Monday, October 6, 2008

New words (2)

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Topic: Invasion of the jumbo squid

invasion of 巴拉巴拉巴
monster moives' title 什麼什麼入侵

in packs of = describe group of animal

fly through = describe squid move very fast in the water

barb 倒鉤 n.

scrappy 好鬥的

cephalopod 頭足類動物 n
various marine mollusks with a large head, large head,
large eyes and long tentacles around the mouth.

steadily ad.
in a manner that develops in a gradual, regular way over
a period of time.

pugnacious bully 好鬥的惡霸

a sight to behold
something impressive to see

spark n
火花

marline n very large fish

pique 使生氣 激起好奇心v

calamari n 槍烏賊

voracious adj
need a lot of something to be satisfied

invertebrate n 無脊椎動物
an animal with no spine

deplete v
reduce something in size or amount

play out (phr v)
progress toward the end of a situation

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

wow... many of those words are not so common.

I also need to learn some new words every day otherwise my english is not going to improve anymore...

mars sun said...

Some of those relate to biologic thing. I can't imagine from the interpretion in chinese.

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