adj. （不辞）劳苦的，辛苦的，煞费苦心的，苦干的，辛勤的，小心的；n. 苦干，刻苦，勤勉，辛苦，煞费苦心；

[例句] Forensic experts carried out a painstaking search of the debris.

n. 妄想狂，偏执狂，（对别人的）瞎猜疑，疑神疑

[例句] The mood is one of paranoia and expectation of war.

[例句] ...the mounting paranoia with which he viewed the world around him.

n. 拨火铁棒，纸牌，扑克，戳火的人；vt. 烙制，用烙画做（图案）；

[例句] Lon and I play in the same weekly poker game.

[例句] Mrs Malone took up the poker and stirred at the little fire burning beside her.

adj. 能穿透的，能渗透的，有毛孔或气孔的，漏洞多的，易穿过的；

[例句] The local limestone is very porous.

[例句] Mr Balaguer is deploying more soldiers along his country's porous border with Haiti...

adj. 受尊敬的，有声望的，魔术的，欺骗的；

[例句] It's one of the best equipped and most prestigious schools in the country.

vt. 延长，拖延（某事物）；

n. 多边形，多角形，龟裂状；

adj. 尖锐的，辛酸的，深刻的，（记忆）活鲜鲜的；

[例句] ...a poignant combination of beautiful surroundings and tragic history.

[例句] ...a poignant love story...

n. 突起，瘤，结节；

[例句] ...a protuberance on the upper jawbone.

n. 起源，出处；

[例句] Kato was fully aware of the provenance of these treasures...

[例句] He had no idea of its provenance.

n. 青春期，春情发动期，开花期，发身；

[例句] Margaret had reached the age of puberty.

v. 提早日期，居先；

[例句] His troubles predated the recession...

[例句] The monument predates the arrival of the druids in Britain.

挂上， 挂住，使等候，将电话筒挂上；

[例句] Mum hung up the phone...

[例句] Don't hang up!...

弄乱，弄糟，搞乱，搅乱；

[例句] When politicians mess things up, it is the people who pay the price...

[例句] He had messed up one career...

组成整体，综，缀合，

[例句] He took it apart brick by brick, and put it back together again...

[例句] The factories no longer relied upon a mechanic to put together looms within the plant.

vi. 渐渐枯竭[消失]，逐渐减少，逐渐减弱，慢慢消失；vt. 使…精疲力竭；n. 彼得（人名）；

[例句] Sometimes he was moving money from one account to another, robbing Peter to pay Paul.

v. 证明( prove的过去式和过去分词 )，检验，试

[例句] We have been accused of exaggerating before, but unfortunately all our reports proved to be true...

[例句] In the past this process of transition has often proven difficult.

n. 小管（一种通心粉制品），管子( pipe的名词复数 )，烟斗，管乐器，（管风琴的）音管；

[例句] They had accidentally damaged a gas pipe while drilling...

[例句] The plant makes plastic covered steel pipes for the oil and gas industries.

adj. 可怜的( poor的最高级 )，贫乏的，贫困的，低劣的；

[例句] The reason our schools cannot afford better teachers is because people here are poor...

[例句] He was one of thirteen children from a poor family.

v. 促进( promote的现在分词 )，提升，推销，使 （学生）升级；

[例句] You don't have to sacrifice environmental protection to promote economic growth...

[例句] In many ways, our society actively promotes alcoholism.