English Words - 20220615
65 flashcards · English · by 徐杰
Not when the Society televised the arrest.
v.由电视播送( televise的过去式和过去分词 )；电视拍摄；
Instead, Kieran bawled like a girl when Little Eo tucked a haemanthus into Father’s left workboot and ran back to her own father’s side.
放声大哭
It insulates me toe to head.
使绝缘
Bloodydamn stings as it goes through the headband to puddle at the heels.
n.（扎在额头上的）束发带，扎头带；
Poor little pissant,” old Barlow adds dryly.
1.n.无足轻重的人（或东西）；/ 2.冷冰冰地；干巴巴地；
It is eerie in the deep tunnels.
adj.可怕的；怪异的；怪诞的；胆小的；
But she took the short rations and waited for me to reach sixteen, wedAge for men, before slipping that cord around her finger.
n.定量( XXX的名词复数 )；配给量；正常量；合理的量；
Imported quilts from Earth.
被子
Amber swill with the Society’s quality markings.
烈性酒
I roll my eyes at the epigram.
n.机智的短诗，警句，讽刺诗；
So it’s always been about the Quota for us lesser clans, just enough to scrape by.
勉强度日
We of Lambda just try to scrape by on our foodstuffs and meager comforts.
1.勉强度日 ; 2.adj.瘦的；粗劣的；不足的；贫乏的；
On the third swing, I reach down and jerk free my leg.
抽出
Searing pain shoots through my hand.
adj.烧灼的；灼热的；炽热的；引起或描写强烈情感的；
I hide my hand and duck my toes in.
move there quickly, often in an attempt to avoid danger or to avoid being seen.
The old turds just grumble and say we’re fools.
a person regarded as obnoxious or contemptible.
A Gamma scab with less than a week’s worth of rust under his nails forgets to put his toes under the railing.
a contemptible person
Petty as it may seem, it’s always nice seeing a Gamma squab something.
marked by or reflective of narrow interests and sympathies / a short, stout person.
Our collective stink and sweat soon make a bog of the area.
wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body.
In half a minute the burner is a husk.
the dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds.
After disembarking the horizonTram, I funnel into the Flush with the rest of the crews.
to move or be moved through a narrow space, or to put something in a place or use something for a particular purpose:
Here there is no dancing, no boastful flips; the only camaraderie is exhaustion and the soft slapping of hands on thighs, creating a rhythm with the whoosh and shoot of the showers.
move or cause to move quickly or suddenly with a rushing sound.
By God, your hand is like a vise.
老虎钳
They measure the flow of oxygen to my muscle, the beats of my heart, the density and length of my muscle fibers, the tensile ratings of my bones.
抗拉等级
I black out briefly.
lose consciousness
Being strong in the upper body, with arms pumping back and forth with a greater swing and range of motion, helps tremendously with momentum.
the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started
Adrenaline at the beginning of a race will hype you up, other people around you will hype you up, and you are likely to go out too fast.
to make someone very excited
For most of us, a handful of chips and a few squares of PB&J offered at the aid station won't get us very far.
补给站
Too, gels are lightweight and high on the ease-of-use scale, which is key for me.
容易使用
My partiality for gels developed through experience.
fondness; biased attitude or behavior
Early on in my career, I ran some races in which my stomach went quickly south, much to my disappointment and surprise.
to take a turn for the worse.
And now, you can plan for your next adventures like a pro with the help of 3D Maps and community-generated trail details courtesy of our latest trail features.
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Then, tell us what features you want to see on Strava in the comments and stay tuned for even more fun and new features in the second half of 2022.
used to say that you should look or listen for more information about a particular subject at a later time
If your clip is longer, no sweat, we'll auto-trim it for you.
used to convey that one perceives no difficulty or problem with something.
Something along the lines of frozen peas, frozen ersatz veal steak, and coffee from the goddam unhomeostatic friggin's coffee machine, which never worked even at the start.
artificial, and not as good as the real thing
Together, they create a depression that is roughly 91.8 feet (28 meters) wide in the longest dimension.
a part of a surface that is lower than the other parts
Beneath my gaze the cut that she had made began to close, to scab, and to heal.
to become covered with a *** during healing./// crust over healing wound: a hard crust of dried blood, serum, or pus that forms over a wound during healing
But I could recall no scars from the days of our courtship, save one, on his side, where a boar had gored him when he was a youth.
mating behavior // (of an animal) to cause an injury to someone, or damage something, with the horns or tusks
He died unshriven, his skin nipped and pocked from head to toe with tiny, old scars.
not having confessed sins to a priest and been given absolution
I know it was hers - no sow's heart or doe's would have continued to beat and pulse after it had been cut out, as that one did.
male mammal // femal mammal
I would have them disembowel her.
remove person's or animal's internal organ
The stallholders at the fair were afraid of the forest folk.
possessor of market stall
He rode with a small retinue: large enough to defend him, small enough that another monarch - myself, for instance - would not view him as a potential threat.
a group of people who travel with and attend an important person
He bade me remove my shift, and made me stand in front of the opened window, far from the fire, until my skin was chilled stone-cold.
woman's undergarment: a woman's shirt-shaped undergarment of the 17th and 18th centuries.
A good book is dog-eared and worn.
having worn and well-thumbed pages
Remembering to review the leaderboard after each activity is too much hassle?
irritating inconvenience
this Sunday come out and support people's side hustles or help them relocate some of their 2nd hand stuff ... also pizza and a soda for 68RMB! (if you wanna sell stuff at the market add me... its free)
a piece of work or a job that you get paid for doing in addition to doing your main job
You can build bigger, stronger muscles with pea protein. A study published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition in 2015 showed significant gains in muscle mass in 161 males, ages 18 to 35, who consumed pea protein versus whey protein or a placebo. (Both the pea and whey groups also showed increases in strength.)
豌豆蛋白 / 乳清蛋白
If you’re going plant-based and are concerned about protein intake, look for packaged foods beefed up with pea protein.
give more substance or strength to something.
I used to start races with as little baggage as possible, stashing my gels on my body somewhere, tacking on my bib, layering on my throwaways, and then heading out to the start with maybe a banana in my hand.
store (something) safely and secretly in a specified place.
Don’t sit down right after the race—keep walking through the finish line chute at a slow and manageable pace. If you’re feeling unstable or dizzy, seek a medical provider. Soon after you’ve gotten some replenishment and put on some dry clothes, find a place where you can let your muscles properly cool down, and do some static and dynamic stretching of your hamstrings and quads. They’ll thank you in the days to come.
At the end of the race, you need to have a way to keep the finishers organized. To do so, race directors create what is called a Finish Chute. A finish Chute is much like you might see at a movie theater to buy tickets - it is some sort of barrier set up to create a line for "customers". Your "customers" are the racers. The big difference between your finish chute and the line at a movie theater to buy tickets, your finish chute will start real wide and end up thin so only 1 person can walk thr…
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exchange a used article in part payment for another.
The bottom of the skiff was awash with her blood.
a shallow, flat-bottomed open boat with sharp bow and square stern. //covered or flooded with water, especially seawater or rain.
William is known for his famously woebegone appearance, from which he earned his nickname; he was described by Martin Silenus as looking "a bit like a wax candle of a man who has been left on a hot stove."
sad or miserable in appearance.
After the tenth part of the novel series Silenus realizes that he is not doing art any more, just some hackwork. He liquidates his assets and signs in to join the kingdom of Sad King Billy.
writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.
kill (a person or animal) in a violent way.
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.
break or fall apart into small fragments, especially as part of a process of deterioration.
In A Simple Heart, the poignant story that inspired Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot, Felicite, a French housemaid, approaches a lifetime of servitude with human-scaled but angelic aplomb. No other author has imparted so much beauty and integrity to so modest an existence. Flaubert's "great saint" endures loss after loss by embracing the rich, true rhythms of life: the comfort of domesticity, the solace of the Church, and the depth of memory. This novella showcases Flaubert's perfectly honed r…
evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret. home or family life. a thing that forms a pleasing or notable contrast to something else.
He reached for his atlas and launched into a disquisition on lines of longitude.
a long and detailed explanation of a particular subject
Without a proper sleep schedule, you might fall asleep during the daytime, and find it hard to doze off at night.
to fall asleep especially for a short period of time
Light is one of the strongest stimuli that adjusts your sleeping program. Being in a bright environment tells your inner clock it’s daytime—precluding the secretion of melatonin (the hormone that helps to fall asleep)
a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness.
Big rug, about 140x180cm. Needs to be cleaned but still has life in it. Free, pickup near Kehua Carrefour.
a floor covering of thick woven material or animal skin, typically not extending over the entire floor.
• If you're running short , do it short. 5 minutes workout is better than none. • If you're running really short, do it later today • If you're running really really short, do it tomorrow, but don't skip it twice
used for saying that you have used almost all of a particular thing and there is not much left
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达成
Have you ever wondered why F and J keys have little bumps on your keyboard? Answer is simple, they are there to help you type. Touch typing is a way of typing with all 10 fingers without looking at your keyboard.
a small raised area on a surface