canvass
【考法1】v. 仔細檢查或詳盡地討論;審查:to examine carefully or discuss thoroughly; scrutinize:
【例】“The evidence had been repeatedly canvassed in American courts” 證據已在美國的法庭中反復被審查
過。
【考法2】v. 遊說:去(一個地區)的各處或找到(個人)來拉選票或定單:to go through (a region) or go to (persons)
to solicit votes or orders
【例】canvass voters 拉選票
【近】interview, poll, solicit, survey
capitulate
【考法1】v. 投降,默許:to give up all resistance; acquiesce; yield
【例】one side finally capitulated when it became clear that they couldn’t win the argument 意識到他們不能
拿下這場辯論後,該方投降了
【近】budge, concede, relent, submit, succumb, surrender, knuckle under
【反】resist, oppose 抵抗
caprice
【考法1】n. 一時衝動的決定: an impulsive change of mind
【例】an out-of-character caprice led him to take the day off from work and go to the beach 一時衝動讓他決
定休假一天,去海灘度假
【近】crank, fancy, vagary, vagrancy, whimsy
【考法2】n. 反復無常,善變: an inclination to change one’s mind impulsively.
【例】his knack for picking racetrack winners appears to owe as much to caprice as it does to a canny
assessment of horseflesh 他賭馬屢賭慮贏,要歸功於自己的反復無常而不是對於賽馬本身獨到精明的評估。
【近】freakishness, impulsiveness, whimsicalness
【反】confirmation 確認
【派】capricious adj. 反復無常的,善變
【反】steadfast, resolute, constant, pertinacious堅定不變的
