新编英语教程6词汇总

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