Unit 9

□ deport

□ tribunal

□ shopworn

□ emaciate

□ redolent

□ chaff

□ puritan

□ crutch

□ debauch

□ naysay

□ declaim

□ broker

deport [dɪ'pɔrt]

【考法】 VERB If a government deports someone, usually someone who is not a citizen of that country, it sends them out of the country because they have committed a crime or because it believes they do not have the right to be there. 驱逐（非本国居民）出境

【例句】 a government decision earlier this month to deport all illegal immigrants

本月早些时候出台的将所有非法移民驱逐出境的政府决议

tribunal [traɪ'bjunəl, trɪ-]

【考法】 N-COUNT-COLL A tribunal is a special court or committee that is appointed to deal with particular problems. （审理特定案件的）特别法庭，审理委员会

【例句】 His case comes before an industrial tribunal in March.

他的讼案将于3月在劳资法庭受审。

shopworn ['ʃɑpwɔrn]

【考法】 ADJ same as shopsoiled, worn, faded, tarnished, etc, from being displayed in a shop or store （在商店中） 陈列久了的

【例句】 John C, with its sliced tennis balls on the ends of chair and desk legs, is shopworn but pristine.

约翰·C设施陈旧（学校的网球被学生放在椅子面和课桌腿上削成薄片），但是很纯朴。

emaciate [ɪ'meʃiˌet]

【考法】 VERB to become or cause to become abnormally thin 使消瘦

【例句】 To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate .

使消瘦，通常通过饥饿使变瘦；使消瘦。

redolent ['rɛdlənt]

【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If something is redolent of something else, it has features that make you think of that other thing. 使人想起……的；使人联想到……的

【例句】 percussion instruments, redolent of Far Eastern cultures

使人联想起远东文化的打击乐器

chaff [tʃæf]

【考法】 N If you separate the wheat from the chaff or sort the wheat from the chaff, you decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which are not. 谷壳

【例句】 It isn't always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff .

分清良莠并不总是很容易。

puritan ['pjʊrɪtən]

【考法】 N-COUNT You describe someone as a puritan when they live according to strict moral or religious principles, especially when they disapprove of physical pleasures. 道德（或宗教）上极拘谨的人；禁 欲者；苦行者

【例句】 Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan .

贝科夫已经忘记了马利宁是个清教徒式的人物。

crutch [krʌtʃ]

【考法】 N-SING If you refer to someone or something as a crutch, you mean that they give you help or support. 依靠；依赖

【例句】 The calculator is a tool, not a crutch ; yet it is increasingly being used as a crutch by many children.

计算器是工具，不是拐杖，可是现在很多孩子越来越依赖它。

debauch [dɪ'bɔtʃ]

【考法】 VEBR to lead into a life of depraved self-indulgence 使堕落放纵

【例句】 No one should have the power to debauch the currency and gut the economy as they do.

不论谁都没有权力像他们那样稀释货币，侵蚀我们的经济。

naysay ['neˌse]

【考法】 VEBR refuse, negative 拒绝；否认

【例句】 They will naysay any policy that includes the use of nuclear weapons.

他们将反对任何涉及使用核武器的政策。

declaim [dɪ'klem]

【考法】 VERB If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre. 慷慨陈词；高声朗诵

【例句】 He raised his right fist and declaimed : “Liar and cheat!”

他举起右拳高喊：“骗子，骗子！”

broker ['broʊkə(r)]

【考法】 VERB If a country or government brokers an agreement, a ceasefire, or a round of talks, they try to negotiate or arrange it. （国家或政府作为中间人）协调，安排

【例句】 The United Nations brokered a peace in Mogadishu at the end of March.

3月末，联合国出面在摩加迪沙进行了和平调解。 LaR8kAYxiQBTMcaTzF9fTb4fIeV4pXPZ1+rfam2e74JLdk0gwjhBHHkVi5fVn0lc