A Word A Day——taut-夜雨聆风

A Word A Day——taut

𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔’𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝑜𝑜𝓃’𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 ☻

⛵•翻译作业

“真理是什么东西？”彼拉多当年玩世不恭地取笑说，他提这个问题是不指望得到答案的。世人多数心随境变，他们认为坚持一种信念就等于自戴一种枷锁，会使思想和行为无法自行其事。虽然作为一种学派的怀疑论早已消逝，但持这种观点者却仍大有人在——尽管他们的观念未必像古人那样清晰而透彻。

What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients.

⛵•今日单词

taut / tɔːt / (っ◔◡◔)っ ♡GRE♡TEM8♡TOEFL♡

adj

Something that is taut is stretched very tight. 紧绷的

◆The clothes line is pulled taut and secured.

晾衣绳被拉紧系牢了。

adj

If someone has a taut expression, they look very worried and tense. (神色) 紧张不安的

◆Ben sat up quickly, his face taut and terrified.

本迅速坐起来，神情紧张而恐惧。

⛵•外刊例句

◆The composition is a miracle of taut, contending energies held in gorgeous equilibrium.

这幅作品将两股紧绷又相互抗衡的力量精妙平衡，堪称一绝。——《华盛顿邮报》

◆I learned how to keep my fabric just taut enough and marveled at the difference a millimeter of thread can make in evoking a nose or the tuning peg of a tiny violin.

我学会了把织物拉至恰到好处的紧绷状态，一根丝线差一毫米，勾勒出的鼻型或是迷你小提琴的琴栓质感便天差地别，实在令人惊叹。——《纽约时报》

◆At 81 she looked as radiant as ever, her taut skin and chic outfits belying her age.

时年 81 岁的她依旧光彩照人，紧致肌肤与时髦穿搭完全看不出真实年纪。——《经济学人》

⛵•影视台词

《Pocahontas》（风中奇缘）(1995)

— “It could look like Ratcliffe’s knickers,“

— “for all I care…just as long as I get off this stinkin’ boat.“

— “Come on, men. We didn’t come all this way just to look at it.“

— “Keep it taut, lads. Keep it taut. Steady!“

— “Steady! Hold up! That’s far enough.“

⛵•今日练习

C-E Translation Practice

中国和纳米比亚是传统友好的全面战略合作伙伴。建交36年来，两国关系历经国际风云变幻考验，历久弥坚。当前，两国政治互信持续深化，互利合作成果丰硕，为实现发展繁荣携手奋进，为捍卫国际公平正义团结协作。

——来源：@外交部发言人办公室

⛵•好语分享

中

古人有云√

记事者必提其要，纂言者必钩其玄

英

外文有言√

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

又

“又”来说说💭

大象是唯一不会跳的哺乳动物——因为它们太重啦，四条腿同时离地根本做不到。

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𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝔂𝓪 ඏ

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