1. sublime?sub-，在下，向上，-lim，門檻，界限，詞源同limit;?接近完美的界限，升華，使高尚

2. potentials??

1. adj. 潛力，having the capacity to develop into something in the future.

2. 不可數(shù)名詞?,可能性；潛在性 If you say that someone or something has potential for doing a particular thing, you mean that it is possible they may do it. If there is the potential for something, it may happen.√

Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime —?like every stage of life it has problems,joys, fears and potentials.

老年既不是一成不變的悲哀，也不是一成不變的美好 - 就像人的每一個(gè)階段一樣，都有它的問題，歡樂，擔(dān)憂，可能性。

沒有人答話，只有埃爾吉走了過來。他那充血的眼睛里充滿悲傷和痛苦。??

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Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and misery.??

有的人抽出他們手指碰到的第一張紙條；有的人似乎懷疑命運(yùn)企圖將某一張紙條強(qiáng)加于他們，所以他們剛剛從鞋里抽出一張，就又扔回去，再另?yè)Q一張。

Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip and when they bad drawn one a little way from the shoe would let it drop again and choose another.

suspect ：vt.懷疑

Product leaders have a vested interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created.

vest 背心 ，vested 既定的 ，vest interest既得利益?

Yet medical monstr o sit ies that are hardly any better undoubtedly continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries.

然而，醫(yī)療上出現(xiàn)的可怕事件如洪水猛獸一般，并不比安樂死的情況更好。它們無疑會(huì)在英美以及其他國(guó)家中繼續(xù)肆虐，幾乎成了令人恐怖的常規(guī)。

1. -ster，貶義后綴。用于指怪物，惡魔，在古代出現(xiàn)反常的現(xiàn)象或怪物通常意味著上帝對(duì)人的警告。

2. 來自monster，怪物。比喻用法。

3. 極其丑陋的龐然大物 If you describe something, especially something large, as a monstrosity, you mean that you think it is extremely ugly.