英语四级通关训练 第0184期

dormitory

英 [ˈdɔːmətri] 美 [ˈdɔːrmətɔːri]

n. 集体宿舍；<美>（学院或大学的）学生宿舍楼；<英>（为在附近城市里工作的人提供的）住宅城，郊外居住区

adj. <英>（供在另一个城市工作的人）住宅的

例句：

She lived in a college dormitory.
她住在一幢大学宿舍楼里。

They raced back to the dormitory before the nine o'clock curfew.
他们在9点熄灯之前拼命跑回了宿舍。

The students have barricaded themselves into their dormitory building.
学生们将自己堵在宿舍楼里。

harvest

英 [ˈhɑːvɪst] 美 [ˈhɑːrvɪst]

n. 收获；收获量，捕获量；成果，收获

v. 收割，收获；采集，搜集；收采（人的器官、细胞等）

例句：

The poor harvest caused prices to rise sharply.
收成不好导致物价急剧上涨。

The vegetable harvest is disastrously behind schedule.
蔬菜收割灾难性地滞后于计划。

Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand.
这里的稻农仍然用手工种植和收割庄稼。

ferryboat

英 [ˈferibəʊt] 美 [ˈferiˌboʊt]

n. 渡船

例句：

This neighbour crewed on a ferryboat.
这位邻居在一艘渡船上当船员。

Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up.
在离村镇三英里的地方，渡船在一个树木丛生的山谷口靠岸停泊。

As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared.
天快黑的时候，渡船又回到它常去的地方，小船也不见了。

sewing-machine

英 [ˈsəʊɪŋ məʃiːn] 美 [ˈsoʊɪŋ məʃiːn]

n. 缝纫机

例句：

She sewed the dresses on the sewing machine.
她在缝纫机上缝制了这些衣服。

Campbell made his first teddy bear with his mother's sewing machine in his bedroom.
坎贝尔在卧室里用他妈妈的缝纫机做了他的第一个玩具熊。

She ran up a skirt on her sewing machine.
她用缝纫机快速地缝制了一条裙子。

inundate

英 [ˈɪnʌndeɪt] 美 [ˈɪnʌndeɪt]

v. 压倒，控制；<正式>淹没，泛滥

例句：

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.
瑞士政府的一个小组建议该国出售大约一半的黄金储备，这引发了对其他国家采取同样做法并淹没市场的担忧。

So please do not inundate the developer with E-mail's requesting support!
所以请不要随便向开发者发送请求支持的电子邮件！

The earthquake took there a tsunami that could inundate low-lying lands as far away as Japan.
地震在这些地带引发了一次海啸，远至日本的一些低地都被海水淹没。

回顾

1. dormitory
2. harvest
3. ferryboat
4. sewing-machine
5. inundate