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新编英语教程5(词汇Unit1-10) ants05

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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新编英语教程5(词汇Unit1-10) ants05

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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