One of the most colourful figures in boxing history was Daniel Mendoza, who was born in 1764.
拳击史上最引人注目的人物之一是丹尼尔。门多萨,他生于1764年。
新概念英语第三册
Lesson 21 Daniel Mendoza
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
n. 拳击;装箱;做箱(或盒)的材料;箱形的罩(或框);
v. 将…装入盒中(box的ing形式);
💡 box拳击+ing行业 →拳术
"He was once the great white hope of British boxing."
他一度曾是英国拳击的希望所在。
近义:pugilism, pugilistic
n. 历史,历史学;发展史;履历,经历;(某地的)沿革;
💡 histor过去发生的事 + y 表名词→ 历史;个人经历
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年诺贝尔文学奖得主为莫言,他“很好地将魔幻现实与民间故事、历史与当代结合在一起”。
近义:archives, papers, past, background, record, records
adj. 颜色鲜艳的;丰富多彩的,引人入胜的;蔚;彩色缤纷;
"Many of the dancers at the fancy dress ball wore colourful masks."
化装舞会上的许多跳舞者戴着五颜六色的面具.
近义:jazzy, motley, panchromatic, variegated, vivid, colored
vt. bear的过去分词;支撑,支持;亲自携带,运输;
vi. 结果,生产;和…有关;
adj. 出生的,出身于…的;天生的,天赋的;
"Sam was born in the country and had a deep affinity with nature."
萨姆在乡下出生,特别喜爱大自然。
近义:inborn, inbred, inchoate, innate, congenital, connate
n. 图形, 图表;价格, 金额, 数字;规定动作;人物(figure的复数)