Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few.
— Moralia
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n. 智力;聰穎;情報;情報機構(gòu);
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"She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence."
她利用她漂亮的外表來彌補智力的不足.
近義：aptness, intellect, invention, argument, knack, mentality
vt.& vi. 戰(zhàn)斗;斗爭;打架;吵架;
n. 打架;吵架;戰(zhàn)斗;斗志;
"The twins fight tooth and nail over the slightest disagreement."
這對雙胞胎為了一點兒小矛盾而吵得不可開交.
近義：strive, struggle, argue, jangle, quarrel, quibble
反義：reconcile, reunite, rapport, togetherness, unison, unity
verbosity
[[v?'bɑs?ti]]
n. 贅言, 嘮叨, 冗長
近義：verbiage, wordiness, blab, panglossia, redundancy, chatter
反義：laconicism, succinctness, terseness, brevity
n. 演說，演講，發(fā)言;說話，談話，說話能力或方式;（樂器的）音，音色;方言，民族語言;
"He finished his speech amid tremendous applause."
他在雷鳴般的掌聲中結(jié)束了演講。
近義：lecture, locution, monologue, peroration, phrase, prelection
adj. 指定的，確定的;假設(shè)的，假定的;有…傾向的;贈送的;
prep. （表示原因）考慮到;（表示假設(shè)）倘若，假定;
n. 假設(shè);
v. 給予，贈送( give的過去分詞);
"The pilot was given clearance to land by air traffic control."
飛行員得到空中交通管制站發(fā)出的著陸許可。
近義：particular
反義：indefinite, indeterminate, unascertained, uncertain, unsettled, vague