n. 境况，困境，誓约；vt. 保证，约定；

[例句] ...the worsening plight of Third World countries plagued by debts.

vi. 关于，有关，适合，附属，从属；

[例句] The restrictions he imposed pertained to the type and height of buildings and the activities for which they could be used...

[例句] I would much rather that you asked Mrs Zuckerman any questions pertaining to herself.

n. （信末签名后的）附言，又及，（正文后的）补充说明；

[例句] A brief, handwritten postscript lay beneath his signature.

[例句] As the editor's postscript reminds the reader, she was to endure two more spells of mental illness before the book was published...

n. 推测，设想，放肆，傲慢，推定；

[例句] ...the presumption that a defendant is innocent until proved guilty...

[例句] I'm having to make a lot of presumptions since I don't really know anything about the case.

adj. （艺术家、作家等）多产的，众多的，富饶的，（植物、动物等）丰硕的；

[例句] She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories...

[例句] During the Seventies, Rundgren was astonishingly prolific.

vt. 穿孔于，在…上打眼，（在纸张等上）打齿孔[孔眼线]；

[例句] I refused to wear headphones because they can perforate your eardrums.

vt. 预示，预兆；n. 预示，预兆，预感；

[例句] ...the dawn's loud chorus that seemed to presage a bright hot summer's day.

n. 祖先，先驱，前辈，原本；

[例句] He was also a progenitor of seven presidents of Nicaragua.

[例句] ...Clive Sinclair, progenitor of the C5 electric car.

n. 印刷（术），（书籍的）一次印刷，印刷字体，一次的印数；v. （在松软的表面）压印( print的现在分词 )，把…付印，用印刷体写，冲洗（照片）；

[例句] The American edition of 'Cloud Street' is already in its third printing.

adj. 个人的，私人的，秘密参与的，（行为）暗中参与的，不公开的；n. 有利害关系的人，厕所；

[例句] Only three people, including a policeman, will be privy to the facts.

v. 踱步于，走动( pace的现在分词 )，调整自己的工作（或活动）节奏，领先于，为…定步速；

[例句] Many people were not satisfied with the pace of change.

[例句] ...people who prefer to live at a slower pace...

vt.& vi. （使）活跃，竖起，翘起，振作，滤煮；n. 额外津贴，外快；

[例句] ...a company car, private medical insurance and other perks...

[例句] One of the perks of being a student is cheap travel.

n. 画家，着色者，油漆匠，（系船的）缆绳，破诡计；

n. 物理学，物理现象，物理成分；

[例句] ...the laws of physics.

[例句] ...experiments in particle physics.

adv. 有礼貌地，客气地，委婉地；

[例句] Everyone around him was trying to be polite, but you could tell they were all bored...

[例句] It's not polite to point or talk about strangers in public...

prep. 由，（表示根据）依照，（表示比率）（尤指数量，价格，时间）每；adv. 每次，每个，照常，按惯例；adj. 高的，过的，全的；

[例句] Social Security refused to pay her more than £17 per week...

[例句] Buses and trains use much less fuel per person than cars.

n. 祈祷，祈祷（习惯），祈祷文，经文；

[例句] They had joined a religious order and dedicated their lives to prayer and good works...

[例句] The night was spent in prayer.

adj. 复数的，复数形式的，多样的，多元的；n. 复数，复数形式，复数词；

[例句] 'Data' is the Latin plural form of 'datum'.

[例句] ...his use of the plural pronoun 'we'.

adj. 虔诚的，信神的，伪善的，尽责的，孝敬的，可赞的，好心的；

[例句] He was brought up by pious female relatives.

[例句] ...pious acts of charity.

n. 敲打，碰撞，振动，打击乐器，[医]扣诊法；