英語單詞超好背 第0329期

unpaid

英 [??n?pe?d] 美 [??n?pe?d]

adj. 未付款的；[稅收] 未繳納的；無報酬的

例句：

Even unpaid work for charity is better than nothing.
甚至無償?shù)拇壬乒ぷ饕埠眠^沒事可做。

Apart from a small team of paid staff, the organization consists of unpaid volunteers.
除了一小部分有薪酬的工作人員，這個機構(gòu)還包含沒有薪酬的志愿者。

The mayor delivered the unwelcome news that city employees may have to take unpaid time off.
市長宣布了人們不想聽到的消息，所有城市雇員可能不得不進行不帶薪休工。

imaginary

英 [??m?d??n?ri] 美 [??m?d??neri]

adj. 虛構(gòu)的，假想的；想象的；虛數(shù)的

例句：

Lots of children have imaginary friends.
許多孩子都有假想的朋友。

Many children invent an imaginary friend.
很多兒童都有一個假想朋友。

The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth.
赤道是一條假想的環(huán)繞地球腰部的線。

deform

英 [d??f??m] 美 [d??f??rm]

vt. 使變形；使成畸形

vi. 變形；變畸形

adj. 畸形的；丑陋的

例句：

They don't deform easily; they tend to be more brittle.
它們不容易變形；它們是更脆的。

When the glacier comes into contact with bedrock walls or is otherwise under some kind of stress, but can't deform quickly enough.
當冰川與基巖壁接觸，或者在其它方面受到某種壓力，但變形速度不夠快時。

If you leave, for example, a bar of ice supported only at one end, the end, the unsupported end will deform under its own weight, it'll kind of flatten out at one end, get distorted, deformed.
舉個例子，如果你把一根只有一端支撐的冰放在一邊，沒有支撐的一端會在自身的重量下變形，它的一端會變平，變形。

wire

英 [?wa??(r)] 美 [?wa??r]

n. 電線；金屬絲；電報

vt. 拍電報；給…裝電線

vi. 打電報

n. (Wire)人名；(英)懷爾

例句：

What gauge of wire do we need?
我們需要多大直徑的金屬絲？

The wire led to a speaker.
這電線連接著揚聲器。

The box was fastened with a rusty wire.
那個箱子是用生銹的鐵絲捆緊的。

grow

英 [ɡr??] 美 [ɡro?]

vi. 發(fā)展；生長；漸漸變得…

vt. 使生長；種植；擴展

n. （Grow）（英）格羅（人名）

例句：

The economy continues to grow.
經(jīng)濟持續(xù)增長。

They began to grow as individuals.
他們開始發(fā)展獨自的個性。

We are trying to grow the business.
我們正在努力擴展業(yè)務。

回顧

1. unpaid
2. imaginary
3. deform
4. wire
5. grow