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lose no time in doing something do something immediately Murdock lost no time in taking out a patent for his invention. Yeti lost no time adopting fourteen piglets, even though their own mothers were still around. threading your way through/into something etc to move through a place by carefully going around thing that are blocking your way She came towards me, threading her way through the crowd. When the sun shines, the danger comes from agile hawks threading their way…

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malleable In your own backyard, a much more malleable rule applies, which states that under some circumstances culturally manipulated landscapes are also worthy of protection, particularly when the original landscape has completely disappeared. blow somebody away to make someone feel very surprised, especially about something they like or admire It just blows me away, the way everyone’s so friendly round here. We were blown away by the United States. be out of the question if something is out of the…

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reprehensible reprehensible behavior is very bad and deserves criticism I find their behavior morally reprehensible Firefighters put their lives on the line every time they go out to make sure people and property are safe, which make it all the more reprehensible that there are very a few who, to ensure their jobs are secure, start fires themselves when things slow down. toil/work/labour in obscurity work without being well-known After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging…

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반드시 그렇지는 않다. 왜냐하면 나무는 다음 세대를 시작할 때 커다란 어려움이 있기 때문이다. 이들은 전분, 오일, 또는 단백질 형태로 저장된 에너지를 쌔앗인 배아에 제공해야 한다. 씨앗은 생명이 시작될 때 새싹이 광합성을 통해 에너지를 생성하지 못한 상태에서 성장을 시작해야 한다. 뿌리는 땅을 뚫고 들어가 물과 미네랄을 흡수하고 땅 위에서는 떡잎이 자라지만 이들은 종마다 특유의 모습을 가지며 성장 이후의 햇빛을 받아 들이는 잎모양과 매우 다르다. 잎들은 성장한 후에 햇빛을 이용하여 물과 이산화탄소를 설탕으로 변환할 수 있다. 이 때 이후부터 작은 떡잎은 조상으로부터…

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bequeath something to somebody to officially arrange for someone to have something that you own after your death She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery. stoical not showing emotion or not complaining when bad things happen to you plunder Jays fly little more than half a mile before they deposit their plunder, but that’s quite far enough for the beech.

infestation If insects, rats etc infest a place, there are a lot of them and they usually cause damage: be infested with The kitchen was infested with cockroaches. I’ve often heard it said that mild winters cause plagues of biting flies or catastrophic bark beetle infestations. overwinter to live through the winter, or to make it possible for something to live through the winter These birds generally overwinter in tropical regioin. in a predicament a difficult or unpleasant situation in…

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draw up 퍼올리다 Draw water from a well Now an armada of organisms does a tidy job of breaking down the vegetative remains, whereupon the nutrients enter the next tree whose turn it is to draw up the released elixirs of life from the soil.

make someone’s blood run cold make somebody feel horror or extreme fear The thought of Eloise getting her claws into the child made his blood run cold. Not that they’ve actually hurt anyone: their mere presence close to villages or, worse still, primary schools is enought to make some people’s blood run cold.