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□ feline
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□ exonerate
□ patina
□ minnow
□ plutocracy
□ hallucination
□ avuncular
□ inept
□ swivel
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If you describe someone as languid, you mean that they show little energy or interest and are very slow and casual in their movements. 无精打采的；懒洋洋的；倦怠的
【例句】 To his delight a familiar, tall, languid figure lowered itself down the steps of a club.
看到一个熟悉的高大身影沿着俱乐部的台阶无精打采地走下来，他高兴极了。
【考法】 N-COUNT A feline is an animal that belongs to the cat family. 猫；猫科动物
【例句】 The 14lb feline is so fat that she can hardly walk.
这只14磅的猫这么胖，几乎连路都走不动了。
【考法】 VERB If you lambaste someone, you criticize them severely, usually in public. （公开地）严厉斥责
【例句】 And you can be sure that when the referee cheats our boys, I'll be ready to lambaste him.
而且你可以放心，如果裁判对孩子们不公平，我会公开斥责他。
【考法】 N-COUNT If you describe an unpleasant or confused situation as a morass, you mean that it seems impossible to escape from or resolve, because it has become so serious or so complicated. 复杂混乱的情 况；乱糟糟的一堆；困境
【例句】 I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.
我试图从绝望的困境中走出来。
【考法】 VERB If a court, report, or person in authority exonerates someone, they officially say or show that that person is not responsible for something wrong or unpleasant that has happened. 使免于罪责；证明…… 无罪；宣布……无罪
【例句】 The official report basically exonerated everyone.
官方报道基本上宣布所有人无罪。
【考法】 N-SING A patina is a thin layer of something that has formed on the surface of something. （物体表面形 成的）薄层
【例句】 He allowed a fine patina of old coffee to develop around the inside of the mug.
他任由马克杯里积上一层薄薄的咖啡垢。
【考法】 N-COUNT A minnow is a very small fish that lives in lakes and rivers. 鲦鱼，米诺鱼（一种极小的淡水鱼）
【例句】 Throw out a minnow to catch a whale.
弃小引大。
【考法】 N-COUNT A plutocracy is a country which is ruled by its wealthiest people, or a class of wealthy people who rule a country. 富豪（或财阀）统治的国家；富豪（或财阀）统治阶级
【例句】 Financial, not moral, considerations will prevail in a plutocracy .
在富豪当政的国家里，人们见利忘义。
【考法】 N-VAR A hallucination is the experience of seeing something that is not really there because you are ill or have taken a drug. （因生病或吸毒所致的）幻觉（体验）
【例句】 The drug induces hallucinations at high doses.
大剂量地服用该药会致幻。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED An avuncular man or a man with avuncular behaviour is friendly and helpful towards someone younger. 慈祥的；照顾年轻人的；有长者风范的
【例句】 He began to talk in his most gentle and avuncular manner.
他开始讲话了，态度极其和蔼而慈祥。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If you say that someone is inept, you are criticizing them because they do something with a complete lack of skill. 无能的；笨拙的
【例句】 He was inept and lacked the intelligence to govern.
他没有什么能力，缺乏管理才干。
【考法】 V-ERG If something swivels or if you swivel it, it turns around a central point so that it is facing in a different direction. （使）旋转；（使）转动
【例句】 She swivelled her chair round and stared out across the back lawn.
她把椅子转过来，向外凝视着屋后的草坪。