n. 光球；

n. 分配奖品；

[例句] Neil had been at a prize giving ceremony at a school in Birmingham.

[例句] ...a prize-giving for cattle-breeding.

v. 使瘫痪[麻痹]( paralyse的现在分词 )，使不能正常活动；

[例句] Her married sister had been paralysed in a road accident.

[例句] ...a virus which paralysed his legs.

n. 菲利帕（女子名）； [女子名] 菲莉帕 Philip的阴性昵称Pippa；

n. 梨酒；

普雷斯顿（男子名； 英国港市）；

n. 葡萄牙；

n. 皮尔逊（ 姓氏； Lester Bowles, 1897-1972，加拿大政治家、外交官，曾获1957年诺贝尔和平奖）；

普尔（英国英格兰南部港市）；

棕榈，棕榈叶，绿兰纤维；

N-COUNT （书的）序言，前言，绪论；VERB 以…为开端；以…作为开场白；

[例句] I will preface what I am going to say with a few lines from Shakespeare...

[例句] The president prefaced his remarks by saying he has supported unemployment benefits all along.

v. 使私有化( privatize的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] The water boards are about to be privatized.

[例句] ...a pledge to privatise the rail and coal industries.

n. 原始人（primitive的复数形式）；

vt.& vi. 用篙撑船，摆船（pole的过去式与过去分词形式）；

n. 便携机( portable的名词复数 )，（尤指）手提电脑；

[例句] There was a little portable television switched on behind the bar...

[例句] I always carry a portable computer with me.

v. 使迷惑，使混乱( perplex的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.

v. 坚忍，坚持( persevere的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] ...his ability to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks.

[例句] ...a school with a reputation for persevering with difficult and disruptive children...

v. 预先布置( preset的第三人称单数 )，事先调整，预先决定，事先安排；

[例句] ...a computerised timer that can be preset to a variety of programs...

[例句] Bake the cake in a preset oven.

vt. 保证，约定（plight的过去式与过去分词形式）；

v. 使（某人）烦恼，不安( perturb的现在分词 )；

[例句] What perturbs me is that magazine articles are so much shorter nowadays.