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1. ambivalent adjective
原句: A man far more ambivalent about his purpose in life.
意思: having or showing both good and bad feelings about sb/sth
字源: early 20th cent.: from ambivalence (from German Ambivalenz), on the pattern of equivalent.
例句: She seems to feel ambivalent about her new job.
2. eschew verb
原句: An unassuming, modest man so beaten up by his superhuman abilities that he eschews them almost entirely.
意思: to deliberately avoid or keep away from sth
字源: late Middle English: from Old French eschiver, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to German scheuen ‘shun’, also to shy.
例句: He had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law.
3. affliction noun [uncountable/countable]
原句: You get the feeling that he's a common man with an uncommon affliction.
意思: pain and suffering or sth that causes it
字源: Middle English (originally in the sense ‘infliction of pain or humiliation’, specifically ‘religious self-mortification’): via Old French from Latin afflictio(n-), from the verb affligere, from ad- ‘to’ + fligere ‘to strike, dash’.
例句: Deafness is a terrible affliction.
4. sanitation noun [uncountable]
原句: A non-partisan organization that provides safe drinking water and sanitation to people in developing countries.
意思: the equipment and systems that keep places clean, especially by removing human waste
字源: mid 19th cent.: formed irregularly from sanitary.
例句: A lack of clean water and sanitation were the main problems.
5. analytical adjectives
原句: You could have an analytical conversation about a piece of material.
意思: using a logical method of thinking about sth in order to understand it, especially by looking at all the parts separately
例句: She has a clear analytical mind.