Tenacity (續：屈服 後代 傾向 勇敢 單字大集合)

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    固執,堅持,頑強,不屈不撓

          2.    堅韌,韌性

          3.    (記憶等的) 保持力





。軟弱

。陳腐無趣 

。游移

。諂媚 

Tenuous



 。屈服

grovel

humble oneself or act in an abject manner, as in great fear or utter servility

We got a lot of groveling to do with these people.

God. I grovelled in front of that lady for something I completely deserve.

What, you're jealous? No, I'm angry, Johnny. I don't like to see one of our blokes groveling to Pakis. They came over here to work for us.

capitulate

surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.

He finally capitulated and [agreed] to do the job my way. 

his studio had capitulated [to] Fox "for the benefit of the industry."

David's insistent father demands he join the family business, and soon his dad's threats to cut David off financially -- as well as his not-so-subtle hints that Katie will leave him unless he starts making [serious] money -- force David to capitulate.

complacent 

complacence, complacency

Lucy complacently settles [for] the tiresomely traditional courtship of [nerdish] Cecil Vyse -- and then Mr. Emerson moves into the neighborhood.

complaisant

obliging, willing to please

compliant

willing to obey, submissive

subservient

Needy is the unassuming, bespectacled, and usually subservient BFF of Jennifer, by far the hottest girl in their tiny high school. 



sedentary

characterized by or requiring a sitting posture

Our century, friends, is a lazy one. most people have but one sedentary [occupation].

squat 

The [horse] threw [himself] into a squat.

He squatted in an [empty] house.

Lydon, Vicious, and several other friends began squatting in [vacant] buildings, and the former two occasionally [busked] in subway stations.

When he was riding by they were squatting in a hut cooking hamsters for dinner. You've got to be interested in somebody. All you do is work.

hunker

That was me, the lonely, hunkered down type, waiting for the night to blow over.

genuflect 

bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship

In a "confession" published on the movie's Web site, Korine [kids] "Dogma 95" at the same time he genuflects [to] it.

prostrate 

cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration 

lay flat, as on the ground

He prostrated [himself] before rank and wealth.



stoop

bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position

to stoop [over] a desk. 

to stoop from [age]. 

Don't stoop to argue with [him].

I thought these soft-boiled [egghead] critics only stooped to [sneer] at audiences who like The Dark Knight. 

Why don't you remind them? They'll feel some massive guilt. It could be highly profitable. I wouldn't stoop to remind them.



acquiesce

assent tacitly, submit or comply silently or without protest, agree, consent

acquiescent 

disposed to acquiesce or consent tacitly

but if my taste has changed, I still wish independent cinema wasn't so acquiescent [in] its marginalization.



。後代

deign

think fit or in accordance with one's dignity, condescend

Compared with these two, every man is a fool. The world is most honored that they should deign to rule, and I worship the power of these lovely two with that adoring love known to so few.

condescend

He would not condescend to [misrepresent] the facts. 

He condescended to [their] intellectual level in order to be [understood].  

descend

He is descended [from] Confucius.

progeny

Their specialty is buying items from the progeny of the recently deceased, taking advantage of the children's ignorance about the value of the items, and then [flipping] them in their boutique.

a progeny of sexless, dwarflike mutants who are born for the [sole] purpose of acting out her violent fantasies of revenge.

scion 

posterity

This is for the wedding video. For posterity.

fetus 

fecund

fecund [parents] [farmland]

At least as far as the movies go, the fecund late '60s are a gift that keeps on giving.



hereditary

And what if you have kids? It can be hereditary.

pedigree 

either of persons or (more especially) of animals, in the case of animals, such a table is used as proof of superior qualities

That being said, a man who finds Michael Bay more skillful than Christopher Nolan is not someone whose views I want to [align] myself [with], no matter how pedigre[ed], trained, or well-[versed] in the art he may be.

genealogy

usually from the first known ancestor

She felt that her family had conspired to cheat me of my birthright, and I passed from infancy to childhood in an atmosphere of family history and genealogies. The dukedom had been bestowed by Charles II on Colonel Henry D'Ascoyne for services rendered to His Majesty during his exile.

atavisim

atavistic

"It’s very atavistic… is that the right word?【生】隔代遺傳,返祖現象



。傾向

affinity 

natural liking for or attraction to a person, thing, idea, etc 

(distinguished from [consanguinity]) relationship by marriage or by ties other than those of blood 

Elena, who has some affinity with her, even though Elena often [degrades] her, blames her for her own faults, and is forced to drag her around when she's hunting for men.

Blahhh. Indie expresses an affinity [for] a particular music style, not necessarily an aesthetic.

nepotism

consanguinity

(distinguished from [affinity]) relationship by descent from a common ancestor, kinship 

kinship 

kith & kin 

kindred

Making the acquaintance of a mysterious woman (Maria Schneider), he finds a [kindred spirit] — a woman as "lost" as he.

When Greenberg meets his brother's pretty assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig), a [kindred spirit] who longs to become a singer, he vows not to become too attached.

at once sillier and more desperate in its convictions than such [kindred] trips to the mystic East as Bertolucci's Little Buddha or Scorsese's Kundun.



penchant 

strong inclination, taste, or liking for something

[a] penchant for [outdoor] sports.

Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new [beau] Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), the fun-loving party boy with a penchant [for] drugs.

Like Mr. Lee, Mr. Green is especially able to construct scenes with men struggling to be in command of a conversation. There are several among railroad workers, including the oddball Rico (well played by Paul Schneider, who doesn't [overemphasize] the goofiness), that are a loving tribute to the Southern penchant for wasting time. 

What would you call a man with an insatiable penchant for women? A what? A penchant, a desire, taste, passion. Well, a ladies man, I guess.

Its story is straight-up sci-fi – a secret agent must [infiltrate] an all-poweful computer – but Jean-Luc Godard’s penchant [for] irreverence is right there on the surface.

predilection

tendency to think favorably of something in particular, partiality, preference 

[a] predilection for [Bach].

It's easy to imagine how the Coens, whose Achilles' heel has always been their predilection [for] smug irony and easy caricature, might have turned McCarthy's [taciturn] Texans into simplistic western-mythos archetypes.



propensity

natural inclination or tendency

[a] propensity to [drink] too much.

Action is an entirely new genre for Wright, but it’s one I think he’ll take to quite nicely given his propensity for [luscious] visuals.

predisposition

Are you telling me I think of this in terms of personal pique? Today that boy wiped his feet on the choice, on the predilections of 60 million people in the greatest country in the world.

proclivity 

natural or habitual inclination or tendency, propensity, predisposition 

[a] proclivity [to] meticulousness.

The film pays particularly strong attention to the artist's proclivity [for] scandalizing the European upper-crust with [overtly] erotic subject matter and presentation.

Now, you see, Sophie just turned that to the wall. She's got this kind of irritating proclivity for negation. Suppose she thinks it's progressive or something.



idiosyncrasy

characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual 

You think I haven't noticed your little idiosyncrasies? Your spells?

idiosyncratic

Force of July: An [idio]syncratic polymath turns delicate whimsy into a heartfelt story of us.

flair

natural talent, aptitude, or ability, bent, knack 

[a] flair for [writing] rhymes.

when a fleet, syncopated rhythm would have moved the exposition along with more [flair].





。勇敢

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