20230220 单词学习汇总

· portray /pɔːˈtreɪ/

o 1. V-T When an actor or actress portrays someone, he or she plays that person in a play or movie. 扮演

•  In 1975 he portrayed the king in a Los Angeles revival of "Camelot." 1975年他在洛杉矶重演的戏剧《卡米洛特》中扮演国王。

o 2. V-T When a writer or artist portrays something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it. 描绘 (事物)

•  The film portrays a culture of young people who live in lower Manhattan. 这部电影描绘了在下曼哈顿地区生活的青年人文化。

o 3. V-T If a movie, book, or television programme portrays someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way. (以某种方式) 刻画 (某人)

•  ...complaints about the way women are portrayed in ads. …不满于广告中对妇女的刻画方式。

· incessant /ɪnˈsɛsənt/

o 1. ADJ An incessant process or activity is one that continues without stopping. 持续不断的

•  Incessant rain made conditions almost intolerable. 阴雨绵绵让情况几乎无法忍受。

o 2. ADV 持续不断地

•  Dee talked incessantly about herself. 迪伊滔滔不绝地谈论她自己。

 

· prod /prɒd/

o 1. V-T If you prod someone or something, you give them a quick push with your finger or with a pointed object. (用手指或尖物) 捅

•  He prodded Murray with the shotgun. 他用猎枪捅了默里一下。

•  Prod the windowsills to check for signs of rot. 捅一捅窗台，看有没有腐烂迹象。

o 2. N-COUNT Prod is also a noun. 捅

•  He gave the donkey a mighty prod in the backside. 他在驴的屁股上狠狠地捅了一下。

o 3. V-T If you prod someone into doing something, you remind or persuade them to do it. 敦促

•  The question is intended to prod students into examining the concept of freedom. 这个问题旨在敦促学生探究自由这个概念。

· billow /ˈbɪləʊ/

o 1. V-I When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind. 在风中鼓胀着飘动

•  The curtains billowed in the breeze. 窗帘在微风中鼓胀着飘动。

•  Her pink dress billowed out around her. 她粉红色的连衣裙随身飘了起来。

o 2. V-I When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upward or across the sky. (烟、云等) 升腾

•  ...thick plumes of smoke billowing from factory chimneys. …从工厂烟囱里冒出来的滚滚浓烟。

•  Steam billowed out from under the hood. 蒸汽从机罩下冒了出来。

o 3. N-COUNT A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air. 缓缓升起的大团 (烟、灰尘)

•  ...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke. …喷吐着滚滚黑色浓烟的大烟囱。

in·ex·tric·ably adv.

  /ˌɪnɪkˈstrɪkəbli/  /ɪnˈekstrɪkəbli/  

if two things are inextricably linked , etc., it is impossible to separate them 不可分开地；密不可分地

• • Europe's foreign  policy is inextricably linked with that of the US. 欧洲的对外政策和美国的紧密相扣。

• • She had become inextricably involved in the campaign. 她已陷入这场运动之中，以致无法脱身。

elu·sive adj.   /iˈluːsɪv/  

difficult to find, define, or achieve 难找的；难以解释的；难以达到的

· • Eric, as elusive as ever, was nowhere to be found. 埃里克总是这样神出鬼没，哪儿也找不着。

· • the elusive concept of ‘literature’ “文学”这一难以解释的概念

· • A solution to the problem of toxic waste is proving elusive . 有毒废料这个问题证明难以解决。

DERIVATIVES 派生词

1. elu·sive·ly adv.

2. elu·sive·ness n. [ U]

· explicate /ˈɛksplɪˌkeɪt/

o 1. V-T To explicate something means to explain it and make it clear. 解释; 说明

•  We shall have to explicate its basic assumptions before we can assess its implications. 在我们能评估其含义以前，我们得先解释其基本假设。

o 2. N-VAR undefined

•  The jury listened to his impassioned explication of article 306. 陪审团听取他对306条款慷慨激昂的阐释。

•  McKen criticizes the lack of explication of what the term "areas" means. 麦肯批评对"地区"这一词的意思缺乏清楚解释。

ex·trin·sic adj.   /eksˈtrɪnsɪk/  /‑zɪk/  

( formal ) not belonging naturally to sb/sth; coming from or existing outside sb/sth rather than within them 非固有的；非本质的；外在的；外来的

• • extrinsic factors 外在因素

——compare intrinsic

amorph·ous adj.   /əˈmɔːfəs/  

[ usually before noun] ( formal ) having no definite shape, form or structure 无固定形状的；不规则的；无组织的

SYN shapeless

· • an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all 不知何物的杂乱一团的细胞