1.porch
①N-COUNT A porch is a sheltered area at the entrance to a building. It has a roof and sometimes has walls. 门廊
• She huddled inside the porch as she rang the bell.
她一边按门铃一边蜷缩进门廊里。
②N-COUNT A porch is a raised platform built along the outside wall of a house and often covered with a roof. 走廊
• He was standing on the porch, waving as we drove away.
我们开车离开的时候，他站在走廊上向我们挥手。
2.predominant
ADJ If something is predominant, it is more important or noticeable than anything else in a set of people or things. 主导性的
• Mandy's predominant emotion was confusion.
曼迪的主导情绪是困惑。
3.prescription
①N-COUNT A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a pharmacist to get the medicine. 处方
• The new drug will not require a physician's prescription.
这种新药不需要医生的处方。
②N-COUNT A prescription is a medicine that a doctor has told you to take. 处方药
• I'm not sleeping even with the prescription Ackerman gave me.
我服用了阿克曼开给我的处方药还是睡不着。
③PHRASE If a medicine is available by or on prescription, you can only get it from a pharmacist if a doctor gives you a prescription for it. 凭处方
④N-COUNT A prescription is a proposal or a plan that gives ideas about how to solve a problem or improve a situation. 方案
• There's not much difference in the economic prescriptions of Ireland's two main political parties.
爱尔兰两大政党的经济方案没有多大差异。
4.prevalent
①ADJ A condition, practice, or belief that is prevalent is common. 盛行的; 普遍存在的
• This condition is more prevalent in women than in men.
这种情况在女性中比在男性中更为普遍。
• Smoking is becoming increasingly prevalent among younger women.
吸烟在年轻女性中正变得越来越盛行。
②N-UNCOUNT 盛行
• ...the prevalence of cocaine abuse in the 1980s.
…20世纪80年代可卡因滥用的盛行。
5.profound
①ADJ You use profound to emphasize that something is very great or intense. 深刻的; 极大的
• ...discoveries which had a profound effect on many areas of medicine.
…对医学的许多领域都有深刻影响的一些发现。
• ...profound disagreement.
…极大的分歧。
②ADV 深刻地; 极大地
• This has profoundly affected my life.
这已极大地影响了我的生活。
③ADJ A profound idea, work, or person shows great intellectual depth and understanding. 高深的
• This is a book full of profound, original, and challenging insights.
这是一本充满高深、新颖且富有挑战性见解的书。
6.prolong
V-T To prolong something means to make it last longer. 延长
• Mr. Chesler said foreign military aid was prolonging the war.
切斯勒先生说外国的军事援助正在延长这场战争。
7.reassure
V-T If you reassure someone, you say or do things to make them stop worrying about something. 使安心; 使消除疑虑
• I tried to reassure her, "Don't worry about it. We won't let it happen again."
我尽力使她安心，“别担心，我们不会允许它再发生的。”
8.rectify
V-T If you rectify something that is wrong, you change it so that it becomes correct or satisfactory. 矫正; 改正
• Only an act of Congress could rectify the situation.
只有国会的法案才能扭转这种局面。
9.refute
①V-T If you refute an argument, accusation, or theory, you prove that it is wrong or untrue. 驳倒
• It was the kind of rumour that it is impossible to refute.
这是那种不可能推翻的谣言。
②V-T If you refute an argument or accusation, you say that it is not true. 否认
• Isabelle is quick to refute any suggestion of intellectual snobbery.
对于任何暗示她恃才傲物的话，伊莎贝尔都立即予以否认。
10.repel
①V-T When an army repels an attack, they successfully fight and drive back soldiers from another army who have attacked them. 击退; 打退
• They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
他们沿边界有5万军队，随时准备击退任何进攻。
②V-T If something repels you, you find it horrible and disgusting. 使厌恶; 使反感
• ...a violent excitement that frightened and repelled her.
…使她害怕和厌恶的一次暴力骚动。
③ADJ 厌恶的; 反感的
• She was very striking but in some way I felt repelled.
她非常吸引人，但是我觉得有些反感。
④V-RECIP When a magnetic pole repels another magnetic pole, it gives out a force that pushes the other pole away. You can also say that two magnetic poles repel each other or that they repel. 排斥; (磁极间) 相斥