As in Australia, the first settlers found many strange birds and animals that exist nowhere else in the world.
正如在澳大利亚一样,第一批移民发现了许多在世界别的地方不存在的珍奇鸟类与动物。
高三英语课文
Unit 19 New Zealand
📚 句中词汇解析
从本句中提取的重要词汇
found
[faʊnd]
词频1
词根: found
vt. 创办,成立,建立;
v. 发现( find的过去式);找到;到达;发觉;
💡 found基础 → 为(房屋等)打基础,建立,创立
"In some stories, genies are always found inside a lamp or bottle."
在一些故事里, 灯里或瓶子中总是装有妖怪.
近义:base, ground, establish, institute, mount, rest
反义:invalidate, abrogate, negate, nullify, omit, outlaw
exist
[ɪɡ'zɪst]
词频1
词根: sist
vi. 存在;生存;生活;继续存在;
💡 ex出+ist站立→站出来→活下来→存在,生存
"There exist many sources of energy both potential and kinetic."
存在着许多势能和动能的能源.
近义:be, live, subsist
adv. 任何地方都不,无处;毫无结果;
n. 无处;任何地方;无名之地;
adj. 不存在的;毫无结果的;不知名的;
💡 no不+where哪里 → 任何地方都不
"Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found."
埃里克总是这样神出鬼没,哪儿也找不着。
近义:noplace
反义:throughout, whithersoever, anywhere, anyplace, everyplace
n. 第一,最初;头等;一号,;[乐]高音部;
adv. 最早,最初;首次;宁愿;优先;
adj. 第一流的;最初的,最早的;基本的,概要的;高音的;
num. 第一;
💡 泰森 第一拳(fist)打在稻草(r)人身上,训练
"Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper'On Narcissism '."
弗洛伊德在他的论文《论自恋》中首次提到了这个概念.
近义:initial, beginning, prime, foremost, initiative, preliminary
反义:hindermost, hindmost, latest, latter, rearmost, utmost
adj. 陌生的,生疏的;奇怪的,古怪的;疏远的;外国的;
adv. 奇怪地;陌生地;冷淡地;
💡 事真奇”(谐音)即 奇怪的
"a strange concatenation of events"
一连串奇怪的事
近义:odd, offbeat, outlandish, quaint, queer, queerish
反义:inartistic, artless, modest, mundane, normal, average