退步setback
    古人the ancients
    古老的old; ancient; archaeic
    逃犯infringe (on); violate
    使害怕intimidate; frighten
    帶來生氣enliven
    對手rival
    吸引人的intriguing
    旁觀者onlooker
    準確地說to be exact; to be precise; precisely
    突然醒悟it dawned on me that
    仔細思考之后after long deliberation; after careful thought
    對比及其相關(guān)用詞
    可互換的interchangeable
    可與…相比is comparable with (to)
    普遍的prevailing; common; prevalent
    是一個對比is a sharp contrast to
    比作is likened to; is compared to
    多樣化的heterogeneous
    單一性的homogeneous
    一般而言in general; generally speaking; by and large
    滿于現(xiàn)狀be happy with what you are
    預測未來project into the future