□ homage
□ rickety
□ conciliate
□ impugn
□ heathen
□ famish
□ heckle
□ surreptitious
□ vicarious
□ mousy
□ phoenix
□ ranger
【考法】 N-UNCOUNT Homage is respect shown towards someone or something you admire, or to a person in authority. 尊敬;崇敬;敬意
【例句】 Palace has released two marvelous films that pay homage to our literary heritage.
皇宫影业公司发行了两部颂扬我们文学遗产的精彩影片。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED A rickety structure or piece of furniture is not very strong or well made, and seems likely to collapse or break. (结构、家具)摇摇晃晃的,摇摇欲坠的,不牢固的
【例句】 Mona climbed the rickety wooden stairway.
莫娜爬上了摇摇晃晃的木楼梯。
【考法】 VERB If you conciliate someone, you try to end a disagreement with them. 和解;调解;安抚
【例句】 His duty was to conciliate the people, not to provoke them.
他的职责是安抚那些人,而不是去激怒他们。
【考法】 VERB If you impugn something such as someone's motives or integrity, you imply that they are not entirely honest or honorable. 指责,非难,质疑(他人的动机、诚信等)
【例句】 The Secretary's letter questions my veracity and impugns my motives.
部长的来信怀疑我的诚实,质疑我的动机。
【考法】 ADJ Heathen means having no religion, or belonging to a religion that is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. 不信教的;异教徒的
【例句】 He preached the Gospel to the heathen locals from this spot.
他曾在这里向不信教的当地人宣讲《福音书》。
【考法】 VERB to be or make very hungry or weak 使挨饿
【例句】 The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
耶和华必向他们显可畏之威。因他必叫世上的诸神瘦弱,诸海岛的居民各自在自己的地方敬拜他。
【考法】 VERB If people in an audience heckle public speakers or performers, they interrupt them, for example by making rude remarks. 对……起哄;诘问
【例句】 They heckled him and interrupted his address with angry questions.
他们冲他起哄,以激愤的问题打断他的发言。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED A surreptitious action is done secretly. 秘密的;鬼鬼祟祟的;偷偷摸摸的
【例句】 He made a surreptitious entrance to the club through the little door in the brick wall.
他从砖墙的小门偷偷进入俱乐部。
【考法】 ADJ A vicarious pleasure or feeling is experienced by watching, listening to, or reading about other people doing something, rather than by doing it yourself. 从他人经验中获得的;间接感受到的
【例句】 She invents fantasy lives for her own vicarious pleasure.
她幻想过着各种奇妙的生活,从想入非非中获得乐趣。
【考法】 ADJ-GRADED If you describe someone as mousy, you mean that they are quiet and shy and that people do not notice them. 安静的;羞怯的;不引人注意的
【例句】 The inspector remembered her as a small, mousy woman, invariably worried.
检察官记得,她是一个矮小、羞怯、总是闷闷不乐的人。
【考法】 N-SING If you describe someone or something as a phoenix, you mean that they return again after seeming to disappear or be destroyed. 起死回生的人(或物)
【例句】 Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.
在经济废墟中可能孕育着经济复苏的苗头。
【考法】 N-COUNT A ranger is a person whose job is to look after a forest or large park. 护林员;公园看管人
【例句】 Bill Justice is a park ranger at the Carlsbad Caverns National Park.
比尔·贾斯蒂斯是卡尔斯巴德洞窟国家公园的管理员。