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【考法1】 N-UNCOUNT Concern is worry about a situation. 忧虑；担心
【举例1】 The group has expressed concern about reports of political violence in Africa.
该团体对有关非洲政治暴力的报道表示关切。
【考法2】 VERB If something concerns you, it worries you. 使担忧；使心烦
【举例2】 The growing number of people seeking refuge in Thailand is beginning to concern Western aid agencies.
到泰国寻求庇护的人日益增多，这开始引起了西方援助机构的不安。
【考法3】 VERB If you concern yourself with something, you give it attention because you think that it is important. 关心；关注
【举例3】 I didn't concern myself with politics.
我不关心政治。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If you describe something or someone as unimportant, you mean that they do not have much influence, effect, or value, and are therefore not worth serious consideration. 不重要的；无意义的；微不足道的
【举例】 It was an unimportant job, and paid very little.
这份工作无足轻重，而且薪水还很低。
【考法】 VERB If you maximize something, you make it as great in amount or importance as you can. 使增加至最大限度；充分利用（或重视）
【举例】 In order to maximize profit the firm would seek to maximize output.
为了获得最大利润，这家公司会把产量增至最大。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED A beautiful person is very attractive to look at. 美丽的；漂亮的
【举例】 She was a very beautiful woman.
她是个大美女。
【考法】 V-ERG If something lessens or you lessen it, it becomes smaller in size, amount, degree, or importance. （使）缩小；（使）减少；（使）减轻
【举例】 He is used to a lot of attention from his wife, which will inevitably lessen when the baby is born.
他习惯了妻子对他的百般关注，但孩子出生后这种关注就会不可避免地减少。
【考法1】 N-VAR Liberty is the freedom to live your life in the way that you want, without interference from other people or the authorities. （自己选择生活方式的）自由
【举例1】 Wit Wolzek claimed the legislation could impinge on privacy, self determination and respect for religious liberty .
威特·沃尔泽克声称这项法律可能会对隐私权和自主权造成侵犯，并破坏对宗教自由的尊重。
【考法2】 N-UNCOUNT Liberty is the freedom to go wherever you want, which you lose when you are a prisoner. 行动自由；人身自由
【举例2】 Why not say that three convictions before court for stealing cars means three months'loss of liberty ?
为什么不说被判3项偷车罪名就意味着丧失3个月的人身自由呢？
【考法1】 N-VAR A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only. 蛋糕；糕饼
【举例1】 a piece of cake
一块蛋糕
【考法2】 N-COUNT Food that is formed into flat round shapes before it is cooked can be referred to as cakes. 饼状食物；饼
【举例2】 fish cakes
鱼饼
【考法1】 N-MASS Jam is a thick sweet food that is made by cooking fruit with a large amount of sugar, and that is usually spread on bread. 果酱
【举例1】 home-made jam
自制果酱
【考法2】 VERB If vehicles jam a road, there are so many of them that they cannot move. （车辆）堵住，堵塞（道路）
【举例2】 Hundreds of departing motorists jammed the roads.
数百名打算驾车离开的司机堵住了道路。
【考法3】 N-COUNT Jam is also a noun. 堵塞
【举例3】 400 trucks may sit in a jam for ten hours waiting to cross the limited number of bridges.
400辆卡车可能会堵上10个小时才能通过有限的几座桥。
【考法】 VERB If you recycle things that have already been used, such as bottles or sheets of paper, you process them so that they can be used again. 回收利用；循环利用
【举例】 The objective would be to recycle 98 per cent of domestic waste.
目标是对98%的生活垃圾进行回收利用。
【考法1】 N-UNCOUNT Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. 贫穷；贫困
【举例1】 According to World Bank figures, 41 per cent of Brazilians live in absolute poverty .
根据世界银行的统计数字，41%的巴西人生活在赤贫中。
【考法2】 N-SING You can use poverty to refer to any situation in which there is not enough of something or its quality is poor. 贫乏；短缺；低劣
【举例2】 Britain has suffered from a poverty of ambition.
英国一直缺乏远大理想。
【考法1】 N-COUNT A particular kind of worker does the kind of work mentioned. 从事……工作的人；工作者
【举例1】 office workers
办公室职员
【考法2】 N-COUNT Workers are people who are employed in industry or business and who are not managers. 工人；雇员
【举例2】 Wages have been frozen and workers laid off.
工资被冻结，工人下岗。
【考法1】 VERB When you dance, you move your body and feet in a way which follows a rhythm, usually in time to music. 跳舞
【举例1】 Polly had never learned to dance .
波莉从未学过跳舞。
【考法2】 N-COUNT A dance is a particular series of graceful movements of your body and feet,which you usually do in time to music. 舞蹈；舞步
【举例2】 Sometimes the people doing this dance hold brightly colored scarves.
有时跳这种舞的人会手拿色彩鲜艳的丝巾。