出国留学首选一诺留学

　　词汇精讲

　　Profile

　　【双语释义】Your profile is the outline of your face as it is seen when someone is looking at you from the side.

　　C.N. 侧面像;侧影像

　　【典型范例】His handsome profile was turned away from us.

　　他英俊的侧影从我们眼前转开了。

　　Trifle

　　【双语释义】You can use a trifle to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order make something you say seem less extreme.

　　adj. (尤用于缓和程度)有一点，稍微

　　【典型范例1】As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.

　　作为摄影师，他感到两处景点都有点儿不尽如人意。

　　【典型范例2】She seemed a trifle anxious.

　　她似乎有点儿焦急。

　　Coarsen

　　【双语释义】If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.

　　Vt. (使)变粗糙

　　【典型范例】Skin thickens, dries and coarsens after sun exposure.

　　晒后皮肤会变厚、变干、变粗糙。

　　Aristocrat

　　【双语释义】An aristocrat is someone whose family has a high social rank, especially someone who has a title.

　　C.N.贵族(成员)

　　【典型范例1】He is an aristocrat to the very marrow of his bones.

　　他是一个道道地地的贵族。

　　【典型范例2】Can't you see he just wants to play the aristocrat?

　　你看不出他就是想扮出一副贵族派头吗 ?

　　Descendant

　　【双语释义】Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.

　　C.N.后代;后裔;子孙

　　【典型范例】They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.

　　他们是最初的英格兰和苏格兰定居者的后代。

　　Stumble

　　【双语释义】If you stumble, you put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running and nearly fall over.

　　绊脚;跌跌撞撞地走;踉跄;步履蹒跚

　　【典型范例1】The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble.

　　她突然两腿发软踉跄了一下。

　　【典型范例2】I stumbled into the telephone box and dialed 999.

　　我跌跌撞撞地进了电话亭拨了 999。

　　Hereditary

　　【双语释义】A title or position in society that is hereditary is one that is passed on as a right from parent to child.

　　(称号或地位)承袭的，世袭的

　　【典型范例】British Prime Ministers are traditionally offered hereditary peerages.

　　英国首相传统上会被授予可世袭的贵族爵位。

　　Legacy

　　【双语释义】 A legacy is money or property which someone leaves to you when they die.

　　C.N. 遗产;遗赠

　　【典型范例】You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.

　　慷慨留下您的遗产，改写他人的人生。

　　Mansion

　　【双语释义】A mansion is a very large house.

　　宅邸;大厦

　　【典型范例】The old mansion was built in 1850.

　　这座古宅建于1850年。

　　Extinct

　　【双语释义】If a particular kind of worker, way of life, or type of activity is extinct, it no longer exists, because of changes in society.

　　(某类劳动者、生活方式或活动)不复存在的，废除了的

　　【典型范例1】 Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.

　　草药医术在西方已经成了一门几乎绝迹的技艺。

　　【典型范例2】Nothing could rekindle her extinct passion.

　　她激情已逝，无从心回意转。

　　Chasten

　　【双语释义】If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.

　　使后悔;使愧疚

　　【典型范例1】He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.

　　显然，13天拘留并没能让他悔过自新。

　　【典型范例2】A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation.

　　追悔莫及的阿加西坐飞机回家面壁思过去了。