英语六级词汇解析 Lesson 12

　　Address n.地址,住址;演讲,讲话;

　　Address vt.写姓名地址;向作 讲话;称呼

　　Leaving email addresses to each other is a fashionable way of keeping in contact among young people nowadays.互留电子邮箱地址是现在年轻人时髦的保持联络的方式.

　　How should I address you? 我应当怎样称呼您呢?

　　Assign vt.指派,选派;指定 ;分配;布置

　　The two governments assigned a day for the next summit meeting between President Putin and President Bush. 两国政府确定了下一次普京与布什会晤的日期.

　　The competent secretary was assigned to take the minutes for the meeting of the board of directors. 这个能干的秘书被选派为;董事会议做记录.

　　Attribute vt.把...归因于;把归于 n.属性,特性

　　Many peoples sucess can be attributed to hard work and a bit of luck.很多人的成功都可以归于勤奋加上一点儿运气.

　　Stubbornness is considered the attribute of mules.顽固被认为是骡的特性.

　　Compel vt.强迫,迫使

　　Because he is unable to distinguish colors, the color-blind boy is compelled to give up the ideal of becoming a fashion designer. 因为无法分辨色彩,那个色盲的男孩不得不放弃成为服装设计师的理想.

　　complaint n.抱怨,诉苦;投诉,控告;疾病

　　He who makes constant complaints gets little compassion. 经常诉苦,少人同情.

　　Regarding your difficulty,we have submitted an email to our complaint center.关于你们所面临的困难, 我们已经给我们的投诉中心发了电子邮件.

　　Confirm vt.证实,肯定;进一步确定;确认;批准

　　The successfully cloned sheep Dolly confirmed the feasibility of clone technology. 绵羊多利的克隆成功证实 了克隆技术的可行性.

　　consideration n.考虑,考虑的事;体贴,关心

　　Age should not be the chief consideration in choosing a football referee. ;在选择足球裁判时不应该把年龄作为首要的考虑因素.

　　Although architecture has artistic qualities, it must also satisfy a number of important practical considerations.尽管建筑具有艺术特性,它也必须考虑许多实用因素.

　　constitute vt.组成,构成,形成;设立,建立,任命

　　The employees is the Japanese company asked their boss if refusal to work on rest days constitutes a violation of contract.这家日本公司的员工问他们的老板,拒绝加班是否构成违反合约.

　　Women,who constitute 52 per cent of Italys population, today represent only 35 percent of Italys total workforce.妇女占意大利人口的52%却只占劳动队伍的35%.

　　Convey vt.表达,传达,传递;运送,输送

　　Air is the medium by which sound waves are conveyed.空气是声波传导的媒介.

　　What information the codes in the great Pyramid convey is still unknown.大金字塔中的密码到底传递了什么信息仍然不为人知.

　　Crush vt.压碎,蔫碎;弄皱;压垮

　　Wine is made by crushing grapes.葡萄酒是压榨葡萄制成的.

　　Time would crush all pains.时间会粉碎所有的痛苦.

　　decent a.象样的,体面的;宽厚的,大方的;正派的,合乎礼仪的,得体的

　　Ragged jeans are not very decent to wear to a ball.穿着破旧的牛仔裤在舞会上显得不太得体.

　　Most university graduates consider white-collared position as decent jobs.绝大多数大学毕业生都认为白领职位是体面的工作.

　　deliberate a.故意的,含蓄的;慎重的,深思熟虑的 v.仔细考虑,思考

　　I wont forgive you because of your deliberate lies.我不会原谅你,因为你存心说谎.

　　Xie Jun checkmated the rival after the final deliberate consideration.经过最后的深思熟虑, 谢军将死于对手.

　　The Supreme Court of the U.S.A. deliberate whether the ballots of Florida should be re-counted.美国最高法院研究是否重新统计佛罗里达 州的选票.

　　Dominate vi.处于支配地位,拥有优势

　　Dominate vt.在...中占首要地位;支配,统治,控制;耸立于,俯视

　　Although racial discrimination is not allowed, Europe and America are still a white-dominated society.虽然种族歧视是不允许的,但欧洲和美国仍是白人统治的社会.

　　Duty n.责任,义务;职责,职务;税,关税

　　Ill have to go,Im afraid--duty calls.看来我得走了-公务在身.

　　Elegant a.优美的,文雅的,讲究的;简练的,简洁的

　　Princess Dianas elegant manners are always within peoples memory.戴安娜王妃优雅的举止总是留在人们的记忆中.

　　Enlarge v.扩大,扩展,扩充;放大

　　Many newly-weds like to enlarge their wedding photo and hang it on the wall.很多新婚夫妇喜欢把结婚照放大了挂在墙上.

　　In the course of English learning, doing more reading can help to enlarge ones vocabulary.在英语学习中,多阅读有助于扩大词汇 量.

　　Exceed vt.超过,越出 vi.超过其他

　　Exceeding the speed limit in the urban area would be fined.在市区内超速驾车会被罚款.

　　The performance of the Chinese Youth Football Team exceeded our expectations.中国青年足球队的表现比我们预料的好.

　　Explit vt.开拓,开发,开采;剥削 n.功绩,功勋,业绩,英勇的行为

　　The Japanese employment system probably exploits women more extensively than is the case in any other industrialized country.日本的就业制度使妇女在更广泛的范围内受到剥削与其他工业化国家相比.

　　The social freshmen should exploit every opportunity to enrich their experiences.刚踏入社会的人必须利用每一个机会积累经验.

　　Fire n.火;火灾,失火;射击,火力;热情,激情

　　Fire vt.放射出;解雇,开除;激动 vi.开火,开枪

　　The success in the Olympic bid has fired the Chinese people with great enthusiasm.申奥成功激起了中国人巨大的热情.

　　During the oral defen- se of your thesis,tutors and experts will fire questions at you.在论文答辩过程中,导师和专家们会向你一连串的发问.

　　The soldier showed perfect discipline under fire.在炮火下,士兵们纪律严明.

　　fraction n.小部分,片断;分数

　　Many young people today begin to use their future money instead of a fraction of their earnings.今天有许多年轻人开始花起他们的未来钱而不是只花自己收入的一小部分.

　　Harness n.马具,挽具 vt.治理,利用;给上挽具

　　The farmer harnessed the horse to the cart.农夫把马套在马车上.

　　Some scientists are working hard at how tide can be harnessed to produce electricity.科学家正在努力研究怎样利用潮汐发电.

　　Initial a.开始的,最初的 n.首字母

　　We have to admit that mans research into space is still in the initial stage.我们不得不承认人类对宇宙的研究仍然处于初始阶段.

　　If your family name is Chen, you had better not choose an English name beginning with the letter W , otherwise your initials will be:W.C! 如果你姓陈, ,你最好不要选一个以字母 W开头的英文名否则的姓名首字母就是了!

　　Locate vt.探明,找出;把设置在,使坐落于

　　Li Siguang located the oil field,which proves that China is not a lean-oil country.李四光探明了油田的位置证明了中国不是贫油国.

　　Most natural ports are located where the shoreline is irregular and the water is deep.绝大部分的天然港口都位于海岸线不规则而又水深的地方.

　　objective n.目标,目的 a.客观的,不带偏见的

　　Now,my sole objective of memorizing English words well is to get good marks in the College English Test Band 4. 现在我牢记英语单词的唯一目的就是在大学英语的四级 考试中取得好成绩.

　　If we could have objective judgement on people,there would be less misunderstandings among people.如果我们能对人做客观的评价,彼此之间就会少些误会.

　　Pattern n.型,模式,样式;花样,图案 vt.仿制,使照的样式

　　It seems that the pattern of white and black squares is always the fashion.黑白格子的花纹图案好像永远都不会过时.

　　Paper patterns for dresses are now available for you to pattern dresses on different models.裁衣服的纸型已有出售,你可以按照不同的样式裁制衣服.

　　Performer n.表演者,执行者,演奏者

　　Most of the great violin performers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were born and brought up in Russian and Eastern Europe,and they were all Jews. 19世纪晚期和20世纪初的绝大部分伟大的小提琴演奏家都生于长于俄国和东欧,而且全是犹太人.

　　Preserve vt.维持;保存,保藏;腌制

　　Its not that easy to preserve places of historic interest ,It takes money and technique. 保护古迹并不那么容易,需要资金和技术.

　　You can preserve meat or fish in salt,but I prefer fresh meat to preserved meat.你可以用盐保存肉或鱼,但我喜欢新鲜肉胜过腌制的肉.

　　profession n.职业,自由职业; 同业,同行

　　Teaching is a respectable profession.教师是令人尊敬的职业.

　　It is rather difficult to win acclaim from the professions.要赢得同行的好评是相当困难的.

　　Push vt.推,按;推动,推进;催逼,逼迫 vi.推,推进 n.推,推力;促进,推进

　　One has to push the child or he/she will do no work at all.孩子要有人督促,否则他什么也不干.

　　Resign vi.辞职 vt.辞去,放弃; 使顺从; n.辞去

　　I resigned because of the low salary.因为工资太低,我辞职了.

　　Would you please resign yourself to waiting a bit longer? My boss is coming back soon.你能耐心多等一会儿吗?我的老板很快就会回来.