resume one's post，be reinstated，in one's office，rehab，restoration ；
[例句] 一年后我们会对复职申请予以考虑和批准。 After a year we will sympathetically consider an application for reinstatement.
[例句] 父母们呼吁给她复职，但结果却只是徒劳。 Parents campaigned in vain for her reinstatement.
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.
tasteless，unpalatable，dull，insipid，insipidity ；
[例句] 今天的早餐会让首相感觉全然无味。 Breakfast will be a cheerless affair for the Prime Minister this morning.
[例句] 威斯敏斯特的许多工作非常枯燥无味令人厌烦。 A lot of the work was very dry and boring in Westminster.
chrisma，ointment，paste，unguent ；
[例句] 医生给他开了治疗脱皮的软膏。 He received ointment for his flaking skin.
[例句] 我的手指接触那软膏之后就疼起来了. My fingers are beginning to prick after touching that paste.
usurp，steal，grab，filch ；
[例句] 她受到不公正的指控，说她窃取钱财，随后即遭解雇。 She was unjustly accused of stealing money and then given the sack.
[例句] 从圣坛窃取耶稣受难像是亵渎神灵的行为. It is ( a ) sacrilege to steal a crucifix from an altar.
[医] prognosis ；
[例句] 如果癌症在早期发现，预后效果还是非常好的。 If the cancer is caught early the prognosis is excellent.
[例句] 警方干预后，局势平息下来。 The situation calmed down when police intervened.
seesaw，teeterboard，teetertotter ；
[例句] 然而婚姻是一块感情跷跷板。 Marriage, however, is an emotional seesaw.
[例句] 今年的价格像跷跷板一样时涨时跌. Prices have gone up and down like a seesaw this year.
动 （力求； 致力） strive for [after]，seek for，go after，look for ；
[例句] 影片尽管受到猛烈的批评,但公众却趋之若骛. The film got terrible review but the public were lapping it up.
[例句] 我们可以心无旁骛地从事科学研究. We could do our research and not concern ourselves with anything else.
no matter ，whether ... or ...，regardless of，irrespective of，without reference to ；
[例句] 该中心向所有人开放，不论种族和宗教信仰如何。 The centre is open to all, no matter what race or creed.
[例句] 任何人，不论宗教、肤色或信仰，都可以加入。 It takes in anybody regardless of religion, colour, or creed.
set off，serve as a foil to ；
[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] 蓝色底色将红色涂料衬托得愈加浓重。 The blue base gives the red paint more depth.
win a lawsuit，carry the cause，recover，win over ；
[例句] 他控告他们实行贸易管制，并且胜诉了。 He sued them for restraint of trade and won.
[例句] 希思对判决不服提出上诉，后来胜诉了。 Heath's appeal against the sentence was later successful.
youth，youthfulness，bloom，prime ；
[例句] 这是对他们从不曾真正拥有的青春时代的回归. It's a retreat into the adolescence they never really had.
[例句] 从许多方面来说，表演无疑是吃青春饭的行当。 Acting is definitely a young person's profession in many ways.
starlight，starshine ；
[例句] 他停下脚步试着让眼睛适应微弱的星光。 He stopped to try to adjust his vision to the faint starlight.
[例句] 天空一片深蓝色，其间星光闪烁。 The sky was deep blue and starry.
teach，lecture，give a lesson [lecture]，prelect，prelection ；
[例句] 他的讲课学生们都能轻松地听懂。 His lecture was readily intelligible to all the students.
[例句] 讲课中将不时插入实际示范。 Lectures will be interspersed with practical demonstrations.
studhorse，stallion，stud，[电影]Appaloosa；
[例句] 风一吹来，火星四溅，卢埃林的种马惊跳起来。 Llewelyn's stallion shied as the wind sent sparks flying.
[例句] 他们把矮种马赶进了畜栏。 They drove the ponies into a corral.
open a business，begin doing business，（做第一笔交易） the first transaction of a day's business，（雄伟开阔） wide and magnificent，debut ；
[例句] 大多数小企业在开张后的24个月内就倒闭了。 The majority of small businesses go broke within the first twenty-four months.
[例句] 我过会儿给你开张支票。 I'll write you a cheque in a moment.
[冶] upsetting ；
[例句] 介绍了石油钻杆端部镦锻加厚工艺基本原理及加厚方式. The basic principle and the method of oil drill pipe end upsetting process were presented.
[例句] 本文介绍了先进的TR镦锻法制造曲轴毛坯的工作原理. The paper introduces the working principle in making crankshafts by using advanced TR upsetting.
primer，priming，[化] base coat，ground coat ；
[例句] 很多现代的木船将采用环氧涂层作底漆。 On many modern wooden boats, epoxy coatings will have been used as a base for varnishing.
[例句] 工厂给汽车上了透明罩漆，以防底漆褪色。 Cars were covered with clear-coat finish at the factory to protect the underlying paint from fading.
verdant，fresh green，scallion ；
[例句] 春季的乡间一片青葱翠绿. The countryside is very green in spring.
[例句] 他在岛上的一片青葱苍翠之中游历. He travels through the lush and verdant landscape of the island.
leave school，discontinue one's schooling，drop out，flunk out ；
[例句] 一贯性急冲动的他又宣布要退学了。 With characteristic impetuosity, he announced he was leaving school.
[例句] 他16岁的时候就从中学退学了。 He'd dropped out of high school at the age of 16.