时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课

 1. panic /ˈpænik/


-- unreasoning, sudden fright that grips a multitude
Pan是恐慌之神。潘(Pan),是希腊神话里的牧神,牧神潘是众神传信者赫耳墨斯的儿子,而名字的原意是一切。掌管树林、田地和羊群的神,有人的躯干和头,山羊的腿、角和耳朵。他的外表后来成了中世纪欧洲恶魔的原形。喜欢吹排笛,因为排笛能催眠。潘生性好色,经常藏匿在树丛之中,等待美女经过,然后上前求爱。在古希腊神话中,半人半兽的潘是创造力、音乐、诗歌与性爱的象征,同时也是恐慌与噩梦的标志。潘同时也是摩羯座的守护神。
A panic ensued when someone in the crowded audiorium yelled "Fire!"
当有人在拥挤的礼堂中大喊“着火了!”时,一阵慌乱随之产生。
 
 
2. philippic /fɪˈlɪpɪk/
-- bitter denunciation
Philippics是狄摩西尼斯所发表的攻击马其顿菲利普王的议案。狄摩西尼斯是古希腊著名的演说家,民主派政治家。他极力反对马其顿入侵希腊,发表《斥腓力》(Philippics)等演说,谴责马其顿王腓力二世的扩张野心。喀罗尼亚战役后亡命海外,公元前323年返回雅典组织反马其顿运动,失败后自杀。
In an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his bill.
在一小时的抨击性演说中,立法者抨击那些反对他的议案的游说者。
 
 
3. plutocratic 1 /ˌplu:təuˈkrætik/
-- having great influence because of one's wealth
Plutus是财富之神。普图鲁斯(Plutus),古希腊神话男性神祇之一,为财富之神。其名常与罗马神话中的冥王普路托(Pluto)相互混淆。
A handful of plutocratic investors 2, each owning more than a thousand shares, determined 3 the policies of the corporation.
少数有钱的投资者决定着公司的政策方针,他们每个人都拥有超过1,000股的股份。

adj.富豪的,有钱的
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
学英语单词
Adabaī Mahamoud
aerospace project
alternative debt
amplitude equation
an aerial depth charge
asymptomatic bacteriuria
bloink
bog
Both engines full astern!
building brick
carbonate of potash
checkout facility
closed segment
collarband shirt
comtesses
crop-full
cutesifies
demand matching
Digitaria mollicoma
does time
double condenser
drip opening
drive's license
electric vibrate tie tamper
elegans
euchinine
Eulerian tour
ferriammonium sulfate
final purification
find ... voice
flail chopper
flux-density
fore-
fore-wise
foreheadedness
fragile fibre
Fuller,Allred Carl
gazzanigas
general notification
golchin
greenmail
hamburger bun
henker
Ianson
iatrogenic side effect
illawarras
impassiveness
Indiary
instrument landing system localizer
kalamajka (czechoslovakia)
key-and-slot
keystone ring
kinged
Librans
lime-soil compaction pile
linear tape counter
liquifiable assets
llorach
logarithmic A-D converter
Longshan culture
Luy-de-Béarn
Lythrum hyssopifolia
man in business
Manthani
Marine Information Management Center
mcpeck
mephitic, mephitical
My uncle had a heart attack last year
namibie
nankeens
Niani
nonfalsified
Notholirion bulbuliferum
nud-
pale lips
PATELLALGIA
peakload
phase-veversal protection
prabowo
reassumpt
reticulates
riot grrl
sadd
sea-wrack
self-action
sensory club
short-decayed
sphygmotonograph
state variable terminal node
sweatdropping
teredines
thalictrum thunbergi dc.
traffic amount
twin cable system
uniform atomizing
vapor generator
VSIP
water scouring
Wordsworthian
writedown
xiphomphalopagus