名 vapour，steam ；
[例句] 墙面材料和地板都应该能耐热汽且防水。 Wallcoverings and floors should be able to withstand steam and splashes.
[例句] 保罗把自己的拖拉机挂在汽车上，然后把它拉到了安全的地方。 Paul hooked his tractor to the car and pulled it to safety.
动 keep off，ward off，cover，block；名 fender，blind，gear；
[例句] 她选了低速挡小心翼翼地沿小径下行。 She selected a low gear and started down the track carefully.
[例句] 压下挡杆，直到听到挡挂好。 Press the lever until you hear the catch engage.
名 bamboo，woodwind instrument，bamboo strip [slip]，a surname ；
[例句] 如果你觉得出租车司机敲了你的竹杠，就说出来。 If you feel a taxi driver has overcharged you, say so.
[例句] 石头围墙比竹篱笆结实多了. The hedge of stones is much stronger than a wood hedge.
respond，answer，[物] [电] response，in answer to ；
[例句] 他呼救,但是无人响应. He called for help but nobody answered to his call.
[例句] 他们对募集资金的呼吁作出了慷慨的响应. They have made generous response to the appeals for funds.
数 nine，many，numerous；名 each of the nine nine-day periods beginning from the day after the Winter Solstice，a surname；
[例句] 他工作极为投入，会从早上七点一刻一直干到晚上九十点。 He works obsessively from 7.15 am to 9 or 10 at night.
[例句] 虽已年届九旬，她依然头脑敏锐，个性很强。 Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful.
名 kindness，favour，grace，a surname ；
[例句] 科恩星期天一整天都在家无所事事。 On Sunday Cohen lay around the house all day.
[例句] 他们还留下了一张名片，上面印着肖恩·林奇的名字。 They also left a card, imprinted with the name Sean Lynch.
动 collide，strike，bump into，meet by chance，bump ；
[例句] 他们用卡车猛撞大门。 They used a lorry to ram the main gate.
[例句] 马撞在货车上发出砰的一声巨响。 There was a loud thump as the horse crashed into the van.
名 [动]spiral shell，snail，conch，whorl ；
[例句] 绝大多数种类以吃螺为生。 Most species live off aquatic snails.
[例句] 它展现了螺杆泵采油系统在高粘稠油和出砂井等方面良好的应用前景。 It shows good application future in high viscid oil wells and sand product.
名 fee，expense，a surname，expenditure；动 （花费； 耗费） cost，expend，spend，waste；形 （耗费大） wasteful，consuming too much，expending sth. too quickly ；
last，final，ultimate，at length，bitter end ；
[例句] 我先挑出了所有通常留到最后的人。 I picked first all the people who usually were left till last.
[例句] 军队仍然是男人占据的最后堡垒之一。 The army is still one of the last male bastions.
export，exitus，exit，[电影]Rabbit Hole；
[例句] 出口商品不需要交购买税。 Purchase tax was not payable on goods for export.
[例句] 沿着15号州际公路一直向北，一过巴斯托就从出口驶出。 Go north on I-15 to the exit just past Barstow.
名 dream，a surname；动 （做梦） dream；
[例句] 她在梦中焦虑不安，反映了她白天生活的基调。 Her dreams were troubled, reflecting the tenor of her waking hours.
[例句] 在梦里你可以回到过去。 In a dream you can be transported back in time.
change qualitatively，transform，[物] decay，disintegration，metamorphosis；
[例句] 蝌蚪蜕变了，登上陆地。 The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.
[例句] 毛毛虫最终将蜕变成一只蝴蝶。 The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a butterfly.
名 face，countenance，front，feelings，mug ；
[例句] 他拉长了脸来找我。 He came to me with a very long face.
[例句] 她说话的时候直盯着他的脸。 She looked him full in the face as she spoke.
outline，line，lineament，contour profile，adumbration ；
[例句] 用黑色毡头笔画出基本轮廓（见图4）。 Draw the basic outlines in black felt-tip pen (see fig. 4).
[例句] 从上往下俯瞰，山谷呈现出人形轮廓。 Viewed from above, the valleys form the shape of a man.
stop up，close up，hard to get to，out-of-the-way，obstruction ；
[例句] 我都快忘了，伦敦有时看上去会多么地闭塞。 I've quite forgotten how closed in London can seem.
[例句] 以前这一带交通闭塞. In the past this district was very hard to get to.
名 （村庄） village，hamlet；形 （粗俗） rustic，boorish ；
[例句] 在格林尼治村的酒吧里杰克是人们心目中的英雄。 Jack was a folk hero in the Greenwich Village bars.
[例句] 几架马车仍然在破落的矿村中曲折行进。 A few horse-drawn carts still trundle through the dilapidated mining villages.
动 （欺骗） deceive，cheat，bully ；
[例句] 他恃强欺弱，总是想吓得人们按他的意愿做事。 He was a bully. He tried to frighten people into doing what he wanted.
[例句] 恃强欺弱者能让你的日子像活地狱。 Bullies can make your life hell.
train，drill，manage，practice，break in ；
[例句] 如果训练得当，她会成为一名出色的演员。 She'll make a good actress, if she gets the right training.
[例句] 那些离开该省出国打工的人大部分都未经专门训练。 Most of those who left the province to work abroad were unskilled.
名 （金属元素） copper (Cu)，cuprum ；
[例句] 它们有哑铜的，古铜的和镀银的。 They are available in polished brass, antique brass or silver-plate.
[例句] 萨尔瓦多每年生产10万吨纯铜。 El Salvador produces 100,000 tons of refined copper annually.