Maybe Tomorrow

Question 1

Prod

Answer 1

(verb)
1. to push something or someone with your finger or with a pointed object:
I prodded her in the back to get her attention.
She prodded the cake with her fork to see if it was cooked.
2. to encourage someone to take action, especially when they are being slow or unwilling:
He gets things done, but only after I’ve prodded him into doing them.

(noun)
1. encouragement to do something:
She hasn’t ordered that book for me yet - I must give her a prod.

Question 2

Flit

Answer 2

(verb)
1. To fly or move quickly and lightly:
In the fading light we saw bats flitting around in the garden.
figurative: She’s always flitting from one thing to another (= changing her activities).

Question 3

Swoops

Answer 3

(verb)
1. to move very quickly and easily through the air, especially down from a high position in order to attack:
The eagle swooped down to snatch a young rabbit.
俯冲

Question 4

Perch

Answer 4

(verb)
1. to sit on or near the edge of something:
We perched on bar stools and had a beer.
A blackbird was perching on the gate

(n)
河鱸/
栖息处

Question 5

Flop

Answer 5

(verb)
1. sit or lie down heavily and suddenly, especially when very tired:
Liz flopped down into the armchair.
2. If a book, play, film, etc. flops, it is not successful：
Her first book flopped, but her second became a bestseller.

(noun)
1. a failure：
The play was a complete/total flop
2. Fall; an occasion when someone or something falls or drops heavily:
He fell with a flop on the bed

Question 6

Flail

Answer 6

(verb)
1. (especially of arms and legs) to move energetically in an uncontrolled way:
A wasp came toward us and Howard started flailing his arms around.
She ran from the house in a terrible rage, her arms flailing in the air.

Question 7

Wagon

Answer 7

(noun)
四輪貨運馬車, 兒童玩具手推車, （火車的）貨運車廂

Question 8

Slime

Answer 8

(noun)
a sticky liquid substance that is unpleasant to touch, such as the liquid produced by fish and snails, or the greenish-brown substance found near water:

There was revolting green slime in between the bathroom tiles.

Question 9

prance

Answer 9

(verb)
1. to walk in an energetic way and with more movement than necessary:
She pranced into the office and demanded to speak to the manager.
2. to walk or dance in an energetic way, with high, kicking steps:
In the square dance, each couple took turns prancing together under the linked arms of the other couples
3. When a horse prances, it takes small, quick steps and raises its legs higher than usual.

Question 10

Hexagon

Answer 10

六角型

Question 11

Exquisitely

Answer 11

(adj) = beautifully 精致地
1. in a very beautiful and delicate way:
Their house is exquisitely furnished
(adv) = sharply 強烈地
2. in a way that is very extreme:
an exquisitely painful disease

Question 12

perilous

Answer 12

(adj)
extremely dangerous:
The country roads are quite perilous.

Question 13

trove

Answer 13

(noun）寶藏，珍藏
1. a large amount of something good, useful, or valuable, or a place where this can be found:
- The college holds a vast trove of documents relating to the politician.
- One of the largest troves of consumer data is kept by a Colorado market research firm.

Question 14

exhilarating

Answer 14

(adj)
1. making you feel very excited and happy:
an exhilarating walk in the mountains
2. An exhilarating sense of new beginnings swept through him.

Question 15

menagerie

Answer 15

(noun)
a collection of wild animals that are kept privately or to show to the public
Zoo is a type of menagerie

Question 16

daredevil

Answer 16

(noun)
a person who does dangerous things and takes risks:
Those with a more daredevil mentality would be tempted into more dangerous drugs just for the added thrill of trying something illegal.

Question 17

glacier

Answer 17

(noun)
a large mass of ice that moves slowly

Question 18

ingenious

Answer 18

(adj)

(of a person) very intelligent and skilful, or (of a thing) skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods:
an ingenious idea/method/solution
Johnny is so ingenious - he can make the most remarkable sculptures from the most ordinary materials.

Question 19

iguanas

Answer 19

美洲蜥蜴

Question 20

incognito

Answer 20

(adv)
avoiding being recognized, by changing your name or appearance:
The prince often travelled abroad incognito.
匿名

Question 21

lumberjack

Answer 21

(noun)
(especially in the US and Canada) a person whose job is to cut down trees that will be used for building, etc. or to transport trees that have been cut down
Synonyms
Logger

Question 22

lousy

Answer 22

(adj)
very bad:
lousy food/service
a lousy book
I had a lousy weekend.
I feel lousy - I’m going home.
What lousy luck, you might think.

Question 23

moose

Answer 23

(noun)
=elk 驼鹿

Question 24

enigma

Answer 24

(noun)
something that is mysterious and seems impossible to understand completely:
She is something of an enigma.
The newspapers were full of stories about the enigma of the plane’s disappearance.
謎

Question 25

parsnips

Answer 25

(noun)
歐洲防風草，歐洲蘿蔔

Question 26

daft

Answer 26

(adj)
silly or stupid:
You daft idiot!
It was a pretty daft idea anyway.
Don’t be daft - let me pay - you paid last time.

Question 27

plunge

Answer 27

(verb)
to (cause someone or something to) move or fall suddenly and often a long way forward, down, or into something:
We ran down to the beach and plunged into the sea.
The car went out of control and plunged over the cliff.
Cook the peas by plunging them into boiling water.

Question 28

retreated

Answer 28

(verb)
to go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger:
Attacks by enemy aircraft forced the tanks to retreat (from the city).
When she came towards me shouting, I retreated (behind my desk).

Question 29

whisk

Answer 29

(verb)
to take something or someone somewhere else suddenly and quickly:
Our coffees were whisked away before we’d even finished them.
We only had half an hour to see her before she was whisked off to some exotic location.
Her husband whisked her off to Egypt for her birthday.
(noun) 攪拌器

Question 30

yeti

Answer 30

(noun)
a big creature like a human covered in hair that is believed by some people to live in the Himalayas

Question 31

yak

Answer 31

(noun)
a type of cattle with long hair and long horns, found mainly in Tibet （西藏）
牦牛

Question 32

zeppelin

Answer 32

(noun)
齊柏林飛艇（一種無翼的大型飛行器）

Question 33

debut

Answer 33

(noun)
the occasion when someone performs or presents something to the public for the first time:
She made her professional stage debut in Swan Lake.
He started as an actor, making his debut as a director in 1990.
her debut (= first) album
首演

Question 34

acclaimed

Answer 34

(noun)
public approval and praise:
Despite the critical acclaim, the novel did not sell well.
Hamlet was played by Ion Caramitrou to rapturous acclaim.

Question 35

sculpture

Answer 35

(noun)

雕塑

Question 36

Exotic

Answer 36

(adj)
unusual and exciting because of coming (or seeming to come) from far away, especially a tropical country:
exotic flowers/food/designs
異國風情

Question 37

Abominable

Answer 37

(adj)
very bad or unpleasant:
The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
The weather’s been abominable all week.

Question 38

Wasp

Answer 38

(noun)
黃峰

Question 39

Wrestling

Answer 39

(noun)
a sport in which two people fight and try to throw each other to the ground
摔角

Question 40

Frilly

Answer 40

(adj)
with a lot of frills (a long, narrow strip of cloth with folds along one side that is sewn along the edge of a piece of clothing or material for decoration):
a baby in a white frilly dress

Question 41

Hunker

Question 42

Cape

Question 43

Wiry tangle of branches and leaves

Question 44

Creep

Answer 44

Crept through

Question 45

carpenter

Question 46

puppet

Question 47

Raucous

Question 48

ghoulish

Question 49

ghastly

Question 50

brawl

Question 51

ducked

Question 52

Crank

Question 53

Frills

Answer 53

(noun)

extra things that are added to something to make it more pleasant or more attractive, but that are not necessary:
a cheap airline, with no frills
a basic computer with few frills
A little money spent right can do more than a lot of money spent on frills and gimmicks.

Question 54

twitch

Question 55

provocation

Question 56

Epic

Question 57

Shone

Question 58

Samovar

Question 59

Sack

Question 60

Void

Question 61

Yarn

Question 62

cranky

Question 63

Provocative