词语学习:vindictive

**vindictive **/vin’diktiv/ 出处:“Celebrity may at least help Ai Weiwei avoid vanishing for too long into this legal black hole. But it will do little to shield him from the wrath of China’s vindictive rulers.”(文章来源) adj. Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. 例句:the criticism was both vindictive and personalized. 辞源:from Latin:vindicta 意思是 vengeance 词语辨析: vindictive: Someone who is motivated by a desire to get enven might be described as VINDICTIVE, a word that suggests harboring grudges for perceived wrongs. (a vindictive person who has alienated friends and neighbors alike.) spiteful: is a stronger term, implying a bitter or vicious vindictiveness. ...

2011-04-05 · 王佩

爱上一本好辞典

辞典对于学外语的作用,怎么强调也不过分。经常接触英语的人都知道,遇到生词不可怕,可怕的是遇到认识的单词,又不明白这句话什么意思。这个时候,辞典的作用就发挥出来了。 今天一位朋友问我一句英文的意思,这是纽约时报关于作家塞林格的一个标题: Still paging Mr. Salinger. 难点就在page这个词上,做名词的时候,它的意思是“页码”,这个大家都清楚。而在这里显然是做动词。这不禁让人联想到一个十多年前流行的英文词,pager,就是BP机,传呼机,那么这个词是不是“传呼”的意思呢?依然传呼塞林格先生? ...

2009-02-18 · 王佩