n. 产生极性，极化，（光）偏振，对立；
[例句] Missile deployment did much to further polarize opinion in Britain...
[例句] As the car rental industry polarizes, business will go to the bigger companies...
vt.&vi. 工作过度或时间过长，把…做过头，对…使用过度：过于经常使用，装饰：把…的表面加以装饰；n. 过度工作；
[例句] He's overworking and has got a lot on his mind...
[例句] He overworks and underpays the poor clerk whom he employs.
n. 华尔兹舞，华尔兹舞曲；vt. 跳华尔兹舞；vi. 大摇大摆地走，轻易完成；
[例句] ...Tchaikovsky's 'Waltz of the Flowers'.
[例句] Arthur Murray taught the foxtrot, the tango and the waltz.
n. 偏差，差错，脱离常规，越轨，[医]心理失常，精神迷乱，[法]过失；
[例句] It became very clear that the incident was not just an aberration, it was not just a single incident.
[例句] Single people are treated as an aberration and made to pay a supplement.
adv. 因此，于是，依据，照着，相应地；
[例句] We have a different background, a different history. Accordingly, we have the right to different futures...
[例句] The workforce have recently been calling for their working hours to be reduced. Many companies have accordingly switched to a five-day week.
adj. 习惯的，通常的，独有的，适应的；v. 使习惯于(accustom的过去式和过去分词)；
[例句] I was accustomed to being the only child at a table full of adults...
[例句] She had not yet become accustomed to the fact that she was a rich woman.
n. 极大的痛苦，苦恼，烦闷，临死的挣扎，（感情的）迸发；
[例句] A new machine may save thousands of animals from the agony of drug tests...
[例句] She called out in agony...
vt. 使有生气，驱动，使栩栩如生地动作，赋予…以生命；adj. 有生命的，活的，有生气的，生气勃勃的；
[例句] ...all aspects of the material world, animate and inanimate.
[例句] There was precious little about the cricket to animate the crowd...
pron. 任何人，任何一个，谁；
[例句] I won't tell anyone I saw you here...
[例句] You needn't talk to anyone if you don't want to...
vt.& vi. （使）变细，（使）变薄，（使）变小，减弱；adj. 稀薄的，细小的，减弱的，减少的；
[例句] You could never eliminate risk, but preparation and training could attenuate it...
[例句] Theirs had been an increasingly attenuated relationship.
vt. 宣称…为真实的，证明，证实，作证，使宣誓，使发誓；vi. 证实，证明；
[例句] Police records attest to his long history of violence...
[例句] I can personally attest that the cold and flu season is here...
n. 支持，后援，阻塞，备份文件，[乐]伴奏；adj. 备用的，后补的，支持性的，伴奏的；
[例句] There is no emergency back-up immediately available...
[例句] Alternative treatments can provide a useful back-up to conventional treatment.
n. 灯塔，信号浮标，烽火，指路明灯，警标，界标；vt. 照亮，指引，为…设置信标，用灯指引；vi. 像灯塔般照耀；
[例句] Our Parliament has been a beacon of hope to the peoples of Europe...
[例句] General Rudnicki was a moral beacon for many exiled Poles.
adj. 交战的，卷入冲突的，好战的，交战国的；n. 交战国，交战者，参加斗殴的人或集团；
[例句] ...the belligerent statements from both sides which have led to fears of war...
[例句] He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
n. 仁慈，善举，捐赠，恩税（旧时英王向民间征收的一种税金）；
[例句] The company has proved to be a most benevolent employer...
[例句] They believe that the country needs a benevolent dictator.
adv. 而且，此外，以及，更；prep. （表示排斥）除…之外（还有），在…之外（还有），…之余
[例句] I think she has many good qualities besides being very beautiful...
[例句] There was only one person besides Ford who knew Julia Jameson.
n. 巨浪，如波涛滚滚而来之物；vi. 在波涛中翻滚，扬起，鼓起；
[例句] The curtains billowed in the breeze...
[例句] Her pink dress billowed out around her.
n. 水疱，水肿，疱，气泡；vt.& vi. （使）起水泡；vi. （使表皮等）涨破，爆裂；
[例句] The affected skin turns red and may blister...
[例句] The sap of this plant blisters the skin.
adj. 炎热的，炽热的，沸腾的，激昂的；n. 煮沸，沸腾，一次烹煮量，一群，全体；v. “boil”的现在分词；adv. 非常，达到沸腾程度地；
[例句] 'It's boiling in here,' complained Miriam...
[例句] Often the food may be bubbling and boiling hot on the top, but the inside may still be cold.
n. 黏结，连[搭，焊，胶，粘]接，结[耦，焊，接]合，压焊，砖石砌体砌合；
[例句] The experience created a very special bond between us.
[例句] ...the bond that linked them.