n. 虛無主義,極端懷疑論;
[例句] Why should a great community like a university be afraid of nihilism?
adj. (嬰兒)新生的,初生的,再生的,復活的;n. 嬰兒;
[例句] This equipment has saved the lives of a number of new born children.
[例句] ...new born lambs.
n. 被提名者,候選人,被任命者,代名人;
[例句] His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot...
[例句] I was delighted to be a nominee and to receive such a prestigious award in recognition of our company's achievements.
n. 自然選擇,物競天擇說;
[例句] Natural selection ensures only the fittest survive to pass their genes on to the next generation.
n. 對往事的懷戀,懷舊,鄉愁,懷鄉病;
[例句] He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth...
[例句] He discerned in the novel an air of Sixties nostalgia.
adj. 有害的,有毒的,惡臭的,討厭的;
[例句] Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks...
[例句] His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
n. 民族主義者,國家主義者,國家主義者,民族獨立主義者;adj. 民族主義的,國家主義的,民族獨立主義的;
[例句] The crisis has set off a wave of nationalist feelings in Quebec.
[例句] Political life has been infected by growing nationalist sentiment.
n. 神經機能病,神經衰弱癥;
[例句] He was anxious to the point of neurosis...
[例句] She got a neurosis about chemicals and imagined them everywhere doing her harm.
adj. 最新的;
[例句] They've just opened a new hotel in the Stoke area...
[例句] The new invention ensures the beer keeps a full, frothy head.
adv. 夜間;n. 夜( night的名詞復數 ),晚上,(舉行盛事的)夜晚,…之夜;
[例句] He didn't sleep a wink all night...
[例句] The fighting began in the late afternoon and continued all night...
n. 餐巾,餐巾紙,尿布,(女士)衛生巾;
[例句] She was taking tiny bites of a hot dog and daintily wiping her lips with a napkin.
adj. 疏忽的,粗心大意的,不留心的,懶散;
[例句] The jury determined that the airline was negligent in training and supervising the crew...
[例句] The Council had acted in a negligent manner.
n. 神經病學,神經病學家;adj. 神經病學的;
[例句] He trained in neurology at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
n. 記號,標記法;
[例句] Musical notation was conceived for the C major scale and each line and space represents a note in this scale.
[例句] ...some other abstract notation system like a computer language.
n. 大自然( nature的名詞復數 ),天性,性質,類型;
[例句] The most amazing thing about nature is its infinite variety.
[例句] ...grasses that grow wild in nature.
adj. 神經的,背的,背側的;
[例句] ...neural pathways in the brain.
adj. 識數的,有計算能力的;vt. 數,列舉,數,列舉;
[例句] Your children should be literate and numerate.
adj. 鄰近的,接壤的;
[例句] Rwanda is to hold talks with leaders of neighbouring countries next week.
[例句] ...the hotel's boutique and neighboring shops.
n. 初學者,新手,新近改變信仰或皈依某宗教的人,新來雜草植物,新引種植物;
[例句] ...the self-proclaimed political neophyte Ross Perot.
用釘子釘住(某物),迫使(某人)作出決定,講明意圖[采取行動],釘牢;
[例句] It would be useful if you could nail down the source of this tension.
[例句] The Secretary of State and his Russian counterpart met to try to nail down the elusive accord.