n. 面团,糨糊,肉(或鱼等)酱(作涂抹料或烹饪用),(制作人造宝石的)铅质玻璃;vt. 粘贴,张贴,以…覆盖于;
[例句] He then sticks it back together with flour paste...
[例句] Blend a little milk with the custard powder to form a paste.
n. 有,所有,拥有,领地,财产,所有权,占有物,所有物,持有违禁物;
[例句] Those documents are now in the possession of the Guardian...
[例句] We should go up and take possession of the land...
n. 韵脚,韵文,押韵词;v. 押韵,作押韵诗;
[例句] June always rhymes with moon in old love songs.
[例句] ...the sort of people who give their children names that rhyme: Donnie, Ronnie, Connie.
n. 分离,隔离,种族隔离,[化]分离,偏析,熔析;
[例句] The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional...
[例句] Connecticut agreed to end its segregation of prison inmates suffering from AIDS.
n. 陈规旧习,旧规矩,固定的形式,铅版,铅版制版法,铅板印刷;vt. 使成陈规,把…浇铸成铅版,使用铅版,使固定;
[例句] There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen...
[例句] Many men feel their body shape doesn't live up to the stereotype of the ideal man.
adj. 显著的,引人注目的,容貌出众的,妩媚动人的;v. 打( strike的现在分词),击,敲响,报时;
[例句] The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides...
[例句] He bears a striking resemblance to Lenin.
vt. 容许,承认,忍受,容忍(不同意或不喜欢的事物);
[例句] She can no longer tolerate the position that she's in...
[例句] The cousins tolerated each other, but did not really get on well together.
adj. 无用的,无效的,无价值的,差劲的,不怎么样的;
[例句] He realised that their money was useless in this country...
[例句] Computers would be useless without software writers.
n. 主妇,女主人,霸主,女统治者,情妇,女教师;
[例句] She was his mistress for three years...
[例句] He has a wife and a mistress.
n. 拒绝,优先取舍权;
[例句] ...her refusal to accept change...
[例句] His letter in response to her request had contained a firm refusal.
adj. 不稳固的,不坚定的,易变的,反复无常的;
[例句] After the fall of Pitt in 1801 there was a decade of unstable government...
[例句] The situation is unstable and potentially dangerous.
adj. 急迫的,催促的,强求的,极力主张的;
[例句] There is an urgent need for food and water...
[例句] He had urgent business in New York.
vt. 推进,推动,驱动,驱使;
[例句] The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.
[例句] It was a shooting star that propelled me into astronomy in the first place...
v. 控告,起诉,继续从事,担任控方律师;
[例句] The police have decided not to prosecute because the evidence is not strong enough...
[例句] Photographs taken by roadside cameras will soon be enough to prosecute drivers for speeding...
v. 逐渐削弱,使逐步减少效力,从根基处破坏,挖…的墙脚;
[例句] Offering advice on each and every problem will undermine her feeling of being adult...
[例句] Western intelligence agencies are accused of trying to undermine the government.
adj. 不正当的,堕落的,执拗的,刚愎的,故意作对的,有悖常情的;
[例句] It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend...
[例句] Psychotherapists often take a perverse delight in criticizing other psychotherapists...
adj. 卧倒的,被某事物所制服的,瓦解的,无能为力的;vt. 使俯伏,使拜倒,(指疾病、天气等)使某人无能为力;
[例句] They prostrated themselves before their king.
[例句] Percy was lying prostrate, his arms outstretched and his eyes closed.
n. 检疫期,隔离期,检疫所,隔离所,四十天的时间;vt. 对…进行检疫,隔离;
[例句] She was sent home to Oxford and put in quarantine...
[例句] No mammals other than people may enter the country without lengthy quarantine.
n. 管理者,监督者,指导者;
[例句] ...a full-time job as a supervisor at a factory...
[例句] Each student has a supervisor to advise on the writing of the dissertation.
n. (树木等的)干( stock的名词复数 ),公债,家系,家族;
[例句] ...the buying and selling of stocks and shares...
[例句] As stock prices have dropped, so too has bank capital.