Sliver

sliver







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裂片,使成薄片



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–noun 

1. a small, slender, often sharp piece, 

as of wood or glass, 

split, broken, or cut off, usually lengthwise or with the grain; splinter. (分裂出來的小派別)



2. any small, narrow piece or portion: 



A sliver [of] sky was visible.  



3. a strand (縷,海濱,使擱淺) of loose, untwisted fibers produced in carding. (梳整棉毛纖維)



–verb (used with object) 

4. to split or cut off (a sliver) or to split or cut into slivers: to sliver a [log] into kindling. (引火物)

5. to form (textile fibers) into slivers.  



–verb (used without object) 

6. to split.  





　

Although only the [tip] of the iceberg is [revealed], 



it's no surprise that her more temperate father, who is also the girl's confidant, is leaving the family for another woman. In a startling pre-wedding scene which 



offers a sliver of [perspective] 

on 

these [clouded] relationships, 



Pialat seems to [assure] the family's [demise]. 



At the film's end, nothing about this girl is clearer than it was at the beginning, yet one has an abiding feeling that she's been [sentenced] to an emotional gulag.



gulag

[goo-lahg]

(孤) 古拉格, 前蘇聯勞改營





　

Vicky, who's engaged to nice guy New Yorker Doug (Chris Messina) and is vaguely neurotic in longstanding Allen-female [fashion], says nay, but when Cristina, who's looking for adventure, says yeah, the trio flies off by private plane to picturesque Oviedo. 



In different ways, Juan Antonio insinuates [himself] into both women's lives in the coming days, 



admitting [in] 

passing his abiding love for 



his ex-wife Maria Elena (Cruz), who once stabbed him in a fury and now lives with a man in Madrid.













The Lightbox stands at the corner of King and John streets, on the same plot of land where helmer Ivan Reitman’s parents opened a car wash in the 1950s. The Reitman family held onto the parcel and donated it for the project, 



saving a sliver [of] it 

for a 46-story, movie-themed condo tower 



that will be adjacent to the Lightbox. (A penthouse named for Morgan Freeman is selling for $2.2 million.)



condo

各戶有獨立產權的公寓(大樓)





　

Delphine is one of those people who does not like to be alone, but who is particular about what sort of company she's in. When another friend invites her to join a beach party for the weekend, for example, she is keenly aware that she's the only one without a partner - the [fifth] wheel. 



So she flees back to Paris. Her family wants her to spend the holidays with them in Ireland, but she won't go. She borrows her ex-husband's condo in a ski area, but hates the crowds and doesn't even stay the night.









laminate 

The document is encased in plastic, with the [laminating machine] he has also brought along.

lacerate ***

crate 

They're still driving around in the old crate they bought [20 years ago].  

a crate of [oranges]

dilapidated 快要倒塌 

veer 

The speaker kept veering [from] his [main topic].

The car veered [off] the [road]. 

veneer 

a [cruel] person with a veneer of [kindliness].  

Tony



joust jostle jut jot jolt 

jot 

tad streak fig slew (large) cf. shrew shrewd

loll lull

mole moll mull

Deluge