动 （断绝） cut off，sever；形 exhausted，used up，desperate，hopeless；副 extremely，most，absolutely，in the least；名 （绝句） jueju, a poem of four lines ；

[例句] 我们爬得越高，风景越是让人叹绝。 The higher we climbed, the more awe-inspiring the scenery became.

[例句] 这是谈情说爱的绝佳时机。 This is an excellent time for affairs of the heart.

refuse，reject，turn down，decline，abnegation ；

[例句] 在去往戛纳的途中，她拒绝了他的挑逗。 She rejected his advances during the trip to Cannes.

[例句] 这笔交易看上去太诱人了，要是拒绝它简直是笑话。 The deal seems so attractive it would be ridiculous to say no.

absolute，absolutely，perfectly，definitely，absoluteness ；

[例句] 工业部长将此事件形容为“绝对的丑闻”。 The industry minister described the affair as "an absolute scandal".

[例句] 我对它有绝对的把握。 I'm as positive as I can be about it.

[电]insulation，isolation，be cut off from，be isolated from，insulated ；

[例句] 他们几乎完全与外界绝缘了. They were almost completely cut off from the outside world.

[例句] 请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况. Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.

[物] adiabat，heat insulation，thermal isolation ；

[例句] 石棉能用来使烹调用的炉灶绝热. Asbestos can be used to insulate a cooking stove.

[例句] 脂肪是极好的抵御寒冷的绝热体。 Fat is an excellent insulator against the cold.

break off，cut off，stop，sever，discontinuity；

[例句] 他们还必须断绝与工会组织的联系。 They have yet to break the link with the trade unions.

[例句] 他搬走了，断绝了和家人的关系。 He moved away and broke off relations with the family.

completely cut off，isolated，isolation，[电影]The Divide；

[例句] 我自行与外界隔绝，仅以书和杂志为伴。 I locked myself away with books and magazines.

[例句] 他在自己防卫森严的宅院里把自己与外界隔绝开来。 He remains barricaded inside his heavily-fortified mansion.

deny oneself to，close one's doors，refuse，decline，decline with thanks ；

[例句] 我谢绝了他的提议。 I thanked him for the offer but turned it down.

[例句] 许多学生谢绝录音采访。 Many students declined to be interviewed on tape.

die out，become extinct，annihilation，depopulation，deracinate；

[例句] 目前，30%的爬行动物、鸟类和鱼类面临灭绝的危险。 30 percent of reptiles, birds, and fish are currently threatened with extinction.

[例句] 这将导致马鹿的灭绝。 It's going to be the death knell of the red deer.

give up all hope，despair，lose all hope of，hopelessness，acedia；

[例句] 我要克服所有的软弱、绝望和恐惧。 I would overcome any weakness, any despair, any fear.

[例句] 当他的精力耗尽时，他的绝望和担心也增加了。 As his energy drained away, his despair and worry grew.

[物] [数] absolute value，absolute，modulus ；

[例句] 根据欧洲标准，英国工资的绝对值依然很低。 In absolute terms British wages remain low by European standards.

[例句] 竖划表示绝对值. The bars denote the absolute value.

bold cliff，hanger，beetling wall，precipice，bluff ；

[例句] 卡车沿着赞比西山谷的绝壁缓缓行进。 The truck was trundling along the escarpment of the Zambesi valley.

[例句] 这里又有一座高低不平的城堡建在悬崖绝壁之上。 Here another rugged castle crowns the cliffs and crags.

decline，refuse ；

[例句] 她开出的条件好得让我们难以回绝。 She had made us an offer too good to refuse.

[例句] 17家出版社回绝了这部手稿，直到詹克斯看到了它的潜在价值。 Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript before Jenks saw its potential.

stop，completely eradicate，put an end to ；

[例句] 必须杜绝任何不道德的事发生。 Any sort of wrong-doing had to be rooted out.

[例句] 杂志接到投诉之后将杜绝使用此类语言。 The magazine will desist from such language after receiving complaints.

stamp [wipe] out，eliminate，eradicate，exterminate，extermination ；

[例句] 艺术不能影响行为. 它可以根绝干某种行动的愿望. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act.

[例句] 我们已经把那种流行病根绝了. We have stamped out the epidemic.

die out ；

[例句] 于是,这种鹿便在中国绝灭了. So the deer perished in China.

[例句] 这样一来却使它们免于绝灭. In doing so they were saved from extermination.

[生理] menopause，pausimenia ；

[例句] 绝经是自然的生理过程, 并非医学疾病. Menopause is a natural biological process, not a medical illness.

[例句] 但绝经后随着雌激素含量的降低, 27HC取而代之的与受体结合. But as estrogen declines after menopause, 27 HC takes over.

fast，go on a hunger strike，apastia ；

[例句] 那孩子躺在床上, 因绝食而显得脸色苍白,身子瘦弱. The boy lay on his bed, pale and thin from fasting.

[例句] 所有绝食的犯人均需强迫进食. All the prisoners on hunger strike had to be force - fed.

hopeless situation，impasse，blind alley，cul-de-sac，Serbonian bog；

[例句] 然而现在他就在这里，在绝境中寻求联盟。 Yet now he was here, in extremis, to seek an alliance.

[例句] 纵令 身处绝境, 他仍保持自己的威严. Even in great adversity, he retained [ kept ] his majesty.

unique，superb，extraordinary ；

[例句] 赞颂我们的主超绝万物! 我们确是不义的. Glory to our Lord! Verily we have been doing wrong!

[例句] 岩蛙其肉嫩味鲜, 营养丰富,口感超绝. Wei Xian - frog their tender, nutritious and superb taste.