Unit 8

□ governmental

□ meander

□ insecticide

□ submit

□ quotation

□ connective

□ runway

□ fleet

□ irritable

□ cognition

□ galaxy

□ standpoint

governmental [ˌgʌvən'mentl]

【考法】 ADJ Governmental means relating to a particular government, or to the practice of governing a country. 政府的；执政的；统治的

【例句】.a governmental agency for providing financial aid to developing countries.

为发展中国家提供资金援助的政府机构

meander [mi'ændə]

【考法】 VERB If you meander somewhere, you move slowly and not in a straight line. 漫步；闲荡；信步

【例句】We meandered through a landscape of mountains, rivers, and vineyards.

我们在群山、河流和葡萄园构成的美丽画卷中漫步。

insecticide [ɪn'sɛktɪˌsaɪd]

【考法】 N-VAR Insecticide is a chemical substance that is used to kill insects. 杀虫剂；杀虫药

【例句】Spray the plants with insecticide.

给植物喷洒杀虫剂。

submit [səb'mɪt]

【考法】 VERB If you submit to something, you unwillingly allow something to be done to you, or you do what someone wants, for example because you are not powerful enough to resist. 顺从；屈服；投降；被迫接受

【例句】In desperation, Mrs. Jones submitted to an operation on her right knee to relieve the pain.

绝望之际，琼斯夫人只好同意在其右膝上做手术以减轻疼痛。

quotation [kwoʊ'teɪʃn]

【考法】 N-COUNT A quotation is a sentence or phrase taken from a book, poem, or play, which is repeated by someone else. 引文；引语；语录

【例句】He illustrated his argument with quotations from Pasternak.

他引用帕斯捷尔纳克的话来证明自己的论点。

connective [kə'nɛktɪv]

【考法】 N-COUNT A connective is the same as a conjunction. 同conjunction，连接词

【例句】Don’t overuse a causal connective like “because”.

不要过多地使用像“because”这样表示原因的连接词。

runway ['rʌnˌwe]

【考法】 N-COUNT At an airport, the runway is the long strip of ground with a hard surface which an aeroplane takes off from or lands on. （飞机场的）跑道

【例句】The plane started taxiing down the runway.

飞机开始在跑道上滑行。

fleet [flit]

【考法】 N-COUNT A fleet is a group of ships organized to do something together, for example to fight battles or to catch fish. 船队；舰队

【例句】The damage inflicted upon the British fleet was devastating.

英国舰队遭到了毁灭性的重创。

irritable ['ɪrɪtəbl]

【考法】 ADJ -GRADED If you are irritable, you are easily annoyed. 易怒的；急躁的

【例句】He had been waiting for over an hour and was beginning to feel irritable.

他已经等了一个多小时，开始变得急躁了。

cognition [kɑg'nɪʃn]

【考法】 N-UNCOUNT Cognition is the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things. 认识（过程）；认知

【例句】.processes of perception and cognition.

感觉和认知过程

galaxy ['ɡæləksi]

【考法1】N-COUNT A galaxy is an extremely large group of stars and planets that extends over many billions of light years. 星系

【例句1】Astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy.

天文学家们发现了一个遥远的星系。

【考法2】N-PROPER The Galaxy is the extremely large group of stars and planets to which the Earth and the Solar System belong. 银河；银河系

【例句2】The Galaxy consists of 100 billion stars.

银河系由1000亿颗恒星组成。

standpoint ['stændˌpɔɪnt]

【考法】 N-COUNT From a particular standpoint means looking at an event, situation, or idea in a particular way. 角度；立场；立足点

【例句】He believes that from a military standpoint, the situation is under control.

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