Lesson 17

Question 1

disembowel

Answer 1

disembowel

除去（動物）的內臟；（尤指舊時作為刑罰）開（人）的膛

Question 2

disfigure

Answer 2

損毀…的外觀；使毀容
She was horribly disfigured by burns.
她的臉因燒傷而變得慘不忍睹。

Question 3

disgruntled (2)

Answer 3

不滿的；不悅的
A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
一名心懷不滿的前員工被認為是此次爆炸的罪魁禍首。

Question 4

disillusion

Answer 4

使幻想破滅；使清醒，使覺悟
I hate to/I’m sorry to disillusion you, but pregnancy is not always wonderful - I was sick every day for six months.
我不想打破你的美夢，但是懷孕並非總是美妙的事——我當時有六個月的時間天天都噁心。

Question 5

disinterested (2)

Answer 5

客觀的；公正的；無私的
a disinterested observer/judgment
公正的觀察員／判斷

Question 6

dislocation (2)

Answer 6

負面影響，混亂，紊亂
Snow has caused serious dislocation of/to train services.
下雪嚴重干擾了火車服務的正常運作。

Question 7

dismantle (3)

Answer 7

拆開，拆卸
She dismantled the washing machine to see what the problem was, but couldn’t put it back together again.
她拆開洗衣機想看看出了甚麽問題，但是卻裝不起來了。

Question 8

disoriented

Answer 8

迷路的，迷失的
Whales become disoriented in shallow water.
鯨在淺水中會迷失方向。

Question 9

disparage (2)

Answer 9

貶斥，貶低
The actor’s work for charity has recently been disparaged in the press as an attempt to get publicity.
該演員爲慈善事業所做的工作近來被報紙說成是想出名。

Question 10

disparager

Answer 10

disparager

毀謗者

Question 11

disparity (4)

Answer 11

不平等；（不公平的）差異
the growing disparity between rich and poor
正在加劇的貧富懸殊

Question 12

dispassionate

Answer 12

冷靜的，鎮靜的，沈著的
In all the media hysteria, there was one journalist whose comments were clear-sighted and dispassionate.
當各種媒體都變得十分狂熱時，有一位記者的評論卻能灼見真知保持冷靜。

Question 13

dispel

Answer 13

消除（恐懼）；掃除（疑慮）；打消（錯誤念頭）
I’d like to start the speech by dispelling a few rumours that have been spreading recently.
我想在演講的開頭先澄清一些近期流傳的謠言。

Question 14

dispensable

Answer 14

可有可無的，非必需的
It seemed the soldiers were regarded as dispensable - their deaths just didn’t matter.
那些士兵似乎被認爲是可有可無的——他們的死無關緊要。

Question 15

dispensary

Answer 15

（醫院的）藥局，藥劑部，藥房

Question 16

dispense (2)

Answer 16

分發；提供，供應
There is a vending machine on the platform that dispenses snacks.
月臺上有一個出售零食的自動售貨機。

Question 17

be disposed to do sth (2)

Answer 17

願意做…；很可能會去做…
After all the trouble she put me to, I didn’t feel disposed to help her.
她給我帶來了這麽多的麻煩，我可不願意再幫她了。

Question 18

disregard

Answer 18

忽視，漠視，無視
What amazes me is her complete disregard for anyone else’s opinion.
讓我吃驚的是，她完全無視他人的意見。

Question 19

disrupt

Answer 19

打斷，中斷，擾亂
Heavy snow disrupted travel into the city this morning.
今晨的大雪擾亂了入城交通系統的正常運作。

Question 20

disruption

Answer 20

分裂；崩潰；瓦解；中斷

The large-scale demonstrations mounted by the students caused a disruption in the city’s traffic. 由學生舉行的大型示威造成城市交通的中斷。

Question 21

dissatisfied

Answer 21

不滿的，不滿意的
If you’re dissatisfied with the service, why don’t you complain to the hotel manager?
如果你對飯店的服務不滿意，爲甚麽不去向經理投訴呢？

Question 22

dissection

Answer 22

（尤指對屍體或植物的）解剖
Traditional surgical approaches to spinal pain involve open dissection of soft tissue and bone.
針對脊柱疼痛的傳統外科手術法是要切開軟組織和骨頭。

Question 23

dissemble

Answer 23

掩蓋，掩飾（動機、感情、真相等）
He accused the government of dissembling.
他指責政府掩飾真相。

Question 24

disseminate (3)

Answer 24

散佈，傳播，宣傳
One of the organization’s aims is to disseminate information about the disease.
該組織的宗旨之一就是宣傳關於這種疾病的知識。

Question 25

dissension

Answer 25

（尤指組織、團體、政黨等內部的）分歧，異議，爭議
There are signs of dissension within the ruling political party.
執政黨內部出現了意見不一的跡象。

Question 26

dissenter (2)

Answer 26

反對者，持異議者
The two parties disprove the theory of the other, but unite in persecuting the dissenter. 儘管這兩黨各自不同意它黨的理論，在迫害持異議者這一點上卻是一致的。

Question 27

dissertation

Answer 27

專題論文；學位論文
Ann did her dissertation on Baudelaire.
安的論文寫的是波德萊爾。

Question 28

dissipate

Answer 28

（使）逐漸消失；（使）逐漸浪費掉
The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.
熱量逐漸消失在大氣中。

Question 29

dissonance

Answer 29

dissonance

不和諧音；不一致

Question 30

distantly

Answer 30

遙遠地，遠遠地
He heard, distantly, the sound of the sea.
他遠遠地聽到了大海的聲音。

Question 31

distend

Answer 31

（通常指腹部或身體其他部位）鼓起，隆起，凸起
In the refugee centres we saw many children whose stomachs were distended because of lack of food.
在難民中心，我們看到許多孩子由於缺少食物腹部都鼓了起來。

Question 32

distillery

Answer 32

烈酒生産廠家
a whisky distillery
威士忌酒廠

Question 33

distinctive

Answer 33

與眾不同的，獨特的，特別的
a distinctive smell/taste
特別的氣味／味道

Question 34

distort

Answer 34

扭曲；使變形；歪曲
My original statement has been completely distorted by the media.
我最初的說法被媒體徹底歪曲了。

Question 35

distortion

Answer 35

歪曲，曲解
a gross distortion of the facts
對事實的嚴重歪曲

Question 36

disunity

Answer 36

disunity

不統一，不團結

Question 37

diurnal (2)

Answer 37

diurnal

每日的；一日間的；白天的

Question 38

diverge (3)

Answer 38

（道路）分叉；出現差異；發生分歧
They walked along the road together until they reached the village, but then their paths diverged.
他們一直沿著那條路走到那個村子，然後才分開。

Question 39

diversify

Answer 39

多樣化；差異化
Millions of years ago, changes in the earth’s climate caused animal and plant life to diversify.
數百萬年前，地球氣候的變化導致了動植物的多樣化。

Question 40

diversion

Answer 40

繞行路線
Traffic diversions will be kept to a minimum throughout the festival.
在節日期間，儘量少實行交通禁行措施。

Question 41

divert (2)

Answer 41

使改變方向，使轉向
Traffic will be diverted through the side streets while the main road is resurfaced.
這條主幹道重鋪路面時，車輛行人將被分流到側路通行。

Question 42

divest (2)

Answer 42

賣掉，出售（企業或其中一部分）
The company is divesting its less profitable business operations.
該公司打算出售其盈利較差的業務。

Question 43

divisive

Answer 43

有爭議的；引起分歧的
The Vietnam war was an extremely divisive issue in the US
越南戰爭在美國是一個極具爭議的問題。

Question 44

divulge

Answer 44

洩露，透露（秘密）
Journalists do not divulge their sources.
記者們不會透露消息來源。

Question 45

doctrine

Answer 45

（尤指政治或宗教的）信條，教義，學說
Christian doctrine
基督教教義

Question 46

dogged

Answer 46

下定決心的，堅決的
Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
遠大的志向和頑強的意志使她成爲行業的佼佼者。

Question 47

doggy

Answer 47

狗，犬

Question 48

dogma

Answer 48

（教會等的）教義，教理，教條；信條[C][U]

They rejected the dogma that the earth is the center of the universe. 他們不相信地球中心說。

Question 49

dogmatic (5)

Answer 49

1.教義的，教條的
2.武斷的；固執己見的
a dogmatic opinion 武斷的意見

Question 50

in the doldrums

Answer 50

不順利的；停滯的，沒有進展的
Her career was in the doldrums during those years.
那些年她的事業一直沒有什麼起色。