新概念第三册54课Instinct or cleverness必背生词短语

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　　新概念第三册Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness? 是本能还是机智

　　【New words and expressions】 生词和短语

　　●insect n. 昆虫

　　●wage v. 进行(斗争)

　　●contaminate v. 弄脏

　　●provocation n. 惹怒

　　●spider n. 蜘蛛

　　●wasp n. 黄蜂

　　●moth n. 飞蛾

　　●ant n. 蚂蚁

　　●revulsion n. 厌恶

　　●horde n. 群

　　●uncanny adj. 神秘的，不可思议的

　　●erase v. 擦，抹去

　　●praying mantis 螳螂

　　●entranced adj. 出神的

　　●beetle n. 甲虫

　　●sheltered adj. 伤不着的，无危险的

　　●luscious adj. 甘美的

　　●cluster n. 一簇

　　●aphid n. 蚜虫

　　●underside n. 底面，下侧

　　●colony n. 一群

　　●sticky adj. 粘的

　　●scurry v. 小步跑

　　●swarm v. 聚集

　　●ingenuity n. 机灵

　　◆insect n. 昆虫

　　◆wage v. 进行(斗争)

　　wage: begin and continue a struggle

　　wage a war against / on

　　Eg: life means perpetual struggle against poverty.

　　carry on

　　undertake to do 着手

　　Eg: He undertook to inform people concerned.

　　engage in / be engaged in / be determined on sth. / be dedicated to sth. / be devoted tosth.

　　◆◆◆contaminate v. 弄脏

　　contaminate / pollute

　　contaminate: make dirty or bad or impure by mixing with dirty or poisonous matter.

　　Eg: Don’t eat the apple. It has been contaminated by flies.

　　Never eat food contaminated by flies.

　　Don’t read the hot story just because it will contaminate your mind. 别阅读黄色书刊。

　　hot story 色情小说 blue movie 色情电影

　　pollute

　　Eg: The air has been polluted severely / terribly / badly.

　　pollution / polluted

　　tint vt. 弄脏(通常指坏因素对你的影响)

　　Eg: Don’t read the hot story just because it will contaminate / tint your mind.

　　His reputation was tinted by the scandal. 他的名声被丑闻沾污了。

　　scandal 丑闻

　　foul : 弄脏 make sth. dirty

　　Eg: Dogs are forbidden to go into the streets because we are afraid the streets will be fouled.

　　The factory is responsible for fouling up the air. (相当于pollute)

　　foul up == pollute

　　defile 弄脏，污染 make sth. impure

　　Eg: I like honey, but I don’t want to drink the honey defiled by flies.

　　poison / foul up / pollute

　　Eg: Gases from cars are poisoning the air of our city.

　　Read: pollute / foul up / poison / contaminate / defile / tint

　　Eg: He is contaminated / tinted by hot stories.

　　Hot stories contaminate / tint his mind.

　　◆provocation n. 惹怒

　　provoke v.

　　1. make angry or bad-tempered

　　Eg: He was provoked beyond his endurance.

　　He was provoked and it was more than he could endure.

　　2. cause 引起，导致，激起

　　arouse

　　Eg: The book arouses / provokes my interest.

　　bring about / result in / lead to / give rise to

　　provoke sb’s interest in sth.

　　provoke sb, to do / provoke sb. into doing / cause sb. to do sth.

　　Eg: You provoked him to say so. Why?

　　L54-01 end 18’53”

　　L54-02 begin 18’48”

　　Eg: His provocation is beyond my endurance.

　　◆spider n. 蜘蛛

　　◆wasp n. 黄蜂

　　◆moth n. 飞蛾

　　◆ant n. 蚂蚁

　　◆revulsion n. 厌恶

　　disgust / dislike

　　◆horde n. 群

　　◆uncanny adj. 神秘的，不可思议的

　　mysterious

　　Eg: They are leading a mysterious life.

　　In spite of this, he survived mysteriously.

　　eerie 怪诞的，奇异的

　　Eg: He looks eerie. / What he said is eerie to me.

　　weird 怪异的，怪诞的，神秘的 (行为举止让人摸不着头尾)

　　Eg: I can’t get along well with him because he is a weird person.

　　Why do you decide to many such a weird person?

　　cryptic 神秘的，鬼鬼崽崽的

　　Eg: Why did you do such a little thing in a cryptic way.

　　Read: eerie / weird / cryptic / mysterious / uncanny

　　◆erase v. 擦，抹去

　　Eg: Erease the idea from your mind!

　　He erases the name from the namelist.

　　cancel / write off / cross off

　　Eg: The word is unnecessary here, so it is crossedoff.

　　wipe out

　　Eg: I want to write on the blackboard, so I have towipe all the words here out.

　　I can’t imaging why you are so hot, please wipe outsweat on your face.

　　obliterate 涂去

　　Eg: He obliterated two words in ink / with a pen.

　　I obliterate the word with chalk.

　　◆praying mantis 螳螂

　　◆entranced adj. 出神的

　　entrance

　　entrance to the room / hall

　　entrance: carry away with joy and delight 入迷，出神

　　be entranced in thought

　　Eg: I don’t know what he has in his mind. Anyway he is entranced in thought.

　　be entranced with fear 吓得魂不附体

　　Eg: At the story at night, I was entranced with fear.

　　be pleased with / be satisfied with / be popular with / be entranced with performance / film /book

　　Eg: He was entranced with film.

　　Are you entranced with the story?

　　He listened to the story entranced.

　　The writer watched ants entranced.

　　◆beetle n. 甲虫

　　◆sheltered adj. 伤不着的，无危险的

　　◆luscious adj. 甘美的

　　◆cluster n. 一簇

　　◆aphid n. 蚜虫

　　◆underside n. 底面，下侧

　　◆colony n. 一群

　　◆sticky adj. 粘的

　　◆scurry v. 小步跑

　　◆swarm v. 聚集

　　◆ingenuity n. 机灵

　　Eg: The boy shows ingenulity in making toys.

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