It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
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n. 意外事件;事故;机遇,偶然;附属品;
💡 ac一再+cid降下+ent...的→偶然降临的事→偶然的事,意外
"The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident."
法院宣告他对该事故不负任何责任。
近义:hazard, luck, mischance, mishap, casualty, chance
反义:monotone, monotony, regularity, sameness, smoothness, standardization
adj. 活(着)的;现存的;在使用中的;逼真的;
n. 生计;生活方式;生存之道;
v. 活( live的现在分词);居住;以…为生;(按照规矩)管理生活;
💡 liv生活+ing名词后缀 → 生活,生计
"The prisoners were living in appalling conditions."
囚犯的居住条件极为恶劣。
近义:livelihood, sustenance, live, quickened, surviving, alive
反义:inert, insentient, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, unfeeling
n. [宗]教堂;[宗]教徒;[宗]教派;[宗]教会;
adj. 教会的;礼拜的;
vt. 领…到教堂接受宗教仪式;
💡 教堂两边(ch)(象形)有人(ur) 网友:月亮 补充:谐音:车驰. 开车奔驰到教堂去结婚.
"A peal of church bells rang out in the distance."
远处响起了一阵教堂的钟声。
近义:kirk, meetinghouse, shrine, temple, cathedral, fane
graveyard
['greivjɑ:d]
n. 墓地;
"It was standing in the graveyard, in the grass, its bottom missing."
站在墓地的青草上面去了, 而且瓶底已经丢失,虽然丢失了也就让它空空地站在墓边.
近义:pantheon, cemetery, churchyard
n. 台,看台;立场;停止;抵抗;
vi. 站立,起立;竖直放置;保持看法;停滞;
vt. 使站立;忍受;抵御;承担责任;
vt.& vi. 站立,(使)直立,站着;
"The crowd had to stand behind barriers."
人群只好站在障碍物后面。
近义:suffer, take, tolerate, bear, stick, endure
反义:placate, quit, remit, soften, subside, yield
n. 面,边;方面;侧面;旁边;
adj. 侧面的;旁边的;次要的,枝节的;副的;
vi. 支持,同意;偏袒;附和;站在…一边;
"Italy joined the war on the Allied side in 1915."
1915年,意大利加入协约国参战。
近义:agree, face, party, hillside, mountainside, slope
反义:above, upper