midnight ；

[例句] 子夜钟声响起的时候，仪式开始了。 The ceremony started as the chimes of midnight struck.

[例句] 子夜已过, 我的40岁生日已经到来. It was past midnight, and my fortieth birthday had begun.

wedge，chock，peg，wooden peg，cleat ；

[例句] 他用木楔子取代钉子制作家具。 He builds furniture using wooden pegs instead of nails.

[例句] 他用锤子把楔子砸入石缝里。 He hammered the wedge into the crack in the stone.

wife；

[例句] 他有10万美元的人寿保险,如果他先去世, 他的妻子将得到这笔钱. He has $ 100, 000 life insurance, which his wife will receive if he dies first.

[例句] 他每年给妻子$100美元购买衣服. He allows his wife $ 100 a year for clothes.

tongs，pliers，pincers，forceps，pinchers ；

[例句] 他的外科手术器械是一把刀和一把钳子。 His surgical instruments were a knife and a pair of pincers.

[例句] 一把钳子 a pair of pincers

mirror，looking glass，glasses，spectacles，glass；

[例句] 浅色是挂放图画或镜子很有效果的衬托。 Light colours provide an effective backdrop for pictures or a mirror.

[例句] 脸盆架上方用钉子挂着一面镜子。 A mirror hung on a nail above the washstand.

ladder，stepladder，staircase ；

[例句] 她整个身体开始弯曲，搞得梯子倾侧起来。 Her whole body began to buckle, unbalancing the ladder.

[例句] 两名男子在船桥甲板上扶着一架梯子不让它摇晃。 Two men were on the bridge-deck, steadying a ladder.

megaspore，macrospore，gynospore ；

[例句] 心皮是由大孢子叶两边愈合进化而来的. It has evolved by fusion of the two edges of the megasporophyll.

[例句] 孢子异型:指植物产生两种大小不同的孢子: 小孢子和大孢子. Heterospory The production of two different sizes of spore: microspores and megaspores.

a prodigal son squandering the family fortune，black sheep，spendthrift，wastrel，a black sheep ；

[例句] 老子守财奴,儿子败家子. A miserly father makes a prodigal son.

[例句] 德克斯特一直就是他家的败家子. Dexter has always been the Black sheep of his family.

dealer，monger，trafficker ；

[例句] 该队队员装扮成毒品贩子，诱捕罪犯头目。 The team posed as drug dealers to trap the ringleaders.

[例句] 他们打算把街上所有的毒品贩子都清走。 They aim to clear every dealer from the street.

prodigal，loafer，wastrel，dissipator，libertine ；

[例句] 浪子回头金不换. A prodigal who returns is more precious than gold.

[例句] 他这个昔日浪子, 今日成了先进工作者. A former loafter, he is now an advanced worker.

leaf，foliage；

[例句] 它的叶子在灼热的阳光下微微耷拉着。 Its leaves drooped a little in the fierce heat of the sun.

[例句] 用销钉在顶上加固防护网，防止叶子落入。 Peg down netting over the top to keep out leaves.

[医] （暑天皮肤上所起红色或白色小疹） prickly heat，miliaria，rubra，sudamen，heat rash ；

[例句] 他背上起痱子了. Heat rash rises on his back.

[例句] 为什么长这么大还会长痱子 啊 ? Why to grow so big return chairman prickly heat?

chess pieces，chessman，draughtsman ；

[例句] 廷斯利博士在棋盘上还有5枚棋子，对手钦诺克还有4枚。 Dr Tinsley had five pieces on the board against Chinook's four.

[例句] 他们拿出棋盘把棋子摆好. They got out the chessboard and arranged the pieces.

dumpling （with meat and vegetable stuffing） ，jiao zi；

[例句] 在奥利里的推荐下，他们首先点了意大利饺子。 On O'Leary's recommendation, they started with tortellini.

[例句] 芳草鸡肉饺子 chicken with herb dumplings

[中药] Chinese gall，gallnut，[化] nutgall，gall apple，gall ；

[例句] 目的探讨五倍子的体外抑菌作用. Objective To research Galla Chinensis antibacterial effect in vitro.

[例句] 并且考察了五倍子的水解条件,筛选出较为理想的水解工艺. After the research the condition the optimum technique of hydrolysis was found.

[植] hyacinth，hyacinthus orientalis ；

[例句] 他把她压倒在草地上, 压倒在掉落满地的风信子花上. He pressed her down upon the grass, among the fallen bluebells.

[例句] 风信子掉到了地上. The bluebells had cascaded on to the ground.

left-handed person，left-hander，lefty，mancinism ；

[例句] 我注意到她是个左撇子。 I noticed she was left-handed.

[例句] 我想他的书写这么糟糕是因为他是左撇子。 I think it's due to being left handed that he's got terrible writing.

louse，cootie ；

[例句] 头上生虱子并不说明不讲个人卫生。 Infection with head lice is no reflection on personal hygiene.

[例句] 她总是害怕有个虱子逃过了他的惩处. Always she feared lest some louse had escaped her.

chopsticks ；

[例句] 他用 筷子 不大熟练. He's not very skilful with his chopsticks [ at using chopsticks ] .

[例句] 她用 筷子 不大熟练. She's not very skil ( l ) ful with her chopsticks [ at using chopsticks ] .

[医] embolus，embolism ；

[例句] 这个肺血栓栓子使肺动脉主干闭塞. This pulmonary thromboembolism is occluding the main pulmonary artery.

[例句] 鞍状栓子是猝死原因. Such a saddle embolus is a cause for sudden death.