每天一个单词---每天进步一点点

背单词是件苦差事，不过要学好英语，还是必须要背。

今天开始，每天背一个单词，有兴趣的大家一起背吧，当然，说是每天，但有时候肯定会因为有事无法及时更新，但我会尽量补上来。



今日单词：

lampoon \\lam-POON\\, noun, verb: 讽刺、讽刺文章

1. a composition that imitates or misrepresents someone's style, usually in a humorous way
2. a light, good-humored satire（讽刺文学、讽刺）
3. ridicule with satire

例句：Attendees typically lampoon US presidents with grotesque puppets and caricatures.
-- LA Times

词源：by 1645, from French lampon, of unknown origin, said by French etymologists to be from lampons \"let us drink,\" popular refrain for scurrilous 17th century songs, from lamper \"to drink, guzzle,\" a nasalized form of laper \"to lap.\" The verb is first attested by 1657.

sunpretty

感觉以前外文版有类似的帖子，只是人气不足，都转移到这里了，还是咱茶社领导有方啊，外文版还是要加油哦

lll999888

坚持坚持坚持

reader

推荐TIME时代经典用词

stanleysan

我打赌坚持不了1个月

jarodlau

引用第4楼stanleysan于2009-03-02 22:58发表的 :
我打赌坚持不了1个月

才一个单词
随便在哪个词典里CTRL+C/V就能坚持下来了

vegas

这样学效率太低了

一千零一夜_1

day day up ^_^

今日单词

openhanded \OH-puhn-HAN-did\, adjective:

1. giving freely; generous  大方的
2. done with an open hand

例句：From his mother's mother he inherited a sense of fete and a gift for cosmopolitan and open-handed hospitality.
-- John Russell, A Magnificent Mischief-Maker, New York Times, July 27, 1997

Lucius remembers his father as a warmhearted, larger-than-life but openhanded man.
-- Janet Burroway, Still Looking for Mr. Watson, New York Times, November 23, 1997


词源：by 1593, open + handed

今日单词


acute \uh-KYOOT\, adjective: 敏锐的、尖锐的

1. acting keenly on the senses; sharp
2. quick in discernment; drawing fine distinctions  
3. of an angle, less than 90 degrees
4. happening quickly, briefly, and severely

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
-- Thomas Jefferson

by 1570, from Latin acutus "sharp, pointed." Medical sense of "fever or disease that comes and goes quickly" (rather than a chronic one) first recorded 1667.

daike_ren

这样学英语是学不好的

bulunuo

音标很奇特，请问楼主是什么音标？
另：单词来源及范围是什么，感觉第一个单词好难，剩下的反而容易，是从time那本书么》

josephe

这样学单词还不如每天背诵一篇新概念。

tbiyt

坚持就是胜利啊

今日单词

beseech [bi'si:tʃ] verb;

beseech, besought or beseeched, beseeching:

to ask earnestly; implore 恳求; 乞求, 急切地要求得到; 哀求

例句：
In this purgatory, the narrator feels threatened by more recent emigres who beseech him for help and force him to face the hard fact of his own displacement.

-- Laura Winters, Moscow on the Thames, New York Times, January 5, 1997

"Spare your poor children these vulgarities, I beseech you," his wife might protest, to hone her point that he was not a gentleman.
-- Peter Matthiessen, Bone by Bone

I beseech you to tell me.
我恳求你告诉我。

He besought a favor of the judge.
他恳求法官开恩。

词源：
c 1175, Old English bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from be- + Middle English secen "to seek"

今日单词

burnish ['bə:niʃ]
n. 光泽
v. 擦亮,磨光
vt. 磨,抛光

1. to make shiny by polishing
2. a polish or shine


例句：

A burnish on the copper pots made them very attractive.
The craftsman burnished and refurbished metalworks.

The copper has been burnished.
铜已被抛光。
He is burnishing the knife.
他正在磨刀。


词源：
c.1325, from Old French burniss-, extended stem of burnir, metathesis of brunir "to make brown/bright, polish," from brun "brown, polished," from a Germanic source

jessie9903

我觉得这样非常浪费时间~~~如果是我的话,我记不牢~~不知道是不是我过于心切了些~~

不过,还是语言是要多讲.多运用的~~
前天面对面对着那个一站起来,就高了我好N个头的鬼佬~开始时非常担心~大阿姐说不要怕~唉,还真是硬着头皮呢~

楼主的出发点是非常好的~要有自觉性,自制力~贵在坚持~我也要好好学习才是~

今日单词：


martial ['mɑ:ʃəl] , adjective:

suitable or used for war; warlike adj. 军事的, 威武的, 尚武的

例句：But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
-- Charles Wolfe, The Burial of Sir John Moore


词源：
by 1420, from Latin martialis "of Mars or war," from Mars, Roman god of war

今日单词：

bilk [bilk] verb, noun:

1. to defraud; cheat 欺骗
2. to frustrate 使受挫
3. to escape from; elude 躲避，避开
4. a trick; fraud; deceit. 欺骗
5. a cheat, swindler 诈骗 骗子

例句

Stuart Levine is a guy who is accused of trying to bilk numerous state agencies - and people seeking help from government agencies - out of millions of dollars.
-- Steve Brown


词源：
by 1651, from the noun (1633), first used as a cribbage term. Origin obscure, it was believed in 17th century to be "a word signifying nothing," perhaps of Arab origin; but it is rather perhaps a thinned form of balk. Meaning "to defraud" is first recorded 1672.

doudao

呵呵,主要是可持否!