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anim=life,spirit,breath,mind表示生命,精神,氣息,心等
animal
A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure
n. 動物
短語:
go the whole (或 entire,extreme)animal [美國俚語]干到底,徹底干
stir up the animals 引起爭吵,采取會招惹是非的立場
There is no such animal. [口語]才沒那么個人(或那么回事)呢
animism
the belief that all natural things, such as plants, animals, rocks, thunder and earthquakes, have spirits (= beings that cannot be seen) and can influence human events
n. 萬物有靈論
animate
to make sth more lively or full of energy
to make models, toys, etc. seem to move in a film/movie by rapidly showing slightly different pictures of them in a series, one after another
(formal) living; having life
vt. 使有生氣;使活潑;鼓舞;推動
adj. 有生命的
例句:
Jim's arrival served to animate the whole party.
吉姆的到來使聚會的整個氣氛活躍了起來。
Her words animated us to greater efforts.
她的話激勵我們作出更大努力。
animation
animated quality; liveliness; vivacity; spirit: to talk with animation.
an act or instance of animating or enlivening.
the state or condition of being animated.
the process of preparing animated cartoons.
n. 活潑,熱烈;激勵;卡通片繪制
inanimate
not animate: a : not endowed with life or spirit <an inanimate object> b : acking consciousness or power of motion <an inanimate body>
not animated or lively : DULL
adj. 無生命的;無生氣的
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
Even what we think in our vulgar ways to be inanimate objects - even they seem to have within them something like a potency, a potency of life or an infusion of divine spirit.
即使是那些我們以通俗的眼光看來沒有生命的物體,即使是它們也有一種潛質,一種生命的潛質,似乎被注入了神靈。
趣味單詞
gobble 夠飽
to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
to seize upon eagerly (often fol. by up): After being gone for so long, they gobbled up all the local news.
to eat hastily
to make the characteristic throaty cry of a male turkey.
the cry itself.
vi. 貪食;咯咯叫
vt. 狼吞虎咽
n. 火雞叫聲
例句:
The children gobbled up their food and rushed out to play.
孩子們狼吞虎咽地吃完飯就沖出去玩了。