Vocab day day day :-)

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gf工作环境对英语要求比较高。于是决定每天学习一些英语。这就是为什么我发了这个贴~

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• neutral
  A neutral position
  Remain neutral
  A more neutral name
• nominal
  He is a nominal member of this committee and isn't expected to do any work
  他是这个委员会的名义会员，不指望他能完成什么工作
  The bonus to employees is merely a nominal sum
• norm
  A society where conformity is the norm must be lacking in creativity and vitality.
  Norms of the community
  社会准则
• notable
  The most notable figure in our town
• notion
  an idea, belief, or opinion
  My notion of rural life is a lot of sunshine and fun
  我心目中的...
• numerous lot
  Numerous enterprises bring better and more efficient services to consumers through website
• nurture,nutrition
  I was nurtured by my elder sister
  Nothing could replace my elder sister's nurture
• oak
  橡木
• oar
  船桨
• obedience,obedient
  obedience to order
• oblige force
  The law oblige parents to send their children to school
  The storm got worse and worse. I was obliged to abandon the car and continue on foot
  be obliged to 不得不 have to
• obsolete old
  The computer I bought ten years ago is obsolete
• obstruct,obstruction
  Obstruct justice is a crime
  Skyscrapers obstruct air traffic
• occupation
  A regular occupation
• offset,compensate
  The cost of traveling there was offset by the low cost of the hotels
• opponent
  The two countries were opponents in WW2
  I won my opponent by my argument

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• lodge
  Are there any rooms to lodge me in?
• loosen
  loosen your muscles
• lorry
  卡车
• lottery
  Life is a lottery
• lumber
  木材
• lump lump sth. together
  To maximize the profit, we can lump manufacturing and services together
• lunar
  lunar eclipse
• lure
  Low-priced goods can lure customers into the store
• malignant
  AIDS is a malignant disease
  malignant brain tumor
• manoeuvre
  She manoeuvred the conversion round marriage as she had dinner with her bf
• marvelous
  He is a marvelous photographer in the circle
  
• massacre
  屠杀

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• favorable
  赞成的
  Her attitude towards the plan is favorable
• feat
  壮举
• feeble
  Braid was ill and too feeble to stand up
• fierce
  His fierce dog bit an innocent boy
  In the fierce fighting the wounded refused to leave the battle
• finding
  Our latest findings were presented in the meeting
• flap
  Dont get in flap when you encounter terrorist attack
• flare out
  突然发怒
• flatter
  flatter remarks
  Most women enjoy being flattered by the men
• flesh
  动植物的新鲜的肉
  Chicken's flesh
• fling
  Dont fling your clothes at the sofa! Hanp them up
  He fling a cup at her
• flourish
  Plants will not flourish without water
• fore ahead
  The captain went fore to check the direction
• forge fake
  Jimmy forged his father's name on the check

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• habitat
  栖息地
  Reservoir will create a perfect habitat for snails
• hail
  下冰雹，It hailed last night
  向...欢呼，He hailed me on the other side of the street
• halt
  come to a halt，止步不前，His car comes to a sudden halt outside his room
• handicap
  身体或者智利上的缺陷
  A minor handicap can not hamper her step forward
• hardship
  艰难，困苦
  No matter what hardships face me, I endure!!
• harness
  harness the river, harness the nuclear energy
• harsh
  harsh remarks, harsh realities
• haste,hasty
  eat a hasty lunch, a hasty kiss, make haste
• hatch
  孕育，谋划
• hazard
  noise hazard
• hedge
  篱笆
• hemisphere
  半球
  the northern hemisphere
• heritage
  historical heritage, cultural heritage
• hitherto
  迄今为止

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• secure
  adj: 安全的 safe Make sure our network is secure
  vt. 获得独立 Hongkong secured its independence in 1997
  防卫
• segregate
  隔离
  隔离病人
• sensation
  感觉，直觉 He lost all the sensation after the horrible accident
  轰动一时的事情 The prominent politician was quite a sensation at the banquet
  become a sensation
  cause a sensation
• sentiment
  formal, an opinion or feeling you have about something
  Similar sentiments were expressed by many politicians
  We share the same sentiments about....
  feelings of pity, love, sadness etc that are often considered to be too strong or not suitable for a particular situation
  There's no place for sentiment in business!
• setting
  下山
  底座 The diamond was held in a gold setting
• sew
  缝纫
• shabby
  Play a shabby trick
• sham pretend
  伪装
• shatter
  shatter his collarbones
  shatter the dream of peace
• shear
  修剪草坪 shear a lawn
  理发 shear his hair
• sheer
  By sheer chance 纯属巧合
  By sheer luck 纯靠运气
• shiver
  发抖
  A cool breeze makes him shiver
• shorthand
  速记 make a shorthand
• shrewd
  good at judging what people or situations are really like
  A shrewd businessman
• shrug
  耸肩

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• holder
  持有者 patent holder 专利持有者
• hum
  嘴唇闭着对xxx哼哼歌曲
  He began to hum a song
  if a place hums, it is full of activity - use this to show approval [↪ busy]:
  By nine o'clock, the restaurant was humming
• hurl
  扔东西，尤其表示非常生气的时候
  Jim gathered the books and hurled them on the floor
  hurling abuse, hurling insults
  He was accused of hurling abuse at the referee
• hurricane
  飓风
• hypocrisy
  When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy
• hysterical
  He became hysterical and began screaming
• identify recognize
  He was too far away to be able to recognize his face
  把xxx和xxx混为一谈
  identify poverty with crime and social problems
• ideology
  思想体系，意识形态
• ignorance dont't know
  Excuse my ignorance, but how does it works?
  We are in complete ignorance of his thoughts
  our ignorance of the true situation
• illiterate
  文盲的
• illustrate
  To illustrate my point....
  Illustrate her discussion with diagrams
• imaginary
  虚构的，想象中的
• immense
  大的，巨大的

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• statue['stætʃu:] sculpture
  雕像
• status ['steitəs]
  marital status
  status report on foreign affairs
• statute ['stætʃu:t]
  章程，规则
  The statute did not meet the State's goal
• stem stem from 起源于 发生于
  His cancer stem from smoking
• stern strict, serious
  'Wait!' I shouted in my sternest voice
  stern look/expression/voice
• steward ['stu:ərd]
  乘务员
  Has the steward clean our cabin yet?
• stimulate stimulation
  stimulate sb's interest
• stool
  凳子
• stoop
  弯腰，You have to stoop down to tie your shoes
• straw
  吸管
• strenuous
  needing a lot of effort or strength
  a strenuous climb
  The doctor advised Ken to avoid strenuous exercise.
• stretch
  stretch your feet 伸出双脚 He stretch his feet to the heater
• strife conflict
  political strife
• strive try
  formal:to make a great effort to achieve something
  strive to do something, strive for/after
  We must continue to strive for greater efficiency
• stroll
  闲逛，漫步
• stubborn
  顽固的
• stumble
  结结巴巴说话
  stumble across
• stun
  使震惊
  The resignation of Brady stun the political world
• submerge
  浸没
• subordinate
  次要的，附属的，下级的
  subordinate officer
  These aims were subordinate to the main aims of the mission
• subsidy
  政府机构提供的价格补助
  trade subsidy
  subsidy for home applicants
• substitute
  备胎
  substitute bf
• subtle not obvious
  The pictures are similar, but there are subtle differences between them
  The warning signs of the disease are so subtle that they are often ignored
• suburb
  郊区

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各种困难：
difficult to do: hard, tough, challenging, daunting
difficult and needing a lot of physical effort: tough, strenuous, back-breaking, gruelling, arduous, punishing
difficult to deal with or talk about: tricky, awkward, delicate, sensitive, touchy
words for describing a difficult person: awkward, trying
words for describing difficult conditions: adverse, hostile

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各种走：
stroll in a relaxed way for pleasure
wander with no aim or direction
stride in a confident or angry way
march soldiers
hike for long distances in the countryside or the mountains
tiptoe very quietly
wade through water
stagger in an unsteady way because you are drunk or injured
limp with difficulty because one leg is painful or injured

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• impair
  Too long jogging can impair your lungs
• impart
  传授
  The good tutor not only impart knowledge but also morals to his students
• imperative
  必要的、紧急的
  It was absolutely imperative that he speak with you right away
  It was imperative to meet the client face to face
• impetus
  推动力、促进
  The discovery gave fresh impetus to the research
• impulse
  a sudden strong desire to do something without thinking about whether it is a sensible thing to do
  He couldn't resist the impulse to kiss her
  a sudden impulse to laugh
  buy sth. on impulse 冲动购物
• incentive
  something that encourages you to work harder, start a new activity
  Awards provide an incentive for young people to improve their skills
• impose
  征税 impost a tax on food
• indignant
  由于受到不公正待遇而愤愤不平的
  She was indignant at the way her child had been treated
• indispensable
  极其重要的、必不可少的
  This book is indispensable to anyone interested in CFD
• infer
  推断
  I infer from your letter that you have not made your mind yet
• inference
  推论
  We drew the inference that Jim was satisfied with the exam
  by inference 根据推断
• ingenious
  新颖的、别出心裁的
  Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from the predators
  an ingenious device
• inherent
  固有存在的
  Im afraid the problems you mention are inherent in the system
  Personality is to a large extent inherent
• inhibit
  阻止发展、发育
  An unhappy family may inhibit children's learning
  Childhood infections will inhibit the development of brain cells

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• monotonous
  单调的，万古不变
  A monotonous diet
  give up this monotonous work
• monument
  纪念碑
• morality
  sexual morality
  public/personal morality
  conventional/traditional morality
• mortgage loan ['mɔ:gidʒ]
  Those graduates had to take out a loan to buy a house in Beijing
  They've taken out a 30 year mortgage
  vt. 抵押出去
  Now my houses and lands are all mortgaged
• motive
  the reason that makes someone do something, especially when this reason is kept hidden
  What do you suppose the killer's motive was?
  motive for (doing) something
  The police believe the motive for this murder was jealousy
• mourn
  哀悼
  We mourn the passing of a great man
• multitude formal
  A multitude of somebody/something
• municipal
  市政的
  municipal waste
• murmur 小声说 murmur against = mutter 咕哝 抱怨
• necessitate
  to make it necessary for you to do something
  Lack of money necessitated a change of plan
  The increase of food price necessitate a change in our burget
  necessitate doing something
  This would necessitate interviewing all the staff
• necessity
  必需品
  the necessities of life
  water and air are necessities of life

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• rotary
  The stir stopped its rotary motion because of the failure of power
• roundabout
  委婉的（说法），迂回的（路线）
  It's a roundabout way of telling us to leave
• rouse
  formal，唤醒某人
  His banging roused the neighbours
  to make someone start doing something, especially when they have been too tired or unwilling to do it
  a campaign designed to rouse the younger generation to action
• routine
  例行公事
  常规的 adj
  I have some few routine questions
• ruby
  红宝石
• rust
  铁锈。生锈
  Stainless steel does not rust
• sack
  袋
  a sack of apple
• sacred [ˈsekrɪd]
  神圣的，庄严的
  a sacred vow
  Certain animals were considered sacred
• salvation
  The drug treatment program was his only salvation
  The internet turned out to be the salvation of the company
• sanction
  国际制裁 复数
  Economic sanctions
  impose sanctions of entertainment on North Korean
  批准 不可数
  I got the official sanction to meet with the mayor
• sane insane
  理智的
• sarcastic [sɑ:rˈkæstɪk]
  讽刺的
  Was she being sarcastic?
  His sarcastic comments insult John
• saturate [ˈsætʃəˌret]
  formal to make sth very wet
  Water saturated the carpet
  to put a lot of something into a particular place, especially so that you could not add any more
  Our culture is saturated with phones
• scrape
  用刀刮下去
  The earth on the carrot was scraped away
  刮伤 vt
  I scraped my knee
  擦伤_n_
  scrape on my face
• scratch
  抓、搔

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• canteen
  小卖部
• captive
  俘虏
• cardinal

1. very important or basic Having clean hands is one of the cardinal rules when preparing food.
2. 红衣主教

• carrier
  运载者，携带者
  HIV carrier
• cast

1. to provide new information about something, making it easier to understand:
   Research findings that cast new light on the origin of our universe
   The numerous biographies of Baldwin cast little light on the subject.
2. 全体演员
   The audience were on their feet when the cast came out to take their bows

• cater
  cater for
  to provide and serve food and drinks at a party, meeting etc, usually as a business
  This is the biggest event that we've ever catered for
  The restaurant caters for veggies and those with a sweet tooth
• cathedral
  大教堂
• cease
  formal to stop doing something or stop happening
  He ceased to be a member of the association
  The peace plan is calling for a cease of fire between the countries
• cellar
  地下室
• cement
  使组织、人、国家之间的友谊加强
  Hoping to cement the friendship, I invited Chris on a vacation with my gf
• census
  人口普查
• cereal
  谷物
• charter
  宪章
  national charter
• choke
  噎住
  He choked on a piece of bread
  The smoking is choking me

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• desolate
  荒凉的
• despair n. vi. desperate adj.
  a feeling that you have no hope at all
  drive sb. to despair
  对某人感到绝望 despair of sb.
  My teacher began to despair of me
• dispatch
  formal 为了特定的目的send某人或某物到某地
  Dispatch several officers to Beijing
• despise
  蔑视
  I despise all cowards
• detain
  拘留
• deteriorate
  恶化，变坏
  cause the leather to deteriorate
• deviate
  偏离
  deviate from the truth
  deviate from the original plan
• dictate dictation
  口述，使听写
  The boss dictate the plan to us
  She is dictating a plan to her secretary
• diminish
  reduce
• discern
  to notice or understand something by thinking about it carefully
  Officials were keen to discern how much public support there was
  I would discern what his heart and soul were like
• discourse
  演讲
  I felt at home in this kind of discourse
  a discourse on art
• discreet
  小心谨慎的
  I stood back at a discreet distance
  Reporters asked some discreet questions
• discrepancy
  a difference between two amounts, details, reports etc that should be the same
  Police found discrepancies in the two men's reports