v. 推进( propel的过去式和过去分词 )，推动，驱动，驱使；

[例句] The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.

[例句] It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place...

v. 剽窃，抄袭( plagiarize的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Moderates are plagiarizing his ideas in hopes of wooing voters...

[例句] The poem employs as its first lines a verse plagiarized from a billboard.

n. 预测( projection的名词复数 )，投影，投掷，突起物；

[例句] ...the company's projection of 11 million visitors for the first year.

[例句] ...sales projections.

n. 推进剂，推进物( propellant的名词复数 )；

[例句] ...an enormous amount of propellant.

[例句] ...a propellant for nuclear rockets.

v. 列举( particularize的过去式和过去分词 )，逐一叙述，详述，特别指出；

[例句] Mr Johnson particularizes the general points he wants to make...

[例句] A farmer is entitled to a certain particularized tax treatment.

v. （马）腾跃( prance的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.

[例句] Their horses pranced and whinnied.

v. 正式宣布（某事物）有危险或被禁止( proscribe的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] In some cultures surgery is proscribed...

[例句] They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns.

v. （使某物）起褶子或皱纹( pucker的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Toby's face puckered...

[例句] She puckered her lips into a rosebud and kissed him on the nose.

adj. 镀金的，电镀的，装甲的，鸳鸯布的；v. 给…装甲(plate的过去式)，电镀；

[例句] ...a range of jewellery, plated with 22-carat nickel-free gold.

n. [体]翻球；

[例句] Dornberg slapped the table with the palm of his hand...

[例句] He wiped his sweaty palm.

n. 永久（性）的( permanent的名词复数 )，稳定的，永恒的，常务的；

[例句] Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain...

[例句] ...a permanent solution to the problem...

v. 感觉( perceive的现在分词 )，视为，认为，理解为；

[例句] A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort...

[例句] 'Precisely what other problems do you perceive?' she asked.

n. 预防措施( precaution的名词复数 )，防备，避孕措施；

[例句] Could he not, just as a precaution, move to a place of safety?...

[例句] I had taken the precaution of doing a little research before I left London...

n. 负责人( principal的名词复数 )，[法律]本人，主要的人（或物）；

[例句] The principal reason for my change of mind is this.

[例句] ...the country's principal source of foreign exchange earnings...

adj. 有孔的；

[例句] The size of your pores is determined by the amount of oil they produce.

[例句] A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.

n. 原型，雏形，蓝本( prototype的名词复数 )；

[例句] Chris Retzler has built a prototype of a machine called the wave rotor.

[例句] ...the first prototype aircraft.

n. 似非而是的隽语，看似矛盾而实际却可能正确的说法( paradox的名词复数 )，用于语言文学中的上述隽语，有矛盾特点的人[事物，情况]；

[例句] The paradox is that the region's most dynamic economies have the most primitive financial systems...

[例句] The paradox of exercise is that while using a lot of energy it seems to generate more...

n. 多年生植物( perennial的名词复数 )；

[例句] ...the perennial urban problems of drugs and homelessness...

[例句] There's a perennial shortage of teachers with science qualifications.

v. 使烦恼，纠缠( pester的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] I thought she'd stop pestering me, but it only seemed to make her worse...

[例句] I know he gets fed up with people pestering him for money.

adj. 经皮的，由皮的；