n. 鬼怪，幽灵( phantom的名词复数 )；

[例句] They vanished down the stairs like two phantoms...

[例句] The phantom used to appear unexpectedly, but mostly during the winter.

v. 变得苍白，失色，变得暗淡( pale的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Migrating birds filled the pale sky...

[例句] As we age, our skin becomes paler.

v. 祈祷，祷告( pray的第三人称单数 )，请求，恳求；

[例句] He spent his time in prison praying and studying...

[例句] Now all we have to do is help ourselves and to pray to God.

n. [电工学]初级线圈( primary的名词复数 )，[天文学]本行星，[核物理学]初级宇宙线，党内初选；

[例句] That's the primary reason the company's share price has held up so well...

[例句] I don't think young people's primary aim in life is to get drunk...

n. 精制，提纯，净化，精

[例句] I take wheat and yeast tablets daily to purify the blood...

[例句] Only purified water is used.

v. 掠夺，抢劫( plunder的现在分词 )；

[例句] They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster...

[例句] She faces charges of helping to plunder her country's treasury of billions of dollars...

adj. 急落的，猛冲的；v. （突如其来地）使发生( precipitate的现在分词 )，促成，猛然摔下，使沉淀；

[例句] The killings in Vilnius have precipitated the worst crisis yet...

[例句] A slight mistake could precipitate a disaster.

把…封起来，封住，密封，查封；

[例句] The paper was used for sealing up holes in walls and roofs.

把…拼合[凑]起来，连贯，拼凑，七拼八凑；

[例句] They've pieced together his movements for the last few days before his death...

[例句] In the following days, Francis was able to piece together what had happened...

adj. 远洋的，海面的；

adj. 贫穷的，赤贫的，吝啬的；

n. （在贸易或交往中形成的不同语种的）混杂语言，事务；

[例句] He's at ease speaking pidgin with the factory workers and guys on the docks.

[例句] The restaurant owner could only speak pidgin English.

n. （矿工）头上戴的小型照明灯；

n. 相互关系[联系，影响]，干扰；

[例句] ...the interrelationships between unemployment, crime, and imprisonment.

[例句] ...the interrelationship of biography and history.

abbr. ice point 冰点，illegal possession 非法占有，intersection point 交点，in passing 顺便；

n. 棒棒糖；

n. 止痛药；

n. 流动小贩，商贩，传播者；

n. 古生物学；

n. 广场，市场，走廊，游廊，连拱廊；

[例句] They were seated at a table outside a pub in a pleasant piazza close by St Paul's...

[例句] Turn south at Mulinello to reach Piazza Armerina.