The sad truth is that most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all our lives.
不无遗憾的是, 我们中的大部分人,生来就只吃某几种食品,而且一辈子都这样。
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 23 One man's meat is another man's poison

📚 句中词汇解析

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truth [trʊθ] 词频1
n. 真理;真相,事实;忠实,忠诚;现实,现实性;
💡 tru相信,真实+th抽象名词 →事实,真理
"He adjured them to tell the truth."
他要求他们讲真话。
近义:honesty, reality, reliability, sooth, substantiality, truthfulness 反义:hypocrisy, imposture, meretriciousness, phoniness, spuriousness, truthlessness
certain ['sə:tən] 词频1 词根: an
adj. 某一;必然的;已确定的; pron. [动词用复数]某些;
"Federal courts have a certain cachet which state courts lack."
联邦法院有某种州法院所缺乏的特别的东西.
近义:some, inarguable, indisputable, indubitable, invariable, irrefragable 反义:neither, implausible, improbable, uncertain, unlikely, avoidable
stick [stɪk] 词频1 词根: 刺扎
vt.& vi. 粘贴;张贴;插入;刺入; vt. 容忍;产生作用;(尤指迅速或随手)放置;阻延或推迟; n. 棍棒,棍枝;枝条;操纵杆;球棍;
💡 病人(sick)柱着形如伞柄(t)的 棍棒
"a stick of celery"
一根芹菜
近义:jab, pink, poke, prick, prod, puncture 反义:unglue, ungum, unlock, detach, move, translocate
brought [brɔ:t] 词频1
v. 带来( bring的过去式和过去分词 );促使;提供;使朝(某方向或按某方式)移动;
"The statue was brought to Rome in antiquity ."
这座雕像是古时运到罗马的。
lives [[laivz]]
life的复数

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