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□troposphere □clumsy □deco □Pleistocene
□awesome □omniscient □expiration □eloquent
□tarnish □trout □lubricate □plunder
【考法】 NOUN the lowest atmospheric layer, about 18 kilometres (11 miles) thick at the equator to about 6 km (4 miles) at the Poles, in which air temperature decreases normally with height at about 6.5°C per km [气象] 对流层
【例句】 The mission will also observe clouds and aerosol particles in the troposphere.
此次任务还将观测对流层中的云和气溶胶粒子。
【考法】 ADJ A clumsy person moves or handles things in a careless, awkward way, often so that things are knocked over or broken. 笨拙的；不灵活的
【例句】 I’d never seen a clumsier, less coordinated boxer.
我从没见过更笨拙、动作更不协调的拳击手。
【考法】 NOUN [常作D-]装饰派艺术（=art deco）
Deco Aqua
装饰水绿
【例句】 His hotel was designed in a kind of Gothic Art Deco style, trimmed with black iron flourishes.
他的饭店是一种哥特式的装修风格，用了很多精美朴素的黑铁装饰品。
【考法】 NOUN the Pleistocene epoch or rock series 更新世
【例句】 “Pumping from the Pleistocene aquifer has certainly had an adverse effect in terms of drawing down arsenic at significantly high concentrations over about 100 years,”says Burgess.
Burgess说，“从更新世含水层抽水对于带动砷元素的下沉毫无疑问是有不利影响的，何况像这样抽水已经在相当高的强度下进行了100多年。”
【考法】 ADJ An awesome person or thing is very impressive and often frightening. 令人畏惧的
【例句】 the awesome responsibility of sending men into combat.
派士兵去打仗的令人畏惧的责任
【考法】 ADJ If you describe someone as omniscient, you mean they know or seem to know everything. 全知全能的；无所不知的；博闻广识的
【例句】 It’s easy to be omniscient when you’ve done it all before.
如果你以前做过这事儿，做到无所不知是非常容易的。
【考法】 NOUN The expiration of a fixed period of time is its ending. 告终；期满；截止
【例句】 .a few hours before the expiration of the midnight deadline.
午夜最后期限截止前的几个小时
【考法】 ADJ A person who is eloquent is good at speaking and able to persuade people. 雄辩的；口才流利的；能言善辩的
【例句】 He was eloquent about his love of books.
他善于谈论他对书籍的热爱。
【考法】 VERB If you say that something tarnishes someone’s reputation or image, you mean that it causes people to have a worse opinion of them than they would otherwise have had. 玷污，败坏，损害（名誉或形象）
【例句】 The affair could tarnish the reputation of the prime minister.
这一事件可能有损首相的名誉。
【考法】 NOUN A trout is a fairly large fish that lives in rivers and streams. 鳟鱼
【例句】 Grilled trout needs only a squeeze of lemon.
烤鳟鱼只需要一点柠檬榨汁。
【考法】 VERB If you say that something lubricates a particular situation, you mean that it helps things to hap pen without any problems. 促进；使顺畅
【例句】 Franklin’s task was to lubricate the discussions with the French.
富兰克林的任务是促使与法国方面的会谈顺利进行。
【考法】 VERB If someone plunders a place or plunders things from a place, they steal things from it. 劫掠；掠夺；窃取
【例句】 They plundered and burned the market town of Leominster.
他们洗劫并焚烧了Leominste的集镇。