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aught Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style?— for I dare not hope," he continued in a lower and more serious tone, "that he is improved in essentials."

n.任何事物

assiduous He scarcely ever spoke to her, and the assiduous attentions which he had been so sensible of himself were transferred for the rest of the day to Miss Lucas, whose civility in listening to him was a seasonable relief to them all, and especially to her friend.

adj.专心致志的；勤勉的

asunder The staff broke asunder and fell from his hand.

adj.分成碎片的

august You think how august it will look in print.

adj.威严的

arid Dreadful as the Dead Marshes had been, and the arid moors of the Noman-lands, more loathsome far was the country that the crawling day now slowly unveiled to his shrinking eyes.

adj.干旱的；不毛的

Artisanal Artisanal ketchup.

adj.手工制的

assertive Many liberals are frustrated with Obama's inability to enact more progressive change, such as assertive policies against global warming and income inequality, comprehensive immigration reform, or a less hawkish foreign policy.

adj.断言的；肯定的

amenable He'd agreed to keep to a pace that was amenable to his teammates, and so the trio plodded upward, one stair at a time.

adj.有责任的

austere While Louis VII conducted himself with austere, sackclothed piety, Eleanor embraced the splendour of queenship.

adj.朴素的，无装饰的

adrift Poor Bill has been a useful companion, and it goes to my heart to turn him adrift now.

adj.漂泊的

agitated Wickham's alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minuted he was silent, till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents: "You, who so well know my feeling towards Mr.

adj.激动的

aggravated Now grinning broadly, Aragorn watched how Legolas leaped out of his chair with an aggravated cry.

adj.激怒的

ailing He was just an ailing, ancient sham who knew almost nothing about life.

adj.生病的，体衰的

astray Unless I am quite astray, I guess that we are above and to the north of the Great Gates; and it may not be easy to find the right road down to them.

adj.离开正道的

apt you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general.

adj.聪明灵巧的

amputee "I'm starting to think you have an amputee fetish," he answered, still kissing me.

adj.被截肢的

accused Not only was Geoffrey eleven years her junior; he was also an accursed son of Anjou.

adj.被诅咒的

abominable How can someone pursuing a postgraduate degree in American literature display such abominable English-language skills?"

adj.讨厌的，可怕的

aristocratic Cleopatra is by far the most famous of these - and the romance may have been genuine on both sides, but it did not stop Caesar from having an affair with another queen soon afterwards, or from continuing his pursuit of the aristocratic women of Rome.

adj.贵族的；贵族气概的；高贵的

arduous Coming home from an arduous day at the hospital, he would go straight to his yellow pad and write his tensions away.

adj.费力的；险峻的

auburn From his father, he had inherited his auburn complexion and tireless energy; from his maternal grandfather a powerful domineering streak and the nose for an opportunity.

adj.赤褐色的

astir "My wife, Ann, and I had always wanted to visit Hong Kong," the writer begins, his blood astir with reminiscence, "and one day last spring we found ourselves looking at an airline poster and I said, 'Let's go!'

adj.起床的，骚动的

antiseptic Caleb squeezes my palm as my father gets the antiseptic from the first aid kit.

adj.防腐的；消毒的

accusatory Though his words are accusatory, it sounds like he is probing me for information—like he actually wants my answer.

adj.非难的，指责的

apocalyptic I still had one arm draped over Bluie, in fact, when I awoke just after four in the morning with an apocalyptic pain fingering out from the unreachable center of my head.

adj.（犹如）世界末日的

afoul They were unable to control their very natures and sometimes, unfortunately, fell afoul of those with less reverence for their immortal brilliance.

adv.冲撞地，纠缠着

assiduously Had you not been really amiable, you would have hated me for it; but in spite of the pains you took to disguise yourself, your feelings were always noble and just; and in your heart, you thoroughly despised the persons who so assiduously courted you.

adv.勤勉地

aback "And then I show up at your house and I'm dressed like the girl you hoped she would live to become and you're, like, all taken aback by it."

adv.向后

aloft Picking up a ****** he held it aloft for a moment, and then with a word of command, naur an edraith ammen!

adv.在高处

archness The sitcom doesn't preserve much of Huang's archness.

adv.淘气；狡猾

ardently You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

adv.热烈的，热心的

archly "Both," replied Elizabeth archly; "for I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds.

adv.狡猾地

apace It was just Augustus and me now, watching Isaac and Monica, who proceeded apace as if they were not leaning against a place of worship.

adv.飞速的

albeit For in eating and drinking he was moderate and sparing ... From the earliest age, Henry was conspicuously brave, albeit rather reckless.

conj.虽然

ascent Two days later, a future tenant of the building suggested to Steck that the two of them climb to the top of it and make a viable claim to a first ascent.

n.上升

austerity His countenance rather gained in austerity; and he scarcely opened his lips.

n.严厉，严格

abeyance Unfortunately, he died suddenly in 1916, at least partly exhausted by his quest, and the search fell into abeyance while Lowell's heirs squabbled over his estate.

n.中止，停顿

arsenal I could go on quoting examples from various fields—every profession has its growing arsenal of jargon to throw dust in the eyes of the populace.

n.兵工厂，军事库

armoury And to you my other guests I will offer such things as may be found in my armoury.

n.军事库

apartheid At a fire sale a few years ago, James MacPherson, a retired professor of politics at Wits, Johannesburg, known for his seminal work on the Frontline States' war of attrition against the apartheid regime, bought a restaurant in Pretoria specializing in North African cuisine.

n.分离；隔离；（以往南非的）种族隔离制度

abhorrence But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.

n.厌恶

antiquity What follows is the lead of Edmund Wilson's account of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the most astonishing relics of antiquity to turn up in modern times.

n.古老；年代久远

alloy The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much of her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself: these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments.

n.合金

aftermath In the aftermath of the Ferguson crisis, civil-rights groups have pressed the White House to order the Justice Department to end racial profiling in federal law enforcement.

n.后果

ambushes She was blamed (wrongly) for disastrous ambushes on the crusading forces; she was accused (falsely) of conniving - or sleeping - with her uncle, Prince Raymond of Toulouse, the ruler of Antioch.

n.埋伏

ambassador "I guess...I could be an ambassador to the other factions," I say.

n.大使

adulterer In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator - perhaps even a god - as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer.

n.奸夫，通奸者

autistic Evans's is a talent so exceptional that Oliver Sacks, in An Anthropologist on Mars, devotes a passage to him in a chapter on autistic savants—quickly adding that "there is no suggestion that he is autistic."

n.孤独症儿童

abolition He ordered the return to the Crown of all castles, towns and lands that had been granted away under Stephen, followed by an abolition of the earldoms that Stephen had granted to his supporters.

n.废除，废止

atonement Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her, into outward respect.

n.弥补；补偿

attorney Her father had been an attorney in Meryton, and had left her four thousand pounds.

n.律师

archdeacon And somewhere in the middle rode the churchman who had organized the campaign: Thomas Becket, chancellor of England and archdeacon of Canterbury, wearing helmet and hauberk, his armour gleaming in the sun.

n.执事长

accusation For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof.

n.指责

animosity What was - almost - even more concerning was that the animosity between Legolas and Gimli had virtually disappeared.

n.敌意；憎恨

anarchist All her relatives were blanks, though many were addicts, and she had a cousin who identified as an anarchist.

n.无政府主义者

assassination Then came the assassination, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, of two N.Y.P.D. officers, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, by a young man who had just shot his ex-girlfriend.

n.暗杀

agony Henry the Conqueror Malmesbury, in Wiltshire, was a wretched little town, as sorely treated as any in England during the agonies of the Shipwreck.

n.极大的痛苦

arrear Miss Bingley was very deeply mortified by Darcy's marriage; but as she thought it advisable to retain the right of visiting at Pemberley, she dropt all her resentment; was fonder than ever of Georgiana, almost as attentive to Darcy as heretofore, and paid off every arrear of civility to Elizabeth.

n.欠款

abortion In Levitt's abortion paper, published in 2001, he and his co-author John Donohue warned that their findings "should not be misinterpreted as either an endorsement of abortion or a call for intervention by the state in the fertility decisions of women."

n.流产的

attrition At a fire sale a few years ago, James MacPherson, a retired professor of politics at Wits, Johannesburg, known for his seminal work on the Frontline States' war of attrition against the apartheid regime, bought a restaurant in Pretoria specializing in North African cuisine.

n.消磨

ardour The shining eyes and full lips, the decidedly rosy hue of the elf's cheeks were all a testament to the fact that he had not exactly been unmoved by Aragorn's ardour.

n.激情；情欲

apparitions "There are—Lidewij, there are two adolescent apparitions outside the door."

n.特意现象

amber He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.

n.琥珀

altar If the chronicler is to be believed, the church was then plundered, the monks and priests butchered and the altar desecrated.

n.祭坛

asceticism He punished himself with a furious asceticism, as his companion Edward Grim recorded: From this time content with eating vegetables and coarser feasts and removing lighter things, he furtively withdrew certain delicacies from himself ... He would also lower himself into the stream which ran between the workshops of the monastery [i.e.

n.禁欲生活；苦行

adrenaline Now that I am safe, the adrenaline that propelled me here is fading, and the pain is getting worse.

n.肾上腺素

Abnegation But she must hide that beauty in Abnegation.

n.自我克制，放弃

aptitude "So I take it Amity wasn't one of the factions you had an aptitude for," he says, grinning.

n.自然倾向

asparagus Also, I've never had white asparagus."

n.芦笋

apothecary The apothecary came, and having examined his patient, said, as might be supposed, that she had caught a violent cold, and that they must endeavour to get the better of it; advised her to return to bed, and promised her some draughts.

n.药剂师

acquisition The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in Charlotte's, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence.

n.获得

approbation You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone.

n.认可

acquaintance "It has been a real pleasure to make your acquaintance."

n.认识

allurement But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.

n.诱惑；吸引

aisles He set them down on the grass between the aisles of the trees, and they followed him towards the great arch.

n.走廊，通道

adultery He was said to have had his first wife burned at the stake in her wedding dress on discovery of her adultery with a goatherd, and his reputation as a perverted rapist and plunderer stretched from the shores of the Atlantic to the Holy Land.

n.通奸

anvil Well, it did not skewer me, I am glad to say,' said Frodo; 'though I feel as if I had been caught between a hammer and an anvil' He said no more.

n.铁钻

allegations Early in 1992, during Bill Clinton's first Presidential run, he was hobbled by allegations of womanizing, but he finished a strong second in the New Hampshire primary, and his campaign rebounded.

n.陈述

avalanche A few hundred feet from the summit, three of them were caught in an avalanche.

n.雪崩

altimeter Steck stuffed the down jacket in a backpack, started the timer on his altimeter watch, and set off in the lead.

n.高度计

agitation The beginning contained an account of all their little parties and engagements, with such news as the country afforded; but the latter half, which was dated a day later, and written in evident agitation, gave more important intelligence.

n.鼓动，煽动

amid The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort proffered.

prep.在其中的

amidst YOU MAY NOT have noticed amidst the continued, public grumbling of its leaders, but Wall Street, indisputably, is back.

prep.在其中的

ascend Not much of a result for arguably the fastest climber in the world (he once ascended the North Face of the Eiger, traditionally a two-day affair, in two hours and forty-seven minutes), but he feels that he has nothing left to prove.

v.上升

assent The document listed sixteen points, comprising the 'customs' to which he had apparently assented the previous day.

vi.& n. 同意

allude Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.

vi.暗指

appoint Caesar's father was one of the commissioners appointed to oversee the implementation of either this bill or more probably a similar one passed by Saturninus in 100 Bc.

vt.任命

affront Elizabeth, having rather expected to affront him, was amazed at his gallantry; but there was a mixture of sweetness and archness in her manner which made it difficult for her to affront anybody; and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.

vt.公开侮辱

abhor "Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does politics," Anita Dunn, a Democratic strategist, told me.

vt.厌恶

annul Eleanor would have her duchy of Aquitaine back, and Louis, like every other Capet since Philip I, would have a marriage annulled.

vt.取消；废除

allure The duke indeed allured by the nobility of that woman and by desire for the great honours belonging to her, impatient at all delay, took with him a few companions, hastened quickly over the long routes and in little time obtained that marriage which he had long desired,' wrote William of Newburgh.

vt.吸引；引诱；诱惑

absorb I just assumed..." That because I am so absorbed by him, everyone else must be too.

vt.吸收；理解

arouse "Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam."

vt.唤醒

absolved But at any rate he was quite insistent that I'd be absolved for my misbehavior if I attended his funeral and told you what became of Anna's mother.

vt.宣告

ascertain "Yes, it's difficult to ascertain whether he is trying to arouse her or perform a breast exam." The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window that he wore a blue coat, and rode a black horse.

vt.弄清；确认

assail The reader is someone with an attention span of about 30 seconds—a person assailed by many forces competing for attention.

vt.攻击

anoint Then on 22 December he went to Winchester, where he seized the royal treasury and had himself anointed by the archbishop of Canterbury.

vt.涂油于

adore "I adore it how much you take after me," Legolas nodded, "but you seem to forget to do it also where he is concerned."

vt.爱慕，崇拜

atoning But first Booty wanted to do a little atoning.

vt.赎罪

appease But Geoffrey had to be appeased.

vt.（用钱财）使平息；使满足