n. 保护，守护，监护人的职责；

[例句] ...depriving mothers of the guardianship of their children.

n. 拦劫行人的强盗行为，劫盗，无理的讨价，停顿；

[例句] They arrived late due to a motorway hold-up.

adv. 据推测，大概，可能，想来；

[例句] Presumably the front door was locked when you came down this morning?...

[例句] The spear is presumably the murder weapon...

vt. 预制；

n. （强烈的）倾向，爱好，嗜好；

[例句] ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses...

[例句] He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.

n. 爆米花，保护物品的小片：大量用于包装及运输中保护物品的一种小片，如聚苯乙烯，淡黄色；

n. 肖像画法，描绘，描写，传真；

n. 可能力，（用复数）潜能，潜力。可能性；

[例句] The breathtaking potentialities of mechanization set the minds of manufacturers and merchants on fire...

[例句] All of these are quite useful breeds whose potentiality has not been realised.

adj. 第一的，最初的，原始的，首位的，主要的，根本的；

[例句] Jealousy is a primal emotion.

[例句] ...the primal mysteries of the earth.

adj. 危险的，不确定的，难对付的；

[例句] ...the parlous state of our economy.

adj. 金钱的，金钱上的；

[例句] She denies obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.

adj. 委婉的，迂回的，冗长的；

vt. 发假誓，作伪证；

[例句] Witnesses lied and perjured themselves...

[例句] She would rather perjure herself than admit to her sins.

adj. 烦人的，让人讨厌的；

[例句] ...as if he were a pesky tourist asking silly questions of a busy man.

adj. （声音）洪亮的，轰鸣的，（声音或图像）哀婉的，凄凉的；

[例句] ...plangent violins.

adj. 凑巧的，幸运的；

[例句] He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth...

[例句] The pistols were loaded so our escape is indeed providential.

adj. （时间、顺序等方面）近邻的，最接近的；

n. 极端或过分拘谨的人，（尤指对性问题）大惊小怪的人；

vt. 提供，供应；

[例句] ...one who would, for a hefty fee, purvey strategic advice to private corporations.

[例句] They have two restaurants that purvey dumplings and chicken noodle soup.

adj. 一般认定的，推定的，假定存在的；

[例句] ...a putative father.