n. 珊瑚虫（水螅型），息肉；

[例句] It takes ten years or more for a benign polyp to turn malignant.

n. 多元化，多元主义，多元性（不同种族、不同政治或宗教信仰的多种群体共存），兼

[例句] ...as the country shifts towards political pluralism.

n. 预知，先见，前科学；

[例句] ...'Bob Roberts', an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate.

n. 衬裙；

adv. 完全地，十足地，纯粹地，纯洁地，贞淑地；

[例句] It is a racing machine, designed purely for speed...

[例句] The government said the moves were purely defensive.

n. 滑轮（组），滑车，皮带轮；v. 用滑轮升起，用滑车推动，给…装滑车；

[例句] The weights are moved via a cable and pulley system.

n. 小围场，检阅场；v. 把…关入围场；

[例句] The family kept horses in the paddock in front of the house.

n. 赤贫，缺乏；

[例句] He was brought up in penury, without education.

adj. 假的，欺骗的；n. 赝品，骗人的东西，骗子；

n. 瘟疫， （尤指）腺鼠疫；

n. 异教徒，非基督教徒，没有宗教信仰的人；adj. 异教徒的，非基督教的，无宗教信仰的；

[例句] The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.

[例句] ...female saints who took vows of virginity rather than submit to an undesired marriage with a pagan.

adj. 苍白的，病态的，无生气的，煞白；

[例句] ...helpless grief on pallid faces.

[例句] ...pallid grey vapour.

n. 人格化，拟人化；

[例句] Janis Joplin was the personification of the '60s female rock singer...

[例句] He was usually the personification of kindness.

n. （对不祥事物的）预感；

[例句] I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me...

[例句] He had a presentiment of disaster.

n. 灵魂，心灵，心智，精神，[希腊神]塞姬（爱神丘比特所爱的美女）；

[例句] 'It probably shows up a deeply immature part of my psyche,' he confesses...

[例句] His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.

昏厥， 喝得烂醉，分配， 分发；

[例句] He felt sick and dizzy and then passed out...

[例句] She passed out drunk.

n.& v. 承诺，允诺；n. 承诺( promise的名词复数 )，获得成功的迹象，吉兆；v. 允诺( promise的第三人称单数 )，答应，有…希望，预示；

[例句] The post office has promised to resume first class mail delivery to the area on Friday...

[例句] He had promised that the rich and privileged would no longer get preferential treatment...

v. 用夹子或钉子固定( peg的过去式和过去分词 )，使固定在某水平；

[例句] His work jacket hung on the peg in the kitchen.

[例句] He builds furniture using wooden pegs instead of nails.

n. 程序( program的名词复数 )，编码指令，[生物学]（作为生物的一部分的）密码指令序列，节目单；v. （像计算机程序那样）预先确定( program的第三人称单数 )，为（计算机）编制程序，为…提供生物程序，（在生物体的程序中）把…译成遗传密码；

[例句] The chances of an error occurring in a computer program increase with the size of the program.

[例句] He programmed his computer to compare all the possible combinations.

adj. 困惑的，糊涂的，茫然的；v. ( puzzle的过去式)使迷惑，使难解；n. 谜，难题；

[例句] Critics remain puzzled by the British election results...

[例句] Norman looked puzzled.