1248614 高芯 第二次作业

1. titanic 巨大的 adj.
If you describe sth. as titanic, you mean that it is very big or important, and usually that it involves very powerful forces.
—— The world had witnessed a titanic struggle between two visions of the future.
—— We are *** titanic efforts to achieve our goal.

2. honorificabilitudinitatibus 不胜光荣的 adj.
The dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin wordhonorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost.
——O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.
—— It is honorificabilitudinitatibus to learn how to use a word of Shakespeare.

3. substantially 大量地 adv.
If something changes substantially or is substantially different, it changes a lot or is very different
——The percentage of girls in engineering has increased substantially
——The price of flower goes up substantially at Valentine’s Day.

4. referendum 全民公投 n.
If a country holds a referendum on a particular policy, they ask the people to vote on the policy and show whether or not they agree with it.
——What's almost as incredible as the reality of a new, independent South Sudan is that the referendum took place at all -- not to mention on time and without violence.
——The Russian government supported an independence referendum in Eastern Ukraine.

5. classics 名著 n.
A body of literature regarded as great or lasting
——There are three great constituents of modern education – the classics, modern history and literature, and science.
——The government should make Chinese Classics as a required course in college.