sunyuting1-应用举例1-27

hush-hush  
  hush-hush
Something that is hush-hush is secret and not to be discussed with other people. (INFORMAL)
  Apparently there''s a very hush-hush project under way up north.
  They were desperate to keep the marriage hush-hush.
ADJ-GRADED
= secret
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hush-hush
adjective
    secret, classified, confidential, restricted, top-secret, under wraps

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 19:38:35←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:35|

record

D  
1 record   records
If you keep a record of something, you keep a written account or photographs of it so that it can be referred to later.
  Keep a record of all the payments.
  There''s no record of any marriage or children.
  The result will go on your medical records.
N-COUNT

2 record   records   recording   recorded
If you record a piece of information or an event, you write it down, photograph it, or put it into a computer so that in the future people can refer to it.
  Her letters record the domestic and social details of diplomatic life in China.
  ...a place which has rarely suffered a famine in its recorded history.
VB

3 record   records   recording   recorded
If you record something such as a speech or performance, you put it on tape or film so that it can be heard or seen again later.
  There is nothing to stop viewers recording the films on videotape.
  The call was answered by a recorded message saying the company had closed early.
VB

4 record   records   recording   recorded
If a musician or performer records a piece of music or a television or radio show, they perform it so that it can be put onto record, tape, or film.
  It took the musicians two and a half days to record their soundtrack for the film.
  She has recently recorded a programme for television.
VB

5 record   records
A record is a round, flat piece of black plastic on which sound, especially music, is stored, and which can be played on a record player. You can also refer to the music stored on this piece of plastic as a record.
  This is one of my favourite records.
  ...the biggest and best-known record company in England.
N-COUNT

6 record   records   recording   recorded
If a dial or other measuring device records a certain measurement or value, it shows that measurement or value.
  The test records the electrical activity of the brain.
  The index of the performance of leading shares recorded a 16 per cent fall.
VB

7 record   records
A record is the best result that has ever been achieved in a particular sport or activity, for example the fastest time, the furthest distance, or the greatest number of victories.
  Roger Kingdom set the world record of 12.92 seconds.
  The painting was sold for s665,000ma record for the artist.
  ...the 800 metres, where she is the world record holder.
N-COUNT

8 record
You use record to say that something is higher, lower, better, or worse than has ever been achieved before.
  Profits were at record levels.
  She won the race in record time.
ADJ: ADJ n

9 record   records
Someone''s record is the facts that are known about their achievements or character.
  His record reveals a tough streak.
  He had a distinguished record as a chaplain.
  His country is making a big effort to improve its human rights record.
N-COUNT: with supp

10 record   records
If someone has a criminal record, it is officially known that they have committed crimes in the past.
  ...a heroin addict with a criminal record going back 15 years...
  Where the accused has a record of violence, they should always be kept in custody.
N-COUNT

11 record
If you say that what you are going to say next is for the record, you mean that you are saying it publicly and officially and you want it to be written down and remembered.
  We''re willing to state for the record that it has enormous value.
PHR

12 record
If you give some information for the record, you give it in case people might find it useful at a later time, although it is not a very important part of what you are talking about.
  For the record, most Moscow girls leave school at about 18.
  Perhaps you''d like to tell me what you were doing Monday. Just for the record.
PHR

13 record
If something that you say is off the record, you do not intend it to be considered as official, or published with your name attached to it.
  May I speak off the record?.
  At the end of the lunch, I said I had some off-the-record comments.
PHR: usu PHR after v, PHR n

14 record
If you are on record as saying something, you have said it publicly and officially and it has been written down.
  The Chancellor is on record as saying that the increase in unemployment is `a price worth paying'' to keep inflation down.
PHR

15 record
If you keep information on record, you write it down or store it in a computer so that it can be used later.
  The practice is to keep on record any analysis of samples.
PHR

16 record
If something is the best, worst, or biggest on record, it is the best, worst, or biggest thing of its kind that has been noticed and written down.
  It''s the shortest election campaign on record.
  The 1980s were the hottest decade on record.
PHR

17 record
If you set the record straight or put the record straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
  Let me set the record straight on the misconceptions contained in your article.
PHR

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record  
1 record   records
If you keep a record of something, you keep a written account or photographs of it so that it can be referred to later.
  Keep a record of all the payments.
  There''s no record of any marriage or children.
  The result will go on your medical records.
N-COUNT

2 record   records   recording   recorded
If you record a piece of information or an event, you write it down, photograph it, or put it into a computer so that in the future people can refer to it.
  Her letters record the domestic and social details of diplomatic life in China.
  ...a place which has rarely suffered a famine in its recorded history.
VB

3 record   records   recording   recorded
If you record something such as a speech or performance, you put it on tape or film so that it can be heard or seen again later.
  There is nothing to stop viewers recording the films on videotape.
  The call was answered by a recorded message saying the company had closed early.
VB

4 record   records   recording   recorded
If a musician or performer records a piece of music or a television or radio show, they perform it so that it can be put onto record, tape, or film.
  It took the musicians two and a half days to record their soundtrack for the film.
  She has recently recorded a programme for television.
VB

5 record   records
A record is a round, flat piece of black plastic on which sound, especially music, is stored, and which can be played on a record player. You can also refer to the music stored on this piece of plastic as a record.
  This is one of my favourite records.
  ...the biggest and best-known record company in England.
N-COUNT

6 record   records   recording   recorded
If a dial or other measuring device records a certain measurement or value, it shows that measurement or value.
  The test records the electrical activity of the brain.
  The index of the performance of leading shares recorded a 16 per cent fall.
VB

7 record   records
A record is the best result that has ever been achieved in a particular sport or activity, for example the fastest time, the furthest distance, or the greatest number of victories.
  Roger Kingdom set the world record of 12.92 seconds.
  The painting was sold for s665,000ma record for the artist.
  ...the 800 metres, where she is the world record holder.
N-COUNT

8 record
You use record to say that something is higher, lower, better, or worse than has ever been achieved before.
  Profits were at record levels.
  She won the race in record time.
ADJ: ADJ n

9 record   records
Someone''s record is the facts that are known about their achievements or character.
  His record reveals a tough streak.
  He had a distinguished record as a chaplain.
  His country is making a big effort to improve its human rights record.
N-COUNT: with supp

10 record   records
If someone has a criminal record, it is officially known that they have committed crimes in the past.
  ...a heroin addict with a criminal record going back 15 years...
  Where the accused has a record of violence, they should always be kept in custody.
N-COUNT

11 record
If you say that what you are going to say next is for the record, you mean that you are saying it publicly and officially and you want it to be written down and remembered.
  We''re willing to state for the record that it has enormous value.
PHR

12 record
If you give some information for the record, you give it in case people might find it useful at a later time, although it is not a very important part of what you are talking about.
  For the record, most Moscow girls leave school at about 18.
  Perhaps you''d like to tell me what you were doing Monday. Just for the record.
PHR

13 record
If something that you say is off the record, you do not intend it to be considered as official, or published with your name attached to it.
  May I speak off the record?.
  At the end of the lunch, I said I had some off-the-record comments.
PHR: usu PHR after v, PHR n

14 record
If you are on record as saying something, you have said it publicly and officially and it has been written down.
  The Chancellor is on record as saying that the increase in unemployment is `a price worth paying'' to keep inflation down.
PHR

15 record
If you keep information on record, you write it down or store it in a computer so that it can be used later.
  The practice is to keep on record any analysis of samples.
PHR

16 record
If something is the best, worst, or biggest on record, it is the best, worst, or biggest thing of its kind that has been noticed and written down.
  It''s the shortest election campaign on record.
  The 1980s were the hottest decade on record.
PHR

17 record
If you set the record straight or put the record straight, you show that something which has been regarded as true is in fact not true.
  Let me set the record straight on the misconceptions contained in your article.
PHR

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record
noun
1   document, account, chronicle, diary, entry, file, journal, log, register, report
2   evidence, documentation, testimony, trace, witness
3   disc, album, LP, single, vinyl
4   background, career, history, performance
5 off the record
  confidential, not for publication, private, unofficial

verb
6   write down, chronicle, document, enter, log, minute, note, register, set down, take down
7   tape, make a recording of, tape-record, video, video-tape
8   register, give evidence of, indicate, say, show

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 19:42:14←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:33|

secret  
1 secret
If something is secret, it is known about by only a small number of people, and is not told or shown to anyone else.
  Soldiers have been training at a secret location.
  The police have been trying to keep the documents secret.
ADJ-GRADED: ADJ n, v n ADJ, v-link ADJ

  See also top secret.
?secretly
  He wore a hidden microphone to secretly tape-record conversations.
  ...secretly organised events.
ADV-GRADED: ADV with v, ADV adj/n

2 secret   secrets
A secret is a fact that is known by only a small number of people, and is not told to anyone else.
  I think he enjoyed keeping our love a secret.
  I didn''t want anyone to know about it, it was my secret.
N-COUNT

3 secret
If you say that a particular way of doing things is the secret of achieving something, you mean that it is the best or only way to achieve it.
  The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing.
  I learned something about writing. The secret is to say less than you need.
N-SING: the N, oft the N of n

4 secret   secrets
Something''s secrets are the things about it which have never been fully explained.
  We have an opportunity now to really unlock the secrets of the universe.
  The past is riddled with deep dark secrets.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft with poss

5 secret
If you do something in secret, you do it without anyone else knowing.
  Dan found out that I had been meeting my ex-boyfriend in secret.
PHR: PHR after v

6 secret
If you say that someone can keep a secret, you mean that they can be trusted not to tell other people a secret that you have told them.
  Tom was utterly indiscreet, and could never keep a secret.
PHR: V inflects

7 secret
If you make no secret of something, you tell others about it openly and clearly.
  His wife made no secret of her hatred for the formal occasions.
  Ministers are making no secret about their wish to buy American weapons.
PHR: V inflects, PHR of n

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secret
adjective
1   concealed, close, disguised, furtive, hidden, undercover, underground, undisclosed, unknown, unrevealed
2   stealthy, secretive, sly, underhand
3   mysterious, abstruse, arcane, clandestine, cryptic, occult

noun
4   mystery, code, enigma, key
5 in secret
  secretly, slyly, surreptitiously

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 19:46:12←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:32|

unofficial  
  unofficial
An unofficial action or statement is not organized or approved by a person or group in authority.
  Staff voted to continue an unofficial strike in support of seven colleagues who were dismissed last week.
  Official reports put the death toll at under one hundred, but unofficial estimates speak of at least two hundred dead.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
* official
?unofficially
  Some workers are legally employed, but the majority work unofficially with neither health nor wage security.
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV with cl

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unofficial
adjective
    unauthorized, informal, private, unconfirmed

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 19:52:09←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:30|

secluded  
  secluded
A secluded place is quiet and private.
  We were tucked away in a secluded corner of the room.
  We found a secluded beach a few miles further on.
ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n

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secluded
adjective
    private, cloistered, cut off, isolated, lonely, out-of-the-way, sheltered, solitary

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 19:56:37←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:29|

isolated  
D1
1 isolated
An isolated place is a long way away from large towns and is difficult to reach.
  Many of the refugee villages are in isolated areas.
  Aubrey''s family''s farm is very isolated.
ADJ-GRADED
= cut off, remote
2 isolated
If you feel isolated, you feel lonely and without friends or help.
  Men can feel isolated at work.
  Some patients may become very isolated and depressed.
ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ
= cut off
3 isolated
An isolated example is an example of something that is not very common.
  They said the allegations related to an isolated case of cheating.
ADJ: ADJ n
= untypical
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D2
isolate  
1 isolate   isolates   isolating   isolated
To isolate a person or organization means to cause them to lose their friends or supporters.
  This policy could isolate the country from the other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
  Political influence is being used to shape public opinion and isolate critics.
VB
= cut off
isolated
  They are finding themselves increasingly isolated within the teaching profession.
ADJ-GRADED: usu v-link ADJ

isolation
  Diplomatic isolation could lead to economic disaster.
  ...the public isolation of the Prime Minister.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp

2 isolate   isolates   isolating   isolated
If you isolate yourself, or if something isolates you, you become physically or socially separated from other people.
  When he was thinking out a problem Tweed''s habit was never to isolate himself in his room.
  His radicalism and refusal to compromise isolated him.
  Police officers had a siege mentality that isolated them from the people they served.
  But of course no one lives totally alone, isolated from the society around them.
VB
= cut off
3 isolate   isolates   isolating   isolated
If you isolate something such as an idea or a problem, you separate it from others that it is connected with, so that you can concentrate on it or consider it on its own.
  Our anxieties can also be controlled by isolating thoughts, feelings and memories.
  ...attempts to isolate a single factor as the cause of the decline of Britain...
  Gandhi said that those who isolate religion from politics don''t understand the nature of either.
VB

4 isolate   isolates   isolating   isolated
To isolate a substance means to obtain it by separating it from other substances using scientific processes. (TECHNICAL)
  We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible.
  Researchers have isolated a new protein from the seeds of poppies.
  ...the chemical isolated from brain tissue.
VB

5 isolate   isolates   isolating   isolated
To isolate a sick person or animal means to keep them apart from other people or animals, so that their illness does not spread.
  Patients will be isolated from other people for between three days and one month after treatment.
  You don''t have to isolate them from the community.
VB
= quarantine

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isolated
adjective
    remote, hidden, lonely, off the beaten track, outlying, out-of-the-way, secluded
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isolate
verb
    separate, cut off, detach, disconnect, insulate, segregate, set apart
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isolate
verb
    separate, cut off, detach, disconnect, insulate, segregate, set apart


sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 20:05:13←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:26|

separate  
1 separate
If one thing is separate from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things.
  Each villa has a separate sitting-room.
  They are now making plans to form their own separate party.
  Business bank accounts were kept separate from personal ones.
ADJ: oft ADJ from n

?separateness
  ...establishing Australia''s cultural separateness from Britain.
N-UNCOUNT

2 separate
If you refer to separate things, you mean several different things, rather than just one thing.
  Use separate chopping boards for raw meats, cooked meats, vegetables and salads.
  Men and women have separate exercise rooms.
  The authorities say six civilians have been killed in two separate attacks.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
= different
3 separate   separates   separating   separated
If you separate people or things that are together, or if they separate, they move apart.
  Police moved in to separate the two groups.
  The pans were held in both hands and swirled around to separate gold particles from the dirt.
  The front end of the car separated from the rest of the vehicle.
  They separated. Stephen returned to the square.
  They''re separated from the adult inmates.
V-RECIP-ERG

4 separate   separates   separating   separated
If you separate people or things that have been connected, or if one separates from another, the connection between them is ended.
  They want to separate teaching from research.
  It''s very possible that we may see a movement to separate the two parts of the country.
  He announced a new ministry to deal with Quebec''s threat to separate from Canada.
V-RECIP-ERG

5 separate   separates   separating   separated
If a couple who are married or living together separate, they decide to live apart.
  Her parents separated when she was very young.
  Since I separated from my husband I have gone a long way.
V-RECIP

6 separate   separates   separating   separated
An object, obstacle, distance, or period of time which separates two people, groups, or things exists between them.
  ...the white-railed fence that separated the yard from the paddock.
  ...although they had undoubtedly made progress in the six years that separated the two periods...
  Rural communities are widely separated and often small.
  But a group of six women and 23 children got separated from the others.
VB

7 separate   separates   separating   separated
If you separate one idea or fact from another, you clearly see or show the difference between them.
  It is difficult to separate legend from truth.
  ...learning how to separate real problems from imaginary illnesses...
  It is difficult to separate the two aims.
VB
= distinguish
+ separate out   separates out; separating out; separated out
Separate out means the same as separate.
  How can one ever separate out the act from the attitudes that surround it?
PHR-V

8 separate   separates   separating   separated
A quality or factor that separates one thing from another is the reason why the two things are different from each other.
  The single most important factor that separates ordinary photographs from good photographs is the lighting.
  What separates terrorism from other acts of violence?
VB
= distinguish
9 separate   separates   separating   separated
If a particular number of points separate two teams or competitors, one of them is winning or has won by that number of points.
  In the end only three points separated the two teams.
VB

10 separate   separates   separating   separated
If you separate a group of people or things into smaller elements, or if a group separates, it is divided into smaller elements.
  The police wanted to separate them into smaller groups.
  Wallerstein''s work can be separated into three main component themes.
  Let''s separate into smaller groups.
  So all the colours that make up white light are sent in different directions and they separate.
V-ERG
= split
+ separate out   separates out; separating out; separated out
Separate out means the same as separate.
  If prepared many hours ahead, the mixture may separate out.
PHR-V

11 separate   separates
Separates are clothes such as skirts, trousers, and shirts which cover just the top half or the bottom half of your body.
N-PLURAL

12 separate
When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
  Sue was 27 when she and her husband decided to go their separate ways.
PHR: V inflects


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separate
verb
1   divide, come apart, come away, detach, disconnect, disjoin, remove, sever, split, sunder
2   part, break up, disunite, diverge, divorce, estrange, part company, split up
3   isolate, segregate, single out

adjective
4   unconnected, detached, disconnected, divided, divorced, isolated, unattached
5   individual, alone, apart, distinct, particular, single, solitary
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separate out    
  separate out   separates out; separating out; separated out
If you separate out something from the other things it is with, you take it out.
  The ability to separate out reusable elements from other waste is crucial.
PHR-V

  See also separate 7, 10.

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 20:12:30←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:25|

solitary  
1 solitary
A person or animal that is solitary spends a lot of time alone.
  Paul was a shy, pleasant, solitary man.
  They often have a lonely and solitary life to lead.
ADJ-GRADED: usu ADJ n

2 solitary
A solitary activity is one that you do alone.
  His evenings were spent in solitary drinking.
ADJ: ADJ n

3 solitary
A solitary person or object is alone, with no others near them.
  ...the occasional solitary figure making a study of wildflowers or grasses.
ADJ: ADJ n
= lone
4 solitary
Solitary is the same as solitary confinement. (INFORMAL)
  Tom was in solitary across the way from me.
N-UNCOUNT: usu in N


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solitary
adjective
1   unsociable, cloistered, isolated, reclusive, unsocial
2   single, alone, lone, sole
3   lonely, companionless, friendless, lonesome
4   isolated, hidden, out-of-the-way, remote, unfrequented

sunyuting1 发表于 >2004-5-29 20:18:57←



我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
[楼 主] | Posted:2004-12-22 07:23|

1.joint
D
 
1 joint
Joint means shared by or belonging to two or more people.
  She and Frank had never gotten around to opening a joint account.
  Jackie and Ben came to a joint decision as to where they would live.
ADJ: ADJ n

?jointly
  The Port Authority is an agency jointly run by New York and New Jersey.
ADV: ADV with v

2 joint   joints
A joint is a part of your body such as your elbow or knee where two bones meet and are able to move together.
  Her joints ache if she exercises.
N-COUNT

3 joint   joints
A joint is the place where two things are fastened or fixed together.
N-COUNT

  See also dovetail joint.
4 joint   joints
A joint is a fairly large piece of meat which is suitable for roasting. (BRIT; in AM use roast)
  He carved the joint of beef.
N-COUNT

5 joint   joints
You can refer to a cheap place where people go for some form of entertainment as a joint. (INFORMAL)
  They had come to the world''s most famous pick-up joint.
  She had always wanted to eat in a hamburger joint in Hollywood.
N-COUNT: usu supp N

6 joint   joints
A joint is a cigarette which contains cannabis or marijuana. (INFORMAL)
N-COUNT
= spliff, reefer
7 joint
If something puts someone''s nose out of joint, it upsets or offends them because it makes them feel less important or less valued. (INFORMAL)
  Barry had his nose put out of joint by Lucy''s aloof sophistication.
  Her sister-in-law''s nose is a little out of joint.
PHR: PHR after v, v-link PHR

8 joint
If something is out of joint, it is not quite right or appropriate, or does not work quite as it should.
  There was something out of joint in the situation. Something was strange.
  The electoral timetable seems to be out of joint with the need for change.
PHR: usu v-link PHR

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joint
adjective
1   shared, collective, combined, communal, cooperative, joined, mutual, united

noun
2   junction, connection, hinge, intersection, nexus, node

verb
3   divide, carve, cut up, dissect, segment, sever
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joint-stock company  
  joint-stock company   joint-stock companies
A joint-stock company is a company that is owned by the people who have bought shares in that company.
N-COUNT

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strip joint  
  strip joint   strip joints
A strip joint is the same as a strip club. (INFORMAL)
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我喜欢千万法，我用压码和右脑给千万别学英语一个杠杆，撬起零基础到达自由王国；压码只有一个指标：通过滞后提高速度，速度就是质量,给它注入一个加速器，就会产生一个个奇迹.
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