时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课
1. stentorian 1 /stenˈtɔ:ri:ən/
-- very loud
Stentor是传说中一位嗓音洪亮的传令官,其音量相当于50个人的音量。斯滕托尔(Stentor),古希腊神话男性人物之一。其事迹反映于荷马的《伊里亚特》之中,为特洛伊战争的希腊联军之传令官。凭借声音洪亮而闻名于世。其形象亦出现于古希腊学者亚里士多德之著述之中。
Speak softly; you don't need a stentorian voice to be heard in this small room.
说话小声点;在这个小房间里你要让人听见不需要这么大声。 
 
 
2. Stygian /ˈstidʒiən/
-- infernal; dark; gloomy
Styx是地狱里的一条河。冥河到底有几条网上的资料说法不一,我现在也不好说。本章G6提到的Lethe河是遗忘之河,这里的Styx是愤怒之河,守誓之河,G8提到的阿喀琉斯就是被母亲泡在Styx中而变得刀枪不入的(除了脚踝)。
A power failure at 11:03 p.m. plunged 2 the city into Stygian blackness.
晚上11:03停电,使全市陷入了阴森森的黑暗中。
 
 
3. tantalize 3 /ˈtæntəˌlaɪz/
-- 1. excite a hope but prevent its fulfillment 2. tease
Tantalus因为泄露天机被罚站在阴府中,虽然又饿又渴,食物和水就近在眼前,却怎样也拿不到。坦塔洛斯(Tantalus),宙斯之子,藐视众神的权威。他烹杀了自己的儿子珀罗普斯,然后邀请众神赴宴,以考验他们是否真的通晓一切。宙斯震怒,将他打入冥界。他站在没颈的水池里,当他口渴想喝水时,水就退去;他的头上有果树,肚子饿想吃果子时,却搞不到果子,永远忍受饥渴的折磨;还说他头上悬着一块巨石,随时可以落下来把他砸死,因此永远处在恐惧之中。
The considerate hostness removed the strawberry shortcake from the table so as not to tantalize her weight-conscious guest.
体贴心细的女主人将草莓油酥糕从桌上拿走,这样那位担心体重的客人就不会因看到却吃不到而难受了。
 

adj.大声的,响亮的
  • Now all joined in solemn stentorian accord.现在,在这庄严的响彻云霄的和声中大家都联合在一起了。
  • The stentorian tones of auctioneer,calling out to clear,now announced that the sale to commence.拍卖人用洪亮的声音招呼大家闪开一点,然后宣布拍卖即将开始。
v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 );暴跌;骤降;突降
  • The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
  • She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳,从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。
vt.使干着急,逗弄
  • The boy would come into the room and tantalize the dog with his feed.那个男孩会到房间里拿狗食逗弄狗。
  • He tried to tantalize me by revealing that the Soviet Union was prepared to discuss a package deal.他想要逗弄我,于是就露出口风说,苏联愿意讨论一揽子交易。
学英语单词
acanthonerva dunlopi
acetyltransferase
adjustment of actual total loss
air-velocity measurement
alacoxasuture
angular aperture of human eye
anisotropic seepage
boring machine cutter
break a strike
business language
Caranx sexfasciatus
carolinians
cell lid
cellular growth
closed window
composite object
cousy
cumbia (panama)
cyberlit
daily expenses
deception device
dedolation
defenfluramine
depth of penetration (of electromagnetic wave)
devilmaycare
diode for rectification
disabled car
distribution economics of capital construction
distributor type fuel injection pump
Doruneh
dufflecoats
EMAb
encrusting matter
estrangest
everlasting flower
exponential absorption
foiba
fractional weights
genitointestinal
Germanness
gloat
Grancher's triad
half square
hamsterlike
historical regression
icoes
in-lamb
increase in production
incremental recorder
indoor wintering
invitation to tender
leap over
lexical functional gammar
liquid damping
liquid-sample counter
Lussac
main steam pipeline
malignant anaemias
MD (magnetic drum)
medium pattern
microflakes
misgauging
moerchiella gigantea
Nalitābāri
Namaland
nebishes
Ninlil
non-restrictive relative clause
off-balance sheet business
open tube
order Conodonta
overwax
paratoluidine sulfate
partial sex-linkage
perturbers
pervigilations
Pidopidon
plastic-faced plywood
polagizing slot
potential acidity
pressurized crankcase
qafarah(al jifarah)
reactor shielding
redispersion
Rengshausen
reserve indicator
retail price index
route signal for receiving-departure
self-consistent units
sensing relay
ship-shape barge
spermatovum
Staphylococcus muscae
strata eboris
stress threshold
sympathetic string
Sławatycze
true average
unexamined
unibomber
unrecycled
valves of inferior vega csva