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Disgusting
Context:It was one of those disgusting summer holiday rains
Definition:extremely unpleasant and offends you
The place smelled disgusting.
Apathy
Context:when they have begun, last a long time--for weeks, till the frozen holiday maker grows used to it, and sinks into complete apathy.
Definition:a state of mind in which you are not interested in or enthusiasitc about anything .
public apathy about politics .
coutenance
Context:It was written on the countenance of the elder lady that she was, thank God, well-fed, well-clothed and in good health, that she had married her only daughter to a good man.
Definition:face
He saw the boyish countenance of Tom Barter before him
Anaemic
Context:her daughter, a rather short, plump, fair young woman of twenty, with a gentle anaemic face
Definition:pale ,often in a rather unpleasant or unhealthy way
Her superb self-confidence made me feel quite timid and anaemic by contract .
Shuffle
Context:After two games of patience, the old lady shuffled the cards and took a glance at her daughter.
Definition:mix a pack of cards up before begin a game so that their oder is changed and nobody know s where individual cards are.
Whose turn is to shuffle
Utmost
Context:In May the utmost was two, or at most three days, and now it is serious, five days!
Definition:extremely important or serious
I write this sadly ,with the utmost respect for what he was achieved
Yearn for
Context: Alexey Stepanovitch, utterly forlorn, was sitting now in the town in his gloomy, empty study and working, hungry, exhausted, yearning for his family. . . .
Definition:want something that is unlikely to get
We yearn for beauty ,truth and meaning in our lives
Utter
Context:Going into the room her daughter, pale and agitated, sank on the bed without uttering a word or taking off her hat, and pressed her head into the pillow.
Definition:say something in order to communicate ideas and feelings
She had never been known to utter an unkind word to anyone
Slander
Context:The old lady could not look without laughing at her daughter who had slandered an innocent man, and the daughter felt ashamed. . . .
Definition:make untrue spoken statements about somebody with the intention of damaging your reputation
I will sue her for slander .
Wrop up
Context:He wrapped himself up, got warm, and as he dozed off, he said to himself
Definiton:spend most of their time thinking about someone or something or doing the activity
All his life he had been wrapped up in his work .
Doze off
Context:He wrapped himself up, got warm, and as he dozed off, he said to himself:
Definiton:fall into a light sleep ,especially the daytime
He dozed off in front of the fire .
This is a story about a wife and her mother ,the mother-in-law,waited for a lawer coming back home .While the woman and her mother thought her husband was hard workig for his family ,her husband were saying a lie .When the woman found her husband was saying a lie ,she came back angrily ,but her husband came back next week ,continuing saying lies ,so they believed.The change of thier mood is very lively .And it presses a typical woman that years ago when women's position is lower the men.
2 件のコメント:
Excellent work! I can see that you are learning some advanced vocabulary.
Thank you.I like to resd these stories .
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