Last summer I spent days in the garden watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree.
去年夏天,我花了好幾天時間站在花園里觀察成千只螞蟻爬上我那棵心愛的桃樹的樹干。
新概念英語第三冊
Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
n. 樹干;象鼻;軀干;汽車車尾的行李箱;
?? trunc-, truncat- 使殘廢,砍斷
"the diameter of a tree trunk"
樹干的直徑
近義:log, bole, frustum, boot, proboscis, rostrum
prize
[pra?z]
詞頻1
詞根: prize
n. 獎賞;戰利品;值得努力爭取的東西;
vt. 珍視,珍惜;估價;
adj. 獲獎的,有望獲獎的;理應獲獎的;
?? prehend, pris 抓住,奪取,獲得#詞根助記:戰利品要靠自己抓取
"The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan"who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary"."
2012年諾貝爾文學獎得主為莫言,他“很好地將魔幻現實與民間故事、歷史與當代結合在一起”。
近義:appraise, appreciate, assay, regard, relish, respect
反義:reject, remonstrate, underestimate, undervalue, reprove, downplay
n. 末尾;最后;上個;鞋楦(做鞋的模型);
vt. 經受住;到…之后;夠用;足夠維持(尤指某段時間);
adj. 最近的;最后的;最不可能的;惟一剩下的;
vi. 持續;
adv. 上一次,最近一次;最后;
"The two sides signed a peace accord last July."
在剛過去的七月,雙方簽訂了和平條約。
近義:live, persist, stand, subsist, survive, hindermost
反義:part, croak, decease, depart, die, expire
n. 夏,夏天;全盛時期,黃金時代,壯年時期;[建]大梁,檀條,楣,柱頂石;歲數;
adj. 夏季的;
v. 度過夏季,避暑;使度過夏季,夏季放牧(家畜);
"a balmy summer evening"
清爽宜人的夏夜
近義:summertime, girder, summery, aestival, estival
反義:hibernation, wintertime
a. 用盡的, 精疲力竭的\\nspend的過去式和過去分詞
近義:outworn, unavailable, consumed, depleted, exhausted