a room used for secret purposes，penetralium，adytum，back room，backroom；
[例句] 人们曾经在密室里和游艇上搏斗. Men fought in back rooms and on barges.
[例句] 在丁梅斯代尔先生深锁的密室中, 有一条血淋淋的刑鞭. In Mr. Dimmesdale's secret closet, under lock and key, there was a bloody scourge.
[化] aerosol，airosol，gasoloid ；
[例句] 氡和钍射气的子体易被气溶胶吸附. The daughter nuclides of radon and thoron tend to become attached.
[例句] 在描述气溶胶时人们经常离题. When writing about aerosol one is continually invited to digress.
deep feeling，deep love，affectionateness，humaneness，[电影]Once Is Not Enough；
[例句] 利兹看到他们隔着桌子深情对视。 Liz saw their eyes meet fondly across the table.
[例句] 福特写给她的信饱含深情，向她吐露了心声。 Ford's letters to her are fond and confiding.
frighten，scare，shock，affright，take aback ；
[例句] 她被送往医院，好像是受了惊吓出现了失忆。 She was taken to hospital, apparently amnesiac and shocked.
[例句] 严重的惊吓会造成痤疮突发。 Severe shock can bring on an attack of acne.
baldric，bretelle，[工] shoulder harness，shoulder girdle，aiguillette ；
[例句] 他扭动身体，挣开背包的肩带。 He squirmed out of the straps of his backpack.
[例句] 这些包的肩带可以调整。 The bags have adjustable shoulder straps.
asphaltos，mineral pitch，asphaltum，albanite ；
mayor，Chief Executive，alcalde，burgomaster，demarch ；
[例句] 布拉德利将作为洛杉矶任期最长的市长被载入史册。 Bradley will go down in history as Los Angeles' longest serving mayor.
[例句] 为表彰他的奉献精神，市长授予他荣誉奖章。 For his dedication the Mayor awarded him a medal of merit.
assumed name，alias，pseudonym，（为使人不知真实姓名而改用别的名字） pass by [under] the name of，anonym ；
[例句] 他们的一名线人用车尔尼作化名。 One of their informers was working under the code name Czerny.
[例句] 他用化名在汉普郡的舰队街租了间房子。 Using an alias, he had rented a house in Fleet, Hampshire.
alkalinity，basicity，basicity ；
[例句] 灰分的碱度可能与纤维的细度有关. There is a possibility that alkalinity of ash is related to fiber fineness.
[例句] 在足够的温度和碱度的情况下, 脂护酯可能被水解产生皂类. At sufficiently high temperatures and alkalinity, fatty esters may be hydrolyzed to produce soaps.
it is said，they say，allegedly，as the story goes，reputedly ；
[例句] 据说巴士发生翻车，跌进了峡谷。 The bus is said to have over-turned and fallen into a ravine.
[例句] 据说帐篷的缝合处快炸线了。 The camps are said to be bursting at the seams.
special envoy，ambassador，embassador，ambassador-at-large，envoy ；
[例句] 总统派了一名特使参加和平谈判. The President sent a special envoy to the peace talks.
[例句] 科隆博是教皇保罗的特使吗？是他在委员会内部设下的卧底吗？ Was Colombo the emissary of Pope Paul, his Trojan horse within the Commission?
emissary，envoy，messenger，herald，legate ；
[例句] 他要求对这起暴力事件的幕后指使者作出惩戒性判决。 He demanded exemplary sentences for those behind the violence.
[例句] 他们把自己看作实现和平的使者。 They saw themselves as a bridge to peace.
husband or wife，spouse，（恋爱中男女的一方） sweetheart，husband，lover；
[例句] 听！我听见我爱人回来的脚步声了。 Hark. I hear the returning footsteps of my love.
[例句] 她形容她的爱人“各方面完美至极”。 She described her lover as "perfect in every way".
recluse，hermit，anchoret，anchorite，eremite；
[例句] 调查结果表明他原是一位隐士. Research has revealed him to be [ that he was ] a hermit.
[例句] 在古代中国, 隐士们通常都住在小村子里. In the ancient China, hermits usually lived in hamlets.
[书] （气愤； 抑郁不平） depressed and discontented，resentful ；
[例句] 不管谁批评他，他都心生愤懑。 He takes umbrage against anyone who criticises him.
[例句] 她答话时那轻蔑的语气波卡杭塔听了也会感到愤懑. She replied, with a scorn that Pocahontas might have resented.
old-age pension，pension，annuity，annuities，retirement pension ；
[例句] 他靠每周领取的作为病残养老金的直接转账救济支票过日子。 He lived on an invalidity pension which came as a weekly giro.
[例句] 他就要领取养老金了。 He is moving ever closer to drawing his pension.
formal reply，reply (formally)，answer，rejoinder ；
[例句] 他们没等德国人答复就接着往下推进。 They went ahead without waiting for a reply from the Germans.
[例句] 我未收到任何复函或答复。 I have received neither an acknowledgment nor a reply.
antimony，stibium，[化] stibonium，[医] antimonium ；
[例句] 锑的百分含量由各蓄电池生产厂自己掌握. The percentage of antimony may be left to the battery manufacturer.
[例句] 我国盛产锑. Antimony abounds in out country.
residence，place of residence，abode，dwelling place，digs ；
[例句] 他在派克街上有一幢3层楼的寓所. He occupies a three - story dwelling place on the Park Street.
[例句] 安妮回到寓所的时候早就过了午夜。 It was well after midnight by the time Anne returned to her apartment.
slot，gap，rift ；
[例句] 它已钻进了店里最隐避的隙缝. It has bedded into the deepest crevices of the store.
[例句] 然后在几条墨蓝色云霞的隙缝里闪出几个更红更亮的小片. After that, through the rifts in the inky clouds sparkled redder and yet more luminous particles.