v. 刺入，刺穿，穿透( pierce的第三人称单数 )，冲破，突破；

[例句] One bullet pierced the left side of his chest...

[例句] Pierce the skin of the potato with a fork.

adj. 忙于琐事的，无关紧要的；n. 行商；v. （沿街）叫卖( peddle的现在分词 )，兜售，宣传，散播；

[例句] His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.

[例句] When a drug pusher offered the Los Angeles youngster $100 to peddle drugs, Jack refused.

n. 暴利，不正当利益；adj. 牟取暴利的；

[例句] ...a wave of profiteering and corruption.

n. 过路人，经过者；

[例句] A passer-by described what he saw moments after the car bomb had exploded...

[例句] I went and sat in a cafe and watched the passers-by.

n. （建房互助会的）存取款记录簿，（种族隔离时期所有黑人随身携带的）有色人种身份证；

adj. 引起偏见的，有损害的；

[例句] You could face up to eight years in jail for spreading rumours considered prejudicial to security...

[例句] The judge agreed with the prosecution that such information would be too prejudicial for the jury to hear.

n. 第二名，亚军，亚军队；

[例句] The ten runners-up will receive a case of wine.

[例句] ...Paul Azinger, the American who was runner-up to Faldo at Muirfield in 1987.

提高，标记；

[例句] You can sell it to them at a set wholesale price, allowing them to mark it up for retail...

[例句] A typical warehouse club marks up its goods by only 10 to 15 percent.

测量，估计；

[例句] It was fatiguing sometimes to try to measure up to her standard of perfection...

[例句] She's always comparing me to other people, and somehow I never measure up.

发射， 使向上升，毁坏，使沿…上升；

[例句] You sense he's sending himself up as well as everything else.

[例句] ...a spoof that sends up the macho world of fighter pilots.

搞错，弄错，出差错；

[例句] There were occasions when we slipped up...

[例句] You will see exactly where you are slipping up.

撕成碎片，挖开（地面等），撕掉，撕毁；

[例句] Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up...

[例句] The company came under furious attack from environmentalists for tearing up the forests.

n. 传粉者，传粉媒介，传粉昆虫，授花粉器；

n. 准备动作，热身，（使）加温，（使）变暖；

[例句] The exercises can be fun and a good warm-up for the latter part of the programme...

[例句] The criticism was merely a warm-up for what is being prepared for the finance minister...

n. 小猪；

adv.& prep. 在（…）顶上；

[例句] Under the newspaper, atop a sheet of paper, lay an envelope.

n. 山崩，地滑，崩塌，塌方；

[例句] Roads were flooded or blocked by landslips.

n. 停止，中止，减弱；

[例句] There was no let-up in the battle on the money markets yesterday...

[例句] There were no signs of any let-up in job-shedding.

n. 文书工作，纸上作业；

[例句] At every stage in the production there will be paperwork — forms to fill in, permissions to obtain, letters to write.

n. 法老；

[例句] ...Rameses II, Pharaoh of All Egypt.