virtue
释义:作不可数名词时,意思是“正直的品性”;作可数名词时,意思是“美德”,也可以表示“优势,益处”。
固定词组搭配:by virtue of ,意思是“因为”;英文释义是:“to explain why something happens or is true”。
例句:
Few[……]
virtue
释义:作不可数名词时,意思是“正直的品性”;作可数名词时,意思是“美德”,也可以表示“优势,益处”。
固定词组搭配:by virtue of ,意思是“因为”;英文释义是:“to explain why something happens or is true”。
例句:
Few[……]
stain
释义:作动词时意思是“染上污渍”,可用于描述自己做实验的细节。
例句:
His team used a special dye to stain stem cells removed from mouse bone marrow.
If a perfume is colored, i[……]
coursework
释义:“课业”,常在留学文书里用来形容与课堂教学相关的学习任务,比homework指代的范围更广一些。
例句:
Yet, as she labored through biology coursework, she kept taking psychology classe[……]
cover [sth.] up/up [sth.]
释义:本意是用布或其他材料“盖住”,引申为“掩盖”问题或证据。
例句:
They tried to cover the crime up, but the single footprint gave them away.
This was li[……]
equivalent vs. equivalency
辨析:前者是后者的形容词形式,分别是“等价的”和“等价性”。注意前者也可以作为名词表示“等价物”。
例句:
The first two messages in Figure 2 and Figure 3 perform equivalent[……]
get my hands on
释义:这一短语可以生动形象的在留学文书中体现“入手”了书籍或资料。注意是双手,hands需用复数。
例句:
If I could just get my hands on some water, I think, that’d help.
I’ve read ev[……]
requite
释义:作动词,意思是“报答,回报”,既可以表示“酬谢”某人,也可以表示“报复”某人。
例句:
We shall requite him for his insults.
We love even when our love is not requited.[……]
prudent
释义: 形容词,表“小心的,慎重的,精明的”,在留学文书中可用来替换一些同义词,例如careful和shrewd,使自己文书词汇不重复。
例句:
Howard Dawber, strategic adviser for the Canary Wharf Group, which[……]
life’s blow
释义:可直接翻译为“生活的打击”,在留学文书中常用来描述自己人生中遭受的挫折。
例句:
I can make myself glow after each hard life’s blow.
Kora knew life’s blow would be coming to[……]
grave
释义:常见的义项是作名词的“坟墓”,但其实作为形容词还可以表示问题或后果是“严重的”,在留学文书和学术写作中时常用到。
例句:
You’re talking as if you have one foot in the grave.
Her twelve-year-old daugh[……]