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□quirk □binder □stern □chauvinism
□callous □dazzle □postmaster □creak
□binoculars □chant □vanguard □slough
【考法】 NOUN A quirk is a habit or aspect of a person’s character which is odd or unusual. 怪癖；古怪的性格
【例句】 Brown was fascinated by people’s quirks and foibles.
布朗对人们的种种怪癖十分着迷。
【考法】 NOUN A binder is a hard cover with metal rings inside, which is used to hold loose pieces of paper. 活页夹
【例句】 In this example, we use the binder’s title.
在此示例中，我们使用的是活页夹标题
【考法】 ADJ Stern words or actions are very severe. （话语或行动）严厉的，严正的
【例句】 Mr. Straw issued a stern warning to those who persist in violence.
斯特劳先生向那些坚持进行暴力活动的人发出了严正警告。
【考法】 NOUN Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and mor ally better than other people’s. 沙文主义；本国至上主义
【例句】 It may also appeal to the latent chauvinism of many ordinary people.
它可能也迎合了许多普通人心中的沙文主义情结。
【考法】 ADJ A callous person or action is very cruel and shows no concern for other people or their feelings. 无情的；冷漠的；狠心的
【例句】 .his callous disregard for human life.
他对人命的漠视
【考法】 VERB If a bright light dazzles you, it makes you unable to see properly for a short time. （强光等）使目眩，使眼花
【例句】 The sun, glinting from the pool, dazzled me.
在太阳的照射下，池面上泛起粼粼波光，让我一时睁不开眼。
【考法】 NOUN A postmaster is a man who is in charge of a local post office. 邮政局长
【例句】 As if from far away, he hears her call to the postmaster to send for the police.
好像是从很远的地方传来的声音，他听见她在让邮政局长打电话叫警察来。
【考法】 VERB If something creaks, it makes a short, high-pitched sound when it moves. 嘎吱作响
【例句】 The bed-springs creaked.
床垫的弹簧嘎吱作响。
【考法】 NOUN Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away. 双筒望远镜
【例句】 He stood to his pay of 50 pounds for my binoculars.
他坚持只付50英镑买我的望远镜。
【考法】 NOUN A chant is a word or group of words that is repeated over and over again. 不断重复的话
【例句】 He was greeted by the chant of “Judas! Judas”.
人们看见他就反复不停地喊：“犹大！犹大！”
【考法】 NOUN If someone is in the vanguard of something such as a revolution or an area of research, they are involved in the most advanced part of it. You can also refer to the people themselves as the vanguard. （革命或研究的）前沿；先锋，先驱
【例句】 Such thinking puts Kodak in the vanguard of a movement reshaping the computer industry.
这种想法使得柯达走在了改造计算机产业运动的最前沿。
【考法】 VERB When a plant sloughs its leaves, or an animal such as a snake sloughs its skin, the leaves or skin come off naturally. （植物）落叶；（动物）蜕皮
【例句】 All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.
所有爬行动物生长过程中都要蜕皮。