tender，submit a tender，enter a bid，submit public bids in，bid ；
[例句] 工作人员不得投标承接私营部门的工作。 The staff are forbidden to tender for private-sector work.
[例句] 他已经投标来拯救这个岌岌可危的周刊。 He has submitted a bid to resuscitate the struggling magazine.
fruit，fruitage；
[例句] 新鲜的水果和蔬菜很重要，麦麸也是。 Fresh fruits and vegetables are important and so is bran.
[例句] 把水果和坚果放进罐子里，用白兰地酒浸泡。 Pack the fruits and nuts into the jars and cover with brandy.
put colour on，colour，dye，tinting，bepaint ；
[例句] 彩色玻璃板先经过蚀刻，然后用传统技法手工着色。 The stained-glass panels are etched and then handpainted using traditional methods.
[例句] 马上着色了. The dye took immediately.
be born，birth，born，come，come into the world ；
[例句] 他出生在布鲁克林的弗拉特布什一带，并在那儿长大成人。 He was born and grew up in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn.
[例句] 她出生在一场暴风雨中。 She was born in the middle of a rain storm.
blind，blindness ；
[例句] 他们对她的喜爱不久就发展到了盲目崇拜的地步。 Their affection for her soon increased almost to idolatry.
[例句] 伊娃对他的盲目信任让他感到宽慰。 He found comfort in Eva's blind faith in him.
[工] cradle，[建] bracket，bracketing，bracket mount，tray ；
[例句] 每个托架只用了3颗螺钉固定在墙上。 Each bracket is fixed to the wall with just three screws.
[例句] 把横梁用托架和螺丝固定。 Fix the beam with the brackets and screws.
less important，secondary，subordinate，minor，subordination ；
[例句] 见解独到的人士要么被调往次要的岗位，要么就不被提升。 Independent thinkers are shunted into minor jobs or refused promotion.
[例句] 次要情节之间的联系有点牵强。 The sub-plots are only tenuously interconnected.
take a picture，take pictures，have one's picture taken，take photographs ；
[例句] 我讨厌照相。 I hate being photographed.
[例句] 用闪光照相，要把光圈孔径定为5.6。 For flash photography, set the aperture at f.5.6.
offset，set-off，neutralize，negative，counteract ；
[例句] 他在想，各种影响能不能相互抵消。 He wonders if the different influences might not cancel each other out.
[例句] 这些缺点抵消了他在其他方面对待员工还算开明的态度。 These weaknesses negated his otherwise progressive attitude towards the staff.
take shape，engender，forming，shaping，figuration ；
[例句] 该产品还只是工程师头脑中尚未成形的想法。 The product is still only a gleam in an engineer's eye.
[例句] 他们角逐的市场尚未成形。 The market for which they are competing is still unformed.
[冶] foundry goods，foundry，cast，casting ；
[例句] 锌基合金的压铸件总是在氰化镀液中镀铜. Zinc base die castings are always copper plated in cyanide baths.
[例句] 如果顶钉调整不当,可能使铸件报废. Any out - of - adjustment pins can be reason for casting rejection.
[律] creditor's rights，obligatory right，right in personam，claim in personam ；
[例句] 谁也不曾把债权放在自己的盈亏总帐上计算过. Nobody dreamed of passing his bill to his profit and loss account.
[例句] 大农场主担心对于他们的土地将面对无根据的债权. Ranchers worry that they will face false claims to their land.
[电] coil，loop，turn，winding ；
[例句] 这是一对感应线圈. This is a double induction coil.
[例句] 烧穿的线圈应换新的. The burnt coil should be renewed.
population，the number of people in a family，populace ；
[例句] 索马里，人口790万，人均收入大约每周1.60英镑。 Somalia, pop. 7.9 million, income per head about £1.60 a week.
[例句] 各民族人口如此杂居，肯定会发生冲突。 The ethnic populations are so intermingled that there's bound to be conflict.
corn，Indian corn，maize，ear of maize，mealie ；
[例句] 他们向农民出价每蒲式耳2.15美元收购玉米。 They are offering farmers $2.15 a bushel for corn.
[例句] 艾奥瓦州今年玉米大丰收。 In the state of Iowa, it's been a bumper year for corn.
be in common use，be current，apply or be used universally，currency ；
[例句] 通用柴油动力火车头将车厢转轨到了4号月台。 The GM diesel engine shunted the coaches to Platform 4.
[例句] 通用汽车公司以大约4亿美元的价格购得了萨博汽车公司50%的股份。 General Motors acquired a 50% stake in Saab for about $400m.
movement，motion，act，start moving，action ；
diagram，graph，[数] graphic solution，graphic，diagrammatize ；
[例句] 戴恩本人就特别热衷的群图解的倡导者. Dehn himself was a particularly enthusiastic advocate of group diagrams.
[例句] 图解方法特别适用于起伏大的构造. This graphical technique is particularly applicable to high - relief structures.
size，measurement，dimension，magnitude；
[例句] 用鼠标拖动图片，将其调整为新的尺寸。 Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size.
[例句] 标准尺寸的三脚架可能会不便于使用，用于拍摄低角度的物体时尤其如此。 Full-size tripods can be awkward, especially if you'reshooting a low-level subject.
medical treatment ；
[例句] 这儿的医疗体制使问题进一步恶化。 The problem is compounded by the medical system here.
[例句] 医疗当局对其病因及有多致命都还不甚了解。 Medical authorities were baffled, both as to its causes and its virulence.