精編熟詞生義21-40

21. copy

①written material that is to be printed in anewspaper, magazine, etc.; news or information that can be used in a newspaperarticle or advertisement

? (報刊等的)稿件；(可用於報紙文章或廣告的)消息,信息:

The subeditors prepare the reporters copy for the paper and write the headlines.

22. wild

①full of very strong feeling

?感情熾烈的:

wild laughter

②not carefully planned; not sensible oraccurate

?盲目的；瞎抓的:

He made a wild guess at the answer.

③~ about sb / sth (informal) veryenthusiastic about sb / sth

?熱衷於…；狂熱:

Shes totally wild about him.

④affected by storms and strong winds

?狂暴的；暴風雨的【SYN】 stormy :

a wild night

23. sunset

①[C] a fixed period of time after which alaw or the effect of a law will end

? (法律的)自動廢止期,效力消減期:

There is a five-year sunset on the new tax.

24. movement

①[C] any of the main parts that a long pieceof music is divided into

?樂章:

the slow movement of the First Concerto

25. joy

①[U] (BrE, informal) (in questions andnegative sentences用於疑問句和否定句) success or satisfaction

?成功；滿意；滿足:

We complained about our rooms but got no joy from the manager.

26. minus

①making sth seem negative and lessattractive or good

?負面的；使顯得有欠缺的:

What are the cars minus points (= the disadvantages) ?

On the minus side, rented property is expensive and difficult to find.

27. report

①(BrE) (NAmE report card) a written statementabout a students work at school, college, etc.

?成績報告單:

to get a good / bad report

②the sound of an explosion or of a gun beingfired

?爆炸聲；射擊聲【SYN】 bang , blast :

a loud report

28. punch

①[U] the power to interest people

?吸引力:

Its a well-constructed crimestory, told with speed and punch.

29. keep

①[U] food, clothes and all the other thingsthat a person needs to live; the cost of these things

?生活必需品；生活費用:

Its about time you got a job to earn your keep.

②[C] a large strong tower, built as part ofan old castle

?城堡主樓

30. express

①[VN] ~ itself (formal) (of a feeling) tobecome obvious in a particular way

?顯而易見；不言自明:

Their pleasure expressed itself in a burst of applause.

②[VN] to remove air or liquid from sth bypressing it

?壓榨,擠壓出(空氣或液體):

Coconut milk is expressedfrom grated coconuts.

31.tip

①[N](BrE) a place where you can take rubbish/ garbage and leave it

?垃圾場；垃圾堆

②(BrE) to leave rubbish / garbage somewhereoutdoors in order to get rid of it

? (在戶外)倒垃圾:

No tipping. (= for example, on a notice)

③~ sb / sth (as / for sth) to say in advancethat sb / sth will be successful

?預言…獲勝；事先說…會成功:

The band is being tipped for the top.

④[VN] [usually passive] ~ sth (with sth) tocover the end or edge of sth with a colour, a substance, etc.

? (用顏色、物質等)覆蓋…的末端,遮蓋…的邊:

The wings are tipped with yellow.

32. murder

①to spoil sth because you do not do it verywell

?糟蹋；毀壞；弄壞【SYN】 butcher :

Critics accused him of murdering the Englishlanguage (= writing or speaking it very badly).

33. bounce

①[VN] ~ ideas (off sb)/(around) to tell sbyour ideas in order to find out what they think about them

? (向某人)透露主意(以試探其反應):

He bounced ideas off colleagues everywhere hewent.

②[U, C] the energy that a person has

?活力；精力:

All her old bounce was back.

34. forward

①(technical 術語) in or towards the front part of a ship or plane

?在(或向)船頭；在(或向)機首:

The main cabin is situated forward of (= infront of) the mast.

②behaving towards sb in a manner which istoo confident or too informal

?魯莽的；冒失的；無禮的:

I hope you dont think Im being too forward.

35. original

①(formal) a person who thinks, behaves,dresses, etc. in an unusual way

? (思想、行為、衣著等)不同尋常的人,獨特的人,怪人

36. cast

Verb:

①[VN] when a snake casts its skin, the skincomes off as part of a natural process

? (蛇)蛻(皮)【SYN】 shed

②[VN] if a horse casts a shoe, the shoecomes off by accident

?踢落

③[VN] ~ sb (as sth) | ~ sb (in sth) todescribe or present sb in a particular way

?把某人描寫成；把某人表現為:

He cast himself as the innocent victim of a hate campaign.

④[VN] ~ a / your vote / ballot (for sb /sth) to vote for sb / sth

?投票

⑤[VN] ~ sth (in sth) to shape hot liquidmetal, etc. by pouring it into a hollow container (called a mould )

?澆鑄；鑄造:

a statue cast in bronze

Noun:

⑥[C] an object that is made by pouring hotliquid metal, etc. into a mould (= a specially shaped container)

?鑄件；鑄造品

⑦[C] a shaped container used to make anobject

?模子；鑄模【SYN】 mould

⑧[sing.] (BrE, formal) the way that a personor thing is or appears

?特性；特徵；外表；外貌:

He has an unusual cast of mind.

37. tear

①[VN] to injure a muscle, etc. by stretchingit too much

?拉傷；拽傷:

a torn ligament

②[V +adv. / prep.] to move somewhere very quickly or in an excited way

?飛跑；狂奔；疾馳:

He tore off down the street.

③[noun] a hole that has been made in sth by tearing

?破洞；裂口；裂縫:

This sheet has a tear in it.

38. stiff

①thick and almost solid; difficult to stir

?稠的；難攪動的:

Whisk the egg whites until stiff.

②more difficult or severe than usual

?困難的；艱難的；嚴厲的；激烈的:

It was a stiff climb to the top of the hill.

③(of a person or their behaviour 人或其行為) not friendly or relaxed

?不友好的；生硬的:

The speech he made to welcome them was stiffand formal

④[only before noun] strong; containing a lotof alcohol

?烈性的；酒精度數高的:

39. focus

①[C] (geology 地) the point at which an earthquake starts to happen

? (地震的)震源

40. cap

Noun:

①an upper limit on an amount of money thatcan be spent or borrowed by a particular institution or in a particularsituation

? (可用或可藉資金的)最高限額:

The government has placed a cap on localcouncil spending.

②a small paper container with explosivepowder inside it, used especially in toy guns

? (玩具槍的)火藥帽,火藥紙

Verb:

③[often passive] (especially BrE) to limitthe amount of money that can be charged for sth or spent on sth

?限額收取(或支出):

a capped mortgage

④(especially BrE) to say or do sth that isfunnier, more impressive, etc. than sth that has been said or done before

?勝過；超過；比…更…:

What an amazing story. Can anyone cap that?

⑤[usually passive] to put an artificialcovering on a tooth to make it look more attractive

?包(牙):

Hes had his front teethcapped.

⑥[usually passive] (BrE) to choose sb toplay in their countrys national team for a particular sport

?選入(某項體育運動的國家隊):

He has been capped more than 30 times for Wales.

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