List 45 Flashcards
suborn
subornV. /教唆/persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury). In The Godfather, the mobsters used bribery and threats to suborn the witnesses against Don Michael Corleone.
subpoena
subpoenaN. /传票/writ summoning a witness to appear. The prosecutor’s office was ready to serve a subpoena on the reluctant witness. alsoV.
subservient
subservientADJ. /奴隶似的；奴性的/behaving like a slave; servile; obsequious. He was proud and dignified; he refused to be subservient to anyone.
subsidiary
subsidiaryADJ. /次要的；辅助的/subordinate; secondary. This information may be used as subsidiary evidence but is not sufficient by itself to prove your argument. also N.
subsidy
subsidyN. /政府的补助/direct financial aid by government, etc. Without this subsidy, American ship operators would not be able to compete in world markets.
subterfuge
subterfugeN. /借口；托辞/pretense; evasion. As soon as we realized that you had won our support by a subterfuge, we withdrew our endorsement of your candidacy.
succinct
succinctADJ. /简洁的；紧身的/brief; terse; compact. Don’t bore your audi ence with excess verbiage: be succinct.
succulent
succulentADJ. /多汁的/juicy; full of richness. To some people, Florida citrus fruits are more succulent than those from California. also N.
succumb
succumbV. /屈服；屈从；死/yield; give in; die. I succumb to temptation whenever I see chocolate.
suffragist
suffragistN. /扩大参政权；扩大妇女参政权/advocate of voting rights (for women). In recognition of her efforts to win the vote for women, Congress authorized coining a silver dollar honoring the suffragistSusan B. Anthony
sully
sullyV. /弄脏；玷污/tarnish; soil. He felt that it was beneath his dignity to sully his hands in such menial labor.
sultry
sultryADJ. /闷热的，酷热的；放荡的；粗暴的/sweltering. He could not adjust himself to the sultryclimate of the tropics.
sumptuous
sumptuousADJ. /奢侈的；华丽的/lavish; rich. I cannot recall when I have had such a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast.
sunder
sunderV. /分裂/separate; part. Northern and southern Ireland are politically and religiously sundered.
supercilious
superciliousADJ. /自大的；傲慢的/arrogant; condescending; patronizing. The supercilious headwaiter sneered at customers whom he thought did not fit in at a restaurant catering to an ultrafashionable crowd.
superimpose
superimposeV. /添加/place over something else. Your attempt to superimpose another agency in this field will merely increase the bureaucratic nature of our government.
supersede
supersedeV. /取代；推迟/cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete. The new bulk mailing postal regulation supersedes the old one. If you continue to follow the old regulation, your bulk mailing will be returned to you.
supplant
supplantV. /篡位；取代/replace; usurp. Bolingbroke, later to be known as King Henry IV, fought to supplant his cousin, Richard III, as King of England.
supple
suppleADJ. /柔顺的；顺从的；柔韧的/flexible; pliant. Years of yoga exercises made Grace’s body supple.
supplicate
supplicateV. /恳求；祈祷/petition humbly; pray to grant a favor. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.
supplicate
supplicateV. /恳求；祈祷/petition humbly; pray to grant a favor. We supplicate Your Majesty to grant him amnesty.
surfeit
surfeitV. /饮食过度；恶心/satiate; stuff; indulge to excess in anything. Every Thanksgiving we are surfeited with an overabundance of holiday treats. also N.
surly
surlyADJ. /粗暴的；阴沉的；板着脸的；无礼的/rude; cross. Because of his surly attitude, many people avoided his company.
surmise
surmiseV. /猜测/guess. I surmise that he will be late for this meeting. also N.
surreptitious
surreptitiousADJ. /暗中的；秘密的/secret; furtive; sneaky; hidden. Hoping to discover where his mom had hidden the Christmas presents, Timmy took a surreptitious peek into the master bedroom closet.
surrogate
surrogateN. /代理；代替/substitute. For a fatherless child, a male teacher may become a father surrogate.
surveillance
surveillanceN. /监视；监督/watching; guarding. The FBI kept the house under constant surveillance in the hope of capturing all the criminals at one time,
sustenance
sustenanceN. /食物；生计/means of support, food, nourishment. In the tropics, the natives find sustenance easy to obtain, due to all the fruit trees.
suture
sutureN. /缝合；缝合处/stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing. We will remove the sutures as soon as the wound heals. alsoV.
swagger
swaggerV. /大摇大摆；自大/behave arrogantly or pompously; strut or walk proudly. The conquering hero didn’t simply stride down the street; he swaggered. also N.
swarthy
swarthyADJ. /暗的；有雾的/dark; dusky. Despite the stereotypes, not all Italians are swarthy, many are fair and blond.
swathe
swatheV. /包装物；绷带/wrap around; bandage. When I visited him in the hospital, I found him swathed in bandages.
swelter
swelterV. /闷热；中暑/be oppressed by heat. I am going to buy an air conditioning unit for my apartment as I do not intend to swelter through another hot and humid summer.
swerve
swerveV. /转向；突然转向/deviate; turn aside sharply. The car swerved wildly as the driver struggled to regain control of the wheel.
swill
swillV. /痛饮/drink greedily. Singing “Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum,” Long John Silver and his fellow pirates swilled their grog.
swindler
swindlerN. /骗子/cheat. She was gullible and trusting, an easy victim for the first swindler who came along.
sybarite
sybariteN. /纵情逸乐之徒/lover of luxury. Rich people are not always sybarites; some of them have little taste for a life of luxury.
sycophant
sycophantN. /马屁精；阿谀奉承者/servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man. Fed up with the toadies and flunkies who made up his entourage, the star cried, “Get out, all of you! I’m sick of sycophants!” sycophancy, N.
tacit
tacitADJ. /默许的；会意的/understood; not put into words. We have a tacit agreement based on only a handshake.
taciturn
taciturnADJ. /沉默寡言的/habitually silent; talking little. The stereotypical cowboy is a taciturn soul, answering lengthy questions with a “Yep” or “Nope.”
taint
taintV. /污染，感染；污点/contaminate; cause to lose purity; modify with a trace of something bad. One speck of dirt on your utensils may contain enough germs to taint an entire batch of preserves.
talisman
talismanN. /护身符；避邪物/charm to bring good luck and avert misfortune. Joe believed the carved pendant he found in Vietnam served him as a talisman and brought him safely through the war.
talon
talonN. /鸟爪/claw of bird. The falconer wore a leather gauntlet to avoid being clawed by the hawk’s talons.
tanner
tannerN. /皮革工人；6便士/person who turns animal hides into leather. Using a solution of tanbark, the tannertreated the cowhide, transforming it into supple leather.
tantamount
tantamountADJ. /同等的/equivalent in effect or value. Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.
