sink，subside，cave in，submerge，go down ；
[例句] 布莱克很熟练地跳上了船，他的重量使小船微微向下沉了沉。 Blake jumped in expertly; the boat dipped slightly under his weight.
[例句] 救生船撞上了那艘正在下沉的船的侧身。 The lifeboat crashed against the side of the sinking ship.
名 covering cloth, silk or felt，tent，curtain，screen，act ；
[例句] 他所目睹的那一幕永久性地影响了他的神智。 His reason had been permanently affected by what he had witnessed.
[例句] 虽然她目睹了这可耻的一幕，但是这对他来说无关紧要。 The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.
employ，hire，engage ；
[例句] 现行雇佣法要变，要奖勤罚懒。 Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.
[例句] 英国雇佣法包括解决劳资纠纷的仲裁和调解机制。 UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.
whole，total，entire，entireness，wholly ；
[例句] 渐渐地，我对大学的整个体制感到相当失望。 I gradually got rather disillusioned with the whole setup of the university.
[例句] 他们本想在整个房间的木地板上都不铺地毯的。 They would have liked bare wooden floors throughout the house.
动 [书] （吟咏） softly chant (a poem)；
[例句] 他问我：“哦，你想要什么？” He goes to me: "Oh, what do you want?"
[例句] 警察冲她笑了笑，“这狗真漂亮。”——“哦，谢谢。” The policeman smiled at her. "Pretty dog."— "Oh well, thank you."
[航] the firmament，outer space，aether，firmament ；
[例句] 飞船上的6名宇航员将在太空度过10天。 The six astronauts on board will spend ten days in space.
[例句] 太空望远镜拍摄到了迄今为止最清晰的冥王星的照片。 The space telescope has taken the clearest pictures ever of Pluto.
flange，wheel flange，[木] felloe，felly，rim ；
[例句] 还配有轮缘部分具有减震功能的新型方向盘，以在受到严重撞击时保护司机的头部。 There is also a new steering wheel with an energy absorbing rim to cushion the driver's head in the worst impacts.
[例句] 水轮车轮子很大,轮缘周围装有叶片. Water wheel is a big wheel with blades around the rim.
twinning，pairing，gemination，twin ；
[例句] 把袜子配成对放入抽屉里. Pair the socks and put them in the drawer.
[例句] 手套不全成对. Not all the gloves would pair up.
形 （头脑发昏） dizzy，giddy；动 （昏迷） swoon，faint；
[例句] 在朋友家过夜让我觉得晕晕乎乎的。 An overnight stay at a friend's house disorients me.
[例句] 在街上看见有人饿晕是很平常的事。 It's commonplace to see people collapsing from hunger in the streets.
herbaceous，herbal，herbage ；
[例句] 我们自己生产护发产品,全部采用草本配方. We produce our own hair-care products, all based on herbal recipes.
[例句] 韩军对草本植物学非常感兴趣. Han Jun is interested in the botany of grasses.
oil well，wildcat ；
[例句] 大约650个油井起火。 About 650 wells are on fire.
[例句] 这口油井开始出油了. The well has come in.
draping，deafening，insulation，acoustical insulation，sound insulation ；
[例句] 当树木长大枝叶茂盛时,它们可以起到隔声的作用. Trees also serve as sound Barriers when full grown and leafed out.
[例句] 实施减轻环境影响的措施,包括建造隔声屏障和广泛植树. Environmental impact abatement measures including noise barriers and extensive planting.
[地物] （高空大气内具有电离现象的气层） ionized stratum，ionized layer，ionosphere，thermosphere，F layer ；
[例句] 电离层是指含有带电物质的空间区域. The ionosphere is that region of space contatining electrically charged species.
[例句] 其上限由电离层的状态而决定. Its upper limit is determined by the conditions in the ionosphere.
sheet metal，sheet，lamina，lamel，lamella ；
[例句] 木料被锯成大块的薄板。 The wood was cut into large sheets of veneer.
[例句] 环并不是看上去那样的固体薄板. The rings are not the solid sheets they appers to be.
malt，[农] grist，fructus hordei germinatus，wheat germ ；
[例句] 我从餐具柜里取出一瓶自己收藏的最好的麦芽威士忌。 I got a bottle of my best malt out of the sideboard.
[例句] 他又为自己倒了满满一大杯麦芽威士忌。 He poured himself another generous measure of malt.
[植] base material，bulk material，stroma，substrate ；
[例句] 生根的基质应当是湿润, 透气良好和消过毒的. The rooting medium should be moist, well aerated, and sterile.
[例句] 琥珀酸盐在以后的氧消耗中是最有效的基质. Succinate was the most effective substrate in following oxygen consumption.
silicate，Santocel，silikil，Micro cel ；
[例句] 究竟平衡作用发生在铬铁矿和硅酸盐下沉之前,还是在其后? Did equilibration take place before or after setting of chromite and silicates?
[例句] 如果脱模剂发粘, 则减少硅酸盐. If the mold spray is sticky, reduce the silicate.
Newton ；
[例句] 从克拉斯特到牛顿有一条两英里的海滨小径。 There is a 2 mile coastal walk from Craster to Newton.
[例句] 牛顿万有引力定律 Newton's law of gravity
[植] rugosa rose，rosa rugosa，rose，hep ；
[例句] 大家一定都很熟悉玫瑰中的老牌名品“水晶宫殿”。 Everyone must be familiar with the old favourite among roses, Crystal Palace.
[例句] 插图上是一簇杏橙色的玫瑰，一共5朵。 The illustration shows a cluster of five roses coloured apricot orange.
[植] sugarcane，sugar cane ；
[例句] 把受感染的甘蔗挖出来烧掉。 Dig out and burn infected canes.
[例句] 这甘蔗既甜又多汁. This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.