A type of religion. An agnostic is someone who doesn’t believe it’s possible to know for sure that a god exists. It’s possible to be both—an agnostic atheist doesn’t believe but also doesn’t think we can ever know whether a god exists. A gnostic atheist, on the other hand, believes with certainty that a god does not exist.
英语角
学习英语是毕生的事业。少一些功利,多一些不为什么的坚持。其实不光是英语,所有事情都应当如此
Monday 8 April 2024
Tuesday 26 March 2024
adulation 阿谀奉承
flattery, excessive admiration or praise.
e.g. He found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans.
Saturday 9 March 2024
calisthenic 保健操
calisthenics is a form of exercise that uses a person's body weiht and requires little to no equipment. Examples of calisthenic exercises include pushups, crunches and burpees.
Sunday 3 March 2024
slapdash 草率
adj. done too hurriedly and carelessly.
Examples:
he gave a slapdash performance
He had a slapdash way of working
Wednesday 29 November 2023
rife 盛行的,普遍的
adjective. (especially of something undesirable) of common occurrence; widespread.
adverb. in an unchecked or widespread manner.
Examples:
speculation ran rife that he was an arms dealer
bullying is rife regardless of sex but is more prevalent in white British populations
Sunday 26 November 2023
diaspora 侨居,移民,离散
diaspora /dʌɪˈasp(ə)rə/
the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland
Examples:
the Latin American diaspora has spread across the United States
migration and diaspora
Chinese diaspora 华侨
Wednesday 22 November 2023
bigotry 偏见
unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
"the difficulties of combating prejudice and bigotry"
"It allows us to talk about issues such as transphobia without the potential for seriously upsetting trans kids who play the game, as they can be shown the topic of bigotry through people writing dragons off as beasts who just want to burn villages instead of any real transphobic comments they may already be dealing with in their real life."
agnostic 不可知论
A type of religion. An agnostic is someone who doesn’t believe it’s possible to know for sure that a god exists. It’s possible to be both—an...
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severance 英 [ˈsevərəns] n. 切断; 断绝; 割断; 离职金 ; 遣散费 e.g. News of the management severance packages comes as thousands of BBC staff are du...
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sea shanty 水手们在帆船上劳作时吟唱的口头歌曲。这些歌曲尤其在海军水手和海盗之间非常流行。号子由吟诵与合唱两部分组成。吟诵部分往往由某一位船员单独起头领唱,吟诵者需要吟唱歌曲开场并建立节拍,这样随后到来的合唱部分其他船员就可以加入进来。 An example is here
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audit v. 除了审计的意思外,还有一个不常用的意思- 旁听 attend academic courses without getting credit Example: Audit access expires 29 May 2020