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dial [ˋdaɪəl] noun[C]

原句:The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens.

sinister  [ˋsɪnɪstɚ]  adjective

原句:I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

clan  [klæn] 

原句:The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch.

Celsius 攝氏

Fahremheit  華氏

snobbish   [ˋsnɑbɪʃ]  adv

原句:I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

bestow verb [bɪˋsto]

原句:Later, as she traveled around the world, she saw more clearly the good fortune that being born in the United States had bestowed.

boarding school   寄宿學校

有關attend的用法:

shambles  /ˋʃæmb!z/   noun

原句:The beginning of 20 century saw the Qing Dynasty in a shambles.

tackle  /ˋtæk!/  verb

原句:The wife of one of the world's most successful man tackles big problem from a different angle. 

exert/ɪgˋzɝt/ verb

原句:As more force is exerted, damage may occur to the blood vessels and organs