n. 酒石，牙垢，鞑靼人，凶悍的人；

[例句] She can be quite a tartar.

vi. 翘起拇指请求搭乘（过路汽车），示意请求搭便车（thumb的过去式与过去分词形式）；

[例句] She bit the tip of her left thumb, not looking at me.

[例句] It may interest you to know that a boy answering Rory's description thumbed a ride to Howth...

n. 格架，（墙、篱、凉亭等的）格子；v. 装设格子架或格子棚；

n. （表示正确无误的）记号( tick的名词复数 )，一会儿，赊账，钟的嘀嗒声；

[例句] His exercise books were full of well deserved red ticks...

[例句] Place a tick in the appropriate box.

adv. 在脚下，在地上，碍事地，挡路地；

[例句] ...a room, high and square with carpet underfoot and tapestries on the walls...

[例句] It was still wet underfoot.

n. 制革法，皮肤晒成褐色，[口]鞭打，鞣制；

[例句] She is tall and blonde, with a permanent tan.

[例句] I have very pale skin that never tans...

n. 格子呢，格子图案，独桅三角帆船；adj. 格子花呢的；

[例句] The corridors are carpeted in tartan.

[例句] ...traditional tartan kilts.

v. 整理( trim的第三人称单数 )，修剪，装饰，减少；

[例句] The neighbours' gardens were trim and neat.

[例句] …the trim houses.

n. 斑疹伤寒；

v. 计算( total的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] The companies have a total of 1,776 employees.

[例句] They said that the total number of cows dying from BSE would be twenty thousand…

不住在工作[学习]的地方，度过（某一段时间），过（某种生活）；

[例句] Gein did not stand trial but lived out his days in a mental asylum...

[例句] I couldn't live my life out on tour like he does.

扯，找茬儿， 批评，少量地吃；

[例句] Sarah picked at a plate of cheese for supper, but she wasn't really hungry.

n. 茶杯，一杯之量；

[例句] Both are trying to present the disagreement as a storm in a teacup.

n. 海啸；

adj. 离开正路的，与正确（或真实情况）相背的，异常的，畸变的；n. 离开正路的人，畸变生物（群），畸变器官，反常；adv. 反常地，异常地；

[例句] Ian's rages and aberrant behavior worsened.

n. 事后的考虑或想法，事后聪明，事后再想起，后来添加的东西；

[例句] Almost as an afterthought he added that he missed her.

n. 平息，缓和，姑息，绥靖政策；

[例句] He denied there is a policy of appeasement...

[例句] They have already been accused of appeasement by more militant organisations.

n. 自动驾驶仪；

adj. 赤脚的，光着脚的；adv. 赤着脚地；

[例句] I wore a white dress and was barefoot...

[例句] Alan came running barefoot through the house.

adj. 怀恨的( bitter的最高级 )，尖锐的，严寒的，愤愤不平的；

[例句] ...the scene of bitter fighting during the Second World War.

[例句] ...a bitter attack on the Government's failure to support manufacturing...