2008年5月15日 星期四

Nebulous (續:天文 尋找笨拙 單字大集合)


nebulous



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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    星雲的

          2.    朦朧的;含糊的



D

–adjective 

1. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous [recollection] of the meeting; a nebulous [distinction] between pride and conceit. 

2. cloudy or cloudlike

3. of or resembling a nebula or nebulae; nebular



Ángel's relationship with Ángela and Mari proves to be as equally nebulous as the strange land to which he has been sent. Ángela, the nurturing, devoted wife and mother, defies convention by welcoming Ángel's blatantly focused attention towards her and encouraging his company by inviting him to dinner and entertaining his telephone calls. 





。巫術

Hierophant



。天文

firmament

"It's a excelllent canopy, tha air." "Look you, this brave, o'er hanging firmament." "This majestical roof fretted with golden fire."【文】天空,蒼天

nebulous

as equally nebulous as the [strange] land to which he has been

astral

Well, tell us what you do. I'm a, uh, astral mathematician.【生】星狀體的

Sam violated protocol. If other back-travelers found out, I dread what would happen. We don't want to put him in any more danger. I've traveled the astral plain.

areola

halo

aureola

and then a [golden] aureole of beauty, a body in movement.

corona 

wide-eyed and pouty, with a great corona of frizzy [hair]

crescent 

We started a pool out at Rushmore today. It's crescent-shaped. (大寫) 新月旗,土耳其,伊斯蘭教

meridian

solstice

I've never seem them mating before the solstice. 至

Vesper

Venus & Hesper

Ursa Major

See that big one up there? That's Ursa Major. 大熊座



planetarium

Thanks. I love your planetarium. Oh. [Laughs] You're welcome. 天象儀,行星儀





。雜耍

。精明

Vaudevillian



。尋找笨拙

scour

ransack 

They ransacked your [place] today.

rummage

forage

scrounge


borrow (a small amount or item) with no intention of repaying or returning it

gather together by foraging, seek out

Then why are you and sister [scurrying] and [scrounging] around?



flounder

struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually fol. by about, along, on, through,  etc.)

struggle clumsily or helplessly 

Though one could praise the filmmakers for [eschewing] the standard flashy stylistics of most films set in this [milieu], the film's relentlessly [lethargic] pace only [highlights] how familiar it all is, and Gray and a fine cast [flounder] when trying to discover the purpose behind it all.

bungle 

botch

flub

Candy Clark wanted to do a second take because she [flubbed] her "Did you get it?" line, but Lucas said that was it, they were printing that first take.

bumble

Dujardin is a James Bond-style secret agent who [bumbles] his way across the middle east with the [panache] of Sean Connery and the comic physicality of Peter Sellers.

At the same time, he's also [managed] to bumble into dimwitted Shia LaBeouf thrillers (Eagle Eye),

fumble

as film directors [fumble] haltingly to present a new kind of beauty—until the actresses simply fall back on their trademark [pouts] and poses. 

bollix

do (something) badly, bungle (often fol. by up)

The film proves that certain "Age of Aquarius" types were just as bollixed-[up] in Britain as they were in America.



grope

I had to grope [around] in the [darkness] before I found the light switch.  

from the [earnest] strivings of the musical score to the [beery] gropings of the Germans


Harry's an artist without an art. Well, that's something that'd make a man very unhappy, groping for the right lever, the means with which to express himself.


scrabble

Even as the narrative arc turns to scribble-scrabble,

With an [overture] of soundtrack harmonica, wintry Midwestern loneliness, [hard]scrabble road-movie keynotes,

winkle

ferret

to ferret [rabbits] from their burrows. 

to ferret [out] enemies. 

to ferret [out] the [facts]  

A creepy, [ferrety]-looking man, McGorvey freaks out the moms one day by jumping in among the kids at the public pool.

















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