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□ penurious
□ minutia
□ buoy
□ prehensile
□ temporal
□ hippopotamus
□ picky
□ feint
□ invalid
□ proscribe
□ stance
【考法】 N-COUNT If you say that someone is a miser, you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and to spend as little as possible. 吝啬鬼；守财奴
【例句】 I'm married to a miser .
我嫁给了一个守财奴。
【考法】 ADJ niggardly with money 吝啬的
【例句】 But the price was right for penurious law students: seventy-five dollars a month.
但是房子的租金对于不大方的法学院大学生还是很合适的：每个月75美元。
【考法】 N-PLURAL a minute or minor detail —usually used in plural. 细节；琐事
【例句】 Sometimes we get mired down with minutia and lose sight of what we really need to be doing.
有时候琐事会让我们陷入困境、忘了真正需要去做的事。
【考法】 VERB If someone in a difficult situation is buoyed by something, it makes them feel more cheerful and optimistic. 鼓舞；鼓励；使振奋
【例句】 In May they danced in the streets, buoyed by their victory.
5月里，他们在大街上载歌载舞，欢庆胜利。
【考法】 ADJ adapted for grasping, esp by wrapping around a support （尤指通过缠绕住一支撑物）适于抓住的
【例句】 Long and slightly prehensile , but more like the tail of a panther than a monkey.
尾巴是细长而且可缠绕的，但比起猴子那更像是猎豹的尾巴。
【考法】 ADJ Temporal powers or matters relate to ordinary institutions and activities rather than to religious or spiritual ones. 世俗的；俗家的；尘世的
【例句】 their spiritual and temporal leader
他们的精神领袖兼世俗领导人
【考法】 N-COUNT A hippopotamus is a very large African animal with short legs and thick, hairless skin.Hippopotamuses live in and near rivers. 河马
【例句】 What's normal for a hippopotamus ?
对河马来讲怎样算正常？
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED Someone who is picky is difficult to please and only likes a small range of things. 爱挑 剔的；过分讲究的
【例句】 Some people are very picky about who they choose to share their lives with.
有些人对选择什么样的人共度一生非常挑剔。
【考法】 VERB In sport or military conflict, if someone feints, they make a brief movement in a different direction from the one they intend to follow, as a way of confusing or deceiving their opponent. 虚击； 佯攻；做假动作
【例句】 I feinted to the left, then to the right.
我先佯作向左，然后再向右。
【考法】 ADJ If an action, procedure, or document is invalid, it cannot be accepted, because it breaks the law or some official rule. 无效的；作废的
【例句】 The trial was stopped and the results declared invalid .
审判被中止，判决结果被宣布无效。
【考法】 VERB If something is proscribed by people in authority, the existence or the use of that thing is forbidden. 禁止；排斥
【例句】 In some cultures surgery is proscribed .
在一些文化里，外科手术是被禁止的。
【考法】 N-COUNT Your stance on a particular matter is your attitude to it. 态度；立场
【例句】 The Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle.
国会已同意重新考虑其对武装斗争的态度。