文档介绍:UNIT 1 Happy Family Life
Part 1 Warming Up
Architect
[英][ˈɑ:kɪtekt] [美][ˈɑrkɪˌtɛkt]
,设计师; 创造者,缔造者; 造物主;
复数:architects
-COUNT建筑师;设计师An architect is a person who designs buildings.
-COUNT(景观美化、铁路等大型项目的)规划者,设计者
You can use architect to refer to a person who plans large projects such as landscaping or railways.
...Merrick Denton-Thompson, the landscape architect for Hampshire county council.
梅里克·登顿-汤普森,汉普郡议会的园林设计师
N-COUNT(想法、事件或组织的)发起者,创立者
The architect of an idea, event, or institution is the person who invented it or made it happen.
...Russia's chief architect of economic reform.
俄罗斯经济改革的总规划师
Fatigue
N-UNCOUNT疲惫;疲劳;疲倦
Fatigue is a feeling of extreme physical or mental tiredness.
She continued to have severe stomach cramps, aches, fatigue, and depression...
她仍然患有严重的胃痉挛,感觉疼痛、疲乏、抑郁。
N-UNCOUNT疲劳;厌倦
You can say that people are suffering from a particular kind of fatigue when they have been doing something for a long time and feel they can no longer continue to do it.
...compassion fatigue caused by endless TV and celebrity appeals.
没完没了的电视节目和名人呼吁而导致的同情心疲劳
N-UNCOUNT(金属或木材的)疲劳
Fatigue in metal or wood is a weakness in it that is caused by repeated stress. Fatigue can cause the metal or wood to break.
The problem turned out to be metal fatigue in the fuselage.
问题原来是飞机机身出现金属疲劳。
Fuselage [英][ˈfju:zəlɑ:ʒ][美][ˈfjusəˌlɑʒ, -zə-]
n.<空>(飞机的)机身; 火箭的外壳; 弹体;
Foxhole
[英][ˈfɒkshəʊl] [美][ˈfɑːkshoʊl] ; 复数:foxholes
N-COUNT散兵坑
A foxhole is a small hole which soldiers dig as a shelter from the enemy and from which they can shoot.
share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
别和比你勇敢的战友躲在一个散兵坑里。
're not in a foxhole. We're in a porsche.
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is no atheist in a foxhole.
散兵坑里没有无神论者。
表达了这样一种观点,即当人们面临巨大的压力或恐惧,例如战争时,人们将会相信一种超然的力量以求安慰。
're in this foxhole together, compadre.
我们在同一个坑里,伙计.
distracted
[英][dɪˈstræktɪd][美][dɪˈstræktɪd]
; 心烦意乱的; 遭受矛盾的感情的;
(distract的过去式和过去分词);