n. 肖像，肖像画，模型，标本，半身雕塑像，人物描写；

[例句] Lucian Freud has been asked to paint a portrait of the Queen.

[例句] ...the English portrait painter Augustus John.

adj. 后来的，随后的，作为结果而发生的，附随的；

[例句] ...the increase of population in subsequent years...

[例句] Those concerns were overshadowed by subsequent events.

n. 淤泥，泥沙；vi. 被淤塞，淤积；vt. 使淤积，充塞；

[例句] The lake was almost solid with silt and vegetation.

adj. 华丽灿烂的，辉煌的，靡丽，光芒万丈，鲜艳夺目；

[例句] Bessie, resplendent in royal blue velvet, was hovering beside the table.

[例句] ...the resplendent hotel banqueting-room.

v. 斜视，斜着眼睛看，倾向；n. 斜视，一瞥；adj. 斜视的，细眯着眼看的；

[例句] The girl squinted at the photograph...

[例句] The man squinted up at him...

adj. 强壮的，结实的，坚定的，可靠的；n. 高大健壮的人，忠实拥护者；

[例句] His free-trade policies aroused suspicion among Tory stalwarts...

[例句] Moving to Germany, he became a stalwart of the revered Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra.

vt. （将大工程）转包，分包，制定[履行]转包；n. 转包契约；

[例句] The company is subcontracting production of most of the parts...

[例句] They are cutting costs by subcontracting work out to other local firms.

n. （从本国移往他国的）移民；adj. 移居的，移民的，侨居的；

vt. 依法驱逐（房客等），依法收回（房屋等）；

[例句] They were evicted from their apartment after their mother became addicted to drugs...

[例句] In the first week, the city police evicted ten families...

vt. 炫耀，轻蔑，蔑视；vi. 炫耀，张扬；n. 夸耀，招摇，飘扬，招展；

[例句] They drove around in Rolls-Royces, openly flaunting their wealth...

[例句] One secret he learned very early on was not to flaunt his success.

n. 舰队，船队，车队，港湾，小河；adj. 快速的，敏捷的，转瞬即逝的；vi. 疾驰，飞逝；vt. 使（时间）飞逝，消磨；

[例句] The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating.

[例句] ...restaurants supplied by local fishing fleets.

adj. 流畅的，流利的，液态的；

[例句] She studied eight foreign languages but is fluent in only six of them...

[例句] He speaks fluent Russian.

adj. 法律不许可的，非法的，不正当的；

[例句] Dante clearly condemns illicit love.

[例句] ...information about the use of illicit drugs.

adj. 粗鲁的，无礼的，无耻；

[例句] Some of them were impudent and insulting.

adj. 不足的，不够的，绌，亏短，支

[例句] He decided there was insufficient evidence to justify criminal proceedings...

[例句] These efforts were insufficient to contain the burgeoning crisis.

n. （网球等）球拍，〈美俚〉勒索金钱，讹诈，敲诈，骗局，（四周有围墙的）拍打回力网球，硬壁回力球，喧骚，吵闹，嚷闹，扰嚷，喧骚嘈杂的集会，狂欢；v. 嚷闹，吵闹，纵情欢闹，用球拍打；

[例句] He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours...

[例句] My dream was interrupted by the most awful racket coming through the walls...

n. 超级市场，自动售货商店；

[例句] Most of us do our food shopping in the supermarket...

[例句] How do those prawns find their way from Norway to the supermarket shelf?

n. 大衣，外套，保护层，护膜；

n. 卖国贼，叛徒，背叛者，背信弃义的人；

[例句] Some say he's a traitor to the working class.

[例句] ...rumours that there were traitors among us who were sending messages to the enemy.

n. 性格，（人或动物的）气质，易冲动，（性情）暴躁；

[例句] His impulsive temperament regularly got him into difficulties...

[例句] She was furtive and vicious by temperament.