careful，cautious，chary，gingerly，cagy ；

[例句] 这种对待金钱的过分谨慎的态度有时几近于吝啬。 This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.

[例句] 环保组织对首相的提议表示谨慎的欢迎. Environmental groups have given a guarded welcome to the Prime Minister's proposal.

quiet，calm，disimpassioned，equable，impassive ；

[例句] 她叹了口气，然后继续用温柔、平静的声音说下去。 She sighed, then continued in a soft, calm voice.

[例句] 他穿着简朴，过着平静的家庭生活。 He dressed simply and led a quiet family life.

honest，candid，[法] confessed，direct，forthright ；

[例句] 那个自己坦白的瘾君子在13个月前被逮捕。 The self-confessed drug addict was arrested 13 months ago.

[例句] 你在本镇的生活一直是公开坦白的 — 也许太公开坦白了. Your life in this town has been an open book - perhaps too.

cankerous，corrosive，[医] cauterant，escharotic，corrodent ；

[例句] 在工业上，金刚石可以用作工具表面坚固、耐腐蚀的覆盖层。 In industry, diamond can form a tough, non-corrosive coating for tools.

[例句] 工程师说钚可能会开始从遭腐蚀的潜艇往外渗透。 Engineers said that plutonium could begin seeping from the corroded sub.

flirtatious，chameleonic，giddy-brained，light-headed，featherbrained ；

[例句] 她是个轻浮的人. She is a giddy thing.

[例句] 他是个非常浅薄轻浮的人. He's a very trivial person.

inurbane，impolite，surly，disrespectful，abrupt ；

[例句] 他的唐突已到了无礼的地步。 He was abrupt to the point of rudeness.

[例句] 老师威胁着要把这无礼的小学生撵出教室. The teacher threatened to kick the impudent pupil out of the room.

extended，long-range，long-term，secular，long ；

[例句] 我们需要长期的解决办法，而不是一时的权宜之计。 We need long-term solutions, not short-term Band-Aid ones.

[例句] 双方经过长期的商谈终于达成了妥协。 After lengthy talks the two sides finally reached a compromise .

full，fleshy，crummy，plump，plummy ；

[例句] 体形较丰满的人穿夏装总是不那么好看。 Summer clothes are invariably less kind to fuller figures.

[例句] 梅利莎是个丰满的高个子金发美女。 Melissa was a tall, buxom blonde.

clerical，pastoral，ecclesiastic，reverend，cleric ；

[例句] 管家迅速来到牧师的书桌前接电话。 The housekeeper moved smartly to the Vicar's desk to answer the call.

[例句] 他以随军牧师的身份加入第40师。 He joined the 40th Division as an army chaplain.

alone，forlorn，[医] autistic，forsaken，cloistral ；

[例句] 他找的是孤独的人、失落的人和缺少爱的人。 He looks for the lonely, the lost, the unloved.

[例句] 可怜又孤独的老翁 a pathetic and lonely old man

comfortable，cozy，easeful，easy，homelike ；

[例句] 在热天里，应该穿凉快舒适的衣服。 In warm weather, you should wear clothing that is cool and comfortable.

[例句] 我们在布置得温暖而又舒适的客厅里休息了一会儿。 We took time to relax in the cosily decorated drawing room.

firm，steady，[法] uncompromising，decisive，steadfast ；

[例句] 部长们表示了对该体制坚定的信心。 The ministers issued an affirmation of their faith in the system.

[例句] 年轻选民是坚定的亲欧派。 Younger voters are strongly pro-European.

concrete，specific，particular，idiographic；

[例句] 农民能够得到某种具体的税收待遇。 A farmer is entitled to a certain particularized tax treatment.

[例句] 下午的小组谈到具体的上瘾病例以及其中的问题。 Afternoon groups relate to the specific addictions and problems therein.

arrogant，prideful，haughty，lordly，orgulous ；

[例句] 他们讨厌她高傲的派头. They were displeased with her haughty airs.

[例句] 整个市中心区有着一种高傲的神气,好像故意要让一些前来寻找职业的普通人感到惶恐不安. The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.

limited，finite，Ltd，restricted，Ld. ；

[例句] 你是专家，而我是个能力有限的愚笨牧师。 I'm a limited and obtuse clergyman while you're the expert.

[例句] 我有限的外交手腕儿受到了极其严峻的考验。 My limited diplomatic skills were tested to the utmost.

dutiful，faithful，[法] fake，leal，loyal ；

[例句] 他是位诗人，也是忠实的招魂论者。 He was a poet and an ardent spiritualist.

[例句] 她一直是他忠实的配偶. She has been a faithful mate to him.

clinking，crowning，unparalleled，incomparable，inimitable ；

[例句] 一般人认为有压力的事情在他看来却是快乐无比的事。 What normal people considered pressure was meat and drink to him.

[例句] 莫迪里阿尼画中的妇女都长着奇长无比的脸。 Modigliani's women have strangely elongated faces.

wasteful，lavish，[经] expensive，unproductive，consumptive ；

[例句] 他们正在寻找减少自然资源浪费的方法。 They are looking at ways of reducing the waste of natural resources.

[例句] 这是个浪费的时代. It was an extravagant age.

expatiatory，interminable，tediously long，lengthy，long ；

[例句] 这一章多为冗长的华丽词藻。 The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.

[例句] 他的冗长的演说使听众不耐烦了. He tired the audience with his long speech.

obdurate，pertinacious，refractory，stubborn，balky ；

[例句] “你是个很执拗的人，”她说道。“你这是批评呢，”我说，“还是只是发表评论而已？” "You're an obstinate man," she said. "Is that a criticism," I said, "or just an observation?".

[例句] 她比过去更同情尼尔忧郁而执拗的举止了。 She felt more sympathy for Neil's sombrely stolid manner than she ever had before.