Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.
📚 名句词汇解析
从本句名言中提取的重要词汇，帮助你深度理解这句话
n. 表面;外观，外表;地面。水面;
vi. 浮出水面;在表面工作;显露;
vt. 使浮出水面;使成平面;
adj. 表面的，外观的;外表上的，平地上的;肤浅的;
💡 sur超过，在上面+face脸面→表面
"Once in the bloodstream, the bacteria adhere to the surface of the red cells."
细菌一进入血液里，就附着在红细胞表面上。
近义：appear, arise, loom, materialize, outcrop, rise
n. 深度;深处，深海;深奥，奥妙;进深;
💡 dep=deep深的+th抽象名词 →深度
"What's the depth of the water here?"
这儿的水有多深？
近义：profundity, deepness, inwardness, profoundness
vt. 允诺，许诺;给人以…的指望或希望;
vi. 许诺;有指望，有前途;
n. 许诺;希望，指望;允诺的东西;
💡 pro前面+mise送，放出→在做事前送出的话→允诺
"If you make a promise you should fulfill it."
如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言.
近义：assure, pledge, vow, offer, present, proffer
反义：recede, recoil, retire, retreat, withdraw, blench
n. 意思，意义;含义;意图;
adj. 有意思的;意味深长的;
vt. 意味(mean的现在分词);意思是;
💡 mean 意思+ ing 表示行为、状态、情况及其他 → n.意义，意思；意图
"contextual clues to the meaning"
上下文提供的理解其含义的线索
近义：import, purport, purposefulness, sense, significance, significancy
n. 意义;意思;重要性;
💡 sign记号，信号+ific产生…的+ance名词后缀→带有信号→重要；意义
"a decision of major political significance"
具有重大政治意义的决定
近义：import, meaning, purport, purposefulness, sense, significancy
反义：nonissue, pinhead, smallness, trifle, insignificancy
adv. 无穷地，继续地，永久地;不已;不休;
"They talked endlessly about beet and cattle feed."
他们就甜菜和牛饲料的话题谈个没完.
近义：incessantly, interminably, permanently, perpetually, steadily, unceasingly