泥吧的部落格

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.

1.a large group of families that are related to each other, especially in Scotland

Ex. the Stewart clan

2. big family

3. a group of people who share an interest or aim

confer  [kənˋfɝ]

原句:He had casually conferred on me the freedom of the neighborhood.

1. to give something such as authority, a legal right, or an honour to someone

Ex. The university conferred an honorary doctorate on her.

2. to discuss something with other people in order to reach a decision +with

Ex. He asked for some time to confer with his lawyers.

epigram  [ˋɛpə͵græm]

原句:This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

1. a short poem or sentence that expresses something such as a feeling or idea in a short and clever or funny way

contour  [ˋkɑntʊr]

原句:Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.

1. the shape of the outside edge of something

Ex. The sculpture reproduces the smooth contours of the human body.

2. a line on a map joining points that are the same height above or below sea level.The line are used for showing hills, mountains, and valleys.

perpetual  [pɚˋpɛtʃʊəl]  adjective

原句: their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.

1. happening so often that you become annoyed as a result

Ex. He soon grew tired of her perpetual demands for money.

2. continuing all the time

Ex. Many people live in perpetual fear of losing their job.

詞類變化: perpetually (adverb)