每天背單詞 第245期

ultimately

英 [??lt?m?tli] 美 [??lt?m?tli]

adv. 最后；根本；基本上

例句：

The divorce ultimately led to his ruin.
離婚最終使得他一貧如洗。

Dishonesty is ultimately self-defeating.
不誠實最終將會自食其果。

Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
從政者最終是向選民負責(zé)。

equilibrium

英 [?i?kw??l?bri?m; ?ekw??l?bri?m] 美 [?i?kw??l?bri?m,?ekw??l?bri?m]

n. 均衡；平靜；保持平衡的能力

例句：

We have achieved an equilibrium in the economy.
我們已在經(jīng)濟上達到平衡。

He sat down to try and recover his equilibrium.
他坐了下來，努力恢復(fù)平靜。

Any disturbance to the body's state of equilibrium can produce stress.
對身體平衡狀態(tài)的任何干擾都可能產(chǎn)生壓力。

inspiration

英 [??nsp??re??n] 美 [??nsp??re??n]

n. 靈感；鼓舞；吸氣；妙計

例句：

Both poets drew their inspiration from the countryside.
兩位詩人都是從鄉(xiāng)村得到他們的靈感。

She drew her inspiration from her childhood experiences.
她從兒時的經(jīng)歷中獲得靈感。

My inspiration comes from poets like Baudelaire and Jacques Prévert.
我的靈感來自像波德萊爾和雅克·普萊維爾這樣的詩人。

southward

英 [?sa?θw?d] 美 [?sa?θw?rd]

adj. 向南的；在南方的

adv. 向南

n. 朝南的方向；朝南的地區(qū)

n. (Southward) （美、英、加）索思沃德（人名）

例句：

Instead of her normal southward course towards Alexandria and home, she headed west.
她不走平常向南去亞歷山大和家鄉(xiāng)的路，而是向西走。

As the Arctic ice pack spread southward, Norse voyages to the west were rerouted into the open Atlantic, then ended altogether.
由于北極的大片浮冰向南移動，挪威人的航行路線由向西航行改成了向開闊的大西洋航行，后來向西的航行整個都終止了。

It was the midcontinental corridor between two massive ice sheets—the Laurentide to the west—that enabled the southward migration.
正是兩塊巨大的冰原之間的半大陸性質(zhì)的通道——西面的勞倫斯泰德冰原——使人們向南遷移成為可能。

museum

英 [mju?zi??m] 美 [mju?zi??m]

n. 博物館

例句：

Is the museum open on Sundays?
博物館每星期天都開放嗎？

The museum is open Mon.-Sun.
這個博物館周一至周日開放。

The museum is closed on Mondays.
博物館每逢星期一閉館。

回顧

1. ultimately
2. equilibrium
3. inspiration
4. southward
5. museum