Hi, guys. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this advanced vocabulary lesson on five adjectives to sound smart.
大家好，我是Alex。感谢点击，欢迎收看这次关于5个高级形容词词汇的雅思词汇课。
So, in this lesson, I'm going to be looking at some uncommon adjectives that you can use in your speech
这节课上，我会来讲一些在你的日常讲话中不那么常见的形容词，
and the adjectives I have chosen are understood by most native English speakers regardless, but they are a little bit more advanced and a little bit more formal.
我选的这些形容词对于大部分英语母语者来说都能听懂，但是这些单词更高级，而且相对更正式。
So let's look at some sentences, some vocabulary, and see if we can understand what these words mean.
我们来看一些句子和词汇，看看能不能理解这些词汇什么意思。
The first one is: "maudlin".So, you can listen and repeat. One more time: "maudlin".
第一个是“maudlin”。听后跟读，再来一次“maudlin”。
All right, so let's look at the sentence: "Looking at old photos makes me maudlin."
来看这个句子：“看到这些老照片让我很伤感。”
So, if you're looking at an old photo album of your childhood or your friends from elementary school or high school, how do you generally feel?
如果你在看你童年的老照片，或者你小学中学时朋友的老照片，你会有什么感觉？

I guess it depends on what kind of experience you had when you were a child, but in this context, I wanted it to mean like overly emotional and sentimental. Okay?
我猜这肯定要基于你儿时的经历，但是在这句话中，我想说的是那种特别情绪化、敏感的感情。
So the meaning of "maudlin" we're going to put: overly - and that is supposed to be a "v" - overly emotional and - I'm going to put a plus for "and" - sentimental. Okay.
所以“maudlin”的意思是：特别的——overly这里是v——特别情绪化——还特别敏感。
So you can say, for example: "Drinking makes me maudlin."
举个例子，你可以说：“喝酒让我愁上心头。”
So if you drink too much and you start thinking about your past and your history, and you get very emotional, almost like teary thinking about it - you feel very maudlin. Okay?
如果你喝了太多，你开始想到你的过去的话，你就会非常情绪化，几乎要眼泪汪汪的——你就是maudlin了。
The next adjective is: "lackadaisical".It's a very fun word to say, so say it with me: "lackadaisical".
下一个形容词是“lackadaisical”。这个单词来读起来很有意思，来跟我读一遍：“lackadaisical”。
Okay, so sentence: "Her work has been very lackadaisical lately."
句子是：“她最近工作非常无精打采。”
Even when you think about the word and the sound of it like: "lackadaisical", it kind of sounds like lazy in a way and that actually is what it means. So lazy and careless.
即便是你想到这个单词以及它的发音“lackadaisical”，它听起来就很想lazy这个单词，而且这就是它的意思，慵懒又漠不关心。
Lazy and careless; without care.Okay? So if I ask you: "Hey, how was your weekend? Was it productive?"
慵懒，漠不关心，不在意。如果我问你：“嘿，周末过得怎么样？有什么成果吗？”
And you can say: "No, I was really lackadaisical." Or: "I felt very lackadaisical."
你可以说：“没有，我真的特别不想动。”或者说：“我感觉无精打采的。”
A person's work can be lackadaisical meaning that, again, lazy, careless, not a lot of attention paid to it. Okay?
如果一个人的工作很lackadaisical，就是说很慵懒，漠不关心，一点都不注意。
All right, the next adjective is: "interminable". Okay?So say it with me: "interminable". Okay, so: "His complaining is interminable!"
下一个形容词是：“interminable”。跟我读：“interminable”。“他的抱怨可真是没完没了。”
Now, when we look at this adjective, you might see in the middle: "terminable", "termina", "termina", okay, what does this word sound like?
我们看这个形容词，你会看到中间有“terminable”，“termina”，“termina”，这个词听起来像什么？
It almost sounds like "terminate". Right?Now, with the prefix: "in", this makes it negative, so not terminate, okay, not ending.
听起来就像“terminate”，对吧？再加上一个前缀“in”，表示否定，那就是无法终结，没完没了。
So, if something is interminable, it's almost like it's endless or at least it feels like it's endless, like it's not going to end.
如果某事是interminable的，几乎就是无休止的或者至少看起来是无休止的，没完没了。
So his complaining, the way he complains is interminable; he always complains, it doesn't end.
所以他抱怨起来无休无止；他总是在抱怨，没完没了。
So, basically, never ending or it feels like it's never ending.
这个词的意思基本就是永不停歇，或者感觉是永远没有尽头的。
Now, at the time of this video, we are in the middle of winter in Canada and it's still going on,
在录这个视频的时候，我们正处于加拿大的冬季，而且冬季还要继续
it's March and, you know, some of us are starting to feel that this winter is interminable; it's not going to end.
这可已经是三月了，我们中的有些人已经开始觉得这个冬季无穷无尽。
This is 2014, by the way, at the time of recording.All right, finally...Not finally, fourth. "Egregious".
顺便说一句，这是2014年。好了，最后一个……不是最后一个，第四个，“egregious”
So very, very useful adjective."Sorry, but your logic is egregious."
一个非常非常实用的形容词。“抱歉，但是你的逻辑极其混乱。”
So if someone gives you an explanation for something and the explanation, the logic is: "That doesn't make sense",
如果有人给你解释一件事情，但是解释起来的逻辑“毫无道理”，
like if it doesn't make any sense, it is egregious which means incredibly bad or terrible. Okay?
就是非常的egregious，极其混乱糟糕。
So let's say: "Very bad".Normally, we talk about logic being egregious or a statement, something a person says as being egregious which just means it's just wrong. Okay?
那就是“非常差的”。通常情况下，我们说逻辑很混乱，或者某人说的什么事情很混乱，就是说这件事是错误的，明白吗？
Now, we don't really use it to talk about people, like you can't really say: "He is egregious. He is really bad."
我们不用这个词来形容人，也就是说你不能用这个词来说：“他很混乱，他很糟糕。”
Normally, it's things or actions that are egregious, things you say or your logic is egregious. Okay?
通常来讲，是某件事或行为很混乱，你说的话或者逻辑很混乱，明白了吗？
And finally, we have the word: "visceral".
最后一个，“visceral”。
So when we look at the sentence: "Skydiving" - which means jumping from a plane - "is an incredibly visceral experience."
我们来看句子：“跳伞——就是从飞机上跳下来——是一次很不可思议的内心体验。”
So imagine jumping out of a plane, how do you feel emotionally, physically?
想象一下从飞机上跳出来，你心理和生理上会有怎样的感觉？
Well, you probably do feel very emotional and your senses are, you know, engaged.
你可能会非常的激动，而且你的感官会完全贯通开来。
So if something is visceral, it's emotional and instinctual which means that your senses are very much engaged during this activity, whatever it is.
所以如果某事非常的visceral，那它就是很情绪化和本能的，意思是你的感官在这项体验中完全贯通，无论这种体验是什么。
So you might often hear this in promotions or commercials for movies,
所以你可能会在电影的推广里面听到这样的话，
so you might hear an action movie being called: "A visceral experience", or: "A visceral ride",
把一部电影称为“a visceral experience”，或者“a visceral ride”，
which means it's a very like instinctual; it appeals to your instincts, attracts your instincts and your emotions.
意思就是它会唤醒你的本能，吸引你的直觉和情感。
Not logical, not reasonable, but it appeals to your emotions and your senses more than anything.
毫无逻辑，毫无道理，但它就是能够比任何其他事情吸引你的情感和感官。
Okay, guys, so one more time."Maudlin" means sad, depressing, sentimental. Okay?
好了，让我们再来一遍。“Maudlin”的意思是很悲伤，沮丧，敏感，还记得吗？
"Lackadaisical", lazy and careless."Interminable", never ending."Egregious", incredibly bad, a person's logic or something they say.
“Lackadaisical”，懒惰，漠不关心。“Interminable”，无休无止。“Egregious”，某人的逻辑或者说的话特别糟糕的。
And: "visceral", emotional, instinctual, appeals to your senses.
“Visceral”，情绪化的，本能的，吸引你感官的。
So one more time guys, let's just do some pronunciation before I go. "Maudlin". "Lackadaisical". "Interminable". "Egregious". "Visceral". Nice job.
好了再来一遍，结束之前我们再来练习一次发音，"Maudlin". "Lackadaisical". "Interminable". "Egregious". "Visceral".很棒。
So if you'd like to test your understanding of these five adjectives, as always, you can check out the quiz on www. engvid. com.
如果你想要检验一下自己对这五个形容词的理解情况，你可以到www.engvid.com上做测试题。
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