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2025年12月8日星期一

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The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.


oversee: to watch somebody/something and make sure that a job or an activity is done correctly

TRW: Transformer Repairing Works

venture: a business project or activity, especially one that involves taking risks

tangle: a twisted mass of threads, hair, etc. that cannot be easily separated

omnivorous: having wide interests in a particular area or activity

prospect: the chances of being successful

desperate: feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others

gig: (especially North American English, informal) a job, especially a temporary one

Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, England, is a legendary ancient woodland famous as the legendary hideout of the outlaw hero Robin Hood and home to Europe's largest collection of ancient oaks, like the iconic Major Oak.

outrun: to run faster or further than somebody/something

lava: hot liquid rock that comes out of a volcano

Krakatoa, volcano on Rakata Island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, Indonesia. Its explosive eruption in 1883 was one of the most catastrophic in history.

A power grid is the interconnected network that generates, transmits, and distributes electricity from power plants to consumers, featuring generation, high-voltage transmission lines, substations (to adjust voltage), and local distribution networks.

scramble: to move quickly, especially with difficulty, using your hands to help you

Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the US state of Washington.

literally: exactly

DEC: Digital Equipment Corporation

sift: to examine something very carefully in order to decide what is important or useful or to find something important

deluge: a large number of things that happen or arrive at the same time

downtime: the time during which a machine, especially a computer, is not working

crank up: to make a machine, etc. work or work at a higher level

diner: (in the US) a small, usually cheap, restaurant

baseload: the permanent minimum load that a power supply system is required to deliver

churn out: to produce something quickly and in large amounts

testament: a thing that shows that something else exists or is true

seasoned: (of a person) having a lot of experience of a particular activity

maniac: behaving in an extremely dangerous, violent, wild or crazy way

close-cropped: (of hair, grass, etc.) cut very short

glitch: a small problem or fault that stops something working successfully

haunted: (of an expression on somebody’s face) showing that somebody is very worried

fiasco: something that does not succeed, often in a way that makes people feel embarrassed

origami: the Japanese art of folding paper into attractive shapes

vigilant: alert, watchful

axiom: a rule or principle that most people believe to be true

trite: (of a remark, an opinion, etc.) boring because it has been expressed so many times before; not original


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Online Dictionaries Used:

hk.dictionary.search.yahoo.com

www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

Google AI overview

www.britannica.com

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