ENG words

yegg \YEG\ noun
盜賊(尤其指偷保險箱的賊)
: safecracker; also : robber

• safecracker n. 保險箱竊賊
  

Example sentence:
"[Her] attorney does admit that his client had developed 'platonic' relationships with two cons, a couple of yeggs named Ollie and Marvin, but only to gather information." (Fort Collins Coloradoan, December 6, 2002)

• platonic a. 理想的、不切實際的
  
• con n. 騙子、詐欺者

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undertaker \UN-der-tay-ker\ noun
承擔(風險)者、承辦人
承辦喪葬者=funeral director(<-比較常用) 1 : one that undertakes : one that takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur *2 : one whose business is to prepare the dead for burial and to arrange and manage funerals 3 : an Englishman taking over forfeited lands in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries

• forfeited adj. 被沒收的
• forfeit v. (因失職、違約、犯罪等而)喪失(權利、名譽、生命等)
• forfeit n. 喪失的東西、沒收物、罰金
  

Example sentence:
The undertaker offered the family several choices of coffin for the burial service.
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teleological \tel-ee-uh-LAH-jih-kul\ adjective
目的論的
: exhibiting or relating to design or purpose especially in nature

Example sentence:
"What is the true purpose of life's voyage?" wrote John R. Illingworth in 1907, posing what he termed "the great teleological question."

關聯字

• teleology n. 目的論= the study of ends and purposes
  
• teleologist n. 目的論者
  

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kinetic \kuh-NET-ik\ adjective
【物理】運動的、運動引起的
活躍的、有力的
1 : of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith
*2 a : active, lively b : dynamic, energizing
3 : of or relating to art (as sculpture or assemblage) having mechanical parts which can be set in motion : of or relating to kinetic art

• therewith ad. 與此(有關的)
• assemblage n.
• 裝置藝術
• 集合在一起的人或物 He is one of the assemblage.
  
• 聚會、集會
• 裝配、裝置 the assemblage of parts of a machine
  

Example sentence:
The dancers infected the audience with their fierce kinetic energy.