n. 探针( probe的名词复数 )，探索，探头，探测仪；v. 探索，用探针（或探测器等）探查，探测( probe的第三人称单数 )，盘问，（用试探性袭击等）侦察（敌情），用尖物刺穿（物件）；

[例句] The more they probed into his background, the more inflamed their suspicions would become...

[例句] For three years, I have probed for understanding...

v. 经历( plumb的过去式和过去分词 )，探究，用铅垂线校正，用铅锤测量；

[例句] She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...

[例句] Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.

n. 脉搏( pulse的名词复数 )，[无线电]（电磁波等）脉动，活力，有节奏的跳动（或拍打）；

[例句] Mahoney's pulse was racing, and he felt confused.

[例句] ...the repetitive pulse of the music.

n. 猪圈，脏房间；

[例句] The office is a pigsty.

adj. 可被渗透的，可透过的，可通行的，能接受的；

vi. 撒尿，鬼混，游荡；

支付，付出，惩罚，松开（绳索等）；

[例句] ...football clubs who pay out millions of pounds for players.

[例句] Many policies pay out only after a period of weeks or months.

adj. 一文不名的，贫穷的，不名一文，莫名一文；

[例句] They'd soon be penniless and homeless if she couldn't find suitable work.

[例句] ...a penniless refugee.

n. 过路人，使通过者；

adv. 明白地，公然地；

[例句] P&G applied for a patent on its cookies...

[例句] He held a number of patents for his many innovations...

n. 授粉（作用）；

[例句] Many of the indigenous insects are needed to pollinate the local plants.

adj. 占优势的，主要的，普遍的，盛行的；v. 获胜( prevail的现在分词 )，盛行，说服，（ 思想、观点等）被接受；

[例句] The direction of the prevailing winds should be taken into account.

n. （戏剧的）主角，（故事的）主人公，现实事件（尤指冲突和争端的）主要参与者，领导者；

[例句] ...the main protagonists of their countries' integration into the world market.

[例句] ...the protagonist of J. D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye'...

adj. 教区的，范围有限的，狭小的，狭隘的；

[例句] She was a secretary on the local parochial church council.

n. 美洲山核桃，美洲山核桃树；

n. 人，（尤指）要人，名人；

[例句] ...MPs, film stars and other important personages.

[例句] There is no evidence for such a historical personage.

n. 药理学，药物学；

adj. 没有怜悯心的，无情的，忍心；

[例句] He saw the pitiless eyes of his enemy...

[例句] His judgments are immediate, pitiless.

adj. 拥有的，占有的，着魔的，疯狂的；v. 拥有( possess的过去式和过去分词)；

[例句] She even claimed the couple's daughter was possessed by the devil...

[例句] He behaved like someone possessed.

adj. 幼稚的，孩子气的，愚蠢的；adv. 幼稚地，孩子气地；

[例句] Concert organisers branded the group's actions as puerile...

[例句] The story is simple, even puerile.