List7Nov21

Question 1

bourgeois

Answer 1

bourgeois​ADJ. /中产阶级；平庸的/middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional. Technically, anyone who belongs to the middle class is bourgeois, but, given the word’s connotations, most people resent it if you call them that.

Question 2

brusque

Answer 2

brusque​ADJ. /唐图；直率；粗暴无礼/blunt; abrupt. Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob’s request with a curt “Not now!”?

Question 3

buccaneer

Answer 3

buccaneer​N. /海盗/pirate. At Disneyland the Pirates of the Caribbean sing a song about their lives as bloody buccaneers.

Question 4

bungalow

Answer 4

bungalow​N. /小平房/small cottage. Every summer we rent a bungalow on Cape Cod for our vacation home. The rent is high, the roof is low-it’s a basic bungalow.

Question 5

bungle

Answer 5

bungle​V. /搞砸/mismanage; blunder. Don’t botch this assignment, Bumstead; if you bungle the job, you’re fired!

Question 6

burlesque

Answer 6

burlesque​V. /作秀，滑稽/give an imitation that ridicules. In Spaceballs, Rick Moranis burlesques Darth Vader of Star Wars, outrageously parodying Vader’s stiff walk and hollow voice.