We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
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n. 人，人類;居民;人民;種族;
vt. 居住于，布滿;使住滿人，在…殖民;把動物放養(yǎng)在;
?? popul, publ 表”人民”
"I can't abide people with no sense of humour."
我討厭和沒有幽默感的人打交道。
近義：populate, settle, crowd, individuals, persons, folks
反義：person, single, subject, dude, bleeder, bloke
adj. 傷感的;多愁善感的;感情用事的;寓有情感的;
"She kept the letters for sentimental reasons."
她把那些信留作紀念。
近義：moving, romantic, bathetic, soulful, emotional
反義：imperviable, impervious, insensible, insensitive, obdurate, pitiless
n. 〈古〉方式，方法;本質(zhì)，天性;同類;某類;
adj. 仁慈的，體貼的;友善的，好心的;溫和;寬宏大量的;
"Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted."
他外表冷漠，心地卻十分善良。
近義：nature, order, quality, rank, sort, stamp
反義：heedless, impolite, inattentive, inclement, abrupt, loutish
adj. 較好的;更合適的;能力更強的;好轉(zhuǎn)的;
adv. 更好地;更妥;更;
v. 勝過;上進;
n. 更好者;更有才智者;
"We're hoping for better weather tomorrow."
我們希望明天天氣轉(zhuǎn)好。
近義：improve, perfect, upgrade, meliorate, complete, enrich
反義：intensify, worsen, aggravate, deteriorate, exacerbate, lousy
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
humiliating
[hju:'milieiti?]
adj. 丟臉的;羞辱性的;
v. “humiliate”的現(xiàn)在分詞;
"The Chancellor was forced into a humiliating climbdown on his economic policies."
財政大臣被迫狼狽地承認他的經(jīng)濟政策存在失誤。
近義：insulting, offending, offensive, shameful, debasing, demeaning
反義：apologetic, laudable, laudative, laudatory, praising, acclamatory