2016.8.12
2016.8.12
learning python
exhuast 【ɪɡˈzɔst】
- to make someone feel extermely tired
- a full day's teaching exhausts me
- he'd exhausted himself carrying all the boxes upstairs.- to use all of something
- we are in danger of exhausting the world's oil supply- exhaust a subject/topic: to talk about something so much that you have nothing more to say about it
- once we'd exhausted the subject of Jill's wedding, i didn't know what to say.
prominent 【ˈprɑ:mɪnənt】
- important
- the World Cup will have a prominent place on the agenda.- something that is a prominent place is easily seen
- the statue was in a prominent position outside the railway station.- something that is prominent is large and sticks out
- the most prominent peak in the mountain range.
permeate 【ˈpɜ:rmieɪt】
- to pass or spread through something
- the water permeated the sand.
- the smell of baking bread permeated the kitchen.