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1. senseless (a)

a :  unconscious <knocked senseless>

b :  foolish, stupid <it was some senseless practical joke — A. Conan Doyle>

c :  meaningless <a senseless murder>

Related to senseless

Synonyms

cold, insensible, unconscious

Antonyms

conscious

Related Words

semiconscious; anesthetized; collapsed

Near Antonyms

alert, awake, aware, up; resuscitated,revived

E.g.

-Don't be such a senseless idiot!

- She collapsed, senseless, after hitting her head.

2. tolerant (a) 容許的.忍受的.忍耐的.

1:  inclined to tolerate; especially :  marked by forbearance or endurance <tolerant parents><a culture tolerant of religious differences>

2:  exhibiting tolerance (as for a drug or an environmental factor)

Related to tolerant

Synonyms

forbearing, long-suffering, stoic (or stoical),patient, uncomplaining

Antonyms

complaining, fed up, impatient, kvetching,kvetchy, protesting

Related Words

lenient; acquiescent, passive, resigned,unresistant, yielding; agreeable, amenable,compliant, complying, conformist, docile,law-abiding, obedient, placable,submissive, subordinate, tractable, willing;slavish, subservient; amiable, obliging;collected, composed; constrained,contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed,restrained; disciplined, self-contained, self-controlled; apathetic, uncaring,unresponsive

Near Antonyms

bored, tired, weary; defiant, resistant;contrary, disobedient, insubordinate,intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant,refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable,unruly

3. debate (vt) 爭論.辯論 (vi)辯論爭論.

:  a contention by words or arguments: as

a :  the formal discussion of a motion before a deliberative body according to the rules of parliamentary procedure

b :  a regulated discussion of a proposition between two matched sides

Related to debate

Synonyms

account, advisement, consideration,deliberation, reflection, study, thought

Antonyms

short shrift

Related Words

cogitation, contemplation, meditation,pondering, rumination; introspection;agonizing, hesitation, indecision;premeditation

Near Antonyms

acceptance, compliance; concord, peace

E.g.

- The candidates participated in several debates before the election was held.

- The meaning of the text has been the subject of considerable debate among scholars for many years.

4-1  free-thinking 自由思想/自由思想的(a)

- To these Protestants he would doubtless have joined the freethinkingBolingbroke. -- Alexander Pope Leslie Stephen 

- The only tutor I valued—you, Koll—had been dismissed; they considered you to be too freethinking. -- Three Dramas Bjrnstjerne M. Bjrnson 

4-2 freethinker

: a person who forms his or her own opinions about important subjects (such as religion and politics) instead of accepting what other people say

Rhymes with freethinker

headshrinker, hoodwinker, nondrinker

Synonyms

skeptic, agnostic; atheist.

5-1 get back to sth

:to continue doing something that you were doing or that you started earlier:

- If you skip some days, it can be hard to get back to a regular bicycling routine.

5-2 get back to sb

: to talk to someone again, usually on the telephone, in order to give them some information or because you were not able to speak to them before.

7. differentiate (v.)  使...有區別

l  transitive verb

1:  to obtain the mathematical derivative of

2:  to mark or show a difference in :  constitute a difference that distinguishes

3:  to develop differential characteristics 

4:  to cause differentiation of in the course of development

5:  to express the specific distinguishing quality of :  discriminate

l  intransitive verb

1:  to recognize or give expression to a difference

2:  to become distinct or different in character

3:  to undergo differentiation

Related to differentiate

Synonyms

difference, distinguish, discern,discriminate, secern, separate

Antonyms

confuse, mistake, mix (up)

Related Words

contradistinguish; comprehend, grasp,know, understand; divide, part, sever;demarcate, mark (off), set off

Near Antonyms

confound, lump (together), mingle

E.g.

- The only thing that differentiates the twins is the color of their eyes.

- It was hard at first to differentiate between the two styles of music.

8. exceptional (adj.)  超凡的

1:  forming an exception :  rare <an exceptional number of rainy days>

2:  better than average :  superior <exceptional skill>

3:  deviating from the norm: as a :  having above or below average intelligence b :  physically disabled

Related to exceptional

Synonyms

aberrant, aberrated, abnormal, anomalous,atypical, especial, exceeding,extraordinaire, extraordinary, freak, odd,peculiar, phenomenal, preternatural, rare,singular, uncommon, uncustomary, unique,unusual, unwonted

Antonyms

common, customary, normal, ordinary,typical, unexceptional, unextraordinary,usual

Related Words

conspicuous, notable, noticeable,outstanding, prominent, remarkable,salient, striking; bizarre, deviant, eccentric,freakish, monstrous, oddball, outlandish,quaint, strange, weird; incomprehensible,inconceivable, incredible, unimaginable,unthinkable

Near Antonyms

everyday, familiar, frequent

9. soil 土地.土壤.國家.國土.溫床.務農.污物.糞便(vt)弄髒.汙辱(vi)變贜

l  transitive verb

1:  to stain or defile morally :  corrupt

2:  to make unclean especially superficially :  dirty

3:  to blacken or taint (as a person's reputation) by word or deed

4.  to feed (livestock) in the barn or an enclosure with fresh grass or green   food; also :  to purge (livestock) by feeding on green food

l  intransitive verb

:  to become soiled or dirty

l  noun

1.  a :  soilage, stain <protect a dress from soil> b :  moral defilement :  corruption

2.  something that spoils or pollutes: as

a :  refuse b :  sewage c :  dung, excrement

3.  firm land :  earth

4.  a :  the upper layer of earth that may be dug or plowed and in which plants grow  b :  the superficial unconsolidated and usually weathered part of the mantle of a planet and especially of the earth

5.  country, land <our native soil>

6. the agricultural life or calling

7.  a medium in which something takes hold and develops

Related Phrases

• fertile soil
• native soil
• potting soil
• soil one's hands
• the soil