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payback n. 1. You can use payback to refer to the profit or benefit that you obtain from something that you have spent money, time, or effort on. (mainly AM) payback可以指你投资(金钱 时间 精力)所得到的回报。 There is a substantial payback in terms of employee and union relations... 2. The payback period of a loan is the time in which you are required or allowed to pay it back. 贷款的payback period指需要还清贷款的时间。 3.Payback time is when someone has to take the consequences of what they have done in the past. You can use this expression to talk about good or bad consequences. payback time指人必须对自己所做的事情负责的时候,可以是好的或不好的结果。 This was payback time. I've proved once and for all I can become champion... |
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flaunt v. 1. If you say that someone flaunts their possessions, abilities, or qualities, you mean that they display them in a very obvious way, especially in order to try to obtain other people's admiration. 炫耀,为了获得别人的赞赏而展示自己的财物,能力。 They drove around in Rolls-Royces, openly flaunting their wealth... 2.If you say that someone is flaunting themselves, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in a very confident way, or in a way that is intended to attract sexual attention. 说一个人在flaunting的时候,通常指这个人举止过度自信,或者在故意勾引异性,因此让你感到不舒服。 ...tourists flaunting themselves in front of the castle guards in bra and shorts. |
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elite n. 1. You can refer to the most powerful, rich, or talented people within a particular group, place, or society as the elite. elite可以指一群人中最有权利,最富有或者最有才华的人。 ...a government comprised mainly of the elite... adj. 2.Elite people or organizations are considered to be the best of their kind. 精英人物/组织用来表示同类中最出色的。 ...the elite troops of the President's bodyguard. |
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stack n. 1. A stack of things is a pile of them. 指成堆的东西 There were stacks of books on the bedside table and floor. 2.If you say that someone has stacks of something, you mean that they have a lot of it. (INFORMAL) 你说别人有stacks of sth. 表示别人有很多的这种东西。【非正式】 If the job's that good, you'll have stacks of money. v. 3.If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles. stack作为动词,可以表示把东西堆放成堆。 Mme Cathiard was stacking the clean bottles in crates... 4.If someone in authority stacks an organization or body, they fill it with their own supporters so that the decisions it makes will be the ones they want it to make. (mainly AM) 当有权利的人stacks an organization or body的时候,指他们把自己的支持者放到特定的位置上。【主要用于美式英语】 They said they were going to stack the court with anti-abortion judges... |
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generous adj. 1.A generous person gives more of something, especially money, than is usual or expected. generous的人通常给予的比别人期待的更多 German banks are more generous in their lending... 2. A generous person is friendly, helpful, and willing to see the good qualities in someone or something. generous还可以用来形容具有友善,乐于助人等品质的人 He was always generous in sharing his enormous knowledge... 3. A generous amount of something is much larger than is usual or necessary. 如果你用generous来形容一个物体数量,表示这远超过正常的或者必须的值 ...a generous six weeks of annual holiday... |
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nifty adj. 1.If you describe something as nifty, you think it is neat and pleasing or cleverly done. (INFORMAL) nifty可以用来形容完成的很好,令人高兴的东西。 It was a nifty arrangement, a perfect partnership. |
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equivocal adj. 1.If you are equivocal, you are deliberately vague in what you say, because you want to avoid speaking the truth or making a decision. (FORMAL) equivocal形容人因为不想做决定或者说实话而故意含糊其辞时 Many were equivocal about the idea... 2. If something is equivocal, it is difficult to understand, interpret, or explain, often because it has aspects that seem to contradict each other. (FORMAL) 一个东西被说成是equivocal指这个东西(或者事)因为有内部相互矛盾的方面而很难理解,解释。 Research in this area is somewhat equivocal... |