We've kept the good old vices and labored to invent a few, With cake in vulgar surplus we can have it, and eat it too
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vt. 發明，創造;虛構;
?? in(upon)+vent(come)→發明；虛構
"We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards."
我們必須想出新的辦法使囚犯們偷偷溜出去而不被看守發現.
近義：improvise, make, noodle, vamp, coin, adlib
反義：recopy, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce, trace, transcribe
adj. 庸俗的，俚俗的，粗俗的;一般大眾的，老百姓的;粗野的，下流的;
n. [古語]平民，百姓;
?? vulg人民，人群+ar...的 → 大眾的，粗俗的
"She found their laughter and noisy games coarse and rather vulgar."
她覺得他們的笑聲和吵吵鬧鬧的游戲趣味低下，俗不可耐。
近義：proletariat, ruck, artless, lurid, pedestrian, rank
反義：highbrow, humanizing, learned, literate, schooled, refined
adj. 過剩的;多余的;
n. 剩余額;公積金;順差;盈余;
?? sur超過，在上面+plus多余→多出很多→多余的
"The manufacturers in some countries dumped their surplus commodities abroad."
一些國家的制造商向國外傾銷過剩產品.
近義：leftover, leftovers, overabundance, overflow, overplus, plethora
反義：overdraft, remaining, shortage, shortfall, shortness, underage
n. 蛋糕;糕餅;塊狀物;沉積物;
vt.& vi. （使）結塊;（使）膠;涂厚厚的一層;
"Store the cake in an airtight container."
把蛋糕存放在密封容器里。
近義：cohere, gateau
labored
[['leib?d]]
a. 吃力的, 緩慢的, 不自然的, 矯揉造作的
近義：laborious, painful, troublesome, trying, vexatious, laboured