

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v.废除；取消
They accepted his advice and rescinded the original plan.
他们听从了他的劝告，撤销了原计划。

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Reverent

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adj.恭敬的；虔诚的
She gave reverent attention to the sermon.
她恭敬的聆听布道

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Rhetoric

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n.修辞；修辞学；华丽虚饰的语言
The sentence contains impassioned rhetoric.
这个句子含有富有表现力的修辞

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Salubrious

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adj.有益健康的；宜人的
They live in a very salubrious area.
他们住在一个非常有益健康的地区。

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Solvent

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adj.有偿付能力的；有溶解力的
A bankrupt company is not solvent.
一个破产的公司是没有偿还债务的能力的。

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Specious

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adj.似是而非的；华而不实的
Such talk is actually specious and groundless.
这些话实际上毫无根据, 似是而非的

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Spurious

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adj.假的；伪造的
That link, reckon the authors, is not spurious.
文章作者关于这一关系的估计不是伪造的。

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Subpoena

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n.（传唤出庭的）传票
The couple may get a subpoena to appear.
这对夫妇可能会接到传票出庭。

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Succinct

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adj.简洁的
Milton summarizes the people’s case in many such succinct passages.
弥尔顿在许多简洁的段落中概括了人民的处境。

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Superfluous

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adj.多余的；过剩的；不必要的
He has already been told, so our comments are superfluous.
早就有人同他说过，所以我们的意见是多余的。

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Surfeit

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v.暴食；过分沉溺
There has been a surfeit of plays about divorce on the TV recently.
最近有关离婚的电视多太剧了。

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Tenacity

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n.坚韧；固执；不屈不挠；顽固
The athletes displayed great tenacity throughout the contest.
运动员在比赛中表现出坚韧的斗志。

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Tenuous

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adj.脆弱的；稀薄的；贫乏的；纤细的；空洞的
Our existence is far more tenuous than we might think.
但我们的生命远比想像的要脆弱。

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Tirade

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n.长篇的攻击性演说
His writings are one long tirade against ignorance.
他的著作称得上反对无知的长篇演说。

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Transient

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adj.短暂的
Her feeling of depression was transient.
她那抑郁的心情一会儿就过去了。

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Zealous

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adj.热心的；狂热的；热衷的
He is ticketed as a zealous reformer.
他被描述成一个热心的改革家。

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