Unit 7

□ clamber

□ afresh

□ irritate

□ in attendance

□ grove

□ elucidate

□ ponder

□ foreboding

□ kidney

□ utterly

□ grab

□ dispose

clamber ['klæmbə]

【考法】 VERB If you clamber somewhere, you climb there with difficulty, usually using your hands as well as your feet. （通常指手脚并用地）攀爬，攀登

【例句】They clambered up the stone walls of a steeply terraced olive grove.

他们手脚并用，爬上了一片成陡直梯田状的橄榄林外面的石头围墙。

afresh [ə'frɛʃ]

【考法】 ADV If you do something afresh, you do it again in a different way. 重新；从头；另行

【例句】They believe that the only hope for the French left is to start afresh.

他们相信对剩下的法国人来说，唯一的希望就是重新开始。

irritate ['ɪrɪˌtet]

【考法】 VERB If something irritates you, it keeps annoying you. 激怒；使恼怒；使烦躁

【例句】Their attitude irritates me.

他们的态度激怒了我。

in attendance [ə'tɛndəns]

【考法】 PHRASE on duty, on watch 出席；值班；负责

【例句】About 4,000 security professionals are in attendance, including some who are really hackers.约有4,000名专业人士与会，其中部分出席者本人就是黑客。

grove [groʊv]

【考法】 N-COUNT A grove is a group of trees that are close together. 树丛；小树林

【例句】.open fields and groves of trees.

开阔的田野和片片树林

elucidate [ɪ'lusɪˌdet]

【考法】 VERB If you elucidate something, you make it clear and easy to understand. 阐明；解释

【例句】Haig went on to elucidate his personal principle of war.

海格继续解释他个人的战争原则。

ponder ['pɑndə(r)]

【考法】 VERB If you ponder something, you think about it carefully. 思索；考虑

【例句】I found myself constantly pondering the question: “How could anyone do these things?”

我发现自己总在思考这个问题：“怎么会有人做出这样的事情呢？”

foreboding [fɔː'boʊdɪŋ]

【考法】 N-VAR Foreboding is a strong feeling that something terrible is going to happen. （不祥的）预兆，预感

【例句】His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.

他的胜利因为一种令人不安的不祥预感蒙上了阴影。

kidney ['kɪdni]

【考法】 N-COUNT Your kidneys are the organs in your body that take waste matter from your blood and send it out of your body as urine. 肾；肾脏

【例句】Sugars are reabsorbed in the kidney.

在肾脏内糖被再吸收。

utterly ['ʌtəli]

【考法】 ADV You use utterly to emphasize that something is very great in extent, degree, or amount. 全然；完全；彻底地

【例句】Everything about the country seemed utterly different from what I’d experienced before.

这个国家的一切似乎与我以前的经历完全不同。

grab [ɡræb]

【考法】 VERB If you grab something, you take it or pick it up suddenly and roughly. 抓住；攫取

【例句】I managed to grab her hand.

我设法抓到了她的手。

dispose [dɪ'spəʊz]

【考法】 VERB to deal with or settle 处理；安排

【例句】Dispose of these old newspapers.

把这些旧报纸处理掉。 sNMMpDlrkgjqW3CjV3nCPCWWnAzCJ4TDAN8WDIojJi84Wn/pL0h9cp2iiuVQ6ICq