高级英语词汇完整版

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Detailed Study of the Text

1. wavy: having regular curves

A wavy line has a series of regular curves along it.

The wavy lines are meant to represent water.

Here in the text the word describes the marks in wavy patterns on the clay

ground left by the broom.

*image - 1* (

此处加一细曲线图

)

2. groove: a long narrow path or track made in a surface, esp. to guide

the movement of sth.A groove is a wide, deep line cut into a

cupboard door slides open along the groove it fits into.

3. homely: simple, not grand, (of people, faces, etc.,) not good-looking,

uglyIf someone is homely, they are not very attractive to look at; uased in

Am.E.

4. awe: Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you

are faced with sth. wonderful, frightening or completely unknown., wonderThe

child stared at him in silent awe.

5. confront: to face boldly or threateningly, encounterIf a problem, task,

or difficulty confronts you, or you are confronted with it, it iss sth. that

you cannot avoid and must deal withI was confronted with the task of designing

and building the new system.

6. totter: to move in an unsteady way from side to side as if about to

fall, to walk with weak unsteady stepsThe old lady tottered down the stairs.

7. limousine: A limousine is a large and very comfortable car, esp. one

with a glass screen between the front and back seats. Limousines are usually

driven by a chauffeur [ou]cf: sedan / saloon is a car with seats for four or

more people, a fixed roof, and a boot (the space at the back of the car,

covered by a lid, in which you carry things such luggage, shopping or tools)

that is separate from the seating part of the carconvertible: a car with a

soft roof that can be folded down or removedsports car: a low usu. open car

with room for only 2 people for traveling with high power and speedcoupe

[‘ku:pei] a car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, two doors and seats for

four peoplestation wagon (Am E) / estate car (Br.E) a car which has a long

body with a door at the back end and space behind the back seats

8. gray / grey: used to describe the colour of people’s hair when it

changes from its original colour, usu. as they get old and before it becomes

white

9. tacky: (Am.E, slang) shabby

10. overalls: are a single piece of clothing that combines trousers and a

jacket. Your wear overalls over your clothes in order to protect them from

dirt, paint, etc. while you are working

The breast pocket of his overalls was filled with tools. (

工装裤

)

11. hog: a. a pig, esp. a fat one for eatingb. a male pig that has been

castrated c. a dirty personswine: (old & tech) pigboar [o:]: male pig on a

farm that is kept for breedingsow [au]: fully grown female pig

12. sledge hammer: large, heavy hammer for swinging with both hands, a

large heavy hammer with a long handle, used for smashing concrete

13. barley:

大麦

14. pancake: a thin, flat circle of cooked batter (

糊状物

) made of milk,

flour and eggs. usu. rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savory

filling inside

15. sidle: walk as if ready to turn or go the other way If you sidle

somewhere, you walk there uncertainly or cautiously, as if you do not want

anyone to notice youA man sidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for

the match..

16. shuffle: slow dragging walkIf you shuffle, you walk without lifting

your feet properly off the groundHe slipped on his shoes and shuffled out of

the you shuffle, you move your feet about while standing or move your

bottom about while sitting, often because you feel uncomfortable or

embarrassed.I was shuffling in my seat.

cf:totter (n.6), sidle(n. 15), shuffle

17. blaze: to burn with a bright flameA wood fire was blazing, but there

was no other light in the room.n. the sudden sharp shooting up of a flame, a

very bright fireThe fire burned slowly at first, but soon burst into a blaze.

18. sweet gum tree: a large North American tree of the witch hazel (

榛子

)

family, with alternate maplelike leaves, spiny (

多刺的

) fruit balls, and

flagrant juice

美洲金缕梅

,

落叶灌木或小乔木

.

原产于北美和亚洲

.

其分叉小枝从前用为魔杖

,

这寻找

地下水

,

故俗称魔杖

.

19. dingy: dirty and fadedA building or place that is dingy is rather dark

and depressing and does not seem to have been well looked after,.This is the

dingiest street of the s, curtains, etc. that are dingy are dirty

or faded.

20. raise: to collect togetherraise an army / raise enough money for a

holidayHis wife raised the money by selling her ’re trying to

raise funds to establish a scholarship.

21. underneath: (so as to go) under (sth..)The letter was pushed

underneath the you find very much growing underneath the snow?

(Here it suggests a repressive and imposing quality in her voice.)

22. make-believe: a state of pretending or the things which are

pretendedShe lives in a make-believe world / a world of make-

’t be

afraid of monster -

the story’s only make

- little girl made

believe she was a princess.

23. shove: to push, esp. in a rough or careless wayThere was a lot of

pushing and shoving to get on the bus. Help me to shove this furniture

you shove sb. or sth., you push them with a quick, rather, violent

dragged her out to the door and shoved her into the street.

24. dimwit: (infml) an ignorant and stupid person

dim: faint, not bright

wit: intelligence, wisdom

at one’s wit’s end: at the end of one’s tether

25. organdy: (Br. E organdie) very fine transparent muslin (

麦斯林纱

,

平纹

细布

) with a stiff finish (

最后一层涂饰

), very fine rather stiff cotton

material used esp. for women’s dresses

(

蝉翼纱

,

玻璃纱

)

26. pump: low shoe that grips the foot chiefly at the toe and the heel

27. stare down any disaster in her efforts: face up and defeat any

disaster with her effortsstare down: two people looking at each other

persistently until one shifts his eye

28. flicker: to move backwards and

forwards unsteadilyshadows flickered on the wallflickering eyelids

29. stumble: to stop and /or make mistakes in speaking or reading aloudto

catch the foot on the ground while moving along and start to fallShe stumble

at/over the long wordHe stumbled and stopped reading.

cf: stammer: to speak or say with pauses and repeated sounds, either

habitually or because of excitement, fear, rerstutter: to speak or

say with difficulty in producing sounds, esp. habitually holding back the

first rer

30. good-naturedly: naturally kind, ready to help, to forgive, not to be

angryA person or animal that is good-natured is naturally friendly and does

not easily get angry.a good-natured policeman

31. mossy: moss: any of several types of a small flat green or yellow

flowerless plant that grows in a thick furry mass on wet soil, or on a wet

surface

32. hook: to catch with or as if with a hookto hook a fish / a rich

husbandhooknoseHere: to attack with the horn of the cow

33. soothe: to make less angry, excited or anxious, comfort or calm, to

make less painfulsoothing wordssoothe one’s feelings

34. shingle: a small thin piece of building material (such as wood) often

with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a

covering for the roof or sides of buildingcf: tile; a flat or curved piece of

fired clay, stone, or concrete used esp. for roofs, floors, or walls and often

for ornamental work

35. porthole: also port, a small usu. circular window or opening in a ship

for light or air

36. shutter: a. one that shutsb. movable cover (wooden panel or iron plate,

hinged, or separate and detachable) for a window or door, to keep out light or

burglars. cf: Venetian blindsThe shop front is fitted with rolling shutters.c.

device that opens to admit light through the lens of a camera

37. pasture: land where grass is grown and where cattle feed on it

38. furtive: stealthy, If sb. is furtive, he / she behaves as if he / she

wants to keep sth. secret or hiddenThey suddenly looked furtive when I got

into the room.I watched him furtively pencil a note and slip it between the

pages.A woman with furtive look sidled up to me and asked furtively whether I

had / wanted receipts.

39. hang about: to wait or stay near a place without purpose or activity

40. washday: also washing day, the day when clothes are washed

41. impressed with her: impressed by her manner,

42. well-turned: (of a phrase) carefully formed and pleasantly expressed

a well-turned phrase:

恰当的词语

43. cute: delightfully pretty and often smallIf you describe sb. as cute

you mean that you find them attractive, often in a sexual way

44. scald: to burn with hot liquidHe scalded his tongue on / with the hot

coffee

scalding: boiling or as hot as boiling

court: If a man courts a woman, he pays a lot of attention to her because he

wants to marry her.

45. flashy: over-ornamented, unpleasantly big, bright, etc. and perhaps

not of good quality Something that is flashy is so smart, bright and expensive

that you find it unpleasant and perhaps vulgar a flashy sports car / cheap

flashy clothes

46. recompose: compose: to make (esp. oneself) calm, quiet, was

nervous at first but soon composed herself.

47. kinky: (esp. of hair) having kinks kink: a backward turn or twist in

hair, a rope, chain, pipe, etc.

48. wriggle: to twist from side to side

49. loud: attracting attention by being unpleasantly colourful

50. rope: (of 2 or more mountain climbers) to be fastened together with

the same rope(I think the word here means the plaits or the pigtails are

fastened together

51. gliding: to move noiselessly in a smooth, continuous manner, which

seems easy and without effortglider: a plane without an engine

52. something of a(n)... : (infml) rather a(n), a fairly goodYou use the

expression something of in the following ways. If you say that a person or

thing has something of a particular quality, feeling, etc., you mean that they

have it to some you say that a person is something of an actor,

something of a poet, etc., you mean that the person can act, write poetry, etc.

to some extentDr. Mitra, a scholar and something of a philosopherIf you say

that a situation is something of a mystery / a surprise, etc., you mean that

it is slightly mysterious, slightly surprisingHe is something of a book

collector / a liar / a musician.I am something of a carpenter myself, you know.

make sth. of oneself: be successfulHe is a clever boy--- I hope he'll make sth.

of himself.

53. peek: (infml) to look at sth. quickly, esp. when one should notThey

caught him peeking through the hole at what was going on in the roompeep: to

look at sth. quickly and secretlyIt’s rude to peep at other people’s

took a peep at the back of the book to find out the answers to the questions.

Peek & Peep are not clearly distinguishable when denoting to see what is

concealed, or hidden.

peer: to look very carefully or hard, esp. as if not able to see wellShe

peered through the mist, trying to find the right peered at me over

the top of his glasses.

54. stoop: to bend the head and shoulders forwards and down

55. cower: to bend low and draw back as from fear, pain, shame, cold etc.

56. go thro

ugh motions with Maggie’s hand: Here “motions” refer to

trying to shake hands with you go through the motions, you say or do

sth. that is expected of you without being very sincere or serious about it.

Or you pretend to do sth. by making the movements associated with a particular

doctor was sure that the man wasn’t ill, but he went through the

motions of examining him.I can go through the motions of putting imaginary

food into my mouth.

57. limp: lacking strength or stiffnessn. a way of walking with one foot

dragging unevenlyv. to walk with an uneven step, one foot or leg moving less

well than the other

58. There you are: I told you so.

There you are. I knew I was right. That’s what I expected. I knew you

couldn’t trace it further ba

ck.

There I was not: You are not right.

crop up: arise, happen or appear, unexpectedlySome difficulties have cropped

up at work so I’ll be late coming home tonight.

Literally the sentence in the text could possibly understood as follows:I was

not there

before the name “Dicie” appeared in our family, so why...But

“There I was not” is obviously a quick, short cut answer to “there you

are”.

59. Model A car: in 1909 Henry Ford mass-produced 15 million Model T cars

and thus made automobiles popular in the States. In 1928 the Model T was

discontinued and replaced by a new design - the Model A - to meet the needs

for growing competition in car manufacturing.

Here he thinks she is quaint, attractive because it is strange and something

rather old fashioned

60. ream: sl. say it, spit it

61. out of the way: not blocking space for the forward movement of(Here

there must be one misunderstanding either by me or by the editor who explains

that as:We overcame the difficulty and managed to pronounce it at last)I will

move the chair out of your ran through the crowd, pushing people out of

his social life got in the way of her got the name out of

the way: we finished talking about it, we set the problem we got

topic A out of the way, we discuss topic B.

62. trip: If you trip over something, you knock your foot against

something when you are walking and lose your balance so that you fall or

nearly fall.I tripped and fell...She tripped over a stone...He put each foot

down carefully to avoid tripping : to make a mistake as in a statement

or behaviourThis lawyer always tries to trip witness up by asking confusing

questions.

63. salt-lick shelters: shelters where blocks of rock salt were kept for

cattle to lick

64. style: The style of a particular person or group is all

the general attitudes, likes, dislikes, and ways of behaving that are

characteristic of them.

Purple is not my g cattle is not my style: I am not interested in

raising cattle.

65. gone and married: colloq.

66. collard:

宽叶羽衣甘蓝

67. go on through the chitlins etc.

chitlins: also chitlings, chitterlings: the intestines of hogs esp. when -

prepared as food

68. greens: green vegetables

69. talk a blue streak: speak very fast and very muchblue streak: sth.

that moves very fast, a constant stream of worksstreak: thin line or band,

different from what surrounds it

70. rump: the part of an animal at the back just above the legs. When we

eat this part of a cow it is called a rump steak (

后腿部的牛排

)(humour) of a

human being the part of the body one sits on, bottom

71. her hand closed

over the butter dish: A butter dish is a small rectangular container which you

can simply put your hand close over

72. if I could have: here if means whether

73. churn: a container in which milk is moved about violently until it

becomes butter , Am.E a large metal container in which milk is stored or

carried from the farm (

搅乳器

,

盛奶罐

)

74. clabber: (not found in Longman or Collins) curdle --- to form into

curds, cause to thicken

75. whittle: to cut (wood) to a smaller size by taking off small thing

pieces

76. dasher: a devise having blades for agitating a liquid or semisolid

77. centerpiece: The centerpiece of a set of things that is greatly

admired is sth. that you show as the best example of the setThe centerpiece of

the modern navy is the nuclear submarine.

78. alcove: an alcove is a small area in a room which is formed by one

part of a wall being built further back than the rest of the wall. a partially

enclosed extension of a room, often occupied by a bed or by seats,

凹室

(see.

Oxford)

79. to do with the dasher: use the dasher to make sth.

artisticI’ll do sth. artistic with the dasherI don’t know what to do with

those books, what to use them for, where to put themSomeone who is artistic is

able to create or appreciate good painting, ing that is

artistic relates to art or to artists. A design, arrangement, pattern, etc.

that is artistic is beautiful or attractive

80. sink: a depression (part of a surface lower than the other parts) in

the land surface(The rain collected in several depressions on the ground.)

81. rifle: to search through and steal everything valuable out of a

placeThe thieves rifled his pockets of all their burglar rifled

the bad boy rifled the apple in the text, the word