n. （声音大而持续或重复的）洪亮的响声，隆隆声，洪亮的钟声，钟乐；vt.& vi. （使）（钟等）鸣响，（雷等）发出隆隆声；

[例句] Church bells pealed at the stroke of midnight.

[例句] I heard a peal of merry laughter.

n. 一群( pack的名词复数 )，包裹，（纸牌的）一副，一组；v. （把…）打包( pack的第三人称单数 )，塞进，拥进，（使）聚集成团；

[例句] When I was 17, I packed my bags and left home...

[例句] I decided to pack a few things and take the kids to my Mum's...

adj. 死后的，验尸的，事后的；vt.& vi. （对…）验尸；adv. 在死后；

[例句] The postmortem on the presidential campaign is under way.

adj. 有毒的，有害的，恶意的，讨厌的；

[例句] All parts of the yew tree are poisonous, including the berries.

[例句] ...a large cloud of poisonous gas.

n. 物主身份，所有权，所有制，所有；

[例句] On January 23rd, America decided to relax its rules on the foreign ownership of its airlines.

[例句] ...the growth of home ownership in Britain...

adj. 和平的，爱好和平的，太平的，平静的，平时的，太平洋的；

[例句] The Liberals were traditionally seen as the more pacific party.

n. 坚持不懈，执意，持续，留存，（荧光屏上余辉的）保留时间；

[例句] Skill comes only with practice, patience and persistence...

[例句] Chandra was determined to become a doctor and her persistence paid off.

adj. 怀孕的，孕育着…的，富于想象的，富于成果的；

[例句] Lena got pregnant and married...

[例句] Tina was pregnant with their first daughter.

adj. 流行的，盛行的，普遍存在的，普遍发生的；

[例句] This condition is more prevalent in women than in men...

[例句] Smoking is becoming increasingly prevalent among younger women...

vt. 使（某人）安静，息怒，抚慰，在（有战争的地区、国家等）实现和平；

[例句] Is this a serious step, or is this just something to pacify the critics?...

[例句] She shrieked again, refusing to be pacified.

adj. 危险的，冒险的；

[例句] ...a perilous journey across the war-zone...

[例句] The road grew even steeper and more perilous.

adj. 异常的，惊人的，巨大的，庞大的，奇异的，非常的；

[例句] This business generates cash in prodigious amounts...

[例句] He impressed all who met him with his prodigious memory.

adj. （疾病）大流行的，普遍的，全世界的；n. （全国或全球性）流行病，大流行病；

[例句] They feared a new cholera pandemic...

[例句] One pandemic of Spanish flu took nearly 22 million lives worldwide.

vt. 研读，（尤指）细阅；

[例句] We perused the company's financial statements for the past five years...

[例句] She found the information while she was perusing a copy of Life magazine.

vi. （马）腾跃；n. （马的）腾跃，欢蹦乱跳，昂首阔步；

[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.

vt. 提供，贡献，提出，提出参见；n. 提供，贡献，提供的行为，提议；

[例句] He rose and proffered a silver box full of cigarettes.

[例句] The army has not yet proffered an explanation of how and why the accident happened.

n. 用以慰藉或讨好某人的事物，泡湿的面包片等；vt. 将（面包等）在液体中蘸或浸泡，用海绵、布等吸起（液体等）；

[例句] This is an obvious sop to the large Irish-American audience...

[例句] The government parties may be tempted to throw a few sops to the right-wingers.

n. 出版者，出版商，出版社，公布者，发表者，〈美〉办报者；

[例句] The publishers planned to produce the journal on a weekly basis.

n. 安置，放置，实习工作，实习课，定位，[足]定位球；

[例句] The treatment involves the placement of twenty-two electrodes in the inner ear.

[例句] He had a six-month work placement with the Japanese government.

adj. 附有定价的；

[例句] ...a sharp increase in the price of petrol...

[例句] They expected house prices to rise...