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固定搭配 | look up

• March 25, 2021 • 翻译·译事随笔

[font color="#FF4500"]travesty[/font]
[font color="#FF4500"]n.嘲弄;歪曲;拙劣模仿[/font]

音标:/'trævɪstɪ/

英文释义:

If you describe something as a travesty of another thing, you mean that it is a very bad representation of that other thing.

例句:

①Her research suggests that Smith's reputation today is a travesty of what he really stood for.

她的研究表明史密斯今天的名声是对他过去真正主张的一种嘲弄。

②If he couldn't prepare his case properly, the trial would be a travesty .

如果他不能好好准备他的诉讼,审判将会成为一场拙劣的闹剧。


[font color="#FF4500"]look up[/font]

英英释义:

①If you look up a fact or a piece of information, you find it out by looking in something such as a reference book or a list.【(在参考书、列表等中)查检(事实或信息)】

②If you look someone up, you visit them after not having seen them for a long time.【拜访,探访,看望(久未见面的人)】

③If a situation is looking up, it is improving.【改善;好转】

例句:

①Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary.

这个词的意思很多人都要查字典才知道。

②She looked up some friends of bygone years.

她去看望了一些过去的老朋友。

③Things could be looking up in the computer industry.

计算机行业的情况可能会好转。

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