Concise a.简明的,简要的 Your comment is quite concise and to the point.你的评论简明扼要,一语中的. contaminate vt.弄脏,污染 The water that we have to drink and the air we have to breathe every day have been badly contaminated.我们每天必须饮用的水,每天必须呼吸的空气,遭到严重的污染. Defy vt.违抗,藐视;使成为不可能;挑,激 The tabloid in England defies the censure of some people and keeps on publishing the Page 3 Girl- a picture of a pretty, scantily clad young woman each day.英国的这家小报不顾一些人的指责, 继续刊登第三版女郎--即每天在第三版刊登一幅着装性感的摩登女郎的玉照. Diminish vi.变少,变小,降低vt.减少,降低 Time will never cause our love to diminish.时光不会使我们的爱情稍减分毫. With the popularity of TV,the number of movie viewers has diminished sharply.随着电视的普及,电影观众的数量成逐年下降的趋势. Duplicate n.完全一样的东西,复制品a.完全一样的,复制的 vt.复制,复印;重复 This research merely duplicates work already done elsewhere .这项研究仅仅是重复别人已经做过的工作. Is this a duplicate or the original?这是复制件还是原件? |