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predominant(domain:域
ADJ If something is predominant, it is more important or noticeable than anything else in a set of people or things. 主导性的
例:Mandy’s predominant emothin was confusion
曼迪的主导情绪是困惑。
domicile:注册地
N-COUNT Your domicile is the place where you live. 住处
My domicile isn’t in that city and they needed a local resident
我的户籍不在那个城市产,而那家公司需要雇用一位当地居民。
domesticate:驯化
V-T When people domesticate wild animals or plants, they bring them under control and use them to produce food or as pets. 驯养; 引种驯化
We domesticated the dog to help us with hunting
我们驯养狗来帮助我们打猎。
domineering:霸气)
ADJ If you say that someone is domineering, you disapprove of them because you feel that they try to control other people without any consideration for their feelings or opinions. 刚愎自用的表不满
Mick was stubborn and domineering with a very bad temper.
麦克既固执又刚愎自用,脾气还很坏。
premonition(admonish:告诫
If you have a premonition, you have a feeling that something is going to happen, often something unpleasant. (常为不祥的) 预感
He had an unshakable premonition that he would die
他有一种强烈的预感:他就要死了。
summon:召唤

  1. V-T If you summon someone, you order them to come to you. 召唤
    Suddenly we were summoned to the interview room
    突然我们被召唤进了面试室。
  2. V-T If you summon a quality, you make a great effort to have it. For example, if you summon the courage or strength to do something, you make a great effort to be brave or strong, so that you will be able to do it. 努力拥有 (某特质); 鼓起 (勇气、力气)
    It took her a full month to summon the courage to tell her mother.
    她用了整整一个月的时间才鼓起勇气告诉了母亲。
  3. PHRASAL VERB Summon up means the same as. 努力拥有; 鼓起 (同)(summon)
    Painfully shy, he finally summoned up courage to ask her to a game
    尽管他非常腼腆,最终还是鼓起了勇气邀她去看一场比赛。
    foreboding:不详的预感
    N-VAR Foreboding is a strong feeling that something terrible is going to happen. (对不祥之事的)预感
    His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
    他的成功被一种令人心神不安的不祥之感所笼罩。
    presentiment:预感)
    N-COUNT A presentiment is a feeling that a particular event, for example, someone's death, will soon take place. (对不祥之物的)预感; 预知
    I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me.
    我预感到他对我会造成危险。
    presumptuous(assume:假设
    ADJ If you describe someone or their behaviour as presumptuous, you disapprove of them because they are doing something that they have no right or authority to do. 擅自作主的表不满
    It would be presumptuous to judge what the outcome will be
    断定结果将会如何未免冒失。
    conceited:)自负
    ADJ If you say that someone is conceited, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they are far too proud of their abilities or achievements. 自高自大的表不满
    I thought he was conceited and arrogant
    我认为他自高自大而且傲慢。
    prodigal(prodigy:奇才
  4. ADJ You can describe someone as a prodigal son or daughter if they leave their family or friends, often after a period of behaving badly, and then return at a later time as a better person. 浪子回头的
    The prodigal had returned
    浪子已经回头了。
  5. ADJ Someone who behaves in a prodigal way spends a lot of money carelessly without thinking about what will happen when they have none left. 挥霍的; 铺张浪费的
    Prodigal habits die hard
    大手大脚的习惯很难改掉
    prodigious:巨大的
    ADJ Something that is prodigious is very large or impressive. 巨大的; 给人印象深刻的
    This business generates cash in prodigious amounts.
    这生意带来大量现金。
    proliferate(nuclear:核
    V-I If things proliferate, they increase in number very quickly. 激增
    Computerized databases are proliferating fast.
    计算机化的数据库在迅速激增。
    prolific:多产的
  6. ADJ A prolific writer, artist, or composer produces a large number of works. (作家、艺术家或作曲家) 多产的
    She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.
    她是位多产的长篇和短篇小说家。
  7. ADJ A animal, person, or plant that is prolific produces a large number of babies, young plants, or fruit. (动物、人、植物) 多产的
    They are prolific breeders, with many hens laying up to six eggs.
    他们是多产的培育者,有许多能下多达6个蛋的母鸡。
    multiply:乘
  8. V-T/V-I When something multiplies or when you multiply it, it increases greatly in number or amount. 使 大大增加; 大大增加
    Such disputes multiplied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
    此类争论在18世纪和19世纪大大增加。
  9. V-I When animals and insects multiply, they increase in number by giving birth to large numbers of young. 大量繁殖
    These creatures can multiply quickly
    这些生物能迅速大量繁殖。
  10. V-T If you multiply one number by another, you add the first number to itself as many times as is indicated by the second number. For example 2 multiplied by 3 is equal to 6. 乘
    What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
    6乘以9得多少?
    prolix: 冗长的;说话啰嗦的
    ADJ (of a speech, book, etc) so long as to be boring; verbose (发言、书籍等)冗长的
    Everyone hates the prolix Gadaffi, particularly Arab despots who he routinely blasts as “old women in robes”, “Zionist lackeys” and “cowards and thieves”.
    每个人都讨厌啰嗦的卡扎菲,尤其是那些被卡扎菲例行公事般地讽刺为“穿着长袍的老女人”,“犹太复国主义走狗”,和“懦夫和小偷”的阿拉伯独裁君主们。
    laconic:简洁的
    ADJ If you describe someone as laconic, you mean that they use very few words to say something, so that they seem casual or unfriendly. 寡言的; 言简意赅的
    Usually so laconic in the office, Dr. Lahey seemed less guarded, more relexed.
    平常在办公室里寡言少语的莱希医生似乎少了些拘谨,多了几分轻松。
    garrulous:贫嘴)
    ADJ If you describe someone as garrulous, you mean that they talk a great deal, especially about unimportant things. 絮叨的
    A garrulous old woman
    一个絮叨的老妇人。
    propaganda:宣传
    N-UNCOUNT Propaganda is information, often inaccurate information, that a political organization publishes or broadcasts in order to influence people. (政治组织的) 宣传表不满
    The party adopted an aggressive propaganda compaign against its rivals.
    该党采用了一场对抗其对手的咄咄逼人的宣传运动。
    propagate:传播
  11. V-T If people propagate an idea or piece of information, they spread it and try to make people believe it or support it. 宣传
    They propagated political doctrines that promised to tear apart the fabric of society.
    他们宣传有可能摧毁社会结构的政治学说。
  12. V-T If you propagate plants, you grow more of them from the original ones. 繁殖
    The easiest way to propagate a vine is to take hardwood cuttings.
    繁殖葡萄藤最容易的办法就是采取硬木扦插。
    promulgate:公布
  13. V-T If people promulgate a new law or a new idea, they make it widely known. 散布; 传播
    The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code.
    航运业对自律守则进行了宣传。
  14. V-T If a new law is promulgated by a government or national leader, it is publicly approved or made official. 颁布; 公布
    A new constitution was promulgated last month.
    上个月颁布了一部新宪法。
    irrigate:浇水
    V-T To irrigate land means to supply it with water in order to help crops
    Noe of the water from Lake Powell is used to irrigate the area.
    鲍威尔湖的水没有被用来灌溉这一地区。
    subjugate:征服
  15. V-T If someone subjugates a group of people, they take complete control of them, especially by defeating them in a war. 征服
    Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.
    他们想征服阿富汗人的意图耗费大量金钱而且无效,只维持了十年的时间。
  16. V-T If your wishes or desires are subjugated to something, they are treated as less important than that thing. 使(愿望)退居其次
    After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.
    你那因抱负而退居其次的母性本能终于开始展现出来。
    expurgate:删除
    V-T If someone expurgates a piece of writing, they remove parts of it before it is published because they think those parts will offend or shock people. (作品出版前因考量内容尺度而做的)删减
    He heavily expurgated the work in its second edition.
    在第二版中,他大幅删减了该作品。
    mitigate:减排
    V-T To mitigate something means to make it less unpleasant, serious, or painful. 缓解
    Ways of mitigating the effects of an explostion.
    减轻爆炸后果的方法。
    castigate:鞭挞
    V-T If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely. 谴责
    Marx never lost an opportunity to castigate colonialism.
    马克思从不放过任何谴责殖民主义的机会。
    instigate:煽动
    V-T Someone who instigates an event causes it to happen. 发起
    He did not instigate the coup or even know of it beforehand.
    他没有发起政变,甚至事先都不知道。
    profligate:肆意挥霍的)
    ADJ Someone who is profligate spends too much money or uses too much of something. 挥霍的; 浪费的
    The most profligate consumer of energy in the world.
    世界上能源浪费最严重的消费者。
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