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Book 6
考察之词汇
Unit 1 Two words to Avoid,
Two to Remember
1.
insight
: the capacity to
gain an accurate and deep instinctive
understanding of a situation
2.
checkered
tablecloth
:
table
cloth
that
has
a
pattern
consisting
of
alternating
squares
of
different colors
3.
chew the
cud
: think reflectively
4.
gnome
: (in legends) a little
old man who lives underground and guards the
earth
’
s treasures; a
small ugly person
5.
melancholy
: sad; gloomy;
depressed
6.
berate
: scold or criticize
angrily
7.
a perverse streak
: an
obstinate quality
8.
ruefully
: regretfully
9.
drag:
a boring thing; nuisance
10.
immortality
: never-ending
life or endless fame
Unit 2
The Fine Art of Putting Things Off
1.
cool
one
’
s heels
: be
forced to wait; be kept waiting
2.
attest to:
testify to; serve
as an evidence to affirm/to be proof of
3.
apocalyptic
:
foreboding imminent disaster or final doom
4.
proconsul
: an
administrator in a colony usually with wide powers
5.
ruminate
: go
over in the mind repeatedly and often slowly
6.
nattering
:
chattering; hence, noisy
7.
echelon
: rank, level
8.
fortify
:
encourage; support
9.
reappraisal
: re-evaluation
10.
academe
: the
academic community; academics
11.
shrink
psychoanalyst or psychiatrist
12.
subliminal
:
subconscious; existing or functioning outside the
area of conscious awareness
13.
truism
: an
undoubted or self-evident truth
14.
mellow and
marinate
: to mellow is to become ripe
or fully developed, and to marinate is to
steep(meat, fish) in a savory sauce to
enrich its flavor; here, ripen and mature
Unit 4 A Red Light for Scofflaws
1.
take
liberties with
: misinterpret; distort;
violate
2.
blithely
: heedlessly;
without thought or regard
3.
dereliction
: deliberate
neglect; negligence
4.
exempt from
: free from; not
subject to an obligation
5.
flurry
: profusion;
abundance; great quantity
6.
ordinance
: authoritative
law; command
7.
flagrant
: shameless;
notorious
8.
festering
scandal
: tormenting disgrace
9.
statutes
: laws
10.
public
nuisance
: something offensive or
annoying to the community, especially in violation
of
others’ legal rights
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