2015年5月18日 星期一

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on a roll

On a streak of success or intense activity, as in The team's scored three runs in the last inning and they're really on a roll, or Once the experiment succeeded, Tim was on a roll. This slangy term, alluding to the momentum in the act of rolling, dates from the second half of the 1900s, but roll alone has been used in this sense since the early 1800s.




Definition of intense in English:

adjective (intenserintensest)

1Of extreme force, degree, or strength:the job demands intense concentrationthe heat was intensean intense blue
1.1(Of an action) highly concentrated:a phase of intense activity
2Having or showing strong feelings or opinions; extremely earnest or serious:an intense young womanpassionate about her artburning and intense look


Usage

Intense and intensive are clearly similar in meaning, but they differ in emphasisIntense tends to relate tosubjective responses—emotions and how we feel—whileintensive tends to relate to objective descriptions. Thus,an intensive course simply describes the type of course: one that is designed to cover a lot of ground in ashort timee.g. by being full-time rather than part-time. On the other hand, in the course was intenseintensedescribes how someone felt about the course.



crappy

(krăp'ē) pronunciation
adj. Vulgar Slang, -pi·er, -pi·est.
  1. Inferior; worthless.
  2. Miserable; wretched.
  3. Mean; contemptible.
[From CRAP1.]


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deeply

adv.
1. At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
2. Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
He had deeply offended both his nobles and people.
Bacon.
He sighed deeply in his spirit.
Mark viii. 12.
3. Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries.
Boyle.
4. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
5. With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.

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