2020年4月6日 星期一

succeed, scrape (SUCCEED), bite, satirical, sup, reach, achieve, attain, gain, compass. "We will succeed and that success will belong to every one of us."



"We will succeed and that success will belong to every one of us."
Queen Elizabeth II has delivered a rallying message to the UK in its fight against coronavirus, thanking healthcare workers and people for staying at home and following government rules.
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He was richer: in 1961 he earned £2.50 a week as a trainee accountant in Liverpool, enough to have saved up for a second-hand van, while they had to scrape the fare for the 81 bus across town, lugging their guitars up to the top deck.

The green double-decker spent more hours in the garage than out of it, and Stan spent more time eating tea with his dysfunctional family or hanging out with his mate Jack, a randy conductor with an eye for the birds; but he often supped his stew still dressed in his bus-driver’s jacket with its shiny badge, a token of his devotion to his job.



Provocative Danish film stirs festival audience

It’s not a flashback to fascism or a new world order – it’s the plot
of a satirical Danish film that’s making the festival rounds in Germany and Scandinavia.


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A Storm Blows in, and Those Who Waited Find That It Has Mostly Lost Its Bite By ALEX BERENSON
Emptied of patients on Saturday, a hospital in Franklin, La., waited for disasters that never came.

Flat-Panel TVs: A Clearer Picture

Sound legend Dolby and rival THX are offering new ways to bring those images into much sharper focus. Will manufacturers bite?



bite
verb bitbitten
1 [I or T] to use your teeth to cut into something or someone:
He bit into the apple.
An insect bit me on the arm.
He bites his fingernails.

2 [I] to have a bad or unpleasant effect:
Higher mortgage rates are beginning to bite.

3 [I] When a fish bites, it swallows the food on the hook at the end of a fishing line:
The fish aren't biting today.

4 [I] to show interest in buying something:
The new service is now available but clients don't seem to be biting.

bite 
noun
1 [C] when you bite something:
He took a bite (= bit a piece) out of the apple.
He had two bites (= bit two pieces) of apple.

2 [C] a sore place or injury where an animal or insect has bitten you

3 [S] when a fish bites the hook on the end of a fishing line and is caught

4 [U] If food has bite, it has a sharp or strong taste:
I like mustard with a bit of bite.

5 [U] a powerful effect:
This satire has (real) bite.




━━ vt. (bit; bit・ten, bit) かむ, かみつく; (寒さが)しみる; (香辛料などが)刺激する; (霜が植物を)傷める; (ノミ・蚊が)刺す; (カニが)はさむ; (魚が)食いつく; (歯車が)かみ合う (grip); (刃が)食い込む; だます; (酸が)腐食する; 〔話〕 困らせる.
━━ vi. かむ, かみつく ((at)); 刺す; 刺激する; 腐食する; 肌にしみる; えさに食いつく; 誘惑にのる; かみ合う; (車輪が)路面をとらえる; (悪い)影響を与える.
 be bitten with [by] …に夢中になる.
 bite away [off] かみ切る.
 bite back (ことばを)のみ込む; しないでおく.
 bite into …に食い込む.
 bite one's nails くやしがる.
 bite off more than one can chew 手に余る仕事を企てる.
 bite on 熟考する; 取組む.
 bite [kiss] the dust [ground] 〔俗〕 死ぬ; 〔俗〕 倒される; 負ける.
 bite the hand that feeds one 飼い主の手をかむ, 恩をあだで返す.
 Once bitten, twice shy. 〔ことわざ〕 あつものにこりてなますを吹く.
━━ n. ひとかみ[かじり], ひと口; かみ[刺し]傷; (魚の)食い; 腐食; (風の)身を切るような冷たさ; から味, パンチ; 辛らつ; (歯車の)かみ合い; (刃の)食い込み.
 bite and sup 大急ぎの食事.
 put the bite on 〔米俗〕 (金を)ゆする, 強要する.
 the tax bite 税控除.
 bit・er ━━ n. かみつく犬; かむ人; 詐欺師 (The ~r (is) bit. だまそうとしてだまされる).
 bit・ing ━━ a. 刺すような, 鋭い; 腐食性の.
bit・ing・ly ad.
sup
verb [I usually + adverb or prepositionT] -pp- MAINLY UK
to drink or to eat:
NORTHERN ENGLISH He spends most of his evenings in the pub, supping beer.
OLD-FASHIONED They supped on/off cold meat.

sat・ire



━━ n. 風刺(文学), 風刺詩[文] ((on)); 皮肉 ((on)).
 sa・tir・icsa・tir・i・cal
() ━━ a. 風刺的な.
sa・tir・i・cal・ly ad.
 sat・ir・ist
 ━━ n.
 sat・i・rize ━━ vt. 風刺文を書く; 風刺する; あてこする.
sat・i・riz・er n.


scrape (SUCCEED)
verb [I usually + adverb or preposition]
to succeed in getting or achieving something, but only just or with great difficulty:
She scraped into university on very low grades.

scrape by/along (LIVE) phrasal verb
to manage to live when you do not have enough money and other necessary things:
He lost his job, so the family had to scrape along on £95 a week.scrape a living UK
to only just earn enough money to provide yourself with food, clothing and a place to live:
He settled in Paris, where he scraped a living writing short stories and magazine articles.




SYNONYMS reach, achieve, attain, gain, compass. These verbs mean to succeed in arriving at a goal or objectiveReach is the least specific: reached home before dark; reach an understanding. Achieve suggests the application of skill or initiative: achieved national recognition. Attain implies the impelling force of ambition, principle, or ideals: trying to attain self-confidence. Gain connotes considerable effort in surmounting obstacles: gained the workers' trust. Compass implies succeeding by circumventing impediments: will compass the task. See also synonyms at range.


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