n. 公开辩论，论战；
[例句] The proposed cuts have caused considerable controversy.
[例句] ...a fierce political controversy over human rights abuses.
adj. 世界性的，全世界的，四海为家的，全球的；n. 世界主义者，四海为家者；
[例句] London has always been a cosmopolitan city.
[例句] The family are rich, and extremely sophisticated and cosmopolitan.
vt.& vi. （使）减速；
[例句] ...the sensation of the train decelerating.
[例句] Inflation has decelerated remarkably over the past two years.
vt.& vi. 分解，（使）腐烂；
[例句] ...a dead body found decomposing in a wood...
[例句] The debris slowly decomposes into compost...
vt. 限制，定…的
[例句] This is not meant to delimit what approaches social researchers can adopt.
vt. 勾画，描述；
[例句] Biography must to some extent delineate characters...
[例句] The relationship between Church and State was delineated in a formal agreement.
n. 恶化，变坏，退化，堕落；
[例句] There are fears that the situation might deteriorate into full-scale war...
[例句] The weather conditions are deteriorating...
n. 词典，字典，[自]代码字典；
[例句] ...a Welsh-English dictionary.
[例句] ...the Dictionary of National Biography.
adv. 不同地，相异地；
[例句] London was different from most European capitals...
[例句] If he'd attended music school, how might things have been different?...
n. 精心制作（或计划），精致，详尽（阐述），精心完成的东西；
[例句] ...an elaborate research project.
[例句] ...an elaborate ceremony that lasts for eight days.
n. 弹性，弹力，灵活性，伸缩性；
[例句] Daily facial exercises help her to retain the skin's elasticity...
[例句] Gluten develops elasticity in a dough.
vt. 保存（尸体）不腐，使不被遗忘，使充满香气；
[例句] His body was embalmed.
[例句] ...the embalmed body of Lenin.
n. 熵，平均信息量，负熵；
n. 纪元，年代，历史时期，时代，重大事件；
[例句] ...the nuclear era...
[例句] ...the Reagan-Bush era...
n. 实验，试验，实验法；
[例句] The astronauts are conducting a series of experiments to learn more about how the body adapts to weightlessness...
[例句] ...a proposed new law on animal experiments...
num. 第五；n. 五分之一，第五音，五度音程，五分之一加仑（瓶）；
[例句] Joe has recently returned from his fifth trip to Australia.
[例句] India spends over a fifth of its budget on defence.
adj. 第一流的，最重要的，最初的，最前面的；adv. 首先，居于首位地；
[例句] He was one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Indian culture...
[例句] The military government is waging a war of words against its supposed enemies. Foremost among these are the foreign media.
n. 挫折，失败，挫败，失意；
[例句] These questions frustrated me...
[例句] Doesn't it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?
vt.& vi. 咬，啮，使苦恼，折磨，侵蚀，使腐蚀；vi. 咬，折磨，侵蚀；
[例句] Woodlice attack living plants and gnaw at the stems...
[例句] Melanie gnawed a long, painted fingernail.
n. （运动场等的）正面看台，观众；vi. 为博取观众喝彩而卖弄技巧；adj. 看台上的；