[字彙] tarry (v) 逗留 = sojourn
除了經典的 -aunt 姑姑系列，
今天我整理了 -arry 系列動詞，
其中三個都是重要的 GRE 單字哦。
http://sovereignty.pixnet.net/blog/post/26766230
Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 3, 2010
tarry \TAR-ee\, verb:
1. To remain or stay, as in a place; sojourn.
2. To delay or be tardy in acting, starting, coming, etc.
3. To wait.
"It would be well," he added, "to let this man go in again, as usual, and for
him to tarry in the lodges, giving notice to the gentle ones of our approach,
until we call him out, by signal, to consult. You know the cry of a crow,
friend, from the whistle of the whippoorwill?"
-- James Fenimore Cooper, The last of the Mohicans: a narrative of 1757
Wilson allows his tour groups to tarry at the site, soaking up the strange
feelings there and taking plenty of pictures in front of the wooden sign that
still reads "Building 84."
-- "RoswellTours.com offers tours of UFO haunts," Melodika.net, July 2010
Tarry's ancestor is the Middle English taryen, "a delay."
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whippoorwill (n) 一種北美夜鷹，其叫聲為 whip-poor-will
-arry 結尾的字除了 carry, marry 兩個常見字外，需注意
harry (v) 煩擾 (Harry Potter 那個 harry)
parry (v) 擋開
tarry (v) 逗留 = sojourn
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