feint
n/v.佯攻 [a movement made in order to deceive an adversary]
ex. Make a feint to the east but attack in the west
feint
faint
佯攻(feint)使敵人暈倒(faint)了 --諸葛亮的技能)
felicity /fəˋlɪsətɪ/
felci(happy)-ity
n.幸福(非常高程度的happy) [Great happiness; bliss.]
ex. marital felicity.
n.措辭等的得體,巧妙 [An appropriate and pleasing manner or style]
ex. felicity of expression.
(之前有人分享過用feli菲力牛排來記--能吃到feli牛排真是幸福)
字源:1350-1400; ME felicite (< AF) < L fēlīcitās, equiv. to fēlīci- (s. of fēlīx) happy + -tās -ty
felicitous /fəˋlɪsətəs/
felicity-ous
adj.幸福的
adj.巧妙的, 極為適當的 [Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style]
ex. a felicitous choice of words
得體的措辭
fell
v.砍倒 [cut down; cause to fall]
ex. to fell the trees
n.獸皮 [the skin or hide of an animal; pelt.]
fall fell fallen
原型 過去式 過去分詞
quarry:stone=fell:timber
採石頭=伐木頭
ps. pelt
felon
n.重罪犯 [One who has committed a felony]
falcon n.獵鷹、準
felony
n.重罪 [One of several grave crimes, such as murder(謀殺), rape(強暴), or burglary(破門盜竊), punishable by a more stringent sentence than that given for a misdemeanor]
feminist
femin-ist
n.男女平等主義者 [the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men]
ps.
female adj.女性的
feminine adj.女性的、陰性的
fender
fend-er [defender的簡寫]
n.擋泥板
n.船隻的碰墊
字源:1279, shortening of defender, used of boats at first, of fireplaces since 1688; application to automobiles is 1919.
fender這個字最先用於指船隻的護墊,然後再發展成車子腳踏車的檔泥版
ps.
offend v.冒犯 [of- + -fendere to strike]
defend v.防禦
fender:collision
擋板防止碰撞
feral
adj.野生的 [existing in a natural state, as animals or plants; not domesticated or cultivated; wild.]
ex. feral cats
adj.兇猛的
fear
ferment
ferm(=ferv;start boiling)-ent
n.使發酵的東西 [Something, such as a yeast, bacterium, mold, or enzyme, that causes fermentation.]
n.發酵、騷動 [A state of agitation or of turbulent change or development.]
ex. The country was in ferment.
那個國家處於動亂中。
v.發酵
ferm(=ferv;)-ent-ation
n.發酵 [a change brought about by a ferment, as yeast enzymes, which convert grape sugar into ethyl alcohol.]
yeast:fermentation
酵母有發酵作用
n.蕨,蕨類植物
ps.
n.蕨類的葉 [The leaf of a fern.]
n.藻體 [A leaflike thallus(菌體), as of a seaweed or lichen(地衣).]
frond:fern=needle:pine
複葉是蕨類植物的葉子=針葉是松樹植物的葉子
n.雪貂 [A weasellike, usually albino mammal (Mustela putorius furo) related to the polecat and often trained to hunt rats or rabbits.]
v.用雪貂獵取
ps.ferret也是一個滑鼠的廠牌
ferrous /ˋfɛrəs/
ferrum( iron) + -ous [拉丁文的 ferrum 就是iron的意思]
adj.含鐵的 [of or containing iron]
ex. ferrous chloride FeCl2
ferrous <> containing no iron 不含鐵的
fertile
adj.多產的 [abundantly productive; fecund]
ex. a fertile imagination
adj.能生育的;受精的 [capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc.]
ex. Most chicken eggs are not fertile.
多數雞蛋未受精。
fertile字源:1436, from L. fertilis "bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive," from ferre "to bear" (see infer). Fertilize is 1648; its biological sense of "unite with an egg cell" is first recorded 1859. Fertile Crescent (1914) was coined by U.S. archaeologist James H. Breasted (1865-1935). Fertilizer as a euphemism for "manure" is from 1846.
fertile這個字是來自拉丁文的fertilis,意思為"bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive",與 字根fer(帶來的意思)有關。而後用來指受精"unite with an egg cell"
fertilize
fertile-ize
v.使受精 [To cause the fertilization of (an ovum(卵子), for example).]
ex. Bees fertilize the flowers.
蜜蜂使花受精。
v.施肥(使土壤變肥沃) [To make (soil, for example) fertile]
ex. Compost fertilizes the soil.
fertilizer
fertile-ize-er
n.肥料 [any substance used to fertilize the soil, esp. a commercial or chemical manure.]
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