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〈主英〉 惊恐,恐慌
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are you in a blue funk about running out of things to say? 你是否因再没有什么事情可说而感到惊慌?
〈主北美〉 沮丧,消沉
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I sat absorbed in my own blue funk. 我坐着,独自陷入忧伤。
〈旧,主英〉 懦夫。
〈主英〉 因害怕而避开;逃避
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I could have seen him this morning but I funked it. 今天早晨我本可见到他的,但我躲开了。
[mass noun]a style of popular dance music of US black origin, based on elements of blues and soul and having a strong rhythm that typically accentuates the first beat in the bar
乡土音乐(一种起源于美国黑人音乐的流行舞曲,以布鲁斯和灵歌成分为基础,节奏强烈,常强化每小节的第一拍)。
[in sing.]
〈北 美,非正式,旧〉 汗臭味;烟草的霉味。
Casimir (1884—1967), Polish-born American biochemist. He showed that a number of diseases, including scurvy, rickets, beriberi, and pellagra, were each caused by the deficiency of a particular dietary component, and coined the term vitamins for the chemicals concerned.
芬克,卡齐米尔(1884—1967,波兰出生的美国生物化学家,指出像坏血病、佝偻病、脚气病和糙皮病等疾病都是因缺乏某种饮食成分所引起的,并把所缺少的化学物质首称为“维生素”)。
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funk something up give music elements of such a style. 使乐曲具有乡土音乐的成分(或风格)
"mid 18th cent. (first recorded as Oxford University slang): perhaps from