ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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n. 口才,辩才;雄辩;雄辩术;修辞法;
💡 e出+loqu说话+ence名词后缀 → 雄辩,口才
"I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts."
恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了.
近义:loquacity, oratory, rhetoric, speaking, speechmaking, fluentness
反义:laconicism, succinctness, terseness, brevity
n. 赠品,礼物;天赋;赠送;天资;
vt. 赋予;向…赠送;天赋权力(或才能等);授予;
💡 give(给予)+t(表示抽象名词的后缀)→赠与;礼物
"The watch was a gift from my mother."
这块表是母亲给我的礼物。
近义:present, treat, bestowal, giveaway, offering, charity
vi. 出现,显现;出庭,出场;演出;发表;
💡 ap一再+pear看见→出现,显露
"She didn't appear at all surprised at the news."
她听到这消息时一点也没有显得吃惊。
近义:arise, materialize, surface, emerge, look, seem
反义:vanish, evanesce, evanish, fade
adj. 白色的,纯洁的;无色的,透明的;白衣的;白种人的;
n. 白色;白种人;空白;白色颜料;
vt. (书写,印刷等)留出空白处;使变白色,刷白;漂白;
"a collar and cuffs of white lace"
带白色蕾丝花边的衣领和袖口
近义:gubbah, gub, glair, glaire, hoary, gray
反义:inky, jet, jetty, atramentous, onyx, blacked
color
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n. <美>颜色,色彩;肤色,脸色,血色;颜料,染料;本质;
v. <美>给…涂颜色;改变…的颜色;粉饰,渲染,使带上色彩;脸红;
"She differs from her sister in the color of her eyes."
她与她姐姐眼睛的颜色不同.
近义:hue, paint, tint, colour, shade, dye
反义:bleach, decolourise, discolour, decolorize, etiolate, fade