n. （国家、政党等的）结盟，同盟，联盟，联合，联姻，同盟条约，同盟者；
[例句] The two parties were still too much apart to form an alliance.
[例句] What will be the effect of the alliance between IBM and Apple?...
vt. 分析，分解，解释，对…进行心理分析；
n. 学徒，徒弟，新手；vt. 使…做学徒；
[例句] I started off as an apprentice and worked my way up...
[例句] He left school at 15 and trained as an apprentice carpenter.
vt. 猛击，猛撞（bang的现在分词形式）；
[例句] I heard four or five loud bangs...
[例句] She slammed the door with a bang...
n. 私生子，杂种，代用品，假冒品，态度傲慢且令人讨厌的人；adj. 杂种的，不纯粹的，伪的，假的，奇形怪状的，异常的；
[例句] ...King Arthur's bastard son, Mordred.
[例句] Life can be a real bastard at times...
n. 生物学，生物；
[例句] The biology of these diseases is terribly complicated.
[例句] ...human biology.
vt. 使变白，使（植物）不见阳光而变白，[冶]酸洗（金属）使有光泽，[烹]用沸水煮白；vi. 漂白，发白，变白；adj. 漂白的，银白色的；
[例句] His face blanched as he looked at Sharpe's blood-drenched uniform...
[例句] She felt herself blanch at the unpleasant memories.
n. 局，（提供某方面信息的）办事处，（美国政府部门）局，（附抽屉及活动写字台的）书
[例句] ...the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[例句] ...the Citizens' Advice Bureau.
vt. 在…周围划线，划定…范围，限制，限定；
[例句] The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed...
[例句] There are laws circumscribing the right of individual citizens to cause bodily harm to others.
adj. 笨拙的，复杂难懂的，得罪人的，（文体等）臃肿的；
[例句] I'd never seen a clumsier, less coordinated boxer...
[例句] Unfortunately, I was still very clumsy behind the wheel of the jeep.
adj. 一致的，连贯的，条理分明的，清楚明白的；
[例句] He has failed to work out a coherent strategy for modernising the service...
[例句] The President's policy is perfectly coherent.
adj. 可想到的，可相信的，可想像的，可能的；
[例句] Without their support the project would not have been conceivable...
[例句] It is just conceivable that a single survivor might be found...
adj. 矛盾的，反驳的，抗辩的；n. 对立物，矛盾因素；
[例句] Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment...
[例句] The public are capable of holding a number of apparently contradictory attitudes.
n. [医]抽搐，大笑，震动，动乱；
[例句] ...the political convulsions that led to de Gaulle's return to power in May 1958.
[例句] ...the great convulsion of the eighteenth century.
vt. 证实，支持（某种说法、信仰、理论等），使（信仰等）坚定，使巩固，使加强；n. 确证者，证物；
[例句] I had access to a wide range of documents which corroborated the story...
[例句] Alice corroborated what Blair had said.
n. 直径，直径长，放大率；
[例句] ...a tube less than a fifth of the diameter of a human hair.
[例句] ...a length of 22-mm diameter steel pipe.
vt. 丢弃，抛弃，解雇，出
[例句] Read the manufacturer's guidelines before discarding the box.
[例句] ...discarded cigarette butts.
n. 解雇，免职，撤退，解雇通知，[法]驳回，拒绝受理；
[例句] ...Mr Low's dismissal from his post at the head of the commission.
[例句] ...their high-handed dismissal of public opinion.
n. （学校等的）宿舍，集体寝室，（在市内工作的人的）郊外住宅区；adj. 住宅区的；
[例句] ...the boys' dormitory...
[例句] The latest refugees were housed in makeshift dormitories.
n. 年长的，资格老的，头人，长辈，长老；adj. 年纪较大的，资格老的，老练的；
[例句] ...his elder brother.
[例句] ...the elder of her two daughters.