女神殿

tumescent

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[too-mes-uhnt, tyoo-] 
(性器官) 充血腫脹的

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–adjective 
1. swelling; slightly tumid. (文體) 誇張的
2. exhibiting 
or 
affected with many ideas or emotions; teeming.
3. pompous and pretentious, esp. in the use of language; bombastic.

What's another word for "engorged"?
I'll look it up.
Okay.
Swollen. Turgid.
Tumescent?


。最高點
nadir
Astronomy. the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given position or observer and diametrically opposite the zenith
Astrology. the point of a horoscope opposite the midheaven: the [cusp] of the fourth house.
The same can't be said of Meg Ryan in the role of Morrison's common-law wife. She delivers a shrill, [grating] performance that [reaches] a nadir during a Thanksgiving incident involving a [charred] turkey.【天】天底

pinnacle
that was the pinnacle of their [career]
The Cereal Wars seem to be taking place not only before Katrina, but before the Internet age, in a world where flannel shirts are still the [pinnacle] of cool.
The pinnacle of heist movies, blacklistee Jules Dassin's Du Rififi Chez Les Hommes (1955) is not only one of the best French noirs, but one of the top movies in the genre.
meridian
the meridian [hour]
He was at the meridian of his [power] then.
apex
cusp 
on the cusp of a [new] era.
The Emperor’s Children is about the [intersections] in the lives of three friends, now [on] the cusp of their [thirties], making their way—and not—in New York City.
capstone
Andrei Tarkovsky's final film is an appositely [apocalyptic] work that serves as a fitting [capstone] to a brilliant and much too short career.

ferrule 
metal casting placed over the wooden tip of an umbrella
ferule
wooden ruler to punish schoolchildren, figuratively discipline
foil 
Loyal troops foiled his [attempt] to overthrow the government.  
The [straight] man was an able foil to the [comic].  
and proved an [apt] foil for the leering one-liners of Bob "Cherchez la Femme" Hope in Paris Holiday (1957) and Call Me Bwana (1963).
corona
wide-eyed and pouty, with a great corona of frizzy [hair]

cartographer 
the production of maps
T.S. is an exceptional [carto]grapher and scientific illustrator,
topography
Indeed, the ever-so-slightly stylized opening emphasizes the humor inherent in the [topography] and oldster lifestyle in Sun City, Arizona.
tableaux
plateau
After a period of [un]interrupted growth, sales began to plateau.  
Rising inflation [plateaued] sales income. 
the pathfinder who believes in pushing the envelope of danger and sex to arrive at a new physical, psychological and sexual [plateau]. 
But Magic Magic hits a plateau, and meanders in circles there for some time. 
it’s different enough to stand on its own, even if it’s not on the same plateau.

rung
Mick Travis is an ambitious young man who is looking to get his foot on the first [rung] of the [ladder] of success by [landing] a job as a salesman.
clamber
She won't feel like clambering over furnitture. 
ledge
Is it really crumbly there? Like the ledge?
promontory
"Seem to me a sterile prompotory."


。加法
tumescent
He probably [perks] up when the TV ads warn about four-hour [tumescence].
tumid
turgid 
swollen
turgid [language]
turbid
dark & muddy
distend
expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic
Habitual [over]eating had distended his [stomach]. 
Mazzy Star much prefered the dark side of psychedelia, as [exemplified] by the most distended tracks of the Doors and the Velvet Underground.
celluloid
pellucid
limpid
We could see to the very bottom of the limpid [pond]  
limpid [prose]  
As filmed, the narrative dissolved into [limpid] anecdotes. 

bloat
Overeating bloated their [bellies]. 
The [carcass] started to bloat.
to [cure] (fishes) as bloaters. 
The promotion has bloated his [ego] to an alarming degree. 
bulge
(hump) a bulge in a [wall].  
(suddenly) the bulge in [profits].
Penn lets loose: his neck cords [bulge], his voice becomes [coarse],  
Bale, who dropped an alleged 63 pounds off of his pumped-up "American Psycho" [torso] to [emerge] in such a state of [rib]-bulging cadaverousness that
Boni reluctantly takes the [sulky] Nenette in, only to hear she's pregnant seven months, it turns out, despite the lack of any [major] bulge. 
I take a bite, and next thing I know pastrami is caught in my throat. I can't breathe. Can't breathe and my eyes are bulging out.
emphysema
Billy Bob Thornton stars as Georgia prison guard Hank Grotowski, a hard-drinking racist ex-cop whose father, Buck, is dying [of] emphysema.【醫】氣腫, 肺氣腫

eke
increase, enlarge, lengthen.
Eva and Jan are musicians who have withdrawn to a remote island where they eke [out] a [living] by growing and selling fruit.
Terry, by contrast, is a troubled, self-destructive soul eking out a nomadic existence.
After eking out a living as a dog walker, Jim [skulks] back to his parents' home in rural Indiana with no idea of what to do next.
mete
distribute or apportion, dole 
a limiting mark
his one true love is the city whose mean streets offer him [no] shortage of opportunities to mete [out] justice.
doleful
dole
Your old man, he'll pay money to take care of you, but he won't give you enough money to take care of yourself. Why not? He doesn't think that you can, so he just doles out enough money so that you have to depend on him.

recuperate
recover from sickness or exhaustion, regain health or strength
The future of the film was put in jeopardy when director Sam Peckinpah caught pneumonia after an all-night drinking session with Ken Hutchison in the sea at Land's End. Having recuperated at a clinic in London, Peckinpah was only [reinstated] after promising that he would remain sober. 
Mr. Kramer is recuperating elsewhere.  Are you awake now, Dussander?


。中心
Navel








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