brazen
【考法1】adj. 蠻橫大膽的,厚顏無恥的: marked by contemptuous boldness
【例】a brazen disregard for the rules 蠻橫大膽的對規則漠視
【近】bold-faced, impertinent, impudent, insolent
【反】modest, self-effacing, diffident, retiring, timid 謙虛的,膽小的
【考法2】v. 大膽自信地去面對或從事:to face or undergo with bold self-assurance
【例】brazened out the crisis 沉著面對危機 || Some people prefer to brazen a thing out rather than admit
defeat. 有的人不願承認失敗,而是寧肯厚著臉皮幹下去。
【近】confront, outface, defy
【反】dodge, duck, shirk, sidestep躲開,避談
breach
【考法1】n. 對倫理、法律準則的破壞: a breaking of a moral or legal code
【例】cheating on the exam was a serious breach of the military academy’s honor code 考試作弊是對軍校的
榮譽準則的嚴重破壞
【近】malefaction, transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoing
【考法2】v. 違背:to fail to keep
【例】a builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract 建築商因違約被房主起訴
【近】contravene, fracture, infringe, transgress
【反】obey, observe, comply with, conform to 遵守
brevity
【考法1】n. 簡短,簡潔:shortness of duration
【例】the best quality a graduation speech can have is brevity 好的畢業演講必須簡潔
【近】briefness, conciseness, shortness
【反】lengthiness 冗長
【考法2】n. 精煉: the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning
【例】if brevity is the soul of wit, then that speech wasn’t at all witty 如果說精煉是智慧的靈魂,那麼演講毫無
智慧可言
【近】conciseness, pithiness, sententiousness, terseness
【反】diffuseness, long-windedness, prolixity, verbosity, wordiness 冗長囉嗦
