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Profile
【雙語釋義】Your profile is the outline of your face as it is seen when someone is looking at you from the side.
C.N. 側面像；側影像
【典型范例】His handsome profile was turned away from us.
他英俊的側影從我們眼前轉開了。
Trifle
【雙語釋義】You can use a trifle to mean slightly or to a small extent, especially in order make something you say seem less extreme.
adj. (尤用于緩和程度)有一點，稍微
【典型范例1】As a photographer, he'd found both locations just a trifle disappointing.
作為攝影師，他感到兩處景點都有點兒不盡如人意。
【典型范例2】She seemed a trifle anxious.
她似乎有點兒焦急。
Coarsen
【雙語釋義】If something coarsens or is coarsened, it becomes thicker or rougher in texture.
Vt. (使)變粗糙
【典型范例】Skin thickens, dries and coarsens after sun exposure.
曬后皮膚會變厚、變干、變粗糙。
Aristocrat
【雙語釋義】An aristocrat is someone whose family has a high social rank, especially someone who has a title.
C.N.貴族（成員）
【典型范例1】He is an aristocrat to the very marrow of his bones.
他是一個道道地地的貴族。
【典型范例2】Can't you see he just wants to play the aristocrat?
你看不出他就是想扮出一副貴族派頭嗎 ?
Descendant
【雙語釋義】Someone's descendants are the people in later generations who are related to them.
C.N.后代;后裔;子孫
【典型范例】They are descendants of the original English and Scottish settlers.
他們是最初的英格蘭和蘇格蘭定居者的后代。
Stumble
【雙語釋義】If you stumble, you put your foot down awkwardly while you are walking or running and nearly fall over.
絆腳;跌跌撞撞地走;踉蹌;步履蹣跚
【典型范例1】The sudden weakness in her legs made her stumble.
她突然兩腿發軟踉蹌了一下。
【典型范例2】I stumbled into the telephone box and dialed 999.
我跌跌撞撞地進了電話亭撥了 999。
Hereditary
【雙語釋義】A title or position in society that is hereditary is one that is passed on as a right from parent to child.
（稱號或地位）承襲的，世襲的
【典型范例】British Prime Ministers are traditionally offered hereditary peerages.
英國首相傳統上會被授予可世襲的貴族爵位。
Legacy
【雙語釋義】 A legacy is money or property which someone leaves to you when they die.
C.N. 遺產；遺贈
【典型范例】You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.
慷慨留下您的遺產，改寫他人的人生。
Mansion
【雙語釋義】A mansion is a very large house.
宅邸;大廈
【典型范例】The old mansion was built in 1850.
這座古宅建于1850年。
Extinct
【雙語釋義】If a particular kind of worker, way of life, or type of activity is extinct, it no longer exists, because of changes in society.
（某類勞動者、生活方式或活動）不復存在的，廢除了的
【典型范例1】 Herbalism had become an all but extinct skill in the Western world.
草藥醫術在西方已經成了一門幾乎絕跡的技藝。
【典型范例2】Nothing could rekindle her extinct passion.
她激情已逝，無從心回意轉。
Chasten
【雙語釋義】If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly.
使后悔;使愧疚
【典型范例1】He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
顯然，13天拘留并沒能讓他悔過自新。
【典型范例2】A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation.
追悔莫及的阿加西坐飛機回家面壁思過去了。
