高级英语第一册Unit 1 (文章结构+课文讲解+课文翻译+课后练习+(3)

17. bargain: to talk about the condition of a sale, agreement, or contract

18. dizzy: feeling as if everything were turning round , mentally confused

If you suffer from anaemia, you often feel dizzy.

Every night, when my head touches the pillows, I felt a wave of

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dizziness.

The two-day journey on the bus makes me dizzy.

19. penetrate: to enter, pass, cut, or force a way into or through. The word suggests force, a compelling power to make entrance and also resistance in the medium.

The bullet can penetrate a wall.

The scud missile can penetrate a concrete works of 1 metre thick. Rainwater has penetrated through the roof of my house.

20. fade: to lose strength, colour, freshness, etc.

fade away: go slowly out of hearing, gradually disappearing

The farther you push / force your way into the bazaar, the lower and softer the noise becomes until finally it disappears. Then you arrive at the cloth market where the sound is hardly audible.

Colour cloth often fades when it is washed.

The light faded as the sun went down.

The sound of the footsteps faded away.

The noise of the airplane faded away.

21. mute:

adj.

a. silent, without speech

The boy has been mute since birth.

b. not pronounced:

The word "debt" contains a mute letter.

noun:

a. a person who cannot speak

The boy was born a deaf mute.( has healthy speech organs but never has heard speech sounds, can be trained to speak)

{cf: He is deaf and dumb (unable to speak).}

b. an object that makes a musical instrument give softer sound when placed against the strings or in the stream of air

verb: to reduce the sound of, to make a sound softer than usual to mute a musical instrument

Here in the text the word "muted" is used to suggest the compelling circumstances, forcing you to lower your sound.

22. beaten: (of a path, track, etc.) that is given shape by the feet of those who pass along it, suggesting ancientness, timelessness. The path becomes flat due to the treading of countless people through thousands of years.

We followed a well-beaten path through the forest.

23. deaden: to cause to lose strength, force, feeling, and brightness

to deaden the pain

Two of these pills will deaden the ache.

24. measured: steady, careful, slow, suggesting lack of

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speed, paying attention to what to say

25. overwhelm: overcome, control completely and usu. suddenly

The enemy were overwhelmed by superior forces.

Sorrow overwhelmed the family.

She was overwhelmed with grief

They won an overwhelming victory / majority.

26. sepulchral: related to grave, gloomy, dismal

sepulchre / er : old and bibl. use, a burial place; a tomb, esp. one cut in rock or built of stone

27. follow suit: to do the same as one else has, to play / to deal the cards of the same suits (in poker, there two red suits, and two black suits. They are hearts, diamonds, spades, clubs, jokers, aces, kings, queens and jacks (knaves).

When the others went swimming, I followed suit.

He went to bed and I followed suit after a few minutes.

28. peculiarity: a distinguishing characteristic, special feature, suggesting difference from normal or usual, strangeness. One of his peculiarities is that his two eyes are not the same colour.

The large fantail is a peculiarity of the peacock.

The peculiarity of her behaviour puzzled everyone.

29. deal in: sell and buy, trade in

This merchant deals in silk goods.

Most foreign trading companies in West Africa deal in rubber, cocoa and vegetable oils.

30. scatter: to cause (a group) to separate widely, to spread widely in all directions as if by throwing

The frightened people scattered about in all directions.

One of the special features / characteristics of the M.E. bazaar is that shopkeepers in the same trade always gather together in the same place to do their business.

31. knit: to make things to wear by uniting threads into a kind of close network. Here, to unite or join closely

32. guild / gild: an association for businessmen or skilled workers who joined together in former times to help one another and to make rules for training new members

33. persecution: cruel treatment

persecute: to treat cruelly, cause to suffer, esp. for religious or political beliefs

The first immigrants came to American mainly because they wanted to avoid religious persecution / after being persecuted for their religious beliefs.

be persecuted by sb. for sth.

bloody / terrible /relentless persecution

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suffer from / be subjected to political / religious persecution

34. line: form rows along

35. trestle: wooden beam fixed at each end to a pair of spreading legs, used, usu. in pairs, as a removable support of a table or other flat surface.

36. order of the day: the characteristic or dominant feather or activity, the prevailing state of things

If sth. is the order of the day, it is very common among a particular group of people

Confusion became the order of the day in the Iraqi headquarters due to the electronic interference from the Allied forces. Learning from Lei Feng and Jiao Yulu has become the order of the day recently.

Jeans and mini-skirts are no longer the order of the day now.

During that period, the Gulf War became the order of the day.

37. veil: covering of fine net or other material to protect or hide a woman's face

38. leisure: time free from work, having plenty of free time, not in a hurry to do sth.

39. pace: rate or speed in walking, marching, running or developing

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