常见的英语同义词50组(7)-凯发k8官网

31.闪光
shine: the most general one.
(闪耀) glitter: to shine brightly with flashing points of light.
all that glitters is not gold.
(发火花) sparkle: to shine in small flashes.
it suggests ¹, bright flashes reflected from light-catching objects.
we can see a diamond sparkling in the sunlight.
(闪光) flash: to give out a sudden and ² bright ray of light/
to shine suddenly for a moment.
(闪耀) ³: to shine from or as if from a wet surface.
his hair ⁴ with oil. the wet road glistened.
(闪烁) gleam: to send out a bright light moderately, mildly not violently.
a cat's eye gleamed in the dark. the lantern gleamed.
(冒火花) spark: to send out small bits of fire.
he was so angry that his eyes sparked furiously.
(闪烁不定) ⁵: to burn unsteadily, shine with an unsteady light.
the candle ⁶ and then went out.
⁷: to give a very faint, unsteady light.
the lights ⁸ in the distance.
(闪烁) twinkle: to shine with a unsteady light that rapidly changes from fright to faint.
the stars are twinkling in the sky in the evening.
glow: to give out heat and/or light without flames or smoke.
the iron bar was heated until it glowed.
(闪烁) glint: to give out small flashes of light, as the eyes of an eager person are supposed to do
the sun glinted through the leaves after the shower.
(眩光) glare: to shine with a strong light in a way unpleasant to the eyes.
the lights of the car glared at me.
flame: to burn brightly.
you can see the burning log flaming.
(冒火苗) blaze: to burn with a bright flame.
the house is blazing.
(闪闪燃烧) ⁹: to burn with a bright flame, but uncertainly or for a short time.
the candles ¹⁰ in the wind.
dazzle: to make unable to see because of a sudden very strong light.
the headlight dazzles.
¹¹: (fml) to flash, sparkle.
the sparks ¹².
¹³:
the ¹⁴ scintillate.

32.大
big: large in size, extent or important.
large: much bigger than average
great: very large, important, and good.
great change / great writer / great idea.
huge: very ¹⁵ in size, amount and degree.
it stresses volume.(体积)
a huge house/ make a huge profit.
vast: very large and wide, great in size or amount.
it stresses area.(体积)two dimensional extensions
it is a vast expanse of desert.
vast plains/ vast majority / at vast expanse.
immense: very great in size or degree./very large or huge.
it stresses three dimensional ¹⁶.
it implies immeasurableness.
an immense palace/ immense importance
the government will build an immense stadium.
enormous: extremely large./very large in size, amount or degree.
it stresses not only size but degree.
it implies abnormality.
he earned enormous sums of money
an enormous animal/ enormous appetite/ enormous amount
tremendous: ¹⁷ large in size, amount or degree. / large or impressive
it implies ¹⁸, terror.
tremendous speed / tremendous noise/ tremendous amount /tremendous feeling.
gigantic: immense in size, on a very large scale like a giant.
¹⁹: very big or important.
it refers back to the titans, a race of giant in greek ²⁰. it stresses force and power.
we"ve made titanic effort to achieve our purpose.
²¹: very large indeed.
it comes from colossus of rhodes a huge statue that is
one of the wonders of the ancient world.
it implies incredibility.

33.感情
feeling(s): it can refer to mind or body. it"s either pleasant or painful.
(感觉) sensation: (u c n) a direct feeling coming from the senses and conveyed to the nervous system by the organs of seeing, hearing, ²², tasting or smelling. sugar gives a sensation of sweetness.
(激情) emotion: (c n) any of the strong feelings of the human spirit love, joy, anger, ²³ and grief are emotions.
his speech had an effect on our emotions rather than our reason.
(强烈的激情) passion: strong emotions, strong, deep often uncontrollable
feeling, esp. of sexual love, hatred or anger.
the poet expressed his burning passion for the woman he loved.
(情操 情趣) sentiment: (u c n) a tender or fine feeling as of pity, love, sadness or imaginative remembrance of the past.
it"s not a beautiful watch, but i wear it for sentiment because it is my father"s. ²⁴, ²⁵ and ²⁶ are sentiments.