resurrect

stride

endemic

contentious

wary

colossal
collateral

complicit

curtail

benign

malignant
paucity

distinctly

the forefront
let on

ponder

nuanced

warrant

granular

come by something

plausible

allure

get to someone
hold someone to
account

allow for

prowl

might

play around with something

counter

supplant
revolt

coax

dissonance

conflate

elixir

stifle
a wider cross-section of society

touch
dim

consciousness

camaraderie

fancy

propensity
in/into the ˈdistance
exclamation

flop

realise

secure
up to the ˈminute

limit sth to sb/sth

ailing

in a bind
stray

juggle

supplant

take shape
to bring back into use sth, such as a
belief, a practice, etc., that had
disappeared or been forgotten

an improvement in the way sth is

developing 进展；进步；发展

regularly found in a particular place o

r among a particular group of people
and difficult to get rid of 地方性的；（某地或某集
体中）特有的，流行的，难摆脱的

likely to cause disagreement between

people可能引起争论的

careful when dealing with sb/

sth because you think that there may
be a danger or problem （对待人或事物时）小
心的，谨慎的，留神的，小心翼翼的

extremely large 巨大的；庞大的

connected with sth else, but in additi
on to it and less important 附属的；附加的；附
带的

involved with other people in sth

wrong or illegal （与某人在某事上）同谋的，串通的

to limit sth or make it last for a short

er time 限制；缩短；减缩

not causing damage or harm；not

dangerous or likely to cause death 良性
的
that cannot be controlled and is likely
to cause death 恶性的
a small amount of sth; less than enou
gh of sth 少量；少许；贫乏

easily or clearly heard, seen, felt,清晰的

；清楚的；明白的；明显的

the
most noticeable or important positio
n
to tell other people about something
that you know, especially when it is
a secret

to think carefully about

something, especially for
a noticeable length of time

made slightly different

in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.

to make
a particular activity necessary使有必要

including small details

to get something, using effort,

by chance or in a way that has not
been explained得到;弄到;获得

seeming likely to be true, or able to

be believed
the quality of
being attractive, interesting,
or exciting诱惑;魅力;吸引力

If something gets to you, it makes you suffer.

to make someone accept that they
are responsible for something
and explain their actions or decisions:

to consider something when you

are planning something

to move around quietly in

a place trying not to
be seen or heard, such as
an animal does when hunting

power, strength, or force

to try out different methods or

different things, before deciding
which one to choose试验，尝试（不同的方法或事物
）

to react to something with

an opposing opinion or action, or
to defend yourself against something
反驳；对抗

to replace
If a large number of people revolt,
they refuse to be controlled or ruled,
and take action against authority,
often violent action.

to persuade someone gently to do

something or go somewhere, by
being kind and patient, or by
appearing to be
哄劝;哄骗;劝诱
a combination of sounds or musical
notes that are not pleasant when
heard together
不和谐音

to combine two or more separate

things, especially pieces of text, to
form a whole
合并，结合，混合（尤指文本）

a substance, usually a liquid, with a

magical power to cure, improve, or
preserve something
（通常为液体的）万灵药，灵丹妙药，长生不老药

to prevent something from

happening, being expressed, or
continuing
阻止；压制，抑制；扼杀
a small group that represents all of
the different types within the total
group
典型，代表

a small amount
少许
to (make something) become less
bright
（使）变暗，（使）亮度降低

the state of understanding and

realizing something
意识;感觉;觉悟

a feeling of friendliness towards

people that you work or share an
experience with
同志情谊;友情

Fancy! She's never been in a plane

before.
真想不到！她竟然从未坐过飞机。

a tendency to a particular kind of

behaviour （行为方面的）倾向；习性
far away but still able to be seen or
heard 在远处；在远方
a short sound, word or phrase spoken
suddenly to express an emotion. Oh!,
Look out! and Ow! are exclamations.
感叹；感叹语；感叹词

to sit or lie down in a heavy and

sudden way because you are very
tired （因疲惫而）猛然坐下，沉重地躺下

~ sth to achieve sth important that

you very much want to do 实现；将 … 变为
现实

to get something, sometimes with

difficulty
获得;设法得到
fashionable and modern 时髦；紧跟时尚；入时

[usually passive] to make sth exist or

happen only in a particular place or
within a particular group 使（某事只在某地或某
群体内）存在（或发生）

(of a business, government, etc. 企业、政

府等) having problems and getting
weaker 处境困难的；每况愈下的

in a difficult situation that you do not

know how to get out of 陷于困境；进退维谷
 (+ adv./prep.) to move away from
the place where you should be,
without intending to 迷路；偏离；走失

(sth) (with sth) to try to deal with two

or more important jobs or activities at
the same time so that you can fit all
of them into your life 尽力同时应付（两个或更多的
重要工作或活动）

to take the place of sb/sth

(especially sb/sth older or less
modern) 取代，替代（尤指年老者或落后于时代的事物）

to develop and become more

complete or organized 成形；有了模样
The same genetic tools being used to
resurrect the woolly mammoth and dodo
could help many other vulnerable species
that have yet to die out

We're making great strides in the search f

or a cure.在探索治疗办法方面，我们正不断取得重大进展。

Malaria is endemic in many hot countries.

Both views are highly contentious.

She was wary of getting involved with him

.

The singer earns a colossal amount of

money.
Our instincts tell us that deliberately
causing someone's death is different that
allowing them to die
as collateral damage.直觉告诉了我们，故意造就某些人死亡
，与间接造成他们死亡是两回事。

Several officers were complicit in the cove

r-up.几名军官串通一气隐瞒真相。

Spending on books has been severely

curtailed.

We won't know if this

tumor's malignant or benign until we get
the lab report back.

a paucity of information信息的短缺

I distinctly heard someone calling me.我清楚

地听到有人在叫我。

She was one of the politicians at/in the

forefront of the campaign to free the pris
oners.她是身处释放犯人运动风口浪尖的政治家之一。
I suspect he knows more than
he's letting on.

She sat back for a minute to ponder her

next move in the game.

His London accent is

very slightly nuanced by
an occasional Russian pronunciation.

Obviously what she did was wrong, but I

don't think it warranted such
a severe punishment.

The analysis needs to be more granular.分

析需要更为细致。

Cheap organic food is still difficult to

come by.便宜的有机食品仍然很难买到。

Her story sounded perfectly plausible.

the allure of working in television

The heat was beginning to get to me, so I

went indoors.
天热得我开始难受，我就进屋了。
It said the investigation must be
transparent and perpetrators must be
held to account.
称调查必须透明，必须追究肇事者的责任

We have to allow for the possibility that

we might not finish on schedule.我们必须考虑到我
们有可能不能按时完成。

The tiger prowled through the

undergrowth.
老虎悄然穿过矮树丛。

She struggled with all her might to

get free.她用尽全力想挣脱出来。

We've been playing around with ideas for

a new TV show.

When criticisms were made of the

school's performance, the parents' group
countered with details of its exam results.
当有人对学校的业绩提出批评时，家长团举出具体的考试成绩予以反驳。

Printed books will soon be supplanted by

e-books.
纸质书将很快被电子书取代。
The people revolted against foreign rule
and established their own government
.

Perhaps you could

coax your father into taking you to
the station.也许你能花言巧语说服父亲带你去车站。

She conflated the three plays to produce

a fresh new work.
她成功地将3个剧本合并在一起，编出了一部令人耳目一新的新作品。

It's yet another health product claiming to

be the elixir of life/youth

We should be encouraging new ideas, not

stifling them.
我们应该鼓励创意，而不是将其扼杀。
The demonstrators seemed to
be from a wide cross-section
of society.示威者似乎是来自社会的各个阶层。

I had a touch of flu。我得了轻度流感 多义

Someone dimmed the lights.

有人调低了灯的亮度。

Her consciousness that she's different

makes her feel uneasy.
意识到自已与众不同，她感到很不自在。

When you've been climbing alone for

hours, there's a tremendous sense of
camaraderie when you meet another
climber.
独自攀登数小时后遇到另一个攀登者，这时你会产生强烈的志同道合感。

It was really brave the way she picked

herself up and took that job in retail.
Fancy working in a shop after that!她能如此勇敢
地振作起来并接受那份零售工作，真是了不起！真想不到在那之后还想在商店工
作！

He showed a propensity for violence.

他表现出暴力倾向。
We saw lights in the distance.
我们看到了远处的点点灯光。
He gave an exclamation of surprise.
他发出一声惊叹。

As soon as the elephants began to flop

onto the ground, the team moved in to
take care of them.
当大象开始倒下时，团队立即靠近并照料它们。

She never realized her ambition of

becoming a professional singer.她从未能实现成为 多义
一名职业歌手的志向。

For the design of this new heated pool,

we were very happy to secure the talents 多义
of internationally renowned architect Ellen
Wendon
For the design of this new heated pool,
we were very happy to secure the talents
of internationally renowned architect Ellen
Wendon, who has managed to combine a
charming 1930s design, which fits in so
well with many of the other buildings in
the area, with up to the minute features
such as a recycling system the only one
of its kind in the world - which enables
seawater to be used in the pool.关于这个新的恒温
泳池，我们有幸请到了世界著名建筑师Ellen Wendon来担当设计，他
成功地将充满魅力的上世纪三十年代的设计风格——这种风格与本地区其他的
很多建筑风格十分契合，和最新的一些性能结合起来，比如能把海水用在泳池中
的循环系统——这项技术在世界上独一无二。

“Chinese consumption is largely limited to

milk and yogurt.

Chinese people are even less likely to buy

exotic foodstuffs at the moment because
of the ailing economy and its effect on
incomes.

you know, the White House is in a bind.

they'd really upset audiences if they
strayed away from quite narrow
boundaries.
如果他们偏离了这本就狭窄的范围，会烦扰观众的。

Working mothers are used to juggling

their jobs, their children's needs and their
housework.
为人母的职业女性已经习惯了既要工作，又要照顾孩子，还得做家务。

All over the world, open-air markets are

being supplanted by supermarket
shopping.

The more such material a scientist leaves

behind, the better chance a biographer
has of forming an accurate picture of how
a scientist's ideas took shape and
evolved.
 A lot of what drives students is their innate beliefs and how
they perceive themselves. There is a strong correlation
between self-perception and achievement, but there is
剑桥18-4-2 evidence to suggest that the actual effect of achievement on
self-perception is stronger than the other way round.驱动着学生的许
多动力在于他们内在的信念和他们如何看待自己。在自我认知与所获成就之间存在着很强的关联，但是有证据表明：
最终成就对自我认知所产生的实际影响要大于反过来认知对成就的影响。
rip someone off

fall for someone

round sb/sth up

at a cost

tune (someone/something) out

get on with something

put something on

on the edge of your seat

ritual

start out

come to terms with something ，

idiom

keep/lose track of sb/sth

be on cloud nine

know your stuff

pick (something) up

on top of sth/sb
tummy非正式
life-long career

go back a long way

leave a lot to be desired

idiom/leave much to be desired

run to sth
a sound sleep

A MATTER OF STH/OF DOING STH

be wet behind the ears

dressed (up) to the nines

slowly but ˈsurely

one another 等于 each other

in/with regard to sb/sth in terms

long-standing

stand ˈin (for sb)

think sth up【SYN devise, invent】

set about sth | ˌset about ˈdoing sth

off-putting

fed up with sth、sb

go from ˌstrength to ˈstrength

let along
touch on/upon

get around
to cheat someone by making them pay
too much money for something
讹诈（某人）;敲（某人）竹杠

to be tricked into believing something

that is not true
对…信以为真

if police or soldiers round up a group of

people, they find them and arrest or
capture them 围捕；围剿

to ignore someone or not give your

attention to something or to what is
happening around you
不理睬，对…置之不理

to start or continue doing something,

especially work
开始（或继续）做某事（尤指某项工作）
to make a device operate, or to cause a
device to play something, such as a CD or
DVD, by pressing a switch
（使）（CD播放机或DVD播放机等装置）运行

very excited and giving your full attention

to sth 异常兴奋；极为激动；有浓厚兴趣

a way of doing something in which the

same actions are done in the same way
every time
例行公事，老规矩;（尤指）仪式
to begin your life, or the part of your life
when you work, in a particular way
开始人生;开始职业生涯

to gradually accept a sad situation, often

the death of someone you love
逐渐接受（常指所爱之人的死）

to have/not have information about what

is happening or where sb/sth is了解/不了解 …
的动态；与 … 保持/失去联系
to be extremely happy and excited
高兴极了;异常兴奋;乐不可支

to have good practical skills and

knowledge in a particular activity or
subject
精通业务，懂行
to start something again after an
interruption
重新开始，继续

in addition to sth 除 … 之外

stomach正式

If people go back a long way, they have

known each other for a long time.
相识很久，是老相识

to be much worse than you would like

还有很大改进余地，还有很大差距

if you or your money will not run to sth,

you do not have enough money for sth 有足
够 … 的钱；足够 … 之用
a situation that involves sth or depends
on sth 关乎 … 的事情

to be young and without experience

乳臭未干的，无经验的
to be wearing fashionable or formal
clothes for a special occasion
衣冠楚楚，打扮入时

making slow but definite progress 缓慢但扎实地；稳扎稳打地

is used when you are saying that each

member of a group does sth to or for the
other people in the group 互相

(formal) concerning sb/sth 关于；至于

[usually before noun]
that has existed or lasted for a long time
存在已久的；悠久的

to take sb's place 代替，顶替（某人）

to create sth in your mind 想出；发明

to start doing sth开始做；着手做

not pleasant, in a way that prevents you

from liking sb/sth 令人烦恼的；令人讨厌的

bored or unhappy, especially with a

situation that has continued for too long 厌
烦；厌倦；不愉快
to become more and more successful 越来越兴旺发达；不断取得成功

used after a negative statement to

emphasize how unlikely a situation is
because something much more likely has
never happened:
to mention or deal with a subject in only
a few words, without going into detail

to deal with a problem successfully 成功地对付；解决；克服

Bob's tickets cost much less than ours - I
think we've been ripped off.

He told me that he owned a mansion in Spain

and I fell for it.
他告诉我他在西班牙有一座庄园，我信以为真。

They were rounding up the Death Eaters, you

know.
你知道，他们当时在围捕食死徒。

But all this quick progression has come at a

cost.
但所有这些快速发展都是有代价的。

Most of what he says is such garbage that I

just tune him out.
他讲的全是废话，所以我干脆不去理睬。

I suppose I could get on with the ironing

while I'm waiting.
我想我在等候时还可以继续熨衣服。
I put the radio on while I prepared the meal.

The game had the crowd on the edge of their

seats. 口语用
这场比赛使观众兴奋不已。

Coffee and the newspaper are part of my

morning ritual. 口语用
喝咖啡和读报纸是我早晨必做的事情之一。

My dad started out as a salesperson in a

shop.
我爸爸最初在一家商店当售货员。

I think he's still coming to terms with the

death of his wife.
我觉得他还没有完全接受妻子去世的事实。

Bank statements help you keep track of

where your money is going.
银行账单有助于你了解你的资金使用情况。
Was Helen pleased about getting that job?"
"Pleased? She was on cloud nine!"
“海伦得到那份工作高兴吗？”“岂止是高兴？她简直飘飘然了！”

We were told about lots of different careers –

just when we needed to be, but not by the
experts who really know stuff.

It was really brave the way she picked

herself up and took that job in retail.

He gets commission on top of his salary.

他除了薪金之外还拿佣金。
Mum, my tummy hurts.
this is goona be my life-long career.

We go back a long way, he and I.

我跟他，我们俩相识很久了。

Recent studies have suggested that some

gym-goers' hygiene standards leave much to
be desired.

we couldn't run to an ice rink I'm afraid but

opted instead for climbing blocks in the
shape of mountains
After a long day at work, I finally got a sound
sleep and woke up feeling refreshed.”
（在工作了一整天后，我终于睡得很安稳，醒来时感觉焕然一新。）

I think it was more a matter of simply trying

out his idea, to see if migration from the east
was possible.我觉得这也许只是他想要试试自己的想法而已，看看从东边迁
移过来有没有可能性。

Jackie went out dressed to the nines.

杰基衣冠楚楚地出了门。

Slowly but surely we made our way down the

muddy hillside.
我们缓慢而稳当地走下了泥泞的山坡。

We all try and help one another.

我们都尽力互相帮助。

The company's position with regard to

overtime is made clear in their contracts.
公司关于加班的立场在合同中有明确说明。
 where most farming operations use large
applications of fertiliser, changing such long-
standing habits will require a change of
system.
大部分农业操作过程中都会使用大量肥料的国家，改变这种存在已久的习惯将需要一种
系统的变化。

My assistant will stand in for me while I'm away. 我不在期间，由我的助

手顶替。

Can't you think up a better excuse than that?

难道你就想不出一个比这更好的借口？

Can you tell me how to set about organising

that?您能不能告诉我要怎么着手组织呢？

I find his manner very off-putting.

我觉得他的举止令人颇为厌恶。

People are fed up with all these traffic jams.

人们厌烦这么多的交通堵塞。

兴旺发达；不断取得成功

Some people never even read a newspaper,

let alone a book.
有些人从不看报纸，更不用说读书了。
One or two of you touched on the subject of
accommodation earlier. 你们中的一两个人早些时候谈到了住宿
问题。
No individual can get around this if you're
working in an organization.