柯林斯词典版—人教版高中英语选修7U2词汇表

M7 Unit2

1、△household /?ha?s?h??ld/.adj. 家庭的；家用的n.一家人；家庭

1. N-COUNT A household is all the people in a family or group who live together in a house. 家庭; 同住一所房子的人

例：...growing up in a male-only household.

…在全体成员均为男性的家庭里长大。

2. N-SING The household is your home and everything that is connected with taking care of it. 家务

例：...household chores. …家务活。

3. ADJ Someone or something that is a household name or word is very well known. 家喻户晓的[ADJ n]

例：Today, fashion designers are household names.

如今，服装设计师们家喻户晓。

2、fiction /?f?k??n/ n. 小说；虚构或想象出来的事

1. N-UNCOUNT Fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and events, rather than books about real people or events. 小说

例：Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction.

移民故事一直是小说的流行主题。

2. see also science fiction

3. N-UNCOUNT A statement or account that is fiction is not true. 虚构

例：The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined.

这个故事是真实还是虚构，一直没有定论。

4. N-COUNT If something is a fiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true. 假象

例：Total recycling is a fiction.

完全回收利用是假象。

3、desire /d??za??/ n. 渴望；欲望；渴求vt.希望得到；想要

1. N-COUNT A desire is a strong wish to do or have something. 愿望

例：I had a strong desire to help and care for people.

我有一股强烈的帮助和关心别人的愿望。

2. V-T If you desire something, you want it. 想要[正式][no cont]

例：She had remarried and desired a child with her new husband.

她再婚了，想跟新任丈夫生一个孩子。

3. desired ADJ想要的; 渴望的[ADJ n]

例：You may find that just threatening this course of action will produce the desired effect.

你会发现仅仅是威胁要采取这个行动就能产生想要的效果。

4. N-UNCOUNT Desire for someone is a strong feeling of wanting to have sex with them.

性欲

例：It's common to lose your sexual desire when you have your first child.

有了第一个孩子后，丧失性欲是常见的事。

4、△Isaac Asimov 艾萨克?阿西莫夫

5、satisfaction /?s?t?s?f?k??n/ n. 满意；满足；令人满意的事物

1. N-UNCOUNT Satisfaction is the pleasure that you feel when you do something or get something that you wanted or needed to do or get. 满意

例：She felt a small glow of satisfaction.

她感到了一丝满足的喜悦。

例：Both sides expressed satisfaction with the progress so far.

双方都对目前的进展表示满意。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you get satisfaction from someone, you get money or an apology from them because you have been treated badly. 赔偿; 补偿

例：If you can't get any satisfaction, complain to the park owner.

如果你得不到任何赔偿，就向公园的所有者投诉。

3. PHRASE If you do something to someone's satisfaction, they are happy with the way that you have done it. 令某人满意

例：She never could seem to do anything right or to his satisfaction.

她似乎从来不会做任何正确或令他满意的事情。

6、△Larry Belmont 拉里?贝尔蒙特

7、test out 试验；考验

1、With these rules encoded into the JET templates, you are pretty much done, and you can now test out the transformation.

随着这些规则被编码到JET模版中，您已经很好的完成了这些工作，现在您可以测试这些转换了。

2、Rather than trying to figure it all out on paper or in your head, get out into the real world and test out

还在尝试在脑中或者纸上找出你的想法？请回到现实的世界来，考验你并不成熟的想法。

3. An up-or-out strategy was how I described it to my wife, one last shot to test out my ideas before I settled into a calmer, more stable, and better-paying existence.

我向老婆提出了这条“不进则退”的方针，在我安定于一个更平和的、更安稳的、更高收入的生活状态之前，我给自己最后一次机会来考验我的理念。

8、△Claire n. 克莱尔（女名）

9、bonus/?b??n?s/ n. 额外津贴；奖金；红利

1. N-COUNT A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard. 奖金

例：Workers in big firms receive a substantial part of their pay in the form of bonuses and overtime.

大公司的工人，工资很大一部分是奖金和加班费。

例：...a $60 bonus. …一笔$60的奖金。

2. N-COUNT A bonus is something good that you get in addition to something else, and which you would not usually expect. 额外收获

例：We felt we might finish third. Any better would be a bonus.

我们觉得我们可能得第三名。任何更好的结果都是意外收获。

10、alarm/??lɑ?m/ vt. 使警觉；使惊恐；惊动n.警报；惊恐

1. N-UNCOUNT Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. 惊恐

例：The news was greeted with alarm by senators.

参议员们听到这个消息后很惊恐。

2. V-T If something alarms you, it makes you afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. 使惊恐

例：We could not see what had alarmed him.

我们不明白是什么吓着他了。

3. N-COUNT An alarm is an automatic device that warns you of danger, for example, by ringing a bell. 警报器

例：He heard the alarm go off.

他听见警报器响了。

4. N-COUNT An alarm is the same as an . 闹钟

例：Dad set the alarm for eight the next day.

爸爸把闹钟设到了第2天8点。

5. see also alarmed, alarming, car alarm, false alarm, fire alarm

6. PHRASE If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something. 危险信号

例：This has set the alarm bells ringing in Moscow.

这已给莫斯科拉响了警报。

7. PHRASE If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger. 发出警报例：His family raised the alarm when he had not come home by 9 p.m.

当他到晚上9点还没回家时，他的家人报了警。

11、alarmed /??lɑ?md/ adj. 担心的；害怕的

ADJ If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. 恐慌的

例：They should not be too alarmed by the press reports.

他们不应该被媒体报道搞得过于恐慌。

12、apron /?e?pr?n/ n.围裙

N-COUNT An apron is a piece of clothing that you put on over the front of your normal clothes and tie around your waist, especially when you are cooking, in order to prevent your clothes from getting dirty. 围裙

13、sympathy /?s?mp?θ?/ n. 同情（心）

1. N-UNCOUNT If you have sympathy for someone who is in a bad situation, you are sorry for them, and show this in the way you behave toward them. 同情[also N in pl]

例：We expressed our sympathy for her loss.

我们对她的损失表示了同情。

例：I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever.

我从医生那儿得到的帮助极少，而且没得到任何同情。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you have sympathy with someone's ideas or opinions, you agree with them. 赞同[also N in pl, oft N 'with/for' n]

例：I have some sympathy with this point of view.

我对这一观点有些赞同。

例：Lithuania still commands considerable international sympathy for its cause.

立陶宛仍得到相当多对其事业的国际支持。

3. N-UNCOUNT If you take some action in sympathy with someone else, you do it in order to show that you support them. 支持

例：Several hundred workers struck in sympathy with their colleagues.

几百名工人举行罢工以示对其工友们的支持。

14、overweight /???v??we?t/ adj. 超重的；体重超常的

ADJ Someone who is overweight weighs more than is considered healthy or attractive. 超重的

例：Being even moderately overweight increases your risk of developing high blood pressure. 即便只是稍微超重也会增加你患上高血压的风险。

15、elegant /??l?ɡ?nt/ adj. 优雅的；高雅的；讲究的

1. ADJ If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasing and graceful in appearance or style. 优雅的

例：Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always.

帕特丽夏看上去跟往常一样美丽优雅。

2. elegance N-UNCOUNT优雅

例：The furniture managed to combine practicality with elegance.

这家具结合了实用与优雅。

3. ADJ If you describe a piece of writing, an idea, or a plan as elegant, you mean that it is simple, clear, and clever. 精妙的

例：The document impressed me with its elegant simplicity.

这份文件以其精妙的简约给我留下了深刻的印象。

4. elegantly ADV精妙地

例：...an elegantly simple idea. …一个精妙地简单的主意。

16、△Gladys Claffern 格拉迪斯?克拉芬

17、favour /?fe?v?/ n. 喜爱；恩惠vt.喜爱；偏袒

1. N-UNCOUNT If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them. 喜爱; 支持

例：It remains to be seen if the show will find favour with an audience.

这场演出是否将获得观众喜爱还要拭目以待。

例：No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule.

没有人会支持继续的军事统治。

2. N-COUNT If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to. 恩惠

例：I've come to ask you to do me a favour.

我是来请你帮我一个忙的。

3. V-T If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available. 更喜欢

例：The French say they favour a transition to democracy.

法国人说他们更喜欢向民主的过渡。

4. V-T If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people. 偏袒

例：The company has no rules about favouring U.S. citizens during layoffs.

该公司没有在裁员期间偏袒美国公民的规定。

5. PHRASE If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing. 支持

例：I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts.

我不会支持削减所得税。

例：Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness.

然而这是一个宣称全力支持开放的政府。

6. PHRASE If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something. 认为…正确

例：The Supreme Court ruled in Fitzgerald's favour.

最高法院判定菲茨杰拉德胜诉。

7. PHRASE If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage. 有助于; 有利于

例：The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside. 农民们享受到的保护几乎就是对农村有利的一种偏袒。

8. PHRASE If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first. (两物相比之下) 宁愿选择

例：The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.

这一政策未被采纳，而是选择了一个更谨慎的方法。

9. PHRASE If someone or something is in favour, people like or support them. If they are out of favour, people no longer like or support them. 得宠/失宠; 得到/失去…的支持

例：Governments and party leaders can only hope to remain in favour with the public for so long.

政府和政党领导人们只能希望一直得到公众的支持。

18、pile /pa?l/ n. 堆；摞；叠vi.堆起；堆积vt.把……堆起；积聚

1. N-COUNT A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides. 堆

例：...a pile of sand. …一堆沙子。

例：...a little pile of crumbs.

…一小堆面包屑。

2. N-COUNT A pile of things is a quantity of things that have been put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below. 叠

例：...a pile of boxes. …一叠盒子。

例：We sat in Sam's study, among the piles of books.

我们坐在萨姆的书房里，在一叠叠的书中间。

3. V-T If you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile. 堆放

例：He was piling clothes into the suitcase.

他正把衣服叠放到手提箱中去。

4. V-T If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things. 堆满[usu passive]

例：Tables were piled high with local produce.

桌子上高高地堆满了土特产。

5. V-I If a group of people pile into or out of a vehicle, they all get into it or out of it in a disorganized way. 涌入/出

例：They all piled into Jerry's car.

他们都挤进了杰里的车里。

6. N-COUNT Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts that are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood. 地桩

例：...settlements of wooden houses, set on piles along the shore.

…沿岸而建的吊脚木屋居民区。

7. Vto drive (piles) into the ground 将(地桩)打进地里

8. N-PLURAL Piles is an informal word meaning haemorrhoids. 痔疮

9. N-SING The pile of a carpet or of a fabric such as velvet is its soft surface. It consists of a lot of little threads standing on end. 绒面

例：...the carpet's thick pile. …地毯厚厚的绒面。

10. PHRASE Someone who is at the bottom of the pile is low down in society or low down in an organization. Someone who is at the top of the pile is high up in society or high up in an organization. 处于...的下层或上层[非正式]

例：These workers are fed up with being at the bottom of the pile when it comes to pay.

这些工人受够了收入水平处于底层的苦恼。

19、scan /sk?n/ vt. 细看；仔细检查；粗略地看；浏览，扫描；

1. V-T/V-I When you scan written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information. 浏览

例：She scanned the advertisement pages of the newspapers.

她浏览了报纸的广告页。

2. N-SING Scan is also a noun. 浏览

例：I just had a quick scan through your book again.

我刚刚把你的书又作了一次浏览。

3. V-T/V-I When you scan a place or group of people, you look at it carefully, usually because you are looking for something or someone. 仔细察看[no passive]

例：The officer scanned the room.

警察仔细察看了那个房间。

例：She was nervous and kept scanning the crowd for Paul.

她很紧张，一直在人群中寻找保罗。

4. V-T If people scan something such as luggage, they examine it using a machine that can show or find things inside it that cannot be seen from the outside. (用机器) 扫描(行李等) 例：Their approach is to scan every checked-in bag with a bomb detector.

他们的做法是用炸弹探测器扫描每一个办理了登机手续的箱包。

5. V-T If a computer disk is scanned, a program on the computer checks the disk to make sure that it does not contain a virus. 扫描(计算机磁盘以查病毒)[计算机]

例：Not all ISPs are equipped to scan for viruses.

并非所有的因特网服务供应商都有装备来扫描病毒。

6. V-T If a picture or document is scanned into a computer, a machine passes a beam of light over it to make a copy of it in the computer. 扫描(图片或文件)[计算机][usu passive]

例：The entire paper contents of all libraries will eventually be scanned into computers.

所有图书馆的全部纸质内容最终都会被扫描进电脑。

7. V-T If a radar or sonar machine scans an area, it examines or searches it by sending radar or sonar beams over it. (用雷达或声纳波束) 扫描

例：The ship's radar scanned the sea ahead.

船上的雷达扫描了前方海域。

8. N-COUNT A scan is a medical test in which a machine sends a beam of X-rays over a part of your body in order to check that it is healthy. (身体) 扫描检查

例：A brain scan revealed the blood clot.

脑部扫描检查发现了那个血块。

20、fingernail /?f??ɡ??ne?l/ n. 手指甲

N-COUNT Your fingernails are the thin hard areas at the end of each of your fingers. 手指甲21、absurd /?b?s??d, -?z??d/ adj. 荒谬的；可笑的

1. ADJ If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense. 荒谬的[表不满]

例：That's absurd.

那是荒谬的。

例：It's absurd to suggest that they knew what was going on but did nothing.

暗示说他们知道怎么回事但却袖手旁观是荒谬的。

2. N-SING The absurd is something that is absurd. 荒谬之事[正式]['the' N]

例：Connie had a sharp eye for the absurd.

康妮对荒谬之事有敏锐的眼光。

3. absurdlyADV荒谬地

例：Prices were still absurdly low, in his opinion.

在他看来，价格依然低得荒谬。

22、haircut /?h???k?t/ n. 发型；理发

1. N-COUNT If you get a haircut, someone cuts your hair for you. 理发

例：Your hair is all right; it's just that you need a haircut.

你的头发没问题，只是你需要理个发。

2. N-COUNT A haircut is the style in which your hair has been cut. 发型

例：Who's that guy with the funny haircut?

那个发型古怪的家伙是谁？

23、△makeup /?me?k?p/ n. 化妆品

1. N-UNCOUNT Makeup consists of things such as lipstick, eye shadow, and powder which some women put on their faces to make themselves look more attractive or which actors use to change or improve their appearance. 化妆品

例：Normally she wore little makeup, but this evening was clearly an exception.

通常她很少化妆，可今晚显然是个例外。

2. N-UNCOUNT Someone's makeup is their nature and the various qualities in their character. 性格

例：There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand.

他性格中有某种致命的缺陷，随着时间的推移，他要么陷入长时间沉默要么行为随便。

3. N-UNCOUNT The makeup of something consists of its different parts and the way these parts are arranged. 构造; 组成

例：The ideological makeup of the unions is now radically different from what it had been.

这些协会的意识形态构成如今与过去大相径庭。

24、accompany /??k?mp?n?/ vt. 陪伴；伴奏

1. V-T If you accompany someone, you go somewhere with them. 陪伴[正式]

例：Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa.

肯同意陪我去非洲旅行。

例：She was accompanied by her younger brother.

她由她的弟弟陪着。

2. V-T If one thing accompanies another, it happens or exists at the same time, or as a result of it. 与…相伴[正式]

例：This volume of essays was designed to accompany an exhibition in Seattle.

这部论文集是为配合西雅图的展览设计的。

3. V-T If you accompany a singer or a musician, you play one part of a piece of music while they sing or play the main tune. 为…伴奏

例：On Meredith's new recording, Eddie Higgins accompanies her on all but one song.

在梅瑞迪斯的新唱片中，艾迪·希金斯为她伴奏了除一首歌以外的所有歌曲。

25、cushion /?k???n/ n. （坐、跪时用的）软垫；靠垫；垫子

1. N-COUNT A cushion is a fabric case filled with soft material, which you put on a seat to make it more comfortable. 坐垫

例：...a velvet cushion. …一个天鹅绒坐垫。

2. N-COUNT A cushion is a soft pad or barrier, especially one that protects something. 软垫例：The company provides a styrofoam cushion to protect the tablets during shipping.

该公司提供一种聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料垫层用来在装运时保护牌匾。

3. N-COUNT Something that is a cushion against something unpleasant reduces its effect. 缓解物

例：Welfare provides a cushion against hardship.

福利给困苦提供了一个缓解。

4. V-T Something that cushions an object when it hits something protects it by reducing the force of the impact. 缓冲

例：There is also a new steering wheel with an energy-absorbing rim to cushion the driver's head in the worst impacts.

还有新式方向盘，其边缘具有减震功能在最严重的冲击中缓冲保护司机的头部。

5. V-T To cushion the effect of something unpleasant means to reduce it. 缓解

例：They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform.

他们说需要西方国家的援助以缓解重大变革的冲击。

26、bedding /?b?d??/ n. 寝具；铺盖

N-UNCOUNT Bedding is sheets, blankets, and covers that are used on beds. 床上用品例：...a crib with two full sets of bedding.

…有两整套床单被褥的婴儿床。

27、necklace /?n?kl?s/ n. 项链

N-COUNT A necklace is a piece of jewellery such as a chain or a string of beads which someone, usually a woman, wears around their neck. 项链

例：...a diamond necklace and matching earrings.

…一条钻石项链和与之相配的耳环。

28、clerk /klɑ?k/ n. 售货员；职员；旅馆接待员

1. N-COUNT A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to keep the records or accounts. 文书; (法庭) 书记员

例：She was offered a job as a clerk with a travel agency.

她找到了在一家旅行社做文书的工作。

2. N-COUNT In a hotel, office, or hospital, a clerk is the person whose job is to answer the telephone and deal with people when they arrive. 接待员[美国英语]

例：...a hotel clerk. …一名宾馆接待员。

3. N-COUNT A clerk is someone who sells things to customers in a shop. 售货员[美国英语]

例：Now Thomas was working as a clerk in a shop that sold leather goods.

现在托马斯在一家卖皮革品的店里做售货员。

4. V-I To clerk means to work as a clerk. 做文书工作[美国英语]

例：Gene clerked at the auction.

吉恩在拍卖行做文书工作。

29、counter /?ka?nt?/ n. 柜台；计数器

1. N-COUNT In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served. 柜台

例：...those guys we see working behind the counter at our local video rental shop.

…我们所见在本地音像出租商店柜台后工作的那些家伙。

2. N-COUNT A counter is a mechanical or electronic device which keeps a count of something and displays the total. 计数器

例：The new answering machine has a call counter.

这种新型的电话答录机有一个通话计数器。

3. N-COUNT A counter is a small, flat, round object used in board games. 棋子

例：...a versatile book which provides boards and counters for fifteen different games.

…一本为15种不同棋类游戏提供棋盘和棋子的多功能书。

4. V-T/V-I If you do something to counter a particular action or process, you do something which has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective. 抵消; 抗衡

例：The leadership discussed a plan of economic measures to counter the effects of such a blockade.

领导层讨论了一项经济措施计划来抵消如此封锁的影响。

例：Sears countered by filing an antitrust lawsuit.

西尔斯通过提交反垄断诉讼进行了反击。

5. N-SING Something that is a counter to something else has an opposite effect to it or makes it less effective. 抵消物

例：...NATO's traditional role as a counter to the military might of the Warsaw Pact.

…北大西洋公约组织作为华沙公约组织军事力量的遏制力量的传统角色。

6. PHRASE If a medicine can be bought over the counter, you do not need a prescription to buy it. 不用开处方地

例：Are you taking any other medicines whether on prescription or bought over the counter? 你还要其他药吗，不管是处方药还是非处方药？

例：...over-the-counter medicines. …非处方药。

7. PHRASE Over-the-counter shares are bought and sold directly rather than on a stock exchange. 不通过交易所的[商业]

例：In national over-the-counter trading yesterday, Clarcor shares tumbled $6.125 to close at $35.625.

昨天在全国场外交易中，克拉克股票跌$6.125，以$35.625收盘。

30、ring up给……打电话

1. PHRASAL VERB If a shop assistant rings up a sale on a cash register, he or she presses the keys in order to record the amount that is being spent. 把(销售额) 记入(收款机)

例：She was ringing up her sale on an ancient cash register.

她在把销售额记入那台老旧的收款机。

2. PHRASAL VERB If a company rings up an amount of money, usually a large amount of money, it makes that amount of money in sales or profits. 挣得(大笔钱)

例：The advertising agency rang up 1.4 billion dollars in yearly sales.

这家广告代理商的年销售额达14亿美元。

31、turn around (turning, turned, turns) 转向；回转

1. PHRASAL VERB If you turn something around, or if it turns around, it is moved so that it faces the opposite direction. 转向反方向

例：Bud turned the truck around, and started back for Dalton Pond.

巴德把卡车调了个头，开始返回道尔顿池塘。

例：He had reached over to turn around a bottle of champagne so that the label didn't show.

他伸过手把一瓶香槟酒转过去，使它的标签显露不出来。

2. PHRASAL VERB If something such as a business or economy turns around, or if someone turns it around, it becomes successful, after being unsuccessful for a period of time. (生意或经济) 好转[商业]

例：Turning the company around won't be easy. 使公司好转不容易。

例：In his long career, Horton turned around two entire divisions.

在他漫长的职业生涯中，霍顿曾使整整两个分部扭亏为盈。

32、awful /???f?l/ adj. 极坏的；极讨厌的；可怕的；（口语）糟透的

1. ADJ If you say that someone or something is awful, you dislike that person or thing or you think that they are not very good. 令人讨厌的

例：We met and I thought he was awful.

我们见了面，我觉得他令人讨厌。

例：...an awful smell of paint.

…一股难闻的油漆味。

2. ADJ If you say that something is awful, you mean that it is extremely unpleasant, shocking, or bad. 糟透的

例：Her injuries were massive. It was awful.

她的伤势很严重，糟透了。

3. ADJ If you look or feel awful, you look or feel ill. 难受的[v-link ADJ]

例：I hardly slept at all and felt pretty awful.

我几乎没睡，感觉挺难受。

4. ADJ You can use awful with noun groups that refer to an amount in order to emphasize how large that amount is. 极度的[强调][ADJ n]

例：I've got an awful lot of work to do.

我有极多的工作要做。

5. awfully ADV极度地

例：The caramel looks awfully good.

这种黄油奶糖看上去棒极了。

33、affair /??f??/ n. 事务；事情；暖昧关系

1. N-SING If an event or a series of events has been mentioned and you want to talk about it again, you can refer to it as the affair. 事件

例：The administration has mishandled the whole affair.

政府错误地处理了整个事件。

2. N-SING You can refer to an important or interesting event or situation as "the ... affair." (…) 事件[journalism]

例：...the damage caused to the CIA and FBI in the aftermath of the Watergate affair.

…水门事件过后对中情局和美国联帮调查局造成的损害。

3. N-SING You can describe the main quality of an event by saying that it is a particular kind of affair. (某种性质的) 事

例：Michael said that his planned 10-day visit would be a purely private affair.

迈克尔说他计划的10天的访问将是一件纯粹私事。

4. N-COUNT If two people who are not married to each other have an affair, they have a sexual relationship. 不正当关系

例：Married male supervisors were carrying on affairs with female subordinates in the office. 已婚男上司和办公室里的女下级在搞不正当关系。

5. see also love affair

6. N-PLURAL You can use affairs to refer to all the important facts or activities that are connected with a particular subject. (有关某话题的) 事务

例：He does not want to interfere in the internal affairs of another country.

他不想干涉他国的内部事务。

7. see also current affairs, state of affairs

8. N-PLURAL Your affairs are all the matters connected with your life that you consider to be private and normally deal with yourself. (个人的) 事情

例：The unexpectedness of my father's death meant that his affairs were not entirely in order. 我父亲的意外过世意味着他的个人事情不是完全有序。

34、armchair /?ɑ?m?t???/ n. 扶手椅；单座沙发

1. N-COUNT An armchair is a big comfortable chair that has a support on each side for your arms. 扶手椅

例：She was sitting in an armchair with blankets wrapped around her.

她当时正裹着毯子坐在一把扶手椅里。

2. ADJ An armchair critic, fan, or traveller knows about a particular subject from reading or hearing about it rather than from practical experience. 足不出户的[ADJ n]

例：This great book is ideal for both the travelling supporter and the armchair fan.

这本了不起的书对于旅行的和足不出户的支持者们都是理想的。

35、declare /d??kl??/ vt. 宣布；声明；表明；宣称(declaring, declared, declares)

1. V-T If you declare that something is true, you say that it is true in a firm, deliberate way. You can also declare an attitude or intention. 声明; 表明[书面]

例：He declared he would not run for a second term as president.

他声明不再竞选连任总统。

例：He declared his intention to become the best golfer in the world.

他表明了要成为世界上最佳高尔夫球手的意愿。

2. V-T If you declare something, you state officially and formally that it exists or is the case. 宣告

例：The government is ready to declare a permanent ceasefire.

政府已经准备好宣布永久停火。

例：His lawyers are confident that the judges will declare Mr. Stevens innocent.

他的律师们确信法官们会宣布史蒂文斯先生无罪。

3. V-T If you declare goods that you have bought in another country or money that you have earned, you say how much you have bought or earned so that you can pay tax on it. 申报(在国外所购之物或收入等)

例：Declaring the wrong income by mistake will no longer lead to an automatic fine.

由于失误申报收入不符的不再予以自动罚款。

36、cuisine /kw??zi?n/ n. 烹饪（风味）；菜肴(cuisines)

N-V ARThe cuisine of a country or district is the style of cooking that is characteristic of that place. 烹调风格

例：The cuisine of Japan is low in fat.

日式烹调脂肪含量低。

37、envy /??nv?/ vt. 忌妒；羡慕(envying, envied, envies)

1. N-UNCOUNT Envy is the feeling you have when you wish you could have the same thing or quality that someone else has. 羡慕

例：Gradually he began to acknowledge his feelings of envy towards his mother.

渐渐地他开始承认自己对母亲的羡慕。

2. V-T If you envy someone, you wish that you had the same things or qualities that they have. 羡慕

例：I don't envy the young ones who've become TV superstars and know no other world.

我不羡慕那些成为电视超级明星而对其他世界一无所知的年轻人。

3. N-SING If a thing or quality is the envy of someone, they wish very much that they could have or achieve it. 羡慕之处

例：Their economy is the envy of the developing world.

他们的经济令发展中国家羡慕。

38、leave…alone不管；别惹；让……一个人待着；和……单独在一起

1. 让…一个人呆着；撇下…一个人：

They leave their daughter alone in the house on weekdays.

平时他们把女儿独自留在家中。

2. 不理会；不管；别碰；别惹；不打扰：

The committe left alone his proposal.

委员会不理会他的建议。

Leave her alone. She is in a mood now.

别惹她，她现在情绪不好。

3. 更不用说，更不消说：

In old China there was hardly any machine-building industry, leave alone an automobile industry.

在旧中国几乎没有机器制造工业，更不消说汽车制造业了。

39、digital /?d?d??t?l/ adj. 数字的；数码的；手指的；脚趾的

1. ADJ Digital systems record or transmit information in the form of thousands of very small signals. 数码的

例：The new digital technology would allow a rapid expansion in the number of TV channels. 新的数码技术可使电视频道的数量得以快速增多。

2. ADJ Digital devices such as watches or clocks give information by displaying numbers rather than by having a pointer which moves round a dial. Compare . 数字的[ADJ n] 例：...a digital display. …数字显示。

3. PHRASE People sometimes refer to poorer people's lack of access to the latest computer technology as the digital divide. 数字鸿沟[journalism]['the/a' PHR]

例：...an attempt to reduce the "digital divide" between poor students who have no computers and those from well-off families who do.

…缩小没有电脑的贫困生和有电脑的富裕家庭学生之间的“数字鸿沟”的努力。

40、mailbox /?me?l?b?ks/ n. （美）邮筒；信箱(mailboxes)

1. N-COUNT A mailbox is a box outside your house where your letters are delivered. 信箱[美国英语]

2. N-COUNT A mailbox is a metal box in a public place, where you put letters and small packages to be collected. They are then sorted and delivered. 邮筒[美国英语]

3. N-COUNT On a computer, your mailbox is the file where your e-mail is stored. 电子邮箱例：The prank crammed his mailbox with computer-delivered electronic junk mail.

该恶作剧病毒把他的邮箱塞满计算机发送的电子垃圾邮件。

41、state /ste?t/ vt. 陈述；宣布(stating, stated, states)

1. N-COUNT You can refer to countries as states, particularly when you are discussing politics. (政治上所指的) 国家

例：Mexico is a secular state and does not have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

墨西哥是个非宗教国家，和梵蒂冈没有外交关系。

2. N-COUNT Some large countries such as the U.S. are divided into smaller areas called states. (美国等大国的) 州

例：Leaders of the Southern states are meeting in Louisville.

南部各州的领导人们正在路易斯维尔会晤。

3. N-PROPER The U.S. is sometimes referred to as the States. 美国[非正式]

例：She bought it last year in the States.

她去年在美国买了它。

4. N-SING You can refer to the government of a country as the state. 政府

例：The state does not collect enough revenue to cover its expenditure.

政府没有征到足够的税来支付它的费用。

5. ADJ State industries or organizations are financed and organized by the government rather than private companies. 政府的; 国家的[ADJ n] See: state school

例：...reform of the state social-security system.

…国家社会保障体制的改革。

6. ADJ A state occasion is a formal one involving the head of a country. 国事的[ADJ n]

例：The president of the Czech Republic is in Washington on a state visit.

捷克共和国总统正在华盛顿进行国事访问。

7. N-COUNT When you talk about the state of someone or something, you are referring to the condition they are in or what they are like at a particular time. 状况; 状态

例：For the first few months after Daniel died, I was in a state of clinical depression.

丹尼尔去世后的头几个月，我一直处在临床抑郁状态。

8. V-T If you state something, you say or write it in a formal or definite way. 说明; 写明例：Clearly state your address and telephone number.

清楚地写明你的地址和电话号码。

例：The police report stated that he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife.

警方报告称，他因涉嫌殴打妻子而被捕。

9. see also head of state, welfare state

10. PHRASE If you say that someone is not in a fit state to do something, you mean that they are too upset or ill to do it. 不在(做某事的) 适宜状态

例：When you left our place, you weren't in a fit state to drive.

你离开我们家时，你的状态不适合开车。

11. PHRASE If you are in a state or if you get into a state, you are very upset or nervous about something. 处于苦恼状态; 处于焦虑状态

例：I was in a terrible state because nobody could understand why I had this illness.

我极度不安，因为没人能明白我为什么得了这种病。

12. PHRASE If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for

a few days before it is buried. (要人的遗体) 供瞻仰

例：...the 30,000 people who filed past the cardinal's body while it lay in state last week.

…上周红衣主教的遗体供瞻仰时排队瞻仰了的3万民众。

42、aside /??sa?d/ adv. 在一边；向一边

1. ADV If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you. (把某物移或放) 到一边地[ADV after v]

例：Sarah closed the book and laid it aside.

萨拉合上书并将其放到了一边。

2. ADV If you take or draw someone aside, you take them a little way away from a group of people in order to talk to them in private. (把某人带或拉) 到一旁地[ADV after v]

例：Latoya grabbed him by the elbow and took him aside.

拉托亚抓住他的胳膊肘把他带到了一旁。

3. ADV If you move aside, you get out of someone's way. 向一旁地[ADV after v]

例：She had been standing in the doorway, but now she stepped aside to let them pass.

她一直站在门道里，不过现在她让到一边让他们过去。

4. ADV If you set something such as time, money, or space aside for a particular purpose, you save it and do not use it for anything else. (存留) 在一边地[ADV after v]

例：While many parents are putting money aside for college tuition, some are taking on another big expense: buying cars for their teenagers.

许多父母在将钱留作大学学费时，然而有些则在进行另一项巨大开支：为他们十几岁的孩子们买车。

5. ADV If you brush or sweep aside a feeling or suggestion, you reject it. (拒绝而) 置于一旁地[ADV after v]

例：Talk to a friend who will really listen and not brush aside your feelings.

跟一个愿意真正倾听并不会置你的感受于不顾的朋友谈谈。

6. ADV You use aside to indicate that you have finished talking about something, or that you are leaving it out of your discussion, and that you are about to talk about something else. 除了例：Leaving aside the tiny minority who are clinically depressed, most people who have bad moods also have very good moods.

先不谈极少数患有临床抑郁症的人，大多数有坏情绪的人也有很好的情绪。

7. PHRASE You use aside from when you are making an exception to a general statement. 除…以外

例：The room was empty aside from one man seated beside the fire.

这个房间别无他人，除了一个坐在炉火旁的男人。

8. PHRASE You use aside from to indicate that you are aware of one aspect of a situation, but that you are going to focus on another aspect. 除…以外还

例：Quite aside from her tiredness, Amanda seemed unnaturally abstracted.

除了疲惫不堪，阿曼达看上去还一反常态地心不在焉。

43、set aside将……放在一边；为……节省或保留（钱或时间）(setting, sets)

1. PHRASAL VERB If you set something aside for a special use or purpose, you keep it available for that use or purpose. 省出; 抽出

例：Some doctors advise setting aside a certain hour each day for worry.

一些医生建议每天抽出一定时间思忧。

2. PHRASAL VERB If you set aside a belief, principle, or feeling, you decide that you will not be influenced by it. 把…抛在脑后

例：He urged the participants to set aside minor differences for the sake of achieving peace. 他敦促与会者把小分歧抛于脑后，以求实现和平。

44、grand /ɡr?nd/ adj. 大的；豪华的；雄伟的(grander, grand, grandest)

1. ADJ If you describe a building or a piece of scenery as grand, you mean that its size or appearance is very impressive. 宏伟的

例：This grand building in the centre of town used to be the hub of the capital's social life.

这座位于城镇中央的宏伟建筑曾经是首都社交生活的中心。

2. ADJGrand plans or actions are intended to achieve important results. (计划等) 宏大的

例：Hamilton revealed his grand design for the economic future of the United States.

汉密尔顿透露了他对美国未来经济的宏伟计划。

3. ADJ People who are grand think they are important or socially superior. 自视高贵的[表不满]

例：He is grander and even richer than the Prince of Wales.

他自视比威尔士王子还要高贵、还要富有。

4. ADJ A grand total is one that is the final amount or the final result of a calculation. 总计的[ADJ n]

例：It came to a grand total of $220,329.

总计是$220329。

5. ADJ Grand is often used in the names of buildings such as hotels, especially when they are very large. 大的(常用于大建筑物的名称前)[ADJ n]

例：They stayed at The Grand Hotel, Budapest.

他们下榻在布达佩斯大饭店。

6. N-COUNT A grand is a thousand dollars or a thousand pounds. 一千美元; 一千英镑[非正式]

例：They're paying you ten grand now for those adaptations of old plays.

他们现在要付你1万美元作为那些老剧目的改编费用。

45、△Marion n. 玛丽安（女名）

46、△alphabetical /??lf??b?t?k?l/ adj. 字母（表）的；按字母顺序的

ADJ Alphabetical means arranged according to the normal order of the letters in the alphabet. 按字母顺序的[ADJ n]

例：Their herbs and spices are arranged in alphabetical order on narrow open shelves.

他们的草药和调味品按照字母顺序列在狭窄、开放的架子上。

47、receiver /r??si?v?/ n. 收件人；接收机；电话听筒(receivers)

1. N-COUNT A telephone's receiver is the part that you hold near to your ear and speak into. 电话听筒

例：She picked up the receiver and started to dial.

她拿起听筒开始拨号。

2. N-COUNT A receiver is the part of a radio or television that picks up signals and converts them into sound or pictures. (收音机或电视机的) 信号接收器

例：Auto-tuning VHF receivers are now common in cars.

自动调谐的超高频信号接收器现普遍使用在小汽车上。

3. N-COUNT Thereceiver is someone who is appointed by a court of law to manage the affairs of a business, usually when it is facing financial failure. (法庭指定的) 破产接管人[商业][usu 'the' N]

例：...the receivers handling his bankruptcy case.

…处理他破产案子的接管人员们。

48、in all一共；总计

49、affection /??f?k??n/ n. 喜爱；爱；感情(affections)

1. N-UNCOUNT If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them. 喜爱

例：She thought of him with affection.

她怀着喜爱想起了他。

2. N-PLURAL Your affections are your feelings of love or fondness for someone. 感情

例：Caroline is the object of his affections.

卡罗琳是他感情的归属。

50、bound /ba?nd/ adj. 一定的；密切相关的

1. Bound is the past tense and past participle of . (bind)的过去式和过去分词

2. PHRASE If you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists. 必然会

例：There are bound to be price increases next year.

明年价格必然会上涨。

3. PHRASE If you say that something is bound to happen or be true, you feel confident and certain of it, although you have no definite knowledge or evidence. 应该会[口语]

例：I'll show it to Benjamin. He's bound to know.

我要让本杰明瞧瞧，他该知道。

4. ADJ(of a book) secured within a cover or binding (书)有封面的; (书)装订好的see also half-bound

例：to deliver bound books

5. ADJ If one person, thing, or situation is bound to another, they are closely associated with each other, and it is difficult for them to be separated or to escape from each other. 与…密切相关的[v-link ADJ 'to' n]

例：We are as tightly bound to the people we dislike as to the people we love.

我们与我们喜欢的以及不喜欢的人都一样密切相关。

6. ADJ If a vehicle or person is bound for a particular place, they are travelling toward it. 前往[v-link ADJ 'for' n]

例：The ship was bound for Italy. 这艘船是开往意大利的。

7. COMB in ADJ Bound is also a combining form. 开往

例：...a Texas-bound oil freighter.

…一艘开往得克萨斯州的油轮。

51、be bound to 一定做……

52、biography /ba???ɡr?f?/ n. （由他人撰写的）传记；传记文学(biographies)

1. N-COUNT A biography of someone is an account of their life, written by someone else.

传记

例：...recent biographies of Stalin.

…近年的斯大林传记。

2. N-UNCOUNT Biography is the branch of literature which deals with accounts of people's lives. 传记文学

例：...a volume of biography and criticism.

…一册传记文学与评论。

53 holy /?h??l?/ adj. 神的；上帝的；圣洁的(holier, holiest)

ADJ If you describe something as holy, you mean that it is considered to be special because it is connected with God or a particular religion. 有关上帝的; 神圣的

例：To them, as to all Poles, this is a holy place.

正如对所有的极地人一样，对他们来说，这里是个神圣的地方。

54、△imagination /??m?d???ne???n/ n. 想象（力）；创造力；幻想物(imaginations) 1. N-VAR Your imagination is the ability that you have to form pictures or ideas in your mind of things that are new and exciting, or things that you have not experienced. 想像力

例：Latanya is a woman with a vivid imagination.

拉坦尼娅是一个想像力丰富的女人。

2. N-COUNT Your imagination is the part of your mind that allows you to form pictures or ideas of things that do not necessarily exist in real life. 想像

例：Long before I ever went there, Africa was alive in my imagination.

早在我去非洲之前，它就栩栩如生地在我的脑海中了。

3. PHRASE If you say that someone or something captured your imagination, you mean that you thought they were interesting or exciting when you saw them or heard them for the first time. 引起某人的兴趣

例：Their music continues to capture the imagination of the American public.

他们的音乐持续吸引着美国公众的兴趣。

4. not by any stretch of the imagination See: stretch

55、△transfusion /tr?ns?fju???n/ n. 输血(transfusions)

N-V ARA transfusion is the same as a . 输血

56、part-time adj. 兼职的

1. ADJ If someone is a part-time worker or has a part-time job, they work for only part of each day or week. 部分时间的; 兼职的

例：Many businesses are cutting back by employing lower-paid part-time workers.

许多商家正通过雇佣低工资的兼职工来削减开支。

例：Part-time work is generally hard to find.

兼职工作一般很难找。

2. ADV Part-time is also an adverb. 部分时间地; 兼职地[ADV after v]

例：I want to work part-time. 我想做兼职。

57、△master’s degree硕士学位

58、staff /stɑ?f/ n. 全体员工；手杖(staffing, staffed, staffs)

1. N-COUNT-COLL The staff of an organization are the people who work for it. 全体职员例：The staff were very good.

员工们都很棒。

例：The outpatient programme has a staff of six people.

这个门诊部有6名员工。

例：...staff members. …职工。

2. see also chief of staff

3. N-PLURAL People who are part of a particular staff are often referred to as staff. 员工例：10 staff were allocated to the task.

10名员工被分派做这项任务。

4. V-T If an organization is staffed by particular people, they are the people who work for it. 担当(某机构的) 职员[usu passive]

例：They are staffed by volunteers.

他们的员工都是志愿者。

5. staffed ADJ配备了职员的[adv ADJ]

例：The house allocated to them was pleasant and spacious, and well staffed.

分给他们的房子既舒适又宽敞，员工也配备良好。

59、△Philadelphia n. 费城（美国宾西法尼亚州重要港口）

60、navy /?ne?v?/ n. 海军；海军部队(navies)

1. N-COUNT A country's navy consists of the people it employs to fight at sea, and the ships they use. 海军

例：The operation was organized by the US Navy.

这次行动是由美国海军组织的。

例：Her own son was also in the navy.

她自己的儿子也曾在海军里。

2. COLOR Something that is navy or navy-blue is very dark blue. 深蓝色的

例：When I was a fashion editor, I mostly wore white shirts and black or navy trousers.

当时尚编辑的时候，我大多数时间穿白衬衫和黑色或深蓝色裤子。

61、junior /?d?u?nj?/ adj. 较年幼的；资历较浅的；地位较低的n.年少者；晚辈；等级较低者(juniors)

1. ADJ A junior official or employee holds a low-ranking position in an organization or profession. 低级别的(官员、职员)

例：A handful of junior officers were made to bear responsibility for the incident.

几名下级军官被迫对此事件负责。

2. N-COUNT Junior is also a noun. 低级别者

例：He has said legal aid work is for juniors when they start out in the law.

他曾说过，法律援助工作适合初涉法律工作的低级别律师来做。

3. N-SING If you are someone's junior, you are younger than they are. 较年幼者

例：She now lives with actor Denis Lawson, 10 years her junior.

她现在和比她小10岁的演员丹尼斯·劳森同居。

4. N-COUNT In the United States, a student in the third year of high school or college is called a junior. (美国中学、大学) 三年级学生

例：Their youngest daughter Amy's a junior at the University of Evansville in Indiana.

他们最小的女儿埃米是印第安纳州埃文斯维尔大学的三年级学生。

5. N-IN-NAMES Junior is sometimes used after the name of the younger of two men in a family who have the same name, sometimes in order to prevent confusion. The abbreviation is also used. 用于家族中同名两男子中的较年幼者的姓名后[美国英语]

例：His son, Arthur Ochs Junior, is expected to succeed him as publisher.

他的儿子，小阿瑟·奥克斯，被期望来继承他做出版商。

62、△PhD=Doctor of Philosophy 哲学博士学