It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.
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n. 意外事件;事故;機遇,偶然;附屬品;
?? ac一再+cid降下+ent...的→偶然降臨的事→偶然的事,意外
"The court absolved him of all responsibility for the accident."
法院宣告他對該事故不負任何責任。
近義:hazard, luck, mischance, mishap, casualty, chance
反義:monotone, monotony, regularity, sameness, smoothness, standardization
adj. 活(著)的;現存的;在使用中的;逼真的;
n. 生計;生活方式;生存之道;
v. 活( live的現在分詞);居住;以…為生;(按照規矩)管理生活;
?? liv生活+ing名詞后綴 → 生活,生計
"The prisoners were living in appalling conditions."
囚犯的居住條件極為惡劣。
近義:livelihood, sustenance, live, quickened, surviving, alive
反義:inert, insentient, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, unfeeling
n. [宗]教堂;[宗]教徒;[宗]教派;[宗]教會;
adj. 教會的;禮拜的;
vt. 領…到教堂接受宗教儀式;
?? 教堂兩邊(ch)(象形)有人(ur) 網友:月亮 補充:諧音:車馳. 開車奔馳到教堂去結婚.
"A peal of church bells rang out in the distance."
遠處響起了一陣教堂的鐘聲。
近義:kirk, meetinghouse, shrine, temple, cathedral, fane
graveyard
['greivjɑ:d]
n. 墓地;
"It was standing in the graveyard, in the grass, its bottom missing."
站在墓地的青草上面去了, 而且瓶底已經丟失,雖然丟失了也就讓它空空地站在墓邊.
近義:pantheon, cemetery, churchyard
n. 臺,看臺;立場;停止;抵抗;
vi. 站立,起立;豎直放置;保持看法;停滯;
vt. 使站立;忍受;抵御;承擔責任;
vt.& vi. 站立,(使)直立,站著;
"The crowd had to stand behind barriers."
人群只好站在障礙物后面。
近義:suffer, take, tolerate, bear, stick, endure
反義:placate, quit, remit, soften, subside, yield
n. 面,邊;方面;側面;旁邊;
adj. 側面的;旁邊的;次要的,枝節的;副的;
vi. 支持,同意;偏袒;附和;站在…一邊;
"Italy joined the war on the Allied side in 1915."
1915年,意大利加入協約國參戰。
近義:agree, face, party, hillside, mountainside, slope
反義:above, upper