英語單詞超好背 第0447期

lean

英 [li?n] 美 [li?n]

v. 傾斜身體；傾斜；倚靠；（使）斜靠

adj. 瘦且健康的；收益少的；貧乏的；（企業(yè)或機構(gòu)）精簡的；（混合汽化燃料）空氣占比高的

n. 瘦肉；傾斜；傾斜度

n. （Lean）（丹）利恩（人名）

例句：

He was tall, lean and muscular.
他高挑瘦削，強壯有力。

He was tall, lean and handsome.
他長得瘦高而英俊。

Like most athletes, she was lean and muscular.
像大部分運動員一樣，她清瘦而且肌肉強健。

diet

英 [?da??t] 美 [?da??t]

n. 飲食；食物；規(guī)定飲食

vi. 節(jié)食

vt. [醫(yī)] 照規(guī)定飲食

n. (Diet)人名；(法)迪耶

例句：

Sugar is ubiquitous in the diet.
糖在飲食中到處可見。

She's on a very strict diet.
她正嚴格節(jié)食。

Bamboo is the panda's staple diet.
大熊貓的基本食物是竹子。

pace

英 [pe?s] 美 [pe?s]

n. 一步；步速；步伐；速度

vi. 踱步；緩慢而行

vt. 踱步于；用步測

n. (Pace)人名；(捷)帕采；(英)佩斯；(法)帕斯；(羅)帕切

例句：

The riders had to keep their pace up.
騎手們必須保持速度不減。

Congestion frequently reduces traffic to walking pace.
交通阻塞經(jīng)常把車流的速度降低得如步行一般緩慢。

They set off at a steady pace.
他們以不緊不慢的速度出發(fā)了。

papercut

[?pe?p?rk?t]

n. 剪紙，刻紙

例句：

Actually what I care about is when you can give me the papercut you have promised.
沒什么。實際上我只關(guān)心你答應(yīng)幫我要的窗花什么時候能給我。

Papercut like this one is easy. With paper and scissors, the lady can make one in five minutes.
那倒不一定.有些的確很費時費力.有些則很容易做出來.像這個窗花這樣的就很容易.只要有紙和剪刀.那位老太太五分鐘就能剪一個.

By and by, the evening wind was whispering to Zhu, and there was a white plate moon in the blue cloth sky, looking like a papercut toy.
晚風悠悠地吹著，暗藍色的天空上已經(jīng)露出了一個扁扁的白月亮，看上去，就像用紙剪出來的一樣。

assertion

英 [??s???n] 美 [??s??r?n]

n. 斷言，聲明；主張，要求；堅持；認定

例句：

These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
這些機構(gòu)已使種族身份的堅持成為可能。

Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.
他們的研究提出了一個相當驚人的主張：我們通常稱為天賦的特征被嚴重高估了。

To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf's assertion that social change exists everywhere.
今天生活在美國，是對達倫多夫關(guān)于社會變革無處不在的主張的贊賞。

回顧

1. lean
2. diet
3. pace
4. papercut
5. assertion