英語單詞超好背 第0147期

profitable

英 [?pr?f?t?bl] 美 [?prɑ?f?t?bl]

adj. 有利可圖的；賺錢的；有益的

例句：

It would take a miracle to make this business profitable.
讓這個公司贏利簡直是天方夜譚。

Other less profitable services are to be axed later this year.
其他盈利較少的服務(wù)項目預(yù)定今年稍晚將大量削減。

Drug manufacturing is the most profitable business in the U.S.
藥品生產(chǎn)是美國最賺錢的行業(yè)。

affirm

英 [??f??m] 美 [??f??rm]

vt. 肯定；斷言

vi. 確認(rèn)；斷言

例句：

I can affirm that no one will lose their job.
我可以肯定，誰都不會丟掉工作。

In my opinion, in the appraisal of migrant workers, it is one-sided to affirm everything or to negate everything.
在我看來，對農(nóng)民工的評價中，肯定一切或否定一切都是片面的。

Everything I had accomplished seemed to affirm that opinion.
我所做成的每件事似乎都證實了那個觀點。

leap

英 [li?p] 美 [li?p]

v. 跳，跳躍；急速移動，猛沖；突然做（某事）；劇增，猛漲；（車輛）突然移動

n. 飛躍；跳躍，跳高；驟變；劇增；（用于地名）躍過或起跳處

n. (Leap)（美、法、英）萊亞（人名）

例句：

His heart gave a sudden leap when he saw her.
他看見她時，心猛地一跳。

The suspect took a leap out of a third-storey window.
那個犯罪嫌疑人從三樓的窗口跳了出去。

She took a flying leap and landed on the other side of the stream.
她一個飛躍跳到小溪的對面。

breath

英 [breθ] 美 [breθ]

n. 呼吸，氣息；一口氣，（呼吸的）一次；瞬間，瞬息；微風(fēng)；跡象；無聲音，氣音

例句：

His breath came in snuffles.
他呼哧呼哧地呼吸著。

Shona struggled for breath.
肖娜艱難地喘著氣。

Her breath came in convulsive gasps.
她的呼吸變得突然喘不過氣來。

drunkard

英 [?dr??k?d] 美 [?dr??k?rd]

n. 酒鬼，醉漢

例句：

The drunkard began to rave again.
這酒鬼又開始胡言亂語了。

The author portrayed his father as a vicious drunkard.
作者把他父親描繪成一個可惡的酒鬼。

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.
不久，湯姆遇到了村子里的壞孩子哈克貝利·費恩，他是本鎮(zhèn)一個酒鬼的兒子。

回顧

1. profitable
2. affirm
3. leap
4. breath
5. drunkard