v. 坚持( persist的现在分词 )，维持，保持，持续存在；

[例句] Contact your doctor if the cough persists...

[例句] These problems persisted for much of the decade.

v. （因过多或过久而）生厌，感到乏味，厌烦( pall的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.

[例句] A pall of oily black smoke drifted over the clifftop.

n. 高原( plateau的名词复数 )，平稳时期，稳定状态，停滞时期；

[例句] A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land.

[例句] The US heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau...

v. 弥漫( permeate的现在分词 )，遍布，渗入，渗透；

[例句] Bias against women permeates every level of the judicial system...

[例句] An obvious change of attitude at the top will permeate through the system.

adj. 烦燥不安的；v. 使（某人）烦恼，不安( perturb的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] He apparently was not perturbed by the prospect of a policeman coming to call...

[例句] She was really quite perturbed at the prospect.

v. 打听，刺探（他人的私事）( pry的第三人称单数 )，撬开；

[例句] We do not want people prying into our affairs...

[例句] Imelda might think she was prying...

v. 兜风( promenade的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] People came out in smarter clothes to promenade along the front.

vt. 轻敲，轻叩，叩诊；

n. 酒，喝，饮，酒类饮料；

n. 力，权力，精神；

adj. 矮胖的，矮墩墩，胖乎乎；

[例句] He put a pudgy arm around Harry's shoulder.

abbr. very important people 非常重要的人，very important person 非常重要的人，vasoactive intestinal peptide 血管活性肠肽，very important passenger 非常重要的乘客；

[例句] ...such VIPs as Prince Charles and Richard Nixon...

[例句] She waited in the VIP lounge.

使装满，塞满，因感情冲动说不出话来；

推测出；

[例句] He left for his summer cottage to puzzle out what he might try next...

[例句] Nosenko puzzled out Kutya's surname...

n. 连环漫画，连环图画；

睡着，（肢体）麻木，入睡，安息；

abbr. automatic data processing 自动数据处理，adenosine diphosphate 腺苷二磷酸，advanced data processing 高级数据处理，ammonium dihydrogen phosphate 磷酸二氢铵；

abbr. Guadeloupe 瓜德罗普岛（法属），General Purpose 一般用途，Guadeloupe 瓜德罗普岛（法属），Guided Projectile 制导炮弹；

[例句] Her husband called their local GP.

n. 讲师的职位；

n. 爸；

[例句] 'Pa,' he said, 'I don't feel well.'...

[例句] Pa used to be in the army.