chinese 45
单词卡: 100
- 1.
- I tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to contact him
- 2.
- arbiter
- 3.
- The arbiter will have the last say.
- 4.
- archway
- 5.
- We went through a stone archway into the courtyard
- 6.
- argy-bargy
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- aridness
- 8.
- How can people make a living in this arid area?
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- anvil
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- aperitif wine
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- apocryphal
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- These are apocryphal advertisements in order to racket from customers.
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- Most of the story about his private life was probably apocryphal.
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- He masqueraded as a doctor and fooled everyone.
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- vices masquerading as virtues.
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- The Appeal Court has quashed the convictions of all eleven people.
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- Graham attempted to quash rumours of growing discontent.
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- Troops were displaying an obvious reluctance to get involved in quashing demonstrations.
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- squealing
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- sequels
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- chasm
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- rigours
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- ...the rigours of childbirth.
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- The new current affairs series promises to address challenging issues with freshness and rigour.
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- competency
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- ...managerial competency.
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- pageant
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- pomp
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- ..the pomp and splendour of the English aristocracy.
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- ostentations
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- Consumers are abandoning the excess and ostentation of the 1980s...
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- On the whole she had lived modestly, with a notable lack of ostentation.
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- intergrative
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- conducive
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- Make your bedroom as conducive to sleep as possible...
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- parody
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- befuddling
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- ..befuddled with drink.
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- autarky
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- ennui
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- pretexts
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- They wanted a pretext for subduing the region by force...
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- They would now find some dubious pretext to restart the war.
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- lassitude
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- Symptoms of anaemia include general fatigue and lassitude.
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- skylarks
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- pork rinds
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- wrought iron
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- mongrel dogs
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- slurp it up
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- He slurped down a cup of sweet, black coffee.
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- rapeseed
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- jargons
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- splendid
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- I found him to be splendid company during the hour of our acquaintance.
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- grandiose
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- outright
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- My driver was killed outright.
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- flabbergasted
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- Everybody was flabbergasted when I announced I was going to emigrate to Australia.
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- He was a tall, thin fellow with a slight stoop.
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- provolone
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- mustard
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- Thinly paint the lamb with Dijon mustard.
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- ...a mustard coloured jumper.
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- reel
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- I shall not reveal the movie's final reel.
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- syncope
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- crop (bird/chicken)
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- corainder/cilantro
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- embarassment
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- mincing
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- wisdom teeth
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- unicuspid teeth/Tiger Fang
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- unrestricted
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- abode
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- I went round the streets and found his new abode.
- 90.
- Outsiders who wed islanders are given only three years' right of abode at first.
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- lumpy
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- When the rice isn't cooked properly it goes lumpy and gooey...
- 93.
- Many women, especially as they get older, develop lumpy veins in their legs.
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- ordained
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- Destiny has ordained that they are who they are...
- 96.
- The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.
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- shoplifter
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- paedophilia
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- depravity
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- ...the absolute depravity that can exist in war.