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gf工作环境对英语要求比较高。于是决定每天学习一些英语。这就是为什么我发了这个贴~ 
 List 30- neutral
 A neutral position
 Remain neutral
 A more neutral name
- nominal
 He is a nominal member of this committee and isn't expected to do any work
 他是这个委员会的名义会员,不指望他能完成什么工作
 The bonus to employees is merely a nominal sum
- norm
 A society where conformity is the norm must be lacking in creativity and vitality.
 Norms of the community
 社会准则
- notable
 The most notable figure in our town
- notion
 an idea, belief, or opinion
 My notion of rural life is a lot of sunshine and fun
 我心目中的...
- numerouslot
 Numerous enterprises bring better and more efficient services to consumers through website
- nurture,- nutrition
 I was nurtured by my elder sister
 Nothing could replace my elder sister's nurture
- oak
 橡木
- oar
 船桨
- obedience,- obedient
 obedience to order
- obligeforce
 The law oblige parents to send their children to school
 The storm got worse and worse. I was obliged to abandon the car and continue on foot
 be obliged to 不得不 have to
- obsoleteold
 The computer I bought ten years ago is obsolete
- obstruct,- obstruction
 Obstruct justice is a crime
 Skyscrapers obstruct air traffic
- occupation
 A regular occupation
- offset,- compensate
 The cost of traveling there was offset by the low cost of the hotels
- opponent
 The two countries were opponents in WW2
 I won my opponent by my argument
 
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List 27- lodge
 Are there any rooms to lodge me in?
- loosen
 loosen your muscles
- lorry
 卡车
- lottery
 Life is a lottery
- lumber
 木材
- lumplump sth. together
 To maximize the profit, we can lump manufacturing and services together
- lunar
 lunar eclipse
- lure
 Low-priced goods can lure customers into the store
- malignant
 AIDS is a malignant disease
 malignant brain tumor
- manoeuvre
 She manoeuvred the conversion round marriage as she had dinner with her bf
- marvelous
 He is a marvelous photographer in the circle
 
- massacre
 屠杀
 
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List 18- favorable
 赞成的
 Her attitude towards the plan is favorable
- feat
 壮举
- feeble
 Braid was ill and too feeble to stand up
- fierce
 His fierce dog bit an innocent boy
 In the fierce fighting the wounded refused to leave the battle
- finding
 Our latest findings were presented in the meeting
- flap
 Dont get in flap when you encounter terrorist attack
- flare out
 突然发怒
- flatter
 flatter remarks
 Most women enjoy being flattered by the men
- flesh
 动植物的新鲜的肉
 Chicken's flesh
- fling
 Dont fling your clothes at the sofa! Hanp them up
 He fling a cup at her
- flourish
 Plants will not flourish without water
- foreahead
 The captain went fore to check the direction
- forgefake
 Jimmy forged his father's name on the check
 
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List 21- habitat
 栖息地
 Reservoir will create a perfect habitat for snails
- hail
 下冰雹,It hailed last night
 向...欢呼,He hailed me on the other side of the street
- halt
 come to a halt,止步不前,His car comes to a sudden halt outside his room
- handicap
 身体或者智利上的缺陷
 A minor handicap can not hamper her step forward
- hardship
 艰难,困苦
 No matter what hardships face me, I endure!!
- harness
 harness the river, harness the nuclear energy
- harsh
 harsh remarks, harsh realities
- haste,- hasty
 eat a hasty lunch, a hasty kiss, make haste
- hatch
 孕育,谋划
- hazard
 noise hazard
- hedge
 篱笆
- hemisphere
 半球
 the northern hemisphere
- heritage
 historical heritage, cultural heritage
- hitherto
 迄今为止
 
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List 40- secure
 adj: 安全的 safe Make sure our network is secure
 vt. 获得独立 Hongkong secured its independence in 1997
 防卫
- segregate
 隔离
 隔离病人
- sensation
 感觉,直觉 He lost all the sensation after the horrible accident
 轰动一时的事情 The prominent politician was quite a sensation at the banquet
 become a sensation
 cause a sensation
- sentiment
 formal, an opinion or feeling you have about something
 Similar sentiments were expressed by many politicians
 We share the same sentiments about....
 feelings of pity, love, sadness etc that are often considered to be too strong or not suitable for a particular situation
 There's no place for sentiment in business!
- setting
 下山
 底座 The diamond was held in a gold setting
- sew
 缝纫
- shabby
 Play a shabby trick
- shampretend
 伪装
- shatter
 shatter his collarbones
 shatter the dream of peace
- shear
 修剪草坪 shear a lawn
 理发 shear his hair
- sheer
 By sheer chance 纯属巧合
 By sheer luck 纯靠运气
- shiver
 发抖
 A cool breeze makes him shiver
- shorthand
 速记 make a shorthand
- shrewd
 good at judging what people or situations are really like
 A shrewd businessman
- shrug
 耸肩
 
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List 22- holder
 持有者 patent holder 专利持有者
- hum
 嘴唇闭着对xxx哼哼歌曲
 He began to hum a song
 if a place hums, it is full of activity - use this to show approval [↪ busy]:
 By nine o'clock, the restaurant was humming
- hurl
 扔东西,尤其表示非常生气的时候
 Jim gathered the books and hurled them on the floor
 hurling abuse, hurling insults
 He was accused of hurling abuse at the referee
- hurricane
 飓风
- hypocrisy
 When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy
- hysterical
 He became hysterical and began screaming
- identifyrecognize
 He was too far away to be able to recognize his face
 把xxx和xxx混为一谈
 identify poverty with crime and social problems
- ideology
 思想体系,意识形态
- ignorancedont't know
 Excuse my ignorance, but how does it works?
 We are in complete ignorance of his thoughts
 our ignorance of the true situation
- illiterate
 文盲的
- illustrate
 To illustrate my point....
 Illustrate her discussion with diagrams
- imaginary
 虚构的,想象中的
- immense
 大的,巨大的
 
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List 43- statue['stætʃu:] sculpture
 雕像
- status['steitəs]
 marital status
 status report on foreign affairs
- statute['stætʃu:t]
 章程,规则
 The statute did not meet the State's goal
- stemstem from 起源于 发生于
 His cancer stem from smoking
- sternstrict, serious
 'Wait!' I shouted in my sternest voice
 stern look/expression/voice
- steward['stu:ərd]
 乘务员
 Has the steward clean our cabin yet?
- stimulatestimulation
 stimulate sb's interest
- stool
 凳子
- stoop
 弯腰,You have to stoop down to tie your shoes
- straw
 吸管
- strenuous
 needing a lot of effort or strength
 a strenuous climb
 The doctor advised Ken to avoid strenuous exercise.
- stretch
 stretch your feet 伸出双脚 He stretch his feet to the heater
- strifeconflict
 political strife
- strivetry
 formal:to make a great effort to achieve something
 strive to do something, strive for/after
 We must continue to strive for greater efficiency
- stroll
 闲逛,漫步
- stubborn
 顽固的
- stumble
 结结巴巴说话
 stumble across
- stun
 使震惊
 The resignation of Brady stun the political world
- submerge
 浸没
- subordinate
 次要的,附属的,下级的
 subordinate officer
 These aims were subordinate to the main aims of the mission
- subsidy
 政府机构提供的价格补助
 trade subsidy
 subsidy for home applicants
- substitute
 备胎
 substitute bf
- subtlenot obvious
 The pictures are similar, but there are subtle differences between them
 The warning signs of the disease are so subtle that they are often ignored
- suburb
 郊区
 
 各种困难: 
 difficult to do:hard,tough,challenging,daunting
 difficult and needing a lot of physical effort:tough,strenuous,back-breaking,gruelling,arduous,punishing
 difficult to deal with or talk about:tricky,awkward,delicate,sensitive,touchy
 words for describing a difficult person:awkward,trying
 words for describing difficult conditions:adverse,hostile
 各种走: 
 strollin a relaxed way for pleasure
 wanderwith no aim or direction
 stridein a confident or angry way
 marchsoldiers
 hikefor long distances in the countryside or the mountains
 tiptoevery quietly
 wadethrough water
 staggerin an unsteady way because you are drunk or injured
 limpwith difficulty because one leg is painful or injured
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List 23- impair
 Too long jogging can impair your lungs
- impart
 传授
 The good tutor not only impart knowledge but also morals to his students
- imperative
 必要的、紧急的
 It was absolutely imperative that he speak with you right away
 It was imperative to meet the client face to face
- impetus
 推动力、促进
 The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research
- impulse
 a sudden strong desire to do something without thinking about whether it is a sensible thing to do
 He couldn't resist the impulse to kiss her
 a sudden impulse to laugh
 buy sth. on impulse 冲动购物
- incentive
 something that encourages you to work harder, start a new activity
 Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills
- impose
 征税 impost a tax on food
- indignant
 由于受到不公正待遇而愤愤不平的
 She was indignant at the way her child had been treated
- indispensable
 极其重要的、必不可少的
 This book is indispensable to anyone interested in CFD
- infer
 推断
 I infer from your letter that you have not made your mind yet
- inference
 推论
 We drew the inference that Jim was satisfied with the exam
 by inference 根据推断
- ingenious
 新颖的、别出心裁的
 Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from the predators
 an ingenious device
- inherent
 固有存在的
 Im afraid the problems you mention are inherent in the system
 Personality is to a large extent inherent
- inhibit
 阻止发展、发育
 An unhappy family may inhibit children's learning
 Childhood infections will inhibit the development of brain cells
 
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List 29- monotonous
 单调的,万古不变
 A monotonous diet
 give up this monotonous work
- monument
 纪念碑
- morality
 sexual morality
 public/personal morality
 conventional/traditional morality
- mortgageloan- ['mɔ:gidʒ]
 Those graduates had to take out a loan to buy a house in Beijing
 They've taken out a 30 year mortgage
 vt. 抵押出去
 Now my houses and lands are all mortgaged
- motive
 the reason that makes someone do something, especially when this reason is kept hidden
 What do you suppose the killer's motive was?
 motive for (doing) something
 The police believe the motive for this murder was jealousy
- mourn
 哀悼
 We mourn the passing of a great man
- multitudeformal
 A multitude of somebody/something
- municipal
 市政的
 municipal waste
- murmur小声说 murmur against =- mutter咕哝 抱怨
- necessitate
 to make it necessary for you to do something
 Lack of money necessitated a change of plan
 The increase of food price necessitate a change in our burget
 necessitate doing something
 This would necessitate interviewing all the staff
- necessity
 必需品
 the necessities of life
 water and air are necessities of life
 
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List 39- rotary
 The stir stopped its rotary motion because of the failure of power
- roundabout
 委婉的(说法),迂回的(路线)
 It's a roundabout way of telling us to leave
- rouse
 formal,唤醒某人
 His banging roused the neighbours
 to make someone start doing something, especially when they have been too tired or unwilling to do it
 a campaign designed to rouse the younger generation to action
- routine
 例行公事
 常规的 adj
 I have some few routine questions
- ruby
 红宝石
- rust
 铁锈。生锈
 Stainless steel does not rust
- sack
 袋
 a sack of apple
- sacred[ˈsekrɪd]
 神圣的,庄严的
 a sacred vow
 Certain animals were considered sacred
- salvation
 The drug treatment program was his only salvation
 The internet turned out to be the salvation of the company
- sanction
 国际制裁 复数
 Economic sanctions
 impose sanctions of entertainment on North Korean
 批准 不可数
 I got the official sanction to meet with the mayor
- saneinsane
 理智的
- sarcastic[sɑ:rˈkæstɪk]
 讽刺的
 Was she being sarcastic?
 His sarcastic comments insult John
- saturate[ˈsætʃəˌret]
 formal to make sth very wet
 Water saturated the carpet
 to put a lot of something into a particular place, especially so that you could not add any more
 Our culture is saturated with phones
- scrape
 用刀刮下去
 The earth on the carrot was scraped away
 刮伤 vt
 I scraped my knee
 擦伤_n_
 scrape on my face
- scratch
 抓、搔
 
 route尤其指长距离的旅行路线,course通常表示航线,passage走廊的过道,通道
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List 7- canteen
 小卖部
- captive
 俘虏
- cardinal
 - very important or basic Having clean hands is one of the cardinal rules when preparing food.
- 红衣主教
 - carrier
 运载者,携带者
 HIV carrier
- cast
 - to provide new information about something, making it easier to understand:
 Research findings that cast new light on the origin of our universe
 The numerous biographies of Baldwin cast little light on the subject.
- 全体演员
 The audience were on their feet when the cast came out to take their bows
 - cater
 cater for
 to provide and serve food and drinks at a party, meeting etc, usually as a business
 This is the biggest event that we've ever catered for
 The restaurant caters for veggies and those with a sweet tooth
- cathedral
 大教堂
- cease
 formal to stop doing something or stop happening
 He ceased to be a member of the association
 The peace plan is calling for a cease of fire between the countries
- cellar
 地下室
- cement
 使组织、人、国家之间的友谊加强
 Hoping to cement the friendship, I invited Chris on a vacation with my gf
- census
 人口普查
- cereal
 谷物
- charter
 宪章
 national charter
- choke
 噎住
 He choked on a piece of bread
 The smoking is choking me
 
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List 13- desolate
 荒凉的
- despairn. vi. desperate adj.
 a feeling that you have no hope at all
 drive sb. to despair
 对某人感到绝望 despair of sb.
 My teacher began to despair of me
- dispatch
 formal 为了特定的目的send某人或某物到某地
 Dispatch several officers to Beijing
- despise
 蔑视
 I despise all cowards
- detain
 拘留
- deteriorate
 恶化,变坏
 cause the leather to deteriorate
- deviate
 偏离
 deviate from the truth
 deviate from the original plan
- dictatedictation
 口述,使听写
 The boss dictate the plan to us
 She is dictating a plan to her secretary
- diminish
 reduce
- discern
 to notice or understand something by thinking about it carefully
 Officials were keen to discern how much public support there was
 I would discern what his heart and soul were like
- discourse
 演讲
 I felt at home in this kind of discourse
 a discourse on art
- discreet
 小心谨慎的
 I stood back at a discreet distance
 Reporters asked some discreet questions
- discrepancy
 a difference between two amounts, details, reports etc that should be the same
 Police found discrepancies in the two men's reports
 
