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□ altimeter
□ ramshackle
【考法】 N-UNCOUNT Effrontery is behavior that is bold, rude, or disrespectful. 厚颜无耻；放肆；粗鲁
【例句】 One could only gasp at the sheer effrontery of the man.
那人十足的厚颜无耻让人们吃惊得无话可说。
【考法】 N-COUNT An ovation is a large amount of applause from an audience for a particular performer or speaker. 热烈欢迎；热烈鼓掌
【例句】 They had lost by a wide margin, but their supporters gave them a defiant, loyal ovation .
他们以较大的差距败北，但支持者们还是给予了热烈的掌声，以示对对手的不服和对他们的忠诚。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If someone or something is freaky, they are very unusual in some way. 极不寻常的； 很怪异的
【例句】 This guy bore a really freaky resemblance to Jones.
这个家伙和琼斯长得惊人地相似。
【考法】 N-COUNT The saloon or saloon bar in a pub or hotel is a comfortable bar where the drinks are more expensive than in the other bars. 酒吧雅座；（宾馆的）高级酒廊
【例句】 Of course, saloon proprietors simply incorporated the expense of this “free”lunch into the price of the beverages they sold.
当然，酒吧间的经营者只是把这部分“免费的”午餐的花费算到了他们出售的饮料的价格里面。
【考法】 N-SING A gloss is a bright shine on the surface of something. 光泽；色泽；光亮
【例句】 Rain produced a black gloss on the asphalt.
雨后的柏油路面显得黑亮黑亮的。
【考法】 V-ERG If you capsize a boat or if it capsizes, it turns upside down in the water. （使）（船）倾覆；（使）（船）翻沉
【例句】 The sea got very rough and the boat capsized .
海上波涛汹涌，小船翻了。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED Someone who is partisan strongly supports a particular person or cause, often without thinking carefully about the matter. （对人或事业）盲目支持的，偏袒的，有倾向性的
【例句】 He is clearly too partisan to be a referee.
他倾向性过于明显，当不了裁判。
【考法】 N-COUNT If something has overtones of a particular thing or quality, it suggests that thing or quality but does not openly express it. 弦外之音；言外之意；暗示
【例句】 The strike has taken on overtones of a civil rights campaign.
罢工带上了民权运动的意味。
【考法】 V-RECIP If you say that someone is wrangling with someone over a question or issue, you mean that they have been arguing angrily for quite a long time aboutit. （长时间）吵架，争吵，争论
【例句】 The two sides have spent most of their time wrangling over procedural problems.
双方大部分时间都在围绕程序问题争论不休。
【考法】 ADJ If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. 比喻的；借喻的
【例句】 an event that will change your route—in both the literal and figurative sense
一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件
【考法】 N-COUNT An altimeter is an instrument in an aircraft that shows the height of the aircraft above the ground. 测高仪；高程计；高度计
【例句】 And that is where the altimeter stayed for most of the 14-hour journey.
在14个小时旅途中的大部分时间里高度计都停留在那个位置。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED A ramshackle building is badly made or in bad condition, and looks as if it is likely to fall down. （建筑）破烂不堪的，摇摇欲坠的
【例句】 They entered the shop, which was a curious ramshackle building.
他们进了商店，那是幢年久失修的奇特建筑。