3000 ch15 Flashcards
entice
诱使
allure, bait, beguile, decoy, seduce, solicit, tempt, lead on
entreat
恳求
beseech, besiege, conjure, implore, importune, solicit, supplicate, plead to, appeal to
epicure
美食家
bon vivant, gastronomist, gourmand, gourmet
epigram
机智的短诗,警句:
adage, aphorism, apothegm, byword, maxim, proverb
epilogue
文学作品的结局
epithet
外号,绰号
alias, cognomen, sobriquet
epitomize
摘要
abstract, digest, encapsulate, outline, recapitulate, synopsize, sum up
代表,体现,是…的典型范例
equable
(脾气、性情)温和的
balmy, genial, gentle, moderate, temperate
erode
侵蚀,慢慢减少
corrode, fret, gnaw, nibble, bite at
errant
居无定所的
ambulant, fugitive, nomadic, perambulatory, roaming, roving
etch
蚀刻
grave, incise, inscribe
euphemism
婉言,委婉的说法
euphonious
悦耳的
mellifluous, melodious, canorous, harmonizing, symphonious, tuneful
euphoria
感觉极其愉快
elation, exhilaration, intoxication, transport, rapture, rhapsody
evasive
难以发现、捕捉、分离的;含糊其词的
fugitive, slippery
evict
赶出,逐出
evince
表明
bespeak, betray, declare, demonstrate, expose
exacerbate
使加剧, 使恶化
aggravate, complicate, worsen
exalt
提升,提拔
aggrandize, canonize, deify, dignify, elevate, ennoble, magnify
exasperate
激怒
aggravate, gall, nettle, peeve, rile, ruffle, vex, burn up
excoriate
严厉批评
abuse, assail, belabor, castigate, excoriate, lambaste, vituperate
excrete
排泄:
excruciate
折磨,使痛苦
agonize, anguish, plague, rack, torment, torture
excursive
离题的;散漫的
desultory, digressive, meandering, rambling, wandering
execrate
谴责
anathematize, censure, decry, denounce, reprehend, reprobate
exempt
使免除
exhort
敦促;力劝
encourage, goad, nudge, prod, prompt, egg on
exigent
紧急的
compelling, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, importunate, necessitous, pressing, urgent
exodus
紧急的
compelling, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, importunate, necessitous, pressing, urgent
exorbitant
过度的
extravagant, intolerable, lavish, overdue, overweening,
exotic
外来的,不同寻常的
outlandish, strange
expiate
赎罪,纠正
mend, redeem, atone for
exploit
最大程度地利用
abuse, leverage, milk, play on, capitalize on impose on
exponent
倡导者,支持者
expurgate
净化,删去不当处
bowdlerize, obliterate, launder, red-pencil, clean up
exquisite
程度强烈的
acute, dreadful, excruciating, explosive, ferocious, fierce, furious, intensive, keen, profound
extant
现存的
current, immediate, ongoing, present-day, existent
extenuate
减轻罪过
deodorize, excuse, explain away, gloss over, gloze over
exult
感到欢喜
fabricate
捏造
concoct, coin, devise, forge, fake, feign, invent
facetious
喜欢开玩笑的,轻浮的
humorous, jocose, jocular, waggish, witty
facile
表面的,浅尝辄止的
cursory, shallow, simplistic, superficial
facilitate
使变容易,促进
ease, expedite, forward, further, help
faction
派系
bloc, body, clique, coalition, sect, wing