2007年2月25日星期日

Vivian Leigh

  • narrator
  • portrayal: the way someone or something is described or shown in a book, film, play etc
  • Vivian Leigh
  • Marlon Brando
  • David O. Selznick
  • Gone With the Wind
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • inadequate
  • generosity
  • entertain:

1 [intransitive and transitive] to amuse or interest people in a way that gives them pleasure
entertain somebody with something
She entertained the children with stories, songs and drama.
A museum should aim to entertain as well as educate.
2 [intransitive and transitive] to invite people to your home for a meal, party etc, or to take your company's customers somewhere to have a meal, drinks etc:
Mark usually does the cooking when we entertain.
Do you get an allowance for entertaining clients?
3 entertain an idea/hope/thought etc formal to consider an idea etc, or allow yourself to think that something might happen or be true:
She could never entertain the idea of living in the country.

  • oration: a formal public speech
  • conversant:
1 formal having knowledge or experience of something
conversant with
Staff members are conversant with the issues.
2 American EnglishSLL able to hold a conversation in a foreign language, but not able to speak it perfectly
conversant in
Kim was conversant in Russian


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