adj. 很害怕的，极度惊慌的，吓坏了的；v. 使恐怖，使惊吓，恐吓( terrify的过去式和过去分词 )；

[例句] Flying terrifies him...

[例句] The thought of dying slowly and painfully terrified me.

adj. 高的( tall的最高级 )，难以置信的，难以完成的，（用以表示或询问高度）有…高；

[例句] Being tall can make you feel incredibly self-confident...

[例句] She was a young woman, fairly tall and fairly slim...

n. 亲密无间，和睦，患难与共，团结；

[例句] Nothing can ever take the place of real love and family togetherness.

n. 电话( telephone的名词复数 )，电话机，（电话机的）话筒，受话器；v. 以电话传送（消息），给（某人）打电话( telephone的第三人称单数 )；

[例句] They usually exchanged messages by telephone...

[例句] I dread to think what our telephone bill is going to be...

v. 取笑，戏弄( tease的过去式和过去分词 )，梳理（羊毛等）；

[例句] He told her how the boys in East Poldown had set on him, teasing him...

[例句] He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood...

n. 控制油、气流的阀门( throttle的名词复数 )，喉咙，气管；v. 扼杀( throttle的第三人称单数 )，勒死，使窒息，压制；

[例句] The attacker then tried to throttle her with wire...

[例句] He throttled her and hid her body.

n. 论据、政策等的)要点( thrust的名词复数 )；v. 猛推( thrust的第三人称单数 )，猛塞，刺，戳；

[例句] They thrust him into the back of a jeep...

[例句] She grabs a stack of baby photos and thrusts them into my hands.

锥形的，渐缩的；

[例句] Unlike other trees, it doesn't taper very much. It stays fat all the way up...

[例句] ...beautiful hands with long, tapering fingers...

vt. 废弃（trash的过去式与过去分词形式）；

[例句] The yards are overgrown and cluttered with trash…

[例句] Mowing lawns and taking out the trash are jobs for the tenant.

n. 手压实（砂型）；v. 塞进( tuck的现在分词 )，翻折，盖住，卷起；

[例句] He tried to tuck his flapping shirt inside his trousers...

[例句] She found a rose tucked under the windscreen wiper of her car one morning.

adj. 折磨人的，充满痛苦（或苦恼）的；

[例句] His breathing was torturous…

[例句] This is a torturous, agonizing way to kill someone.

adj. 非常小气的，吝啬的，手紧；

[例句] He had the reputation of being one of the most tight-fisted and demanding of employers.

[例句] ...the government's tight-fisted monetary policy.

猛扑， 大吃， 戳穿， 责备；

[例句] I had a real row with him. I tore into him.

仔细考虑，重新考虑，掂掇，忖量；

[例句] She said she needs time to think it over...

[例句] I suggest you think over your position very carefully.

n. 磁带录音机；

n. 作表，表格，表列结果，列表，造表；

[例句] ...methods of collecting, tabulating and analysing numerical data...

[例句] Results for the test program haven't been tabulated.

pron. 他们的，他的或她的；

[例句] There was a big group of a dozen people at the table next to theirs...

[例句] It would cost about £3,000 to install a new heating system in a flat such as theirs...

n. 牙签；

n. 房屋，住户，租房子；

[例句] ...elegant 19th century tenement buildings.

[例句] ...the cramped Edinburgh tenement in which Connery grew up.

adj. 繁重的，费力的；

[例句] They were comparing notes on each other's progress towards solving that most taxing of all puzzles: the riddle of the human genome...

[例句] It's unlikely that you'll be asked to do anything too taxing.