时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. stentorian 1 /stenˈtɔ:ri:ən/
-- very loud
Stentor是传说中一位嗓音洪亮的传令官,其音量相当于50个人的音量。斯滕托尔(Stentor),古希腊神话男性人物之一。其事迹反映于荷马的《伊里亚特》之中,为特洛伊战争的希腊联军之传令官。凭借声音洪亮而闻名于世。其形象亦出现于古希腊学者亚里士多德之著述之中。
Speak softly; you don't need a stentorian voice to be heard in this small room.
说话小声点;在这个小房间里你要让人听见不需要这么大声。 
 
 
2. Stygian /ˈstidʒiən/
-- infernal; dark; gloomy
Styx是地狱里的一条河。冥河到底有几条网上的资料说法不一,我现在也不好说。本章G6提到的Lethe河是遗忘之河,这里的Styx是愤怒之河,守誓之河,G8提到的阿喀琉斯就是被母亲泡在Styx中而变得刀枪不入的(除了脚踝)。
A power failure at 11:03 p.m. plunged 2 the city into Stygian blackness.
晚上11:03停电,使全市陷入了阴森森的黑暗中。
 
 
3. tantalize 3 /ˈtæntəˌlaɪz/
-- 1. excite a hope but prevent its fulfillment 2. tease
Tantalus因为泄露天机被罚站在阴府中,虽然又饿又渴,食物和水就近在眼前,却怎样也拿不到。坦塔洛斯(Tantalus),宙斯之子,藐视众神的权威。他烹杀了自己的儿子珀罗普斯,然后邀请众神赴宴,以考验他们是否真的通晓一切。宙斯震怒,将他打入冥界。他站在没颈的水池里,当他口渴想喝水时,水就退去;他的头上有果树,肚子饿想吃果子时,却搞不到果子,永远忍受饥渴的折磨;还说他头上悬着一块巨石,随时可以落下来把他砸死,因此永远处在恐惧之中。
The considerate hostness removed the strawberry shortcake from the table so as not to tantalize her weight-conscious guest.
体贴心细的女主人将草莓油酥糕从桌上拿走,这样那位担心体重的客人就不会因看到却吃不到而难受了。
 

adj.大声的,响亮的
  • Now all joined in solemn stentorian accord.现在,在这庄严的响彻云霄的和声中大家都联合在一起了。
  • The stentorian tones of auctioneer,calling out to clear,now announced that the sale to commence.拍卖人用洪亮的声音招呼大家闪开一点,然后宣布拍卖即将开始。
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
vt.使干着急,逗弄
  • The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.那个男孩会到房间里拿狗食逗弄狗。
  • He tried to tantalize me by revealing that the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss a package deal.他想要逗弄我,于是就露出口风说,苏联愿意讨论一揽子交易。
学英语单词
a5
accessory cuboid bone
accretion surface
action bar
airborne collision warning system
amended offer
arois
back bencher
BFW (boiler feed water)
bidentate ligand
bottiglieri
bottlenose dolphins
buckram
can mark
canoeist
capacitance integrator
carbondioxidedissociationcurve
Cardamonin
chess clock
Chessy copper
cog belt
concept of natural law
convincest
dallaways
dermatitis exfoliativa
differential acting pile-hammer
digital publication
dispersed systems
drift ashore
elaeiss
enamel silk-covered wire
enprisons
feel reliance on
flakage
floating link span
fopship
gasteropodous
general instructions
Germfask
get someone up on his ears
getting behind
gweloes
hold reset
hoorn
housekeeping genes
HPAEC
hydronaphthol
incasing
ionization chamber detector
jet fuel thermal oxidation stability tester
Katabasis
Lame Duck Amendment
Lezghins
linaria canadenses
lithoglyph
Lucy Show
mastoid sinus
metadata registries
mojaves
mulberry calculus
myofibre
naso tergus
natalensine
nectaries
nonmachinery
obsoleting
oculoauriculovertebral
ohtsuki
ophthalmic tract
paramotors
parorthoclase (anorthoclase)
photo syndicate
plasterstone
pseudoallyl
pycoss
rabs
railroad slewer
Rangsang, Pulau
Sacamo
science-fictioneer
skin disease of foot
stand by me
steel-backed bearing metal
stepwise device
Sucina
sugar booger
supercharging device
sustentions
swelling behaviour
taraktogenos kurziis
tariff no.
terminal address card
the michelin man
thermophillin
toy terriers
tractor operated machine
tramp
traveling-screen dryer
utility cession
withoutforth
Xaafuun, Raas