陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

complacent/ disgruntled/ fretful/ grievance/ gripe/ grumble/ insatiable/ querulous/ remonstrate/ repine/ sate/ smug

1. 慾望、胃口等「充份滿足」叫sate：

•Its hunger sated, the lion dozed.

2. 慾望、胃口等「不可能滿足的」、「無法滿足的」叫insatiable，褒或貶的情境都適用這個字：

•The boy's thirst for knowledge was insatiable.

•My sister had an insatiable love for music.

•Insatiable greed was the bane of his life.

3. 因不符合期待等而「不滿意的」叫disgruntled。這種不滿有時是正當合理的：

•The passengers were disgruntled by the numerous delays.

4. 「自滿的」、「得意的」可用complacent或smug：

•However many matches a team win, it should never be allowed to get complacent.

•Don't be so complacent now, there's still a long way to your real success.

•The student looked on his own performance with a complacent smile.

•The politician has been leading a life of smug respectability.

5. 文言敘述中的「抱怨」用repine，口語或俚語中的「抱怨」說gripe：

•Though blind and recurrently frustrated, he did not repine.

•The students were griping about the cafeteria food.

6. 小聲但氣憤地抱怨－也就是「發牢騷」－叫grumble，「強烈抗議」叫remonstrate：

•He has everything he needs; he has nothing to grumble about.

•Some workers are grumbling about low wages.

•The inhabitants remonstrated about the lack of police protection in this area.

7. 因自覺受到委屈而引發抱怨，可用名詞grievance：

•Inequitable taxation was the chief grievance of the laboring class.

•She has a very real grievance against the hospital, for the operation ruined her health.

8. 「抱怨的」、「發牢騷的」可用fretful或querulous：

•"Why can't I have another cake?" asked the child in a fretful voice.

•Why is the baby so fretful?

•In this long letter I could find nothing but some repetitive and querulous protests.

•His classmates were repelled by his querulous and complaining statements.

•Her querulous nature estranged many people.