关于牛津爆笑脱口秀:人生根本不需要爱的学习

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obscene

adj. extremely large in size or amount in a way that most people find unacceptable and offensive (数量)大得惊人的 e.g. I spent this obscene amount of money not on food not on leisure but on dating. 2.

exceptional

adj. You use exceptional to describe someone or something that has a particular quality, usually a good quality, to an unusually high degree. 非常好的；杰出的 synonyms:

olympian, eminent, prodigious

, e.g. In fact, I'm doing exceptionally well despite it. 3.

homosexual

adj. Someone who is homosexual is sexually attracted to people of the same sex. 同性恋性向的 e.g. He's a repressed homosexual male. 4.

a pearl of wisdom

a wise saying or piece of advice. 至理名言，金玉良言 e.g. It was not a pearl of wisdom which I would carry through life. 5.

crippling

If you say that an action, policy, or situation has a crippling effect on something, you mean it has a very serious, harmful effect. 极有害的 e.g. More of a crippling necessity. 6.

disposable

Something disposable is replaceable. If a boss decides an employee is disposable, that means the employee will probably be fired. As you can imagine, people don't like to feel disposable. 可抛弃的，可代替的 e.g. Loved but utterly disposable. 7.

against all the odds

If you do or achieve something against (all) the odds/against all odds, you do or achieve it although there were a lot of problems and you were not likely to succeed e.g. He against all the odds created an exceptionally impressive young man. 8.

clutch

n. In a vehicle, the clutch is the pedal that you press before you change gear. 离合器踏板 e.g. It was a clutch for my car.