英語(yǔ)四級(jí)單詞每天背 第0226期

ailment

英 [?e?lm?nt] 美 [?e?lm?nt]

n. 疾病，小?。徊话?/p> 例句：

No ailment was found, and he investigated again.
沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)任何毛病，于是他又檢查了一遍。

Asthma, a bronchial condition, is much less common ailment than hay fever, an allergic inflammation of the nasal passages.
哮喘是一種支氣管疾病，比花粉熱（一種鼻道的過(guò)敏性炎癥）要少見(jiàn)得多。

If identical twins are more similar to each other with respect to an ailment than fraternal twins are, then vulnerability to the disease must be rooted at least in part in heredity.
如果同卵雙胞胎彼此在疾病方面比異卵雙胞胎更相似，那么這種疾病的易感性至少在一定程度上是由遺傳造成的。

irrespective

英 [??r??spekt?v] 美 [??r??spekt?v]

adv. 不考慮，不顧

例句：

Everyone is treated equally, irrespective of race.
不分種族，每個(gè)人都受到公平對(duì)待。

The weekly rent is the same irrespective of whether there are three or four occupants.
無(wú)論三個(gè)還是四個(gè)人住，周租金不變。

Irrespective of the quality of a school a child's home life is of key importance.
不管學(xué)校教育的質(zhì)量如何，孩子的家庭生活都是至關(guān)重要的。

o.k.

adj. 好的，可以的

例句：

The proportion who said it is "sometimes O.K. to spank a child" had fallen to 72%, though most researchers believe the actual incidence of it is higher.
同意“有時(shí)候打孩子屁股是可以的”的人占的比例下降到72%，雖然大多數(shù)研究者認(rèn)為，實(shí)際上體罰事件發(fā)生的更頻繁了。

"Any problems?"—"No, I'm O.K."
“有問(wèn)題嗎？”—“沒(méi)有，我挺好?！?/p>

O.K. I made a boo-boo. I apologize.
好吧。我犯了一個(gè)低級(jí)錯(cuò)誤。我道歉。

fire-engine

英 [?fa??r end??n] 美 [?fa??r end??n]

n. 消防車

例句：

Charles is a fireman and he drives a fire-engine.
查爾斯是一名消防隊(duì)員，他開(kāi)消防車。

My daughter's first bedroom had a fire-engine red accent wall. She was also the bouncing-off-the-walls type of baby.
我女兒最初臥室墻壁顏色是消防車般的紅色。她也確實(shí)是那種讓人不得安生的孩子。

I heard it--the sound of a fire engine. It was music to my ears.
我聽(tīng)到了它——消防車的聲音。 這是我耳中的音樂(lè)。

mute

英 [mju?t] 美 [mju?t]

adj. 緘默的，沉默的；啞的，不會(huì)說(shuō)話的；無(wú)聲的，寧?kù)o的；（獵犬）追獵時(shí)不吠叫的；（字母）啞音的，無(wú)音的

n. 弱音器；啞巴；<舊>一群獵狗；<史>（一些亞洲國(guó)家的）啞奴，啞仆；<史>啞劇演員；受雇的送葬人，以送葬為業(yè)者；閉鎖音

v. 消音，減音；減弱，緩和；關(guān)閉聲音

【名】 （Mute）（塞）穆特（人名）

例句：

Early one morning I saw the Mute Singer washing at the river.
一天清晨，我看見(jiàn)“沉默的歌手”在河邊洗澡。

The only buttons on the S5 speaker console itself are volume and mute.
S5揚(yáng)聲器本身的控制面板上唯一的按鈕是音量和靜音。

He was mute, distant, and indifferent.
他緘默無(wú)言，對(duì)人疏遠(yuǎn)而且冷漠。

回顧

1. ailment
2. irrespective
3. o.k.
4. fire-engine
5. mute