无聊时候新词汇

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1盲目坚持:
Cling blindly to sth
Grasp sth tightly
Hang on blindly to sth
Eg: While it is a pity to lose some traditional foods to foreign imports, it is too
sentimental if we hang on blindly to traditional food just for the sake of keeping the
tradition.虽然一些传统食物被一些外来食物所替代有些可惜,但是如果我们仅仅
为了保存传统而盲目地坚持传统食物那就太感情用事了。

2放弃:
abandon、 abjure、 abnegate、 desert、 discard、

3重要的:
of great importance, noteworthy, fateful, critical,
weighty, notable, momentous, significant.
修饰“重要的”的副词:
extremely, enormously, hugely, vitally,
critically, crucially, terribly, crucially.
Many people believe that preschool education is critically important yet overlooked in
today’s society.
很多家长认为学前教育是极其重要的,而今天的社会却恰恰忽视了学前教育。

4困扰/难住(某人):
puzzle, perplex, addle, muddy, riddle,
confound, baffle, stump, mystify, bewilder.
What baffles scientist today would be tackled in the future.
目前困扰科学家的难题将来都会得到解决。

5充斥、充满:
be full of, be flooded with,
be saturated with, be rife of, be teeming of.
The mass media is saturated with popular arts and offers no alternative.
流行艺术充斥着大众传媒,成为人们唯一的选择。

6一无所知,毫无了解:
be utterly ignorant of,
be totally unaware of,
be kept in dark about,
don’t have the faintest idea about.
Students in China are often too busy to watch TV or read newspapers to the extent
that many of them don’t have the faintest idea about what is happening in other
countries.
中国的大多数学生都忙于学习,很少有时间看电视或读报纸,以至于他们当中
的很多人对其他国家发生的事情会毫无所知。
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7明显地、显而易见地:
obviously, evidently, apparently, markedly, visibly.
A business is evidently a better option for me than a house.
很显然,和买房相比,创业对我来说是一个更好的选择。

8声称,断言:
assert, claim, hold out, allege,
asseverate, purport, profess, affirm.
It’s also asserted by school authorities that most students benefit from these
arrangements.
校方也表示,这样的安排对大部分学生是好处的。

9享有……的权利:
enjoy the right to,
be authorized to,
be entitled to,
be empowered to.
Mothers are just as entitled to career advancement as fathers.母亲也和父亲一样,享
有追求事业的权利。

10适应:
adapt to, accommodate oneself to,
acclimatize oneself to, be seasoned with.
It is always hard to adapt to new environments.
适应新环境总是很不容易。

11无用的,,徒劳的:
in vain, unsuccessful, bootless,
ineffective, useless, fruitless.
Any attempts to predict the future will be futile.
预测未来往往是徒劳。

12令人难受的,令人烦恼的:
annoying, irksome, pathetic,
distressing, wretched, afflictive.
Spending time with friends can only slightly alleviate their nostalgia, which can be
trying from time to time.
同朋友聚会也往往于事无补,思乡之情总会时时来袭。