2. ebullient   adjective   

原句: It's the ebullient characters who strut.

意思: full of confidence, energy and good humour

字源: late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘boiling’): from Latin ebullient- ‘boiling up’, from the verb ebullire, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + bullire ‘to boil’. 

例句: He was accompanied by an ebullient, talkative blonde.



3. strut   verb   

原句: It's the ebullient characters who strut.

意思: to walk proudly with your head up and chest out to show that you think you are important

字源: Old English strūtian ‘protrude stiffly’, of Germanic origin. Current senses date from the late 16th cent. 

例句: The players strutted and posed for the cameras.



4. coax   verb   

原句: You probably won't see a person in a robin's-egg blue box dancing to coax big spenders into Tiffany's.

意思: to persuade sb to do sth by talking to them in a kind and gentle way

字源: late 16th cent.: from obsolete cokes ‘simpleton’, of unknown origin. The original sense was ‘fondle’, hence ‘persuade by caresses or flattery’, the underlying sense being ‘make a simpleton of’. 

例句: She had to coax the car along.



5. oddly   adverb   

原句: Oddly, the high point of my trip to Zambia in Africa wasn't watching nearly extinct white rhinos from 30 paces.

意思:
a. in a strange or unusual way
b. used to show that sth is surprising 

例句:
a. She's been behaving very oddly lately.
b. She felt, oddly, that they had been happier when they had no money.