英语学习 日记1
sublime sub-，在下，向上，-lim，门槛，界限，词源同limit; 接近完美的界限，升华，使高尚
potentials
adj. 潜力，having the capacity to develop into something in the future.
不可数名词 ,可能性；潜在性 If you say that someone or something has potential for doing a particular thing, you mean that it is possible they may do it. If there is the potential for something, it may happen.√
Old age is neither inherently miserable nor inherently sublime — like every stage of life it has problems,joys, fears and potentials.
老年既不是一成不变的悲哀，也不是一成不变的美好 - 就像人的每一个阶段一样，都有它的问题，欢乐，担忧，可能性。
没有人答话，只有埃尔吉走了过来。他那充血的眼睛里充满悲伤和痛苦。
Nobody spoke but Elgie came over, his bloodshot eyes filled with sorrow and misery.
有的人抽出他们手指碰到的第一张纸条；有的人似乎怀疑命运企图将某一张纸条强加于他们，所以他们刚刚从鞋里抽出一张，就又扔回去，再另换一张。
Some men drew the first slip which touched their fingers; others seemed to suspect that fate was trying to force on them a particular slip and when they bad drawn one a little way from the shoe would let it drop again and choose another.
suspect ：vt.怀疑
Product leaders have a vested interest in protecting the entrepreneurial environment that they have created.
vest 背心 ，vested 既定的 ，vest interest既得利益
Yet medical monstr o sit ies that are hardly any better undoubtedly continue, almost as a matter of macabre routine, in America, Britain and many other countries.
然而，医疗上出现的可怕事件如洪水猛兽一般，并不比安乐死的情况更好。它们无疑会在英美以及其他国家中继续肆虐，几乎成了令人恐怖的常规。
-ster，贬义后缀。用于指怪物，恶魔，在古代出现反常的现象或怪物通常意味着上帝对人的警告。
来自monster，怪物。比喻用法。
极其丑陋的庞然大物 If you describe something, especially something large, as a monstrosity, you mean that you think it is extremely ugly.
