英语中专用复数形式的名词

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ablutions
(轮船等处的)公共澡堂，公共浴室
3 |( S# l, i! i0 \◾ [英国英语](军营中的)公共浴室，厕所，盥洗室
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/ |! D9 ?5 y1 u6 c1 E- G% S% x1955   Pacific Stars & Stripes (Tokyo) 10 Oct. 6/4  The signal school wasn't caught short. The ablutions were spotless.

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ability
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, Z) e/ n- `; ^4 J) ^[常作复数]天才；天资，资质；专门技能
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# N6 V: v1 p+ ?3 R: x1776   E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 267  His abilities were useful rather than splendid.

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ablution [əb'lu:ʃən]

[常用复数]沐浴，洗澡
2. [常用复数] 【宗教】 (对人手、人体、圣器等的)洗礼，沐浴仪式，洗手(仪式)，净器(仪式)
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1856   A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine vii. 306  Ablutions, in the East, have always been more or less a part of religious worship.

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accent
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  n" D+ @3 i' H, c* b7. [复数]【诗歌】言语；词，言词；语调
1 @; T1 N1 C! Y7 [' u2 M" i[复数](某一阶层的人所使用的)语言特征；感情语调；说话口气
, M7 l! W# ]4 q  o: E4 P4 v7 H/ I1715   A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad I. iii. 285  The copious Accents fall, with easy Art.
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1746–7   J. Hervey Medit. (1818) 194  The last accents which quiver on your pale, expiring lips.
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1777   W. Jones Ode of Petrarch 66  Soft-breathing gales, my dying accents hear.
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5 T0 j# n+ u4 y3 N9 T# a0 ]1817   Ld. Byron Manfred (1868) iii. iv. 312  In thy gasping throat The accents rattle.

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acceptance
[复数][澳大利亚、新西兰英语]参赛马名单
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3 U+ D$ o9 K! H$ O3 H( k1923   Daily Mail 1 Feb. 9/1  The acceptances..are satisfactory for the ‘Lincoln’.

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accessory
[常作复数](妇女的)装饰品(如手提包、手套等)

1859   T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 129  Accessories are those objects in a picture, auxiliary or accessorial to the general effect, but apart from the principal subject or figure.

鸭呼嘿

不错啊。继续。

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acoustics

(房间、剧场、传声系统等的)音质；音响效果
2002   N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 24/2  The acoustics of Studio 8H, where the NBC orchestra played, were infamously dry.

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acquirement
[常作复数]学得的东西(如学到的技艺、技能)，学识；技艺；造诣，成就
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1844   Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. vi. 76  His capacity was far from mean, and his acquirements were very considerable.

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action
[复数]举止，品行，(待人的)态度，日常表现
1918   R. S. Woodworth Dynamic Psychol. iii. 65  As the individual grows up, his actions are more and more controlled by inner drives.

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addenda
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% N! Q3 T8 `5 k4 a1 I4 b[用作单数](书籍等的)补遗；补篇；附录
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1840   W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica IV. Pref.  The following Addenda has therefore been arranged in the same manner.

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advances
# L3 B) P, }4 O4 c- `[常用复数](表示友好、和解愿望等的)主动姿态；(对某人)主动(或友好)表示，亲近的表示(以求得宠)；献殷勤(to)，(尤指对异性的)求爱，勾引，挑逗

1978   E. Krispyn Anti-Nazi Writers in Exile ii. 27  He tried to reestablish contact with those of his former friends who although antifascist were still in Germany. Understandably his advances were met with great caution and skepticism.

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aerobics
% M" I3 b( F5 E( B4 e1. [复数，用作单数或复数]
2. (通过散步、跑步、游泳、划船、骑车、舞蹈、体操等有节奏运动等增强心肺循环功能的)增氧健身法(或术)，氧健术，吸氧健身运动
3. 健美操 [亦称作 aerobic exercise]

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" V% ~2 Z  k1 f$ ]' `- r3 `1972   Washington Post 16 Apr. e24/4  Aerobics stresses getting the heart, lungs and circulatory system fit.
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aethestics

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2. 美学
3. 美术理论
( h+ o. j4 \8 |- ^4. 美的哲学
6 ]6 K7 s  A3 s- C, l& ?5. 审美学 [亦作 esthetics]

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3 _. b. p  C8 \- y; l$ E1905   Philos. Rev. 14 18  Æsthetics cries out for special aid from the ontologist. ‘What’, he asks, ‘is..the inner nature of that which we call the real of beauty?’

1929   G. Meudell Pleasant Career Spendthrift 265  It is a crime against nomenclature, against patriotism, against common sense, and above all against aesthetics..to call Maoriland—New Zealand.

% j' y# x3 Y% ~* \7 A! ?. W; K1963   Amer. Lit. 35 245  Emerson's aesthetics were deeply reasoned.