GMAT 06 Flashcards
1
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en·gen·der
verb
\in-ˈjen-dər\
A
- VERB 导致，造成（某种感觉、气氛、状况等） If someone or something engenders a particular feeling, atmosphere, or situation, they cause it to occur.
It helps engender a sense of common humanity…
这有助于营造一种博爱的感觉。
Mr Bowles could engender delight in students and musicians alike.
鲍尔斯先生能够让学生和音乐家都感到快乐。
The issue has engendered a considerable amount of debate.
<a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn’t seem to engender any interest>
2
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en·grave
verb
\in-ˈgrāv\
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- VERB 雕刻 If you engrave something with a design or words, or if you engrave a design or words on it, you cut the design or words into its surface.
Your wedding ring can be engraved with a personal inscription at no extra cost…
可以免费在你的婚戒上刻上你的题字。
Harrods will also engrave your child’s name on the side…
哈罗兹还会将你孩子的名字刻在侧面。
— en·grav·er noun
3
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en·gulf
verb
\in-ˈgəlf\
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- VERB （常指突然）吞没，吞噬 If one thing engulfs another, it completely covers or hides it, often in a sudden and unexpected way.
A seven-year-old boy was found dead after a landslide engulfed a block of flats…
山体滑坡掩埋了一栋公寓楼，造成一名7岁男孩丧生。
The flat is engulfed in flames.
那套公寓被火焰吞噬。 - VERB 使陷入（某种感觉或情绪） If a feeling or emotion engulfs you, you are strongly affected by it.
…the pain that engulfed him…
将他吞噬的苦痛
He looked around his dark, cluttered office and was engulfed by a feeling of emptiness.
他环顾自己昏暗杂乱的办公室，陷入一阵空虚之中。
4
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en·hance
verb
\in-ˈhan(t)s\
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- VERB 提高，增进，增加（价值、质量、吸引力等） To enhance something means to improve its value, quality, or attractiveness.
They’ll be keen to enhance their reputation abroad…
他们会非常渴望提高他们在国外的声誉。
The superb sets are enhanced by Bobby Crossman’s marvellous costumes.
博比·克罗斯曼绝妙的服装为华丽的舞台增色不少。
— en·hance·ment -ˈhan(t)-smənt\ noun
5
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en·list
verb
\in-ˈlist\
A
- V-ERG （使）参军;（使）入伍 If someone enlists or is enlisted, they join the army, navy, marines, or air force.
Michael Hughes of Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the 82nd Airborne 20 years ago…
来自宾夕法尼亚州拉克万纳的迈克尔·休斯20年前参军，在第82空降师服役。
He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War…
在墨西哥战争中他参军成为一名二等兵。 - VERB 取得，赢得（帮助） If you enlist the help of someone, you persuade them to help or support you in doing something.
I had to cut down a tree and enlist the help of seven neighbours to get it out of the garden!…
我不得不砍掉一棵树，并叫来7位邻居帮忙把树抬出花园！
I’ve read that you’ve enlisted some 12-year-olds to help out in your campaign…
我读到你让一些12岁的孩子在宣传活动中做帮手。
— en·list·ee -ˌlis-ˈtē\ noun
— en·list·ment -ˈlis(t)-mənt\ noun
6
Q
enor·mous
adj
\i-ˈnȯr-məs\
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- ADJ-GRADED 巨大的;极大的;很多的 Something that is enormous is extremely large in size or amount.
The main bedroom is enormous…
主卧室非常大。
There is, of course, an enormous amount to see.
当然有很多可看的。 - ADJ （范围、程度）极大的 You can use enormous to emphasize the great degree or extent of something.
It was an enormous disappointment.
真是让人万分失望。
…his enormous capacity for brutality.
他的穷凶极恶
enormously: This book was enormously influential…这本书极有影响力。The new database will help horse breeders enormously.新数据库将对马匹饲养者有极大的帮助。
— enor·mous·ly adverb
— enor·mous·ness noun
7
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en·rich
verb
\in-ˈrich\
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- VERB 充实;使丰富 To enrich something means to improve its quality, usually by adding something to it.
An extended family enriches life in many ways…
大家庭在很多方面会使生活更加丰富多彩。
It is important to enrich the soil prior to planting.
在种植前给土壤增肥很重要。
-enriched: …nutrient-enriched water.营养液 - VERB 使富有;使富余 To enrich someone means to increase the amount of money that they have.
He will drain, rather than enrich, the country…
他会耗尽而不是增加该国的财富。
Those who know how to use the system can enrich themselves at the expense of the very people who work for those companies.
那些懂得如何利用现行体制的人使自己富有起来，而代价是牺牲真正为那些公司工作的人。 - VERB 浓缩（核燃料） To enrich a nuclear fuel such as uranium means to increase the number of atoms of a particular kind in it, so that it can be used to produce more energy or a greater explosion.
It was actually used for enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels.
实际上，它是用来将铀浓缩以制造武器。
— en·rich·er noun
— en·rich·ment -ˈrich-mənt\ noun
8
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en·sue
verb
\in-ˈsü\
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- VERB 接着发生;接踵而来;随之产生 If something ensues, it happens immediately after another event, usually as a result of it.
If the Europeans did not reduce subsidies, a trade war would ensue…
如果欧洲人不减少补贴，便会发生贸易战。
A brief but embarrassing silence ensued.
紧接着是短暂却令人难堪的沉默。
9
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en·tail
verb
\in-ˈtāl\
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- VERB 使…必然发生;势必造成；使…成为必需 If one thing entails another, it involves it or causes it.
Such a decision would entail a huge political risk…
这样的决定势必带来巨大的政治风险。
The changed outlook entails higher economic growth than was previously assumed…
观念的改变势必会使得经济增长高于之前预计的水平。
— en·tail·er -ˈtā-lər\ noun
— en·tail·ment -ˈtāl-mənt\ noun
10
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en·ter·prise
noun
\ˈen-tə(r)-ˌprīz\
A
- N-COUNT （常指小型）企业，公司 An enterprise is a company or business, often a small one.
There are plenty of small industrial enterprises.
有许多小型工业企业。
…the integration of farming enterprises.
农业企业的整合 - N-COUNT （新的、困难的或重要的）事业，项目 An enterprise is something new, difficult, or important that you do or try to do.
…the first Director of such a novel enterprise…
这样一个全新项目的第一任主管
Horse breeding is indeed a risky enterprise.
养马确实是个有风险的营生。 - N-UNCOUNT 创业；企业经营 Enterprise is the activity of managing companies and businesses and starting new ones.
He is still involved in voluntary work promoting local enterprise.
他仍在从事促进当地创业的志愿者工作。
…a national program of subsidies to private enterprise.
国家个人创业补贴计划 - N-UNCOUNT 进取心;事业心;创业精神 Enterprise is the ability to think of new and effective things to do, together with an eagerness to do them.
…the spirit of enterprise worthy of a free and industrious people.
自由勤劳的民族具有的进取精神
…the group’s lack of enterprise.
那个团队事业心的缺乏
11
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en·tice
verb
\in-ˈtīs\
A
- VERB 诱使;诱惑;怂恿 To entice someone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.
Retailers have tried almost everything to entice shoppers through their doors…
零售商们几乎尝试了所有办法以吸引购物者进入商店。
Child murderers in the past have very often carried photographs of young children to entice their victims away…
过去儿童谋杀犯常常携带一些小孩子的照片来诱拐他们的受害者。
— en·tice·ment -ˈtī-smənt\ noun
— en·tic·ing·ly -ˈtī-siŋ-lē\ adverb
12
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en·ti·ty
noun
\ˈen-tə-tē\
A
- N-COUNT 独立存在体;实体 An entity is something that exists separately from other things and has a clear identity of its own.
…the earth as a living entity…
作为一个有生命的实体的地球
North and South will remain separate entities within a commonwealth until the year 2000.
南方和北方将作为一个政治联合体下的两个独立实体继续存在，直至2000年。
13
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en·trant
noun
\ˈen-trənt\
A
- N-COUNT 新加入者；新成员；新生 An entrant is a person who has recently become a member of an institution such as a university.
…a young school entrant.
年轻的新生 - N-COUNT 参赛者 An entrant is a person who is taking part in a competition.
All items entered for the competition must be the entrant’s own work.
所有参赛作品必须是参赛者本人的作品。
14
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en·trée
noun
\ˈän-ˌtrā \
A
n.<法>入场权； <美>主菜
We had steak as an entrée.
<entrée to the country club is through sponsorship by someone who is already a member>
15
Q
en·tre·pre·neur
noun
\ˌäⁿn-trə-p(r)ə-ˈnər\
A
- N-COUNT 企业家 An entrepreneur is a person who sets up businesses and business deals.
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial -ˈn(y)u̇r-ē-əl\ adjective
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial·ism -ē-ə-li-zəm\ noun
— en·tre·pre·neur·ial·ly -ē-ə-lē\ adverb
— en·tre·pre·neur·ship -ˈnər-ˌship\ noun
16
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enu·mer·a·tion
noun
-ˌn(y)ü-mə-ˈrā-shən\
A
n.计数，列举； 细目
enu·mer·ate verb \i-ˈn(y)ü-mə-ˌrāt\
enu·mer·a·tive adjective -ˈn(y)ü-mə-ˌrā-tiv\
Let me enumerate my reasons for doing this.
<I proceeded to enumerate the reasons why I would be justified in filing a lawsuit for negligence.>
17
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en·ve·lope
noun
\ˈen-və-ˌlōp\
A
- N-COUNT 信封 An envelope is the rectangular paper cover in which you send a letter to someone through the post.
- PHRASE 挑战限制尺度；突破原有底线 If someone pushes the envelope, they do something to a greater degree or in a more extreme way than it has ever been done before.
There’s a valuable place for fashion and design that pushes the envelope a bit…
在原有尺度上有所突破的时尚和设计受到人们的重视。
No cinema director had a more profound effect in pushing the envelope of acceptable family entertainment.
在挑战家庭娱乐片的接受程度方面，没有哪个电影导演比他的影响更深远。
18
Q
en·vi·ous
adj
\ˈen-vē-əs\
A
- ADJ-GRADED 嫉妒的;羡慕的 If you are envious of someone, you want something that they have.
I don’t think I’m envious of your success…
我想我并不嫉妒你的成功。
Do I sound envious? I pity them, actually.
我听起来是嫉妒吗？实际上我是可怜他们。
enviously: ‘You haven’t changed,’ I am often enviously told.“你没什么变化，”常常有人羡慕地对我说。
— en·vi·ous·ly adverb
— en·vi·ous·ness noun
19
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en·vi·sion
verb
\in-ˈvi-zhən\
A
- VERB 设想;想象;预想 If you envision something, you envisage it.
In the future we envision a federation of companies…
我们设想将来会成立一个公司联盟。
Most people do stop at this point, not envisioning that there is anything beyond.
大多数人确实都在这里停下，想象不到在这之外还会有些什么。
The inventor envisioned many uses for his creation.
She envisioned a better life for herself.
20
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en·zyme
noun
\ˈen-ˌzīm\
A
- N-COUNT 酶 An enzyme is a chemical substance that is found in living creatures which produces changes in other substances without being changed itself.
【语域标签】：TECHNICAL 术语
