
CHAPTER 15: A Blossom Lunch

Reading skill: Making Inferences

CHAPTER 16: The First Home-Cooked Meal

Reading skill: Understanding the Relationships between Ideas--Cause and Effect
1. embark /ɛmb'ɑrk/
It seems we are going to embark for the moon .
看樣子我們不久就要乘飛船到月亮上去了。
2. mischief /m'ɪstʃəf/損害,傷害,災禍,惡作劇,淘氣
He's never out of mischief one minute .
他簡直沒有一分鐘不調皮搗蛋!
宴會,酒席
Come and grace our banquet with your presence .
來賞光,參加我們的宴會。
We hear the silver voices of heroic bugles .
我們聽到了那清亮的號角。
This had been an ultimate issue .
這個問題是個原則性的問題。
6. unify /j'unəf,ɑɪ/
The whole earth would be unified at last .
整個世界將最終聯合起來。
7. tail /t'el/
尾部,後部,辮子,排的長隊,隨員,特務,燕尾服,蹤跡,限定繼承權(a.)在後面的
The peacock spreads his splendid tail .
孔雀展開了它那燦爛奪目的尾巴。
He ruined his prospects by carelessness .
他因疏忽大意而斷送了前途。
History abounds with such examples .
歷史上充滿了這種例證。
/m'ɑnətɚ/
(vt.)(vi.)
監視,監聽,監督監視器監督器,級長,監聽員,班長,監視器,告誡物One new monitor is also needed .
還需要一艘新的淺水炮艦。
11. umpire /'ʌmp,ɑɪɚ/
裁判員,仲裁人,決定性的事物(vt.)仲裁,裁判
代數學
That is the so-called fundamental theorem of algebra .
瘟疫,鼠疫;害蟲,害人蟲(v.)煩擾,糾纏
The whole community turned out to wipe out the four pests .
全體居民出動除四害。
14. draft /dr'æft/
(v.)草稿,草圖,起草通風,氣流,牽引徵兵,徵集He did most of the actual drafting .
實際上大部分草案都是他執筆的。
(a.)
末端的,終點的;每期的;末期的,晚期的;末端,終點;端子,線接頭;終點站The most popular input device is the terminal .
最通用的輸入設備是終端器。
He sailed into the witness , accusing him of lying .
他指責證人撒謊。
(a.)
喜歡吵架的,好爭論的,怒氣沖沖的He has a quarrelsome disposition .
他生性愛吵架。
18. vaccine /væks'in/
This vaccine will give you immunity for two years .
接種這種疫苗可有兩年的免疫力。
19. thrifty /θr'ɪfti/
(a.)節儉的,興旺的,繁茂的
His wife is a thrifty housekeeper .
他的妻子是個節儉的好管家。
20. diameter /dɑɪ'æmətɚ/
直徑,徑
Each telescope would be 100 meters in diameter .
每個望遠鏡的直徑為100米。
21. ornament /'ɔrnəmənt/
裝飾,裝飾,教堂用品(vt.)裝飾,修飾
The house also was most delicately ornamented .
這座房屋的裝飾也極為精致。
22. penalty /p'ɛnəlti/
刑法,處罰,懲罰,體罰
Crimes of violence carry heavy penalties .
暴力罪行要承受嚴厲的懲罰。
(a.)突然的,唐突的,陡峭的,不連貫的,無禮的
His manner was abrupt to the point of rudeness .
他舉止唐突,近乎粗魯。
(a.)老練的,老於世故的;復雜的,尖端的
It is true you look fairly sophisticated .
你看上去的確相當精明老練
25. pledge /pl'ɛdʒ/
保証,誓言,抵押(vt.)保証,使發誓,抵押,典當,舉杯祝…健康He would keep his pledge to the utmost of his power .
他將極力信守他的誓言。
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