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□vector □paleontology □transcend □coterie
□intoxicate □materialistic □erroneous □opulent
【考法】 VERB When people congregate, they gather together and form a group. 集合；聚集
【例句】 Youngsters love to congregate here in the evenings outside cinemas showing American films.
晚上，年轻人喜欢聚集在放映美国电影的电影院外面。
【考法】 ADJ If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting. 吵吵嚷嚷的；吵闹的；大喊大叫的
【例句】 There is always a clamorous din when I go to visit my father.
每当我去看视父亲的时候，总有一个声音在那里大喊大叫。
【考法】 NOUN A cucumber is a long thin vegetable with a hard green skin and wet transparent flesh. It is eaten raw in salads. 黄瓜
【例句】 The “gurkophone”is one of their classics, made from a hollowed cucumber, a pepper and a carrot.
“黄瓜管”是他们的经典乐器之一，那是用掏空的黄瓜、辣椒和胡萝卜做的。
【考法】 ADJ If you describe someone as opinionated, you mean that they have very strong opinions and refuse to accept that they may be wrong. 固执己见的；顽固的
【例句】 Sue is the extrovert in the family; opinionated, talkative and passionate about politics.
休是那个家庭里性格外向的一位；他固执、健谈、热心政治。
【考法】 NOUN A vector is a variable quantity, such as force, that has size and direction. 矢量；向量
【例句】 Then, if I choose any vector in that tangent plane.
那么如果我选择了任何位于切平面的向量。
【考法】 NOUN 古生物学
【例句】 The new species is “definitely big, ”said Kristina Curry Rogers, curator and head of the paleontology department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.
新发现的恐龙在体型上确实是大，圣保罗明尼苏达科学博物馆馆长兼古生物学研究部主任克里斯蒂娜·柯里·罗杰斯说。
【考法】 VERB Something that transcends normal limits or boundaries goes beyond them, because it is more significant than them. 超越；超出
【例句】 What brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences.
使我们走到一起的，是我们有超越这些分歧的共同利益。
【考法】 NOUN A coterie of a particular kind is a small group of people who are close friends or have a com mon interest, and who do not want other people to join them. （志趣相投而排外的）小集团，小圈子
【例句】 The songs he recorded were written by a small coterie of dedicated writers.
他录制的这些歌是由几名酷爱音乐的作曲家谱写的。
【考法】 VERB (of an alcoholic drink) to produce in (a person) a state ranging from euphoria to stupor, usually accompanied by loss of inhibitions and control; make drunk; inebriate 使醉酒
【例句】 He does not drink at all; a little wine may intoxicate him.
他根本不喝酒，因为一点酒就能使他醉。
【考法】 ADJ If you describe a person or society as materialistic, you are critical of them because they attach too much importance to money and material possessions. 实利主义的；物质至上主义的
【例句】 During the 1980s Britain became a very materialistic society.
20世纪80年代期间，英国变成一个物质至上的社会。
【考法】 ADJ Beliefs, opinions, or methods that are erroneous are incorrect or only partly correct. 错误的；出错的
【例句】 Some people have the erroneous notion that one can contract AIDS by giving blood.
一些人错误地认为献血会让人感染艾滋病。
【考法】 ADJ Opulent things or places look grand and expensive. 豪华的；奢侈的；富丽堂皇的
【例句】 .an opulent office on Wimpole Street in London’s West End.
伦敦西区温波尔街上的一间豪华办公室