vt. 驱散,使消散,浪费,挥霍,耗尽;vi. 消散,放荡,挥霍;
[例句] The tension in the room had dissipated...
[例句] He wound down the windows to dissipate the heat.
n. 门( door的名词复数 ),出入口,一家[户],门边;
[例句] I knocked at the front door, but there was no answer...
[例句] The policeman opened the door and looked in...
n. 雄蜂,嗡嗡声,持续低音,无人驾驶飞机;v. 嗡嗡叫,嗡嗡响,絮絮叨叨地说;
[例句] Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky.
[例句] ...a virtually non-stop droning noise in the background.
vt. 擦掉,抹去,超越,使黯然失色;
[例句] ...an event that has helped efface the country's traditional image...
[例句] The name of the ship had been effaced from the menus.
n. 禁运(令),停止通商(令),禁止,限制;vt. 封(港),禁止(船只)出入港口,禁运,停止,扣留征用;
[例句] The United Nations imposed an arms embargo against the country...
[例句] He has called on the government to lift its embargo on trade with Vietnam.
n. 出现,发生,暴露,[植]突出体,(柑果的)瓤胞;
[例句] ...the emergence of new scientific ideas.
n. 发热,发烧,热病,一时的狂热,激动不安;vt. 引起发热,使狂热,使患热病;vi. 发热或变得发热,狂热,患热病;
[例句] My Uncle Jim had a high fever...
[例句] Symptoms of the disease include fever and weight loss.
vt. (因违反协议、犯规、受罚等)丧失,失去;n. 罚金,没收物,丧失的东西,代价;adj. 丧失了的,被没收了的;
[例句] He was ordered to forfeit more than £1.5m in profits...
[例句] He argues that murderers forfeit their own right to life.
adv. 正式地,正规地,拘泥形式地,形式上;
[例句] He wrote a very formal letter of apology to Douglas...
[例句] Business relationships are necessarily a bit more formal.
adv. 频繁地,屡次地,往往,动,动辄;
[例句] Bordeaux is on the main Paris-Madrid line so there are frequent trains...
[例句] He is a frequent visitor to the house.
n. (中学或大学的)一年级学生,新手;
n. 流言蜚语,谣言,爱讲闲话的人,谈话,闲话,关系亲密的伙伴;vi. 传播流言,说长道短;
[例句] He spent the first hour talking gossip...
[例句] There has been much gossip about the possible reasons for his absence...
n. 毕业,毕业典礼,刻度,分度,分等级;
[例句] They asked what his plans were after graduation...
[例句] Upon graduation he joined a small law firm.
n. 伟大,崇高,著名,大;
[例句] The room had a great bay window.
[例句] ...a great hall as long and high as a church.
adj. 保护的,监护的;v. 保护,控制( guard的现在分词 );
[例句] Gunmen guarded homes near the cemetery with shotguns...
[例句] ...the heavily guarded courtroom.
adv. 在中途,到一半,在中间,大致上;
[例句] Half-way across the car-park, he noticed she was walking with her eyes closed...
[例句] He was halfway up the ladder...
n. 高跟鞋,紧随某人,跟捬,飞奔逃跑,(袜子等的)后跟( heel的名词复数 ),足跟,有…后跟的,女高跟鞋;
[例句] He kicked it shut with the heel of his boot.
[例句] ...the shoes with the high heels.
vt. 劫持,绑架,拦路抢劫,操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图);n. 劫持,敲诈,威
[例句] Two men tried to hijack a plane on a flight from Riga to Murmansk...
[例句] A Korean airliner was hijacked by two passengers and forced to fly to Tashkent...
adj. 可怕的,极不友好的,极讨厌的,令人震惊的;
[例句] The record sounds horrible.
[例句] ...a horrible small boy.
adj. 热的,热烈的,热的( hot的最高级 ),辣的,音乐,重视;
[例句] When the oil is hot, add the sliced onion...
[例句] What he needed was a hot bath and a good sleep...