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□balky □abdomen □aurora □extant
□tilt □overhear □agonize □perverse
□plop □lullaby □bluffly □torpid
【考法】 ADJ Someone or something that is balky does not behave or work the way you want them to. 固执的；难以启动的
【例句】 The story becomes that of two balky boys and the efficient woman who must be mother to both of them.
最后故事演变成了两个固执的男孩和他们能干的母亲。
【考法】 NOUN Your abdomen is the part of your body below your chest where your stomach and intestines are. 腹（部）
【例句】 He was suffering from pains in his abdomen.
他感到腹部剧痛。
【考法】 NOUN an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands, curtains, or streamers of light, usually green,red, or yellow, that move across the sky in polar regions. It is caused by collisions between air mol ecules and charged particles from the sun that are trapped in the earth’s magnetic field 极光
【例句】 The light creates the aurora that we see.
这些光亮造就了我们所看到的极光。
【考法】 ADJ If something is extant, it is still in existence, in spite of being very old. 尚存的；现存的
【例句】 Two fourteenth-century manuscripts of this text are still extant.
这个文本仍有两份14世纪的手抄本存世。
【考法】 VERB If you tilt an object or if it tilts, it moves into a sloping position with one end or side higher than the other. （使）倾斜；（使）歪斜
【例句】 She tilted the mirror and began to comb her hair.
她斜过镜子开始梳理头发。
【考法】 VERB If you overhear someone, you hear what they are saying when they are not talking to you and they do not know that you are listening. 偶然听到；无意中听到；偷听到
【例句】 I overheard two doctors discussing my case.
我无意中听到两位医生讨论我的病情。
【考法】 VERB If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it. 感到极度焦虑；苦苦思索
【例句】 Perhaps he was agonizing over the moral issues involved.
也许他正在为其中牵扯的道德问题而伤脑筋。
【考法】 ADJ Someone who is perverse deliberately does things that are unreasonable or that result in harm for themselves. 任性的；故意作对的；无理取闹的
【例句】 It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend.
阻止这种健康发展的趋势是没有道理的。
【考法】 NOUN A plop is a soft, gentle sound, like the sound made by something dropping into water without disturbing the surface much. （某物落入水中而未溅泼的）扑通声，啪嗒声
【例句】 Another drop of water fell with a soft plop.
又一滴水嘀嗒一声落下。
【考法】 NOUN A lullaby is a quiet song which is intended to be sung to babies and young children to help them go to sleep. 摇篮曲；催眠曲
【例句】 The mother was crooning a lullaby to her baby.
母亲正对着婴儿哼着摇篮曲。
【考法】 ADV in a blunt direct manner 陡峭地；船头扁平地
【考法】 ADJ If you are torpid, you are mentally or physically inactive, especially because you are feeling lazy or sleepy. 迟钝的；有气无力的；懒洋洋的
【例句】 Charlotte liked to pretend that nothing much happened to her and her family, speaking of “the torpid retirement where we live like dormice”.
夏洛蒂喜欢假装即使小说获得巨大成功，对她的生活和家庭也没有什么影响，她总是说“我们的生活就像隐居的、蛰伏期的睡鼠。”