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1.Elegy 挽歌
Bob Dylan's Elegy for a Lost America
鲍勃迪伦为失落的美国所做的一曲挽歌。
2.elicit 引出，诱发
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
逆境可以诱发人的才能，这种才能在顺境中是休眠的。
3.elocution 演说艺术
It was an iconic image, beating all the rhetoric, elocution and eloquence the smooth-talking president could have mustered（集中，激起）.
这是一个标志性的画面，打倒了这位总统所有的雄辩才能。
4.elusive 难懂的，逃避的
Steven Spielberg: "Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive."
失败是必然的。
成功是难以捉摸的。
5.emanciate 使消瘦
Winston Churchill: "Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow（手推车）up an ever-steepening（越来越陡的）hill."
2月2日，印度警方在该国的一个偏僻小岛上发现了的九名海啸幸存者，此时距去年12月26日灾难发生时已有38天了。
在这些日子里，他们在已被夷为平地的岛上流浪，靠打野猪吃椰子维生。
外电报道如下：Nine people who survived the December 26 earthquake and tsunami in southern Asia have been rescued on a remote island off the coast of India, officials in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands said.
The five men, two women and two children were found in a forest on Great Nicobar on Wednesday, according to a police source. The survivors were hungry, weak and emaciated, the source said.
Emaciated意为“消瘦的，衰弱的”，因为动词emaciate表示“（使）憔悴，（使）消瘦，使贫瘠”。
据悉，这些人是在印度最南端的岛屿大尼科巴岛上的森林中被发现的，包括两名男子、两名妇女和两名年轻女子，年龄从11岁到65岁不等。
他们都是尼科巴部族人。
尼科巴部族是安达曼和尼科巴群岛上最大的土著部落，他们是一个吃苦耐劳的部落，过去曾靠打猎维生。
6. emanate 散发，产生，表现
"Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous（空洞的）, but is an emanation of their vacuity（空虚）."
并不是电视让人们空虚。
电视不过是人们空虚的表现。
7. embellish 装饰
"“For every thing there is an embellishment (or a decoration), and the embellishment of the Qur’an is a good voice.”"
"It is a great mortification（屈辱）to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman（差的工匠）, and is employed to give a few strokes（几下）of embellishment （装饰）to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master"
Actually, the defeat also can embellish the life.
其实，失败也能点缀人生。
8. embezzlement 贪污
: "A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny（盗窃罪）, embezzlement and burglary（入户盗窃）."
9. emend 修正
Many men are needed to emend this book.
修订这本书需要许多人手。
10. emollient 使柔软，润滑剂
: "It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of（处理掉）their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores."。
