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原句: Any trip that atarts with an elephant sauntering past the front door of your lodge promises to be good.
意思: to walk in a slow relaxed way
字源: late Middle English (in the sense ‘to muse, wonder’): of unknown origin. The current sense dates from the mid 17th cent.
例句: He sauntered by, looking as if he had all the time in the world.
2. devote verb
原句: Don't miss the museum in town and the room devoted to David Livingstone's expeditions.
意思: to give an amount of time, attention, etc. to sth
字源: late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘dedicate formally, consecrate’): from Latin devot- ‘consecrated’, from the verb devovere, from de- ‘formally’ + vovere ‘to vow’.
例句: I could only devote two hours a day to the work.
3. slog noun [uncountable/countable]
原句: Which were unbelievable slogs through the wilderness.
意思: a period of hard work or effort
字源: early 19th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with the verb slug.
例句: Writing the book took ten months of hard slog.
4. gawk verb
原句: So we just hung there and gawked.
意思: to stare at sb/sth in a rude or stupid way
字源: late 17th cent. (as a noun): perhaps related to obsolete gaw ‘to gaze’, from Old Norse gá ‘heed’.
例句: The old station master gawked in surprise as they pushed past him.
5. intrigue verb
原句: Intrigued, he followed the signs to a Chegg.com iPad stand and punched in his rental order.
意思: to make sb very interested and want to know more about sth
字源: early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘deceive, cheat’): from French intrigue ‘plot’, intriguer ‘to tangle, to plot’, via Italian from Latin intricare, from in- ‘into’ + tricae ‘tricks, perplexities’.Sense 1 of the verb, which was influenced by a later French sense “to puzzle, make curious”, arose in the late 19th cent.
例句: The idea intrigued her.