第四课 单词

stage

n.阶段；舞台；戏剧；驿站

vt.& vi.上演，演出；筹办，举行；适于上演；坐公共马车旅行

vt.举行；展现；上演；筹划

vi.适于上演，适合在舞台上演出；乘公交车（或驿车）旅行； [军事]中间集结，扎营

1. The action takes place on a steeply raked stage.

表演是在一个坡度很大的舞台上举行的。

2. Each stage of the battle was carried off flawlessly.

战斗的每个阶段都进展顺利。

3. Atlantic City is the hot favourite to stage the fight.

在大西洋城举行这场拳击比赛是众望所归。

4. Howard wanted to be a popular singer, but stage fright crippled him.

霍华德想成为流行歌手，但因怯场而心生畏惧。

5. The situation is long past the stage when anyone's advice would help.

情况早变了，不是谁提个建议就能补救的事儿。

1.N-COUNT (活动、过程或时期的)阶段，部分 A stage of an activity, process,

or period is one part of it.

?The way children talk about or express their feelings depends on their age and stage of development...

儿童谈论或表达自己感情的方式取决于他们的年龄和所处的发育阶段。?Mr Cook has arrived in Greece on the final stage of a tour which also included Egypt and Israel.

库克先生在行程的最后一站来到了希腊，他此行还包括了埃及和以色列。

2.N-COUNT 舞台;戏台 In a theatre, the stage is an area where actors or

other entertainers perform.

?The road crew needed more than 24 hours to move and rebuild the stage after a concert...

一场音乐会结束后，巡回乐队管理组需要用一天多时间搬走和重新搭起舞台。

?I went on stage and did my show.

我上台作了表演。

3.N-SING 舞台表演;戏剧演出 You can refer to acting and the production of

plays in a theatre as the stage .

?Madge did not want to put her daughter on the stage...

玛奇不想让自己的女儿从事戏剧表演。

?He was the first comedian I ever saw on the stage.

他是我在舞台上看到过的第一位滑稽演员。

4.VERB 组织上演(戏剧、演出等) If someone stages a play or other show,

they organize and present a performance of it.

?Maya Angelou first stage d the play 'And I Still Rise' in the late 1970s.

马娅·安杰卢在20 世纪70 年代后期第一次将戏剧《我还会站起来》搬上了舞台。

5.VERB 组织(活动或仪式) If you stage an event or ceremony, you

organize it and usually take part in it.

?Russian workers have stage d a number of strikes in protest at the republic's declaration of independence...

俄罗斯工人已经举行了数次罢工，抗议该共和国宣布独立。

?At the middle of this year the government stage d a huge military parade.

今年年中，政府举行了一次盛大的阅兵活动。

6.N-SING (尤指政治)舞台，活动领域 You can refer to a particular area of

activity as a particular stage, especially when you are talking about

politics.

?He was finally forced off the political stage last year by the deterioration of his physical condition...

他最终因身体状况恶化被迫于去年离开了政治舞台。

?The EU thought it could resolve Europe's worst nightmare and boost its own credibility as a strong actor on the international stage.

欧盟认为它能够解决欧洲面临的最严重的困境，提升自己作为国际舞台上一个重要角色的声誉。

Noun

1. any distinct time period in a sequence of events;

?"we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"

?synonym：phase

2. a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or

especially in a process;

3. a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by

an audience;

?"he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"

4. the theater as a profession (usually `the stage');

?"an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"

5. any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing

something;

?"All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare

?"it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"

6. a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and

mail on regular routes between towns;

?"we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"

?synonym：stagecoach

7. a section or portion of a journey or course;

?"then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

?synonym：leg

8. a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is

mounted for examination

?synonym：microscope stage

Verb

1. perform (a play), especially on a stage;

2. plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

reputable

adj.值得尊敬的，声誉好的

1. Always buy from a reputable dealer.

购买商品时一定要选择信誉良好的贸易商.

2. We prefer to deal only with reputable companies.

我们只喜欢和有声誉的公司打交道.

3. You are well advised to buy your car through a reputable dealer.

强烈建议您通过值得信赖的经销商购车。

4. Other interests , less reputable , were in the background too.

还有一些名声稍小的有产者也在做他的后盾.

5. Luxembourg produces six reputable and relatively inexpensive white

wines.

卢森堡生产六种价格相对低廉的名牌白葡萄酒.

1.ADJ-GRADED 声誉好的;可信赖的;有名望的 A reputable company or

person is reliable and can be trusted.

?You are well advised to buy your car through a reputable dealer.

强烈建议您通过值得信赖的经销商购车。

Adjective

1. having a good reputation;

?"a reputable business"

?"a reputable scientist"

?"a reputable wine"

?antonym：disreputable

phantom

n.幻影；幽灵；错觉；恐惧的事物

adj.幽灵似的；幻影的，虚幻的；虚构的

1. The phantom of the merry-go-round is just a local superstition.

旋转木马的幽灵只不过是当地的迷信说法。

2. The phantom used to appear unexpectedly, but mostly during the

winter.

那个幽灵过去常常出人意料地出现，但是大多在冬季。

3. the phantom of his dead father

他已故父亲的幽灵

4. I found myself staring at her as if she were a phantom.

我发现自己瞪大眼睛看着她,好像她是一个幽灵.

5. She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia.

她正用未来的乌托邦幻想来吸引群众.

1.N-COUNT 鬼魂；幽灵 A phantom is a ghost.

?They vanished down the stairs like two phantom s...

他们像两个幽灵似的消失在了楼下。

?The phantom used to appear unexpectedly, but mostly during the winter.

那个幽灵过去常常出人意料地出现，但是大多在冬季。

2.ADJ 幻觉的；幻象的 You use phantom to describe something which you

think you experience but which is not real.

?She was always taking days off for what her colleagues

considered phantom illnesses.

她老请病假，同事们认为她所说的病纯属无中生有。

?...a phantom pregnancy.

假妊娠

3.ADJ （尤指罪犯）身份不明的Phantom can refer to something that is

done by an unknown person, especially something criminal.

?...victims of alleged 'phantom' withdrawals from high-street cash machines.

据称被人从商业大街的取款机上冒取现金的受害者

4.ADJ 有名无实的；虚假骗人的Phantom is used to describe business

organizations, agreements, or goods which do not really exist, but which someone pretends do exist in order to cheat people.

?...a phantom trading scheme at a Wall Street investment bank.

华尔街一家投资银行的虚假交易计划

Noun

1. a ghostly appearing figure;

2. something existing in perception only;

1. something apparently sensed but having no physical reality;

?"seemed to hear faint phantom bells"

?"the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb"

angel

n.天使，天使般的人；守护神；善良可爱的人；安琪儿

1. Thank you a thousand times, you're an angel.

万分感谢，你真是个大好人。

2. The ill-advised conceit of the guardian angel dooms the film from the

start.

对守护天使的蹩脚设计弄巧成拙，从一开始就注定这部电影要失败。

3. A delightful guide was my guardian angel for the first week of the tour.

令人愉快的导游是我第一周旅行的守护神。

4. She played the part of an angel, complete with wings and a halo.

她扮演天使，身上的双翼和头上的光轮一应俱全。

5. She could not see herself in the role of ministering angel .

她想象不出自己成为一名救死扶伤的天使会是什么样。

1.N-COUNT 天使Angels are spiritual beings that some people believe are

God's servants in heaven.

2.N-COUNT （尤用于得到友好对待或帮助时）大好人，大善人 You can call

someone you like very much an angel in order to show affection,

especially when they have been kind to you or done you a favour. ?Thank you a thousand times, you're an angel.

万分感谢，你真是个大好人。

3.N-COUNT 安琪儿;天使;善人 If you describe someone as an angel, you

mean that they seem to be very kind and good.

?Poppa thought her an angel...

爸爸视她为小天使。

?He was such an angel to put up with it.

他这都能忍，真是个大好人。

4.PHRASE 行善；在道义一方 If you say that someone is on the side of the

angels, you believe very strongly that what they are doing is right. ?Billy is on the side of the angel s when it comes to racial tolerance.

说起种族间的包容，比利可真是宅心仁厚。

5.PHRASE 愚蠢地冒险;鲁莽行事;暴虎冯河 If you say that someone rushes

in where angels fear to tread, you are criticizing them gently because they get themselves into dangerous or difficult situations without thinking carefully enough about what they are doing.

?Martin is inclined to rush in where angel s fear to tread.

马丁总是喜欢贸然行事。

Noun

1. spiritual being attendant upon God

2. person of exceptional holiness

3. invests in a theatrical production

draught

n.通风；气流；（船的）吃水深度；一饮，一口之量

vt.draft的变体；起草；征兵；选派

adj.汲出的；拖拉的

1. They drink bitter on draught in the local bar.

他们在当地的酒吧里喝桶装的苦啤酒。

2. One of the night-duty nuns gave her a sleeping draught.

一个值夜班的修女给了她一剂安眠药水。

3. The restaurant is licensed, offering draught beers, wines, spirits and soft

drinks.

这家餐馆有酒类经营执照，提供扎啤、葡萄酒、烈性酒和汽水。4. Draught beer is available too.

还提供桶装啤酒。

5. He took a draught of beer.

他喝了一大口啤酒。

in AM, use 美国英语用draft

1.N-COUNT 穿堂风;通风气流 A draught is a current of air that comes into

a place in an undesirable way.

?Block draught s around doors and windows...

挡住门窗处的穿堂风。

?On a cold day there can be quite a draught from the letterbox.

天冷的时候能明显感觉到从信箱那边吹来的过堂风。

in AM, use 美国英语用draft

2.ADJ 桶装的;散装的Draught beer is beer which is kept in barrels rather

than bottles.

?Draught beer is available too.

还提供桶装啤酒。

3.N-COUNT 一大口 A draught of liquid is a large amount that you

swallow.

?He took a draught of beer...

他喝了一大口啤酒。

?Having added more fruit juice on top, drink it down in one draught.

在上面再加些果汁后，把它一口喝掉。

4.N-UNCOUNT 国际跳棋;西洋跳棋Draughts is a game for two people,

played with 24 round pieces on a board.

?He was in the study playing draught s by the fire with Albert.

他正和艾伯特在书房的炉火旁下国际跳棋。

in AM, use 美国英语用checkers

5.N-COUNT (国际跳棋的)棋子 A draught is one of the round pieces which

are used in the game of draughts.

in AM, use 美国英语用checker

6.ADJ （牲畜）役用的，拉车的 A draught animal is one which pulls heavy

loads, for example on a farm.

?...an Irish draught mare.

爱尔兰役用母马

7.N-COUNT 药水;饮剂 A draught is a medicine in the form of a liquid which

you drink.

?One of the night-duty nuns gave her a sleeping draught.

一个值夜班的修女给了她一剂安眠药水。

Noun

1. a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg;

2. a large and hurried swallow;

3. a current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle)

4. the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when

loaded)

5. a dose of liquid medicine;

?"he took a sleeping draft"

?synonym：draft

6. the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

1. make a blueprint of

n.艺术；艺术作品；（需要技术、工艺的）行业；文艺（包括绘画、雕塑、建筑、音乐、舞蹈、戏剧、文学等）

vi.thou art 即you are,对一人讲话时用

adj.艺术的；（为）艺术家的；艺术品的；具有艺术性的

vt.& vi.[口语]（把…）装饰得古色古香，（把…）装饰得古怪而有艺术趣味，把…装饰得有艺术价值；把…加以艺术乔装，使艺术化[仅用于art up 短语中]

1. I thought I'd enrol you with an art group at the school.

我想我会吸收你参加学校的一个艺术团。

2. Why are Geography, Drama, Art and English in the ascendant?

为什么地理、戏剧、艺术和英语逐渐受宠？

3. The notion that art should be controlled by intellectuals sickened him.

他讨厌艺术应由知识分子所掌控的观点。

4. In the 50s, Rauschenberg anticipated the conceptual art movement of

the 80s.

上世纪50年代时，劳申伯格就早早地预见到了80年代的概念艺术

运动。

5. The house was large and full of art treasures.

房子很大，里面摆满了艺术珍品。

1.N-UNCOUNT 艺术（品）；美术Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and

other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and

admire or think deeply about.

?...the first exhibition of such art in the West.

此类艺术品在西方的首次展览

?...contemporary and modern American art.

近现代美洲艺术

?...Whitechapel Art Gallery.

白教堂美术馆

2.N-UNCOUNT （作为活动或教学科目的）美术Art is the activity or

educational subject that consists of creating paintings, sculptures, and other pictures or objects for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.

?...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art.

甘愿独自沉浸于绘画中的画家

?...Farnham College of Art and Design.

法纳姆美术设计学院

?...art lessons.

美术课

3.N-VAR 艺术（活动）（如音乐、绘画、文学、电影、舞蹈等）The arts are

activities such as music, painting, literature, cinema, and dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty.

?Catherine the Great was a patron of the art s and sciences.

叶卡捷琳娜大帝赞助过各种艺术创作和科学研究。

?...the Arts Council of Great Britain.

大不列颠艺术委员会

?...the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts.

威克斯纳视觉艺术中心

4.N-PLURAL 人文学科;文科 At a university or college, arts are subjects

such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific

subjects.

?...art s and social science graduates.

人文和社会科学毕业生

?...the Faculty of Arts.

文学院

5.ADJ （用于剧院或电影院的名称中）上演艺术作品的，艺术的Arts or art is

used in the names of theatres or cinemas which show plays or films that are intended to make the audience think deeply about the content, and not simply to entertain them.

?...the Cambridge Arts Cinema.

剑桥艺术影院

6.N-COUNT 技术；技艺；技巧 If you describe an activity as an art, you mean

that it requires skill and that people learn to do it by instinct or experience, rather than by learning facts or rules.

?Fishing is an art.

钓鱼是一门技术。

?...the unscientific art s of seduction and romance.

勾引异性和谈情说爱的不科学的技巧

7.（be的现在式单数第二人称形式，过时用法）Art is an old-fashioned form

of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be. ?Father, I know thou art aware of me at all times.

父亲，我知道您无时无刻不在关心着我。

Noun

1. the products of human creativity; works of art collectively;

?"an art exhibition"

?"a fine collection of art"

?synonym：fine art

2. the creation of beautiful or significant things;

?"art does not need to be innovative to be good"

?"I was never any good at art"

?"he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"

?synonym：artistic creation，artistic production

3. a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and

observation;

4. photographs or other visual representations in a printed

publication;

n.信誉，信用； [金融]贷款；荣誉；学分

vt.相信，信任；归功于； [会]记入贷方；赞颂

1. Make a note of credit card numbers and check expiry dates.

记下信用卡卡号，核对有效期限。

2. Buyers use different ruses to wring free credit out of their suppliers.

买主们千方百计想从供货商那儿无息赊购。

3. You're a nice girl, Lettie, and your kind heart does you credit.

你是个好女孩儿，莱蒂，你的善良值得称赞。

4. The main investor in the project is the French bank Credit National.

该项目的主要投资商是法国的国民信贷银行。

5. A lot of credit must go to the chairman and his father.

很大一部分功劳应归于主席和他的父亲。

1.N-UNCOUNT 赊购;赊欠 If you are allowed credit, you are allowed to pay

for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them.

?The group can't get credit to buy farming machinery...

这些人无法赊购到农用机械。

?You can ask a dealer for a discount whether you pay cash or buy on credit.

无论是付现还是赊购，都可以要求经销商打折。

2.N-UNCOUNT 结余;存款 If someone or their bank account is in credit,

their bank account has money in it.

?The idea that I could be charged when I'm in credit makes me very angry...

想到账户里有余额时还要收费，我就非常气愤。

?I made sure the account stayed in credit...

我确保账户里有余额。

?Interest is payable on credit balances.

利息按照贷方余额支付。

3.VERB (给账户)存(钱);把…记入贷方 When a sum of money is credited

to an account, the bank adds that sum of money to the total in the

account.

?She noticed that only $80,000 had been credit ed to her account...

她注意到自己的账户里只存进了80,000美元。

?Midland decided to change the way it credit ed payments to accounts...

米兰银行决定改变付款贷记的方式。

?Interest is calculated daily and credit ed once a year, on 1 April.

利息按天计算，每年4月1日一次性打入账户。

4.N-COUNT 存款金额;贷记 A credit is a sum of money which is added to

an account.

?The statement of total debits and credit s is known as a balance.

总借记和总贷记的结算即账户余额。

5.N-COUNT (给某人的)一笔钱 A credit is an amount of money that is given

to someone.

?Senator Bill Bradley outlined his own tax cut, giving families $350 in tax credit s per child...

比尔·布拉德利参议员概述了自己的减税计划，提出每个孩子可为家庭减免350美元的课税。

?Japan has provided about $2.5 billion in credit s to Russia and about $50 million in direct aid.

日本向俄罗斯提供了约25亿美元的借款和价值约5,000万美元的直接援助。

6.N-UNCOUNT 赞扬;称赞;认可 If you get the credit for something good,

people praise you because you are responsible for it, or are thought to be responsible for it.

?We don't mind who gets the credit so long as we don't get the blame...

谁受到表扬无所谓，只要我们不挨批就好。

?It would be wrong for us to take all the credit...

如果我们把所有功劳都揽到自己身上，那就不对了。

?Some of the credit for her relaxed manner must go to Andy.

她会如此放松，一部分应该归功于安迪。

7.VERB 认为是…的功劳;把…归于 If people credit someone with an

achievement or if it is credited to them, people say or believe that they were responsible for it.

?The staff are credit ing him with having saved Hythe's life...

职员们称赞他救了海丝的命。

?The 74-year-old mayor is credit ed with helping make Los Angeles the financial capital of the West Coast...

洛杉矶成为西海岸的金融中心，那位74岁的市长功不可没。

?The screenplay for 'Gabriel Over the White House' is credit ed to Carey Wilson.

电影《天使降临白宫》的剧本出自凯里·威尔逊之手。

8.VERB 认为…有(某种品质) If you credit someone with a quality, you

believe or say that they have it.

?I wonder why you can't credit him with the same generosity of spirit...

我想知道你为什么不认为他具有同样崇高的思想境界。

?They are credit ing science with power it doesn't possess.

他们过分夸大了科学的力量。

9.N-SING 为…赢得好感的人(或事物) If you say that someone is a credit

to someone or something, you mean that their qualities or achievements will make people have a good opinion of the person or thing mentioned. ?He is one of the greatest British players of recent times and is a credit to his profession.

他是近代英国最伟大的运动员之一，是这一体育运动的骄傲。

10.VERB 相信;信任 If you cannot credit something, you cannot believe

that it is true.

?Roosevelt either did not learn of the scandal or refused to credit what he heard...

罗斯福要么是不知道那桩丑闻，要么是不相信他所听到的。

?It seems hard to credit that such things went on among senior Directors.

高级主管中竟发生了这样的事，真是令人难以置信。

11.N-COUNT 演职员表;摄制人员名单 The list of people who helped to

make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits . ?The star Marlon Brando wants his name removed from the credit s.

影星马龙·白兰度要求把他的名字从演职员表中删掉。

?...a moviegoer who remains in his seat until the credit s are over.

直到演职员表播完才离座的影迷

12.N-COUNT (某些大学获得学位所必需的)学分，学习单元 A credit is a

successfully completed part of a higher education course. At some

universities and colleges you need a certain number of credits to be

awarded a degree.

13.PHRASE 使值得赞扬(或仰慕) If you say that

something does someone credit, you mean that they should be praised or admired because of it.

?You're a nice girl, Lettie, and your kind heart does you credit.

你是个好女孩儿，莱蒂，你的善良值得称赞。

14.PHRASE （某人的成绩或优点）值得表扬，应予肯定 If you say 'credit

where credit's due', you are admitting that you ought to praise

someone for something that they have done or for a good quality that they possess.

?His gift was an extremely kind gesture. Credit where credit's due.

他的礼物是很友好的表示，这值得称赞。

15.PHRASE 相信…具有(某种优良品质);称赞;认可 To give someone credit

for a good quality means to believe that they have it.

?Bratbakk had more ability than the media gave him credit for.

布拉特巴克比媒体称赞的要有才华。

16.PHRASE (常用于提出缺点之后)就优点而言 You say on the credit

side in order to introduce one or more good things about a situation or person, usually when you have already mentioned the bad things about them.

?On the credit side, he's always been wonderful with his mother.

就优点而言，他对母亲一直很孝顺。

17.PHRASE 值得赞扬 If something is to someone's credit, they deserve

praise for it.

?She had managed to pull herself together and, to her credit, continued to look upon life as a positive experience...

她已经努力振作起来，而且值得称赞的是，她仍然积极乐观地看待生活。?Although the offences were horrific it was to her credit that she had owned up.

她的犯罪手段很残忍，但她的供认不讳还是可以认可的。

18.PHRASE (成就)归于…；在…名下 If you already have one or more

achievements to your credit, you have achieved them.

?I have twenty novels and countless magazine stories to my credit.

我著有20部小说，还在杂志上发表了无数篇文章。

Noun

1. approval;

?"give her recognition for trying"

?"he was given credit for his work"

?"give her credit for trying"

?"the credits were given at the end of the film"

?synonym：recognition

2. money available for a client to borrow

3. an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items

4. used in the phrase `to your credit' in order to indicate an

achievement deserving praise;

?"she already had several performances to her credit";

5. arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services

6. recognition by a college or university that a course of studies

has been successfully completed; typically measured in semester

hours

7. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted

passage;