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time的单词打卡学习 accustomed 习惯于 同义祠：used 反义词：unaccustomd例句：Even if they are willing to make the sacrifice in dollers,whether Americans will give
up long accustomed personal liberties is another question
即使美国人愿意在金钱上牺牲，但是否愿意弃久已习以为常的个人自由，还有未定之数。
affluent 富裕的 同义词：prosperous wealthy 反义词：poor
例句：Leeson and his wife Lisa nerver really seemed to fit into the affluent,neo-colonial life
life-style of Singapore or into the city's multiethnic so-ciety
李森及其妻子丽萨似乎与新加坡富裕的新殖民生活方式一直格格不入，也似乎一直未能融入新加坡的
多种族社会。
ambiguous 模棱两可，暧昧 同义词：vague 反义词：obvious clear
例句：Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous,and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush
didn't say."No" straight out.
杜鲁门惹了个朝鲜战争，因为他的立场不明确而萨达姆占领科威特，是因为布什没能直接了当地说不
straight out 直接地
anonymous 匿名的 反义词：known named
例句：So he went on his own fact-finding mission,learing heavily on a 49-page whit paper submitted
last month by three anonymous high-teach firms.
所以他继续其真相调查工作，埋头审阅一份厚达49页的白皮书，这份白皮书是上个月由3家匿名的高科技
公司提出的。
appropriate 适宜的 反义词：inappropriate
例句：So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels may not be appropriate for younger wo
men who have not yet entered menopause.
因此，对于还未停经的妇女而言，任何足以溶解于新生血管的蛋白质或许都不是不适宜的。
at shake 危急关头的 同义词：at risk
例句：At a news conference ,(U.S.Undersecretary of Defense)Perry declared that the credibility
of the international community(NATO)
在记者招待会上，（美国国防部副部长）佩里宣称，北约这个国际组织正面临信任危机。
available 可取得的，可见面的，参加
例句：Most of the (smart)cards available in Atlanta will be worth between $10 and %50 and will
be usable instead of cash at as many as 5000 "points of purchase" througout the city
于亚特兰大出售的IC卡大部分值10~50美元，可以在全市多达5000个"商业网点"充当货币使用
bear （股市）看跌的，熊市的
例句：Meaniwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don't last.
同时，那些对股市看跌的专家，也不再坚持自己的看法。 bilateral 双边的
例句：He would halt bilateral contact with North Korea until Pyongyang resumed negotiation
with South Korea.
在平壤恢复与韩国谈判之前，他不会与朝鲜进行双边接触。
bland 平淡无奇的
例句：As a result news coverage tends to be bland.
结果新闻报道往往平淡无味。
blunt 直言不讳的
例句：Clintion's summation was startlingly blunt "It is better to have reached no agreement
(on Japan's opening its domestic market ) than to have reached an empty agreement.
最后克林顿语惊四座，直言不讳地总结说：“在日本开放其国内市场这个议题上）与其获得形同一纸
空文的协议，不如不要协议。
bull (股市)看涨的，牛市的
例句：The bull market will end--but when is the question.
牛市将会结束，问题是何时结束。
burgeoning 正快速发展的
例句：Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industly, which
uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting
drugs.
基因信息时目前正快速发展的生物科技工业的原料；为此利用人类DNA制造特化蛋白质。而这些蛋白质
或许可作为治病药物之用。
coherent 前后连贯的，有条理的 反义词：muddled incoherent
例句：Curry...impressed Clintion with his ability to fashion a coherent policy message that
synthesized the often conflicting interests of the party's traditional and moderate wings.
科里就是有这个本事，能够把党内保守派、温和派往往都各不相让的利益结合在一起，做出一份有条有理
的政策报告，令克林顿大为赞赏。
comprehensive 包罗广泛，全面的 同义词：complete 反义词：partial
例句：Grove delivered a sharp,comprehensive report. His bosses were impressed.
格罗夫呈递一份深入、周详的报告，令老板们影响深刻。
compulsory 义务的 同义词：mandatory
例句：In 1919 while serving a compulsory stint in the military , Nurmi entered a 20-k marth
carrying a rifle , a cartidge belt and a knapasck filled with 5 kg of sand.
1919年，当他在军中服义务役的时候，努尔米带着一支步枪，腰上系者弹带，背上背着装有5公斤
沙子的背包参加20公里行军。
conciliatory 有和解之意的
例句：The exeutive director of the Christaian Coalition told a prominent Jewish audience , in
a conciliatory speech, that calling the U.S. a "Christaian nation" is wrong...
在一场有意化解对立的演讲中，基督教联盟执行主席告诉台下那群犹太名流说，将美国做“基督教国家
是不对的。
conscious 意识到。。。的 同义词：aware
例句：Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially-conscious poetry
by former President Jimmy Carter.
时代图书公司最近宣布，将出版一本由前总统卡特所写的社会关怀的诗集
conventional 传统的，一般的 同义词：traditional 反义词：unconventional
例句：The voice-recognition technology will not be on conventional desktop computers only;
it will be available in any sort of electronic information processing device.
语音识别技术不仅将运用于一般的台式电脑，任何电子信息处理装置都用得上。
critical 重大的，居关键地位 同义词：crucial
例句：We have only the foggiest idea, the independent daily Segodnya complain last week,
who is actually at the helm in this country , who is making the critical decision.
立场独立的《塞噶尼亚日报》上周抱怨说：谁是真正的国家领导者？谁做出重大决策。我们所知
甚少。
foggy 模糊的，朦胧的
crucial 关键的 同义词：critical
例句：Understanding social cues, creating works of art and spawning inventions are all crucial
mental tasks that bear little relationship to how well a person can fill in a printed
test from.
许多重要的心智活动，像理解一些社交上的暗示创造艺术品，孕育新发明，其实都和填写考卷的能力
没什么关系。
cunning 狡猾的，精明的 同义词：crafty
例句：Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent
them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast.
迪士尼公司最精明的盘算，或许就是将童话故事搬上大众舞台，且将其改头换面，成为公司资产
耗资10亿美元拍成的美女与野兽就是个例子。
dazzling 令人目眩神移的 同义词：stunning
例句：With computers doubling in spend and power every couple of year, and with genetic engineering's
dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technology progress
has been growing stronger and giddier of late.
随着电脑的速度与功能每两年就增加一倍，基因工程领域中惊人的成就变得司空见惯，美国人在科技发展
方面备受打击的信心，近年来已逐渐增强，并有异常乐观的趋势。
dedicated 专注的
例句：In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to maintain unfettered access by jumping borders
and dialing services in neighboring Malaysia.
新加坡的网络迷正计划跨越国界，使用领国马来西亚的拨号服务，以确保网络上的自由使用权。
desperate 迫切的
例句：Bereft of patrons, desperate to resue his economy, Fidel Castro truns to an unusual solution;
由于资助断绝，而又急于挽救该国经济，卡斯特罗转而求助于一项罕见的解救之道。
determined 坚定的
例句：Author Joe Kane came across a determined priest , a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of
hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to surview outside their rainforest habitat
作家乔-卡内遇到一名性格坚毅的西班牙籍教士，这名教士花了好几年时间交给华欧拉尼族人离开
世居的雨林区之后的生存之道。华欧拉尼族以狩猎采集为生。
disabled 残障的 同义词：handicapped
例句：Seven years ago, Dole spoke about the need to "provide care and assistance for the hungry and the homeless
and the disabled." Nothing resembling that was heard last week.
七年前，多尔谈到有必要“为饥民、游民、残疾人提供照顾与援助”，这样的话上个星期不再听到。
disastrous 灾情惨重 同义词：terrible
例句：The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous.
神户地震的规模仅稍大于诺斯利奇地震，造成的灾情却严重得多。
distinct 不易混淆的，独特的
例句：Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient origin.
许多科学家认为（南非）克瓦桑族是一支独特的民族，渊源非常久远。
dominant 主宰的，强势的 同义词：pre-eminent
例句：Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable
solution.
现在的情况和当时相同，没有萨姆达-侯赛因的伊拉克会四分五裂，波斯湾就只剩伊朗称霸，这种解决方案令人无法接受。
doomed 注定的，命定的
例句：He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular
wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall.
他一开始就领先，这是理所当然的事，但让一般人不解的是，他此后一直保持领先，因为一般人都认为
刚开始当选希望最大的人最后必定会败下阵来。
wisdom 看法；front runner 比赛中最有可能夺标的人。
At the begining of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler's followers that his
"Thousand Year Reich" was doomed.
1945年5月初，即使是希特勒嘴狂热的支持者，也都明白“千年帝国”已是在劫难逃。
drastic 剧烈的 同义词：radical
例句：This New Deal welfare safety net installed in the 1930s and augmented in the Great Society programs of the1960s has
been hauled off for the kind of drastic restitching that France, Germmany, Italy and Sweden have been laboring
over for the past year or more.
“新政”在1930年代大张社会福利安全网，到了1960年代又因“伟大社会”的各项计划而更为扩大，如今这张安全网
已经取下，准备打死缝补，就像一年多来法国、德国、意大利、于瑞典这些国家大费周章所做的修补一样。
augmented 扩大，加强；to haul off 撇下；restitching重新修补
eccentric 特立独行 同义词：odd
例句：The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil sparks rush to see where
it all took place.
这本风格特异、根据真人实事改编的畅销书《年夜的善恶花园》激起一股人潮，涌向故事的发生地一探究竟。
elevated 崇高的
例句：It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of Americian leadership was
a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark
an elevated EQ.
然而，结果是，并非每个攀登到美国最高领导层的人都是具有自觉、有同情心，能克制冲动及其他高情商
特质的闪光典范。
elite 精英的，最优秀的
例句：Ideally, the U.N. should have a small, elite, standing rapid-deployment force...trained and
ready to go at once to a trouble spot that the Security Council has decided to become involved in.
理想的做法是联合国建立一支短小精悍、训练有素、常备不懈的快速反应部队，一旦某地发生动乱，而安理会
决定干预，即可派上用场。
enduring 持久的
例句：The plain, undecorated object, representing the enduring role art has played throughout China's
history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last
week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of art .
这件朴实、毫无雕琢的物品代表着艺术在中国历史上扮演的历久不衰的角色。上周在纽约大都会艺术博物馆
开幕的“中国帝王瑰宝展” 盛展中，这件物品展示在最主要的位置。
explicit 明白的，直言的
例句：But they won't be able to filter the Internet. They're explicit about that.
但是他们无法滤到国际互联网，这点他们已明白表示。
exquisite 精巧的
例句：The show also includes an exquisite Seurat seascape, some notable Cezannes and comsiderable
paintings by Courbet, Gauguin, VanGogh and others.
这次展出的作品，包括一副修拉的出色海景画，数幅塞尚名画，及库贝尔、高更、梵高等人的不少画作。
extravagant 奢侈的，挥霍的
例句：Could this fate befall James Gameron, Hollwood's most daring and extravagant auteur.
这个厄运有可能降临詹姆斯-卡梅伦这位好莱坞最大胆、最敢花钱的大导演身上吗？
fantastic 极大的，难以置信的
例句：Because of its fantastic capacity to see all posible combinations some distance into the future,
the machina(Deep Blue), once it determines that its own position is safe, can take the kind of
attacking chances no human would.
“深蓝“ 电脑因为具有预见未来所有可能组合的惊人能力，一旦认定自己的位置安全，便敢冒着人类不敢
冒的风险而进攻。
ferocious 凶猛的
例句：This puts Clinton in something of a no-winsituation：he is unlikely to gain much ferocious flak
if it fails.
紧急贷款如果成功，克林顿不会因此博得美名；如果失败，则会遭到猛烈的抨击；由此看来，克林顿有些
像是两头不讨好。
flamboyant 显眼的
例句：He is probably the least flamboyant of the Republican contenders.
共和党个角逐者中，他大概是最不受瞩目的。
fledgling 初出茅庐，羽毛刚丰
例句：Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes
as mesomorphs -- physically robust, psyshologically assertive -- and ectomorphs -- skinny, nervous, shy.
本世纪初，在行为遗传学方面的一项初步研究将人分为运动型体格（身体壮硕，好坚持已见）以及清瘦型体格
（身体瘦削，神经紧张，好害羞）。
fluid 流动的，变化不定的 同义词：changeable
例句：Information... is now too fluid to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, through microwave
relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, modems.
今日的资讯流动性太大， 已经不可能管制。资讯传送方式很多，可以经由空中、卫星、微波转接，也可以
通过移动电话、传真机、电视、收音机、传呼机于调制解调器。
formidable 敌人难对付的， 工作艰难的
例句："Perot as kingmaker, " he says tactfully, "is a more formidable preposition than Perot as candidate."
他委婉地说道：‘佩罗替人抬轿助选， 要比他自己出来参选更难缠。’
fragile 情势-脆弱的
例句：A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world... No matter how good your product,
you are only 18 months away from failure.
世界上最不可靠的，莫过于来自特许经营权的收入。产品再好，也只有18个月免于淘汰的安全期。
futile 徒劳无功的 同义词：pointless
例句：Indeed, for all the world's governments, ... attempts to control the global flow of electro-information are
not only futile but counter productive as well.
试图控制电子资讯的全球流动，不仅枉然而且会带来副作用，对世界各国政府而言，这是毋庸置疑的事。
genuine 真的，真诚的 同义词：real sincere 反义词：fake
例句：It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens
manages.
把弃妇描写得令人由衷生起恻隐之心，不是件易事，但史蒂夫斯做到了。
hefty 重大的，猛烈的
例句：Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; this time next year he could be in any of three
hefty action films.
周润发正设法到好莱坞摘星，明年此时，他可能已在拍3部火爆动作片中的一部。
hostile 带敌意的 同义词：antagonistic 反义词：receptive
例句：Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cuba has no professional league to cream off its top talent
and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migrating to the U.S.major leagues.
古巴于大部分棒球国家不同，他没有职业棒球联盟，所以不愁顶尖高手被挖角。他与华盛顿交恶，所以
棒球精英也不会移民去打美国甲级联盟
immense 巨大而 同义词：enormous
例句：His influence in the 1980s was so immense that Taiwanese distributors once asked a Hong Kong
director if there was a role in a film for Chow Yun-fat, and if there wasn't , they requested
that one be written in before they'd commit to a deal.
周润发在80年代的影响力非常大，过去台湾的片商曾问香港导演，某部电影中有没有周润发的角色，如果没有
，他们要求替他写一个角色进去，否则生意免谈。
imminent 迫近的，即将发生的
例句：The time will come when the U.S will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable
, but it is not imminent.
美国终有一日会衰退成众多强权中的一员。那是必然的，可是却不会很快来临。
inaugural 就职的
例句：Afterthe oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach .out to all Americans, to rally
the nation to work together for a great common future.
宣誓后，他发表了以全体美国人为对象的就职演说，呼吁全体国民团结起来，为大家伟大的未来一起努力。
fluid 流动的，变化不定的 同义词：changeable
例句：Information... is now too fluid to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, through microwave
relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, modems.
今日的资讯流动性太大， 已经不可能管制。资讯传送方式很多，可以经由空中、卫星、微波转接，也可以
通过移动电话、传真机、电视、收音机、传呼机于调制解调器。
formidable 敌人难对付的， 工作艰难的
例句："Perot as kingmaker, " he says tactfully, "is a more formidable preposition than Perot as candidate."
他委婉地说道：‘佩罗替人抬轿助选， 要比他自己出来参选更难缠。’
fragile 情势-脆弱的
例句：A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world... No matter how good your product,
you are only 18 months away from failure.
世界上最不可靠的，莫过于来自特许经营权的收入。产品再好，也只有18个月免于淘汰的安全期。
futile 徒劳无功的 同义词：pointless
例句：Indeed, for all the world's governments, ... attempts to control the global flow of electro-information are
not only futile but counter productive as well.
试图控制电子资讯的全球流动，不仅枉然而且会带来副作用，对世界各国政府而言，这是毋庸置疑的事。
genuine 真的，真诚的 同义词：real sincere 反义词：fake
例句：It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens
manages.
把弃妇描写得令人由衷生起恻隐之心，不是件易事，但史蒂夫斯做到了。
hefty 重大的，猛烈的
例句：Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; this time next year he could be in any of three
hefty action films.
周润发正设法到好莱坞摘星，明年此时，他可能已在拍3部火爆动作片中的一部。
hostile 带敌意的 同义词：antagonistic 反义词：receptive
例句：Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cuba has no professional league to cream off its top talent
and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migrating to the U.S.major leagues.
古巴于大部分棒球国家不同，他没有职业棒球联盟，所以不愁顶尖高手被挖角。他与华盛顿交恶，所以
棒球精英也不会移民去打美国甲级联盟
immense 巨大而 同义词：enormous
例句：His influence in the 1980s was so immense that Taiwanese distributors once asked a Hong Kong
director if there was a role in a film for Chow Yun-fat, and if there wasn't , they requested
that one be written in before they'd commit to a deal.
周润发在80年代的影响力非常大，过去台湾的片商曾问香港导演，某部电影中有没有周润发的角色，如果没有
，他们要求替他写一个角色进去，否则生意免谈。
imminent 迫近的，即将发生的
例句：The time will come when the U.S will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable
, but it is not imminent.
美国终有一日会衰退成众多强权中的一员。那是必然的，可是却不会很快来临。
inaugural 就职的
例句：Afterthe oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach .out to all Americans, to rally
the nation to work together for a great common future.
宣誓后，他发表了以全体美国人为对象的就职演说，呼吁全体国民团结起来，为大家伟大的未来一起努力。
fluid 流动的，变化不定的 同义词：changeable
例句：Informaton... is now too fluid to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, throhgh microwwave
relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, modems.
今日的资讯流动性太大， 已经不可能管制。资讯传送方式很多，可以经由空中、卫星、微波转接，也可以
通过移动电话、传真机、电视、收音机、传呼机于调制解调器。
formidable 敌人难对付的， 工作艰难的
例句："Perot as kingmaker, " he says tactfully, "is a more formidable preposition than Perot as candidate."
他委婉地说道：‘佩罗替人抬轿助选， 要比他自己出来参选更难缠。’
fragile 情势-脆弱的
例句：A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world... No matter how good your product,
you are only 18 months away from failure.
世界上最不可靠的，莫过于来自特许经营权的收入。产品再好，也只有18个月免于淘汰的安全期。
futile 徒劳无功的 同义词：pointless
例句：Indeed, for all the world's governments, ... attempts to control the global flow of electro-information are
not only futile but counter productive as well.
试图控制电子资讯的全球流动，不仅枉然而且会带来副作用，对世界各国政府而言，这是毋庸置疑的事。
genuine 真的，真诚的 同义词：real sincere 反义词：fake
例句：It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Stevens
manages.
把弃妇描写得令人由衷生起恻隐之心，不是件易事，但史蒂夫斯做到了。
hefty 重大的，猛烈的
例句：Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; this time next year he could be in any of three
hefty action films.
周润发正设法到好莱坞摘星，明年此时，他可能已在拍3部火爆动作片中的一部。
hostile 带敌意的 同义词：antaagonistic 反义词：receptive
例句：Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cubahas no professional league to cream off its top talent
and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migrating to the U.S.major leagues.
古巴于大部分棒球国家不同，他没有职业棒球联盟，所以不愁顶尖高手被挖角。他与华盛顿交恶，所以
棒球精英也不会移民去打美国甲级联盟
immense 巨大而 同义词：enormous
例句：His influnce in the 1980s was so immense that Taiwanese distributors once asked a Hong Kong
director if there was a role in a film for Chow Yun-fat, and if there wasn't , they requested
that one be written in before they'd commit to a deal.
周润发在80年代的影响力非常大，过去台湾的片商曾问香港导演，某部电影中有没有周润发的角色，如果没有
，他们要求替他写一个角色进去，否则生意免谈。
imminent 迫近的，即将发生的
例句：The time will come when the U.S will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable
, but it is not imminent.
美国终有一日会衰退成众多强权中的一员。那是必然的，可是却不会很快来临。
inaugural 就职的
例句：Afterthe oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach .out to all Americans, to rally
the nation to work together for a great common future.
宣誓后，他发表了以全体美国人为对象的就职演说，呼吁全体国民团结起来，为大家伟大的未来一起努力。
indifferent 漠不关心的 反义词：concerned
例句：Chechen militiamen hiding around the corner are indifferent to the Russian's fate.
intact 完好如初的 同义词：in one piece
例句：But psychologists psychologists and other scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that
the memory of repeated abuse can be completely wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact.
lingering 流连不去的
例句：What remains largely umspoken is the lingering hope that such a mission might experience, somewhere
beneath the desolate Martian surface, a close encounter with organisms that are alive today.
mean 卑劣的
例句：This bill is mean. It if do downright low -down . What does it profit a great nation to conquer
the world, only to lose its soul.
mutual 相互的，共有的
例句："This audience was amazing, " he says. "They were so sweet. They were bathing us in affection. "
To prove the feeling is mutual, heheads back out into the spotlight.
namely 即， 就是 同义词：that is
例句：Namely, he fails to take into account Quittner's Law, which says:It is improssible to pay less than
$3,000 for this year's computer.
obscure 默默无闻的 同义词：unknown
例句：He'd met Marc Andreessen, who as an under-graduate programmer had helped creat the then obscure browsing software
Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web.
obsolete 落伍的，过时的 同义词：outdated
例句：Indeed, your average computer is virtually obsolete by the time it is shipped from the factory to the
retail store.
ominous 不吉利的， 不详的 同义词：menacing
例句：Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation.
ostensibly 表面上的
例句: At 3:33 a.m , it touched down at Marseilles, ostensibly for a refueling stop.
outspoken 率直的，不客气的 同义词：forthright
例句：When he (Magic Johnson) tried to make a comeback in the fall of '92, the fears of some outspoken N.B.A
players forced him to call it off.
indifferent 漠不关心的 反义词：concerned
例句：Chechen militiamen hiding around the corner are indifferent to the Russian's fate.
潜伏在附近的车臣民兵对俄罗斯人的命运一点也不关心。
intact 完好如初的 同义词：in one piece
例句：But psychologists psychologists and other scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that
the memory of repeated abuse can be completely wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact.
但一再受虐的遭遇是否可自记忆中完全排除，进而完全复原，与受害前几乎没有两样，对这一点在心理学家
、精神学家和其他科学家中存在着巨大的分歧。
lingering 流连不去的
例句：What remains largely umspoken is the lingering hope that such a mission might experience, somewhere
beneath the desolate Martian surface, a close encounter with organisms that are alive today.
而尚未说出口的那个宿愿，就是希望这一项任务可以在火星荒芜的地表下，与现在还活着的生物进行接触。
mean 卑劣的
例句：This bill is mean. It if do downright low -down . What does it profit a great nation to conquer
the world, only to lose its soul.
这个提案太卑鄙了， 简直是无耻透顶。这么大的国家如果失去了灵魂，就算征服了全世界又有什么用。
mutual 相互的，共有的
例句："That audience was amazing, " he says. "They were so sweet. They were bathing us in affection. "
To prove the feeling is mutual, heheads back out into the spotlight.
那些观众真是令人惊讶。他说道，他们太可爱了，让我们沐浴在热情中。为了表示这种热情是相互的，
他转身走回聚光灯下。
namely 即， 就是 同义词：that is
例句：Namely, he fails to take into account Quittner's Law, which says:It is improssible to pay less than
$3,000 for this year's computer.
这个错误就是， 他没有把奎特纳定律考虑进去，这条定律就是：少于3000美元买不到今年生产的电脑。
obscure 默默无闻的 同义词：unknown
例句：He'd met Marc Andreessen, who as an under-graduate programmer had helped creat the then obscure browsing software
Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web.
他和马克-安德里森见了面，安德里森在大学读电脑时，帮忙设计了当时默默无闻的‘马赛克游览软件’， 可在万维网中
轻松的寻找资讯。
obsolete 落伍的，过时的 同义词：outdated
例句：Indeed, your average computer is virtually obsolete by the time it is shipped from the factory to the
retail store.
实际上， 一般的电脑从工厂送到零售店的时候，可以说是已经过时了。
ominous 不吉利的， 不详的 同义词：menacing
例句：Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation.
尽管政治形式恶劣，观察家对经贸如此蓬勃发展并不意外。
ostensibly 表面上的
例句: At 3:33 a.m , it touched down at Marseilles, ostensibly for a refueling stop.
凌晨3点33分， 这艘船停靠在马赛港，表面上是为了添加燃料。
outspoken 率直的，不客气的 同义词：forthright
例句：When he (Magic Johnson) tried to make a comeback in the fall of '92, the fears of some outspoken N.B.A
players forced him to call it off.
1992年秋季魔术师约翰逊想重返N.B.A， 但由于一些直言不讳的球员{怕被染上艾滋病}， 便让他打消了这个念头。
pending 审理中的，即将发生的
例句：According the chairman, there are dozens of suits pending against the company.
根据该总裁的说法，该公司现有数十个正审理中的官司缠身。
perpetual 永久的 同义词：permanent continual
例句：California, locked in a permanent automotive smog, requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for
sale in the state produce zero emissions...
为永久不散的汽车污染烟雾所苦的加利福利亚州，强制要求在公元2003年前，在州内销售的汽车有10%完全不排放废气。
persistent 固执的
例句：A small but persistent group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries,
still don't buy it.
有一群人数不多的但固执己见的批评者，还是不信这一套，这些人中有很多受到石油业主和煤矿业主的支持。
persuasive 有说服力的
例句：Could it be that religious faith has some firect influence on physiology and health? Harvard's Herbert
Benson is probably the most persuasive proponent of this view.
宗教信仰可能对生理和健康有直接的影响？哈佛的赫伯特-本森大概是这理论最具说服力的提倡者。
pervasive 遍布的
例句：The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corrupion in the (police) dapartment pervasive, rampant
rampant and systemic.
当地的美国律师乔丹就曾说过，该警察局内‘贪污成风’非常猖獗，而且整个警局已成贪污共同体。
phony 伪造的
例句：A police raid on a Tokyo trading copany netted 2,000 pieces of counterfeit Nike merchandise, including
phony Air Maxes.
警方突袭东京一贸易公司，搜出2000件耐克产品的赝品， 其中包括Air Maxes 运动鞋的仿冒品。
poignant 尖刻的，辛酸感人 同义词：moving
例句：That's sort of a poignant irony .
这段话有点尖刻的讽刺味。
preliminary 初步的
例句：The American Society of Travel Agents said in a preliminary estimate that as many as 10,000 of its
25,000 members could be put out of business.
美国旅行社协会初步判断，该协会2.5万家会员中可能有1万家得关门。
previous 先前的
例句：But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a taast more poignant than the one the previous evening.
但听说肯尼迪参议员的敬酒词比前一晚的更加辛酸感人。
primary 最初的
例句：Simund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as 'infantile helplessness ' and 'regression to primary narcission'
佛洛依德曾将宗教神秘主义斥为‘幼稚的无能’ 和 ‘退化到最原始的自恋’。
primitive 原始的
例句：The chances that a primitive creature secreted in this rock may survive such a journey are begining
to look surprisingly good.
藏在这块岩石中的原始生物，在历经这样的旅行后仍存活的机率，看来是越来越高。
profound 重大的 思想渊博的 同义词：great deep 反义词：shallow
例句：By creating breakthroughs in agriculture and disease-fighting, the manipulation of DNA should lead
to profound improvements in human health.
通过在农业与疾病防治方面的突破，对DNA的控制应能大幅度改善人类健康状况。
prominent 著名的，杰出的 同义词：well-known
例句：Abe Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the
simple Midwestern rail-splitter.
1860年，林肯已是代理铁路诉讼案的名律师，却仅以西部伐木工人的身份，出马竞选总统。
promising 前景看好的 同义词：unpromising
例句：On the horizon are the remedies that may prove more promising.
有一些可能更被看好的疗法即将问世。
radical 彻底的 根本的 基本的 激进的 同义词：fundamental 反义词：conservative reactionary
例句：More than at any other time in the past 25 years, men are living in a state of radical disconnection
from the woman-and-children part of the human race.
过去的25年，男人完全脱离妇女儿童而独自居住的情形以目前最为严重。
rebel 背叛的 叛军 反叛
例句：Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev.
叶利钦决定不与叛军领袖杜达耶夫举行和平谈判。
reckless 鲁莽的
例句：Sports equipment designed to make football safer encouraged more reckless moves and ended up making
the sport more dangerous than unpadded, unhelmeted rugby.
美式橄榄球的护具本在保护球员，现在反而鼓励球员更不顾后果横冲直撞，结果使得美式橄榄球比起不用护垫
与头盔的英式橄榄球更危险。
reminiscent 使人想起...的
例句：Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers trying to guard them were murdered :in a scene reminiscent
of Nazi Germany, the children were picked out of a group of 500 simply because they looked like Tutsi.
上周21名婴儿和试图保护这些的婴儿的13名红十字会工作人员遭到杀害，那种场景--在500人的群体中，小孩只
因为长得像图西族，就被挑出来杀害--令人想起纳粹德国。
renowned 著名的
例句：With his boyish face and slender build, he (David Ho) could more easily pass for a teenager than for a
44-year-old father of three--or, for that matter, for a world- renowned scientist.
娃娃脸和瘦瘦的身材，使何大一看起来更像是个青少年，而不像一位44岁、育有3名子女的父亲，更不像是世界知名的
科学家。
rigorous 严格的
例句：The work component of the legislation is rigorous. Within two months of offering benefits,states can require
recipients to perform community service.
此立法中有关就业的规定十分严格。州政府在开始支付福利金的头两个月内，就可以要求领取福利金着从事社区服务工作。
rugged 崎岖不平的，个性坚毅的
例句：The man had previously completed (Army Ranger) training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains.
这些人先前已在崎岖不平的森林、沙漠和山区受过陆军突击部队的全部训练。
savage 野蛮的
例句：And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing
about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved.
而这些老兵，便服上别了一排排的军功章，正在追忆战争、失去的友人，以及他们所拯救的这个国家一页页
残暴的苦难史。
sensible 合理的
例句："Sensible" is not the criterion for a placard .
"是否合理"并非是评判宣传标语好坏的标准。
sensitive 敏感的
例句：The following year, Woo's A Better Tomorrow... introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal antihero
and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.
第二年，在吴宇森的《英雄本色》中， 周润发以抑郁寡欢、凶残的反英雄形象出现，相对的，与他演对手戏的
张国荣则扮演性情敏感的角色。
shrewd 敏锐的，有洞察力的
例句：Mailer's research and his shrewd eye lead him to believe...that Oswald did kill Kennedy and that...
he acted along.
梅勒经过研究，加上敏锐的观察，认为奥斯瓦尔德的确是杀害肯尼迪的凶手，而且凶手只有他一人。
significant 重大的，影响深远的 同义词：important 反义词：insignificant
例句：The President's ambition to stand taller in the world faces one significant U.S. made handicap:
brutal cutbacks in funding American foreign policy.
克林顿总统雄心勃勃，想在世界舞台上更加昂首阔步，却面临美国自己制造出来的一个重大障碍：国会不留情面
，删减了美国外教经费。
sluggish 迟缓的，不景气的
例句：The Paris-based OECD predicted a sluggish rate of growth in 1994 for the G-7 leading industrialized
countries.
总部设在巴黎的经济合作开发组织预测，1994年七大工业国的经济增长率会趋于迟缓。
sophisticated 技术尖端，人老于世故， 老练的 同义词：advanced refined 反义词：unsophisticated
例句：Once the calling of wild-eyed Cassandras and 19th century writers and social scientists on
the radical fringe, long-range forecasting has become a sophisticated and quite profitable in-
dustry.
这种‘长远预测’ 的工作，从前专属眼神狂乱的预言家。在19世纪是激进的非主流作家和社会学家，如今则
成为先进工业，而且利润相当高。
staggering 令人惊愕的 同义词：astounding
例句：The Pope's literary output is staggering. His letters,sermons and speeches fill nearly 150 volumes.
教皇的著作多得令人吃惊，信件、布道词、演讲共计近150卷。
strapped(for cash) 身无分文
例句：Because of reduced oil prices and Gulf War debt, Saudi Arabia is so strapped for cash that it
barely met the deadline for its latest $375 million payment on its U.S. weapons contracts.
由于油价下跌，加上海湾战争时所背负的债务，沙特阿拉伯已是国库空虚，几乎无力按照与美国签订的
武器购买合同，如期支付最近一笔3.75亿美元。
subject 受...支配的
例句：Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in.
Some were subject to endless bureaucratic wrangling.
来自60个国家、联合国、世界卫生组织的援助大量涌入，但有些援助却受制于国官场里无穷无尽的争执，
substantial 大量的，重大的 同义词：significant 反义词：insubstantial
例句：In 1994, when he was 23, he plowed his substantial savings into creating WARP, to develop and
publish video games.
1994年他23岁时，他投入大笔的积蓄创立了WARP公司，用以开发发行电脑游戏。
subtle 隐晦的 反义词：blatant obvious
例句：Even when it seems beyond the reach of any one government, electronic information can be
controlled, in ways both subtle and obvious.
表面上看来电子资讯好像任何政府都管不了，其实还是可以控制，控制的手法有些隐蔽，有些则很明显。
sweeping 全面的，大规模的，影响深远的 同义词：far-reaching
例句：A House subcommittee... will vote next week on the Smoke-Free Environment Act, perhaps the
most sweeping antismoking legislation Congress has ever seriously considered.
众议院一分组委员会将于下周就《无烟害环境法案》进行投票，这项法案是国会有史以来最看重的禁烟法案
也可能是最全面的禁烟法案。
tangible 可触到的
例句：In fact, compared with more tangible as-saults on the President's character -- namely Paula
Jones' sexual-harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into White-water - words in
a book can barely hurt him.
事实上，比起那些对总统人格更具体的抨击-- 如宝拉-琼斯所提、正审理中的性骚扰案和联邦着手调查的
白水案--- 一本书的用词对他几乎不具杀伤力。
thriving 兴盛的
例句：Most countries offer few opportunities for female soccer players, but Norway has a thriving woman's
professional league, and the U.S. a burgeoning co-ed youth soccer movement.
大部分国家的女足队员比赛机会不多，但挪威有蓬勃的女足职业联盟，而美国的青年男女混合足球运动正
快速发展。
tremendous 巨大的
例句：Some 65 million years ago, a comet or aseroid at least five miles wide struck the earth and blasted
out a tremendous crater.
大约6500万年前，一颗宽至少5英里的彗星或小行星撞上了地球，并在地表炸出一个大洞。
tricky 棘手的 同义词：awkward
例句：Getting in and out of the fast lanes is always tricky even today .It will be even trickierwhen
you have to change lanes and hand off control to the computer at the same time.
即使在今天，进出快车道仍然需要技巧，更棘手的是，变换车道的同时还得把车子的控制权交个电脑。
unanimous 意见一致的
例句：The 1993 Supreme Court decision was not unanimous.
1993年最高法院的判决并非在各大法官意见一致的情况下做出。
unprecedented 史无前例的
例句：In an unprecedented move, Zedillo chose a member of the opposition party as Attorney General.
赛迪约破天荒挑选了一位反对党人士出任司法部长。
urgent 紧急的 同义词：pressing
例句：All this suggests that sumo, the instituion, is in urgent need of its own purification,.
这一切都表示，相扑界自清迫在眉睫。
venerable 受人尊敬的
例句；You could almost say this venerable institution with its great credibility and history has
been infiltrated showly by the type of prople it was not intended to deal with.
甚至可以这么说，这个极受信赖、拥有光荣历史而备受尊敬的机构，已遭到它所不愿与之打交道之流人物
的慢慢渗入。
vigorous 精力旺盛的 同义词 ：dynamic
例句：It's a signal as well that the U.S. economy may be starting to slacken after one of its most
vigorous years in a decade .
这也显示，美国经济在历经10年来相当繁荣的一年之后，可能正开始衰退。
volatile 善变的 同义词：unstable
例句：When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity : the media, the
public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them.
下面这3个善变的因素，如果搭配得好，就可以让人在美国名声大噪，这3个因素就是媒体、公众及操纵媒体
与公众的形象包装高手。
voluntary 志愿的，自愿的 同义词：obligatory
例句：It has been 16 months since Australia's Northern Territory became the first place in the world
to legalize voluntary euthanasia.
自从澳大利亚的北方区成为世界上第一个将自愿安乐死合法化的地方，至今已有16个月了。
vulnerable 易受伤的，脆弱的
例句：The long time lag betweedn the weapons' arrival and the Bosnians' training would leave them
extremely vulnerable to snap Serb of fensives.
在武器运达之后和波斯尼亚人受训练熟悉装备之前，有一段长长的空档，这期间他们根本经不起塞尔维亚人
的突袭。
简易词 ：形容词/副词... 结束明天学习动词。
abandon 抛弃 同义词：give up 反义词：stay with
例句：Zhu(Ming-jiang) was forced as a teenage abandon his education and, like tens of thousands of other
intellectual young Chinese during the 1960s and 70s, was sent to the countryside to be "re-educated"
by peasant.
朱明江少年时期被迫失学，和六七十年代成千上万的中国知识青年一样被送到乡间接受农民的“再教育”。
abolish 废除
例句：Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human
life.
生命有限的人类，手中握有的力量，可以消灭人类一切的贫穷状态，也可以灭绝人类所有的生命形态
abuse 滥用；虐待
例句：The term is much abused lately:in its strictest sense, virtual reality means creating an artificial
environment so convincing it can't be distinguished from he real thing.
仿真一词近来常被滥用，若严格加以定义，仿真表示创造一个人工的环境，而其如此接近真实，令人真伪难辨。 acknowledge 承认 同义词：admit
例句：Johnson acknowledge that he has in the past taken AZT, the antiviral drug typically administered
when a person's helper T-cell count drops to 500.
约翰逊承认他曾服用AZT，这种药物一般开始体内辅助性T细胞数量少于500的人服用。
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