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adage
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N. /格言，谚语/wise saying; proverb. There is much truth in the old adage about fools and their money.
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adamant
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ADJ. /坚硬，不动摇/hard; inflexible. Bronson played the part of a revenge-driven man, adamant in his determination to pun¬ish the criminals who destroyed his family. adamancy, N.
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adapt
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V. /改变/alter; modify. Some species of animals have become extinct because they could not adapt to a chang¬ing environment.
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addendum
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N. /附加，补充/an addition or supplement. As an adden¬dum to the minutes, let me point out that Susan moved to appoint Kathy and Arthur to the finance committee.
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addiction
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N. /瘾，依赖/compulsive, habitual need. His addiction to drugs caused his friends much grief.
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addle
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V. /使变疯，腐坏/muddle; drive crazy; become rotten. This idiotic plan is confusing enough to addle anyone. addled,ADJ.
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address
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V. /发表（演讲），处理，讨论/direct a speech to; deal with or discuss. Due to address the convention in July, Brown planned to address the issue of low-income housing in his speech.
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adept
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ADJ. /擅长于/expert at. She was adept at the fine art of irritat¬ing people. also N.
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adhere
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V. /黏着/stick fast. I will adhere to this opinion until proof that I am wrong is presented. adhesion, N.
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adherent
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N. /支持者，追随者/supporter; follower. In the wake of the scan¬dal, the senator's one-time adherents quickly deserted him.
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adjacent
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ADJ. /邻近的，毗邻的/adjoining; neighboring; close by. Philip's best friend Jason lived only four houses down the block, close but not immediately adjacent.
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adjunct
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N. /无用的附加物/something added on or attached (generally nonessential or inferior). Although I don't absolutely need a second computer, I plan to buy a laptop to serve as an adjunct to my desktop model.
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admonish
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V. /警告，训斥/warn; reprove. He admonished his listeners to change their wicked ways. admonition, N.
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admonition
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N. /警告/warning. After the student protesters repeatedly rejected Chairman Deng's admonitions, the gov¬ernment issued an ultimatum: either the students would end the demonstration at once or the soldiers would fire on the crowd.
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adorn
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V. /装饰/decorate. Wall paintings and carved statues adorned the temple. adornment, N.
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adroit
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ADJ. /熟练，有技巧/skillful. His adroit handling of the delicate situa¬tion pleased his employers.
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adulation
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N. /奉承，恭维/flattery; admiration. The rock star thrived on the adulation of his groupies and yes men. adulate,V.
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adulterate
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V. /掺杂/make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances. It is a crime to adulterate foods without inform¬ing the buyer; when consumers learned that Beech-Nut had adulterated their apple juice by mixing it with water, they protested vigorously.
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advent
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N. /到来，出现/arrival. Most Americans were unaware of the advent of the Nuclear Age until the news of Hiroshima reached them.
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adventitious
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ADJ. /偶然/accidental; casual. He found this adven¬titious meeting with his friend extremely fortunate.
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adversary
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N. /对手/opponent. The young wrestler struggled to defeat his adversary.
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adverse
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ADJ. /讨厌，敌意/unfavorable; hostile. The recession had a highly adverse effect on Father's investment portfolio: he lost so much money that he could no longer afford the but¬ler and the upstairs maid. adversity, N.
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adversity
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N. /贫困，不幸/poverty; misfortune. We must learn to meet adversity gracefully.
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advocacy
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N. /支持，辩护/support; active pleading on something's behalf. No threats could dissuade Bishop Desmond Tutu from his advocacy of the human rights of black South Africans.
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advocate
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V. /辩护/urge; plead for. The abolitionists advocated freedom for the slaves. also N.
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aerie
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N. /猛禽的窝/nest of a large bird of prey (eagle, hawk). The mother eagle swooped down on the unwitting rabbit and bore it off to her aerie high in the Rocky Mountains.
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aesthetic
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ADJ. /审美的/artistic; dealing with or capable of apprecia¬tion of the beautiful. The beauty of Tiffany's stained glass appealed to Esther's aesthetic sense. aesthete, N.
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affable
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ADJ. /平易近人的/easily approachable; warmly friendly. Accus¬tomed to cold, aloof supervisors, Nicholas was amazed at how affable his new employer was.
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affected
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ADJ. /假的，做作的/artificial; pretended; assumed in order to impress. His affected mannerisms-his "Harvard" accent, his air of boredom, his use of obscure foreign words¬bugged us: he acted as if he thought he was too good for his old high school friends. affectation, N.
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affidavit
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N. /宣誓书/written statement made under oath. The court refused to accept his statement unless he presented it in the form of an affidavit.
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affiliation
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N. /联合，加入/joining; associating with. His affiliation with the political party was of short duration for he soon disagreed with his colleagues.
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affinity
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N. /亲缘关系/kinship. She felt an affinity with all who suffered; their pains were her pains.
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affirmation
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N. /正面肯定，确认/positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath. Despite Tom's affirmations of innocence, Aunt Polly still suspected he had eaten the pie.
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affix
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V. /增加，附于/fasten; attach; add on. First the registrar had to affix her signature to the license; then she had to affix her official seal.
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affliction
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N. /痛苦/state of distress; cause of suffering. Even in the midst of her affliction, Elizabeth tried to keep up the spirits of those around her.
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affluence
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N. /富足，财富/abundance; wealth. Foreigners are amazed by the affluence and luxury of the American way of life.
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affront
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N. /侮辱，冒犯；蓄意蔑视/insult; offense; intentional act of disrespect. When Mrs. Proudie was not seated beside the Archdeacon at the head table, she took it as a personal affront and refused to speak to her hosts for a week. alsoV.
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aftermath
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N. /后果，结果/consequences; outcome; upshot. People around the world wondered what the aftermath of China's violent suppression of the student protests would be.
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agenda
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N. /议程/items of business at a meeting. We had so much difficulty agreeing upon an agenda that there was very little time for the meeting.
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agent
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N. /方法，工具；代表/means or instrument; personal representative; per¬son acting in an official capacity. °I will be the agent of America's destruction," proclaimed the beady-eyed villain, whose agent had gotten him the role. With his face, he could never have played the part of the hero, a heroic F.B.I. agent.
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agglomeration
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N. /聚集，累积/collection; heap. It took weeks to assort the agglomeration of miscellaneous items she had col¬lected on her trip.
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aggrandize
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V. /增加，加强/increase or intensify. The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President may aggrandize his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering the wishes of Congress.
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aggregate
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V. /收集，聚集/gather; accumulate. Before the Wall Street scandals, dealers in so-called junk bonds managed to aggregate great wealth in short periods of time. aggrega¬tion, N.
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aggressor
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N. /攻击者/attacker. Before you punish both boys for fighting, see whether you can determine which one was the aggressor.
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aghast
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ADJ. /吓坏了的/horrified. He was aghast at the nerve of the speaker who had insulted his host.
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agility
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N. /敏捷/nimbleness. The agility of the acrobat amazed and thrilled the audience.
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agitate
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V. /激怒，打扰/stir up; disturb. Her fiery remarks agitated the already angry mob.
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agnostic
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N. /无神论者/one who is skeptical of the existence or knowability of a god or any ultimate reality. Agnostics say we can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god; we simply just can't know. alsoADJ.
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agrarian
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ADJ. /耕地的，耕种的/pertaining to land or its cultivation. The country is gradually losing its agrarian occupation and turn¬ing more and more to an industrial point of view.
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alacrity
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N. /欢快的情绪/cheerful promptness. Phil and Dave were raring to get off to the mountains; they packed up their ski gear and climbed into the van with alacrity.
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alchemy
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N. /炼金术士/medieval chemistry. The changing of baser metals into gold was the goal of the students of alchemy. alchemist, N.
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alcove
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N. /小隔间，壁橱/nook; small, recessed section of a room. Though their apartment lacked a full-scale dining room, an alcove adjacent to the living room made an adequate breakfast nook for the young couple.
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alias
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N. /别名/an assumed name. John Smith's alias was Bob Jones. also ADV.
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alienate
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V. /孤立，树敌/make hostile; separate. Her attempts to alien¬ate the two friends failed because they had complete faith in each other.
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alimentary
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ADJ. /营养的/supplying nourishment. The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there. When asked for the name of the digestive tract, Sherlock Holmes replied, "Alimentary, my dear Watson."
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alimony
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N. /（离婚后的）生活费，抚养费/payment by a husband to his divorced wife (or vice versa). Mrs. Jones was awarded $200 monthly alimony by the court when she was divorced from her husband.
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allay
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V. /平静下来，（使）冷静下来/calm; pacify. The crew tried to allay the fears of the passengers by announcing that the fire had been con¬trolled.
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allege
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V. /断言/state without proof. Although it is alleged that she has worked for the enemy, she denies the allegation and, legally, we can take no action against her without proof. allegation, N.
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allegiance
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N. /忠诚/loyalty. Not even a term in prison could shake Lech Walesa's allegiance to Solidarity, the Polish trade union he had helped to found.
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allegory
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N. /寓言/story in which characters are used as symbols; fable. Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the temptations and victories of man's soul. allegorical,ADJ.
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alleviate
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V. /解脱，释放，释然/relieve. This should alleviate the pain; if it does not, we shall have to use stronger drugs.
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alliteration
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N. /头韵/repetition of beginning sound in poetry. "The furrow followed free" is an example of alliteration.
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allocate
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V. /分配，制定/assign. Even though the Red Cross had allo¬cated a large sum for the relief of the sufferers of the disas¬ter, many people perished.
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alloy
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N. /合金/a mixture as of metals. Alloys of gold are used more frequently than the pure metal.
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alloy
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V. /混合，中和/mix; make less pure; lessen or moderate. Our delight at the Yankees' victory was alloyed by our concern for Dwight Gooden, who injured his pitching arm in the game.
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allude
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V. /暗指/refer indirectly. Try not to mention divorce in Jack's presence because he will think you are alluding to his marital problems with Jill.
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allure
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V. /诱惑，引诱/entice; attract. Allured by the song of the sirens, the helmsman steered the ship toward the reef. also N.
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allusion
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N. /暗指，暗示/indirect reference. When Amanda said to the ticket scalper, "One hundred bucks? What do you want, a pound of flesh?," she was making an allusion to Shake¬speare's Merchant of Venice.
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aloft
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ADV. /向上/upward. The sailor climbed aloft into the rigging. To get into a loft bed, you have to climb aloft.
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aloof
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ADJ. /分离，保留/apart; reserved. Shy by nature, she remained aloof while all the rest conversed.
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