mindmap root((个性慷慨无<br>谓生死)) neutral implies a quality, an appearance, or a reaction that belongs to neither of two opposites or extremes and often connotes vagueness, indefiniteness, indecisiveness, or ineffectualness; maintained a ~ position in the argument. negative carries a stronger implication of absence of positive or affirmative qualities and commonly implies lack of effect, activity, or definite and concrete form: won't accomplish anything with such a ~ attitude. indifferent implies a quality, a character, or an appearance that is not readily categorized, especially as good or bad, right or wrong, and that, therefore, is unlikely to stir up strong feeling or elicit firm opinions: she was a hard worker but an ~ student. dead is applied literally to what is deprived of vital force but is used figuratively of anything that has lost any attribute of life, such as energy, activity, or radiance: a ~ engine. defunct stresses cessation of active existence or operation: a ~ television series. deceased, departed, late apply to persons who have died recently. deceased occurs especially in legal use: the rights of the ~ must be acknowledged; departed usually occurs as a euphemism: pray for our ~ mother; and late applies especially to a person in a specific relation of status: the ~ president of the company. living applies to organic bodies having life as opposed to those from which life has gone: ~ artists. alive opposed to dead, is like living, but follows the word it modifies: toss the lobster into the pot while it's still ~. animate is used chiefly in direct opposition to inanimate to denote things alive or capable of life: a child seemingly afraid of every ~ object. animated is applied to that which becomes alive and active or is given motion simulating life: an ~ cartoon. vital implies the energy and especially the power to grow and reproduce that are characteristic of life: all of his ~ functions are normal. 生命功能 liberal suggests openhandedness in the giver and largeness in the thing or amount given: a teacher ~ in bestowing praise. generous stresses warmhearted readiness to give more than the size and importance of the gift: a friend's ~ offer of assistance. bountiful suggests lavish, unremitting generosity in giving or providing: ~ grandparents spoiling the children. munificent suggests splendid or princely lavishness in giving: the Queen was especially ~ to her favorite. eccentricity retains the basic notion of off center and in this use stresses divergence from the usual or customary: led a life of charming ~ies. idiosyncrasy stresses a strongly individual and independent quality and is likely to imply a following of one's peculiar bent or temperament: a style marked by ~.