时间:2018-12-17 作者:英语课 分类:趣谈英语


英语课

Pre-Listening Vocabulary


defective 1: doesn’t function normally; imperfect


agreement: when the subject corresponds with the correct version of the verb


panties: female underwear


boxers 2: male underwear that is shaped like shorts


 


wordsmith: a person who is interested in and skilled with words


 


The Word “Scissors” is a Defective Noun


In English, there are a few nouns that only have a plural 3 form. The word “scissors” is one example. There is no singular form of this word and it requires plural agreement. For example: The scissors are on the table. To make this tool singular, you have to use “a pair of scissors”. Other words that don’t have a singular form are “pants”, “shorts”, “glasses (eyeglasses)”, “goggles”, “panties” and “boxers”. The Latin word for this concept is “plurale tantum”, which means plural only. Some wordsmiths prefer the term “defective nouns”.



1 defective
adj.有毛病的,有问题的,有瑕疵的
  • The firm had received bad publicity over a defective product. 该公司因为一件次品而受到媒体攻击。
  • If the goods prove defective, the customer has the right to compensation. 如果货品证明有缺陷, 顾客有权索赔。
2 boxers
n.拳击短裤;(尤指职业)拳击手( boxer的名词复数 );拳师狗
  • The boxers were goaded on by the shrieking crowd. 拳击运动员听见观众的喊叫就来劲儿了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The boxers slugged it out to the finish. 两名拳击手最后决出了胜负。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 plural
n.复数;复数形式;adj.复数的
  • Most plural nouns in English end in's '.英语的复数名词多以s结尾。
  • Here you should use plural pronoun.这里你应该用复数代词。
学英语单词
Aetna Life Insurance Co.
agnature
ankylostomiasis cutis
area way
atonal music
azoamyly
balanced differences
Ban Suan Luang
beta amylase
cacas
chemoprophylactic agent
circular prestressing
CNTF
complete contraction
consolidatable
Cotton-tuberculosis
creese
ctenogobiops maculosus
defaite
delayed action accelerator
denitrification inhibitor
dispersion gradient
divinatory
double wing control head
duplex lock
dye receptor
elliptic plate
emerald spodumene
eskind
failure of machine
family Psyllidae
fan-shaped nebula
floral organ
free on board liner terms
glibenclamide
green states
hearseless
helice subquadrata
Hibaldstow
homotopic loop
houses of lords
huny
hydrotechnic structurology
hyphalomyraplankton
I-head cylinder
induction force
Kamui-kotan
kotay
local swelling
low frequency filter
make one's mark upon
masking compound
mavourneen
mcniff
millimhos
misemphases
molendarious
moon flight
mortality trend
no-claim
nonlinear system
nonpartitionable
out-of-phase component
panorchitis
panouchi
Pantego
parallel-series circuit
patternlessly
physical blast-furnace gas analyzer
piano system
powder for anesthesia
proceeding in persona
programming implementation
rake(r) teeth
reservation
ribero
roffer
sarkiness
Severn R.
shiack
shrinkage of concrete
sign-and-magnitude notation
single-coil spring washer
slaar
sloppiness
speculative operation
stainless steel sheet
stripping film method
syndrome of tumor of corpus callosum
takes precedence
toe bearing
took a brief
transmissibility coefficient
trimethyl-silyl-dimethylamine
turn-over number
turrentine
twin-lobe cam
upanishads
V speed
vaginae vasorum
wances