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Unit One

Hit the Nail on the Head

1.

drive

sth

home:

force

(the

nail)

into

the

right

place;

make

sth

unmistakably clear.

2. scrupulous: painstaking, meticulous

3. far afield: very far away

4. rife:1) widespread, common

2)full of

5. leader: British English for newspaper editorial

6. coercion: pressure, compulsion

7. epitomize: be typical of; serve as the typical example of

8. disprove: prove to be contrary; refute

9. expire: die, pass away; come to an end

10. indigent: poverty-stricken, penniless

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Unit Two

Beware the dirty seas

1. sluice:

(v.)

to

pour

as

if

from

a

sluice(

水闸

)

，

i.e.,

a

man-made

passage for water fitted with a gate for stopping and regulating the flow;

(n.) a channel controlling water flow

2. nurture: further the development of; care for

3. evolve: develop gradually (by a long continuous process)

4. endemic: (of a disease) found regularly in a particular place

5. litany:

repetition.

The

literal

meaning

of

“litany”

is

“a

prayer

consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with

responses by the congregation”.

6. flush: pour; flood with water to clean out (See dictionary)

7. lurk: exist unseen

8.

effluent:

liquid

wastes,

such

as

chemicals

or

sewage

that

flows

out

from a factory or some other places into a river or the sea

9. plankton: very small forms of plant and animal life that live in a body

off water

浮游生物

10. slime: unpleasant sticky substance, such as the thick sticky liquid on

the skin of various fish

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Unit Three

My Friend, Albert Einstein

1. knack: a clever way of doing things

2. be in awe of: have respect as well as fear and reverence for

3. staggering: unexpectedly surprising; astounding

4. vestiges: traces

5. ultimately: finally; after a long series of time

6. recalcitrant: hard to deal with; unmanageable

7. worry: assail a problem again and again until it is solved, just like a

dog biting some small animals repeatedly, shaking it or pulling it with the

teeth

8. surcease:

(archaic)

cessation, pause

9. plausible: seeming to be reasonable

10. a house of cards: an insecure scheme

11. ineffable: unutterable; incapable of being expressed in words

12. elusively whimsical: indescribably quaint or strange

捉摸不透的，

古

怪

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Unit Four

The Invisible Poor

1. perennial:

lasting forever or for a long time

2.

rutted

roads:

roads

with

deep,

narrow

marks

made

by

the

wheels

of

vehicles

3.

be exempt from: be freed from a duty. service, payment, etc.

4.

tenement:

a

large

building,

especially

one

in

the

poor

part

of

a

city,

which is divided into small flats which are rented cheaply

5.

affluent: wealthy, prosperous

6. compound v.: /kom'paund/ make worse by adding (something) to . . .

(often used in the passive)

7.

existential: relating to human experience (a formal-word)

8.

lurid: sensational, shocking

9.

dispossessed: people who have lost all their possessions

10. cynical: doubtful as to whether something will happen or whether it is

worthwhile

11. involvement: connection

12. old rhetoric of reform: writings about reform in the past that sounded

fine and important, but were really insincere and meaningless

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Unit Five

The Plug

—

in Drug:TV and the American Family,Part

Ⅰ

1. afflict: trouble

2. asset: valuable object; advantage

3. preposterous: unthinkable, absurd

4. splintering: splitting, breaking up

5. the peer group: a group of people of the same age, class, position. etc.

here,

group of children of the same age

6. television-oriented: interested in and influenced by TV

7. equivocal: ambiguous

8. sorcerer: person who performs magic by using the power of evil spirits

9. stint: fixed amount of work: here, the fixed TV programme

10. conjure up: bring into the mind

11. sane: (in this context) in possession of good relations/of a close bond

12. backlog: a reserve

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