A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
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n. 学问,学术,知识;
v. 学习(learn的现在分词);
💡 learn学习+ing行业,状态,行为 →学问
"children learning addition and subtraction"
学习加减的儿童
近义:instruction, schooling, schoolteaching, teaching, training, tuition
反义:nescience, philistinism, unacquaintance, unawareness, unfamiliarity, benightedness
adj. 危险的;
💡 danger危险+ous.....的 →危险的
"In a world that had suddenly become alien and dangerous, he was her only security."
在一个突然变得陌生而危险的世界里,他是她唯一的守护神。
近义:hazardous, jeopardous, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe
反义:innocuous, inoffensive, offenceless, riskless, secure, sure
vt. 使喝醉;使陶醉; 使激动不已; 使欣喜若狂;
💡 in使+toxic有毒的+ate动词后缀→使中毒,陶醉
"Wine has the power to intoxicate."
酒能醉人.
近义:inebriate, poison, empoison, envenom, evenom
adv. 大部分地,主要地;大规模地;丰富地;
💡 large大的 + ly ...地 → ad.大部分;大量地
"The case against him was largely circumstantial."
对他不利的案情大多为间接推测的。
近义:mainly, mostly, principally, vastly, widely, thoroughly
反义:succinctly, briefly, concisely, concretely, definitively, finally
adj. 小的;琐碎的;娇小的;幼小的;
adv. 不多,略微;少许,一点;短时间地;
n. (表示否定)微少;没有多少;短时间;
det. (数量上)微少的,少到几乎没有的;(a little)少量的,一些;
"His little affectations irritated her."
他的装腔作势令她不快。
近义:minute, pokey, poky, short, small, tiny
反义:large, major, sizeable, sizable, some, capital
n. 事件,形势;东西,事物;家伙;事业;
"She was the only thing that made life bearable."
只因有了她生活才可以过得下去。
近义:item, knickknack, article, object, tchotchke, thingamabob