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lucid
1、 Very clear and easy to understand.
2、 Able to think clearly.
🌱On his last visit he had noticed that his elderly mother hadn't seemed completely lucid. 🌳Mental lucidity is easy to take for granted when we're young, though alcohol, drugs, and psychological instability can confuse the mind at any age. We all hope to live to 100 with our mental abilities intact, which is entirely possible; avoiding the condition called dementia （which includes the well-known Alzheimer's disease） often involves a combination of decent genes, physical and mental activity, and a good diet. Writing lucidly, on the other hand, can take a lot of work at any age; you've probably had the experience of trying to read a set of instructions and wondering if the writer even grew up speaking English. elucidate To clarify by explaining; explain.
🌱A good doctor should always be willing to elucidate any medical jargon he or she uses. 🌳The basic meaning of elucidate is "to shed light on." So when you elucidate, you make transparent or clear something that had been murky or confusing. Elucidation of a complex new health-care policy may be a challenge. Elucidation of the terms of use for a credit card may be the last thing its provider wants to do. The physicist Carl Sagan had a gift for elucidating astronomical science to a large audience, his lucid explanations making clear how stars are born and die and how the universe may have begun. lucubration 1、 Hard and difficult study.
2、 The product of such study.
🌱Our professor admitted that he wasn't looking forward to reading through any more of our lucubrations on novels that no one enjoyed. 🌳Lucubration came to mean "hard study" because it originally meant study done by lamplight, and in a world without electric lights, such study was likely to be the kind of hard work that would only a dedicated student like Abe Lincoln would make a habit of. The word has a literary feel to it, and it's often used with a touch of sarcasm. translucent Partly transparent; allowing light to pass through without permitting objects beyond to be seen clearly.
🌱Architects today often use industrial glass bricks in their home designs, because translucent walls admit daylight while guarding privacy. 🌳With its prefix trans-, meaning "through," translucent describes material that light shines through without making anything on the other side clearly visible, unlike a transparent material. Frosted glass, often used in bathroom windows, is translucent, as is stained glass. Red wine in a crystal goblet, when held before a candle in a dark corner of a quiet restaurant, usually proves to be translucent as well.
2、 Able to think clearly.
🌱On his last visit he had noticed that his elderly mother hadn't seemed completely lucid. 🌳Mental lucidity is easy to take for granted when we're young, though alcohol, drugs, and psychological instability can confuse the mind at any age. We all hope to live to 100 with our mental abilities intact, which is entirely possible; avoiding the condition called dementia （which includes the well-known Alzheimer's disease） often involves a combination of decent genes, physical and mental activity, and a good diet. Writing lucidly, on the other hand, can take a lot of work at any age; you've probably had the experience of trying to read a set of instructions and wondering if the writer even grew up speaking English. elucidate To clarify by explaining; explain.
🌱A good doctor should always be willing to elucidate any medical jargon he or she uses. 🌳The basic meaning of elucidate is "to shed light on." So when you elucidate, you make transparent or clear something that had been murky or confusing. Elucidation of a complex new health-care policy may be a challenge. Elucidation of the terms of use for a credit card may be the last thing its provider wants to do. The physicist Carl Sagan had a gift for elucidating astronomical science to a large audience, his lucid explanations making clear how stars are born and die and how the universe may have begun. lucubration 1、 Hard and difficult study.
2、 The product of such study.
🌱Our professor admitted that he wasn't looking forward to reading through any more of our lucubrations on novels that no one enjoyed. 🌳Lucubration came to mean "hard study" because it originally meant study done by lamplight, and in a world without electric lights, such study was likely to be the kind of hard work that would only a dedicated student like Abe Lincoln would make a habit of. The word has a literary feel to it, and it's often used with a touch of sarcasm. translucent Partly transparent; allowing light to pass through without permitting objects beyond to be seen clearly.
🌱Architects today often use industrial glass bricks in their home designs, because translucent walls admit daylight while guarding privacy. 🌳With its prefix trans-, meaning "through," translucent describes material that light shines through without making anything on the other side clearly visible, unlike a transparent material. Frosted glass, often used in bathroom windows, is translucent, as is stained glass. Red wine in a crystal goblet, when held before a candle in a dark corner of a quiet restaurant, usually proves to be translucent as well.
LUC comes from the Latin noun lux,"light," and the verb lucere,"to shine or glitter." In ancient Rome, Lucifer, meaning "Light-bearer," was the name given to the morning star, but the name was eventually transferred by Christians to Satan. This tradition, which dates back to the period before Christ, said that Lucifer had once been among the angels but had wanted to be the great light in the sky, and for his pride had been cast out of heaven and thus became the opponent of everything good.🌸