Gregory
n.格雷戈里(姓氏, 男子名)
GREGORY是來自美國的專業背包生產廠家,其背包共有10個系列。1977年Wayne Gregory在圣地亞哥創建了gregory這個品牌,當時在其房子后面生產,前面銷售。1983年Wayne與他人合作,自己則專心開發新技術,當地的環境非常適合測試產品和開發新產品。隨后在近幾年將生產車間全部移至越南和中國,Wayne 繼續熱情的把重心集中在設計和質量上。
GregoryLady &B{Isabella Augusta Persse} (&b{1852-1932})
Irish playwright. She was a founder (1899) and director (1904-1932) of the Abbey Theatre, for which she wrote a number of short plays, including Spreading the News (1904 )
格雷戈里,伊莎貝拉·奧古斯塔·波思:(1852-1932) 愛爾蘭劇作家。她是艾比劇院的創始人(1899年)和導演(1904-1932年)之一, 并為其創作了一些短劇,包括《傳播消息》 (1904年)
Greg 群
n. 格瑞格(男子名, Gregory的昵稱)
gregarious
Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. See Synonyms at social.
Tending to move in or form a group with others of the same kind: gregarious bird species.
Botany. Growing in groups that are close together but not densely clustered or matted.
adj.
1. 【動】群集的, 愛群居的, 群居(性)的;【植】聚生的, 簇生的
2. 愛交際的, 集體性的
例句:
Man is a gregarious animal, and apparently the mischievous microbes he exhales fight and neutralise each other.
人是一種群居的動物,顯然,他所呼出的致病細菌要互相殘殺,彼此抵消。
aggregate
Constituting or amounting to a whole; total: aggregate sales in that market.
Botany. Crowded or massed into a dense cluster.
Composed of a mixture of minerals separable by mechanical means.
A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount: “An empire is the aggregate of many states under one common head” (Edmund Burke).
The mineral materials, such as sand or stone, used in making concrete.
To gather into a mass, sum, or whole.
To amount to; total.
To come together or collect in a mass or whole
vt.
1. 結合; 集結; (使)聚集
2. 共計, 計達
adj.
1. 集合的; 總合的; 合計的; 聚集的; 聚合的; (花)聚生的
2. 【地質】聚成巖的
n.
1. 聚合, 集合
2. 總數; 總額; 合計
3. 聚合體; 凝聚體; 集合體; 組合體; 團粒
4.【建】混凝料; 集料
例句:
The aggregate number of unemployed is fifty thousand this year.
今年失業人數總共達五萬人。
What is the aggregate of goals from the two football matches?
兩場橄欖球賽的總進球數是多少?
congregate
To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly
Gathered; assembled.
Involving a group
v.(使)聚集, 集合
adj.聚集的; 集團的
例句:
People quickly congregated round the speaker.
人們迅速圍攏在演說者的周圍。
The crowds congregated in the square to hear the president speak.
成群的人聚集在廣場上聽總統演講。
segregate
To separate or isolate from others or from a main body or group. See Synonyms at isolate.
To impose the separation of (a race or class) from the rest of society.
To become separated from a main body or mass.
To practice a policy of racial segregation.
Genetics. To undergo genetic segregation.
Separated; isolated.
One that is or has been segregated.
vt. 使隔離;使分離;在…實行種族隔離
例句:
Mary and I were segregated in the crowded square.
廣場中擁擠的人群把我和瑪麗擠散了。
Peter 石頭
n.
1. 彼得(男子名)
2. 【圣】彼得(耶穌十二門徒之一);【圣】《彼得書》
習慣用語:
rob Peter to pay Paul
犧牲一方的利益以利他方;借東還西; 挖肉補瘡
petroleum ol-oil
Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
-eum
a suffix occurring in some Latin scientific names (peritoneum), and in the corresponding loanwords in English (petroleum).
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth's surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products
n.石油
petrol
n. Chiefly British
Gasoline.
Archaic. petroleum
n.
1. [英]汽油(=[美]gasoline); 揮發油
2. [廢]石油
petrology
The branch of geology that deals with the origin, composition, structure, and alteration of rocks.
n. 巖石學, 巖理學
petrify
To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.
To cause to become stiff or stonelike; deaden.
To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.
To become stony, especially by petrifaction.
vt.
1. 使石(質)化; 使堅硬; 使僵硬; 使麻木
2. 使僵化; 使失去活力
3. 使發呆; 使遲鈍
vi.【地質】石化; 變僵硬, 發呆
例句:
People are apt to petrify, even at a University, if they follow the same paths too persistently.
當有些人鉆進牛角尖的時候,即使是在大學學府里,他們也會變得冥頑不化的。
petrel 想起本山大叔的小品啦,海燕啊,哈哈哈哈
Any of numerous black, gray, or white sea birds of the order Procellariiformes, especially the storm petrel.
n.海燕
習慣用語:
stormy petrel
海燕(相傳它一來就有暴風雨); 一來就會發生糾紛、風潮等事故的人
詞源小故事:
petrel 一字源自法文,意思為“圣彼得的鳥”這種鳥常伸著腳靠近海面飛行,看起來像在海上走路,而耶穌十二使徒中的圣彼得 (St. Peter) 曾經靠耶穌的幫助步行渡海,因此這種鳥就被稱作 petrel,又因此種鳥出現時常會有暴風雨的來臨,所以又稱作 stormy [storm] petrel.