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Question 1

mawkish

Answer 1

mawkish​ADJ. /过分多愁善感；感情脆弱到令人作呕的/mushy and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; maudlin. Whenever Gigi and her boyfriend would sigh and get all lovey-dovey, her little brother would shout, “Yuck!” protesting their mawkish behavior.

Question 2

maxim

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maxim​N. /至理名言；格言/proverb; a truth pithily stated. Aesop’s fables illustrate moral maxims.

Question 3

meager

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meager​ADJ. /瘦的；贫乏的，不足的/scanty; inadequate. Still hungry after his meager serving of porridge, Oliver Twist asked for a second helping.

Question 4

meander

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meander​V. /弯曲；蜿蜒/wind or turn in its course. Needing to stay close to a source of water, he followed every twist and turn of the stream as it meandered through the countryside.

Question 5

meddlesome

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meddlesome​ADJ. /爱管闲事的；好事的；好插手的/interfering. He felt his marriage was suffering because of his meddlesome mother-in-law.

Question 6

medley

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medley​N. /混合/mixture. To avoid boring dancers by playing any one tune for too long, bands may combine three or four tunes into a medley.

Question 7

meek

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meek​ADJ. /谦卑的，驯服的；温和的；顺从的/quiet and obedient; spiritless. Can Lois Lane see through Superman’s disguise and spot the superhero hiding behind the guise of meek, timorous Clark Kent? Mr. Barrett never expected his meek daughter would dare to defy him by eloping with her suitor.

Question 8

mellifluous

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mellifluous​ADJ. /优美的；流畅的；蜜一样的/sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious. Italian is a mellifluous language, especially suited to being sung.

Question 9

memento

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memento​N. /有象征意义的物品；纪念品/token; reminder. Take this book as a memento of your visit.

Question 10

menagerie

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menagerie​N. /动物园/collection of wild animals. Whenever the children run wild around the house, Mom shouts, “Calm down! I’m not running a menagerie!”

Question 11

mendacious

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mendacious​ADJ. /撒谎成性的；撒谎的，假的/lying; habitually dishonest. Distrusting Huck from the start, Miss Watson assumed he was mendacious and refused to believe a word he said.

Question 12

mendicant

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mendicant​N. /乞丐/beggar. “O noble sir, give alms to the poor,” cried Aladdin, playing the mendicant.

Question 13

menial

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menial​ADJ. /仆人的；卑贱的/suitable for servants; lowly; mean. Her wicked stepmother forced Cinderella to do menial tasks around the house while her ugly stepsisters lolled around painting their toenails.

Question 14

mentor

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mentor​N. /门特；顾问；导师/teacher. During this very trying period, she could not have had a better mentor, for the teacher was sympathetic and understanding.

Question 15

mercenary

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mercenary​ADJ. /唯利是图/interested in money or gain. Andy’s every act was prompted by mercenary motives: his first question was always “What’s in it for me?”

Question 16

mercurial

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mercurial​ADJ. /善变的；无常的/capricious; changing; fickle. Quick as quicksilver to change, he was mercurial in nature and therefore unreliable.

Question 17

merger

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merger​N. /合并；吞并/combination (of two business corporations). When the firm’s president married the director of financial planning, the office joke was that it wasn’t a marriage, it was a merger.

Question 18

mesmerize

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mesmerize​V. /施催眠术/hypnotize. The incessant drone seemed to mesmerize him and place him in a trance.

Question 19

metallurgical

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metallurgical​ADJ. /冶金的/pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores. During the course of his metallurgical research, the scientist developed a steel alloy of tremendous strength.

Question 20

metamorphosis

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metamorphosis​N. /变形/change of form; major transformation. The metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in animal life. metamorphose,V.

Question 21

metaphysical

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metaphysical​ADJ. /形而上学的/pertaining to speculative philosophy. The modern poets have gone back to the fanciful poems of the metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century for many of their images. metaphysics, N.

Question 22

meticulous

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meticulous​ADJ. /小心翼翼的/excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous. Martha Stewart was a meticulous housekeeper, fussing about each and every detail that went into making up her perfect home.

Question 23

mettle

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mettle​N. /勇气；精神/courage; spirit. When challenged by the other horses in the race, the thoroughbred proved its mettle by its determination to hold the lead.

Question 24

miasma

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miasma ​N. /沼气；瘴气，毒气；天然气/swamp gas; heavy, vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence. The smog hung over Victorian London like a dark cloud; noisome, reeking of decay, it was a visible miasma.

Question 25

mimicry

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mimicry​N. /模仿/imitation. Her gift for mimicry was so great that her friends said that she should be in the theater.

Question 26

mincing

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mincing​ADJ. /装腔作势的/affectedly dainty. Yum-Yum walked across the stage with mincing steps.

Question 27

minuscule

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minuscule​ADJ. /极小的/extremely small. Why should I involve myself with a project with so minuscule a chance for success?

Question 28

minutiae

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minutiae​N. /细节；细微之处/petty details. She would have liked to ignore the minutiae of daily living.

Question 29

mirage

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mirage ​N. /曲解；海市蜃楼；虚影 /unreal reflection; optical illusion. The lost prospector was fooled by a mirage in the desert.

Question 30

mire

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mire​V. /陷入（泥塘）；麻烦缠身/entangle; stick in swampy ground. Their rear wheels became mired in mud. also N.

Question 31

mirth

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mirth​N. /欢笑/merriment; laughter. Sober Malvolio found Sir Toby’s mirth improper.

Question 32

misanthrope

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misanthrope​N. /厌恶人类的人；憎人者/one who hates mankind. In Gulliver’s Travels, Swift portrays an image of humanity as vile, degraded beasts; for this reason, various critics consider him a misanthrope.

Question 33

miscellany

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miscellany​N. /杂记/mixture of writings on various subjects. This is an interesting miscellany of nineteenth-century prose and poetry.

Question 34

mischance

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mischance​N. /霉运；不幸/ill luck. By mischance, he lost his week’s salary.

Question 35

misconstrue

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misconstrue​V. /曲解/interpret incorrectly; misjudge. She took the passage seriously rather than humorously because she misconstrued the author’s ironic tone.

Question 36

misdemeanor

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misdemeanor​N. /轻罪/minor crime. The culprit pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor rather than face trial for a felony.

Question 37

miserly

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miserly​ADJ. /吝啬的；贪婪的；坏的/stingy; mean. Transformed by his vision on Christmas Eve, mean old Scrooge ceased being miserly and became a generous, kind old man.

Question 38

misgivings

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misgivings​N. /担忧，疑虑/doubts. Hamlet described his misgivings to Horatio but decided to fence with Laertes despite his foreboding of evil.

Question 39

mishap

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mishap​N. /意外，灾难/accident. With a little care you could have avoided this mishap.

Question 40

misnomer

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misnomer ​N. /错误的名字；写错名字；用词不当/wrong name; incorrect designation. His tyrannical conduct proved to all that his nickname, King Eric the Just, was a misnomer.

Question 41

misrepresent

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misrepresent​V. /误传；有意制造误解/give a false or incorrect impression, often deliberately; serve unsatisfactorily as a representative. In his job application, Milton misrepresented his academic background; he was fired when his employers discovered the truth. The reformers accused Senator Gunbucks of misrepresenting his constituents and claimed he took bribes from the NRA.