每天背單詞 第164期

collective

英 [k??lekt?v] 美 [k??lekt?v]

adj. 集體的；共同的；集合的；集體主義的

n. 集團；集合體；集合名詞

例句：

It was a collective decision.
這是集體的決定。

She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel-gazing.
她對這場改革嗤之以鼻，認為只是場無實際行動的集體空想而已。

He will see that he is participating in all the decisions of the collective.
他要確保他在參與集體企業(yè)的所有決策。

daughter

英 [?d??t?(r)] 美 [?d??t?r]

n. 女兒；[遺][農學] 子代

adj. 女兒的；子代的

例句：

My daughter is at university.
我女兒在上大學。

She has a six-year-old daughter.
她有個6歲的女兒。

She bore him a daughter, Susanna.
她給他生了個女兒，叫蘇珊娜。

undermine

英 [??nd??ma?n] 美 [??nd?r?ma?n]

vt. 破壞，漸漸破壞；挖掘地基

例句：

He accused me of slandering him and trying to undermine his position.
他指控我誹謗他并想削弱他的地位。

The prosecution did its best to undermine the credibility of the witness.
原告竭力削弱證人的可信性。

The continued fighting threatens to undermine efforts to negotiate an agreement.
持續(xù)的戰(zhàn)斗有可能破壞通過談判達成協(xié)議的努力。

proverb

英 [?pr?v??b] 美 [?prɑ?v??rb]

n. 諺語，格言；眾所周知的人或事

例句：

An old Arab proverb says, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
有一句古老的阿拉伯諺語說：“我敵人的敵人是我的朋友?！?/p>

The woman exclaimed, and thence the proverb: It is so mahogany!
那女人叫了起來，因此才有了這句諺語：這是多么美麗的桃花心木啊！

A proverb is a short, well known saying that expresses a common truth or belief.
諺語是一個眾所周知的簡短說法，表達一個普遍的真理或信仰。

brittle

英 [?br?tl] 美 [?br?tl]

adj. 易碎的，脆弱的；易生氣的

例句：

Brittle things break easily.
脆的東西容易破碎。

They don't deform easily; they tend to be more brittle.
它們不容易變形；它們是更脆的。

They were quite brittle and shattered very easily if they were dropped.
它們很脆，如果掉在地上很容易碎。

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1. collective
2. daughter
3. undermine
4. proverb
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