abate / bellicose / belligerent / reprehensible / repugnant / reproachable
/ ominous / premeditated / vicissitude / lucid / stupefy / clairvoyance
/ approbation / circumspect / prudent / enervated / relinquish / inveigh
/ attenuate / opulent / salubrious / zenith / shrewd / pragmatic
/ astute / nadir
[美劇用法] = [GRE高頻機經字彙]
1.die down = abate 減弱、平息
2.to be on the warpath = to be bellicose / belligerent 呈備戰狀態的
3.curdle one's milk/blood = to be reprehensible / repugnant / reproachable
惡劣、該受譴責的
e.g. What the Taliban did to their women in Afghanistan
curdles one's milk/blood (=is reprehensible).
4.cut and run = to abandon an ominous situation 從一不利的情況中脫身
5.cut-and-dried = premeditated 事先想好的（預期的)
6.ebb and flow = vicissitudes (習慣用複數) 起起伏伏
7.get across = become lucid 使(意思)清晰
e.g. The teacher tried to explain the problem, but the explanation
didn't get across to the class.
8.knock off one's feet = stupefy 使驚訝 （到不知所措)
9.second sight = clairvoyance 第六感
10.give sb the thumbs up = to give sb a sign of approbation 給某人讚賞
11.to dot the i's and cross the t's = to be circumspect / prudent 小心謹慎的
12.dead tired = enervated 筋疲力竭的
13.chuck out = relinquish 丟棄、放棄
e.g. If you have too many used old clothes and not even the Salvation Army
can take them, just chuck them out.
14.pound away at = inveigh against 抨擊
15.take the edge off = attenuate 減弱、減少
e.g. Eating a candy bar before dinner has taken the edge off Peter's
appetite.
16.better off = opulent 富裕的
17.in the pink = salubrious 身體健康的
18.in the prime of life = at the zenith of life 在人生的極盛點
19.hardheaded = shrewd / pragmatic / astute 精明的、實際的
20.bottom out = reach the nadir 達到低點
e.g. According to the leading economic indicators the recession will
bottom out within the next two months.
資料來源: 王梓沅老師 www.facebook.com/AlexanderWangEnglish
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