We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
📚 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. 语言,语言文字;表达能力;言语,语风,文风,文体;专门用语,术语;
💡 langu语言+age表示状态、情况及其他 → 语言,语言课程
"theories of child language acquisition"
幼儿语言习得的理论
近义:idiom, speech, tongue, dialect, linguistic, philologic
adv. (坐、倒、躺)下;向下;(表示范围或顺序的限度)下至;
prep. (从高处)向下;(表示位置)在…的下方;(表示方向)沿着…向下;(表示时间)自…以来;
adj. 向下的;沮丧的;计算机或计算机系统停机;(以…)落后于对手的;
n. (鸟的)绒羽;绒毛;软毛;汗毛;
vt. 放下;(尤指大口或快速地)喝下;使摔倒;击落(敌机等);
vi. [常用于祈使句中]下去;下来;卧倒;下降;
💡 音“铛”,铛的一声向下 落
"Calm down! Don't get so agitated."
冷静下来!别那么激动。
近义:lint, fluff, fuzz, ingurgitate, quaff, swallow
反义:above, overhead, upstairs, upward, upwards, aloft
n. 朦胧;晦涩;默默无闻;费解;
"The actress was only 17 when she was plucked from obscurity and made a star."
这个演员受到提携从无名少女一跃成为明星时年仅17岁。
近义:tenebrosity, blackness, dark, darkness, darksomeness, gloom
反义:lightness, limpidity, lucidity, pellucidity, splendor, transparence
n. 方式;样式;时髦;仪表,品位;
vt. 设计;称呼;为…造型;
vi. 使符合流行式样;用刻刀作装饰画;
💡 源自type
"The letter was written in her usual acerbic style."
这封信是用她惯常的尖刻语调写的。
近义:streamline, stylize, name, entitle, blueprint, delineate
v. 系(tie的过去式和过去分词)
近义:strapped, tethered, bound, corded, fastened
反义:infirm, unattached, unfastened, unfixed, untied, waggly