Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
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n. 轻视;轻蔑;(对规则、危险等的)藐视;不顾;
💡 con共同+tempt轻视→藐视
"She looked at him with contempt ."
她轻蔑地看着他。
近义:scorn, scornfulness, sneer, spurn, superciliousness, contemptuousness
n. 人,人类;
adj. 人的;有人性的;显示人类特有弱点的;人本性的;
💡 hum土,地+an名词后缀,属于...的,传说人是由土造出的 → 人类
"The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump."
老师打了个比喻,把人的心脏比作水泵。
近义:mortal
adj. 社会的,社会上的;交际的,社交的;群居的;合群的;
n. 联谊会,联欢会;社交聚会;
💡 soc社会+ial形容词后缀 → 社会的
"political groups agitating for social change"
鼓吹社会变革的政治团体
近义:party, approachable, kindly, neighborly, neighbourly, personable
反义:sociopathic, dissocial
n. 行为;态度;(机器等的)运转状态;(事物的)反应;
💡 be表示动作+hav持有+ior表名词 → 人持有的动作 → 举止行为
"Nothing can possibly excuse him for such rude behavior."
他这样粗鲁的行为,无论怎样都不能原谅.
近义:manner, manners, bearing, behaviour, carriage, comportment
n. 熟悉;通晓;认识;友好随便;
"He treated her with the easy familiarity of an equal."
他以平等的身分对待她,态度很随和.
近义:intimacy, kinship, propinquity, relations, ties, acquaintances
反义:oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, rarity
vt. 产(后代),生;产生,导致;优生交配;养育,训练;
vi. 产仔;繁殖,旺盛生长;
n. 属;种类;类型;血统;
💡 brood孵蛋-breed 抚养(oo-ee蛋破壳而出) 网友:yqy补充: 记brood:“哺乳的”
"Many animals breed only at certain times of the year."
很多动物只在一年的某个时候交配繁殖。
近义:proliferate, propagate, replicate, reproduce, grow, thrive
反义:abort