Vocabulary: 傲慢与偏见
- to seek proof; to seek confirmation
- to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)
- to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)
- to hold fast to; to stick to
- (military) position; front
- one week; all the way around; a whole cycle
- one's life experience; one's lot; one's past history
- known by everyone (idiom); well known; a household name
- to spare no pains or effort (idiom); to do one's utmost
- to ruin; to corrupt; to undermine
- reputation
- suspicious; dubious
- to welcome (a visitor or newcomer); (fig.) to usher in
- (idiom) world-shaking
- shift in the trend of events; turnaround; plot shift in a book; turn in the conversation
- to open one's eyes wide at the sight of profit (idiom); thinking of nothing but personal gain; money-grubbing
- to benefit (from sth)
- frivolous; careless; giddy
- to show; to reveal (one's feelings etc)
- temperament; disposition
- to conduct oneself in society
- inconstant in love; fickle
- few; scant; widowed
- sacrificial victim; sb who is expendable; item sold at a loss
- to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence; to swallow one's anger; to grin and bear it
- (idiom) to embarrass oneself
- to drown; to indulge; addicted to; to spoil (a child)
- to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute); (of a matter) to be determined by; to be up to (sb)
- (idiom) the first impression is the strongest; to hold a preconceived notion (about sth)
- even now; until now; right up to the present
- (idiom) self-knowledge
- long term
- not at all the same; substantially different
- admittedly (it's true that...)
- the most important; of chief importance