vt. 理解,逮捕,拘押,忧虑;vi. 理解,担心;
[例句] Police have not apprehended her killer.
[例句] Only now can I begin to apprehend the power of these forces.
n. 配平;v. (使)平衡( balance的现在分词 ),(使)均衡,(使)相抵,权衡;
[例句] I balanced on the ledge...
[例句] He balanced a football on his head.
n. (警察武器)警棍,(乐队指挥用的)指挥棒,接力棒;
[例句] Does this mean that the baton of leadership is going to be passed to other nations?
n. 牛肉,菜牛(饲养以供肉食的牛),体力,怨言,牢骚;vi. 抱怨,大发牢骚;
[例句] ...roast beef.
[例句] ...beef stew.
adj. 暗淡的,昏暗的,没有指望的,寒冷的,刺骨的,无遮蔽的,荒凉的;n. 欧鮊鱼,银鲤;
[例句] The immediate outlook remains bleak...
[例句] Many predicted a bleak future.
n. 失明,盲目,无知,轻率;
[例句] I started helping him run the business when he went blind...
[例句] How would you explain colour to a blind person?
n. 腔,洞,蛀牙,龋洞;
n. 冠军,捍卫者,拥护者,战士;vt. 为…而斗争,捍卫,声援;adj. 优胜的,第一流的;
[例句] ...a former Olympic champion...
[例句] Kasparov became world champion.
n. 小孩,孩子,幼稚的人,产物,弟子;
[例句] When I was a child I lived in a country village...
[例句] He's just a child.
n. 城市,全市居民,(由国王或女王授予特权,通常有大教堂的)特许市,(由政府授予特权的)特权市;
[例句] ...the city of Bologna.
[例句] ...a busy city centre.
n. 平民,百姓,市民,文官,民法学者;adj. 民用的,平民的;
[例句] The safety of civilians caught up in the fighting must be guaranteed.
[例句] ...the country's civilian population.
n. 黏土,泥土,(相对于灵魂而言的)人体,肉体,似黏土的东西,克莱(男子名, Clayton 的昵称);vt. 用黏土处理;
[例句] ...the heavy clay soils of Cambridgeshire...
[例句] As the wheel turned, the potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
n. 敲打,猛打,(尤指政治上的)影响,破布;vt. (尤指用手)猛击,重打;
[例句] Rachel clouted him...
[例句] The officer clouted her on the head.
n. 冷,冷淡,冷酷,冷静;
[例句] Rinse the vegetables under cold running water...
[例句] He likes his tea neither too hot nor too cold...
adj. 结构复杂的,混乱的,麻烦的;v. 使复杂化( complicate的过去式);
[例句] The situation in Lebanon is very complicated.
[例句] ...a very complicated voting system.
adj. 混合成的,综合成的,[建]综合式的,[数]可分解的,[植]菊科的;n. 合成物,混合物,复合材料,[植]菊科植物;
[例句] Galton devised a method of creating composite pictures in which the features of different faces were superimposed over one another.
n. 受精,怀孕,胚胎,概念,设想,构想;
[例句] My conception of a garden was based on gardens I had visited in England...
[例句] I see him as someone with not the slightest conception of teamwork.
vt. 用魔术变出,祈求,恳求;vi. 变戏法,施魔法,以咒文召唤;
[例句] Thirteen years ago she found herself having to conjure a career from thin air...
[例句] They managed to conjure a victory.
n. 意识,观念,知觉,觉悟,感觉;
[例句] That idea has been creeping into our consciousness for some time.
[例句] The Greens were the catalysts of a necessary change in the European consciousness.
n. 痛性痉挛,抽筋,(腹部)绞痛,夹子,扣钉,(制靴)弓状木;vt. 使痉挛,使抽筋,使扫兴,用夹子夹紧,限制,束缚;adj. 难懂的,难认的,受拘束的,狭窄的;
[例句] Hillsden was complaining of cramp in his calf muscles...
[例句] ...muscle cramp...