20230220 單詞學習匯總
20230220 單詞學習匯總
· portray /p???tre?/
o 1. V-T When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or movie. 扮演
? ?In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot." 1975年他在洛杉磯重演的戲劇《卡米洛特》中扮演國王。
o 2. V-T When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it. 描繪 (事物)
? ?The film portrays a culture of young people who live in lower Manhattan. 這部電影描繪了在下曼哈頓地區(qū)生活的青年人文化。
o 3. V-T If a movie, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way. (以某種方式) 刻畫 (某人)
? ?...complaints about the way women are portrayed in ads. …不滿于廣告中對婦女的刻畫方式。
· incessant /?n?s?s?nt/
o 1. ADJ An incessant process or activity is one that continues without stopping. 持續(xù)不斷的
? ?Incessant rain made conditions almost intolerable. 陰雨綿綿讓情況幾乎無法忍受。
o 2. ADV 持續(xù)不斷地
? ?Dee talked incessantly about herself. 迪伊滔滔不絕地談論她自己。
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· prod /pr?d/
o 1. V-T If you prod someone or something, you give them a quick push with your finger or with a pointed object. (用手指或尖物) 捅
? ?He prodded Murray with the shotgun. 他用獵槍捅了默里一下。
? ?Prod the windowsills to check for signs of rot. 捅一捅窗臺，看有沒有腐爛跡象。
o 2. N-COUNT Prod is also a noun. 捅
? ?He gave the donkey a mighty prod in the backside. 他在驢的屁股上狠狠地捅了一下。
o 3. V-T If you prod someone into doing something, you remind or persuade them to do it. 敦促
? ?The question is intended to prod students into examining the concept of freedom. 這個問題旨在敦促學生探究自由這個概念。
· billow /?b?l??/
o 1. V-I When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. 在風中鼓脹著飄動
? ?The curtains billowed in the breeze. 窗簾在微風中鼓脹著飄動。
? ?Her pink dress billowed out around her. 她粉紅色的連衣裙隨身飄了起來。
o 2. V-I When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upward or across the sky. (煙、云等) 升騰
? ?...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys. …從工廠煙囪里冒出來的滾滾濃煙。
? ?Steam billowed out from under the hood. 蒸汽從機罩下冒了出來。
o 3. N-COUNT A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. 緩緩升起的大團 (煙、灰塵)
? ?...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. …噴吐著滾滾黑色濃煙的大煙囪。
in·ex·tric·ably adv.
? /??n?k?str?k?bli/ ?/?n?ekstr?k?bli/ ?
if two things are inextricably linked , etc., it is impossible to separate them 不可分開地；密不可分地
? Europe's foreign ?policy is inextricably linked with that of the US. 歐洲的對外政策和美國的緊密相扣。
? She had become inextricably involved in the campaign. 她已陷入這場運動之中，以致無法脫身。
elu·sive adj. ? /i?lu?s?v/ ?
difficult to find, define, or achieve 難找的；難以解釋的；難以達到的
· ? Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found. 埃里克總是這樣神出鬼沒，哪兒也找不著。
· ? the elusive concept of ‘literature’ “文學”這一難以解釋的概念
· ? A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive . 有毒廢料這個問題證明難以解決。
DERIVATIVES 派生詞
elu·sive·ly adv.
2. elu·sive·ness n. [ U]
· explicate /??kspl??ke?t/
o 1. V-T To explicate something means to explain it and make it clear. 解釋; 說明
? ?We shall have to explicate its basic assumptions before we can assess its implications. 在我們能評估其含義以前，我們得先解釋其基本假設。
o 2. N-VAR undefined
? ?The jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306. 陪審團聽取他對306條款慷慨激昂的闡釋。
? ?McKen criticizes the lack of explication of what the term "areas" means. 麥肯批評對"地區(qū)"這一詞的意思缺乏清楚解釋。
ex·trin·sic adj. ? /eks?tr?ns?k/ ?/?z?k/ ?
( formal ) not belonging naturally to sb/sth; coming from or existing outside sb/sth rather than within them 非固有的；非本質(zhì)的；外在的；外來的
? extrinsic factors 外在因素
——compare intrinsic
amorph·ous adj. ? /??m??f?s/ ?
[ usually before noun] ( formal ) having no definite shape, form or structure 無固定形狀的；不規(guī)則的；無組織的
SYN shapeless
· ? an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all 不知何物的雜亂一團的細胞
