Unit 23

Question 1

Serpentine

Answer 1

弯曲

Serpentine road

Question 2

Self-defeating

Answer 2

适得其反的，自我拆台的

A self-defeating strategy

Question 3

Serried

Answer 3

密集

In their serried ranks

Question 4

Servile

Answer 4

低下的，卑屈的

Maintained a servile attitude

Question 5

Stale

Answer 5

陈旧乏味

Sticking to stale ideas

Question 6

Sham

Answer 6

1 掩饰，假装

Sham a most unconvincing limp

Question 7

Shiftless

Answer 7

胸无大志，懒惰的

Shiftless spongers

Question 8

Shirk

Answer 8

逃避，规避

shirk one’s duty

Question 9

shoal

Answer 9

浅的

shoal waters

Question 10

shopworn

Answer 10

陈旧的

the shopworn suggetion

Question 11

shred

Answer 11

少量

a shred of his dignity

Question 12

shrewd

Answer 12

精明的

He’s shrewed about his investments

Question 13

shroud

Answer 13

将…从视线中隔离，遮蔽

shroud the fact

Question 14

shun

Answer 14

避开，避免

being shunned by many of his former friends

Question 15

simpleton

Answer 15

(缺乏常识的）笨蛋

a reputation as a simpletion

Question 16

sensuality

Answer 16

感官享乐

the true sentuality of sushi

Question 17

sinew

Answer 17

活力，力量

Money is the sinew of love as well as fear

Question 18

singe

Answer 18

轻微烧焦

singe the nightdress

Question 19

sinuous

Answer 19

蜿蜒的，迂回的

the river flowed in a sinuous path

Question 20

snag

Answer 20

障碍

Hit a snag

Question 21

sacrosanct

Answer 21

极为神圣的，不可侵犯的

freedom of the press is sacrosanct

Question 22

skimp

Answer 22

缺乏，不足的

skimp meals

Question 23

scruple

Answer 23

(良心上的）不安

students had few scruples about cheating on papers or exams

Question 24

slake

Answer 24

使满足

slaked my desire

Question 25

slant

Answer 25

1 (看待问题、思考的）角度、看法 an interesting slant on the problem 2倾斜的 a slightly slant

Question 26

slate

Answer 26

列入名单，计划 | You have been slated for a three o'clock interview

Question 27

slew

Answer 27

大量，许多 | a slew of books

Question 28

slipshod

Answer 28

粗心的，随意的 | a slipshod piece of research

Question 29

slouch

Answer 29

缓慢行走 | he slouched towards the church

Question 30

slovenly

Answer 30

邋遢的，不整洁的 | slovenly rockers

Question 31

slumber

Answer 31

睡着 | she slumbered for hours

Question 32

slur

Answer 32

1 耻辱 cast a slur on this family 2 疏忽，忽略 slurs over certain importants facts

Question 33

sly

Answer 33

狡猾的 | a sly, dissembling ex-con

Question 34

smarmy

Answer 34

虚情假意的，过分恭维的 | smarmy commendation

Question 35

skullduggery

Answer 35

欺诈，诡计 | intrigue and political skullduggery

Question 36

smattering

Answer 36

少量 | a smattering of spectstors

Question 37

smother

Answer 37

抑制（表达、说出），压制 | smothered his inappropriate laughter

Question 38

snare

Answer 38

1无法逃脱的困境 a snare from which you can't escape 2捕捉 snared a rabbit

Question 39

snarl

Answer 39

纠缠，纠结 | snarl your fishing line

Question 40

snub

Answer 40

轻视，不理睬 | snub her in public

Question 41

sober

Answer 41

1严肃的 she made a sober reply 2节制的 live a sober life

Question 42

sodden

Answer 42

湿透的 | we stripped off our sodden clothes

Question 43

solace

Answer 43

安慰 | bring a little solace to the grieving widow

Question 44

solder

Answer 44

连接，联合 | wires are soldered onto the circuit board

Question 45

solvent

Answer 45

1有偿付能力的 the company is now solvent 2溶剂 organic solvents

Question 46

somatic

Answer 46

肉体的 | a somatic disorder...

Question 47

somber

Answer 47

悲伤的，不愉快的 | her death put us in a somber mood

Question 48

somnolence

Answer 48

嗜睡，瞌睡 | the reader's somnolence spells their indifference

Question 49

slapdash

Answer 49

马虎的 | a slapdash worker

Question 50

sop

Answer 50

1安慰物 provide with the salary raise as a sop 2浸湿 a thorougly sopped book

Question 51

sophism

Answer 51

假推理，诡辩 | political selection is more dependent on sophism

Question 52

soporific

Answer 52

催眠的药剂 | alcohol is a poor soporific

Question 53

spat

Answer 53

(小的）争吵 | they have their spats

Question 54

spate

Answer 54

大量 | a spate of books about GRE

Question 55

specious

Answer 55

似是而非的，欺骗性的 | a specious argument

Question 56

spendthrift

Answer 56

挥霍者，败家子 | spendthrift consumers