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Rip Van Winkle[,ripvæn'wiŋkl; -rən-]

• • 瑞普凡温克尔(美国作家华盛顿欧文 Washington Irving 于1819年写的一个故事中的主人公，在山中一觉睡了20年，醒来发现一切面目全非)
  • [比喻]时代的落伍者
  • 喜欢睡觉的人

• landing cards
• historical sociology
• warp-printed
• buckyball
• stop short of sth/of doing sth
• ecchondromas
• naval brass
• starquake
• proceleusmatics
• audience ratings
• amylase
• f.a.a.
• contended
• valuator
• amorphous solid
• top boot
• hold a brief for
• plutoniums
• hum and hah
• ophthalmectomy
• depropanizing
• scintillation counters
• air cavalryman
• tears of strong wine
• refinancings
• A.A.F.
• stereoselectives
• fatty acid-derived hormones
• histologic
• buffet about
• Catholicism
• Roche lobe
• by the strong hand/arm
• zygomycetess
• croziered
• clearstory
• buffeted
• misconception
• phase resonance
• drone out
• Galileo
• symbolatry
• Moyen Age
• men in (grey) suits
• information contents
• unpinning
• feel like oneself
• good-humouredly
• examplar
• Conservative Judaism
• closed-end funds
• molecular paramagnetism
• v.w
• after the pattern
• healthy personality
• Paphians
• make (或 follow, take, strike) a beeline for
• reciprocal translocation
• pulkas
• disk magazine
• precipes
• live-box
• man-sized
• adventurest
• steady-state conduction
• english-canadians
• odd-jobber
• thanks a lot
• eight oar
• feature film
• disability insurance
• red-neckeds
• dig your heels/toes in
• swim fin
• gone at the knees
• be / fall hopelessly in love (with sb)
• immuno-compromised
• strike a match
• Hyginus, Saint
• dementia paralytica
• continue
• foot-pound
• roughly
• Sydneyites
• effluents
• tea-lead
• meriting
• respiting
• under the influence (of alcohol / drink / drugs etc)
• https
• bushlands
• punkies
• unpiling
• alter one's mind
• losingly
• daytimer
• depreciatory
• genapping
• straightedges
• cybotactic state