精读|Classical Music Day 1

2017-03-18 本文已影响20人冥想音

Part One 句法词汇笔记

（顺序从后往前写）classical music - an art form

1. endure

If something endures, it lasts: Beethoven's fame has endured for more than 200 years. But if you endure something, you suffer through it: We endured our teacher's slide shows of her vacation photographs.

Notice above that something that endures can be good or bad. Something you endure is always bad. And people are forever talking about what they can't or won't endure, as in "I refuse to endure any more abuse from my neighbors."

...the start of an enduring friendship 长久友谊的开始

同义词

1 = bear, cope with, experience, stand, suffer, sustain, undergo, withstand

2 = last, continue, live on, persist, remain, stand, stay, survive

2. launch in earnest

If you are earnest, it means you are serious about something. You parents might not want you to drop out of school to follow some fly-by-night dream, but if you're earnest about wanting a career in show biz, they'll support you.

If you are earnest, you pursue your purpose in a steady, sincere, and eager way. The phrase in earnest uses earnest as a noun, as in, "Once you stop fooling around and start studying in earnest, you'll find you learn the material quickly." Oscar Wilde's classic play, "The Importance of Being Earnest," plays on the fact that Ernest is also a man's name.

3. the lifelong bonds forged between ··· and ···

forge

Have you ever seen a blacksmith 铁匠 make a horseshoe? Well, no, probably not, but they use a special furnace 熔炉 which is called a forge, and "to forge something" is also the act of bashing that hot object into shape.

Forge has also taken on the more general sense of creating something. A new philosophy or art form might have been forged, as might an alibi or an excuse. To forge something also has the meaning of faking something, such as a painting or a signature with the intent to deceive. It can also mean to move ahead in a steady manner, either physically or metaphorically, much like those solid, regular blows of the blacksmith's hammer.

同义词

1 = create, construct, devise, fashion, form, frame, make, mould, shape, work

2 = falsify, copy, counterfeit, fake, feign, imitate

forge

4. 好句（ remain vibrant，be determined to do ）

5. snuff out

snuff out

snuff

6. 好句

play the numbers game

profess

To profess is to declare something, often insincerely. Your joy on the last day of school might lead you to profess that you'll truly miss seeing all the people who annoyed you all year.

You can profess something and mean it, but more often the verb profess is used when someone lies about their true feelings. You might profess your love of your grandmother's tuna casserole, or profess that you never bite your fingernails, but you're just saying what you think people want to hear. The original meaning of profess described taking religious vows, and came from the Latin word professus, having declared publicly.