柯林斯詞典版-人教版高中英語選修7U2詞匯表

1、M7 Unit21、household /hashld/.adj. 家庭的；家用的 n.一家人；家庭1. N-COUNT A household is all the people in a family or group who live together in a house. 家庭; 同住一所房子的人例： .growing up in a male-only household. 在全體成員均為男性的家庭里長大。2. N-SING The household is your home and everything that is connected with taking care of

2、 it. 家務(wù)例： .household chores. 家務(wù)活。3. ADJ Someone or something that is a household name or word is very well known. 家喻戶曉的ADJ n例： Today, fashion designers are household names. 如今，服裝設(shè)計(jì)師們家喻戶曉。2、 fiction /fkn/ n. 小說；虛構(gòu)或想象出來的事1. N-UNCOUNT Fiction refers to books and stories about imaginary people and event

3、s, rather than books about real people or events. 小說例： Immigrant tales have always been popular themes in fiction. 移民故事一直是小說的流行主題。2. see also science fiction3. N-UNCOUNT A statement or account that is fiction is not true. 虛構(gòu)例： The truth or fiction of this story has never been truly determined. 這個故事是

4、真實(shí)還是虛構(gòu)，一直沒有定論。4. N-COUNT If something is a fiction, it is not true, although people sometimes pretend that it is true. 假象例： Total recycling is a fiction. 完全回收利用是假象。3、desire /dza/ n. 渴望；欲望；渴求 vt.希望得到；想要1. N-COUNT A desire is a strong wish to do or have something. 愿望例： I had a strong desire to help an

5、d care for people. 我有一股強(qiáng)烈的幫助和關(guān)心別人的愿望。2. V-T If you desire something, you want it. 想要正式no cont例： She had remarried and desired a child with her new husband. 她再婚了，想跟新任丈夫生一個孩子。3. desired ADJ想要的; 渴望的ADJ n例： You may find that just threatening this course of action will produce the desired effect. 你會發(fā)現(xiàn)僅僅是

6、威脅要采取這個行動就能產(chǎn)生想要的效果。4. N-UNCOUNT Desire for someone is a strong feeling of wanting to have sex with them. 性欲例： It's common to lose your sexual desire when you have your first child. 有了第一個孩子后，喪失性欲是常見的事。4、Isaac Asimov 艾薩克?阿西莫夫5、satisfaction /sætsfækn/ n. 滿意；滿足；令人滿意的事物 1. N-UNCOUNT Satisfa

7、ction is the pleasure that you feel when you do something or get something that you wanted or needed to do or get. 滿意例： She felt a small glow of satisfaction. 她感到了一絲滿足的喜悅。例： Both sides expressed satisfaction with the progress so far. 雙方都對目前的進(jìn)展表示滿意。2. N-UNCOUNT If you get satisfaction from someone, y

8、ou get money or an apology from them because you have been treated badly. 賠償; 補(bǔ)償例： If you can't get any satisfaction, complain to the park owner. 如果你得不到任何賠償，就向公園的所有者投訴。3. PHRASE If you do something to someone's satisfaction, they are happy with the way that you have done it. 令某人滿意例： She neve

9、r could seem to do anything right or to his satisfaction. 她似乎從來不會做任何正確或令他滿意的事情。6、Larry Belmont 拉里?貝爾蒙特7、test out 試驗(yàn)；考驗(yàn)1、With these rules encoded into the JET templates, you are pretty much done, and you can now test out the transformation.隨著這些規(guī)則被編碼到JET模版中，您已經(jīng)很好的完成了這些工作，現(xiàn)在您可以測試這些轉(zhuǎn)換了。2、Rather than try

10、ing to figure it all out on paper or in your head, get out into the real world and test out 還在嘗試在腦中或者紙上找出你的想法？ 請回到現(xiàn)實(shí)的世界來，考驗(yàn)?zāi)悴⒉怀墒斓南敕ā?. An up-or-out strategy was how I described it to my wife, one last shot to test out my ideas before I settled into a calmer, more stable, and better-paying existence.

11、我向老婆提出了這條“不進(jìn)則退”的方針，在我安定于一個更平和的、更安穩(wěn)的、更高收入的生活狀態(tài)之前，我給自己最后一次機(jī)會來考驗(yàn)我的理念。8、Claire n. 克萊爾（女名）9、bonus/bns/ n. 額外津貼；獎金；紅利1. N-COUNT A bonus is an extra amount of money that is added to someone's pay, usually because they have worked very hard. 獎金例： Workers in big firms receive a substantial part of their

12、pay in the form of bonuses and overtime. 大公司的工人，工資很大一部分是獎金和加班費(fèi)。例： .a $60 bonus. 一筆$60的獎金。2. N-COUNT A bonus is something good that you get in addition to something else, and which you would not usually expect. 額外收獲例： We felt we might finish third. Any better would be a bonus. 我們覺得我們可能得第三名。任何更好的結(jié)果都是意

13、外收獲。10、alarm/lm/ vt. 使警覺；使驚恐；驚動 n.警報(bào)；驚恐1. N-UNCOUNT Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen. 驚恐例： The news was greeted with alarm by senators. 參議員們聽到這個消息后很驚恐。2. V-T If something alarms you, it makes you afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or

14、dangerous might happen. 使驚恐例： We could not see what had alarmed him. 我們不明白是什么嚇著他了。3. N-COUNT An alarm is an automatic device that warns you of danger, for example, by ringing a bell. 警報(bào)器例： He heard the alarm go off. 他聽見警報(bào)器響了。4. N-COUNT An alarm is the same as an . 鬧鐘例： Dad set the alarm for eight th

15、e next day. 爸爸把鬧鐘設(shè)到了第2天8點(diǎn)。5. see also alarmed, alarming, car alarm, false alarm, fire alarm6. PHRASE If you say that something sets alarm bells ringing, you mean that it makes people feel worried or concerned about something. 危險(xiǎn)信號例： This has set the alarm bells ringing in Moscow. 這已給莫斯科拉響了警報(bào)。7. PHRA

16、SE If you raise the alarm or sound the alarm, you warn people of danger. 發(fā)出警報(bào)例： His family raised the alarm when he had not come home by 9 p.m. 當(dāng)他到晚上9點(diǎn)還沒回家時，他的家人報(bào)了警。11、alarmed /lmd/ adj. 擔(dān)心的；害怕的ADJ If someone is alarmed, they feel afraid or anxious that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen

17、. 恐慌的例： They should not be too alarmed by the press reports. 他們不應(yīng)該被媒體報(bào)道搞得過于恐慌。12、apron /eprn/ n.圍裙N-COUNT An apron is a piece of clothing that you put on over the front of your normal clothes and tie around your waist, especially when you are cooking, in order to prevent your clothes from getting di

18、rty. 圍裙13、sympathy /smp/ n. 同情（心）1. N-UNCOUNT If you have sympathy for someone who is in a bad situation, you are sorry for them, and show this in the way you behave toward them. 同情also N in pl例： We expressed our sympathy for her loss. 我們對她的損失表示了同情。例： I have had very little help from doctors and no

19、sympathy whatsoever. 我從醫(yī)生那兒得到的幫助極少，而且沒得到任何同情。2. N-UNCOUNT If you have sympathy with someone's ideas or opinions, you agree with them. 贊同also N in pl, oft N 'with/for' n例： I have some sympathy with this point of view. 我對這一觀點(diǎn)有些贊同。例： Lithuania still commands considerable international sympa

20、thy for its cause. 立陶宛仍得到相當(dāng)多對其事業(yè)的國際支持。3. N-UNCOUNT If you take some action in sympathy with someone else, you do it in order to show that you support them. 支持例： Several hundred workers struck in sympathy with their colleagues. 幾百名工人舉行罷工以示對其工友們的支持。 14、overweight /vwet/ adj. 超重的；體重超常的ADJ Someone who i

21、s overweight weighs more than is considered healthy or attractive. 超重的例： Being even moderately overweight increases your risk of developing high blood pressure. 即便只是稍微超重也會增加你患上高血壓的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。 15、elegant /lnt/ adj. 優(yōu)雅的；高雅的；講究的1. ADJ If you describe a person or thing as elegant, you mean that they are pleasin

22、g and graceful in appearance or style. 優(yōu)雅的例： Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always. 帕特麗夏看上去跟往常一樣美麗優(yōu)雅。2. elegance N-UNCOUNT優(yōu)雅例： The furniture managed to combine practicality with elegance. 這家具結(jié)合了實(shí)用與優(yōu)雅。3. ADJ If you describe a piece of writing, an idea, or a plan as elegant, you mean that it

23、 is simple, clear, and clever. 精妙的例： The document impressed me with its elegant simplicity. 這份文件以其精妙的簡約給我留下了深刻的印象。4. elegantly ADV精妙地例： .an elegantly simple idea. 一個精妙地簡單的主意。16、Gladys Claffern 格拉迪斯?克拉芬17、favour /fev/ n. 喜愛；恩惠 vt.喜愛；偏袒 1. N-UNCOUNT If you regard something or someone with favour, you

24、like or support them. 喜愛; 支持例： It remains to be seen if the show will find favour with an audience. 這場演出是否將獲得觀眾喜愛還要拭目以待。例： No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule. 沒有人會支持繼續(xù)的軍事統(tǒng)治。2. N-COUNT If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to. 恩惠例

25、： I've come to ask you to do me a favour. 我是來請你幫我一個忙的。3. V-T If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available. 更喜歡例： The French say they favour a transition to democracy. 法國人說他們更喜歡向民主的過渡。4. V-T If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat ot

26、her people. 偏袒例： The company has no rules about favouring U.S. citizens during layoffs. 該公司沒有在裁員期間偏袒美國公民的規(guī)定。5. PHRASE If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing. 支持例： I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts. 我不會支持削減所得稅。例： Yet this is a Government which

27、 proclaims that it is all in favour of openness. 然而這是一個宣稱全力支持開放的政府。6. PHRASE If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something. 認(rèn)為正確例： The Supreme Court ruled in Fitzgerald's favour. 最高法院判定菲茨杰拉德勝訴。7. PHRASE If something is in your favour, it helps you or giv

28、es you an advantage. 有助于; 有利于例： The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside. 農(nóng)民們享受到的保護(hù)幾乎就是對農(nóng)村有利的一種偏袒。8. PHRASE If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first. (兩物相比之下) 寧愿選擇例： The policy was rejected i

29、n favour of a more cautious approach. 這一政策未被采納，而是選擇了一個更謹(jǐn)慎的方法。9. PHRASE If someone or something is in favour, people like or support them. If they are out of favour, people no longer like or support them. 得寵/失寵; 得到/失去的支持例： Governments and party leaders can only hope to remain in favour with the publi

30、c for so long. 政府和政黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人們只能希望一直得到公眾的支持。18、pile /pal/ n. 堆；摞；疊vi.堆起；堆積 vt.把堆起；積聚1. N-COUNT A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides. 堆例： .a pile of sand. 一堆沙子。例： .a little pile of crumbs. 一小堆面包屑。2. N-COUNT A pile of things is a quantity of things that have be

31、en put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below. 疊例： .a pile of boxes. 一疊盒子。例： We sat in Sam's study, among the piles of books. 我們坐在薩姆的書房里，在一疊疊的書中間。3. V-T If you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile. 堆放例： He was piling clothes into the suitcase

32、. 他正把衣服疊放到手提箱中去。4. V-T If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things. 堆滿usu passive例： Tables were piled high with local produce. 桌子上高高地堆滿了土特產(chǎn)。5. V-I If a group of people pile into or out of a vehicle, they all get into it or out of it in a disorganized way. 涌入/出例： T

33、hey all piled into Jerry's car. 他們都擠進(jìn)了杰里的車?yán)铩?. N-COUNT Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts that are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood. 地樁例： .settlements of wooden houses, set on pil

34、es along the shore. 沿岸而建的吊腳木屋居民區(qū)。7. Vto drive (piles) into the ground 將(地樁)打進(jìn)地里8. N-PLURAL Piles is an informal word meaning haemorrhoids. 痔瘡9. N-SING The pile of a carpet or of a fabric such as velvet is its soft surface. It consists of a lot of little threads standing on end. 絨面例： .the carpet'

35、s thick pile. 地毯厚厚的絨面。10. PHRASE Someone who is at the bottom of the pile is low down in society or low down in an organization. Someone who is at the top of the pile is high up in society or high up in an organization. 處于.的下層或上層非正式例： These workers are fed up with being at the bottom of the pile whe

36、n it comes to pay. 這些工人受夠了收入水平處于底層的苦惱。19、scan /skæn/ vt. 細(xì)看；仔細(xì)檢查；粗略地看；瀏覽，掃描；1. V-T/V-I When you scan written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information. 瀏覽例： She scanned the advertisement pages of the newspapers. 她瀏覽了報(bào)紙的廣告頁。2. N-SING Scan is also

37、 a noun. 瀏覽例： I just had a quick scan through your book again. 我剛剛把你的書又作了一次瀏覽。3. V-T/V-I When you scan a place or group of people, you look at it carefully, usually because you are looking for something or someone. 仔細(xì)察看no passive例： The officer scanned the room. 警察仔細(xì)察看了那個房間。例： She was nervous and kep

38、t scanning the crowd for Paul. 她很緊張，一直在人群中尋找保羅。4. V-T If people scan something such as luggage, they examine it using a machine that can show or find things inside it that cannot be seen from the outside. (用機(jī)器) 掃描 (行李等)例： Their approach is to scan every checked-in bag with a bomb detector. 他們的做法是用炸彈

39、探測器掃描每一個辦理了登機(jī)手續(xù)的箱包。5. V-T If a computer disk is scanned, a program on the computer checks the disk to make sure that it does not contain a virus. 掃描 (計(jì)算機(jī)磁盤以查病毒)計(jì)算機(jī)例： Not all ISPs are equipped to scan for viruses. 并非所有的因特網(wǎng)服務(wù)供應(yīng)商都有裝備來掃描病毒。6. V-T If a picture or document is scanned into a computer, a ma

40、chine passes a beam of light over it to make a copy of it in the computer. 掃描 (圖片或文件)計(jì)算機(jī)usu passive例： The entire paper contents of all libraries will eventually be scanned into computers. 所有圖書館的全部紙質(zhì)內(nèi)容最終都會被掃描進(jìn)電腦。7. V-T If a radar or sonar machine scans an area, it examines or searches it by sending r

41、adar or sonar beams over it. (用雷達(dá)或聲納波束) 掃描例： The ship's radar scanned the sea ahead. 船上的雷達(dá)掃描了前方海域。8. N-COUNT A scan is a medical test in which a machine sends a beam of X-rays over a part of your body in order to check that it is healthy. (身體) 掃描檢查例： A brain scan revealed the blood clot. 腦部掃描檢查發(fā)

42、現(xiàn)了那個血塊。20、fingernail /fnel/ n. 手指甲N-COUNT Your fingernails are the thin hard areas at the end of each of your fingers. 手指甲21、absurd /bsd, -zd/ adj. 荒謬的；可笑的1. ADJ If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense. 荒謬的表不滿

43、例： That's absurd. 那是荒謬的。例： It's absurd to suggest that they knew what was going on but did nothing. 暗示說他們知道怎么回事但卻袖手旁觀是荒謬的。2. N-SING The absurd is something that is absurd. 荒謬之事正式'the' N例： Connie had a sharp eye for the absurd. 康妮對荒謬之事有敏銳的眼光。3. absurdlyADV荒謬地例： Prices were still absur

44、dly low, in his opinion. 在他看來，價(jià)格依然低得荒謬。22、haircut /hkt/ n. 發(fā)型；理發(fā)1. N-COUNT If you get a haircut, someone cuts your hair for you. 理發(fā)例： Your hair is all right; it's just that you need a haircut. 你的頭發(fā)沒問題，只是你需要理個發(fā)。2. N-COUNT A haircut is the style in which your hair has been cut. 發(fā)型例： Who's that

45、 guy with the funny haircut? 那個發(fā)型古怪的家伙是誰？23、makeup /mekp/ n. 化妝品1. N-UNCOUNT Makeup consists of things such as lipstick, eye shadow, and powder which some women put on their faces to make themselves look more attractive or which actors use to change or improve their appearance. 化妝品例： Normally she wo

46、re little makeup, but this evening was clearly an exception. 通常她很少化妝，可今晚顯然是個例外。2. N-UNCOUNT Someone's makeup is their nature and the various qualities in their character. 性格例： There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand. 他性格中有某種致命的

47、缺陷，隨著時間的推移，他要么陷入長時間沉默要么行為隨便。3. N-UNCOUNT The makeup of something consists of its different parts and the way these parts are arranged. 構(gòu)造; 組成例： The ideological makeup of the unions is now radically different from what it had been. 這些協(xié)會的意識形態(tài)構(gòu)成如今與過去大相徑庭。24、accompany /kmpn/ vt. 陪伴；伴奏1. V-T If you accom

48、pany someone, you go somewhere with them. 陪伴正式例： Ken agreed to accompany me on a trip to Africa. 肯同意陪我去非洲旅行。例： She was accompanied by her younger brother. 她由她的弟弟陪著。2. V-T If one thing accompanies another, it happens or exists at the same time, or as a result of it. 與相伴正式例： This volume of essays was

49、designed to accompany an exhibition in Seattle. 這部論文集是為配合西雅圖的展覽設(shè)計(jì)的。3. V-T If you accompany a singer or a musician, you play one part of a piece of music while they sing or play the main tune. 為伴奏例： On Meredith's new recording, Eddie Higgins accompanies her on all but one song. 在梅瑞迪斯的新唱片中，艾迪·

50、;希金斯為她伴奏了除一首歌以外的所有歌曲。25、cushion /kn/ n. （坐、跪時用的）軟墊；靠墊； 墊子1. N-COUNT A cushion is a fabric case filled with soft material, which you put on a seat to make it more comfortable. 坐墊例： .a velvet cushion. 一個天鵝絨坐墊。2. N-COUNT A cushion is a soft pad or barrier, especially one that protects something. 軟墊例： T

51、he company provides a styrofoam cushion to protect the tablets during shipping. 該公司提供一種聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料墊層用來在裝運(yùn)時保護(hù)牌匾。3. N-COUNT Something that is a cushion against something unpleasant reduces its effect. 緩解物例： Welfare provides a cushion against hardship. 福利給困苦提供了一個緩解。4. V-T Something that cushions an object

52、 when it hits something protects it by reducing the force of the impact. 緩沖例： There is also a new steering wheel with an energy-absorbing rim to cushion the driver's head in the worst impacts. 還有新式方向盤，其邊緣具有減震功能在最嚴(yán)重的沖擊中緩沖保護(hù)司機(jī)的頭部。5. V-T To cushion the effect of something unpleasant means to reduce

53、 it. 緩解例： They said Western aid was needed to cushion the blows of vital reform. 他們說需要西方國家的援助以緩解重大變革的沖擊。26、bedding /bd/ n. 寢具；鋪蓋N-UNCOUNT Bedding is sheets, blankets, and covers that are used on beds. 床上用品例： .a crib with two full sets of bedding. 有兩整套床單被褥的嬰兒床。27、necklace /nkls/ n. 項(xiàng)鏈N-COUNT A neckla

54、ce is a piece of jewellery such as a chain or a string of beads which someone, usually a woman, wears around their neck. 項(xiàng)鏈例： .a diamond necklace and matching earrings. 一條鉆石項(xiàng)鏈和與之相配的耳環(huán)。28、clerk /klk/ n. 售貨員；職員；旅館接待員1. N-COUNT A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose jo

55、b is to keep the records or accounts. 文書; (法庭) 書記員例： She was offered a job as a clerk with a travel agency. 她找到了在一家旅行社做文書的工作。2. N-COUNT In a hotel, office, or hospital, a clerk is the person whose job is to answer the telephone and deal with people when they arrive. 接待員美國英語例： .a hotel clerk. 一名賓館接待員

56、。3. N-COUNT A clerk is someone who sells things to customers in a shop. 售貨員美國英語例： Now Thomas was working as a clerk in a shop that sold leather goods. 現(xiàn)在托馬斯在一家賣皮革品的店里做售貨員。4. V-I To clerk means to work as a clerk. 做文書工作美國英語例： Gene clerked at the auction. 吉恩在拍賣行做文書工作。29、counter /kant/ n. 柜臺；計(jì)數(shù)器1. N-CO

57、UNT In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served. 柜臺例： .those guys we see working behind the counter at our local video rental shop. 我們所見在本地音像出租商店柜臺后工作的那些家伙。2. N-COUNT A counter is a mechanical or electronic device which keeps a count of something and displays the total. 計(jì)數(shù)器例： The new answering machine has a call counter. 這種新型的電話答錄機(jī)有一個通話計(jì)數(shù)器。3. N-COU