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□downplay □swelter □metaphor □tulip
□crockery □pitch □catalytic □broth
□incandescent □jaguar □discontented □taro
【考法】 VERB If you downplay a fact or feature, you try to make people think that it is less important or seri ous than it really is. 对……轻描淡写；使轻视；贬低
【例句】 The government is trying to downplay the violence.
政府试图对暴力行为低调处理。
【考法】 VERB If you swelter, you are very uncomfortable because the weather is extremely hot. 热得难受；热得发昏
【例句】 They sweltered in temperatures rising to a hundred degrees.
接近华氏100度的高温让他们感觉酷热难耐。
【考法】 NOUN A metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way. For example, if you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say that they are a mouse. 隐喻；暗喻；比喻的说法
【例句】 .the avoidance of “violent expressions and metaphors”like “kill two birds with one stone”.
避免使用“有暴力意味的表达和隐喻”，例如“一石二鸟”
【考法】 NOUN Tulips are brightly coloured flowers that grow in the spring, and have oval or pointed petals packed closely together. 郁金香
【例句】 Finance has a history of messing up, from the Dutch tulip bubble in 1637 to now.
从1637年荷兰郁金香泡沫到今天，财务混乱有相当一段历史了。
【考法】 NOUN Crockery is the plates, cups, saucers, and dishes that you use at meals. 餐具
【例句】 We had no fridge, cooker, cutlery or crockery.
我们没有冰箱、炊具、刀具或餐具。
【考法】 NOUN A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey. （足球、板球、曲棍球等运动的）球场
【例句】 There was a swimming-pool, cricket pitches, playing fields.
有一个游泳池、几个板球场和运动场。
【考法】 ADJ In chemistry, a catalytic substance or a substance with catalytic properties is a substance which increases the speed of a chemical reaction. （化学物质）起催化作用的，有催化性的
【例句】 .carbon molecules with unusual chemical and catalytic properties.
具有特殊化学性质和催化性的碳分子
【考法】 NOUN Broth is a kind of soup. It usually has vegetables or rice in it. （通常加入蔬菜或米的）肉汤，汤
【例句】 What to do she did not know, for the broth must be made.
她不知道该怎么办了，因为肉汤必须要做好。
【考法】 ADJ Incandescent substances or devices give out a lot of light when heated. 遇热发光的；白炽的
【例句】 It may be sad to think that we no longer have domestic sources of steel flatware, rebar, and incandescent bulbs.
当想到我们不再有制造不锈钢、螺纹钢筋和白炽灯泡的国内资源时是多么伤心。
【考法】 NOUN A jaguar is a large animal of the cat family with dark spots on its back. 美洲豹；美洲虎
【例句】 In Brazil, cattle ranchers used to nearly kill off the jaguar because it would kill their cows.
在巴西，牧场主人以前几乎把美洲豹都杀光了，因为它们会杀死牛。
【考法】 ADJ If you are discontented, you are not satisfied with your situation. 不满的；不满意的
【例句】 The government tried to appease discontented workers.
政府试图安抚不满的工人们。
【考法】 NOUN an aroid plant, Colocasia esculenta, cultivated in the tropics for its large edible rootstock 芋头
【例句】 Dice the taro and steam for about 20 minutes until cooked.
芋头切成小粒，入蒸锅蒸20分钟至熟。