时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:自然百科2009年


英语课

 This accident of nature holds an unrivaled place in society. Large diamonds are so rare and so prized (that) they have become the emblem 1 of the elite 2. In the elegant halls of Christie's Galleries in New York City, an auction 3 of fabulous 4 jewels is about to begin. Its centerpiece: a dazzling 26-carat diamond once owned by Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge 5. The auction will decide the diamond's worth. But it will no doubt remain in its familiar social set, a world of great wealth and complete discretion 6. And it's undeniable that diamonds stir deep emotions.


 
“Diamonds evoke 7 beauty, sentimentality, romance, passion. In today's culture a diamond is given when one gets engaged. ‘A diamond is forever’, so to quote a famous saying. Ah, and one hopes that love, and passion, and eternity 8, and integrity and loyalty 9 are forever as well. I mean it's really nature at its finest. And one can say ‘Oh, it's just a rock’. But it is rare, and it is beautiful. And it evokes 10 passion. And when you walk through a room in the evening and a light is hitting a diamond in a certain way, the whole, the person glows and the whole room seems to glow.”
 

n.象征,标志;徽章
  • Her shirt has the company emblem on it.她的衬衫印有公司的标记。
  • The eagle was an emblem of strength and courage.鹰是力量和勇气的象征。
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
adj.极好的;极为巨大的;寓言中的,传说中的
  • We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
  • This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。
v.闪开,躲开,避开;n.妙计,诡计
  • A dodge behind a tree kept her from being run over.她向树后一闪,才没被车从身上辗过。
  • The dodge was coopered by the police.诡计被警察粉碎了。
n.谨慎;随意处理
  • You must show discretion in choosing your friend.你择友时必须慎重。
  • Please use your best discretion to handle the matter.请慎重处理此事。
vt.唤起,引起,使人想起
  • These images are likely to evoke a strong response in the viewer.这些图像可能会在观众中产生强烈反响。
  • Her only resource was the sympathy she could evoke.她以凭借的唯一力量就是她能从人们心底里激起的同情。
n.不朽,来世;永恒,无穷
  • The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
  • Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞,永世相随。
n.忠诚,忠心
  • She told him the truth from a sense of loyalty.她告诉他真相是出于忠诚。
  • His loyalty to his friends was never in doubt.他对朋友的一片忠心从来没受到怀疑。
产生,引起,唤起( evoke的第三人称单数 )
  • The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
  • Each type evokes antibodies which protect against the homologous. 每一种类型都能产生抗同种病毒的抗体。
学英语单词
a vegetable salad
alloy layer
american raspberries
aminocaproic
amorphous variety
androgramy
anticonvulsant drugs
apodemes
area of national jurisdiction
artemev
articul
Aspergillus nidulans
attain one's majority
australopithecine
autocap
bareback riding
bassaw
bitter cold
boromagnesite
boundary pillar
bump-mapped
canvas thread
Carpignano Salentino
change of host
compact complex surface
coniine
constant level
constitutive definition
cost of layout
cumengite
cycle climax
differential pumping
disbelieved
Dixidae
double frequency beacon
drent
electric switch board
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman
emitter characteristic
etching process
evaporation drying
facellite
fault-tolerant computer architecture
fidelity criterion
Figueras
fire-iron
flyby, fly-bys
galvanopalpation
glycosyl-
golpol
high-voltage line
internal design
kill with
land cable
light-splitting electrooptical system
limpid dolomite
line error
littlecote
long-depressed
lophocolea heterophylla
low tide slack water
lymphoglandulae subinguinales profundae
manipulation platform
medero
methoxyfluranes
mottled soap
multitouch
Musculus bipennatus
newcastle kipper
oligopolistic economy
omnus
out tray
overrigid
packaged dangerous goods
phanerogamous
physalospora macrospora feltgen
portresses
potassium turbine
pressure coefficient of reactivity
program development time
quantitative television microscope
quartz fibre array
quercus infectoria olivie
Raphicerus campestris
rear-end car
Security characteristic line
share buyback
skenes
stake boat
subtonic
suffraging
susuki grass
T piece
tachymeters
taggeen
tail-rotor
turnel
twinned layer
variable overhead quantity variance
vingen
vipereous
Wilhelm Archipelago