We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
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vt. 发明，创造;虚构;
💡 in(upon)+vent(come)→发明；虚构
"We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards."
我们必须想出新的办法使囚犯们偷偷溜出去而不被看守发现.
近义：improvise, make, noodle, vamp, coin, adlib
反义：recopy, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce, trace, transcribe
adj. 庸俗的，俚俗的，粗俗的;一般大众的，老百姓的;粗野的，下流的;
n. [古语]平民，百姓;
💡 vulg人民，人群+ar...的 → 大众的，粗俗的
"She found their laughter and noisy games coarse and rather vulgar."
她觉得他们的笑声和吵吵闹闹的游戏趣味低下，俗不可耐。
近义：proletariat, ruck, artless, lurid, pedestrian, rank
反义：highbrow, humanizing, learned, literate, schooled, refined
adj. 过剩的;多余的;
n. 剩余额;公积金;顺差;盈余;
💡 sur超过，在上面+plus多余→多出很多→多余的
"The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad."
一些国家的制造商向国外倾销过剩产品.
近义：leftover, leftovers, overabundance, overflow, overplus, plethora
反义：overdraft, remaining, shortage, shortfall, shortness, underage
n. 蛋糕;糕饼;块状物;沉积物;
vt.& vi. （使）结块;（使）胶;涂厚厚的一层;
"Store the cake in an airtight container."
把蛋糕存放在密封容器里。
近义：cohere, gateau
labored
[['leibəd]]
a. 吃力的, 缓慢的, 不自然的, 矫揉造作的
近义：laborious, painful, troublesome, trying, vexatious, laboured