英语单词积累20230816 English words and vocabs

不积跬步,无以至千里;不积小流,无以成江海。
Without accumulating small steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without small streams accumulated, rivers and sea cannot be formed.

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presumptuous
[ADJ]
If you describe someone or their behaviour as presumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do. 擅自作主的、冒昧的 It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be.
断定结果将会如何未免冒失。
precept
[N-COUNT]
precept is a general rule that helps you to decide how you should behave in particular circumstances. 准则、规则An electoral process based on the central precept that all people are born equal.
以所有人生而平等这一核心准则为基础的一种选举程序。
laconic
[ADJ]
If you describe someone as laconic, you mean that they use very few words to say something, so that they seem casual or unfriendly. 寡言的; 言简意赅的 Usually so laconic in the office, Dr. Lahey seemed less guarded, more relaxed.
平常在办公室里寡言少语的莱希医生似乎少了些拘谨,多了几分轻松。
arguably
[ADV]
You can use arguably when you are stating your opinion or belief, as a way of giving more authority to it. 可以说 Arguably the most important conclusion that emerges from the data, however, is not something that we found—but what we did not.
可以说,从这些数据中得出的最重要的结论并不是我们发现了什么,而是我们没有发现什么。
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