时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. saturnine 1 /ˈsætəˌnaɪn/
-- heavy; dull; gloomy; morose 2
Saturn是Jupiter之父,虽然传说中他的统治期是黄金时代,可是炼丹家与天文学家把他的名字与重金属铅相联系,因而成为阴沉与忧郁的象征。萨图尔努斯(Saturnus),罗马神话中的农业之神。萨图尔努斯本来是罗马最古老的神祇之一,但从前3世纪开始,他被与希腊神话中的克罗诺斯(Kronos)混同。关于克罗诺斯的一些神话,如吞食亲生子女等等,被加到有关萨图尔努斯的神话里。萨图尔努斯的儿子就是罗马神话中的主神朱庇特。神话描写萨图尔努斯在被朱庇特推翻后逃到了拉丁姆,并教会了那里的人民耕种土地;这就是罗马农业的由来。土星(Saturn)和星期六(Saturday)得自于萨图尔努斯。
My former roommate was a saturnine scholar who said very little and smiled rarely.
我前一位室友是一位沉默寡言的学者,他很少说话也很少笑。
 
 
2. siren /ˈsaiərin/
-- 1. dangerous, attractive woman 2. a woman who sings sweetly 3. apparatis for sounding loud warnings
Siren是一种半人半鸟的动物,以其甜美的歌声诱惑水手使其撞上岩石而死亡。塞壬(Siren)又译作西壬,她们的别名是阿刻罗伊得斯,意即“阿刻罗俄斯的女儿们”。塞壬用自己的歌喉使得过往的水手倾听失神,航船触礁沉没。是希腊神话中人首鸟身(或鸟首人身、甚至跟美人鱼相类)的怪物,经常飞降海中礁石或船舶之上,又被称为海妖。
The enemy employed a red-haired siren as a spy.
敌人雇用了一名红发美女作间谍。
 
 
3. solon /ˈsəulən/
-- 1. legislator 2. wise man 
Solon为著名的雅典立法者。梭伦(Solon),生于雅典,出身于没落的贵族。他年轻时一面经商,一面游历,到过许多地方,漫游名胜古迹,考察社会风情。梭伦是古代雅典的政治家,立法者,诗人,是古希腊七贤之一。梭伦在前594年出任雅典城邦的第一任执政官,制定法律,进行改革,史称“梭伦改革”。
Next week the solons will return to the capital for the opening of the legislature.
下星期议会开幕,议员们会回到首都。
 

adj.忧郁的,沉默寡言的,阴沉的,感染铅毒的
  • The saturnine faces of the judges.法官们那阴沉的脸色。
  • He had a rather forbidding,saturnine manner.他的举止相当乖戾阴郁。
adj.脾气坏的,不高兴的
  • He was silent and morose.他沉默寡言、郁郁寡欢。
  • The publicity didn't make him morose or unhappy?公开以后,没有让他郁闷或者不开心吗?
学英语单词
abhominations
aerochlorination
air vent screw
ALGOL 68
Alipura
amount of similarity
analytic learning
angle output
aperture response
arch constraction
ashwin
asymmetric hull
baroque piety
besteman
body-centered cubic
bonded labor
bookkeeping cycle
borospherene
canalis carpalis
capnomancy
catalyzed
ceramic bearing
chain code
cochliobolin
controlled current potentiometric titration
Crookes layer
Dandie Dinmont terrier
diactor
directory code
dissolved carbon dioxide in seawater
dysprosium selenate
East Walpole
eigenvlaue problem
electronic millsecondmeter
engineer-in-chief
entrance guard
eriovixia laglaizei
exchange of unequal value
exploitatively
factor score
fishing gear
friay
Ganser's diverticula
genito-anal seta
genus Heloderma
humanistic study
hydraulic tensioner
idiopathic obliterative perifoveolar retinal vasculopathy
infectious papillomatosis
intra-arteria transfusion
jet bit drilling
kadders
leasehold interest insurance
legal pluralism
legitimate theater
leptinemia
lime acetate
limphatic
lock bar pipe
lococession
management through costs
manufacture of vessel
map reader function generator
mask epitaxial method
mechanical reversibility
microlaminated
modai
modulated amplifier valve
nervus (pl. nervi)
non-alcoholic drinks
nuclear electronics
optional halt
oscillation response spectrum
osteokine
paleobiologies
pato
purple nightshades
rack-and-pinion gate
radial transmission feeder
Rapla
rattigan
sea cadet
severe frost
shpiel
Smilax aberrans
snoutish
spaceship computation center
spiral vibrating conveyer
spratelloides delicatulus
summerland
TASC (terminal area sequence and control)
trainshed
trans-africa
Turing computability
unsuccessible
unsupervised training
urethrophyma
variance accounts
waterproof sheet
weather pattern
worst-performing
Yizkors