I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
— Duke Ellington
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?? 名句詞匯解析
從本句名言中提取的重要詞匯，幫助你深度理解這句話
adv. 僅僅，只不過;只是;純粹;全然;
?? mere僅僅 + ly...的 → ad.僅僅，只不過
"Do you really want to go or are you merely being amiable?"
你是真的想去呢,還是僅僅為了表示友好?
近義：just, only, purely, simply, solely, but
n. [物]能量;活力;精力;精神;
?? en進入+erg能量，活動+y表名詞→進入能量→能量；活力
"The government did an about-turn over nuclear energy."
政府對核能的態度來了個180度的大轉變。
近義：health, heart, impetuosity, impetus, impulsiveness, ardour
反義：puniness, weakening, weariness, exinanition, debility, destructibility
v. 拿( take的過去式 );接受;學習;取得;
"A lot of rebuilding took place in the aftermath of the war."
戰后進行了大量的重建工作。
v. 寫( write的過去式 );寫信;
"She wrote the book in collaboration with one of her students."
她和她的一個學生合寫了這本書。
blues
[blu:z]
n. （一陣）沮喪;憂郁;藍調;一首布魯斯樂曲;藍色( blue的名詞復數 );[復數]（美國海、陸、空三軍穿的）藍色制服;藍顏料;[the blue(s)][用作單數或復數]布魯斯（歌曲）（一種傷感的美國黑人民歌）;
"She was in the back of a smoky bar singing the blues."
她在煙霧彌漫的酒吧深處唱著布魯斯歌曲.
近義：acedia, barythymia, blueness, nostalgia