1.ring out: When a sound rings out, it is loud and clear: 最基本的意思表示“響”
比如:槍響:A shot rang out.
這里則有一絲升華:Those words rang out across the Internet last week. 這些話響徹(傳遍)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)爪模。
2.hoary adj.
兩個意思 1)(old-fashioned) very old and well known and therefore no longer interesting
eg: a hoary old joke 老掉牙的笑話 還有文中的 hoary cliche
2)literally (especially of hair) grey or white because a person is old
eg: His hair was a hoary white.
3.spasm
noun [C or U]
1a sudden uncontrollable tightening of a muscle:
a muscle/muscular spasm
MAINLY UK My leg suddenly?went into?spasm.
2?spasm of?sth?a short period of something, especially something uncontrollable:
a spasm of guilt/coughing/laughing
4. morbidity 病態(tài)
通常用法還是具體的 比如發(fā)病率 morbidity rate 發(fā)病周期 morbidity circle
5.fixated adj.迷戀 依戀
unable to stop thinking about something:
a nation fixated?on?the past
Back in London, he became fixated?with?his best friend's daughter.
6.imminent
/??m?n?nt; ˋ?m?n?nt/adj?(esp of unpleasant events) about to happen; likely to happen very soon (尤指不愉快的事件)即將發(fā)生的, 臨近的, 逼近的:
no warning of imminent?danger沒有即將發(fā)生危險(xiǎn)的警告 *
An announcement of further?cuts in government expenditure is imminent.最近將發(fā)布進(jìn)一步削減政府開支的公告.
?>imminence/-?ns;-?ns/n[U]:
the imminence of nuclear war核戰(zhàn)迫近的危險(xiǎn).
imminently?adv.