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
actiniarian
after-condenser
aileron yawing moment
alnylam
apicalia hians
Arabic digital
automatically controlled generator
barbari
boca do capana
books registration
Boucbon's method
buckhorn
calceoliform
capillary melting point determination
CAT scan
chlorempenthrin
choledocho-enterostomy
clinoferrosilite
common declaration
confectio amygdalae
corn leaf aphid
cross-handedly
cycloidal cam
debaucher
direct recording pressure type wave meter
dust fastness
earth-size
Elsdorf-Westermühlen
ener-g
feed stop
fire in anger
fixed chute
Garth hill bed
gerson's diet
girl-like
glaucous gulls
glomerular
gravity discharge
Greek house
Hinojales
hydrolatry
hydroxydendrobine
ice blue
inaugur
infantile necrosis
insider threat
instantaneous fuse
insulation course
interactive device
Jean, L.
khuzai
klu
Laffler's methylene blue
list of signatories and parties
loadline marks
London General Shipowners Association
loose-leaf ledger
louver window frame
manganese-base alloy
micrographic texture
midgut shape
miram
mizza
moffetts
mother's pride
nuclei terminales fibrarum olfactoriarum (glomerula olfactoria)
numerical differentiation
ohlemachers
Ougarou
outstorm
partial pump
peach palms
Plagiopetalum serratum
pliomelaena shirozui
pumping of group wells
qualities-of-working-life
rancidified
reproductory
return roller
rotary wave
RTTTL
sale on credit
shallow hole blasting
sharked
side chain compound
sign up now
sociophonology
squamous cell carcinoma of cornea
steam cultivator
subacoustic
temporat
the back of an envelope
thermal entropy
thin film layers
time payment
tolkein
transverse mercator map projection
troop carrying
urotensins
Viňuelas
women's magazine
yuckets