1. brutality:野蠻行徑;殘暴行為
e.g. Her experience of men was of domination and brutality.
男人給她的感受是支配一切,野蠻殘暴。
e.g. The brutality of the crime has appalled the public.
罪行之殘暴使公眾大為震驚。
2. tempting:誘人的;吸引人的
e.g. In the end, I turned down Raoul's tempting offer of the Palm Beach trip.
最終,我回絕了拉烏爾提出的去棕櫚海灘旅行的誘人邀請。
e.g.If you're slimming, resisting tempting goodies becomes a measure of your 'success' as a woman.
你要是在減肥的話,能否抗拒誘人的美食就成為衡量你作為一個女人是否“成功”的標準。
3. jittery:緊張不安的;舉止慌張的
e.g. Don't spread fallacies to deceive people. It is making everyone feel jittery.
你就別妖言惑眾了,弄得人心惶惶。
e.g. International investors have become jittery about the country's economy.
國際投資者已對該國的經濟狀況感到緊張不安。
4. grandeur:高貴;顯赫;自命不凡
e.g. He is wholly concerned with his own grandeur.
他只關心自己的顯赫地位。
e.g. His wealth gave him grandeur.
他的財富令他地位顯赫。
5. suitor:求婚者;追求者
e.g. My mother had a suitor who adored her.
我媽媽曾經有一個愛慕她的追求者。
e.g. Did you find a suitor for your daughter?
你給你閨女找了個婆家?
5. rival:競爭者;對手;敵手
e.g. The world champion finished more than two seconds ahead of his nearest rival.
世界冠軍領先第二名2秒多鐘到達終點。
e.g. He eliminated his rivals in a brutal struggle for power.
他在一場殘酷的權力爭斗中將對手一一鏟除。
e.g. The police believe the fight was due to a dispute between rival teenage gangs.
警察認為這場打斗是由兩個敵對的青少年幫派之間的糾紛引起的。
6. spectacularly:壯觀地,引人注目地
e.g. My turnover increased spectacularly.
我的營業額大幅上升。
e.g. Many of her movies had been spectacularly successful.
她的很多電影都獲得了巨大的成功。