精编熟词生义21-40

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21. copy

①written material that is to be printed in anewspaper, magazine, etc.; news or information that can be used in a newspaperarticle or advertisement

• (报刊等的)稿件;(可用于报纸文章或广告的)消息,信息:

The subeditors prepare the reporters' copy for the paper and write the headlines.

22. wild

①full of very strong feeling

•感情炽烈的:

wild laughter

②not carefully planned; not sensible oraccurate

•盲目的;瞎抓的:

He made a wild guess at the answer.

③~ about sb / sth (informal) veryenthusiastic about sb / sth

•热衷于…;狂热:

She's totally wild about him.

④affected by storms and strong winds

•狂暴的;暴风雨的【SYN】 stormy :

a wild night

23. sunset

①[C] a fixed period of time after which alaw or the effect of a law will end

• (法律的)自动废止期,效力消减期:

There is a five-year sunset on the new tax.

24. movement

①[C] any of the main parts that a long pieceof music is divided into

•乐章:

the slow movement of the First Concerto

25. joy

①[U] (BrE, informal) (in questions andnegative sentences用于疑问句和否定句) success or satisfaction

•成功;满意;满足:

We complained about our rooms but got no joy from the manager.

26. minus

①making sth seem negative and lessattractive or good

•负面的;使显得有欠缺的:

What are the car's minus points (= the disadvantages) ?

On the minus side, rented property is expensive and difficult to find.

27. report

①(BrE) (NAmE re'port card) a written statementabout a student's work at school, college, etc.

•成绩报告单:

to get a good / bad report

②the sound of an explosion or of a gun beingfired

•爆炸声;射击声【SYN】 bang , blast :

a loud report

28. punch

①[U] the power to interest people

•吸引力:

It's a well-constructed crimestory, told with speed and punch.

29. keep

①[U] food, clothes and all the other thingsthat a person needs to live; the cost of these things

•生活必需品;生活费用:

It's about time you got a job to earn your keep.

②[C] a large strong tower, built as part ofan old castle

•城堡主楼

30. express

①[VN] ~ itself (formal) (of a feeling) tobecome obvious in a particular way

•显而易见;不言自明:

Their pleasure expressed itself in a burst of applause.

②[VN] to remove air or liquid from sth bypressing it

•压榨,挤压出(空气或液体):

Coconut milk is expressedfrom grated coconuts.

31.tip

①[N](BrE) a place where you can take rubbish/ garbage and leave it

•垃圾场;垃圾堆

②(BrE) to leave rubbish / garbage somewhereoutdoors in order to get rid of it

• (在户外)倒垃圾:

'No tipping.' (= for example, on a notice)

③~ sb / sth (as / for sth) to say in advancethat sb / sth will be successful

•预言…获胜;事先说…会成功:

The band is being tipped for the top.

④[VN] [usually passive] ~ sth (with sth) tocover the end or edge of sth with a colour, a substance, etc.

• (用颜色、物质等)覆盖…的末端,遮盖…的边:

The wings are tipped with yellow.

32. murder

①to spoil sth because you do not do it verywell

•糟蹋;毁坏;弄坏【SYN】 butcher :

Critics accused him of murdering the Englishlanguage (= writing or speaking it very badly).

33. bounce

①[VN] ~ ideas (off sb)/(around) to tell sbyour ideas in order to find out what they think about them

• (向某人)透露主意(以试探其反应):

He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere hewent.

②[U, C] the energy that a person has

•活力;精力:

All her old bounce was back.

34. forward

①(technical 术语) in or towards the front part of a ship or plane

•在(或向)船头;在(或向)机首:

The main cabin is situated forward of (= infront of) the mast.

②behaving towards sb in a manner which istoo confident or too informal

•鲁莽的;冒失的;无礼的:

I hope you don't think I'm being too forward.

35. original

①(formal) a person who thinks, behaves,dresses, etc. in an unusual way

• (思想、行为、衣着等)不同寻常的人,独特的人,怪人

36. cast

Verb:

①[VN] when a snake casts its skin, the skincomes off as part of a natural process

• (蛇)蜕(皮)【SYN】 shed

②[VN] if a horse casts a shoe, the shoecomes off by accident

•踢落

③[VN] ~ sb (as sth) | ~ sb (in sth) todescribe or present sb in a particular way

•把某人描写成;把某人表现为:

He cast himself as the innocent victim of a hate campaign.

④[VN] ~ a / your vote / ballot (for sb /sth) to vote for sb / sth

•投票

⑤[VN] ~ sth (in sth) to shape hot liquidmetal, etc. by pouring it into a hollow container (called a mould )

•浇铸;铸造:

a statue cast in bronze

Noun:

⑥[C] an object that is made by pouring hotliquid metal, etc. into a mould (= a specially shaped container)

•铸件;铸造品

⑦[C] a shaped container used to make anobject

•模子;铸模【SYN】 mould

⑧[sing.] (BrE, formal) the way that a personor thing is or appears

•特性;特征;外表;外貌:

He has an unusual cast of mind.

37. tear

①[VN] to injure a muscle, etc. by stretchingit too much

•拉伤;拽伤:

a torn ligament

②[V +adv. / prep.] to move somewhere very quickly or in an excited way

•飞跑;狂奔;疾驰:

He tore off down the street.

③[noun] a hole that has been made in sth by tearing

•破洞;裂口;裂缝:

This sheet has a tear in it.

38. stiff

①thick and almost solid; difficult to stir

•稠的;难搅动的:

Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

②more difficult or severe than usual

•困难的;艰难的;严厉的;激烈的:

It was a stiff climb to the top of the hill.

③(of a person or their behaviour 人或其行为) not friendly or relaxed

•不友好的;生硬的:

The speech he made to welcome them was stiffand formal

④[only before noun] strong; containing a lotof alcohol

•烈性的;酒精度数高的:

39. focus

①[C] (geology 地) the point at which an earthquake starts to happen

• (地震的)震源

40. cap

Noun:

①an upper limit on an amount of money thatcan be spent or borrowed by a particular institution or in a particularsituation

• (可用或可借资金的)最高限额:

The government has placed a cap on localcouncil spending.

②a small paper container with explosivepowder inside it, used especially in toy guns

• (玩具枪的)火药帽,火药纸

Verb:

③[often passive] (especially BrE) to limitthe amount of money that can be charged for sth or spent on sth

•限额收取(或支出):

a capped mortgage

④(especially BrE) to say or do sth that isfunnier, more impressive, etc. than sth that has been said or done before

•胜过;超过;比…更…:

What an amazing story. Can anyone cap that?

⑤[usually passive] to put an artificialcovering on a tooth to make it look more attractive

•包(牙):

He's had his front teethcapped.

⑥[usually passive] (BrE) to choose sb toplay in their country's national team for a particular sport

•选入(某项体育运动的国家队):

He has been capped more than 30 times for Wales.


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