老外眼中自帶仙氣、美到冒泡的英文單詞

01-28

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今天來撩一撩，

那些歪果仁眼中，

或是發音上，或是詞義上，

自帶仙氣、美到冒泡的

英文單詞。

透過歪果仁與國人對英文審美觀的差距，

開大腦洞，窺探腦迴路的迥異…

Letters Alive | 見字如面

? Ailurophile:A cat-lover.

[a?l?r??fa?l] 貓奴，讓我吸會貓先~

? Assemblage: A gathering.

· 聚集；集合藝術

? Becoming: Attractive.

相配的；合身的；合適的

E.g.:It

was very becoming behaviour for a teacher.

這是為人師表的表現。

? Beleaguer: To

exhaust with attacks.

圍困，圍攻

? Brood: To think alone.

沉思

? Bucolic: In a lovely rural setting.

田園的

? Bungalow: A small, cozy cottage.

平房

? Chatoyant: Like a cats eye.

貓眼石，變色的

? Comely: Attractive.

標緻的；秀麗的

E.g.:

Thy lips [are] like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech [is] comely: thy

temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.

你的唇好象一條朱紅線，你的嘴也秀美。你的兩太陽在帕子內如同一塊石榴。

? Conflate: To blend together.

合併；合成

? Cynosure: A focal point ofadmiration.

北極星；小熊座；注意的焦點

E.g.: The national pavilion of the host country has always been a

cynosure.

東道國的國家館歷來備受關注。

? Dalliance: A brief love affair.

嬉戲；戲弄；調情；調戲

E.g.: Easy and pleasant as their life at Paris was, it was

after all only an idle dalliance and amiable trifling.

儘管他們在巴黎過著簡單又愜意的生活，但那畢竟只是閑散的閑混和和藹可親的瑣事。

? Demesne: Dominion, territory.

領地；範圍；佔有

? Demure: Shy and reserved.

嫻靜的；端莊的

? Denouement: The resolution of amystery.

結局；結尾

? Desuetude: Disuse.

[?d?sw??tjud]不用；廢除

? Desultory: Slow, sluggish.

漫無目的的；無條理的；隨意的

? Diaphanous: Filmy.

輕柔細密的；半透明的

E.g.:Those tints are diffuse and innocent, with an iridescent shale tint contrasting

the fragility of those diaphanous and bleached

pastels.

這些色彩彰顯出四處瀰漫而又清爽的效果，帶有色彩斑斕的岩石質地，與精緻的白皙淡雅色交相輝映。

? Dissemble: Deceive.

? Dulcet: Sweet, sugary.

甜美的；悅耳動聽的；美妙的

? Ebullience: Bubbling enthusiasm.

沸騰；起泡；(感情的)奔放

? Effervescent: Bubbly.

興高采烈的；熱情洋溢的；充滿活力的；冒泡的

? Efflorescence:Flowering, blooming.

風化；開花；霜華；地面積鹽

? Elision: Dropping a sound or syllable in a word.

省略；母音省略；音節省略

? Elixir: A good potion.

靈丹妙藥；長生不老葯；聖水

? Eloquence: Beauty and persuasion inspeech.

口才；雄辯

? Embrocation: Rubbing on a lotion.

塗擦劑

? Emollient: A softener.

使平靜的；使緩和的；潤膚的；護膚的；潤膚劑；潤膚霜

? Ephemeral: Short-lived.

朝生暮死的；短命的；轉瞬即逝的

? Epiphany: A sudden revelation.

頓悟；顯現節；出現

? Erstwhile: At one time, for a time.

從前的；昔日的

? Ethereal: Gaseous, invisible butdetectable.

輕飄的；縹緲的；超凡的

? Evanescent: Vanishing quickly, lastinga very short time. Evocative:

Suggestive.

短暫的；易消散的；瞬息的

? Fetching: Pretty.

吸引人的；迷人的；動人的

? Felicity: Pleasantness.

? Forbearance: Withholding response to provocation.

寬容，忍耐

? Fugacious: Fleeting.

短暫的；易逃逸的；早落

? Furtive: Shifty, sneaky.

鬼鬼祟祟的；遮遮掩掩的

? Gambol: To skip or leap about joyfully.

雀躍；渡邊；撒歡兒

? Glamour: Beauty.

? Gossamer: The finest piece of thread, a spiders silk

蛛絲；薄紗；遊絲；輕而薄的

? Halcyon: Happy, sunny, care-free.

平靜的；愉快的

? Harbinger: Messenger with news of thefuture.

預兆；先兆；先驅者

? Imbrication: Overlapping and forming a regular pattern.

覆瓦作用；疊瓦構造；鱗片

? Imbroglio: An altercation orcomplicated situation.

糾葛；糾紛

? Imbue: To infuse, instill.

浸透；浸染；使充滿

? Incipient: Beginning, in an earlystage.

初期的；剛出現的；起初的

? Ineffable: Unutterable,inexpressible.

不能說的；妙不可言的；莫名

? Ingénue: A naive young woman.

天真無邪的少女

E.g.：The former ingenue has some grown-up scars now,

singing the marital blues with a bite in her voice that shes never come close

to before.

從前的天真已經被成熟打上了疤痕，她用有些辛辣的嗓音唱著婚姻生活中的悲傷---她的嗓音永遠不可能像以前那樣了。

? Inglenook: A cozy nook by the hearth.

壁爐邊（壁爐兩側供人坐的地方）

? Insouciance: Blithe nonchalance.

漠不關心；不在乎；閒情逸緻

? Inure: To become jaded.

適用；鍛煉；使慣於

? Labyrinthine: Twisting and turning.

迷宮的；迷路的

E.g.:Few of the cities in the labyrinthine caverns of

the Dark Elves are navigable as far as the seas.

在黑暗精靈的迷宮般的洞穴中，鮮有城市適合航海。

? Lagniappe: A special kind of gift.

免費贈品；開胃菜

? Lagoon: A small gulf or inlet.

瀉湖；環礁湖；礁湖酒吧

? Languor: Listlessness, inactivity.

疲倦；衰弱無力；倦怠

? Lassitude: Weariness, listlessness.

倦怠；疲乏；無精打采

? Leisure: Free time.

? Lilt: To move musically orlively.

腔調；輕快的歌曲；輕快地跳躍

? Lissome: Slender and graceful.

柔軟的；敏捷的；姿態優雅的

? Lithe: Slender and flexible.

優美柔軟的；易彎曲的；柔韌性好

? Mellifluous: Sweet sounding.

柔美流暢的；甜美的；悅耳的

? Moiety: One of two equal parts.

半份；半個；基元

? Mondegreen: A slip of the ear.

空耳；幻聽；聽錯的詞

? Murmurous: Murmuring.

喃喃低語的；沙沙的

? Nemesis: An unconquerable archenemy.

報應；應得的懲罰

? Offing: The sea between the horizon and the offshore.

近海；深水海面；〈比喻〉不遠的將來

? Onomatopoeia: A word that sounds like its meaning.

擬聲詞；象聲詞

? Opulent: Lush, luxuriant.

富麗堂皇的；華麗的

? Palimpsest: A manuscript written over earlier ones.

再生羊皮紙卷；具有多重意義的事物；重寫本；重寫人生

? Panacea: A solution for all problems

萬能葯；靈丹妙藥

? Panoply: A complete set.

? Pastiche: An art work combining materials from various

sources.

刻意模仿的文藝作品；拼貼；混成曲

? Penumbra: A half-shadow.

半陰影；半影區；半暗帶

? Petrichor: The smell of earth afterrain.

下雨時的塵土味

? Plethora: A large quantity.

過量；過剩

? Propinquity: An inclination.

接近；類似；鄰近

? Pyrrhic: Successful with heavy losses.

皮洛士；勝利最終證明是代價高昂的

? Quintessential:Most essential.

? Ratatouille: A spicy French stew.

[.r?t?tui]蔬菜雜燴；料理鼠王；美食總動員

? Ravel: To knit or unknit.

? Redolent: Fragrant.

芳香的；芬芳的

? Riparian: By the bank of a stream.

河岸的；水邊的

? Ripple: A very small wave.

漣漪

? Scintilla: A spark or very smallthing.

火花；星點；閃爍

? Sempiternal: Eternal.

永恆不朽

? Seraglio: Rich, luxurious oriental palace or harem.

後宮；閨房

? Serendipity: Finding something nice while looking for something else.

意外發現珍品的運氣或本領；意外新發現

? Summery: Light, delicate or warm and sunny.

? Sumptuous: Lush, luxurious.

華貴的；豪華的；奢華的

? Surreptitious:Secretive, sneaky.

鬼鬼祟祟的；偷偷摸摸的

? Susquehanna: A river in Pennsylvania.

薩斯奎哈納河(在美國東北部)

? Susurrus: Whispering, hissing.

喃喃低語聲；潺潺聲

? Talisman: A good luck charm.

護身符

? Tintinnabulation:Tinkling.

叮噹聲；丁零聲

? Umbrella: Protection from sun orrain.

? Untoward: Unseemly, inappropriate.

? Vestigial: In trace amounts.

殘留的；殘餘的

? Wafture: Waving.

浮動；飄送；飄動物

? Wherewithal: The means.

必要的資金；必要的財力

? Woebegone: Sorrowful, downcast

憂傷的；愁眉苦臉的

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