时间:2019-02-27 作者:英语课 分类:突破英文词汇


英语课

 1. panic /ˈpænik/


-- unreasoning, sudden fright that grips a multitude
Pan是恐慌之神。潘(Pan),是希腊神话里的牧神,牧神潘是众神传信者赫耳墨斯的儿子,而名字的原意是一切。掌管树林、田地和羊群的神,有人的躯干和头,山羊的腿、角和耳朵。他的外表后来成了中世纪欧洲恶魔的原形。喜欢吹排笛,因为排笛能催眠。潘生性好色,经常藏匿在树丛之中,等待美女经过,然后上前求爱。在古希腊神话中,半人半兽的潘是创造力、音乐、诗歌与性爱的象征,同时也是恐慌与噩梦的标志。潘同时也是摩羯座的守护神。
A panic ensued when someone in the crowded audiorium yelled "Fire!"
当有人在拥挤的礼堂中大喊“着火了!”时,一阵慌乱随之产生。
 
 
2. philippic /fɪˈlɪpɪk/
-- bitter denunciation
Philippics是狄摩西尼斯所发表的攻击马其顿菲利普王的议案。狄摩西尼斯是古希腊著名的演说家,民主派政治家。他极力反对马其顿入侵希腊,发表《斥腓力》(Philippics)等演说,谴责马其顿王腓力二世的扩张野心。喀罗尼亚战役后亡命海外,公元前323年返回雅典组织反马其顿运动,失败后自杀。
In an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his bill.
在一小时的抨击性演说中,立法者抨击那些反对他的议案的游说者。
 
 
3. plutocratic 1 /ˌplu:təuˈkrætik/
-- having great influence because of one's wealth
Plutus是财富之神。普图鲁斯(Plutus),古希腊神话男性神祇之一,为财富之神。其名常与罗马神话中的冥王普路托(Pluto)相互混淆。
A handful of plutocratic investors 2, each owning more than a thousand shares, determined 3 the policies of the corporation.
少数有钱的投资者决定着公司的政策方针,他们每个人都拥有超过1,000股的股份。

adj.富豪的,有钱的
n.投资者,出资者( investor的名词复数 )
  • a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
  • a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
学英语单词
abandonment charge
aboyeurs
ale-knight
allocated configuration index
Ban Bang Wo
banian hospital, banyan hospital
beam light
beenhakker
bergkamp
booknotes
bump
car engine hood dented
chin t'ung tai
comparison tubes
compressor washing
cyclopenteno-benzanthracene
drawing change
dual resonance model
dummy cylinder
dynamic accent
econometric program system (EPS)
Entrèves
equatorial scleral staphyloma
Ettrick Water
euonymus hamiltonianus wall.
eurytopobionts
evramicina
express telephone
extr(e)-
fatty acid soap heat stabilizer
fire wire
fouty
friction toy car
function constraint
gaelen
gamma constituent in brass
glassery
gripen
heading marker contacts
hexene-ol
intrapreneuring
Ketocamphane
kottu
kurten
language graph
loss due to bending of concrete member
Lower's tubercles
Lungler
major earthquake
make a payment
matched power gain
microwave plasma accelerator
Middle Latin
Muarasoma
muonium chemistry
neo-stalinist
nomen rectum
obatala
Ontinena
ordinary-looking
over-shorten
panel of experts
pastrymaking
penciclovir
perishable supplies
pernambuco
plastic surgeons
priest-penitent privilege
Primula mallophylla
pseudonamespaces
put someone's finger on the pulse
putrefaction bacteria
quality car
safrols
saltimbanques
Santa Marta, Pta.
seamless steel pipe for boiler
Sherpur
siento
signal paint
silicon mosaic
sociology of communication
soluble bitumen
spamvertised
sunday-school truth
sunken-eyed
suors
systemizations
Tanāqīb, Ra's
technisms
televue
the holy family
to put on the map
Tolkienian
travel-dependent control
Trichonodella
Tryplasmatidae
wave type sprinkler
wedged joint
widebody
with one's heart in the right place