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problematic

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ADJ. /忧郁的；忧心忡忡的；心存疑虑的；有疑问的/doubtful; unsettled; questionable; per?plexing. Given the way building costs have exceeded esti?mates for the job, whether the arena will ever be completed is problematic.

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proclivity

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N. /倾向；自然倾向/inclination; natural tendency. Watching the two-year-old voluntarily put away his toys, I was amazed by his proclivityfor neatness.

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procrastinate

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V. /推迟；延期/postpone; delay or put off. Looking at four years of receipts and checks he still had to sort through, Bob was truly sorry he had procrastinated for so long and not finished filing his taxes long ago.

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prod

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V. /刺；刺激；激励/poke; stir up; urge. If you prod him hard enough, he’ll eventually clean his room.

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prodigal

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ADJ. /浪费的/wasteful; reckless with money. Don’t be so prodigal spending my money; when you’ve earned some money yourself, you can waste it as much as you want! also N.

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prodigious

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ADJ. /巨大的/marvelous; enormous. Watching the champion weight lifter heave the weighty barbell to shoul?der height and then boost it overhead, we marveled at his prodigious strength.

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prodigy

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N. /奇才；天才/marvel; highly gifted child. Menuhin was a prodigy, performing wonders on his violin when he was barely eight years old.

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profane

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V. /亵渎/violate; desecrate; treat unworthily. The mem?bers of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill the British explorer because he had profaned the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray. alsoADJ.

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profligate

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ADJ. /放荡的；放肆的；不检点的/dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral. Although surrounded by wild and profligate companions, she nevertheless managed to retain some sense of decency.

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profound

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ADJ. /深刻的/deep; not superficial; complete. Freud’s remarkable insights into human behavior caused his fellow scientists to honor him as a profound thinker. profundity, N.

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profusion

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N. /过量；过剩/overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess. Freddy was so overwhelmed by the profusion of choices on the menu that he knocked over his wine glass and soaked his host. He made profuse apologies to his host, the waiter, the bus boy, the people at the next table, and the attendant handing out paper towels.

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progenitor

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N. /祖先/ancestor. The Roth family, whose progeni?tors emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth cen?tury, settled in Peru, Illinois.

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progeny

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N. /后裔/children; offspring. He was proud of his prog?eny in general, but regarded George as the most promising of all his children.

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prognosis

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N. /预言；疾病警告/forecasted course of a disease; prediction. If the doctor’s prognosis is correct, the patient will be in a coma for at least twenty-four hours.

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projectile

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N. /发射；导弹/missile. Man has always hurled projectiles at his enemy whether in the form of stones or of highly explo?sive shells.

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proletarian

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N. /无产阶级的；蓝领的/member of the working class; blue collar person. “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains” is addressed to proletarians, not preppies. So is Blue Collar Holler. proletariat, N.

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proliferation

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N. /迅速增长，倍增；扩散/rapid growth; spread; multiplication. Times of economic hardship inevitably encourage the proliferation of countless get-rich-quick schemes. proliferate,V.

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prolific

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ADJ. /多产的；丰富的/abundantly fruitful. My editors must assume I’m a prolific writer: they expect me to revise six books this year!

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prolixity

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N. /冗长的；啰嗦的/tedious wordiness; verbosity. A writer who suf?fers from prolixity tells his readers everything they never wanted to know about his subject (or were too bored to ask). prolix,ADJ.

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prologue

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N. /序（诗歌，歌剧的）/introduction (to a poem or play). In the pro?logue to Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare introduces the audience to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.

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prolong

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V. /拖延/make longer; draw out; lengthen. In their deter?mination to discover ways to prolong human life, doctors fail to take into account that longer lives are not always happier ones.

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prominent

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ADJ. /显著的；突出的；卓越的/conspicuous; notable; sticking out. Have you ever noticed that Prince Charles’s prominent ears make him look like the big-eared character in Mad comics?

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promiscuous

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ADJ. /随意混合的；打乱的；随便的/mixed indiscriminately; haphazard; irregular, particularly sexually. In the opera La Boheme, we get a picture of the promiscuous life led by the young artists of Paris.

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promontory

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N. /岬；海角/headland. They erected a lighthouse on the promontory to warn approaching ships of their nearness to the shore.

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promote

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V. /提升；促进/help to flourish; advance in rank; publicize. Founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman ceaselessly promotes the welfare of young people everywhere. 0

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prompt

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V. /提示；鼓动；迅速及时的/cause; provoke; provide a cue for an actor. Whatever prompted you to ask for such a big piece of cake when you’re on a diet?

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promulgate

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V. /发布；公布/proclaim a doctrine or law; make known by official publication. When Moses came down from the mountain top all set to promulgate God’s commandments, he freaked out on discovering his followers worshipping a golden calf.

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prone

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ADJ. /倾向于/inclined to; prostrate. She was prone to sudden fits of anger during which she would lie prone on the floor, screaming and kicking her heels.

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propagate

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V. /迅速增长，传播，扩散/multiply; spread. Since bacteria propagate more quickly in unsanitary environments, it is important to keep hospital rooms clean.

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propellants

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N. /推进剂/substances that propel or drive forward. The development of our missile program has forced our sci?entists to seek more powerful propellants.

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propensity

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N. /自然倾向/natural inclination. Convinced of his own tal?ent, Sol has an unfortunate propensity to belittle the talents of others.

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prophetic

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ADJ. /预言的/foretelling the future. I have no magical prophetic powers; when I predict what will happen, I base my predictions on common sense. prophesy,V.

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propinquity

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N. /亲近；血缘/nearness; kinship. Their relationship could not be explained as being based on mere propinquity; they were more than relatives, they were true friends.

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propitiate

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V. /劝解；平静；安抚/appease. The natives offered sacrifices to propitiate the gods.

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propitious

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ADJ. /吉利的；有利的/favorable; fortunate; advantageous. Chloe consulted her horoscope to see whether Tuesday would be a propitious day to dump her boyfriend.

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proponent

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N. /支持者；建议者/supporter; backer; opposite of opponent. In the Senate, proponents of the universal health care mea?sure lobbied to gain additional support for the controversial legislation.

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propound

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V. /提出/put forth for analysis. In your discussion, you have propounded several questions; let us consider each one separately.

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propriety

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N. /适当/fitness; correct conduct. Miss Manners coun?sels her readers so that they may behave with due propriety in any social situation and not embarrass themselves.

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propulsive

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ADJ. /推进的；有推进力的/driving forward. The jet plane has a greater propulsive power than the engine-driven plane.

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prosaic

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ADJ. /事实的；平淡的；缺乏想象力的/dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual. Though the ad writers came up with an original way to pub?licize the product, the head office rejected it for a more pro?saic, ordinary slogan.

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proscribe

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V. /禁止/ostracize; banish; outlaw. Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus proscribed all those who had conspired against Julius Caesar.

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proselytize

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V. /劝其改宗；改宗/convert to a religion or belief. In these inter?faith meetings, there must be no attempt to proselytize; we must respect all points of view.

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prosperity

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N. /繁荣；好运/good fortune; financial success; physical well-being. Promising to stay together “for richer, for poorer,” the newlyweds vowed to be true to one another in prosperity and hardship alike.

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prostrate

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V. /弄倒；降伏/stretch out full on ground. He prostrated him?self before the idol. alsoADJ.

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protean

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ADJ. /变化多端的/versatile; able to take on many shapes. A remarkably protean actor, Alec Guinness could take on any role.

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protégé

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N. /被保护人/person receiving protection and support from a patron. Born with an independent spirit, Cyrano de Berg?erac refused to be a protégé of Cardinal Richelieu.

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protocol

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N. /协议/diplomatic etiquette. We must run this state dinner according to protocol if we are to avoid offending any of our guests.

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prototype

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N. /原型/original work used as a model by others. The crude typewriter on display in this museum is the prototype of the elaborate machines in use today.

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protract

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V. /延长/prolong. Seeking to delay the union members’ vote, the management team tried to protract the negotia?tions endlessly.

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protrude

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V. /突出/stick out. His fingers protruded from the holes in his gloves. protrusion, N.

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protuberance

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N. /隆起；突出；瘤/protrusion; bulge. A ganglionic cyst is a fluid-filled tumor that develops near a joint membrane or tendon sheath, and that bulges beneath the skin, forming a protuberance.

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provident

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ADJ. /有远见的/displaying foresight; thrifty; preparing for emergencies. In his usual provident manner, he had insured himself against this type of loss.

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provincial

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ADJ. /省级的；视野不宽的；简单的/pertaining to a province; limited in outlook; unsophisticated. As provincial governor, Sir Henry adminis?tered the Queen’s law in his remote corner of Canada. Caught up in local problems, out of touch with London news, he became sadly provincial.

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provisional

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ADJ. /临时的/tentative. Kim’s acceptance as an Ameri?can Express card holder was provisional: before issuing her a card, American Express wanted to check her employment record and credit history.

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provocative

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ADJ. /煽动的；刺激的；激怒的/arousing anger or interest; annoying. In a typically provocative act, the bully kicked sand into the weaker man’s face.

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provoke

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V. /激怒；惹；煽动；挑起/stir to anger; cause retaliation. In order to pre?vent a sudden outbreak of hostilities, we must not provoke our foe. provocation, N; provocative,ADJ.

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prowess

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N. /非常勇猛/extraordinary ability; military bravery. Perform?ing triple axels and double lutzes at the age of six, the young figure skater was world famous for her prowess on the ice.

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proximity

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N. /接近；亲近/nearness. Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.

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proxy

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N. /代理/authorized agent. Please act as my proxy and vote for this slate of candidates in my absence.

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prude

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N. /规矩的人；正经人；故作正经的人/excessively modest person. The X-rated film was definitely not for prudes, prudish,ADJ.

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prudent

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ADJ. /谨慎的/cautious; careful. A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy. prudence, N.

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prune

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V. /切掉；修剪/cut away; trim. With the help of her editor, she was able to prune her overlong manuscript into publishable form.

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prurient

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ADJ. /好色的；渴望的/having or causing lustful thoughts and desires. Aroused by his prurient impulses, the dirty old man leered at the sweet young thing and offered to give her a sample of his “prowess.”

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pseudonym

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N. /假名；笔名/pen name. Samuel Clemens’ pseudonym was Mark Twain.

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psyche

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N. /灵魂/soul; mind. It is difficult to delve into the psyche of a human being.

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pterodactyl

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N. /翼龙/extinct flying reptile. The remains of ptero?dactyls indicate that these flying reptiles had a wingspan of as much as twenty feet.

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puerile

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ADJ. /幼稚的，孩子气的/childish. His puerile pranks sometimes offended his more mature friends.

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pugilist

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N. /拳击家/boxer. The famous pugilist Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammed Ali.

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pugnacity

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N. /好斗的/combativeness; disposition to fight. “Put up your dukes!” he cried, making a fist to show his pugnacity. pugnacious,ADJ.

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pulchritude

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N. /美丽；标致/beauty; comeliness. I do not envy the judges who have to select this year’s Miss America from this collection of female pulchritude.

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pulverize

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V. /磨碎；粉碎/crush or grind into dust. Before sprinkling the dried herbs into the stew, Michael first pulverized them into a fine powder.

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pummel

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V. /用拳头打/beat or pound with fists. Swinging wildly, Pam pummeled her brother around the head and shoulders.

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punctilious

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ADJ. /谨小慎微的；一丝不苟的/laying stress on niceties of conduct or form; minutely attentive to fine points (perhaps too much so). Percy is punctilious about observing the rules of eti?quette whenever Miss Manners invites him to stay. punctil?iousness.N.

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pundit

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N. /博学者；梵文学家/authority on a subject; learned person; expert. Some authors who write about SAT I as if they are pundits actually know very little about the test.

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pungent

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ADJ. /刺激的；辛辣的；尖锐的/stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic. The pungent odor of ripe Limburger cheese appealed to Simone but made Stanley gag.

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punitive

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ADJ. /惩罚的/punishing. He asked for punitive measures against the offender.

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puny

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ADJ. /不显著的；不明显的；细微的/insignificant; tiny; weak. Our puny efforts to stop the flood were futile.

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purchase

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N. /赢得；换得；努力争取得；购买/firm grasp or footing. The mountaineer strug?gled to get a proper purchase on the slippery rock. (sec?ondary meaning)

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purge

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V. /净化；清除；拉肚子/remove or get rid of something unwanted; free from blame or guilt; cleanse or purify. When the Communist government purged the party to get rid of members sus?pected of capitalist sympathies, they sent the disloyal mem?bers to labor camps in Siberia.

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purported

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ADJ. /传说的；谣传的/alleged; claimed; reputed or rumored. The purported Satanists sacrificing live roosters in the park turned out to be a party of Shriners holding a chicken barbecue.

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purse

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V. /折叠；褶皱；钱包；手提包（女式）/pucker; contract into wrinkles. Miss Watson pursed her lips to show her disapproval of Huck’s bedrag?gled appearance.

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purveyor

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N. /承办商/furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer. As purveyor of rare wines and viands, he traveled through France and Italy every year in search of new products to sell.

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pusillanimous

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ADJ. /懦弱的；优柔寡断的/cowardly; fainthearted. You should be ashamed of your pusillanimous conduct during this dispute.

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putrid

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ADJ. /恶臭的；腐烂的/foul; rotten; decayed. The gangrenous condi?tion of the wound was indicated by the putrid smell when the bandages were removed. putrescence, N.

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pyromaniac

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N. /纵火狂/person with an insane desire to set things on fire. The detectives searched the area for the pyroma?niac who had set these costly fires.

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quack

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N. /骗子；吹嘘的人/charlatan; impostor. Do not be misled by the exorbitant claims of this quack; he cannot cure you.

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quadruped

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N. /四足动物/four-footed animal. Most mammals are quadrupeds.

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quaff

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V. /一饮而尽/drink with relish. As we quaffed our ale, we lis?tened to the lively songs of the students in the tavern.

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quagmire

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N. /沼泽；湿地/soft wet boggy land; complex or dangerous situation from which it is difficult to free oneself. Up to her knees in mud, Myra wondered how on earth she was going to extricate herself from this quagmire.

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quail

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V. /懦弱；胆怯/cower; lose heart. The Cowardly Lion was afraid that he would quail in the face of danger.

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quaint

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ADJ. /离奇古怪的；做的精巧的；过时的/odd; old-fashioned; picturesque. Her quaint clothes and old-fashioned language marked her as an eccentric.

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qualified

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ADJ. /有资格的；有限制的；被限制的/limited; restricted. Unable to give the candi?date full support, the mayor gave him only a qualified endorsement. (secondary meaning)

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qualms

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N. /担心，害怕；担惊受怕；愧对良心/misgivings; uneasy fears, especially about mat?ters of conscience. I have no qualms about giving this assignment to Helen; I know she will handle it admirably.

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quandary

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N. /两难的困境/dilemma. When both Harvard and Stanford accepted Laura, she was in a quandary as to which school she should attend.

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quarantine

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N. /隔离/isolation of person or ship to prevent spread of infection. We will have to place this house under quaran?tine until we determine the exact nature of the disease. alsoV.

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quarry

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N. /猎物；受害者/Victim; object of a hunt. The police closed in on their quarry.

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quarry

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V. /挖掘出，寻找出/dig into. They quarried blocks of marble out of the hillside. also N.

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quay

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N. /码头/dock; landing place. Because of the captain’s carelessness, the ship crashed into the quay.

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queasy

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ADJ. /神经质的，洁癖的；易呕吐的/easily nauseated; squeamish. Remember that great chase movie, the one with the carsick passenger? That’s right: Queasy Rider!

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quell

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V. /扑灭；镇压；平息/extinguish; put down; quiet. Miss Minchin’s demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.

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quench

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V. /弄湿；扑灭；熄灭；淬火/douse or extinguish; assuage or satisfy. No matter how much water the hiker drank, she could not quench her thirst.

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querulous

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ADJ. /鸣不平的；易发牢骚的/fretful; whining. Even the most agreeable toddlers can begin to act querulous if they miss their nap.

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query

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N. /问询；质问/inquiry; question. In her column “Ask Beth,” the columnist invites young readers to send her their queries about life and love.

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quibble

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N. /遁词；狡辩；支吾；吹毛求疵/minor objection or complaint. Aside from a few hundred teensy-weensy quibbles about the set, the script, the actors, the director, the costumes, the lighting, and the props, the hypercritical critic loved the play. alsoV.

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quiescent

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ADJ. /睡眠的；休息的；暂停活动的/at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive. After the great eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great; people did not return to cultivate its rich hillside lands until the volcano had been quiescent for a full two years. quiescence, N.

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quietude

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N. /平静；宁静/tranquility. He was impressed by the air of qui?etude and peace that pervaded the valley.

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quintessence

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N. /精粹；精华/purest and highest embodiment. Noel Coward displayed the quintessence of wit.

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quip

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N. /嘲弄；讽刺/taunt. You are unpopular because you are too free with your quips and sarcastic comments. alsoV.

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quirk

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N. /反复无常；怪僻/startling twist; caprice. By a quirk of fate, he found himself working for the man whom he had discharged years before.

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quiver

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V. /振动的；颤抖的；敏捷的/tremble; shake. The bird dog’s nose twitched and his whiskers quivered as he strained eagerly against the leash. also N.

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quiver

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N. /射箭的/case for arrows. Robin Hood reached back and plucked one last arrow from his quiver. (secondary meaning)

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quixotic

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ADJ. /空想的；狂想的/idealistic but impractical. Constantly coming up with quixotic, unworkable schemes to save the world, Simon has his heart in the right place, but his head some-where in the clouds.

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quizzical

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ADJ. /古怪的；嘲弄的；令人好奇的/teasing; bantering; mocking; curious. When the skinny teenager tripped over his own feet stepping into the bullpen, Coach raised one quizzical eyebrow, shook his head, and said, “Okay, kid. You’re here, let’s see what you’ve got.”

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quorum

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N. /法定人数/number of members necessary to conduct a meeting. The senator asked for a roll call to determine whether a quorum was present.

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rabid

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ADJ. /狂暴的；激烈的/like a fanatic; furious. He was a rabid follower of the Dodgers and watched them play whenever he could go to the ball park.

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raconteur

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N. /善谈的人；满肚子故事的人/storyteller. My father was a gifted raconteur with an unlimited supply of anecdotes.

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rail

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V. /责骂；斥责；咆哮/scold; rant. You may rail at him all you want; you will never change him.

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raiment

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N. /衣服/clothing. “How can I go to the ball?” asked Cin?derella. “I have no raiment fit to wear.”

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rally

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V. /复原，恢复；召集，集合/call up or summon (forces, vital powers, etc.); revive or recuperate. Washington quickly rallied his troops to fight off the British attack. The patient had been sinking throughout the night, but at dawn she rallied and made a complete recovery.

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ramble

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V. /游荡；漫无目的游荡/wander aimlessly (physically or mentally). Lis?tening to the teacher ramble, Judy wondered whether he’d ever get to his point.

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ramification

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N. /分支；分叉/branching out; subdivision. We must exam?ine all the ramifications of this problem.

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ramify

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V. /分支；分开/divide into branches or subdivisions. When the plant begins to ramify, it is advisable to nip off most of the new branches.

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ramp

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N. /斜面；斜坡/slope; inclined plane. The house was built with ramps instead of stairs in order to enable the man in the wheelchair to move easily from room to room and floor to floor.

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rampant

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ADJ. /猖獗的；滋生的；猛烈的/growing in profusion; unrestrained. The ram?pant weeds in the garden choked the flowers until they died.

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ramshackle

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ADJ. /摇摆的；摇摇欲坠的/rickety; falling apart. The boys propped up the ramshackle clubhouse with a couple of boards.

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rancid

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ADJ. /油脂一样腐臭的/having the odor of stale fat. A rancid odor filled the ship’s galley and nauseated the crew.

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rancor

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N. /苦难/bitterness; hatred. Thirty years after the war, she could not let go of the past but was still consumed with ran?cor against the foe.

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random

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ADJ. /随机的/without definite purpose, plan, or aim; hap?hazard. Although the sponsor of the raffle claimed all win?ners were chosen at random, people had their suspicions when the grand prize went to the sponsor’s brother-in-law.

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rankle

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V. /激怒；溃烂；化脓/irritate; fester. The memory of having been jilted rankled him for years.

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rant

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V. /咆哮；激昂的演说；斥责/rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech. When he heard that I’d totaled the family car, Dad began to rant at me like a complete madman.

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rapacious

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ADJ. /极度贪婪的；捕食的；掠夺的/excessively greedy; predatory. The rapa?cious brigands stripped the villagers of all their posses?sions. rapacity, N.

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rapport

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N. /情感的亲近；和谐/emotional closeness; harmony. In team teach?ing, it is important that all teachers in the group have good rapport with one another.

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rapt

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ADJ. /迷住的；全神贯注的/absorbed; enchanted. Caught up in the wonder of the storyteller’s tale, the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word.

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rarefied

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ADJ. /稀释（气体）/made less dense (of a gas]. The mountain climbers had difficulty breathing in the rarefied atmosphere. rarefy,V.

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raspy

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ADJ. /刺耳的；焦躁的/grating; harsh. The sergeant’s raspy voice grated on the recruits’ ears.

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ratify

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V. /批准，认可/approve formally; confirm; verify. Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Con?gress to ratify the constitutional amendment.

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ratiocination

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N. /推理；推论/reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises. While Watson was a man of average intelli?gence, Holmes was a genius, whose gift for ratiocination made him a superb detective.

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rationale

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N. /基础科学；基本原理/fundamental reason or justification; grounds for an action. Her need to have someplace to hang her ear?ring collection was Dora’s rationale for piercing fifteen holes in each ear.

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rationalize

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V. /合理化/give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable one; offer an excuse. When David told gabby Gabrielle he couldn’t give her a ride to the dance because he had no room in the car, he was rational?izing; actually, he couldn’t stand being cooped up in a car with anyone who talked as much as she did.

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raucous

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ADJ. /沙哑的/harsh and shrill; disorderly and boisterous. The raucous crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers got progres?sively noisier as midnight drew near.

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rave

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N. /咆哮/overwhelmingly favorable review. Though critic John Simon seldom has a good word to say about most contemporary plays, his review of All in the Timing was a total rave.

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ravel

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V. /使混乱；解开混乱，解决混乱/fall apart into tangles; unravel or untwist; entangle. A single thread pulled loose, and the entire scarf started to ravel.

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ravenous

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ADJ. /饥饿的/extremely hungry. The ravenous dog upset several garbage pails in its search for food.

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raze

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V. /彻底摧毁/destroy completely. Spelling is important: to raise a building is to put it up; to raze a building is to tear it down.

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reactionary

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ADJ. /反作用的/recoiling from progress; politically ultra?conservative. Opposing the use of English in worship ser?vices, reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate the mass in Latin.

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realm

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N. /领域/kingdom; field or sphere. In the animal realm, the lion is the king of beasts.

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reaper

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N. /收割者；收割机/one who harvests grain. Death, the Grim Reaper, cuts down mortal men and women, just as a farmer cuts down the ripened grain. reap,V.

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rebuff

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V. /回绝/snub; beat back. She rebuffed his invitation so smoothly that he did not realize he had been snubbed. also N.

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rebuke

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V. /严厉批评；猛烈的训斥/scold harshly; criticize severely. No matter how sharply Miss Watson rebuked Huck for his misconduct, he never talked back but just stood there like a stump. also N.

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rebuttal

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N. /驳斥；举反证/refutation; response with contrary evidence. The defense lawyer confidently listened to the prosecutor sum up his case, sure that she could answer his arguments in her rebuttal.

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recalcitrant

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ADJ. /反抗的；顽抗的/obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly. Which animal do you think is more recalci?trant, a pig or a mule?

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recant

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V. /放弃；宣布放弃/disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error. Those who can, keep true to their faith; those who can’t, recant. Hoping to make Joan of Arc recant her sworn testimony, her English captors tried to convince her that her visions had been sent to her by the Devil.

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recapitulate

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V. /概括；总结/summarize. Let us recapitulate what has been said thus far before going ahead.

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recast

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V. /重建/reconstruct (a sentence, story, etc.); fashion again. Let me recast this sentence in terms your feeble brain can grasp: in words of one syllable, you are a fool.

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receptive

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ADJ. /善于接受的/quick or willing to receive ideas, sugges?tions, etc. Adventure-loving Huck Finn proved a receptive audience for Tom’s tales of buried treasure and piracy.

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recession

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N. /撤退/withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity. The slow recession of the flood waters created problems for the crews working to restore power to the area. recede,V.

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recidivism

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N. /累犯；惯犯/habitual return to crime. Prison reformers in the United States are disturbed by the high rate of recidivism; the number of men serving second and third terms in prison indicates the failure of prisons to rehabilitate the inmates.

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recipient

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N. /接受的东西；容器/receiver. Although he had been the recipient of many favors, he was not grateful to his benefactor.

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reciprocal

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ADJ. /互相的；互动的；互惠的/mutual; exchangeable; interacting. The two nations signed a reciprocal trade agreement.

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reciprocate

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V. /互给；呼唤；酬答/repay in kind. If they attack us, we shall be compelled to reciprocate and bomb their territory. reci?procity, N.

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recluse

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N. /隐遁者；寂寞者/hermit; loner. Disappointed in love, Miss Emily became a recluse; she shut herself away in her empty man?sion and refused to see another living soul. reclusive,ADJ.

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reconcile

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V. /抛弃前嫌；不打不相识；结为好友；化解冲突/correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel. Each month when we try to reconcile our checkbook with the bank statement, we quarrel. However, despite these monthly lovers’ quarrels, we always manage to reconcile.

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reconnaissance

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N. /侦查/survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoi?tering. If you encounter any enemy soldiers during your reconnaissance, capture them for questioning.

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recount

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V. /解说，告诉；重新数/narrate or tell; count over again. A born story?teller, my father loved to recount anecdotes about his early years in New York.

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recourse

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N. /求助；求援/resorting to help when in trouble. The boy’s only recourse was to appeal to his father for aid.

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recrimination

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N. /反责；反击/countercharges. Loud and angry recrimi?nations were her answer to his accusations.

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rectify

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V. /纠正/set right; correct. You had better send a check to rectify your account before American Express cancels your credit card.

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rectitude

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N. /垂直；正直；公正/uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judg?ment. The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude.

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recumbent

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ADJ. /靠着的；斜躺的；不动的；休息的/reclining; lying down completely or in part. The command “AT EASE” does not permit you to take a recumbent position.

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recuperate

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V. /恢复/recover. The doctors were worried because the patient did not recuperate as rapidly as they had expected.

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recurrent

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ADJ. /一遍又一遍发生的；循环发生的/occurring again and again. Richard’s recurrent asthma attacks disturbed us and we consulted a physician.

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redolent

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ADJ. /有味道的；有香味儿的/fragrant; odorous; suggestive of an odor. Even though it is February, the air is redolent of spring.

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redoubtable

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ADJ. /可怕的/formidable; causing fear. During the Cold War period, neighboring countries tried not to offend the Russians because they could be redoubtable foes.

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redress

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N. /补偿；赔偿/remedy; compensation. Do you mean to tell me that I can get no redress for my injuries? also v.

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redundant

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ADJ. /冗余的；多余的/superfluous; repetitious; excessivejy wordy. The bottle of wine I brought to Bob’s was certainly redundant how was I to know Bob owned a winery? In your essay, you repeat several points unnecessarily; try to be less redundant in the future. redundancy, N.

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reek

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V. /散发（气味）/emit (odor). The room reeked with stale tobacco smoke. also N.

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refraction

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N. /（光线的）折射，弯曲/bending of a ray of light. When you look at a stick inserted in water, it looks bent because of the refrac?tion of the light by the water.

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refractory

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ADJ. /按不住的；不服气的；倔强的/stubborn; unmanageable. The refractory horse was eliminated from the race when he refused to obey the jockey.

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refrain

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V. /抵制；抵抗；远离，节制/abstain from; resist. Whenever he heard a song with a lively chorus, Sol could never refrain from joining in on the refrain.

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refurbish

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V. /刷新；修复；擦亮/renovate; make bright by polishing. The flood left a deposit of mud on everything; we had to refurbish our belongings.

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refute

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V. /反驳/disprove. The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to refute the false testimony of the prosecution’s sole witness. refutation, N.

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regal

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ADJ. /皇家的/royal. Prince Albert had a regal manner.

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regale

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V. /取悦，娱乐，享受/entertain. John regaled us with tales of his adventures in Africa.

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regime

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N. /政体/method or system of government. When the French mention the Old Regime, they refer to the govern?ment existing before the revolution.

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regimen

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N. /摄生法/prescribed diet and habits. I doubt whether the results warrant our living under such a strict regimen.

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rehabilitate

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V. /恢复；复原/restore to proper condition. We must reha?bilitate those whom we send to prison.

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reimburse

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V. /偿还/repay. Let me know what you have spent and I will reimburse you.

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reiterate

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V. /重申；重复/repeat. He reiterated the warning to make sure everyone understood it.

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rejoinder

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N. /反驳；回应/retort; comeback; reply. When someone has been rude to me, I find it particularly satisfying to come up with a quick rejoinder.

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rejuvenate

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V. /返老还童；青春重回/make young again. The charlatan claimed that his elixir would rejuvenate the aged and weary.

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relegate

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V. /指派；下放；贬/banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign. After Ralph dropped his second tray of drinks that week, the manager swiftly relegated him to a minor post cleaning up behind the bar.

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relent

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V. /变宽厚；变温和/give in. When her stern father would not relent and allow her to marry Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett eloped with her suitor. relentless,ADJ.

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relevant

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ADJ. /有关的；相对的/pertinent; referring to the case in hand. How relevant Virginia Woolf’s essays are to women writers today! It’s as if Woolf in the 1930s foresaw our current literary struggles. relevancy, N.

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relic

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N. /纪念物；废墟，遗留/surviving remnant; memento. Egypt’s Department of Antiquities prohibits tourists from taking mummies and other ancient relics out of the country. Mike keeps his photos of his trip to Egypt in a box with other relics of his travels.

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relinquish

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V. /不情愿的屈服，放弃（某物）/give up something with reluctance; yield. Denise never realized how hard it would be for her to relinquish her newborn son to the care of his adoptive par?ents. Once you get used to fringe benefits like expense account meals and a company car, it’s very hard to relin?quish them.

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relish

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V. /品味；享受/savor; enjoy. Watching Peter enthusiastically chow down, I thought, “Now there’s a man who relishes a good dinner!” also N.

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remediable

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ADJ. /可挽回的/reparable. Let us be grateful that the damage is remediable.

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remedial

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ADJ. /治疗的，补救的/curative; corrective. Because he was a slow reader, he decided to take a course in remedial reading.

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reminiscence

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N. /怀旧；回想/recollection. Her reminiscences of her experiences are so fascinating that she ought to write a book.

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remiss

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ADJ. /玩忽职守的，粗心大意的/negligent. The guard was accused of being remiss in his duty when the prisoner escaped.

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remission

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N. /减轻，缓解；宽恕/temporary moderation of disease symptoms; cancellation of a debt; forgiveness or pardon. Though the senator had been treated for cancer, his symptoms were in remission, and he was considered fit enough to handle the strains of a presidential race.

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remnant

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N. /残留物/remainder. I suggest that you wait until the store places the remnants of these goods on sale.

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remonstrance

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N. /抗议/protest; objection. The authorities were deaf to the pastor’s remonstrances about the lack of police protection in the area. remonstrate,V.

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remorse

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N. /懊悔，自责/guilt; self-reproach. The murderer felt no remorse for his crime.

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remunerative

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ADJ. /有利益的；有报酬的/compensating; rewarding. I find my new work so remunerative that I may not return to my previ?ous employment. remuneration, N.

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rend

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V. /分开；撕开/split; tear apart. In his grief, he tried to rend his garments. rent, N.

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render

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V. /呈递；开账单；给予；还以，报以；放弃，投降投降或交出；放弃；描写以文字形式表现，描绘；以图像或绘画表现；演奏，诠释；翻译；正式宣布；裁决；使成为；熔解，精炼；打底/deliver; provide; represent. He rendered aid to the needy and indigent.

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rendition

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N. /表演，诠释；翻译/translation; artistic interpretation of a song, etc. The audience cheered enthusiastically as she com?pleted her rendition of the aria.

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renegade

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N. /变节者/deserter; traitor. Because he had abandoned his post and joined forces with the Indians, his fellow offi?cers considered the hero of Dances with Wolves a rene?gade. alsoADJ.

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renege

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V. /食言；反悔；否认；翻供/deny; go back on. He reneged on paying off his debt.

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renounce

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V. /放弃；断绝关系/abandon; disown; repudiate. Even though she knew she would be burned at the stake as a witch, Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief that her voices came from God. renunciation, N.

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renovate

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V. /革新；刷新；修复/restore to good condition; renew. They claim that they can renovate worn shoes so that they look like new ones.

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renown

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N. /名望/fame. For many years an unheralded researcher, Barbara McClintock gained international renown when she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. renowned,ADJ.

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rent

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N. /撕；裂口/rip; split. Kit did an excellent job of mending the rent in the lining of her coat.

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reparable

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ADJ. /可修复的/capable of being repaired. Fortunately, the damages we suffered in the accident were reparable and our car looks brand new.

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reparation

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N. /修订；弥补；补偿/amends; compensation. At the peace con?ference, the defeated country promised to pay reparations to the victors.

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repast

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N. /餐；宴会/meal; feast; banquet. The caterers prepared a delicious repast for Fred and Judy’s wedding day.

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repeal

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V. /废除；撤除/revoke; annul. What would the effect on our soci?ety be if we decriminalized drug use by repealing the laws against the possession and sale of narcotics?

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repel

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V. /撤退；退却/drive away; disgust. At first, the Beast’s ferocious appearance repelled Beauty, but she came to love the ten?der heart hidden behind that beastly exterior.

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repellent

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ADJ. /排斥的/driving away; unattractive. Mosquitoes find the odor so repellent that they leave any spot where this liq?uid has been sprayed. also N.

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repercussion

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N. /反弹；弹回/rebound; reverberation; reaction. I am afraid that this unfortunate incident will have serious reper?cussions.

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repertoire

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N. /节目表；保留节目/list of works of music, drama, etc., a per?former is prepared to present. The opera company decided to include Madame Butterfly in its repertoire for the follow-ing season.

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replenish

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V. /补充/fill up again. Before she could take another backpacking trip, Carla had to replenish her stock of freeze-dried foods.

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replete

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ADJ. /充满的；充足的/filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied. The movie star’s memoir was replete with juicy details about the love life of half of Hollywood.

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replica

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N. /复制/copy. Are you going to hang this replica of the Declaration of Independence in the classroom or in the auditorium?

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replicate

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V. /复制/reproduce; duplicate. Because he had always wanted a palace, Donald decided to replicate the Tai Mahal in miniature on his estate.

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repository

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N. /仓库；知识库；智囊团/storehouse. Libraries are repositories of the world’s best thoughts.

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reprehensible

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ADJ. /应该谴责的/deserving blame. Shocked by the viciousness of the bombing, politicians of every party uni?formly condemned the terrorists’ reprehensible deed.

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repress

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V. /压迫；压制；压/restrain; crush; oppress. Anne’s parents tried to curb her impetuosity without repressing her boundless high spirits.

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reprieve

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N. /暂缓；缓刑/temporary stay. During the twenty-four-hour reprieve, the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent. alsoV.

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reprimand

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V. /谴责/reprove severely; rebuke. Every time Ermen?garde made a mistake in class, she was afraid that Miss Minchin would reprimand her and tell her father how badly she was doing in school. also N.

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reprisal

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N. /报复/retaliation. I am confident that we are ready for any reprisals the enemy may undertake.

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reprise

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N. /年金；重奏；重复的行动/musical repetition; repeat performance; recur?rent action. We enjoyed the soprano’s solo in Act I so much that we were delighted by its reprise in the finale.

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reproach

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V. /表示失望；责备/express disapproval or disappointment. He never could do anything wrong without imagining how the look on his mother’s face would reproach him afterwards. reproachful,ADJ.

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reprobate

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N. /有重罪的人；道德败坏的人，无耻的人/person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency. I cannot understand why he has so many admir?ers if he is the reprobate you say he is.

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reprove

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V. /责备/censure; rebuke. The principal severely reproved the students whenever they talked in the halls.

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repudiate

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V. /批判/disown; disavow. On separating from Tony, Tina announced that she would repudiate all debts incurred by her soon-to-be ex-husband.

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repugnant

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ADJ. /不一致的；令人讨厌的/loathsome; hateful. She found the snake repugnant and looked on it with loathing and fear.

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repulsion

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N. /排斥；反驳/distaste; act of driving back. Hating blood?shed, she viewed war with repulsion. Even defensive bat?tles distressed her, for the repulsion of enemy forces is never accomplished bloodlessly.

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reputable

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ADJ. /著名的；令人尊敬的/respectable. If you want to buy antiques, look for a reputable dealer; far too many dealers today pass off fakes as genuine antiques.

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reputed

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ADJ. /名誉好的；有名气的；名誉的/supposed. Though he is the reputed father of the child, no one can be sure. repute, N.

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requiem

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N. /安灵弥撒；安灵歌，挽歌/mass for the dead; dirge. They played Mozart’s Requiem at the funeral.

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requisite

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N. /必须品；必要的/necessary requirement. Many colleges state that a student must offer three years of a language as a requisite for admission.

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requite

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V. /报答；酬谢/repay; revenge. The wretch requited his bene?factors by betraying them.

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rescind

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V. /取消/cancel. Because of the public outcry against the new taxes, the senator proposed a bill to rescind the unpopular financial measure.

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resentment

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N. /怨恨；愤恨/indignation; bitterness; displeasure. Not wanting to appear a sore loser, Bill tried to hide his resent?ment of Barry’s success.

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reserve

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N. /自我控制；疏远/self-control; formal but distant manner. Although some girls were attracted by Mark’s air of reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness. reserved,ADJ.

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residue

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N. /残留物；余额/remainder; balance. In his will, he requested that after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to his wife. residual,ADJ.

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resigned

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ADJ. /认命，顺从；听天由命/accepting one’s fate; unresisting; patiently submissive. Resigned to his downtrodden existence, Bob Cratchit was too meek to protest Scrooge’s bullying. resig?nation, N.

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resilient

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ADJ. /弹性的/elastic; having the power of springing back. Highly resilient, steel makes excellent bedsprings. resilience, N.

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resolution

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N. /坚定；决心；决定/determination; resolve. Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy. resolute,ADJ.

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resolve

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N. /决心；解决/determination; firmness of purpose. How dare you question my resolve to take up sky-diving! Of course I haven’t changed my mind!

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resolve

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V. /决定；安排/decide; settle; solve. Holmes resolved to travel to Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the king.

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resonant

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ADJ. /共鸣的/echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound. The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.

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respiration

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N. /呼吸；呼吸作用；呼气/breathing; exhalation. The doctor found that the patient’s years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of respiration.

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respite

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N. /暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punish?ment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vaca?tioning in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.

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resplendent

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ADJ. /辉煌的；光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, “But he’s naked!”

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responsiveness

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N. /响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delight?ing the performers by its responsiveness.

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restitution

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N. /归还；补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.

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restive

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ADJ. /焦躁不安的；难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting con?trol. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.

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restraint

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N. /抑制；控制/moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction. Control yourself. young lady! Show some restraint!

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resumption

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N. /恢复；重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.

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resurge

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V. /复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disinte?grated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence, N.

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retain

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V. /保持；使用/keep; employ. Fighting to retain his seat in Con?gress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection campaign.

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retaliation

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N. /报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treat?ment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown’s mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.

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retentive

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ADJ. /保持的；记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.

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reticence

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N. /不动声色的；深藏不露的；沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes pre?ferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.

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retinue

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N. /随行人员；扈从/following; attendants. The queen’s retinue fol?lowed her down the aisle.

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retiring

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ADJ. /退休的；谦虚的，害羞的/modest; shy. Given Susan’s retiring personal?ity, no one expected her to take up public speaking; sur?prisingly enough, she became a star of the school debate team,

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retort

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N. /反驳；曲颈甑/quick sharp reply. Even when it was advisable for her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a quick retort. alsoV.

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retract

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V. /撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction, N.

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retrench

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V. /裁减，削减；紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment, N.

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retribution

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N. /复仇；补偿；惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.

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retrieve

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V. /重新得到；找回/recover; find and bring in. The dog was intelligent and quickly learned to retrieve the game killed by the hunter.

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retroactive

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ADJ. /反动的；（法律）追溯的（由制定之日前的某一天生效）/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.

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retrograde

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V. /倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.

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retrospective

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ADJ. /回顾的/looking back on the past. The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.

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revelry

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N. /狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year’s Eve is a night of revelry

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reverent

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ADJ. /尊敬的；可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don’t feel properly reverent. revere,V.

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reverie

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N. /冥想；发呆；白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher’s question.

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revert

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V. /回复；故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.

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revile

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V. /辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-cap?tains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.

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revoke

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V. /撤回；取消/cancel; retract. Repeat offenders who continue to drive under the influence of alcohol face having their dri?ver’s licenses permanently revoked.

284
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revulsion

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N. /剧变（情感的）；抽回；收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.

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rhapsodize

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V. /狂热地描述；写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthu?siastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.

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rhetoric

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N. /说话的学问；花言巧语/art of effective communication; insincere lan?guage. All writers, by necessity, must be skilled in rhetoric.

287
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rhetorical

A

ADJ. /修辞色彩的；花言巧语的/pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language. To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.

288
Q

ribald

A

ADJ. /下流的；放荡的；亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.

289
Q

riddle

A

V. /刺出无数窟窿，打排孔；充斥，弥漫；通过粗眼筛子过滤；谜语；解决，解释；提出，解谜/pierce with holes; permeate or spread through?out. With his machine gun, Tracy riddled the car with bullets till it looked like a slice of Swiss cheese. During the proof?readers’ strike, the newspaper was riddled with typos.

290
Q

rider

A

N. /附文；扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster’s tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollu-tion riderto the bill.

291
Q

rife

A

ADJ. /普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.

292
Q

rift

A

N. /裂缝；破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.

293
Q

rig

A

V. /配备；装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with bal?lots marked in his candidate’s favor.

294
Q

rigid

A

ADJ. /刚硬的；不屈的/stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending. By living with a man to whom she was not married, George Eliot broke Victorian society’s most rigid rule of respectable behavior.

295
Q

rigor

A

N. /严格，苛刻；精确/severity. Many settlers could not stand the rigors of the New England winters.

296
Q

rigorous

A

ADJ. /严峻的；严格的；严厉的/severe; harsh; demanding; exact. Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate in An Officer and a Gen?tleman endured an extremely rigorous training program.

297
Q

rile

A

V. /激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.

298
Q

riveting

A

ADJ. /迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt’s novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.

299
Q

rivulet

A

N. /小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.

300
Q

robust

A

ADJ. /健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and tak?ing karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.

301
Q

roil

A

V. /搅动（使水变浑）;激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you’ll destroy the flavor.

302
Q

roster

A

N. /列表/list. They print the roster of players in the sea?son’s program.

303
Q

rostrum

A

N. /演讲台；讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to lis?ten to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.

304
Q

rote

A

N. /生搬硬套；死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.

305
Q

rotundity

A

N. /圆形，球状；洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Wash?ington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.

306
Q

rousing

A

ADJ. /活跃的；煽动的/lively; stirring. “And now, let’s have a rousing welcome for TV’s own Roseanne Barr, who’ll lead us in a rousing rendition of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.”’

307
Q

rout

A

V. /吓跑；赶出；击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also N.

308
Q

rubble

A

N. /碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.

309
Q

ruddy

A

ADJ. /红的；红润的，白里透红的；健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus’s ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer’s bright red nose.

310
Q

rudimentary

A

ADJ. /原始的；最初的；原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother’s English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make her?self understood.

311
Q

rue

A

V. /懊悔；后悔；感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.

312
Q

ruffian

A

N. /流氓；恶棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.

313
Q

ruminate

A

V. /反复咀嚼；消化；深思；反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.

314
Q

rummage

A

V. /到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rum?maged through the trunks in the attic, we found many sou?venirs of our childhood days. also N.

315
Q

ruse

A

N. /技巧；策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.

316
Q

rustic

A

ADJ. /乡村的；笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.

317
Q

ruthless

A

ADJ. /无情的/pitiless; cruel. Captain Hook was a danger?ous, ruthless villain who would stop at nothing to destroy Peter Pan.

318
Q

saboteur

A

N. /破坏分子；怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.

319
Q

saccharine

A

ADJ. /糖精的；代糖的；极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.

320
Q

sacrilegious

A

ADJ. /亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.

321
Q

sacrosanct

A

ADJ. /非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insur?ance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.

322
Q

sadistic

A

ADJ. /虐待狂的；残忍成性的/inclined to cruelty. If we are to improve condi- tions in this prison, we must first get rid of the sadistic warden.

323
Q

saga

A

N. /斯堪的纳维亚的传说；传奇/Scandinavian myth; any legend. This is a saga of the sea and the men who risk their lives on it.

324
Q

Sagacious

A

ADJ. /有洞察力的/perceptive; shrewd; having insight. My father was a sagacious judge of character: he could spot a phony a mile away. sagacity, N.

325
Q

sage

A

N. /智者；圣人/person celebrated for wisdom. Hearing tales of a mysterious Master of All Knowledge who lived in the hills of Tibet, Sandy was possessed with a burning desire to con?sult the legendary sage. alsoADJ.

326
Q

salacious

A

ADJ. /好色的；淫荡的/lascivious; lustful. Chaucer’s monk is not pious but salacious. a teller of lewd tales and ribald jests.

327
Q

salient

A

ADJ. /显著的；突出的；卓越的/prominent. One of the salient features of that newspaper is its excellent editorial page.

328
Q

salubrious

A

ADJ. /对健康有益的，利于养生的/healthful. Many people with hay fever move to more salubrious sections of the country during the months of August and September.

329
Q

salutary

A

ADJ. /有用的；有益的/tending to improve; beneficial; wholesome. The punishment had a salutary effect on the boy, as he became a model student.

330
Q

salvage

A

V. /补救；抢救；打捞；营救/rescue from loss. All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed. also N.

331
Q

salvo

A

N. /解除武装；敬礼；保留条款/discharge of firearms; military salute. The boom of the enemy’s opening salvo made the petrified private jump.

332
Q

sanctimonious

A

ADJ. /假正经的；假装神圣的/displaying ostentatious or hypocritical devoutness. You do not have to be so sanctimonious to prove that you are devout.

333
Q

sanction

A

V. /批准，许可/approve; ratify. Nothing will convince me to sanction the engagement of my daughter to such a worth?less young man.

334
Q

sanctuary

A

N. /避难所/refuge; shelter; shrine; holy place. The tiny attic was Helen’s sanctuary to which she fled when she had to get away from the rest of her family.

335
Q

sanguine

A

ADJ. /高兴的；有希望的；乐天的/cheerful; hopeful. Let us not be too san?guine about the outcome; something could go wrong.

336
Q

sap

A

V. /减少；破坏/diminish; undermine. The element kryptonite has an unhealthy effect on Superman: it saps his strength.

337
Q

sarcasm

A

N. /挖苦；讽刺/scornful remarks; stinging rebuke. Though Ralph pretended to ignore the mocking comments of his supposed friends, their sarcasm wounded him deeply.

338
Q

sardonic

A

ADJ. /讽刺的/disdainful; sarcastic; cynical. The sardonic humor of nightclub comedians who satirize or ridicule patrons in the audience strikes some people as amusing and others as rude.

339
Q

sartorial

A

ADJ. /裁缝的；缝纫机的；缝匠肌的/pertaining to tailors. He was as famous for the sartorial splendor of his attire as he was for his acting.

340
Q

sate

A

V. /使心满意足；使过度满足；使腻/satisfy to the full; cloy. Its hunger sated. the lion dozed.

341
Q

satellite

A

N. /卫星/small body revolving around a larger one. Dur?ing the first few years of the Space Age, hundreds of satel?lites were launched by Russia and the United States.

342
Q

satiate

A

V. /完全满足/satisfy fully. Having stuffed themselves until they were satiated, the guests were so full they were ready for a nap.

343
Q

satire

A

N. /讽刺的/form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack vice and folly. Gulliver’s Travels, which is regarded by many as a tale for children, is actually a bitter satire attacking man’s folly.

344
Q

satirical

A

ADJ. /嘲弄的/mocking. The humor of cartoonist Gary Trudeau often is satirical; through the comments of the Doonesbury characters, Trudeau ridicules political corrup?tion and folly.

345
Q

saturate

A

V. /湿透/soak thoroughly. Saturate your sponge with water until it can’t hold any more.

346
Q

saturnine

A

ADJ. /阴郁的/gloomy. Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.

347
Q

saunter

A

V. /漫步；闲逛/stroll slowly. As we sauntered through the park, we stopped frequently to admire the spring flowers.

348
Q

savant

A

N. /专家，学者/scholar. Our faculty includes many world?famous savants.

349
Q

savor

A

V. /有滋有味儿的；享受这种滋味/enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality. Relishing his triumph, the actor especially savored the cha?grin of the critics who had predicted his failure.

350
Q

savory

A

ADJ. /有味道的；吸引人的/tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable. Julia Child’s recipes enable amateur chefs to create savory deli?cacies for their guests.

351
Q

scabbard

A

N. /剑鞘/case for a sword blade; sheath. The drill mas?ter told the recruit to wipe the blood from his sword before slipping it back into the scabbard.

352
Q

scad

A

N. /大批的，许多/a great quantity. Refusing Dave’s offer to lend him a shirt, Phil replied, “No, thanks, I’ve got scads of clothes.”

353
Q

scaffold

A

N. /脚手架；绞刑架/temporary platform for workers; bracing frame?work; platform for execution. Before painting the house, the workers put up a scaffold to allow them to work on the sec?ond story.

354
Q

scale

A

V. /爬升；升高/climb up; ascend. In order to locate a book on the top shelf of the stacks, Lee had to scale an exceptionally rickety ladder.

355
Q

scamp

A

N. /流氓，无赖/rascal. Despite his mischievous behavior, Mal?colm was such an engaging scamp that his mother almost lacked the heart to punish him.

356
Q

scanty

A

ADJ. /缺乏的；稀疏的/meager; insufficient. Thinking his helping of food was scanty, Oliver Twist asked for more.

357
Q

scapegoat

A

N. /替罪羊/someone who bears the blame for others. After the Challenger disaster, NASA searched for scape?goats on whom they could cast the blame.

358
Q

scavenge

A

V. /腐食；打扫/hunt through discarded materials for usable items; search, especially for food. If you need car parts that the dealers no longer stock, try scavenging for odd bits and pieces at the auto wreckers’ yards. scavenger, N.

359
Q

scenario

A

N. /情节；剧本大纲；（电影、歌剧）剧本/plot outline; screenplay; opera libretto. Scara?mouche startled the other actors in the commedia troupe when he suddenly departed from their customary scenario and began to improvise.

360
Q

schematic

A

ADJ. /示例的；示意性的/relating to an outline or diagram; using a system of symbols. In working out the solution to this logic puzzle, you may find it helpful to construct a simple schematic diagram outlining the order of events.

361
Q

schism

A

N. /分离/division; split. Let us not widen the schism by further bickering.

362
Q

scintillate

A

V. /迸出火花；发出闪烁/sparkle; flash. I enjoy her dinner parties because the food is excellent and the conversation scintil?lates.

363
Q

scoff

A

V. /嘲弄，奚落/mock; ridicule. He scoffed at dentists until he had his first toothache.

364
Q

scourge

A

N. /鞭笞；蹂躏/lash; whip; severe punishment. They feared the plague and regarded it as a deadly scourge. alsoV.

365
Q

scruple

A

V. /踌躇；忧郁/fret about; hesitate, for ethical reasons. Fearing that her husband had become involved in an affair, she did not scruple to read his diary. also N.

366
Q

scrupulous

A

ADJ. /小心翼翼的；谨慎的/conscientious; extremely thorough. Though Alfred is scrupulous in fulfilling his duties at work, he is less conscientious about his obligations to his family and friends.

367
Q

scrutinize

A

V. /明察/examine closely and critically. Searching for flaws, the sergeant scrutinized every detail of the private’s uniform.

368
Q

scuffle

A

V. /徘徊（思考问题）；混战/struggle confusedly; move off in a confused hurry. The twins briefly scuffled, wrestling to see which of them would get the toy. When their big brother yelled, “Let go of my Gameboy!” they scuffled off down the hall. scurrilous ADJ. obscene; indecent. Your scurrilous remarks are especially offensive because they are untrue.

369
Q

scurry

A

V. /轻快的；活泼的移动/move briskly. The White Rabbit had to scurry to get to his appointment on time.

370
Q

scurvy

A

ADJ. /下流的；卑鄙的，无理的；坏血病/despicable; contemptible. Peter Pan sneered at Captain Hook and his scurvy crew.

371
Q

scuttle

A

V. /迈着碎步轻快的走/scurry; run with short, rapid steps. The bug scut?tled rapidly across the floor.

372
Q

scuttle

A

V. /沉没/sink. The sailors decided to scuttle their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.

373
Q

seamy

A

ADJ. /丑恶的；露出嘴脸的/sordid; unwholesome. In The Godfather, Michael Corleone is unwilling to expose his wife and chil?dren to the seamy side of his life as the son of a Mafia don. sear V. char or burn; brand. Accidentally brushing against the hot grill, she seared her hand badly.

374
Q

seasoned

A

ADJ. /老练的/experienced. Though pleased with her new batch of rookies, the basketball coach wished she had a few more seasoned players on the team.

375
Q

secession

A

N. /撤退；脱离/withdrawal. The secession of the Southern states provided Lincoln with his first major problem after his inauguration. secede,V.

376
Q

seclusion

A

N. /隔离/isolation; solitude. One moment she loved crowds; the next, she sought seclusion. seclude,V.

377
Q

secrete

A

V. /隐匿；藏匿；分泌/hide away; produce and release a substance into an organism. The pack rat secretes odds and ends in its nest; the pancreas secretes insulin in the islets of Langerhans. sect N. separate religious body; faction. As university chaplain, she sought to address universal religious issues and not limit herself to concerns of any one sect.

378
Q

sectarian

A

ADJ. /宗派主义的；地区主义的；宗派主义者；狭窄的/relating to a religious faction or subgroup; narrow-minded; limited. Far from being broad-minded, the religious leader was intolerant of new ideas, paying atten?tion only to purely sectarian interests. sect. N.

379
Q

secular

A

ADJ. /世俗的；现世的；永久的/worldly; not pertaining to church matters; temporal. The church leaders decided not to interfere in secular matters.

380
Q

sedate

A

ADJ. /安静的；稳重的；低沉的/composed; grave. The parents were worried because they felt their son was too quiet and sedate.

381
Q

sedentary

A

ADJ. /久坐的；坐惯的/requiring sitting. Disliking the effect of her sedentary occupation on her figure, Stacy decided to work out at the gym every other day.

382
Q

sedition

A

N. /抵抗当局；反抗；暴动/resistance to authority; insubordination. His words, though not treasonous in themselves, were calcu?lated to arouse thoughts of sedition.

383
Q

sedulous

A

ADJ. /勤奋的；勤勤恳恳的/diligent; hardworking. After weeks of patient and sedulous labor, we completed our detailed analysis of every published SAT examination.

384
Q

seedy

A

ADJ. /破烂不堪的；褴褛的；不合适的/run-down; decrepit; disreputable. I would rather stay in dormitory lodgings in a decent youth hostel than have a room of my own in a seedy downtown hotel.

385
Q

seemly

A

ADJ. /适宜的，合适的/proper; appropriate. Lady Bracknell did not think it was seemly for Ernest to lack a proper family: no baby abandoned on a doorstep could grow up to be a fit match for her daughter.

386
Q

seep

A

V. /渗出；渗漏/ooze; trickle. During the rainstorm, water seeped through the crack in the basement wall and damaged the floor boards. seepage, N.

387
Q

seethe

A

V. /扰乱的；沸腾/be disturbed; boil. The nation was seething with discontent as the noblemen continued their arrogant ways.

388
Q

seismic

A

ADJ. /地震的/pertaining to earthquakes. The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.

389
Q

seminary

A

N. /神学院；学院；发祥地/school for training future ministers; academy for young women. Sure of his priestly vocation, Terrence planned to pursue his theological training at the local Roman Catholic seminary.

390
Q

sensual

A

ADJ. /感官的；肉欲的；感官论的/devoted to the pleasures of the senses; car?nal; voluptuous. I cannot understand what caused him to abandon his sensual way of life and become so ascetic.

391
Q

sententious

A

ADJ. /简洁的；警句式的，格言式的/terse; concise; aphoristic. After reading so many redundant speeches, I find his sententious style particularly pleasing.

392
Q

sentinel

A

N. /哨兵/sentry; lookout. Though camped in enemy terri?tory, Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of posting sentinels around the encampment.

393
Q

sequester

A

V. /隐退；隔离/isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude. Banished from his kingdom, the wizard Prospero sequestered himself on a desert island. To prevent the jurors from hearing news broadcasts about the case, the judge decided to sequester the jury.

394
Q

serendipity

A

N. /有发现意外之财的运气/gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck. Many scien?tific discoveries are a matter of serendipity. Newton was not sitting under a tree thinking about gravity when the apple dropped on his head.

395
Q

serenity

A

N. /平静/calmness; placidity. The sound of air raid sirens pierced the serenity of the quiet village of Pearl Harbor. serpentine ADJ. winding; twisting. The car swerved at every curve in the serpentine road.

396
Q

serrated

A

ADJ. /锯齿状的/having a sawtoothed edge. The beech tree is one of many plants that have serrated leaves.

397
Q

servile

A

ADJ. /奴隶的；奴性的/slavish; cringing. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile creature.

398
Q

servitude

A

N. /奴隶身份；苦工/slavery; compulsory labor. Born a slave, Fred?erick Douglass resented his life of servitude and plotted to escape to the North.

399
Q

sever

A

V. /切断/cut; separate. The released prisoner wanted to begin a new life and sever all connections with his criminal past. Dr. Guillotin invented a machine that could neatly sever an aristocratic head from its equally aristocratic body. Unfortu?nately, he couldn’t collect any severance pay. severance, N.

400
Q

severity

A

N. /严肃；严格；激烈/harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity. The severity of Jane’s migraine attack was so great that she took to her bed for a week.

401
Q

shackle

A

V. /手铐；枷锁；脚镣/chain; fetter. The criminal’s ankles were shack?led to prevent his escape. also N.

402
Q

sham

A

V. /佯装；假的；赝品/pretend. He shammed sickness to get out of going to school. also N.

403
Q

shambles

A

N. /混乱的地方；肉铺/wreck; mess. After the hurricane, the Car?olina coast was a shambles. After the New Year’s Eve party, the apartment was a shambles.

404
Q

shard

A

N. /碎片（陶瓷的）/fragment, generally of pottery. The archaeologist assigned several students the task of reassembling earth?enware vessels from the shards he had brought back from the expedition.

405
Q

sheaf

A

N. /捆；扎（秸秆）/bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together. The lawyer picked up a sheaf of papers as he rose to question the witness.

406
Q

shear

A

V. /剪；修剪/cut or clip (hair, fleece); strip of something. You may not care to cut a sheep’s hair, but Sarah shears sheep for Little Bo Peep.

407
Q

sheathe

A

V. /插入鞘/place into a case. As soon as he recognized the approaching men, he sheathed his dagger and hailed them as friends.

408
Q

sheer

A

ADJ. /纯粹的,，绝对的；透明的；峻峭的；避开，躲避；偏航，避开/very thin or transparent; very steep; absolute. Wearing nothing but an almost sheer robe, Delilah draped herself against the sheer temple wall. Beholding her, Sam?son was overcome by her sheer beauty. Then she sheared his hair.

409
Q

shimmer

A

V. /微光/glimmer intermittently. The moonlight shim?mered on the water as the moon broke through the clouds for a moment. also N.

410
Q

shirk

A

V. /逃避，推卸；避免/avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger. Brian has a strong sense of duty; he would never shirk any responsibility.

411
Q

shoddy

A

ADJ. /以次充好的；赝品/sham; not genuine; inferior. You will never get the public to buy such shoddy material.

412
Q

shrewd

A

ADJ. /精明；敏锐/clever; astute. A shrewd investor, he took clever advantage of the fluctuations of the stock market.

413
Q

shroud

A

V. /裹尸；隐藏/hide from view; wrap for burial. Fog shrouded Dracula’s castle, hiding the ruined tower beneath sheets of mist.

414
Q

shun

A

V. /避免/keep away from. Cherishing his solitude, the recluse shunned the company of other human beings.

415
Q

shyster

A

N. /讼棍；政界的奸诈之徒/lawyer using questionable methods. On L.A. Law, Brackman is horrified to learn that his newly-discov?ered half brother is nothing but a cheap shyster.

416
Q

sibling

A

N. /兄弟姐妹/brother or sister. We may not enjoy being sib?lings, but we cannot forget that we still belong to the same family.

417
Q

simian

A

ADJ. /像猴的/monkeylike. Lemurs are nocturnal mammals and have many simian characteristics, although they are less intelligent than monkeys.

418
Q

simile

A

N. /明喻；比较/comparison of one thing with another, using the word like or as. “My love is like a red, red rose” is a simile.

419
Q

simper

A

V. /痴笑；傻笑/smirk; smile affectedly. Complimented on her appearance, Stella self-consciously simpered.

420
Q

Simplistic

A

ADJ. /过分单纯化的/oversimplified. Though Jack’s solution dealt adequately with one aspect of the problem, it was simplistic in failing to consider various complications that might arise.

421
Q

simulate

A

V. /模仿；冒充/feign. He simulated insanity in order to avoid punishment for his crime.

422
Q

sinecure

A

N. /闲职，报纸茶水的工作/well-paid position with little responsibility. My job is no sinecure; I work long hours and have much responsibility.

423
Q

sinewy

A

ADJ. /结实；硬朗的/tough; strong and firm. The steak was too sinewy to chew.

424
Q

singular

A

ADJ. /奇的；独一无二的/unique; extraordinary; odd. Though the young man tried to understand Father William’s singular behavior, he still found it odd that the old man incessantly stood on his head. singularity, N.

425
Q

sinister

A

ADJ. /邪恶的/evil. We must defeat the sinister forces that seek our downfall.

426
Q

sinuous

A

ADJ. /蜿蜒的；弯曲复杂的；不老实的/winding; bending in and out; not morally hon?est. The snake moved in a sinuous manner.

427
Q

skeptic

A

N. /怀疑论者/doubter; person who suspends judgment until the evidence supporting a point of view has been exam?ined. I am a skeptic about the new health plan; I want some proof that it can work. skepticism, N.

428
Q

skiff

A

N. /小船/small, light sailboat or rowboat. Tom dreamed of owning an ocean-going yacht but had to settle for a skiff he could sail in the bay.

429
Q

skimp

A

V. /节约的使用/provide scantily; live very economically. They were forced to skimp on necessities in order to make their limited supplies last the winter.

430
Q

skinflint

A

N. /守财奴；吝啬鬼/stingy person; miser. Scrooge was an ungener?ous old skinflint until he reformed his ways and became a notable philanthropist.

431
Q

skirmish

A

N. /小规模战争；小打小闹/minor fight. Custer’s troops expected they might run into a skirmish or two on maneuvers; they did not expect to face a major battle. alsoV.

432
Q

skulk

A

V. /偷懒；偷偷的移动/move furtively and secretly. He skulked through the less fashionable sections of the city in order to avoid meeting any of his former friends.

433
Q

slacken

A

V. /放松；放慢/slow up; loosen. As they passed the finish line, the runners slackened their pace.

434
Q

slag

A

N. /矿渣；炉渣；渣滓/residue from smelting metal; dross; waste matter. The blast furnace had a special opening at the bottom to allow the workers to remove the worthless slag.

435
Q

slake

A

V. /结束；平息；消除；伺候舒服/quench; sate. When we reached the oasis, we were able to slake our thirst.

436
Q

slander

A

N. /诽谤/defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements. Considering the negative comments politicians make about each other, it’s a wonder that more of them aren’t sued for slander. alsoV.

437
Q

slapdash

A

ADJ. /匆促的/haphazard; careless; sloppy. From the number of typos and misspellings I’ve found in it, it’s clear that Mario proofread the report in a remarkably slapdash fashion.

438
Q

sleeper

A

N. /睡眠；卧铺；枕木；冬眠的动物/something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable. Unnoticed by the critics at its publication, the eventual Pulitzer Prize winner was a classic sleeper.

439
Q

sleight

A

N. /灵巧的/dexterity. The magician amazed the audience with his sleight of hand.

440
Q

slight

A

N. /怠慢；斥责；侮辱/insult to one’s dignity; snub. Hypersensitive and ready to take offense at any discourtesy, Bertha was always on the lookout for real or imaginary slights. alsoV.

441
Q

slipshod

A

ADJ. /邋遢的；慢吞吞的；漫不经心的/untidy or slovenly; shabby. As a master craftsman, the carpenter prided himself on not doing slip?shod work.

442
Q

slither

A

V. /滑动/slip or slide. During the recent ice storm, many people slithered down this hill as they walked to the station.

443
Q

slothful

A

ADJ. /懒的/lazy. Lying idly on the sofa while others worked, Reggie denied he was slothful: “I just supervise better lying down.”

444
Q

slough

A

V. /脱落；蜕皮/cast off. Each spring, the snake sloughs off its skin.

445
Q

slovenly

A

ADJ. /邋遢的；漫不经心的/untidy; careless in work habits. Unshaven, sitting around in his bathrobe all afternoon, Gus didn’t seem to care about the slovenly appearance he presented. The dark ring around the bathtub and the spider webs hanging from the beams proved what a slovenly housekeeper she was.

446
Q

sluggard

A

N. /懒人/lazy person. “You are a sluggard, a drone, a parasite,” the angry father shouted at his lazy son.

447
Q

sluggish

A

ADJ. /行动迟缓的/Slow; lazy; lethargic. After two nights without sleep, she felt sluggish and incapable of exertion.

448
Q

slur

A

V. /模糊不清的说/speak indistinctly; mumble. When Sol has too much to drink, he starts to slur his words: “Washamatter? Cansh you undershtand what I shay?”

449
Q

slur

A

N. /诽谤；侮辱/insult to one’s character or reputation; slander. Polls revealed that the front-runner’s standing had been badly damaged by the slurs and innuendoes circulated by his opponent’s staff. also V. (secondary meaning)

450
Q

smelt

A

V. /冶炼；精炼/melt or blend ores, changing their chemical com?position. The furnaceman smelts tin with copper to create a special alloy used in making bells.

451
Q

smirk

A

N. /傻笑/conceited smile. Wipe that smirk off your face! alsoV.

452
Q

smolder

A

V. /闷烧；随时准备爆发/burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment. The rags smoldered for hours before they burst into flame.

453
Q

snicker

A

N. /窃笑/half-stifled laugh. The boy could not suppress a snicker when the teacher sat on the tack. alsoV.

454
Q

snivel

A

V. /流鼻涕；啜泣；鼻子一把泪一把/run at the nose; snuffle; whine. Don’t you come sniveling to me complaining about your big brother. sobriety N. moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness. Neither falling-down drunks nor stand-up comics are noted for sobriety. sober,ADJ.

455
Q

sodden

A

ADJ. /湿透的/soaked; dull, as if from drink. He set his sod?den overcoat near the radiator to dry.

456
Q

sojourn

A

N. /逗留/temporary stay. After his sojourn in Florida, he began to long for the colder climate of his native New Eng?land home.

457
Q

solace

A

N. /安慰/comfort in trouble. I hope you will find solace in the thought that all of us share your loss.

458
Q

solder

A

V. /焊接/repair or make whole by using a metal alloy. The plumber fixed the leak in the pipes by soldering a couple of joints from which water had been oozing.

459
Q

solecism

A

N. /语法错误；谬误/construction that is flagrantly incorrect gram?matically. I must give this paper a failing mark because it contains many solecisms.

460
Q

solemnity

A

N. /严肃的；一本正经的/seriousness; gravity. The minister was con?cerned that nothing should disturb the solemnity of the mar?riage service. solemn,ADJ.

461
Q

solicit

A

V. /恳求/request earnestly; seek. Knowing she needed to have a solid majority for the budget to pass, the mayor tele?phoned all the members of the city council to solicit their votes.

462
Q

solicitous

A

ADJ. /担心的；关切的；期望的/worried; concerned. The employer was very solicitous about the health of her employees as replace?ments were difficult to get.

463
Q

soliloquy

A

N. /自言自语；独白/talking to oneself. The soliloquy is a device used by the dramatist to reveal a character’s innermost thoughts and emotions.

464
Q

solitude

A

N. /独身/state of being alone; seclusion. Much depends on how much you like your own company. What to one per?son seems fearful isolation to another is blessed solitude.

465
Q

soluble

A

ADJ. /可溶解的；可解决的/able to be dissolved; able to be explained. Sugar is soluble in water; put a sugar cube in water and it will quickly dissolve.

466
Q

solvent

A

ADJ. /有偿付能力的/able to pay all debts. By dint of very frugal liv?ing, he was finally able to become solvent and avoid bank?ruptcy proceedings.

467
Q

somber

A

ADJ. /阴森的；昏暗的；抑郁的/gloomy; depressing; dark; drab. From the doctor’s grim expression, I could tell he had somber news. Dull brown and charcoal gray are pretty somber colors; can’t you wear something bright?

468
Q

somnambulist

A

N. /梦游症患者/sleepwalker. The most famous somnam?bulist in literature is Lady Macbeth; her monologue in the sleepwalking scene is one of the highlights of Shake?speare’s play.

469
Q

somnolent

A

ADJ. /催眠的；半睡半醒的/half asleep. The heavy meal and the over?heated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.

470
Q

sonorous

A

ADJ. /醒目的/resonant. His sonorous voice resounded through the hall.

471
Q

sophisticated

A

ADJ. /世故的；复杂的/worldly-wise and urbane; complex. When Sophie makes wisecracks, she thinks she sounds sophisticated, but instead she sounds sophomoric. The new IBM laptop with the butterfly keyboard and the built-in quadspeed FAX modem is a pretty sophisticated machine.

472
Q

sophistry

A

N. /似真实假的/seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning. Instead of advancing valid arguments, he tried to over?whelm his audience with a flood of sophistries.

473
Q

sophomoric

A

ADJ. /一知半解的；不成熟的/immature; half-baked, like a sophomore. Even if you’re only a freshman, it’s no compliment to be told your humor is sophomoric. The humor in Dumb and Dumber is sophomoric at best.

474
Q

soporific

A

ADJ. /催眠的/sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness. Pro?fessor Pringle’s lectures were so soporific that even he fell asleep in class. also N.

475
Q

sordid

A

ADJ. /肮脏；卑鄙/filthy; base; vile. The social worker was angered by the sordid housing provided for the homeless.

476
Q

sovereign

A

ADJ. /君主的；至高无上的/efficacious; supreme or paramount; self?governing. Professor Pennywhistle claimed his panacea was a sovereign cure for all chronic complaints. In medi-cine the sovereign task of the doctor is to do no harm. Rebelling against the mother country, the onetime colony now proclaimed itself a sovereign state. also N.

477
Q

spangle

A

N. /衣服上亮晶晶的小金属饰件/small metallic piece sewn to clothing for orna?mentation. The thousands of spangles on her dress sparkled in the glare of the stage lights.

478
Q

sparse

A

ADJ. /稀少的；稀疏的/not thick; thinly scattered; scanty. No matter how carefully Albert combed his hair to make it look as full as possible, it still looked sparse.

479
Q

spartan

A

ADJ. /刚毅的；朴素的；纪律严格的；斯巴达的/avoiding luxury and comfort; sternly disci?plined. Looking over the bare, unheated room, with its hard cot, he wondered what he was doing in such spartan quar?ters. Only his spartan sense of duty kept him at his post.

480
Q

spasmodic

A

ADJ. /断断续续的；间歇的/fitful; periodic. The spasmodic coughing in the auditorium annoyed the performers.

481
Q

spat

A

N. /争论；口角；扇巴掌/squabble; minor dispute. What had started out as a mere spat escalated into a full-blown argument.

482
Q

spate

A

N. /爆发；大洪水；一大群的/sudden flood or strong outburst; a large number or amount. After the spate of angry words that came pour?ing out of him, Mary was sure they would never be recon?ciled.

483
Q

spatial

A

ADJ. /空间的/relating to space. NASA is engaged in an ongoing program of spatial exploration. When Jay says he’s studying spatial relations, that doesn’t mean he has rela?tives in outer space.

484
Q

spatula

A

N. /压舌板；抹刀；批灰刀/broad-bladed instrument used for spreading or mixing. The manufacturers of this frying pan recommend the use of a rubber spatula to avoid scratching the specially treated surface.

485
Q

spawn

A

V. /孵化；下蛋/lay eggs. Fish ladders had to be built in the dams to assist the salmon returning to spawn in their native streams. also N.

486
Q

specious

A

ADJ. /似是而非的/seemingly reasonable but incorrect; mis?leading (often intentionally). To claim that, because houses and birds both have wings, both can fly, is extremely spe?cious reasoning.

487
Q

spectrum

A

N. /光谱/colored band produced when beam of light passes through a prism. The visible portion of the spectrum includes red at one end and violet at the other.

488
Q

spendthrift

A

N. /挥霍的人/someone who wastes money. Easy access to credit encourages people to turn into spendthrifts who shop till they drop.

489
Q

sphinx-like

A

ADJ. /谜的/enigmatic; mysterious. The Mona Lisa’s sphinx-like expression has intrigued and mystified art lovers for centuries.

490
Q

splice

A

V. /绑定的；联合的/fasten together; unite. Before you splice two strips of tape together, be sure to line them up evenly. also N.

491
Q

spontaneity

A

N. /自发的；自然的；无预谋的/lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint. When Anne and Amy met, Amy impulsively hugged her new colleague, but Anne drew back, unpre?pared for such spontaneity. The cast over-rehearsed the play so much that the eventual performance lacked any spontaneity. spontaneous,ADJ.

492
Q

sporadic

A

ADJ. /零星的/occurring irregularly. Although you can still hear sporadic outbursts of laughter and singing outside, the big Halloween parade has passed; the party’s over till next year.

SAT Barrons 3500 (7 decks)

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