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| word | trans |
| farfetched | 1) That sounds a little
farfetched, doesn't it?” 2) And perhaps this was not as farfetched as it sounded. [Definition] Adjective (adj) farfetched, far-fetched ((of an idea or story) so exaggerated or ludicrous as to be improbable) "He was always full of far-fetched plans, none of which ever worked" (adj) farfetched, far-fetched ((of a theory or explanation) highly imaginative but unlikely and unconvincing) "a farfetched excuse" |
| thatched | Another
bend, and another, always reaching, and always Brian’s eyes sought the still
form, the thatched top of the raft. [Definition] Verb (v) thatch (cover with thatch) "thatch the roofs" |
| rapids | Tumbling in the rapids seemed to
have shaken his brain loose. [Definition] Noun (n) rapid (a part of a river where the current is very fast) |
| futile | He
yelled, knowing it was futile. [Definition] Adjective (adj) futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing, meaningless (producing no result or effect) "a futile effort" "the therapy was ineffectual" "an otiose undertaking" "an unavailing attempt" (adj) bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain (unproductive of success) "a fruitless search" "futile years after her artistic peak" "a sleeveless errand" "a vain attempt" |
| alcove | 1) Franks, the assistant
headmaster, stepped into the alcove. 2) She was seated in a plastic chair in an alcove inside the office. 3) He was in the shallows below the rapids, caught up in a small alcove in the shoreline. [Definition] Noun (n) alcove, bay (a small recess opening off a larger room) |
| tore | The raft
bucked and tore at the water, slammed sideways. [Definition] Noun (n) torus, tore (commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column) Verb (v) tear, rupture, snap, bust (separate or cause to separate abruptly) "The rope snapped" "tear the paper" (v) tear (to separate or be separated by force) "planks were in danger of being torn from the crossbars" (v) tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck (move quickly and violently) "The car tore down the street" "He came charging into my office" (v) pluck, pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume (strip of feathers) "pull a chicken" "pluck the capon" (v) tear (fill with tears or shed tears) "Her eyes were tearing" |
| buck | The raft bucked and tore at the
water, slammed sideways. [Definition] Noun (n) vaulting horse, long horse, buck (a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated used lengthwise for vaulting) Verb (v) buck (to strive with determination) "John is bucking for a promotion" (v) buck, go against (resist) "buck the trend" (v) tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck (move quickly and violently) "The car tore down the street" "He came charging into my office" (v) buck, jerk, hitch (jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched) "the yung filly bucked" |
| careen | Twice as
fast as he could walk, the raft was fairly careening now. [Definition] Noun (n) rock, careen, sway, tilt (pitching dangerously to one side) Verb (v) stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen (walk as if unable to control one's movements) "The drunken man staggered into the room" (v) careen, wobble, shift, tilt (move sideways or in an unsteady way) "The ship careened out of control" |
| haul | 1) They worked hard hauling
ropes and carrying the heavy gear needed to sail the ship. 2) A hundred miles on a wilderness river with a raft, hauling a grown man who would be nothing but dead weight, was impossible. 3) “We’re hauling. . . .” [Definition] Noun (n) draw, haul, haulage (the act of drawing or hauling something) "the haul up the hill went very slowly" Verb (v) haul, hale, cart, drag (draw slowly or heavily) "haul stones" "haul nets" (v) haul (transport in a vehicle) "haul stones from the quarry in a truck" "haul vegetables to the market" |
| awning | It took
him a half hour to use some green willows and swatches of grass to arrange a
crude awning over Derek. [Definition] Noun (n) awning, sunshade, sunblind (a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun) |
| otter | At one point something came
swimming up alongside the raft—a muskrat or otter or beaver—cutting a V in
the water as it swam next to Brian, and in a fraction of a second his mind
had turned it into the head of some beast, some underwater monster with its toothed
head weaving back and forth getting ready to attack, to sweep over and take
him off the raft with huge teeth; and he set the paddle down and grabbed for
the spear to kill the monster, make it go away before it could eat him, and
he shook his head and the vision disappeared as the animal dived and
the [Definition] Noun (n) otter (the fur of an otter) (n) otter (freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur) |
| cut down | Here he
was, no different really, had been in the same place at the same time and he
was all right, and Derek was cut down. [Definition] Verb (v) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down (cut down on make a reduction in) "reduce your daily fat intake" "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" (v) slash, cut down (cut with sweeping strokes as with an ax or machete) (v) down, knock down, cut down, push down, pull down (cause to come or go down) "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect" "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet" (v) cut down, cut out (intercept (a player)) (v) mow, cut down (cut with a blade or mower) "mow the grass" (v) fell, drop, strike down, cut down (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow) "strike down a tree" "Lightning struck down the hikers" |
| ordeal | 1) The Oklahoma is hit and rolls
over, trapping dozens of men; 32 will be rescued after an agonizing 36-hour
ordeal. 2) This ordeal was amazing to him, and he wondered at how it could be. [Definition] Noun (n) ordeal (a severe or trying experience) (n) ordeal, trial by ordeal (a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence) |
| fend | This
time, as they came into a shallow curve and the raft started to move
straight, he waited until the raft was close to the shore and used the pole
to jam into the bottom and fend off. [Definition] Verb (v) fend (try to manage without help) "The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died" (v) resist, stand, fend (withstand the force of something) "The trees resisted her" "stand the test of time" "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow" |
| lashing | The jar of the sudden stop, even
moving slowly, rocked the raft and Derek rolled against the lashings and
almost fell in. [Definition] Noun (n) whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation (beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment) Verb (v) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce (beat severely with a whip or rod) "The teacher often flogged the students" "The children were severely trounced" Adjective (adj) lashing (violently urging on by whipping or flogging) "looked at the lashing riders" |
| seaworthy | “It’s
seaworthy.” [Definition] Adjective (adj) seaworthy (fit for a sea voyage) |
| ledge | 1) He wasn’t sure how he’d get
to the next ledge. 2) Stanley stopped about two-thirds of the way up, on a fairly wide ledge. 3) There was a small ledge and a drop of approximately six inches to the water. [Definition] Noun (n) ledge, shelf (a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water) |
| stout | He put
four of these cross members down the length of the raft, tying them in place
as tight as he could get them, and when he was done the raft was stout enough
for him to stand on, jump on, walk back and forth on. [Definition] Noun (n) stout (a strong very dark heavy-bodied ale made from pale malt and roasted unmalted barley and (often) caramel malt with hops) Adjective (adj) stalwart, stout (dependable) "the stalwart citizens at Lexington" "a stalwart supporter of the UN" "stout hearts" (adj) portly, stout (euphemisms for `fat') "men are portly and women are stout" (adj) hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy (having rugged physical strength inured to fatigue or hardships) "hardy explorers of northern Canada" "proud of her tall stalwart son" "stout seamen" "sturdy young athletes" |
| waterlog | The wood was soft, felt soft to
the point of his knife, and he thought that might mean they would waterlog,
but then he decided it wouldn’t matter. [Definition] 英['wɔ:təlɒg] 美['wɔtəˌlɔg] n.涝灾； 1. This year's waterlog disaster made the crop unharvestable. 今年的洪涝灾害,造成粮食颗粒无收. 2. Waterlog harmness can retard the growth of crops and speed senescence. 摘要湿害能使作物发育不良,衰老加速. 3. Urban flood and waterlog disaster ( UFWD ) is a familiar comprehensive urban disaster. 洪涝 灾害已经成为了城市灾害中一种常见的综合性灾害. |
| diameter | The
beavers had been working at the grove for some time—probably years—and they
had not only dropped the trees, many of them the right diameter, but they had
cut the limbs off and dragged them down pathways to the lake and cut some of
the tree trunks in sections between eight and ten or twelve feet long,
apparently to make them easier to move. [Definition] Noun (n) diameter, diam (the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference) (n) diameter (a straight line connecting the center of a circle with two points on its perimeter (or the center of a sphere with two points on its surface)) |
| stump | There were pointed stumps
everywhere, with tooth marks on them, and dropped trees fallen across each
other so thickly that it looked like giants had started to play
pick-up-sticks and walked away before finishing the game. [Definition] Noun (n) stump, tree stump (the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled) Verb (v) stump, mix up (cause to be perplexed or confounded) "This problem stumped her" (v) stomp, stamp, stump (walk heavily) "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" (v) stump (travel through a district and make political speeches) "the candidate stumped the Northeast" (v) stump (remove tree stumps from) "stump a field" |
| contour | He
studied it closer on the map and noted that it grew wider as it flowed and
that in some places it moved through hilly country—there were contour lines
on the map close together, which meant steeper hills. [Definition] Noun (n) contour, contour line (a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height) Verb (v) contour (form the contours of) |
| ragged | But finally the water cleared
from Derek’s throat and the coughing stopped, though his breathing was still
ragged. [Definition] Verb (v) torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate (treat cruelly) "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" Adjective (adj) ragged (being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn) "clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's" "a ragged tramp" (adj) ragged (worn out from stress or strain) "run ragged" (adj) ragged (having an irregular outline) "text set with ragged right margins" "herded the class into a ragged line" |
| cone | He had
been moving from the lake to the shelter with a birch-bark cone full of water
when it hit him. [Definition] Noun (n) cone (any cone-shaped artifact) Verb (v) cone (make cone-shaped) "cone a tire" |
| nausea | 1) she said softly, fighting a
fresh wave of nausea. 2) He fought the nausea down, controlled it, turned Derek over and held his breath and used grass to clean him. [Definition] Noun (n) nausea, sickness (the state that precedes vomiting) (n) nausea (disgust so strong it makes you feel sick) |
| dawn | Somewhere
just before dawn, when the first light of false dawn was making the western
side of the lake come into view, Brian finally accepted it. [Definition] Noun (n) dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow (the first light of day) "we got up before dawn" "they talked until morning" Verb (v) click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place (become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions) "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him" "she was penetrated with sorrow" (v) dawn (appear or develop) "The age of computers had dawned" (v) dawn (become light) "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" |
| tang | 1) Oh, they were sweet with just
a tiny tang and he picked and ate and picked and ate and thought that he had
never tasted anything this good. 2) They were a little green, but even so, Brian couldn’t believe how sweet and rich they were—like small, domestic plums, with a little more tang to them. [Definition] Noun (n) nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest (a tart spicy quality) (n) Tang, Tang dynasty (the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907) (n) relish, flavor, flavour, sapidity, savor, savour, smack, nip, tang (the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth) (n) bladderwrack, black rockweed, bladder fucus, tang, Fucus vesiculosus (a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure) (n) serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, tang (brown algae seaweed with serrated edges) (n) tang, sea tang (any of various coarse seaweeds) (n) sea tangle, tang (any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria) |
| soft | Quickly
he raised the tinder in his hand, blowing gently, softly on the sparks,
watching as they became glowing holes in the tinder and the holes grew,
became red, turned to coals and finally, blowing as he put it back on the
ground, smoke curling up into his eyes, there came the tiny flicker of new
flame. [Definition] Adjective (adj) soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight) Adverb (adv) easy, soft (in a relaxed manner or without hardship) "just wanted to take it easy" "the judge went easy on the young defendant" |
| tinder | 1) Clearly there had to be
something for the sparks to ignite, some kind of tinder or kindling—but what?
2) And you should always have dried wood stashed back in some safe place, along with tinder. . . .” [Definition] Noun (n) kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk (material for starting a fire) |
| externalize | You have
to tell me everything, externalize it all for me, so I can write it.” [Definition] Verb (v) project, externalize, externalise (regard as objective) (v) exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify (make external or objective, or give reality to) "language externalizes our thoughts" |
| wrung | He stripped his clothes down to
his shorts and wrung them out and hung them on some branches to dry. [Definition] Verb (v) contort, deform, distort, wring (twist and press out of shape) (v) wring, wrench (twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish) "Wring one's hand" (v) extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring (obtain by coercion or intimidation) "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss" "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him" (v) wring (twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid) "wring the towels" |
| taint | Even the
radio would taint it. [Definition] Noun (n) contamination, taint (the state of being contaminated) Verb (v) defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud (place under suspicion or cast doubt upon) "sully someone's reputation" (v) infect, taint (contaminate with a disease or microorganism) |
| slouch | He flew loosely, slouched in the
seat, his fingers lightly on the wheel, and something about him, the way he
sat and moved with the music, relaxed Brian. [Definition] Noun (n) slouch (an incompetent person usually used in negative constructions) "he's no slouch when it comes to baseball" Verb (v) slump, slouch (assume a drooping posture or carriage) (v) slouch (walk slovenly) |
| clamber | But now
he clambered in and took the seat in back with a relaxed attitude—it all felt
the same and yet different somehow. [Definition] Noun (n) clamber (an awkward climb) "reaching the crest was a real clamber" Verb (v) clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle, sputter (climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling) |
| saucer | 1) ‘It’s a flying saucer!’
2) George fetched her a saucer. 3) “Ripper can have some tea out of my saucer,” said Aunt Marge as they all trooped into the kitchen, leaving Harry alone in the hall with the suitcase. 4) He set his cup down carefully on the saucer. [Definition] Noun (n) disk, disc, saucer (something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate) "the moon's disk hung in a cloudless sky" (n) saucer (a small shallow dish for holding a cup at the table) (n) dish, dish aerial, dish antenna, saucer (directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation) (n) discus, saucer (a disk used in throwing competitions) |
| thaw | He took
two pork chops out of the freezer and thawed them in the microwave. [Definition] Noun (n) thaw, melt, thawing, melting (the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid) "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster" "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" Verb (v) dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, melt (become or cause to become soft or liquid) "The sun melted the ice" "the ice thawed" "the ice cream melted" "The heat melted the wax" "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase" "dethaw the meat" |
| evasive | 1) PHILOSOPHER: Don’t be
evasive. 2) In all his dealings with the new world around him since he was reborn in the woods—as he thought of it—he had to be evasive, hold back. [Definition] Adjective (adj) evasive (deliberately vague or ambiguous) "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive" "an evasive statement" (adj) evasive (avoiding or escaping from difficulty or danger especially enemy fire) "pilots are taught to take evasive action" |
| sauté | Sometimes
he would just sit and watch his mother eat what he had cooked, and once it
bothered her so much that she looked up at him, a piece of sauteed beef on a
fork halfway to her mouth. [Definition] —attrib. Adj. (esp. Of potatoes) fried quickly in a little fat. —n. Food so cooked. —v. (sautéd or sautéed) cook in this way. [french sauter jump] |
| gravel | 1) Ruth Rose stood up and wiped
gravel and sand off her shorts. 2) The stone floor was partly covered with sand and gravel. 3) He led them to the gravel parking area behind the barn. 4) Sometimes it’s hidden under a few inches of gravel in a streambed. 5) He shoveled gravel. 6) Toby kept saying, “Slow down,” as we made our way up the gravel road. 7) All too soon, there was a crunch of gravel outside as Uncle Vernon’s car pulled back into the driveway, then the clunk of the car doors and footsteps on the garden path. 8) Armpit lay on his back in the gravel parking lot with his eyes closed. 9) When he found the symbol for the double line on the map’s legend he saw that it stood for an improved gravel road. [Definition] Noun (n) gravel, crushed rock (rock fragments and pebbles) Verb (v) annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil (cause annoyance in disturb, especially by minor irritations) "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me" "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" (v) gravel (cover with gravel) "We gravelled the driveway" (v) perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound (be a mystery or bewildering to) "This beats me!" "Got me--I don't know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" |
| drew | 1) As
they drew nearer, an odd rattling noise reached their ears, punctuated by
what sounded like minor explosions. 2) The Necktie River, Brian saw, led south and down and drew his eyes away from the lake. [Definition] Noun (n) Drew, John Drew (United States actor (born in Ireland) father of Georgiana Emma Barrymore (1827-1862)) Verb (v) pull, draw (cause to move by pulling) "draw a wagon" "pull a sled" (v) reap, draw (get or derive) "He drew great benefits from his membership in the association" (v) trace, draw, line, describe, delineate (make a mark or lines on a surface) "draw a line" "trace the outline of a figure in the sand" (v) draw, make (make, formulate, or derive in the mind) "I draw a line here" "draw a conclusion" "draw parallels" "make an estimate" "What do you make of his remarks?" (v) draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out (bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover) "draw a weapon" "pull out a gun" "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim" (v) draw (represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface) "She drew an elephant" "Draw me a horse" (v) draw, take out (take liquid out of a container or well) "She drew water from the barrel" (v) describe, depict, draw (give a description of) "He drew an elaborate plan of attack" (v) draw (select or take in from a given group or region) "The participants in the experiment were drawn from a representative population" (v) draw (elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.) "The President's comments drew sharp criticism from the Republicans" "The comedian drew a lot of laughter" (v) puff, drag, draw (suck in or take (air)) "draw a deep breath" "draw on a cigarette" (v) draw (move or go steadily or gradually) "The ship drew near the shore" (v) withdraw, draw, take out, draw off (remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)) "She drew $2,000 from the account" "The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank" (v) draw, cast (choose at random) "draw a card" "cast lots" (v) draw, get (earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher) "He drew a base on balls" (v) draw (bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition) "She was drawn to despair" "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum" "The session was drawn to a close" (v) draw (cause to flow) "The nurse drew blood" (v) draw (write a legal document or paper) "The deed was drawn in the lawyer's office" (v) draw (engage in drawing) "He spent the day drawing in the garden" (v) draw (move or pull so as to cover or uncover something) "draw the shades" "draw the curtains" (v) draw (allow a draft) "This chimney draws very well" (v) draw (require a specified depth for floating) "This boat draws 70 inches" (v) draw, quarter, draw and quarter (pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him) "in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes" (v) pull, draw (cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense) "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter" (v) absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up (take in, also metaphorically) "The sponge absorbs water well" "She drew strength from the minister's words" (v) attract, pull, pull in, draw, draw in (direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes) "Her good looks attract the stares of many men" "The ad pulled in many potential customers" "This pianist pulls huge crowds" "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers" (v) string, thread, draw (thread on or as if on a string) "string pearls on a string" "the child drew glass beads on a string" "thread dried cranberries" (v) pull back, draw (stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)) "The archers were drawing their bows" (v) guide, run, draw, pass (pass over, across, or through) "He ran his eyes over her body" "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine" "He drew her hair through his fingers" (v) tie, draw (finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.) "The teams drew a tie" (v) draw (contract) "The material drew after it was washed in hot water" (v) draw (reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die) "draw wire" (v) draw (steep pass through a strainer) "draw pulp from the fruit" (v) disembowel, eviscerate, draw (remove the entrails of) "draw a chicken" (v) draw (flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching) "draw steel" (v) draw (cause to localize at one point) "Draw blood and pus" |
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