pope

text: The Whipperwill has so named itself by its nocturnal songs. It is also called the pope, by reason of its darting with great swiftness, from the clouds almost to the ground, and bawling out Pope!

ref: 1781, S. Peters, Gen. Hist. Connecticut, section 257:

text: Common Nighthawk... Pope (Conn[ecticut]. From the sound made by its wings while dropping through the air).

ref: 1956, Massachusetts Audubon Soc. Bull., 40 81:


pope

pos: adj

pos_title: 形容詞

ipa: /pɔp/

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-pope.wav


pope

pos: noun

pos_title: 名詞

etymology_texts: 源自法語 poupée。

forms:
pape (alternative)
popa (alternative)
papa (alternative)
papæ (alternative)
pwope (alternative)

ipa: /pope/


pope

etymology_texts: 源自古英語 pāpa，源自通俗拉丁語 papa。

glosses: 教宗（羅馬天主教羅馬主教）。

forms: popes (plural)

ipa: /ˈpɔːp(ə)/

pope

पोप

roman: pop


pope

glosses: 教宗（一位俄羅斯東正教牧師）

parts: po pe


pope

glosses: 教宗（一位俄羅斯東正教牧師）

ipa: /ˈpope/

rhymes: -ope


probationary

forms:
more probationary (comparative)
most probationary (superlative)

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-probationary.wav


probationary

forms: probationaries (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-probationary.wav


peaceable

pos_title: 形容词

etymology_texts: 源自盎格魯-諾曼語 pesible、peisible、中古法語 paisible，源自pais (“和平”) + -ible，后改为peace + -able。

text: But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable.

ref: 1999 December 29, Faisal Bodi, The Guardian:

text: But if you talk to people here privately, they suggest there are three possible scenarios. The first (intended to sound incredible) is that Israel’s biggest neighbour will be transformed into a peaceable, pluralist democracy.

ref: 2011 February 8, ‘Feeling understandably twitchy’, The Economist:

date: 自14世纪

text: Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head ….

ref:
1922 February，James Joyce，Ulysses，Paris：Shakespeare and Company, […]，→OCLC：
, Episode 16:

forms:
more peaceable (comparative)
most peaceable (superlative)

ipa: /ˈpiːsəb(ə)l/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-peaceable.wav


relative

glosses: relativ 的原级自然阳性定形。


peaceful

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull。

forms:
more peaceful (comparative)
peacefuller (comparative)
peacefuler (comparative)
most peaceful (superlative)
peacefullest (superlative)
peacefulest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈpiːsfəl/

parts: peace ful


bandwidth

pos: unknown

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]頻寬
* [简:自由软体]带宽
* [简体]:带宽[电子电机工程]
* [正體]:頻寬[電子電機工程]
* 正體: 帶寬；頻寬[電子計算機]


basal

glosses: adj. 基础的，基本的，根本的，基部的，基座的，维持机体生命所必不可少的


befitting

pos: verb

pos_title: 动词

glosses: befit 的現在時分詞

rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ


befitting

glosses: 适合的，相称的，配得上的

text: He moved with a befitting grace.

forms:
more befitting (comparative)
most befitting (superlative)


resound

glosses: （声音、噪音等）回响，回荡

forms:
resounds (third-person singular present)
resounding (present participle)
resounded (past participle)

ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd/

audio: En-us-resound (sound again).oga


resound

etymology_texts: < 中古英語 resownen < 古法語 resoner < 拉丁語 resonare （“声音回荡，回音”）。

text: The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.　街上回荡着孩子玩耍的吵闹声。

glosses: （声音、噪音等）回荡，回响

text: The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.　铜管乐队的音乐声在城镇内回荡。

ipa: /ɹɨˈzaʊnd/


relax

pos_title: 動詞

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 relaxen ← 古法語 relaxer ← 拉丁語 relaxāre (“放鬆，解開”) ← re- (“回”) + laxāre (“解開”) ← laxus (“鬆的”)。

forms:
relaxes (third-person singular present)
relaxing (present participle)
relaxed (past participle)

ipa: /ɹɪˈlæks/

rhymes: -æks


bey

pos: symbol

pos_title: 符號

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示貝里語。


bey

glosses: n.m. 大公；贝伊［奥斯曼帝国高级官员、军官的尊称］


resourceful

forms:
more resourceful (comparative)
most resourceful (superlative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-resourceful.wav


peacock

forms: peacocks (plural)

ipa: /ˈpikɑk/

ipa: /ˈpiːkɒk/


peacock

forms:
peacocks (third-person singular present)
peacocking (present participle)
peacocked (past participle)


basan

glosses: basar 的第三人稱複數現在時虛擬式


bang

etymology_texts: 與古諾爾斯語或冰島語 banga（“敲打、擊打、猛擊”）應該是同源關係，亦有可能源於後者；與丹麥語 banke（“打、擊”）、丹麥語 bengel 和德語 Bengel（“頑童”）很可能同源。最終來源可能是擬聲詞；對比朝鮮語 방아（banga，“碓、舂米用具”）。

text: When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang.　　他用榔頭敲的時候，砰地一聲巨響。

text: 近義詞：strike, blow

text: 英式英語：fringe

text: Tiffany has long hair and bangs.　　蒂芙尼有長髮，前面還留了劉海兒。

glosses: 感歎號(!)；:Template:數 階乘（因用n!表示而得名）

text: 近義詞：exclamation mark

text: gang bang　　一人與多人性交；尤指一女對眾男

forms: bangs (plural)

enpr: băng

ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)/

rhymes: -æŋ


bang

glosses: 發出砰的聲音；砰然重擊，碰擊；爆炸；砰然撞上（墻等）

text: The fireworks banged away all through the night.　　煙火放了一晚上。

glosses: （將知識）灌輸到…腦中，將…硬塞進

text: 近義詞：nail

text: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!　　他與兩個女服務員玩群交！

forms:
bangs (third-person singular present)
banging (present participle)
banged (past participle)


bang

pos: intj

pos_title: 感歎詞

text: He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang!"　　他用手指做出槍的手勢，說道：“砰砰！”


bang

text: 近義詞：bevreesd

text: Ik ben bang voor het donker!　　我怕黑！

ref: 相關詞彙：schrikken

forms:
banger (comparative)
bangst (superlative)

ipa: /bɑŋ/


bang

text: 相關詞彙：banga


bang

etymology_texts: 派生自日語 晚 (ban)。


bang

etymology_texts: < 晚中古高地德语 beange（be- + ange） < 中古高地德语 enge < 古高地德语 enki。

glosses: 害怕的，可怕的，担心的，焦虑的，恐惧的

text: Bange Träume quälten ihn.　噩梦折磨着他。

ref: 近义词：angstvoll, angsterfüllt, ängstlich

ipa: /ˈbaŋ/


bang

glosses: （超音速飞行器脱体波的）音速冲响，声波冲击


poppycock

pos_title: 名词

etymology_texts: 借自荷蘭語 pappekak，源自中古荷蘭語 pappe (“软食”) + kak (“屎”)。

forms: poppycocks (plural)


peafowl

etymology_texts: 來自pea (“孔雀”) + fowl。對照冰島語 páfugl (“孔雀”)、瑞典語 påfågel (“孔雀”)、丹麥語 påfugl (“孔雀”)。

forms:
peafowls (plural)
peafowl (plural)

ipa: /ˈpiːˌfaʊl/


phantasmal

text: Phantasmal mirth, folded away: muskperfumed.

ref: 1922 February，James Joyce，「[Episode 1]」，收錄於 Ulysses，Paris：Shakespeare and Company, […]，→OCLC：

forms:
fantasmal (alternative)
more phantasmal (comparative)
most phantasmal (superlative)

ipa: /fænˈtæzməl/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-phantasmal.wav

frightening

sense: 吓人的，离奇怪异的


pythonic

forms:
more pythonic (comparative)
most pythonic (superlative)

ipa: /paɪˈθɒnɪk/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pythonic.wav

ipa: /paɪˈθɑnɪk/

rhymes: -ɒnɪk

parts: py thon ic


bascule

glosses:
n.f. 摇动，摇晃，翻转，跌倒；磅秤；触发器，触发电路
n.f.摇板，称重机


banger

etymology_texts: 源自bang + -er。香肠这么称呼的原因是因为它们水很多，但表皮不透水，因此如果在烹饪前不戳破的话很容易爆炸。

glosses: bang的施动者名词，任何做其主语的人或物

text: bangers and mash

translation: 香肠土豆泥

text: He drives a little four-banger to work.

translation: 他开一辆四汽缸的小车去上班。

text: Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.

ref: 2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (page 420)

glosses: 节奏有活力的音乐，尤指舞曲

text: My frequencies are transient and resonate your eardrums / I make bangers, not anthems

ref: 2002，Mike Skinner，「Let's Push Things Forward」，收錄於 Original Pirate Material，由 The Streets：

text: Morris' melding of influences ranging from mid-'80s computer technology to Baltimore club bangers to the U.K. rave scene has cemented his reputation as one of London's most formidable DJs.

ref: 2008, Billboard (volume 120, number 32, page 44)

text: 'lce Ice Baby' was an absolute banger, though, wasn't it? And knowing the history of that song, it had proper rap credentials.

ref: 2012, Mike Skinner, The Story of The Streets (page 31)

glosses: 好的事物，令人愉快的事物

forms: bangers (plural)

ipa: /ˈbæŋ(ɡ)ə(ɹ)/

rhymes: -æŋə(r)

audio: EN-AU ck1 banger.ogg

snag

sense: 香肠

bucket

sense: 破车，旧车


rosa

glosses:
f. 蔷薇花，玫瑰花
m. 玫瑰色，玫瑰红，粉红色==葡萄牙語==
玫瑰


phantasmic

text: Bits of phantasmic poetry by Emily Bronte.

ref: 1974 February 2, Pat M. Kuras, “Nary a Creampuff”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 18:

forms:
more phantasmic (comparative)
most phantasmic (superlative)

rhymes: -æzmɪk


respect

forms: respects (plural)

ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛkt/

rhymes: -ɛkt

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-respect.wav

parts: re spect


respect

forms:
respects (third-person singular present)
respecting (present participle)
respected (past participle)


pyx

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示驃語。


peakedness

glosses:
* [S:计量学]峰度
* [T:計量學]峰度


respectable

forms:
more respectable (comparative)
most respectable (superlative)


populace

text: The populace despised their ignorant leader.

translation: 民眾鄙視他們愚昧的領導者。

text: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:

text: Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.

ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:

forms: populaces (plural)

ipa: /ˈpɒpjʊləs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-populace.wav

enpr: päpʹyə-ləs

ipa: /ˈpɑpjələs/

homophone: populous

hoi polloi

sense: 平民

inhabitant

sense: 国民

notes: 勿与形容词populous相混淆。


populace

forms: populační (relational adjective)

ipa: [ˈpopulat͡sɛ]

parts: po pu la ce


baseband

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]基頻
* [简:自由软体]基频
* [简体]:基(本频)带[通信]
* [正體]:基帶[通訊]
* 正體: 基（頻）帶[電機工程]
* 正體: 基帶[通訊工程]


based

glosses: （一般用于结合形式）有（怎样的）根据的

text: That was a soundly based argument.

translation: 有切实依据的论点。

forms:
more based (comparative)
most based (superlative)

ipa: /beɪst/

rhymes: -eɪst

homophone: baste


based

glosses: base 的過去式和過去分詞

glosses: base 的過去式和過去分詞

glosses: 来自...的，基于...的，根据...的

text: It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.

translation: 这是一部根据畅销小说改编的新电影。

glosses: base 的過去式和過去分詞

glosses: 坐落于...的，落脚于...的

text: The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.

translation: 梯子支撑在平坦的走道上来维持稳定。

glosses: base 的過去式和過去分詞

glosses: 基地位于...的，总部位于...的

text: The company is based in New York.

translation: 公司总部位于纽约。


based

etymology_texts: 指代精炼可卡因（freebase cocaine），经由basehead一词。由美国歌手Lil B所创来形容自己的生活方式。

glosses: 不在乎世俗眼光的，我行我素的

text: Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. […] Based is positive.

ref: 2010 June 10, Lil B, Complex.com:

text: You have to work as a human with empathy and love in your heart, staying positive and staying based and staying normal.

ref: 2012, Duncan Cooper, "Based Scripture: The Full Transcript of Lil B’s Lecture at NYU", The Fader, 12 April 2012:

glosses: 很棒的，值得赞赏的，令人钦佩的，中肯的

text: OP is based as fuck

glosses: 很棒的，值得赞赏的，令人钦佩的，中肯的 （因反对政治正确或左翼价值观而）值得赞赏的

text: OP is based as fuck

text: Based and red pilled.

text: My last account got banned for being too based.

text: His [Brenton Tarrant's] meme-themed shooting greatly represents the spirit of the aussie people, in the sense of shitposting until their last moment, based and redpilled he is.

ref: 2019, anonymous, quoted in Cathrine Thorleifsson, "From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence", Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 1, page 293:

text: Then, in the same month, noted feminist Christina Hoff Sommers was branded “white supremacy-adjacent” by feminist Roxane Gay. Her reasoning? That our beloved “Based Mom” once appeared at an event with Milo Yiannopoulos and didn't disavow him enough.

ref: 2020，David Rubin，Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason，未標明頁：

cringe

sense: 很棒的，值得赞赏的，令人钦佩的，中肯的

unbased

sense: 很棒的，值得赞赏的，令人钦佩的，中肯的


peaks

glosses: peak 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式

ipa: /piːks/

rhymes: -iːks

homophone: peeks

roman: piques


paragon

etymology_texts: 源自盎格魯-諾曼語 paragone、peragone、中古法語 paragon，源自意大利語 paragone (“对比”)或西班牙語 parangón，源自paragonare，源自古希臘語 παρακονάω (parakonáō，“削尖，研磨”)，源自παρά (pará) + ἀκόνη (akónē，“磨刀石”)（源自原始印歐語 *h₂eḱ- (“尖”)）。

text: In the novel, Constanza is a paragon of virtue who would never compromise her reputation.

translation: 小说中，Constanza是一个永远不背弃自己声望的道德模范。

text: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

text: Liz Cheney and her father are positioning themselves as protectors of the old order, as paragons of truth and as defenders of our American norms.

ref: 2021 May 6, Charles M. Blow, “Liz Cheney, We Have a Memory. You’re No Hero.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

date: 自16世纪

text: Philoclea, who indeed had no paragon but her sister

translation: The New Arcadia

ref: a. 1587，Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney]，「(please specify the page number)」，收錄於 Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio（編），The Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia]，London： […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie，1590 出版，→OCLC；republished in Albert Feuillerat（編），The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia（Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney；I），Cambridge, Cambridgeshire：University Press，1912，→OCLC：

text:
Nathlesse proud man himselfe the other deemed,
Having so peerlesse paragon ygot

ref: 1596，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，「Book IV, Canto II」，收錄於 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London： […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie，→OCLC：

text: good by paragone / Of euill, may more notably be rad, / As white seemes fairer, macht with blacke attone […]。

ref: 1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，「Book III, Canto IX」，收錄於 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London： […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie，→OCLC：

date: 自18世纪

glosses: 至少100克拉的无瑕钻石

forms: paragons (plural)

ipa: /ˈpæɹəɡən/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-paragon.wav

ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌɡɔn/

ipa: /ˈpæɹəˌɡɑn/


paragon

text: for want of a bigger , to paragon the little one with Artesia's length

text: He hath achieved a maid / That paragons description and wild fame.

translation: 奥赛罗

ref: 约1603–1604年，威廉·莎士比亚，「The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice [奥赛罗]」，收錄於 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]（第一对开本），伦敦： […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount，1623 出版，→OCLC，「[Act II, scene i]」：

forms:
paragons (third-person singular present)
paragoning (present participle)
paragoned (past participle)


paragon

etymology_texts: 16世纪中叶，源自已弃用的法語 paragon，源自意大利語 paragone (“试金石”)，源自中古希臘語 παρακόνη (parakónē，“磨刀石”)。

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Poemat-paragon.wav

rhymes: -aɡɔn

parts: pa ra gon


relegate

pos: adv

pos_title: 副詞

glosses: relegi 的現在時副詞形被動分詞


rosario

glosses: n.pr. 罗萨里奥(阿根廷,委内瑞拉)


proceeds

ipa: /ˈpɹəʊsiːdz/

enpr: prōʹsēdz

ipa: /ˈpɹoʊsidz/

enpr: prə-sēdzʹ

ipa: /pɹəˈsiːdz/


populous

etymology_texts: 在英語最早出現於15世紀中葉；源自拉丁語 populosus (“人口密集的，人口众多的”)。

text: India is the most populous country in the world.

translation: 印度是世界上人口最多的國家。

text: Chinese is the most populous language.

translation: 漢語是最多人說的語言。

text: The Sino-Tibetan family includes Mandarin, the most populous language in the world, spoken by more than one billion Chinese.

translation: 汉藏语系包括普通话，这是世界上使用人数最多的语言，有超过十亿中国人使用普通话。

ref: 1974，Victoria Fromkin，Robert Rodman，Nina M. Hyams，An Introduction to Language，→ISBN，524頁：

text: The Nile delta is a populous region.

translation: 尼羅河三角洲是個人口稠密的地區。

text: Airport departure halls are often populous places during the rush hours.

translation: 机场出发大厅在高峰时段通常非常拥挤。

forms:
more populous (comparative)
most populous (superlative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-populous.wav

homophone: populace


banjo

glosses: ou ［bz9dy1o］n.m. 班卓琴（一种圆形拨弦乐器）


banjo

glosses:
m. 班卓琴==葡萄牙語==
班卓琴


paragraphs

ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹæfs/

ipa: /ˈpæɹəɡɹɑːfs/

parts: par a graphs


roseau

etymology_texts: 衍生自ros (“蘆葦”)，來自中古法語 ros (“蘆葦”)，來自古法語 ros (“蘆葦，梳子的齒”)（對照古法語 rosel (“蘆葦”)），來自古法蘭克語 *rausa (“蘆葦”)，來自原始日耳曼語 *rausą, *rauzą (“蘆葦、桿、管”)，來自原始印歐語 *er- (“移動、刺激、引起”)。與古高地德語 rōr (“導管”)（德語 Rohr (“管”)），古諾爾斯語 reyrr (“蘆葦”) (丹麥語 rør (“蘆葦、管”)), 古英語 rysc (“蘆葦，忙碌”)同源。更多參見rush。

text: L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant.

translation: 人只是一根蘆葦，是自然界中最脆弱的，但他卻是一根會思考的蘆葦。

ref: 1669，布莱兹·帕斯卡，思想录：

forms: roseaux (plural)


bases

glosses: basar 的第二人稱單數現在時直陳式/虛擬式


bases

glosses: n. 基础（根据，主要成分，军事用地，玻基）


resplendent

forms:
more resplendent (comparative)
most resplendent (superlative)


pianissimo

forms:
more pianissimo (comparative)
most pianissimo (superlative)

rhymes: -ɪsɪməʊ

rhymes: -ɪsəməʊ


pianissimo

glosses: 極弱（表示音樂中某一部分應以極弱的方式演奏的力度符號）

text: If the Randall Thompson Alleluia lacked the otherworldly awe and mystery the composer intended, the BGMC offered a fair accounting of the work with some wonderfully hushed pianissimos and clearly delineated contrasts in mood.

ref: 1984 December 29, Charles Henry Fuller, “Music For The Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25:

forms:
pianissimos (plural)
pianissimi (plural)


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。

forms: pianissimos (plural)


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 非同化借詞，源自意大利語 pianissimo。


pianissimo

forms:
pianissima (feminine)
pianissimi (masculine plural)
pianissime (feminine plural)

rhymes: -issimo


pianissimo

glosses: piano (“柔地；慢地”)的最高級

forms: pianíssimo (alternative)

fortissimo

sense: piano (“柔地；慢地”)的最高級


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 借自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。

forms:
pianissimos (plural)
pianisimo (alternative)


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 非同化借詞，源自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。

ipa: /pjaˈnisimo/

rhymes: -isimo


pianissimo

etymology_texts: 非同化借詞，源自意大利語 pianissimo (“非常柔地”)。

notes: 根據西班牙皇家學院 (RAE) 的規定，來自外語的非同化借詞，應當以斜體拉丁字母印刷；當手寫或無法使用斜體時，可用引號括起。不過實際使用時，並不一定遵循這種規則。


bibelot

text: In her own eyes she was indeed living in a state approaching to penury, but the spectacle of her pictures, her furniture and her bibelots had impressed John with a very different idea.

ref: 1886, F. Marion Crawford, A Tale of a Lonely Parish, 2012, Project Gutenberg (Tredition Classics), unnumbered page,

text: Barbara's glance now falls on the bibelot, which she picks up. She catches sight of the curtain and, bibelot in hand, goes to align it. She suddenly becomes aware of the bibelot in her hand.

ref: 1960, Arthur Kober, George Oppenheimer, A Mighty Man is He, Dramatists Play Service, page 31:

text: Excluded from the world of 'true,' high culture, women, it was claimed, loved books primarily as bibelots, like silks, lace, sconces, fans, or porcelain.

ref: 2008, Willa Z. Silverman, The New Bibliopolis: French Book Collectors and the Culture of Print, 1880-1914, University of Toronto Press, page 191:

forms: bibelots (plural)

ipa: /bib(ə)loʊ/

ipa: /bib(ə)ləʊ/


bibelot

etymology_texts: 源自拟声词根bib-。对比英語 bauble和古法語 baubel。


bibelot

etymology_texts: 借自法語 bibelot。首次記錄於1883年

text: antyczny bibelot

translation: 古玩

text: cenny bibelot

translation: 值钱的玩意儿

text: stary bibelot

translation: 老旧的东西

text: kolekcjonować/zbierać bibeloty

translation: 收集小装饰品

forms: bibelocik (diminutive)

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-bibelot.wav

rhymes: -ɛlɔt

błyskotka

sense: 小玩意，小东西

parts: bi be lot


bibelot

glosses: bibelô的另一種寫法


begrudge

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 bigrucchen (“對...發牢騷”)，等同於be- (“在，對，向”) + grudge。對照英語 begrouch。

text: Okay, then, next time you go and leave me stay here. See if I begrudge you a little fun.

ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 16, number 1, page 50:

text: A defeat would have been harsh on the Gunners, especially after an improved rearguard action in the second half, but few could begrudge the German side a point from a match they dominated for long spells.

ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:

forms:
begrudges (third-person singular present)
begrudging (present participle)
begrudged (past participle)

ipa: /bɪˈɡɹʌd͡ʒ/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-begrudge.wav


parakeet

etymology_texts: 來自中古法語 perroquet，可能是人名Pierre的指小詞；一些異體形或許經由意大利語 parrocchetto、西班牙語 periquito。

text: we had loved them for our pastimes, as we do apes, monkies, or perokitoes, and not as man.

ref: 1603，Michel de Montaigne，第8章，收錄於 John Florio（譯），The Essayes […]，book II，London： […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]，→OCLC：

text: According to one legend, the parakeets escaped from the set of The African Queen, John Huston's 1951 film made at Shepperton studios.

ref: 2009, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 12 Oct 2009:

date: 自十六世紀

forms:
paroquet (alternative)
parrakeet (alternative)
parroket (alternative)
parroquet (alternative)
perokito (alternative)
parakeets (plural)

ipa: /ˈpaɹəkiːt/

ipa: /paɹəˈkiːt/

ipa: /ˈpɛɹəkit/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-parakeet.wav

notes: 作為寵物養的在大英國協會員中則稱為“budgie”或“budgerigar”。


pharmacognosy

etymology_texts: 來自古希臘語 φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon，“醫學”) + 古希臘語 γνῶσις (gnôsis，“知識”)。

forms: pharmacognosies (plural)


beguile

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 begilen、begylen，等价于be- + guile。对比中古荷蘭語 begilen (“欺骗”)。英語 bewile 的同源對似詞。

glosses: 吸引，迷住，使...陶醉

text: I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

ref: 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

text: I will never touch The Orb, even though its mysterious glow seduces and beguiles

glosses: （因快乐等）让...过的更快 （时间）

text: We beguiled the hours away

translation: 我们在欢乐中很快度过了好几个小时。

text: They beguile the tedium of this enforced leisure by weaving baskets and playing on certain sacred flutes.

ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 241:

forms:
begyle (alternative)
beguiles (third-person singular present)
beguiling (present participle)
beguiled (past participle)

rhymes: -aɪl

ipa: /bɪˈɡaɪl/


borate

glosses: bori 的現在時副詞形被動分詞

ipa: /boˈrate/

audio: LL-Q143 (epo)-Lepticed7-borate.wav


rosette

forms: rosettes (plural)

ipa: /ɹəʊˈzɛt/

ipa: /ɹoʊˈzɛt/

rhymes: -ɛt


responder

glosses:
vt. 回答，应答
vi. 报答，反应，反对，反抗，产生预期结果，符合，负责，保证==葡萄牙語==
回答；回答；回答；回答


pharmacological

text: This study aimed to comprehensively review and analyze existing in vivo animal studies and human clinical trials investigating the effects of meteoropathy on health and its pharmacological treatment.

ref: 2023 June 23, Malvina Hoxha, Bruno Zappacosta, “Meteoropathy: a review on the current state of knowledge”, in Journal of Medicine and Life, volume 16, number 6, →DOI, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2025, pages 837-841:

ipa: /ˌfɑɹməkəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/


relier

etymology_texts: 源自re- + lier，或源自拉丁語 religāre。在古法語可考作reloier。

text: Ce problème est relié à un produit inférieur.

translation: 这个问题和一个劣质产品有关。

text: Mon livre est relié en cuir.

translation: 我的书是皮革包边的。


redden

text: He stared at her and she reddened.　他盯着她看，弄得她脸都红了。

forms:
reddens (third-person singular present)
reddening (present participle)
reddened (past participle)

ipa: /ˈɹɛdn̩/

rhymes: -ɛdən

parts: red den


redden

etymology_texts: < 对比冰岛语 redda（修复）。


pic

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示平吉語。


pic

etymology_texts: 繼承自通俗拉丁語 *piccus, 源自 拉丁語 pīcus.


banned

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]禁用
* [简:自由软体]禁用


begun

glosses: begin 的過去時分詞

ipa: /bɪˈɡʌn/

ipa: /bɪˈɡʊn/

rhymes: -ʌn


pica

glosses: f. 长矛，斗牛用的长矛


reddish

forms:
more reddish (comparative)
most reddish (superlative)

ipa: /ˈɹɛdɪʃ/


responsive

forms:
more responsive (comparative)
most responsive (superlative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-responsive.wav

parts: res pon sive


religionist

text: How could Christians and other kinds of religionists justify being ruled by laws and rules, written and unwritten, that go against their faith?

forms: religionists (plural)


bibliomania

text: To collect books indiscriminately tends to develop the dread bibliomania.

ref: 1922, P. B. M. Allan, The Book-Hunter at Home, 2nd edition, London: Philip Allan & Co., page 58:

forms: bibliomanias (plural)

ipa: /ˌbɪbliəˈmeɪniə/

rhymes: -eɪniə


bibliomania

audio: LL-Q809 (pol)-Olaf-bibliomania.wav

rhymes: -aɲja

parts: bib lio man ia


religiosus

forms:
religiōsus (canonical)
religiōsa (feminine)
religiōsum (neuter)
religiōsior (comparative)
religiōsissimus (superlative)

raw_tags: ；第一/第二類變格形容詞


behaviour

etymology_texts: 源自 behave + -iour，系仿效 havior, havour。 對比低地蘇格蘭語 havings （“行為”），源自 have （“表現，行動”）。

forms: behaviours (plural)

ipa: /bɪˈheɪvjə/

rhymes: -eɪviə(ɹ)


reader

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]讀者；讀取器
* [简:自由软体]读者
* 正體: 讀取機[電機工程]
* 正體: 閱讀機[電子計算機]


badigeon

glosses: n.m. 石灰浆，粉刷用浆


rest

glosses: 其餘，剩餘物，剩下來的東西

text: Resten är gula.

translation: 其餘為黃色的。

text: 11 dividerat med 2 är 5, med 1 i rest

translation: 11 除以 2 等於 5 餘 1


pharyngeal

ipa: /ˌfæɹɪnˈdʒiːəl/

ipa: /fəˈɹɪndʒəl/


rostral

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rostral.wav

rhymes: -ɒstɹəl


pick-me-up

glosses: （常指提神用的，且常含酒精的）饮料

text: Strong tea is just the pick-me-up that I need right now.

translation: 我现在就需要提神用的浓茶。

text: He brought a hip flask along, just in case he needs a little pick-me-up later.

translation: 他带上了随身酒瓶，这样需要的时候就可以喝点提神的酒。

text: Make half-a-pint of beef-tea in a tumbler with this extract. Put the tumbler in a refrigerator for an hour, then add a liqueur-glassful of old brandy, with just a dust of cayenne. This is one of the very best pick-me-ups known to the faculty.

ref: 1897, Edward Spencer, Cakes & Ale:

text: "I'm feeling fine today," pursued Gideon, advancing a step and so bringing himself about halfway to the table. "Had a couple of pick-me-ups and a fat breakfast. How are you?"

ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:

text: God, he needed a drink. Just a little pick-me-up to put things in their true perspective— […]

ref: 1977, Stephen King, chapter 5, in The Shining:

date: 自19世纪

text: A trip into town for lunch with my friend was a nice pick-me-up today.

translation: 今天去镇上和朋友吃午饭让我心情好了不少。

text: Those Austrian desserts we all know and love, sacher torte, linzer torte, apfelstrudel and the like, as well as Bavarian chocolate, peach torte and jailhouse pie, are $2.25 or $2.50 and — with a cup of cafe mocha — a delightful afternoon pick-me-up.

ref: 1986 April, Nancy Webster, Richard Woodworth, Inn Spots & Special Places in New England: A Guide to Where to Go, Stay, Eat and Enjoy in 30 of the Region’s Choicest Areas, West Hartford, Conn.: Wood Pond Press, published May 1988 (3rd printing), →ISBN, page 24:

text: Have to keep reminding myself that I’m also a happily married woman—but it is nice to be noticed as a woman for a change (and to have my fantasy life given such a pick-me-up).

ref: 2009, Tristan de Chalain, Wolf’s Paw, Eloquent Books, →ISBN, page 249:

text: Meeting Marlene had been such a pick-me-up, but at the same time, it was a grim reminder that Allen was not healed.

ref: 2011, Christina Schofield, My Life and Lesser Catastrophes: An Unflinchingly Honest Journey of Faith, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 107:

text: Glen Medeiros and Bobby Brown are on KDWB right now performing She Ain’t Worth It, and it is such a pick-me-up.

ref: 2019, Cat Ellington, Memoirs in Gogyohka: A Book of Short Poems and Memoirs, Chicago, Ill.: Quill Pen Ink Publishing, →ISBN:

text: Nothing brightens your day like an unexpected check in the mail, letter to the editor, or sign of support from a strong quarter. Such a pick-me-up is welcome, and frequently happens at a time where you most need a boost.

ref: 2019, Dan Gookin, Running For Local Office For Dummies®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 231:

text: Carrie’s cats have been such a pick-me-up. There’s always one that needs a cuddle and there’s a lot to be said for fur therapy.

ref: 2021, Annette Hannah, The Cosy Little Cupcake Van, Hachette, →ISBN:

text: According to [Kiminobu] Sugaya, music also increases dopamine release in a specific part of the brain, similar to that of illegal drugs. It’s like a cerebral Woodstock, only with musical rather than chemical stimulants (and better hygiene). In other words, it’s time to tune into a happier you. Next to showering, it’s one of the easiest things you can do to give yourself and immediate pick-me-up.

ref: 2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of Letting Go, Bouncing Back, and Being):

forms: pick-me-ups (plural)

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pick-me-up.wav

eye-opener

sense: （常指提神用的，且常含酒精的）饮料


banquette

glosses: n.f. 软垫长椅；（汽车的）整排横座；（地铁、火车的）靠背座椅；窗台；（铁路、渠道旁的斜坡上的）人行道，护坡道


procrastinate

etymology_texts: 英語 procrastination 的逆構詞，或源自拉丁語 prōcrastinātum，prōcrastinō (“推迟到明天”)的过去分词，源自prō (“为了”) + crāstinus (“明天的”)，源自crās (“明天”)。

text: He procrastinated until the last minute and had to stay up all night to finish.

translation: 他一直拖拖拉拉到最后时刻才开始，不得不熬夜才完成。

text: Hence It became manifest to the publishers of Webster, that some device must be resorted to, to induce apathy in the publick mind, and thereby procrastinate the inevitable crisis which they foresaw was approaching, the expulsion of his elementary works from our primary schools.

ref: 1816, John Pickering, A vocabulary; or, Collection of words and phrases, page 4:

forms:
procrastinates (third-person singular present)
procrastinating (present participle)
procrastinated (past participle)

enpr: prō-krăs'tə-nāt'

delay

sense: 不及物

delay

sense: 及物


procrastinate

glosses:
procrastinare 的屈折：
第二人稱複數現在時直陳式

glosses:
procrastinare 的屈折：
第二人稱複數命令式


procrastinate

glosses: prōcrāstinō 的第二人稱複數現在時主動態命令式

forms: prōcrāstināte (canonical)


restaurant

etymology_texts: 借自法語 restaurant，為restaurer的現在分詞，對應拉丁語 restaurans, restaurantis，restauro (“恢復”)的現在分詞，源自第一家餐廳提供的“使精力恢復”湯的名稱。

text: That Italian restaurant serves some of the best food I've ever had in my life.

translation: 那家意大利餐廳做的菜是我這輩子吃到過最好的。

text: By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.

ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:

forms:
restaurants (plural)
restourant (alternative)

audio: En-uk-a restaurant.ogg

parts: res tau rant


restaurant

forms:
restaurante (plural)
restaurants (plural)
restaurantjie (diminutive)

ipa: /rɛstʊə̯ˈrant/

ipa: /rɛstuˈrant/

audio: LL-Q14196 (afr)-Anon1314-restaurant.wav


restaurant

forms:
restauranten
restauranter (indefinite plural)

ipa: [ʁɛsd̥oˈʁɑŋ]


restaurant

forms:
restaurants (plural)
restauranten (plural)
restaurantje (diminutive)

ipa: /rɛstoːˈrɑnt/

ipa: /rɛstuˈrɑnt/

ipa: /rɛstəˈrɑnt/

rhymes: -ɑnt

notes: 在比利時，複數形式 restauranten 很常見，並與複數形式的 restaurants 並存。在荷蘭，複數形式 restauranten 較罕見。


restaurant

forms: restaurants (plural)

ipa: /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/


restaurant

pos_title: 分詞

ipa: /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/

ресторант

roman: restorant

রেস্তোরাঁ

roman: restōrã

रेस्तराँ

roman: restarā̃

レストラン

roman: resutoran

рестора́н

roman: restorán


restaurant

glosses: restaurō 的第三人稱複數現在時主動態直陳式


restaurant

etymology_texts: 可能是繼承自古法語或借自法語。


restaurant

forms:
restauranten (definite singular)
restauranter (indefinite plural)
restaurantene (definite plural)

ipa: /rɛstʉˈrɑŋ/


restaurant

forms:
restauranten (definite singular)
restaurantar (indefinite plural)
restaurantane (definite plural)


procrastination

etymology_texts: 源自中古法語 procrastination，源自拉丁語 prōcrāstinātiō，源自prōcrāstinō (“拖延”)，源自prō + crāstinus (“明日的”)，源自crās (“明日”)。

glosses: （因怠惰或疏忽而造成的）推遲，拖延，耽擱，拖拖拉拉，拖延症

text: Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals until all are fled.

ref: 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality I, 1, 393

forms: procrastinations (plural)

ipa: /pɹəʊ̆ˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/

ipa: /-ʃn̩/

rhymes: -eɪʃən


procrastination

pos: proverb

pos_title: 成句

ipa: /pɹəʊ̆ˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/


procrastination

etymology_texts: 借自拉丁語 prōcrāstinātiō。


procrastinator

text: Live a procrastinator, likely die a procrastinator.

forms: procrastinators (plural)

rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)


relish

etymology_texts: 变换自reles (“气味，味道，回味”)，源自古法語 relais、reles (“残留物”)，源自relaisser (“残留”)。

text: A Laplander or Negro has no notion of the relish of wine.

ref: 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 12.

text: Much pleasure we have lost while we abstained / From this delightful fruit, nor known till now / True relish, tasting.

translation: 每当我们有意避开这令人愉快的果子的时候，我们就在失去这样的享乐，如果不品尝，直到现在也不会知道真正的滋味。

ref: 1667，John Milton，「Book IX」，收錄於 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books，London： […] [Samuel Simmons], […]，→OCLC；再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […]，London：Basil Montagu Pickering […]，1873，→OCLC：

text: One of the first acts which he was under the necessity of performing must have been painful to a man of so generous a nature, and of so keen a relish for whatever was excellent in arts and letters.

ref: 1849, Thomas Macaulay, History of England, Chapter 11:

text: I have a relish for moderate praise, because it bids fair to be judicious.

ref: 1785, William Cowper, letter to the Rev. John Newton (dated December 10, 1785)

text: Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.

ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:

glosses: （用蔬菜或水果制作的）佐料

text: Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")

ref: 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:

glosses: 在木制框架中，榫頭側面或周圍的凸起或肩部，位於榫頭上。

forms:
rellish (alternative)
relishes (plural)


relish

glosses: 品味，享受（某物的味道）

date: 自16世纪起

text: He relishes their time together.

translation: 他很享受他们在一起的时光。

text: I don't relish the idea of going out tonight.

translation: 今晚我不太想出去。

text: He knows how to prize his advantages, and to relish the honours which he enjoys.

ref: 1706, Francis Atterbury, A sermon preached at the Guild-Hall Chapel, September 28, 1706

text: honourable enterprises are accompanied with dangers and damages, as experience evinceth; they will make the rest of thy life relish the better.

ref: 1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，2nd版，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps，→OCLC，「partition II, section 3, member 3」：

text: A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature.

ref: 1695, John Woodward, An essay toward a natural history of the earth

glosses: 给...调味，使...美味

forms:
rellish (alternative)
relishes (third-person singular present)
relishing (present participle)
relished (past participle)

appreciate

sense: 享受


relish

glosses: （用蔬菜或水果制作的）风味佐料

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-relish.wav


blaireau

glosses: n.m. 獾，獾毛刷，獾毛排笔，剃须用之刷


basilic

glosses: 九层塔，一种香料，多用于西餐，比如意大利菜。


raffe

glosses: raff (“三角帆”)的另一種寫法

forms: raffes (plural)


raffe

glosses:
raffen 的屈折：
第一人稱單數現在時

glosses:
raffen 的屈折：
第一人稱/第三人稱單數虛擬式一式

glosses:
raffen 的屈折：
單數命令式


baff

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 baffen (“吠”)。同源词包括荷蘭語 baffen (“吠”)、低地德語 baffen (“吠”)、德語 baffen、bäfzen (“吠”)、丹麥語 bjæffe (“大喊”)、瑞典語 bjäbba (“大喊”)。对比buff、yaff。

forms:
baffs (third-person singular present)
baffing (present participle)
baffed (past participle)

ipa: /bæf/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baff.wav

rhymes: -æf


baff

etymology_texts: 可能源自低地蘇格蘭語 baff、beff、bauf，可能源自西佛蘭德語 baf、baffe (“一击；一巴掌”)。亦对比古法語 baffe (“巴掌”)（现代法語 baffe），为拟声词。

glosses: （尤指用平或软的东西）击打

glosses: （用球杆的底部）刮地面打出


baff

text: Sie haben gejubelt, hatten Ballons dabei und haben uns Glückwünsche zugerufen. Wir waren so baff. Manche kamen nur dafür von richtig weit her.

ref: 2020 June 1, “Verliebt, verlobt – verschieben?”, in Die Zeit:

forms: baffer (strong nominative masculine singular)

ipa: /baf/


breakable

ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkəbl/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-breakable.wav


borne

ipa: /bɔːn/

ipa: /bɔɹn/

ipa: /bo(ː)ɹn/

ipa: /boən/

homophone: born

rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n


borne

text: In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

ref: 1901, Joseph Conrad, Falk: A Reminiscence:

text:
When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

ref: 1881 Oscar Wilde, "Rome Unvisited", Poems, page 44:

text: Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

ref: c. 2000, David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, II:


borne

etymology_texts: 來自古法語 bontie、bodne，來自中世紀拉丁語 (Merovingian) bodina, butina (“邊界，分界”)，源自凱爾特語族/山北高盧語，來自原始凱爾特語 *bonnicca (“分界”)，可能來自原始印歐語 *bʰudʰmḗn (“底部，基本”)，參見*bundos。

forms: bornes (plural)

ipa: /bɔʁn/


borne

etymology_texts: 來自晚期拉丁語 bodina、butina，來自山北高盧語。


readme

glosses: （软件的）讀我檔案，说明

text: Remember, there may be many readmes in many different locations within the patch itself. Search and read all readmes before proceeding.

translation: 請記住，補丁本身的許多不同位置可能有許多讀我檔案。 在繼續之前搜索並閱讀所有讀我檔案。

ref: 2004, Barbara Matthews, John Stouffer, Karen Brownfield, Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle Applications III

forms: readmes (plural)


banzai

etymology_texts: 来自日語 万歳 (banzai)，来自中古漢語 萬歲／万岁 (mjòn-sjwèi)，来自上古漢語 萬歲／万岁 (*mans s-qʷʰats)。

rhymes: -anzai̯

rhymes: -zai̯

rhymes: -ai̯

parts: ban zai


baobab

glosses:
n.m. 猴面包树
==== 派生語彙 ====
* 毛里求斯克里奧爾語：baobab
* → 越南語：bao báp


biceps

etymology_texts: 来自拉丁語 biceps (“雙頭的”)。

forms:
bìceps (canonical)
бѝцепс

ipa: /bǐtseps/

parts: bi ceps


readout

glosses: （数字数据的）显示，读数

glosses: 会议纪要 （常用于外交或政治语境）

forms: readouts (plural)

ipa: /ˈɹiːdaʊt/

notes: “读”（read）为一种输入行为，因此“readout”（字面意思“读出”）属于自相矛盾。然而这个词还是得到了广泛普及。如果不是为了特殊需求，可能使用display更为合适。


pickled

glosses: pickle 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞


pickled

text: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

ref: 1959，Georgette Heyer，第1章，收錄於 The Unknown Ajax：

forms:
more pickled (comparative)
most pickled (superlative)

sense: 醉


ready

glosses:
* [正:自由軟體]就緒；備妥
* [简:自由软体]就绪
* 正體: 就緒；備妥[電子計算機]


bap

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示班塔瓦語。


rely

etymology_texts: 借自古法語 relier (“使固定、束缚、使附属、附加、强迫、集中”)，源自拉丁語 religo (“使固定、绑紧”)，源自re- + ligo。

glosses: (與on/upon連用，過去也與in連用) 倚赖，倚靠，信任，信赖，依赖

forms:
relies (third-person singular present)
relying (present participle)
relied (past participle)

ipa: /ɹɪˈlaɪ/

rhymes: -aɪ


paralyser

forms:
paralyzer (alternative)
paralysers (plural)


bicker

forms:
bickers (third-person singular present)
bickering (present participle)
bickered (past participle)

ipa: /ˈbɪkə/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bicker.wav

rhymes: -ɪkə(r)


redingote

etymology_texts: < 法語 redingote < 英語 riding-coat。 二次借用的典例。

forms: redingotes (plural)

ipa: /ˈɹɛdɪŋɡəʊt/


redingote

ipa: /ʁə.dɛ̃.ɡɔt/


pickpocket

forms:
pick-pocket (alternative)
pickpockets (plural)

ipa: /ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/


pickpocket

forms:
pick-pocket (alternative)
pickpockets (third-person singular present)
pickpocketing (present participle)
pickpocketed (past participle)


baptismal

glosses: adj. 洗礼的，浸礼的


breakwater

etymology_texts: 源自break + water。对比荷蘭語 breekwater (“防波堤”)。对比firebreak。

text: But there's a pier or breakwater runs out into the sea just here, which we could defend longer than anything else, like Horatius and his bridge.

ref: 1908，吉爾伯特·基思·卻斯特頓，The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare，布里斯托爾：J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith， […]；倫敦：Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company，→OCLC，259頁：

text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.

ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:

text: They sailed around a breakwater that hadn't existed on Peregrine's last trip and tied in at the moorage.

ref: 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 70:

forms: breakwaters (plural)

ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkˌwɔːtə/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-breakwater.wav

bulwark

sense: 防波堤


bagatelle

glosses: n.f. 小玩意儿，不值钱的东西，小事，琐碎的事情；La ~ 〈俗〉肉欲，性爱；La ~ de 〈讽〉一大笔钱


phasmophobia

glosses: 恐鬼症；幽靈恐怖；對鬼魂的恐懼

text: 他還患有恐高症，即對高處的某種恐懼，以及與黑夜中的教堂、墓地和獨處場所有關的典型的惧黑症和恐鬼症。

ref: He also suffered from hypsophobia, a certain fear of elevated places, and the typical scotophobia and phasmophobia associated with churches, graveyards and solitary places in the dark of night.


reman

glosses: remar 的第三人稱複數現在時虛擬式


bager

forms:
báger (canonical)
ба́гер

ipa: /bǎːɡer/

parts: ba ger


rotor

etymology_texts: 源自 rotator 的不規則縮略。英語 rota和英語 ruote 的同源對似詞。

forms: rotors (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rotor.wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-rotor.wav

rhymes: -əʊtə

homophone: rota

roman: Rhoda


rich

forms:
richer (comparative)
more rich (comparative)
richest (superlative)
most rich (superlative)

ipa: /ɹɪt͡ʃ/

rhymes: -ɪtʃ

homophone: riche

word: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God


rich

forms:
riches (third-person singular present)
riching (present participle)
riched (past participle)
riech (alternative)
reich (alternative)


rich

etymology_texts: 源自 中古高地德語 rīche，源自原始日耳曼語 *rīkijaz。

text:
Hee wunnt ne riche Mann, dä us vill avjevve kann.
 Vill soll hä jevve, lang soll hä levve!
 Sielig soll hä sterve, der Himmel soll hä erve!

translation:
Here lives a rich man, who can give us a lot.
 A lot he shall give, long he shall live!
 Blessed he shall die, heaven he shall inherit!

ref: (能否為此引文加上日期？)，Traditional，「Dä hellije Zint Määtes」，a popular song for St. Martin's Day when the children go round singing for sweets：

forms:
riche (masculine)
riche (feminine plural)
rich (feminine plural)
richer (comparative)
et richste (superlative)

ipa: /ʀiɕ/


beleaguer

text: 近义词：besiege

glosses: 纠缠，缠住，困住；使（人）烦恼，烦扰

text: 近义词：harass, beset, vex

forms:
beleaguers (third-person singular present)
beleaguering (present participle)
beleaguered (past participle)

rhymes: -iːɡə(r)


richen

forms:
richens (third-person singular present)
richening (present participle)
richened (past participle)

ipa: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃən/


richen

etymology_texts: 來自古高地德語 riohhan，來自原始日耳曼語 *reukaną。與德語 riechen、荷蘭語 rieken、英語 reek、西弗里斯蘭語 rûke、冰島語 rjúka同源。

forms:
richt (third-person singular present)
geroch (past participle)
hunn (auxiliary)

ipa: /ˈʀiɕən/


blanquette

glosses: n.f. 炖肉［指白肉类，如小牛肉，小羊肉，家禽肉等］


pheasant

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 fesaunt、fesant，來自古法語 fesan，來自拉丁語 phāsiānus，來自古希臘語 φᾱσιανός (phāsianós)，意思是 「Φᾶσις (Phâsis) 河的[鳥]」，據推測，鳥從那裡向西傳播。取代本土的古英語 wōrhana，mōrhana的變體。參見moorhen。

text: The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.

ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:

text: Or sometimes, passing too near a sequestered copse, the shy tenants were startled, and the superb plumage of the pheasant dashed aside the branches, and the stately bird soared up on rattling wing.

ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 80:

text: Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.

ref: 1989，Allan Gurganus，「Black, White, and Lilac」，收錄於 Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All，New York, N.Y.：Alfred A. Knopf，→ISBN，「book two (Time Does That)」，231頁：

text: Célestin Lainé sat on the edge of the bed, a tray on his lap, eating pheasant and roast vegetables with a red wine reduction.

translation: 塞莱斯汀·莱内坐在床边，腿上放着一个托盘，吃着雉鸡肉和烤蔬菜，还喝了红酒。

ref: 2013，Stuart Neville，第30章，收錄於 Ratlines，New York, N.Y.：Soho Crime，→ISBN，158頁：

text: Bring a dish of berries with cream to me there. Bread, too. And a slice of pheasant.

translation: 给我拿一盘奶油浆果。还有面包。还有一片雉鸡肉。

ref: 2015，Shauna Roberts，第41章，收錄於 Ice Magic, Fire Magic，Overland Park, Kan.：Hadley Rille Books，→ISBN，266頁：

forms: pheasants (plural)

ipa: /ˈfɛzənt/

rhymes: -ɛzənt


belga

glosses:
adj. 比利时的
m.
f. 比利时人==葡萄牙語==
比利时的，比利时人


bosomy

text: 近义词：big-breasted, buxom, busty, chesty

ipa: /ˈbʊz(ə)mi/

ipa: /ˈbʊzmi/

ipa: /ˈbʊzəmi/

parts: bo somy


blasphemous

etymology_texts: 借自拉丁語 blasphēmus (“褻瀆”)，來自古希臘語 βλάσφημος (blásphēmos，“惡言傷人”)。

text: His taking the name of God in vain was considered blasphemous.

forms:
more blasphemous (comparative)
most blasphemous (superlative)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blasphemous.wav


picosecond

etymology_texts: 源自pico- (“皮（可），公制前綴”) + second。

forms: picoseconds (plural)


bicuspid

forms:
bicuspidă (feminine singular)
bicuspizi (masculine plural)
bicuspide


bosquet

glosses: n.m. 小树林，树丛，小灌木丛


blasphemy

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古英語 blasfemye，來自古法語 blasfemie，來自教會拉丁語 blasphēmia，來自古希臘語 βλασφημία (blasphēmía，“褻瀆”)，來自βλασφημέω (blasphēméō，“誹謗”)。

text: That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad is a form of blasphemy.

translation: 那名伊瑪目稱，描繪穆罕穆德的樣子是一種褻瀆。

text: Had God cancelled His everlasting Covenant with Israel? The mere thought was blasphemy! But what did God's silence and the present dark cloud mean?

ref: 1920, John Rougier Cohu, The Bible and Modern Thought, page 325:

text: Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".

translation: 你看，他只是說了“耶和華”而已，我不覺得他是要褻瀆。

ref: 1979，Monty Python's Life of Brian，由 Matthias（John Young）：

text:
Shepard: What happened to those other Alliance officers? The ones who came before me?
Major Kyle: They wanted to take me away from here! They wanted me to abandon this place. Turn my back on my family. They spoke blasphemy!
Major Kyle: I did what I could to make their end quick and painless. I had no other choice. It was necessary to protect my children. Only I can keep them safe.

ref: 2008，BioWare，Mass Effect（Science Fiction），Redwood City：Electronic Arts，→ISBN，→OCLC，PC，幕：Presrop：

text: The fundamentalists in that religion hold that such views are blasphemy and that religion is above criticism.

ref: 2009, Francis, Business Ethics, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, →ISBN, page 139:

glosses: 對不可侵犯事物的不敬行為

text: Some historical information is given on the Panormo family of guitar makers and a whole chapter is called, "Maccaferri's 'Monstrosity'," the name given Julian's Maccaferri guitar due to the blasphemy of its having more than six strings, […]

ref: 1999, American Lutherie: The Quarterly Journal of the Guild of American Luthiers:

text: The market has responded well to this type of packaging [wine in cardboard containers], even if some consider it near blasphemy, and it has had a role in bringing wine to the younger generation and to social classes intimidated by the high price of many bottled products.

ref: 2004, Touring Club of Italy, The Italian Wine Guide: The Definitive Guide to Touring, Sourcing and Tasting, Touring Editore, →ISBN, page 149:

text: I know this is utter blasphemy and completely incomprehensible to developers and power users who love their keyboard shortcuts, but some people just love having buttons on their screens with the exact name of their function written on them.

ref: 2015, Benjamin V. Root, Interactive Applications Using Matplotlib, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 89:

forms: blasphemies (plural)

rhymes: -æsfəmi

cursing

sense: 褻瀆

profanation

sense: 不敬行為


belie

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 belyen、beliggen，源自古英語 beliċġan、biliċġan (“围绕，包围”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *biliggjan，源自原始日耳曼語 *biligjaną (“围绕”)。等价于be- (“周围”) + lie (“位于”)。

forms:
bely (alternative)
belies (third-person singular present)
belying (present participle)
belay
belain (past participle)

ipa: /bɪˈlaɪ/

ipa: /bəˈlaɪ/

ipa: /biˈlaɪ/


belie

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 belyen、beleoȝen，源自古英語 belēogan (“欺骗”)，源自原始西日耳曼語 *bileugan (“欺骗”)。等价于be- (“关于”) + lie (“欺骗”)。对比荷蘭語 beliegen (“说关于...的谎”)、德語 belügen (“欺骗，对...说谎”)。

text: Thou do’ſt bely him Percy, thou doſt bely him; / He never did encounter with Glendower:

ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 51:

date: 自13世纪

glosses: 歪曲，歪曲关于...的事实，错误代表

text: Should I do ſo I ſhould bely my thoughts, / Comfort's in heauen, and we are on the earth[…]

ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

text: He found it by experience, and made good uſe of it in his owne perſon, if Plutarch bely him not[…]。

ref: 1638，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy. […]，5th版，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps，→OCLC，「partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv」，198頁：

text: Cambodia's apparent relative insignificance belied its geopolitical importance.

ref: 2013 April 3, Patrick Heenan, The Southeast Asia Handbook, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 132:

text: Opposite, the Loram site contains a real ragbag of yellow, blue or rust-streaked kit whose appearance belies their importance in keeping the railways running.

ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 49:

glosses: 与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的

text: Her obvious nervousness belied what she said.

translation: 她慌张的神态与她说的话相矛盾。

text: Early Chinese Buddhist travellers like O'Kong (AD 759-763) mention the use of kesar in Buddhist Viharas for various rituals, and also in making paint for Buddhist scrolls and thankas. This fact belies the earlier myth that would have us believe that kesar was not known prior to Lalitaditya's reign.

ref: 2001，Arun Kaul，「Kesar: The cultural geography of Kashmir」，收錄於 The Human Landscape，227頁：

text: In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.

ref: 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

date: 自17世纪

text: They haue belyed the Lord, and ſaid; It is not he, neither ſhall euill come vpon vs, neither ſhal we ſee ſwoꝛd noꝛ famine.

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Jeremiah 5:12」，第1zh-hans:列;zh-hant:欄：

text: Three belied you, three betrayed you! One you betrayed was three times true! Lord Voryn Dagoth, Dagoth Ur, steadfast liegeman, faithful friend, bids you come and climb Red Mountain!

ref: 2002 May 1, Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, →OCLC, Microsoft Windows, scene: Ashlander Informant:

text: His calm demeanor belied his inner sense of guilt.

translation: 他虽然淡定自若，心里却十分愧疚。

text: The rosy outlook belies a struggle to achieve statewide eradication that has persisted since the insect first crossed the border from Mexico around 1892.

ref: 2013 August 31, Elizabeth Koh, “Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought”, in New York Times:

text: At NIE the virtually monolingual linguistic landscape basically belies a quite different multilingual reality.

ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 8:

glosses: 展示，暴露 （某种矛盾或出乎意料的事物）

text: A host of evidence is adduced by the accused, evidence whose sometimes self-contradictory nature belies a certain desperation

ref: 1993, Carol A. Mossman, Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

text: […] a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility […]

ref: 2016 August 3, Jeanne Marie Laskas, “Inside the Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns”, in GQ Online:

forms:
bely (alternative)
belies (third-person singular present)
belying (present participle)
belied (past participle)

misrepresent

sense: 歪曲，歪曲关于...的事实，错误代表

contradict

sense: 与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的

give lie to

sense: 与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的

give the lie to

sense: 与...相反，与...矛盾；表明...是错误的


bason

text: To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.

ref: 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

text: Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.

ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1st edition, chapter XV, page 297

text: [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."

ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:

forms: basons (plural)


bason

glosses: (晚期中古英語) basyn的另一種寫法


remarry

text: After his wife's death, he never remarried.

translation: 妻子去世後，他沒有續弦。

text: To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.

translation: 令所有人惊讶的是，离婚十年后，这对夫妇私奔到拉斯维加斯并复婚。

text: This church will remarry widows or widowers, but not divorcés.

translation: 這座教堂給寡婦、鰥夫辦結婚儀式，但不為離婚的人舉行。

forms:
remarries (third-person singular present)
remarrying (present participle)
remarried (past participle)

ipa: /ɹiːˈmæɹi/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-remarry.wav

rhymes: -æɹi


redneck

etymology_texts: 由 red + neck 組成。對照rooinek。原先指的是脖子發紅的農民，他們因為長時間在田裡勞作，脖子被曬傷而發紅。

raw_tags: 尤指美國南部及中西部、東北部部分地區

text: Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

ref: 1989，「Fight the Power」，收錄於 Fear of a Black Planet，由 Public Enemy：

glosses: 1921年西弗吉尼亞煤礦戰爭中戴上紅頭巾以示身份的礦工

glosses: 巴爾的摩街頭幫派的成員，活躍於1859年

forms: rednecks (plural)

ipa: /ˈɹɛdnɛk/

bogan

sense: 鄉巴佬；紅脖子


portend

etymology_texts: 借自拉丁語 portendere (“预测，预知”)，源自por- (“向前”) + tendere (“伸展”)，tendo的现在主动不定式。

text: A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,

ref: 1671，John Milton，「The First Book」，收錄於 Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes，倫敦： […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […]，→OCLC，第4頁：

text: Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.

text: When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:

forms:
portends (third-person singular present)
portending (present participle)
portended (past participle)

ipa: /pɔːˈtɛnd/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-portend.wav

ipa: /pɔɹˈtɛnd/

rhymes: -ɛnd


portent

forms: portents (plural)

ipa: /ˈpɔɹtənt/

ipa: /ˈpɔːtɛnt/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-portent.wav

ipa: /ˈpɔɹtɛnt/

ipa: /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɛnt/

ipa: /ˈpoətɛnt/

rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɛnt

rhymes: -o(ː)ɹtɛnt

rhymes: -oətɛnt


ragtag

glosses: 邋遢的，不整洁的，破烂的

text: He liked to wear an old ragtag coat that was so threadbare that he'd get sunburned through it.

translation: 他喜欢穿一件破旧的外套。那件外套都磨穿了，他穿着甚至会晒黑皮肤。

text: The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.

translation: 那个游击队是一个当地流氓、退伍士兵、无家可归的农民和政治理想家组成的涣散的组织

forms:
rag-tag (alternative)
more ragtag (comparative)
most ragtag (superlative)

bedraggled

sense: 邋遢的，不整洁的，破烂的

decrepit

sense: 邋遢的，不整洁的，破烂的

motheaten

sense: 邋遢的，不整洁的，破烂的

tattered

sense: 邋遢的，不整洁的，破烂的

motley

sense: 散乱的，混乱的，杂乱的


ragtag

text: The small group of ragtags, who had followed him to the cave a day prior had arrived and kept a short distance away.

ref: 2013, Casper Parks, Ages Past: The Isolation, page 258:

forms:
rag-tag (alternative)
ragtags (plural)


portentous

etymology_texts: 借自拉丁語 portentōsus，源自portentus (“预测的”) + -ōsus。对比早期形式portentuous（←中古英語←拉丁語 portentuōsus）。字面分析等同於portent + -ous。

text: Well may it sort [be fitting] that this portentous figure comes armed through our watch, so like the King that was and is the question of these wars.

ref: c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, act 1, scene 1; republished as Hamlet, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1992, →ISBN, page 4:

text: It is no longer in my possession, but my memory holds almost every word of its portentous message; and again I affirm my confidence in the sanity of the man who wrote it.

ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

text: The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.

ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page page:

text: If the siege of Boston seemed to end in anticlimax, with the sudden retreat of British military forces, the siege of New York City seen from the inside, fromunder siege, seemed infinitely more portentous: “The Day is Come that in all Probility on which Depends the Salvation of this Countery.”

ref: 2009, Konstantin Dierks, “Revolution and War”, in In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 225:

text: The main problem with To Believe, however, is that by combining two of their previous styles, the Cinematic Orchestra have landed on a sound that has become ubiquitous in the years they’ve been away – portentous, restrained and impeccably tasteful electronica.

ref: 2019 March 15, Rachel Aroesti, “The Cinematic Orchestra: To Believe review – soundscape originators' accomplished return”, in The Guardian:

forms:
more portentous (comparative)
most portentous (superlative)

ipa: /pɔː(ɹ)ˈtɛntəs/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-portentous.wav

ipa: /pɔrˈtɛn(t)əs/

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-portentous.wav

ominous

sense: 重要的，预示的

foreshadowing

sense: 噩兆的，不祥的

vain

sense: 自命不凡的，高傲的

parts: por ten tous


baguette

glosses: n.f. 小棒，小棍，筷子；长棍面包；卜棒，榛木棒［用来卜测水源，矿藏，珍宝等的工具］；［建，木］护条，圆线脚


remedial

glosses: 旨在解决问题的；补救的；纠正的

text: remedial treatment/surgery(= for a medical problem) 　治疗；医疗手术

text: Remedial action must be taken now. 　现在必须进行补救。

glosses: （为后进学生）补习的，辅导的

text: remedial education　 补习教育

text: a remedial class　 补习班

forms:
more remedial (comparative)
most remedial (superlative)

ipa: /ɹɪˈmiːdɪəl/


remedies

glosses: remediar 的第二人稱單數現在時直陳式/虛擬式


bidden

ipa: /ˈbɪdn̩/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bidden.wav


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古荷蘭語 bidden，繼承自古荷蘭語 bidden，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *biddjan，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *bidjaną (“要求”)，繼承自原始印歐語 *gʷʰédʰyeti。

text: Bidden tot God.

translation: 向上帝祈禱。

text: Zij hebben de gewoonte om vijf maal per dag te bidden.

translation: 他們有一天祈禱五次的習慣。

glosses: 向……祈禱 (通常跟介詞短語)

text: Ze bad God om vergiffenis.

translation: 她向上帝禱告以求寬恕。

text: Ik bid u vaarwel.

translation: 我向你道别。

text: De torenvalk speurde biddend naar zijn prooi.

translation: 紅隼盤旋著尋找獵物。

ipa: /ˈbɪdə(n)/

rhymes: -ɪdən

parts: bid den


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自古撒克遜語 biddian，繼承自原始日耳曼語 *bidjaną (“要求”)，源自原始印歐語 *gʷʰedʰ-。對照荷蘭語 bidden、西弗里斯蘭語 bidde、德語 bitten、英語 bid、丹麥語 bede。

text: He beed € 12,50 to kriegen.

text: De Sassen beden Saxnot mehr as alle annern Gödder.

translation: 撒克逊人对 Saxnot 的祈祷多于对其他所有神灵。

text: Ik bidd en beten Stillde!

translation: 請你們安靜！

text: Ik bidd jo Fahrwoll.

forms:
biddt (third-person singular present)
beed (past)
beden (past participle)
hebben (auxiliary)


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自中古高地德語 bieten，繼承自古高地德語 beodan，biotan 的北部方言變體。和德語 bieten、荷蘭語 bieden、英語 bid同源。

forms:
bitt (third-person singular present)
gebueden (past participle)
hunn (auxiliary)

ipa: /ˈbiden/

rhymes: -idən


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自古荷蘭語 bidden，繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *biddjan。


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自古英語 biddan。

forms:
biddeth
biddynge (present participle)

raw_tags: 第一/第三人稱單數過去直陳式，過去分詞）


bidden

etymology_texts: 繼承自原始西日耳曼語 *biddjan。


bassinet

glosses: n.m. 小盆；肾盂；轻头盔


bah

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示巴哈馬克里奧爾語。


rah

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示拉巴語。


bidding

glosses: bid 的現在時分詞和動名詞

ipa: /ˈbɪdɪŋ/

rhymes: -ɪdɪŋ


bidding

text: Do their biddings, and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."

ref: 1868, Fulwar William Fowle, Sermons preached in the cathedral church of Salisbury, page 172:

text: Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.

ref: 1912, Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle, English Farming, Past and Present, page 322:

forms: biddings (plural)


rickshaw

etymology_texts: 借自日語 力車 (rikisha)，略自人力車 (jinrikisha)，源自中古漢語 人力 (nyin lik) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ)（对比官話 人力車／人力车 (rénlìchē)）。

forms:
ricksha (alternative)
rikisha (alternative)
rikshaw (alternative)
'rickshaw (alternative)
riksha (alternative)
ricsha (alternative)
rickshaws (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rickshaw.wav


rickshaw

forms:
ricksha (alternative)
rikisha (alternative)
rikshaw (alternative)
'rickshaw (alternative)
riksha (alternative)
ricsha (alternative)
rickshaws (third-person singular present)
rickshawing (present participle)
rickshawed (past participle)


bide

forms:
bìdē (canonical)
бѝде̄

ipa: /bǐdeː/

parts: bi de


belle

etymology_texts: 源自法語 belle (“美麗的”)，源自拉丁語 bella。

text: In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

forms: belles (plural)

ipa: /bɛl/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-belle.wav

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-belle.wav

rhymes: -ɛl

homophone: bell


belle

glosses: bellen 的(虛擬語氣) 單數現在時虛擬式


belle

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Ltrlg-belle.wav

homophone: bel

roman: belles


belle

beau

sense: 女友


belle

glosses:
bellen 的屈折：
第一人稱單數現在時

glosses:
bellen 的屈折：
第一人稱/第三人稱單數虛擬式一式

glosses:
bellen 的屈折：
單數命令式

rhymes: -ɛlə


belle

forms:
plus belle (comparative)
le plus belle (superlative)


belle

etymology_texts: 源自bellus (“漂亮，英俊”)。

forms:
bellē (canonical)
bellius (comparative)
bellissimē (superlative)


belle

etymology_texts: 源自原始西日耳曼語 *bellā，源自原始日耳曼語 *bellǭ。

text: bellan hringan

translation: 敲鐘

text: Se dēofol wearp ānne stān tō þǣre bellan þæt hēo eall tōsprang.

translation: 惡魔把一塊石頭扔向鐘，那口鐘便碎了。

ref: 10世紀末，埃因沙姆的埃爾弗里克，"St. Benedict, Abbot"


belle

glosses: bellemek 的第二人稱單數命令式


baht

etymology_texts: 来自鄂圖曼土耳其語 بخت (baht)，来自波斯語 بخت (baxt)。

forms:
bȁht (canonical)
ба̏хт

ipa: /bâxt/


rid

forms:
rids (third-person singular present)
ridding (present participle)
rid
ridded
rid (past participle)
ridded (past participle)
ridden (past participle)

ipa: /ˈɹɪd/

rhymes: -ɪd


results

glosses: result的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式

ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌlts/

parts: re sults


bidimensional

forms: bidimensionais (plural)

rhymes: -aw

rhymes: -al

parts: bi di men si o nal


bidimensional

forms: bidimensionales (masculine feminine plural)

ipa: /bidimensjoˈnal/


redresser

glosses: redress的施動者名詞。

text: A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.

ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:

forms: redressers (plural)


redresser

text: redresser l'économie

translation: 复兴经济


baignoire

text: Then enter Durien the sculptor, who had been presented with a baignoire at the Odéon to see "La Dame aux Camélias," and he invited Trilby and another lady to dine with him "au cabaret" and share his box.

ref: 1894, George Du Maurier, Trilby:

forms:
baignoir (alternative)
baignoires (plural)

ipa: /bɛnˈwɑː(ɹ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-baignoire.wav


brusque

glosses: adj. 粗暴的，粗鲁的，生硬的，唐突的；突然的，意外的


bidonville

glosses: n.m. 贫民窟，棚户区


brusquerie

glosses: n.f. 粗鲁，粗暴；突然，急剧


baste

etymology_texts: 和皮特薩米語 bissti 等同源。

ipa: /ˈpasːte/


baste

glosses:
bastar 的第一人稱單數（eu）現在時虛擬式
# bastar 的第三人稱單數（ele和ela，亦用於você及其他代詞）現在時虛擬式
# bastar 的第三人稱單數（você）肯定命令式
# bastar 的第三人稱單數（você）否定命令式


baste

glosses:
bastar 的屈折：
第一人稱/第三人稱單數現在時虛擬式

glosses:
bastar 的屈折：
第三人稱單數命令式

glosses:
bastir 的屈折：
第三人稱單數現在時直陳式

glosses:
bastir 的屈折：
第二人稱單數命令式

ipa: /ˈbaste/

rhymes: -aste


bastille

glosses: n.f. （城门口的）防御共事，城堡；巴士底狱


rider

glosses: rida 的現在時直陳式


bastion

glosses: n.m. 棱堡；堡垒，营垒，支柱，地盘


railroad

forms: railroads (plural)

ipa: /ˈɹeɪlɹoʊd/

ipa: /ˈɹeɪɹoʊd/

ipa: /ˈɹeɪlɹəʊd/

rhymes: -eɪlɹoʊd

rhymes: -eɪlɹəʊd

parts: rail road


railroad

forms:
railroads (third-person singular present)
railroading (present participle)
railroaded (past participle)


bailiwick

etymology_texts: < bailie （“执达官”） + wick （“住所”） < 古英語 wīc。

glosses: 市政官的辖区（或职权范围）

forms: bailiwicks (plural)

enpr: bā'lĭ-wĭk


brute

forms:
more brute (comparative)
most brute (superlative)

enpr: bro͞ot

ipa: /bɹuːt/

ipa: /bɹut/

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-bruit.wav

rhymes: -uːt


brute

glosses: n.f. 野蛮的人，粗鲁的人，蛮横无理的人；粗暴的人


bureaucracy

etymology_texts: bureau + -cracy，來自法語 bureaucratie，由雅克·克勞德·瑪麗·文森特·德古納所創的新詞，來自bureau (“官方”) + -cratie (“規則”)。

text: However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, to save hauliers from custom's bureaucracy of driving via Britain.

ref: 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:

text: At that time the administration replaced the system of patronage in the civil service with a bureaucracy.

translation: 当时，政府用官僚制取代了公务员队伍中的赞助制。

text: The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy. (apocryphal quip)

translation: 官僚机构正在扩大，以满足不断扩大的官僚体制的需要。

text: The head of the civil service promised to clamp down on bureaucracy.

translation: 公务员系统的负责人承诺要打击官僚主义。

text: "If we can capture anything from this awful situation, it is that ability to trust people to do certain things for themselves and to look out for each other, and to give them the tools to do their job as well as they can without having to go through endless bureaucracy to achieve it, which very often just delays and dilutes and doesn't add much value.

ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 35:

forms:
bureaucratie (alternative)
bureau-ocracy (alternative)
burocracy (US alternative)
bureaucracies (plural)

ipa: /bjʊəˈɹɒkɹəsi/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bureaucracy.wav

ipa: /bjʊˈɹɑːkɹəsi/


bat

etymology_texts: 来自原始斯拉夫語 *batъ。

forms:
bȁt (canonical)
ба̏т

ipa: /bât/


bat

etymology_texts: 借自鄂圖曼土耳其語 باصدی (bastı) (土耳其語 bastı)，来自باصمق (basmak) (土耳其語 basmak)。

glosses: 沉重的脚步声（如军事游行中）

text: Napred, sve bliže i bliže, / Čuje se koraka bat. / Glas milijona se diže: / Dole fašizam i rat!

ref: 1939, Čedomir Minderović, Crven je istok i zapad:

forms:
bȃt (canonical)
ба̑т

ipa: /bâːt/


biffin

glosses: adj. 手工的n. 男人（人）


brutish

forms:
more brutish (comparative)
most brutish (superlative)

rhymes: -uːtɪʃ


bureaucrat

text: Coristine, who had signed onto the telemeeting using a non-government email address, gave the bureaucrats swift marching orders, telling them he needed access to the federal department’s contract and payment systems before reportedly making them justify their jobs at the $1 billion-budget administration.

translation: 科里斯廷使用一个非政府邮箱登录了这场远程会议，并迅速向这些官僚下达指示，称自己需要访问该联邦部门的合同和支付系统；据报道，他随后还要求这些在这个拥有10亿美元预算的机构任职的人为自己工作的合理性作出解释。

ref: 2025年 2月7日，Josie Ensor，「Meet Elon Musk’s ‘baby-faced assassins’ leading Doge takeover」，收錄於 The Times，原始內容存檔自 原始內容，存檔時間 2026年1月27日：

text: At the Oval Office signing ceremony, Musk responded to critiques that he’s become the very thing he claims to be fighting — an unelected bureaucrat with enormous power — by pointing to the 2024 results: “You couldn’t ask for a stronger mandate from the public.”

translation: 在椭圆形办公室的签署仪式上，马斯克回应了外界的批评——有人认为他已经成了自己所反对的那种人：一个拥有巨大权力却未经选举的官僚——他以2024年的选举结果为依据表示：“你不可能要求公众给予比这更有力的授权了。”

ref: 2025年 2月14日，Marshall Cohen，「The almighty Musk: How the world’s richest man became Washington’s most powerful bureaucrat」，收錄於 CNN，原始內容存檔自 原始內容，存檔時間 2025年2月21日：

text: One of three major processes is generally used: a bureaucrat review, a broader community review, or an approvals group review. As only local bureaucrats or Wikimedia stewards can grant the bot flag necessary to operate an authorized bot, the simplest method is to appeal directly to these individuals.

translation: 通常采用以下三种主要流程之一：行政员审核、更广泛的社区审核或审批小组审核。由于只有本地行政员或维基媒体监管员才能授予运行授权机器人所需的标志，因此最简单的方法是直接向这些人提出申请。

ref: 2014，Pnina Fichman，Noriko Hara（編），Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration，Rowman & Littlefield，→ISBN，18頁：

forms: bureaucrats (plural)

ipa: /ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bureaucrat.wav

ipa: /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/

notes: bureaucrat 一词虽然通常以专业和尊重的方式使用，但往往受到组织机构（尤其是政府机构）工作人员的轻视。这是因为该词有时带有僵化、冷漠，尤其是懒惰的含义（后者尤其体现在经常被嘲讽的 lazy bureaucrat 一词中）。因此，许多组织机构（尤其是政府机构）的员工更倾向于使用 manager、public manager、civil servant、public servant、public official 等。

parts: bu reau crat


barcarole

etymology_texts: 借自法語 barcarolle，源自威尼斯語 barcaroƚa (“船夫唱的歌”)，源自 barca (“樹皮、駁船、船”),最終源自埃及語 bꜣjr (“運輸船；一種魚”)。

glosses: 船歌（威尼斯船夫搖貢多拉所唱的歌曲）

text: Venice! dear beautiful Venice! scene of harmony and love! where all was gayety and mirth, revelry and pleasure, with what warm feelings do I recall thee to my memory; day and night were the gondoliers singing barcarolles, or the verses of [Torquato] Tasso and [Ludovico] Ariosto to Venetian airs; […]

ref: 1826, Michael Kelly, [Theodore Edward Hook], Reminiscences of Michael Kelly, of the King’s Theatre, and Theatre Royal Drury Lane, including a Period of Nearly Half a Century; with Original Anecdotes of Many Distinguished Persons, Political, Military, and Musical, New York, N.Y.: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 327 Pearl-Street, for E[vert Augustus] Duyckinck, Collins and Hannay, Collins & Co., W. B. Gilley, H. I. Megary, A. T. Goodrich, and G. & C. Carvill, →OCLC, page 90:

text: In Venice! This night is so delicious—its air / Full of moonlight and passionate snatches of song, […] / —with a song full of dole, / A forlorn barcarole, / As my gondola glides.

ref: 1867 February, “Aureolus Paracelsus”, “In a Gondola. (Suggested by Mendelssohn’s Andante in G Minor, Book I., Lied 6, of the ‘Lieder ohne Worten.’)”, in W. H. Bidwell, editor, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 2 (New Series), New York, N.Y.: Published at No. 5 Beekman Street, →OCLC, stanza I, page 174:

date: 自18世紀晚期起

glosses: 船歌（模仿上述歌曲創作的音樂）

text: A Barcarolle, with variations for the Pianoforte and flute, ad lib. by [Jean Théodore] Latour, opens with an introduction of great feeling and elegance. The Barcarolle is composed by [Jacques Féréol] Mazas, the great violinist, and has been played by him at the Philharmonic Concerts, and is original and graceful.

ref: 1822 May, “Report of Music”, in The London Magazine, volume V, number XXIX, London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, page 492:

text: But perhaps the best airs are those of Italy (particularly the Venetian) and Spain. […] The bolero, the barcarole, the canzonetta, and romance, have all the gaiety, softness, tenderness, and chivalry, which we associate with the troubadours, the gay squires, and sprightly dames, of the early ages of poetry and music.

ref: 1824, “A Collection of Admired Italian, French, German, Spanish, and English Songs, with a Progressive Accompaniment for the Spanish Guitar; by George Hervey Derwort. Nos. 1 to 13. London. Gow and Son.”, in Richard Mackenzie Bacon, editor, The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review, volume VI, London: Sold by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster-Row, →OCLC, pages 547–548:

text: [H]e was in the drawing-room before any of us; and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs Italian and German by the score.

ref: 1852年3月～1853年9月，查爾斯·狄更斯，「Esther’s Narrative」，收錄於 荒涼山莊，倫敦：Bradbury and Evans， […]，1853 出版，→OCLC，424頁：

text: Later in the evening Mr. [Anton] Rubinstein played his smaller pieces, such as the march from "The Ruins of Athens," his own "Barcarolle," and "Valse Caprice," and the enthusiasm and appreciation of his intelligent audience grew greater and greater.

ref: 1895 February, William Steinway, “William Steinway’s Reminiscences of Rubinstein”, in W. S. B. Mathews, editor, Music. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and Literature of Music, volume VII, Chicago, Ill.: Music Magazine Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 395:

forms:
barcaroles (plural)
barcarolle (alternative)

ipa: /ˈbɑːkəɹəʊl/

ipa: /ˌbɑːkəˈɹəʊl/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-barcarole.wav

ipa: /ˈbɑɹkəˌɹoʊl/

rhymes: -əʊl

parts: bar ca role


barcarolle

glosses: n.f 威尼斯船夫歌，船歌；三拍子节奏的声乐曲或器乐曲


ret

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示雷塔語。


bifocal

glosses: adj. 双光的，双焦点的


bells

glosses: ship's bells (“船鐘，船上的報時鐘”)之同義詞

text: And to him, long bell-bottoms were “arrogant.” So, whenever he was home before I left for school, he would make me stand on the top step of the six steps to the bedroom level of our house and he would inspect my bells.

translation: 对他来说，长喇叭裤是“傲慢”的表现。所以，每当我去上学之前他回家时，他都会让我站在通往卧室的六级台阶中的最高一级上，检查我的喇叭裤。

ref: 2020，Erica Heller，One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us：

ipa: /bɛlz/

rhymes: -ɛlz


bells

glosses: bell 的第三人稱單數簡單現在時直陳式


bellwether

forms: bellwethers (plural)

ipa: /ˈbɛlwɛðə/

ipa: /ˈbɛlwɛðɚ/


brest

etymology_texts: 来自原始斯拉夫語 *berstъ。

forms:
brijest (alternative)
brȇst (canonical)
бре̑ст


bub

glosses: (國際標準) ISO 639-3 語言代碼，表示布阿語。


brethren

etymology_texts: 源自早期现代英语brethren，brother的复数，源自中古英語 brethren，源自中古英語 brethere、brether + -en (复数后缀)。 最终源自古英語 brōþor、brōþru (“兄弟们”)，受到了古英語 brēþer的影响，其为brōþor (“兄/弟”)的与格复数。等价于brother + -en 複。对比德語 Brüder (“兄弟们”)。详见brother。这种元音变化（自o到e）称为元音变音。

forms: brethern (alternative)

ipa: /ˈbɹɛðɹən/

notes: 复数brethren一般用于称呼某组织，尤其是宗教团体的成员，而复数brothers用于称呼家庭关系上的兄弟和其他更大的团体成员间的称呼。


brethren

text: The principle still sounds good, but our astronomical knowledge is limited, and we haven't yet discovered any such brethren solar systems.

ref: 2009, Seth Shostak, Confessions of an Alien Hunter:

forms:
brethern (alternative)
more brethren (comparative)
most brethren (superlative)


bate

forms:
bates (third-person singular present)
bating (present participle)
bated (past participle)

ipa: /beɪt/

rhymes: -eɪt

homophone: bait


breve

glosses:
adj. 简短的
m. 教皇敕书==葡萄牙語==
简短的


riesling

text: No longer just an excuse to eat great food and drink fine riesling, the Spring Festival has taken on new meaning.

ref: 2009 January 21, eric vellend, “Year of Ox calls for wokathon”, in Toronto Star:

forms: rieslings (plural)


riesling

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-riesling.wav


burette

glosses: n.f. 细颈小瓶；圣水壶；喷油壶；滴定管，量管


brevet

glosses: n.m. 专利证，文凭，执照，公证证书，保证


raindrop

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 rein-drope、reyn-drope、reyn drope，源自古英語 reġndropa，源自原始日耳曼語 *regnadrupô。等价于rain + drop。同源词包括薩特弗里斯蘭語 Riendruppe、西弗里斯蘭語 reindrip、荷蘭語 regendroppel、regendruppel、德國低地薩克森語 Regendrüpp、德語 Regentropfen、瑞典語 regndroppe、冰島語 regndropi。

text: It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.

ref: 1902, John Muir, "The Grand Cañon of the Colorado":

forms: raindrops (plural)

enpr: rānʹdrŏp

ipa: /ˈɹeɪndɹɒp/

ipa: /ˈɹeɪndɹɑp/

drop

sense: 雨滴，雨点


bareback

text: bareback riding

translation: 无鞍骑行

text: bareback sex

translation: 无套性交

text: ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.

ref: 1937. "Bareback Bathing Ban Off", March 30, The New York Times

ipa: /ˈbɛəbæk/


bareback

text: I can ride a horse bareback.

translation: 我可以不用马鞍骑马。

text: We had sex bareback.

translation: 我们不戴保险套做爱。


bareback

text: In this video, the big guy gets to bareback the little guy.

translation: 在这部影片里，大个子不戴套插进小个子的屁眼里。

forms:
barebacks (third-person singular present)
barebacking (present participle)
barebacked (past participle)


bareback

glosses: 一種被作為肉類的鳥，沒有羽毛

text: Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.

ref: 1950, Poultry Digest, volume 9, page 91:

forms: barebacks (plural)


blather

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 bletheren、bloderen，源自古諾爾斯語 blaðra (“说胡话”)。与低地蘇格蘭語 blether、bladder、bledder (“胡扯”)，德語方言bladdern (“说胡话”)、挪威語 bladra (“含糊不清地说”)、冰島語 blaðra (“说废话”)同源。

text: On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

ref: 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, 2014, section 5:

text: Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

ref: 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:

forms:
blether (alternative)
blathers (third-person singular present)
blathering (present participle)
blathered (past participle)

ipa: /blæðə(ɹ)/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-blather.wav

rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)


blather

text: That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

ref: 1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,

text: Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

ref: 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 23, p. 265,

text: With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

ref: 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Part 5, p. 280,

forms: blether (alternative)


blather

text: A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

ref: 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,

forms: blathers (plural)


bellyband

glosses: 一种绕在马或其他役畜腹部的皮带，用于固定马鞍或车轴；腹帶

glosses: 穿戴在腹部周围的各种束带

glosses: 一种仅覆盖书籍一部分的护封

forms:
belly band (alternative)
belly-band (alternative)
bellybands (plural)

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bellyband.wav


retaliate

forms:
retaliates (third-person singular present)
retaliating (present participle)
retaliated (past participle)


brevity

etymology_texts: 来自拉丁语brevitatem 来自盎格鲁诺曼语brevite 两种可能：


burgeon

etymology_texts:
源自中古英語 burjon、burioun (“芽”)，源自盎格魯-諾曼語 burjun、burgeon、burgon（对比古法語 burjon (“苞”)），源自古古法蘭克語 *burjo (“芽；后代”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *burjô (“芽；后代”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *burjaną (“升起”)，源自原始印歐語 *bʰer-。对比古高地德語 burjan、burien、burren (“升起”)、古英語 byrian (“出现，发生”)、古英語 byre (“子嗣，后代”)、阿爾巴尼亞語 buron (“萌芽”)。还见bear。
另有词源认为古法語 burjon (“芽”)源自通俗拉丁語 *burrionem，*burrio的，源自晚期拉丁語 burra (“绒毛”)（可能指盖在某些芽上的绒毛）。

forms: burgeons (plural)

ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/

ipa: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/

rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒən


burgeon

text: Gradually, the town burgeoned into a thriving city.

translation: 这座城镇渐渐地成长为繁荣的都市。

forms:
burgeons (third-person singular present)
burgeoning (present participle)
burgeoned (past participle)

ipa: /ˈbɜː.d͡ʒən/

ipa: /ˈbɝː.d͡ʒən/

blossom

sense: 成长，扩张

blossom

sense: 萌芽


bubbly

text: Whip the egg white into a bubbly froth.

translation: 将蛋清搅拌直到起大量泡沫。

text: She has a bubbly personality.

translation: 她很阳光活泼。

glosses: 泡泡的，类似泡泡的，泡沫质的

text: The architecture of the conservatory was bubbly.

text: China’s economy is too bubbly and will soon slow down.

translation: 中国经济泡沫过大，很快就会放缓。

ref: 2011年 7月2日，Iana Dreyer，「China’s coming era of slower growth: Are western economies prepared?」，收錄於 East Asia Forum：

forms:
bubblier (comparative)
bubbliest (superlative)

ipa: /ˈbʌbli/

ipa: /ˈbʌbəli/

rhymes: -ʌbli

ebullient

sense: 活泼的，阳光的，开朗的

bubbly

sense: 充满泡泡


bubbly

text: We're getting married–this calls for a bottle of bubbly!

translation: 我们要结婚啦！开一瓶香槟庆祝一下！

text: “[…] Maybe some bubbly for the ladies, since we just bought the house of life, and break camp . . . since they are very appreciative that things got wrapped up so fast.”

ref: 2007, L. A. Banks, The Cursed, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

forms: bubblies (plural)

champers

sense: 香槟


blazer

etymology_texts: 源自blaze + -er。原指剑桥大学圣约翰学院一个赛艇俱乐部Lady Margaret Boat Club会员所穿的“炫目的”（blazing）猩红色夹克。对比古英語 blæsere、blasere (“炉膛，易燃物”，字面意思是“燃烧物”)。

glosses: 西装外套 （常作校服、制服等）

glosses: blaze的施動者名詞：

glosses: blaze的施動者名詞： 燃烧物，耀眼的东西

glosses: blaze的施動者名詞： 在树上留下记号的人

glosses: 在烤锅灯上直接使用的碟子

text: blazers of crime

ref: 1590，埃德蒙·斯宾塞，「Book II, Canto IX」，收錄於 仙后（The Faerie Qveene . […]），London： […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie，→OCLC，「stanza 25」：

glosses: 运动俱乐部的资深成员 （暗指其观点老旧保守）

text: "What'd I tell you?" said Bill. "The old wolverine was tryin' to run a blazer on us. All he needed was to be showed we meant business. And he can't make no trouble for us when he gets out, 'cause our two words are better'n his."

ref: 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate

text: These folks don't take kindly to no brash stranger comin' in here tryin' to run a blazer on 'em.

ref: 2004, Louis L'Amour, Utah Blaine: A Novel, →ISBN:

text: Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him.

ref: 2016, Eugene Cunningham, Triggernometry: A Gallery Of Gunfighters, →ISBN:

forms: blazers (plural)

ipa: /ˈbleɪzə/

ipa: /ˈbleɪzɚ/

rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)


blazer

glosses: 西装外套 （常作校服、制服等）

audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-blazer.wav


blazer

glosses: blêizer的另一種拼寫法


blazer

glosses: 西装外套 （常作校服、制服等）

forms: blazere (plural)


blazer

glosses: 西装外套 （常作校服、制服等）

forms: blazeres (plural)


baking

glosses: bake 的現在時分詞和動名詞

ipa: /ˈbeɪkɪŋ(ɡ)/

rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ


baking

forms: bakings (plural)


big-time

glosses: bigtime的另一種拼寫法


big-time

pos_title: 副词

glosses: bigtime的另一種拼寫法


bigamist

forms:
bigàmista (alternative)
bigàmist (canonical)
бига̀мист

ipa: /biɡǎmist/

parts: bi ga mist


boucherie

glosses: n.f. 鲜肉业；肉店，肉铺；屠杀，残杀


bouchon

glosses: n.m. 塞子，瓶塞；管道堵塞物，交通堵塞；软木塞游戏；［渔］浮子；（擦马用的）一把麦杆，一把乾草


boucle

glosses: n.f. 扣子，带扣，扣形饰物；结，环，圈；河湾；环形路线；周期性指令序列；循环，回路，环式效应


balalaika

glosses: n.f. ［俄］巴拉莱卡琴（俄国民间三弦琴）


boudin

glosses: n.m. 猪血香肠；长圆柱形物品


bleak

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 bleke（亦bleche，→同源对似词英語 bleach (“苍白的”)），和bleike（源自古诺尔斯语）及早期中古英語 blak、blac (“苍白的”)，源自古英語 blǣc、blǣċ、blāc (“苍白的，憔悴的，乌青的；明亮的，闪亮的，闪闪发光的”)和古諾爾斯語 bleikr (“苍白的”)，源自原始日耳曼語 *blaikaz (“苍白的”)。同源词有荷蘭語 bleek (“苍白的”)、低地德語 blek (“苍白的”)、德語 bleich (“苍白的，蜡黄的”)、丹麥語 bleg (“苍白的”)、瑞典語 blek (“苍白的”)、書面挪威語 bleik、blek (“苍白的”)、新挪威語 bleik (“苍白的”)、法羅語 bleikur (“苍白的”)、冰島語 bleikur (“苍白的；粉色的”)。

text: When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.

text: a bleak and bare rock    a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape

translation: 一个孤零零的裸露的岩石   荒凉而坑坑洼洼的月球表面

text: They escaped across the bleak landscape.

translation: 他们逃跑时穿过了那片荒地。

text: We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.

translation: 他们跋涉过开阔的草地，攀上荒凉的大山。

text: Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.

ref: 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches

glosses: 不快的，不高兴的；悲怆的

text: Dany didn’t necessarily have to die, but letting her live would’ve been an assessment of humanity so bleak that even George R.R. Martin, it seems, wants to hope for something better.

ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club:

text: Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.

translation: 离婚之后的2月Downtown Albany过得很伤心。

text: A bleak future is in store for you.

translation: 你的未来很悲凉。

text: The news is bleak.

translation: 消息令人悲伤。

text: The survey paints a bleak picture.

translation: 调查描绘出一副悲凉的光景。

forms:
bleaker (comparative)
bleakest (superlative)

ipa: /bliːk/

rhymes: -iːk

sense: 脸色苍白的


bleak

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 bleke (“小河鱼”)，可能变换自（因为英語 blǣc (“明亮的”)或古諾爾斯語 bleikja）古英語 blǣġe (“银鲤；虾虎鱼”)，或可能源自中古英語 *bleye的一个指小词，等价于blay + -ock或blay + -kin。见blay。

forms:
bleaks (plural)
bleak (plural)


bleaker

glosses: bleak 的比較級形式。


boudoir

glosses: n.m. （贵妇的）小客厅；糖花加长饼干


bouffant

glosses: adj. 鼓起的，似充气的


remonstrate

forms:
remonstrates (third-person singular present)
remonstrating (present participle)
remonstrated (past participle)


piety

etymology_texts: 源自中古英語 piete，借自中古法語 pieté，源自拉丁語 pietās。参见同源对似词英語 pietà和英語 pity。

text: Colleen's piety led her to make sacrifices that most people would not have made.

translation: Colleen的虔诚使她做出了大部分人不会做出的牺牲。

glosses: (对父母的) 孝顺；顾家；(对国家的) 忠诚

glosses: 不假思索而产生的虔诚的观念

forms:
pietie (obsolete alternative)
pieties (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-piety.wav

rhymes: -aɪɪti

parts: pi e ty


rete

glosses: retar 的第一人稱/第三人稱單數現在時虛擬式


pieza

glosses: f. 块，个，物件，东西，钱币，房间，戏剧脚本，乐曲，棋子，零件，炮


rainworm

etymology_texts: 來自中古英語 *reinwurm、*reinworm，來自古英語 reġnwyrm，來自原始西日耳曼語 *regnawurmi。可分解為rain + worm，因這種蟲有下雨後從潮濕土壤跑出來的習性。與荷蘭語 regenworm、古高地德語 reganwurm（德語 Regenwurm）同源。

forms: rainworms (plural)

earthworm

sense: 蚯蚓


buckaroo

etymology_texts: 早期中世紀拉丁語 vaccārius (“牧牛人”)

etymology_texts: 晚期拉丁語 baccalārius (“無地農奴；牧牛人（？）”) (墨洛溫王朝)

etymology_texts:
源自西班牙語 vaquero (“牛仔”) 的變化形式，拼寫受到 buck (“（名詞）雄羚羊、雄鹿等；具冒險精神或意氣風發的年輕男子；（動詞）指馬等：向上跳躍並弓起背部，落地時頭部低垂、前腿僵直，後腿用力向上踢”) 的影響。英語 vaquero 的同源對似詞。
同源詞

glosses: 牛仔；特指通常不參加牛仔競技表演的職業牛仔

text: No thanks, cowboy. If I was to let every rodeo hand I pulled a bull off of buy me liquor, I'd have been an alcoholic long ago. Pullin' bulls off of you buckaroos is just my job. So save your money for your next entry fee, cowboy.

translation: 不用了，牛仔。如果我讓每個被我從公牛身上拉下來的牛仔競技手請我喝酒，我早就成酒鬼了。把你們這些牛仔從公牛身上拉下來只是我的工作。所以把錢省下來付下次參賽費吧，牛仔。

ref: 2005 September 2，Larry McMurtry，Diana Ossana，片头起00:51:25，收錄於 Brokeback Mountain，Universal City, Calif.：Focus Features，→OCLC：

glosses: 採用獨特牛仔服飾風格和傳統的人

text: Many cowboy poets have a buckaroo look and feel about them.

translation: 許多牛仔詩人都有一種牛仔的外貌和感覺。

glosses: 一種後跟高且向後收窄的牛仔靴款式

glosses: 頑固、魯莽的人；急躁的人

text: Don’t run in looking for a fight like some kind of buckaroo.

translation: 別像某種魯莽的人一樣衝進去找架打。

forms:
buckaroos (plural)
buckayro (obsolete alternative)
buckeroo (alternative)

ipa: /ˌbʌkəˈɹuː/

ipa: /ˌbʌkəˈɹu/

wav_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-buckaroo.wav

rhymes: -uː

parts: buck a roo


buckaroo

etymology_texts: 可能是 buck 的花俏變化形式，受到 buckaroo（詞源1）的影響。

glosses: buck (“美元”)之同義詞

text: That’ll be twenty buckaroos, buddy.

translation: 那要二十塊錢，哥兒們。

forms: buckaroos (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-buckaroo.wav

buckaroonie

sense: buck (“美元”)之同義詞

smackeroo

sense: buck (“美元”)之同義詞


bled

glosses: n.m. （北非地区的）内地，乡村；偏僻的村子，穷乡僻壤


bougie

glosses: n.f. 蜡烛；［汽］火星塞


burlesque

glosses: adj. 滑稽可笑的，荒唐可笑的；诙谐的，滑稽的n.m. 滑稽可笑，荒唐可笑；滑稽讽刺作品，诙谐模仿；滑稽电影；诙谐文学作品的作者


bemuse

forms:
bemuses (third-person singular present)
bemusing (present participle)
bemused (past participle)

ipa: /bɪˈmjuːz/

ipa: /bəˈmjuːz/

rhymes: -uːz


remorse

etymology_texts: 约14世纪首次可考，作中古英語 remors，源自古法語 remors，源自中世紀拉丁語 remorsus，源自拉丁語 remordeō (“折磨；烦扰”，字面意思是“咬回去”)，源自re- + mordeō (“咬”)。详见remord。

text: In criminal proceedings, empirical studies have shown that remorse plays an important role in observers’ judgments of defendants.

ref: 2014 March 1, Rocksheng Zhong, Madelon Baranoski, Neal Feigenson, Larry Davidson, Alec Buchanan, Howard V. Zonana, “So You’re Sorry? The Role of Remorse in Criminal Law”, in Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online, Volume 42, Issue 1, pages 39–48:

text: Failure, disgrace, poverty, sorrow, despair, suffering, tears even, the broken words that come from lips in pain, remorse that makes one walk on thorns, conscience that condemns . . . —all these were things of which I was afraid.

ref: 1897, Oscar Wilde, De Profundis:

forms:
remorce (obsolete alternative)
remorses (plural)

enpr: rĭ-môrsʹ

ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-remorse.wav

ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔɹs/

rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s

agenbite

sense: 悔恨；罪恶感，内疚

misery

sense: 感伤；同情

parts: re morse


remorse

text: And if we look abroad, to take a view of men as they are, we shall find that they remorse in one place, for doing or omitting that which others, in another place, think they merit by.

ref: 1689, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:

text: When they have accepted their advice and have some upleasant experience then they remorse.

ref: 2009, Pankaj Arora, Sex Education In Schools, page 142:

text: Then with godly sorrow they remorse with a humble heart, and they repent.

ref: 2020, Donald Werner, The Mark of the Beast or the Seal of Yahoveh God?, page 7:

forms:
remorce (obsolete alternative)
remorses (third-person singular present)
remorsing (present participle)
remorsed (past participle)

ipa: /ɹɪˈmɔː(ɹ)s/


remorse

glosses: remors的另一種寫法


bemused

glosses: bemuse 的簡單過去時和過去時分詞

ipa: /bɪˈmjuːzd/

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bemused.wav


bemused

forms:
more bemused (comparative)
most bemused (superlative)


bouillon

etymology_texts: 首次可考于1656年，源自法語 bouillon，源自动词bouillir (“煮沸”)，源自古法語 boillir，源自拉丁語 bullīre，bulliō (“煮沸”)的现在主动不定式，源自bulla (“气泡”)。

forms: bouillons (plural)

audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bouillon.wav

ipa: /ˈbʊlˌjɑn/

ipa: /ˈbʊljən/

ipa: /ˈbuˌjɑn/

broth

sense: 汤


bouillon

forms:
bouillons (plural)
bouillonnetje (diminutive)

ipa: /bu(l)ˈjɔn/

rhymes: -ɔn

cantille

sense: 金条，银条等贵金属条

parts: bouil lon


bouillon

glosses: 简陋餐馆 （以前指只卖肉汤的）

бульон

roman: bulʹon

ბულიონი

roman: bulioni


bigot

glosses: adj. et n. 过分虔诚的（人），笃信宗教的（人）


bigot

forms:
bìgot (canonical)
бѝгот

ipa: /bǐɡot/

parts: bi got


bathyscaphe

glosses: n.m. 深潜器，海底观察船，深海观察潜水器


righteous

etymology_texts: 源自早期形式rightuous、rightwose、rightwos、rightwise，源自中古英語 rightwise、rightwis，源自古英語 rihtwīs (“正直的，正义的”)，对应于right + -wise（第二个词素的发音被同化成了-ous），又或者right + wise (“方式”)。同源词包括低地蘇格蘭語 richtwis (“正直的”)、古高地德語 rehtwīsic (“正直的，正义的”)、冰島語 réttvíss (“正直的，正义的”)。亦对比thefteous、mighteous。

text: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.

ref: 1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Proverbs 28:1」：

text: Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.

text: righteous indignation

translation: 合理的愤怒

text: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

ref: 1986，John Hughes，Ferris Bueller's Day Off（Motion Picture），由 Grace Wheelberg（Edie McClurg）：

text: He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.

ref: 1995, Norman L. Russell, Doug Grad, Suicide Charlie: A Vietnam War Story, page 191:

text: Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.

ref: 2008, Stephen King, Graduation Afternoon:

text: He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.

ref: 2021, G. S. Jennsen, Amaranthe V: Riven:

forms:
rightuous (alternative)
rightwise (obsolete alternative)
more righteous (comparative)
most righteous (superlative)

ipa: /ˈɹaɪt͡ʃəs/

ipa: /ˈɹaɪtjəs/

rhymes: -aɪtʃəs


righteous

glosses: 使...正当化； 赦免...的罪行

text: Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.

ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 101:

forms:
rightuous (alternative)
rightwise (obsolete alternative)
righteouses (third-person singular present)
righteousing (present participle)
righteoused (past participle)


raja

glosses: f. 碎片，碎块，裂缝，裂口，(食物的)条，片，块


boulevard

glosses: n.m. 大马路，林荫大道


bathysphere

etymology_texts: 出自古希腊语 βαθύς (bathús, "深"或"深海") + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, "球")。

glosses: 用于调查深海的球形潜水装置，球形深度潜水装置，球形深潜器，球形深潜机。

ipa: /ˈbæθɪˌsfɪə(ɹ)/


boulevardier

glosses: adj. 具有通俗喜剧特色的


batik

glosses: n.m. 巴提克印花布，蜡染花布，巴提克印花法，蜡染印花法


batik

etymology_texts: 来自馬來語 batik，来自爪哇語 ꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀ (bathik)。

forms: batik-batik (plural)

ipa: /batɪk/

rhymes: -atɪk

rhymes: -tɪk

rhymes: -ɪk


bating

pos: prep

pos_title: 介詞

text: I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied to the peerage […].

text: ‘There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.’

ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪŋ/

homophone: baiting


bating

forms:
more bating (comparative)
most bating (superlative)


burner

forms: burners (plural)

ipa: /ˈbɜːnə/

ipa: /ˈbɝnɚ/

rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)


bouncer

glosses: （酒吧，夜店等处的）保安，保镖，门卫

text: At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]

ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:

text: ‘You try to hit the bouncer that you should duck under. Your bat misses it completely. The ball strikes your temple, whack!’

ref: 1998, Kamila Shamsie, In the City by the Sea, Bloomsbury (2004), page 165:

glosses: 重定向服务器，重定向账户

text: The stone must be a bouncer.

ref: 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Modern Greece”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

text: "… when he wants to accomplish his purpose, he does not hesitate to invent—I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is “bouncers.”

ref: 1877, W. S. Gilbert, “Engaged”, in Original Plays, Second Series, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 83:

glosses: （能让小孩在上面弹跳的）弹弹椅

text: He shook his head and took up the child—Dilly kicked out her feet in tiny electric jolts to the full stretch of the Babygro.[…]He put the child in the bouncer again.

ref: 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 82–83:

forms: bouncers (plural)

enpr: bounʹ-sər

rhymes: -aʊnsə(ɹ)

doorman

sense: （酒吧，夜店等处的）保安，保镖，门卫

chucker-out

sense: （酒吧，夜店等处的）保安，保镖，门卫

bumper

sense: （弹得很高的）球，快球

BNC

sense: 重定向服务器，重定向账户

whopper

sense: 很大的东西

whopper

sense: 弥天大谎

parts: boun cer


bricole

glosses: n.f. 小事情，小东西，不值钱的东西；麻烦事，烦恼；零活，杂务，修修弄弄


reassuring

ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/


reassuring

text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].

ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:

text: It was reassuring to be back in the regent's warm embrace.

ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 95:

forms:
more reassuring (comparative)
most reassuring (superlative)

ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/


reassuring

text: Alfred trembled, and felt a great sinking inside, but he did what he could to conceal his misery, and to respond with some show of heart to the Major's kindly pettings and reassurings.

ref: 1900, Mark Twain, The Belated Russian Passport

forms: reassurings (plural)

ipa: /ɹiːəˈʃɔːɹɪŋ/


bijection

glosses: n.f. ［数］双映射，满单射，一一对应，一一映照


bijou

glosses: n.m. 首饰；精巧之物，小巧玲珑的东西pl.~x


bijouterie

glosses: n.f. 首饰业，珠宝业，首饰生意；珠宝店，首饰店；首饰