scholarly writing

  1. chronicle
    a factual written account of important or historical event in the order of their occurence.
  2. repose
    • 1. temporary rest from activity, exitement, or exertion. esp. sleep or rest given by sleep
    • in repose her face looks relexing
    • 2. a state of peace; composure
    • he had lost his grace and repose
    • 3. lie down in rest,
    • how sweetly he would repose in the bed
    • 4. poetic/literary: lay something to rest on or in
    • repose something on or in

    起居註 Diaries of Activities and Repose
  3. fastidious
    • 1. very attentive to and concern about accuracy and detail
    • he chose his words with fastidious care
    • 2. very concerned about matters of cleanliness
  4. at one's disposal
    任由安排
  5. full array of something
    一整套
  6. some one has a first-hand familarity with something
    熟悉
  7. expository writing
    闡釋性寫作
  8. infrastructure
    基礎設施
  9. consensus
    一致認同
  10. veracity
    comformity to facts; accuracy
  11. prosaic
    lacking poetic beautic
  12. self-reflexive
    referring to its own artificiality
  13. be reluctant to do
    猶豫,勉強
  14. be laudable
    action, goal, or idea that is deserved praise and commendation
  15. controversial
    有爭議的
  16. irreducible
    不可簡省的
  17. protean nature
    多變的性質
  18. peninsula
    半島
  19. devise
    操作
  20. sarcastic
    諷刺的
  21. impetus
    推動力,影響力
  22. exegesis
    解經
  23. in accord with
    配合
  24. senario
    狀況,情勢
  25. idiosyncratic
    非同尋常的古怪
  26. nomenclature
    the devising or choosing of the name for things
  27. esoteric
    • intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest
    • e.g. escoteric philosophical debate
  28. ressrrect
    • restore to life;
    • revive the practice, use, or memory
  29. infringe
    • activily break the term of law
    • act so as to undermine or encroach
  30. succeed in degree, never complitely
    .....
  31. protagonist
    主角
  32. foliage
    落葉
  33. serenity
    靜謐
  34. penchant for something
    嗜好
  35. infallibility
    the inability to be wrong
  36. interiority
    內向性,內部的
  37. repent
    悔過,懺悔
  38. pagan
    異教徒
  39. autonomy
    自我獨立
  40. proclamation
    public or official announcement
  41. clout
    影響力
  42. conceivable
    可以想像的
  43. ample evidence
    。。
  44. overidding
    長久的持續的重要的
  45. extraneous
    • irrelevent and unrelated to the subject under discussion
    • of external origin
  46. congenail
    pleasant
  47. deterrent
    • a thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something
    • e.g. the deterrent effect
  48. nemesis
    仇人
  49. impute
    歸罪於
  50. reproach
    reproach someone with
    address in such a way as to expresses disapproval or disappointment
  51. jettison
    throw away
  52. symposium=colloquium
    座談會
  53. precept
    a commandment, order, instruction that are considered as having authoritative power
  54. dismiss
    dismiss any doubt
  55. asceticism
    pacticing strict self-denial as a measure of personal or spiritual discipline
  56. denomination
    a religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under the same name
  57. cater
    • to provide what is required or desired
    • e.g. catering to the middle-calss tastes
  58. expeditious
    marked or acting with prompt efficiency
  59. ascription->ascriptive
    arbitrary placement (as in the birth) in a social status
  60. approximate
    nearly correct or exact

    e.g. approximate to...
  61. pessimisim
    pessimisim
  62. resonance
    cultural resonance
  63. intriguing
    engaging the interest to a marked degree; fascinating
  64. congruent with=consistent with
    ~と一致する、~と合致する
  65. platitude
    陳腐な決まり文句、平凡な言葉、ありきたりの言葉
  66. contest
    • ~のために競い合う 、 争う 他動
    • ~に意義を唱える 他動
  67. pugnacious
    having a quarrelsome and comabtive nature
  68. benighted
    overtaken by darkness or night; existing in an intellectual, social, or moral darkness
  69. sarcasm
    • irony
    • 皮肉、当てこすり
  70. indicment
    非難 、 攻撃
  71. apodictic
    expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty
  72. abstention
    弃权
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scholarly writing
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English writing
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