1.words and expressions

         Weathered

I spotted an empty seat next to a weathered man in his sixties who was using a stopwatch and taking notes.

Worn, stained, or warped by or as if by exposure to weather; seasoned:

受风雨侵蚀的，饱经风霜的：因或好似因风雨而变得破烂、肮脏或扭曲的；饱经风霜的：

例句人a house of weathered shingles.  木瓦屋板受到风雨侵蚀的房子

2. Architecture Sloped to shed water:【建筑学】 倾斜的：做成便于泄水的斜坡的：

a weathered masonry joint. 做成泄水斜坡的砖石建筑接合处

PHRASES

▪ weather in:  To experience or cause to experience weather conditions that prevent movement:       因天气恶劣而停止某项活动：经历或使经历阻止某项活动的天气：

The squadron is weathered in because of dense fog. Such a storm will weather the fleet in.

那个中队因浓雾而无法行动。这样的暴风雨将阻止舰队的行动

          laconic

Spring training is baseball's ultimate talent show, nod the campus are infested with laconic men who have spent a lifetime appraising.

adjective。  using only a few words to say sth。简洁的；简明扼要的；凝炼的

          pregnant

I don't like baseball movies that go into slow motion when the batter hits a home run, to notify me that it's a pregnant moment.

ADJ 形容词] 耐人寻味的；意味深长的；心照不宣的；A pregnant silence or moment has a special meaning which is not obvious but which people are aware of. [ADJ n]

There was a long, pregnant silence.

当时出现了长时间耐人寻味的沉默。

//...a deceptive peace, pregnant with invisible threats.

一种和平的假象，潜伏着许多无形的威胁

用法。一个妇女怀孕几个月，可以说She is ... months pregnant. 问她怀孕了几个月，字面上固然可以说：How many months are you pregnant? 但是一般更多说How pregnant are you? 这里的how不是问状态，而是问怀孕的程度，亦即时间的长短。说怀某个孩子，用pregnant with或pregnant for，但用with较多。【例如】pregnant with her third child怀上她的第三个孩子 / pregnant for Peter怀着彼得。pregnant with还可以转义为“孕育着、蕴涵着、预示着（某种事件或局面）”。【例如】words pregnant with emotion蕴涵着激情的言词 / She kept a silence which was pregnant with indications of how much more she could say. 她保持沉默，但这暗示着她还有好多的话要说。

          palatable

I noticed that many reporters had fallen into the habit of trying to make the news more palatable by writing in a feature style.

adjective  1. (of food or drink 食物或饮料) having a pleasant or acceptable taste

可口的；味美的

2. ~ (to sb) pleasant or acceptable to sb 宜人的；可意的；可接受的:

Some of the dialogue has been changed to make it more palatable to an American audience. 有些对白有所修改以适应美国观众的口味。

OPP  unpalatable

         cadence

Much could still be done in such areas as cadence,detail and freshness of language.

noun

1. (formal) the rise and fall of the voice in speaking(说话时语调的)抑扬顿挫,起落:

He delivered his words in slow, measured cadences.

他讲话缓慢而抑扬顿挫、把握有度。

2. the end of a musical phrase (乐段或乐句的)收束,静止

        Soporific

All these sentences are the same length and have the same soporific rhythm

adjective

(formal)making you want to go to sleep 催眠的；让人瞌睡的:

the soporific effect of the sun. 太阳让人昏昏欲睡的作用

2.summary