I realized sadly that I had been completely defeated by their ingenuity.
我懊喪地感到敗在了足智多謀的螞蟻的手下。
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
adv. 完全地;完整地;完全，徹底，全部，一干二凈;很，非常，充分，十分，萬分;
?? com 共同 + plete=plet滿，填滿 + ly ...地 → adv. 完全地，徹底地；完整地
"No funding will be available until the technology is completely proven."
該技術得到充分驗證后才會有撥款.
近義：absolutely, off, outright, perfectly, plumb, positively
反義：insufficiently, scarcely, scrappily, skimpily, truncately, unexhaustively
n. 足智多謀，心靈手巧;獨創性;獨出心裁，設計新穎;巧妙，精巧;
?? ingenu機靈+ity指具備某種性質→機靈,獨創性,靈活性
"We were amazed at the ingenuity with which they solved their difficulties."
他們在解決困難中所表現的智慧使我們驚嘆[佩服].
近義：inventiveness, jauntiness, keenness, liveliness, resourcefulness, scintillation
adv. 悲哀地;憂愁地;令人遺憾地;不幸地;
"Sadly, after eight years of marriage they had grown apart."
不幸的是，結婚八年后，他們的感情日漸淡漠了。
近義：languidly, limply, listlessly, melancholically, mirthlessly, mournfully
反義：joyfully, joyously, lightheartedly, merrily, playfully, exultingly
v. 擊敗( defeat的過去式和過去分詞 ); 戰勝; 挫敗; 使困惑
近義：wrecked, beaten
反義：lucrative, prize, prizewinning, profitable, remunerative, rewarded