2024-4-23

● tactless 不合适、不明智、不得体、不够圆滑、世故
【例句：Philby secretly loathed the host of the party that he was attending, but it seemed tactless to say so publicly. P公开说晚宴主人坏话，实在有点不像样。】
● flinch 退缩，缩了一下
【例句：She won't flinch from speaking her mind.她不会讳言自己的想法。】
● Nyonya dishes 娘惹菜
● no rest for the wicked 坏人不得安宁
● sheer nonsense 一派胡言
● sheer ignorance of sth. 对某事全然无知
● Calcutta 加尔各答
● dismise the issue 驳斥这个问题
● purloin 偷窃
● Bengali 孟加拉的，孟加拉语的
● underworld 黑社会，下层社会，阴间
● pallor 苍白的脸色（尤指因病或恐惧）（an unhealthy pale appearance）
● rickety 摇摇晃晃的，快要散架的，不结实的
● stamped on one's memory 铭刻于（某人）的记忆中（If a particular event, etc. is stamped on someone's memory, the person will always remember it）
【例句：The awful sound of the crash will be stamped on her memory forever.】
● Light Language 光的语言 （a form of metaphysical communication that bypasses the constraints of spoken or written words. It is often described as a higher-dimensional, vibrational language that speaks directly to the subconscious and the soul）
● tongue 语言（a language）
【例句：immigrants struggling to learn a foreign tongue 艰难学习外语的移民/an ancient tongue 古老的语言】
● with a tug at my heart 我的心揪了一下
● indistinct 不清楚的，模糊的
● abandon someone to her fate 任其自生自灭
● distend （通常指腹部或身体其他部位）鼓起，隆起，凸起
（usually of the stomach or another part of the body）to swell and become large, especially because of pressure from inside