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| 释义 | 〔proud〕"We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking [Frederick the Great] ” (Macaulay).“我们几乎找不到一个人性的力量和弱点象这个高傲、机警、坚定、智慧的女学者的性格那样如此醒目和怪异的例子 ” （麦考莱）。〔white〕One that is white or nearly white, as:白色物品：白色的或几乎是白色的物品，如：〔celibate〕Historically,celibate means only "unmarried"; its use to mean "abstaining from sexual intercourse" is a 20th-century development.But the new sense of the word appears more or less to have displaced the old,and the use ofcelibate to mean "unmarried" is now almost sure to invite misinterpretation in other than narrowly ecclesiastical contexts.Sixty-eight percent of the Usage Panel rejected the older use in the sentenceHe remained celibate [unmarried] , although he engaged in sexual intercourse. 历史上，celibate 只作“未婚的”解； 用作“禁欲”的意思是在20世纪发展起来的。但是该词的新含义多少有取代原含义的趋势，并用celibate 作“未婚的”意义， 现在除了在狭小的神学领域外几乎都会引起误解。用法专题使用小组百分之六十八的成员在句子他仍是单身的 ［未婚的］ ，尽管他仍保有性生活 中，拒绝使用该词的旧含义 〔penult〕paene [almost] paene [几乎] 〔penumbra〕Latin paene [almost] 拉丁语 paene [几乎] 〔vertical〕These adjectives are compared as they mean being at or approximately at right angles to the horizon or to level ground.这些形容词在它们表达与水平面成或者几乎成直角时才互相比较。〔none〕Almost none of the officials were (not was ) interviewed by the committee. 几乎所有的官员都未（不是 was ) 被委员会接见。 〔tough〕Hard to cut or chew:几乎切不动或嚼不动的：〔despondent〕The central meaning shared by these adjectives is "being without or almost without hope": 这些形容词共有的中心意义是“没有或几乎没有希望”： 〔wingover〕A flight maneuver or stunt in which an airplane enters a climbing turn until almost stalled and is allowed to fall while the turn is continued until normal flight is attained in a direction opposite the original heading.横转，翻转：一种飞行技巧或特技，飞机首先进入爬升的动作，直至飞机几乎失速并允许下沉，但这个动作一直要继续到按与最初行向相反的方向能正常飞行时〔Hampton〕An independent city of southeast Virginia opposite Norfolk onHampton Roads, the outlet of three rivers into Chesapeake Bay. Settled by colonists from Jamestown in 1610, the city was sacked by the British in the War of 1812 and was almost burned to the ground by Confederates in 1861 to prevent its occupation by Union troops. Population, 133,793. 汉普顿：美国弗吉尼亚州东南部的一个独立城市，隔汉普顿大道 与诺福克相望，在那儿有三条河相汇并注入切萨皮克湾。该市于1610 年为詹姆斯敦的殖民者所建，在1812年战争中被英军洗劫，并在1861年几乎被南方联邦军队烧为平地，以免落入北方军队之手。人口133,793 〔chlorine〕A highly irritating, greenish-yellow gaseous halogen, capable of combining with nearly all other elements, produced principally by electrolysis of sodium chloride and used widely to purify water, as a disinfectant and bleaching agent, and in the manufacture of many important compounds including chloroform and carbon tetrachloride. Atomic number 17; atomic weight 35.45; freezing point -100.98°C; boiling point -34.6°C; specific gravity 1.56 (-33.6°C); valence 1, 3, 5, 7. See table at element 氯：一种具有很大刺激性的、几乎能与所有其它元素化合黄绿色气体卤素，主要通过电解氯化纳获得，作为一种消毒及漂白剂广泛用于使水净化，以及用在包括三氯甲烷和四氯化碳在内的许多重要化合物的生产过程中。原子序数为17；原子量为35.45；冰点为零下100.98°C；沸点为零下34.6°C；比重为1.56（零下33.6°C）；化合价1，3，5，7 参见 element〔hardly〕I could hardly hear the speaker.我几乎听不到演说者的声音〔stifling〕Very hot or stuffy almost to the point of being suffocating.气闷的：非常炎热或气闷的，几乎令人窒息〔Anglocentric〕“[His] view of American culture from its very origins is almost truculently Anglocentric" (Jack Miles)“[他] 对美洲文化起源的见解几乎就是盛气凌人的英格兰中心论” (杰克·麦尔斯)〔detract〕They could detract little from so solid an argument.他们从这如此坚实的论证中几乎挑不出一点儿毛病〔Jamestown〕A former village of southeast Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. It was founded in May 1607 and named for the reigning monarch, James I. The "Starving Time" of 1609 to 1610 nearly wiped out the colony, and only the timely arrival of Baron De La Warr with supplies convinced the survivors to remain. Jamestown became the capital of Virginia after 1619 but was almost entirely destroyed during Bacon's Rebellion (1676) and further declined after the removal of the capital to Williamsburg (1698-1700).詹姆斯敦：美国弗吉尼亚州东南部的原村落，第一个英国人在美国的固定居住点。建立于1607年5月，被指定为属詹姆士一世的君主统治。1609年到1610年的“饥饿时代”几乎将这个殖民地抹去，但巴龙·德·拉·沃带着补给的及时到来给幸存者带来了信心。1619年后詹姆士镇成为了弗吉尼亚州的首府，但是在1676年的巴尔干叛乱中它几乎被毁，随后在首府迁往威廉斯堡后日渐衰落〔quoit〕The gamequoits derives its name from quoit, specifically denoting a heavy iron ringslightly convex on the outside and concave inside,configured so as to give it an edge for cutting into the ground.Both the game and the term are associated almost exclusively with the Upper North (the northernmost tier of states from New York State westward to North Dakota).In fact,quoits is one of a dozen terms that are most reliable for delineating the Upper North dialect boundary. quoits 这种游戏的名称是从 quoit 一词而来的， 特指一种沉笨的铁环，外面略凸，内部略凹。这种造型是为了使它有一边刃可以切入地面。这种游戏和词语几乎只和美国上北部有关（美国最北部的几个州，从纽约州向西至北达科他州）。实际上，quoits 是十多个最可靠的用来标明上北部方言界线的词语之一 〔low〕My savings account is low.我的存款几乎用完了〔data〕where the singularity ofdata is implicit in the use of the quantifier very little (contrast the oddness ofWe have very little facts on the efficacy of such programs ). 在这里，data 的单数无保留地用在量词 very little很少 中 （和特例我们对这一项目的效力上，几乎没有多少事实 用法相反） 〔matrix〕"Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom"(Benjamin N. Cardozo)“言论自由几乎是任何一种自由形式的母体和不可缺少的条件”(本杰明N.卡多佐)〔superman〕Overman and Beyondman hardly seem likely names for a superhero, but perhapsOverman might be "leaping tall buildings at a single bound" had the German word Übermensch been translated differently than it was. However, Nietzsche's term for the ideal superior man was translated into English assuperman, first recorded in a work by George Bernard Shaw published in 1903. Such a term comes to us through a process called loan translation, or calque formation,whereby the semantic components of a word or phrase in one language are literally translated into their equivalents in another language,GermanÜbermensch, made up of über, "super-,” and Mensch, "man,” thus becoming superman. Becauseüber- can also be translated "beyond" and "over,” we also findoverman and beyondman as calques for the word Übermensch, but they did not take root.Shaw, in a letter written before 1917, noted that"some of our most felicitous writers . . . had been using such desperate and unspeakable forms as Beyondman, when the glib Superman was staring them in the face all the time.”Hence, when it came to naming a new comic strip hero,Superman was the logical choice, a name first recorded in 1938. Overman 和 Beyondman 看上去几乎不象超级英雄的名称， 但是，如果将德语中 Übermensch 这个单词译作不同于原有的译法时，那么，也许 Overman 可能是“纵身一跃就能跃过高楼大厦”。 然而，尼采给予理想超人的名称译成英语为Superman ， 这个词最早见于乔治·萧伯纳的出版于1903年的一部作品中。这个词是通过借译而来的，或者说是通过仿造而来的，在以上这样的过程中，一个词或词组的语义成分被直译成另一语言中的与之相对应的成分。德语单词 Übermensch 是由 uber （即英语中"super-”之意）和 Mensch （即英语中"man"之意）组成的，这样的话，此词在英语中就成了 Superman 。 因为 über 也可译为"beyond"和"over"， 所以我们发现 躡ermensch 也被借译为 overman 和 beyondman 。 但是，这两个词并没有在英语中确立下来。萧伯纳在写于1917年之前的一封信中说道：“一些措辞最巧妙的英语作家，竟一直使用象Beyondman这种令人绝望而又无法形容的词，却对一直面对面盯着他们的‘Superman’视而不见”。这样，当要命名一个新的连环漫画中的英雄时，Superman 一词就成了理所当然的选择，这个名称首次记录于1938年 〔corymb〕A usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points of the main stem to approximately the same height.伞房花序：一种通常平顶的花序，指从主茎各点上长出的单个花柄都达到几乎相同的高度〔separate〕"His head was nearly severed from his body" (H.G. Wells). “他的头几乎从他的身体脱离” (H·G·韦尔斯）。 〔infinitesimal〕An immeasurably or incalculably minute amount or quantity.无穷小的数量：非常小，几乎无法测量的数量〔natural〕Established by moral certainty or conviction:生来的：由几乎是必然的可能性和确信确定的：〔about〕Almost:差不多，几乎：〔soar〕To rise, fly, or glide high and with little apparent effort.高飞：几乎不用明显努力就升高、飞高或滑高〔mediterranean〕When one hears the wordmediterranean, one thinks of a specific placeand perhaps of the great cultures that have surrounded it.But the word can also apply to any large body of water that is surrounded completely or almost completely by dry land.This usage goes back to the use in Late Latin of the Latin wordmediterrāneus, the source of our word,as part of the nameMediterrāneum mare for the mostly landlocked Mediterranean Sea. But Latinmediterrāneus, which is derived from medius, "the middle of, the heart of,” and terra, "land,” in Classical Latin actually meant "remote from the coast, inland.”In Late Latin,in referring to the sea,mediterrāneus probably meant originally "in the middle of the earth"rather than "surrounded by land,”for to the Mediterranean cultures without knowledge of much of the earth,the Mediterranean Sea was in the center of the world.Our wordmediterranean is first recorded in English in 1594 as the name of the sea.当一个人听说mediterranean 这个词时， 他所想到的是一具体的地方，而且可能还想到了这个地方周围的那些伟大文明。但这个词同样可以用来指任何几乎被陆地所包围或完全被陆地所包围的大水体。这个用法可以追溯到近代拉丁文中mediterraneus 这个词， 就是我们这个词的词源，亦即表绝大部分被陆地所包围的地中海的名称Mediterraneum mare 的组成部分。 但是拉丁词mediterraneus ，从 medius 意为“…中间的，…的中心”派生而来的，以及意为“陆地”的 terra 这个词， 在古典拉丁语中的确切含义为“远离海岸的，内陆的”。在近代拉丁语中，当mediterraneus 这个词用来指地中海时， 其最早的含义可能是“在地球中央的”，而不是“被陆地所包围的”，因为对于缺乏有关地球知识的各地中海文明来说，地中海就是世界的中心。我们这里所说的英语单词mediterranean 最早于1594年出现于英语中， 也是用来指地中海〔smashing〕a smashing blow to the head.几乎把脑袋打碎的一击〔nights〕She works nights at the restaurant.几乎每天晚上，她都在餐厅上夜班〔Varro〕Roman scholar and encyclopedist who reputedly produced more than 600 volumes, covering nearly every field of knowledge.瓦罗，马库斯·泰伦提乌斯：(116-27) 罗马学者和百科全书编纂者，据说他编纂了600多卷，几乎涵盖了每一领域的知识〔Dyirbal〕The Pama-Nyungan language of this people, now nearly extinct.台伯语：台伯族使用的帕玛-努甘语，现在已几乎失传〔yttrium〕A silvery metallic element, not a rare earth but occurring in nearly all rare-earth minerals, used in various metallurgical applications, notably to increase the strength of magnesium and aluminum alloys. Atomic number 39; atomic weight 88.905; melting point 1,522°C; boiling point 3,338°C; specific gravity 4.45 (25°C); valence 3. See table at element 钇：一种银色金属元素，不是稀土但几乎存在于所有的稀土物质中，用于各种冶金的运用中，可显著提高镁铝合金的强度。原子序数39；原子量88.905；熔点1,522°C；沸点3,338°C；比重4.45（在25°C时）；化合价3 参见 element〔near〕was near exhausted from the labor; near dead after the assault.工作累得几乎精疲力竭；在袭击后几乎丧命〔practically〕Practically is used unexceptionally in its primary sense of "in a way that is practical.” Its use in the sense "for all practical purposes" is perfectly acceptable.Thus, a person whose liabilities exceed his or her assets may be said to bepractically bankrupt, even though that person has not been legally declared insolvent. By a slight extension of this meaning, however,practically is often used to mean "all but" or "nearly": Practically 最平常、根本的含义就是“通过实用的方式。” 其作为“从实际出发地”这一意思的用法也是完全可接受的。因此，如果某人的债务超出了他或她的财产价值的话，即使还没有在法律上宣告他或她破产，就可以说是实际上已破产了 。 然而将这一意思稍作延伸，practically 就经常用来表示“几乎”或“差不多”的意思： 〔Chicago〕The largest city of Illinois, in the northeast part of the state on Lake Michigan. It is a major port and the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center of the Middle West. The city was nearly destroyed by a disastrous fire in 1871. Population, 2,783,726.芝加哥：美国伊利诺斯州最大的城市，位于该州的东北部密歇根湖上。是中西部重要的港口城市以及商业、经济、工业和文化中心。这座城市在1871年曾被一场大火灾几乎摧毁。人口2,783,726〔overtone〕an overtone of anger barely masked; praise with overtones of envy.几乎不加掩饰生气的表露；带着微露出的妒忌或表扬〔mythical〕a novel of profound, almost mythic consequence.一本具有深奥的、几乎是神话般结局的小说〔close〕Decided by a narrow margin; almost even:势均力敌的：为极小界限所决定的；几乎相当的： |
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