◆Unit 7

beige [ beɪʒ ]

常考 adj. 平凡的，毫无特色的 ： lacking in distinctive features or qualities; vanilla

近义 characterless, faceless, featureless, indistinctive, neutral, noncommital, vanilla

举例 We went through a period of beige cars.

我们经历了一段乏味的乘车时期。

belabor [ bɪ'leɪbə(r) ]

常考1 v. 喋喋不休，冗长地讨论 ：to discuss repeatedly or at length; harp on

举例 I won’t belabor the point, for this is a familiar story.

常考2 v. 严厉批评，抨击 ：to assail verbally

近义 abuse, assail, bash, blast, castigate, excoriate, lambaste, potshot, savage, scathe, slam, trash, vituperate

举例 There’s no need to belabor other people’s flaws when you’re hardly perfect yourself.

belated [ bɪ'leɪtɪd ]

常考 adj. 迟到的，误期的 ：having been delayed ; done or sent too late

近义 behindhand, late, overdue, tardy

举例 a belated birthday card 一张迟到的生日卡片

beleaguer [ bɪ'li:gə ]

常考1 v. 困扰，骚扰 ：to harass ; beset

近义 annoy, bait, bedevil, beset, harass, harry, pester, plague, tease, torment, worry

举例 We are beleaguered by problems.

我们被许多困难所困扰。

常考2 v. 围困，围攻 ：to surround with troops; besiege

近义 beset, besiege, blockade, invest, siege

举例 a beleaguered garrison 被围的要塞

belie [ bɪ'laɪ ]

常考1 v. 显示为假 ：to show to be false

近义 confute, discredit, disprove, rebut, refute

举例 Their laughter belied their outward grief.

常考2 v. 与……相对立；与……相矛盾 ：to be counter to; contradict

举例 At first glance, life at the boarding school seemed to belie all the bad things I had heard about it.

初看之下，寄宿学校的生活似乎不同于我所听说的有关它的糟糕情形。

常考3 v. 错误地描述；掩饰 ：to give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly

近义 color, distort, falsify, load, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, twist, warp, wrench, wrest

举例 His cheerful manner belied his real feelings.

常考4 v. 不足以证明；未能实现 ： fail to justify or fulfil (a hope, promise etc)

举例 Practical experience belies this theory.

实际经验证明这个理论是错误的。

注意 在考试中，要注意有时会出现belying，也就是belie的现在分词。

belittle [ bɪ'lɪtl ]

常考1 vt. 使显得微小，相形见绌（使看起来比另一个少或小） ：to cause (a person or thing) to seem little or less

举例 The size of the office tower belittles the surrounding buildings.

常考2 vt. 贬低，轻视 ：to represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant ; disparage

近义 decry, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, derogate, detract, discount, disparage, downgrade, minimize, run down, slight, talk down

举例 a person who belittled our efforts to do the job right

bellicose [ 'belɪkəʊs ]

常考 adj. 好斗的；好争吵的 ：favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

近义 belligerent, combative, contentious, hostile, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, scrappy, truculent, warlike

举例 He expressed alarm about the government’s increasingly bellicose statements.

belligerent [ bə'lɪdʒərənt ]

常考 adj. 好斗的，寻衅的 ：inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness

近义 bellicose, pugnacious, aggressive, confrontational, militant, truculent

举例 He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.

派生 belligerence[ bə'lɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)ns ] n. 敌意，好战性

bellwether [ 'belweðə(r) ]

常考 n. 先兆；风向标；领导者 ：one that serves as a leader or as a leading indicator of future trends

近义 leader, pacemaker, pacer, pacesetter, trendsetter

举例 The degree to which the paper is censored is a political bellwether.

bemuse [ bɪ'mju:z ]

常考1 v. 使迷惑；使茫然 ：to cause to be bewildered; confuse

近义 bedaze, benumb, daze, stun, stupefy

举例 The sheer quantity of detail would bemuse even the most clear-headed author.

常考2 v. 使全神贯注，陷于 ：to occupy the attention of

近义 absorb, engross, enthrall, fascinate, immerse, intrigue

举例 a public that seemed more bemused by the shenanigans of celebrities than by a war being waged half a world away

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