M6柯林斯词典U2.doc

M6 U2Collins Senior English-Chinese Dictionary柯林斯高级英汉双解词典M6U21. poetry /potri/1. N-UNCOUNTPoems, considered as a form of literature, are referred to as poetry. 诗歌例：.Russian poetry.俄罗斯诗歌。2. N-UNCOUNTYou can describe something very beautiful as poetry. 富有诗意的东西例：His music is purer poetry than a poem in words.他的音乐比诗文更具诗意。2. tick /tk/ ( ticks, ticking, ticked，to tick )1. V-I When a clock or watch ticks, it makes a regular series of short sounds as it works. (钟表) 嘀嗒作响例：A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.一个上了发条的时钟在厨房案台上不停地嘀嗒作响。PHRASAL VERB Tick away means the same as tick. 嘀嗒作响例：A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.一个落地式大钟在墙角嘀嗒作响。ticking N-UNCOUNT 嘀嗒声例：.the endless ticking of clocks.时钟没完没了的嘀嗒声。2. N-COUNT The tick of a clock or watch is the series of short sounds it makes when it is working, or one of those sounds. (钟表的) 嘀嗒声例：He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.他坐着倾听那个落地式大钟的嘀嗒声。3. N-COUNT A tick is a written mark like a V: . It is used to show that something is correct or has been selected or dealt with. 对勾5. V-T If you tick something that is written on a piece of paper, you put a tick next to it. 在旁打勾tick off1. PHRASAL VERB If you tick off items on a list, you write a tick or other mark next to them, in order to show that they have been dealt with. 在旁打勾; 在旁作记号2. PHRASAL VERB If you say that someone or something ticks you off, you mean that they annoy you. 使恼火INFORMAL例：I cant lay blame anywhere and that ticks me off.我不能把责任推卸到任何地方，这令我很恼火。3. rhyme /ram/ ( rhymes, rhyming, rhymed, to rhyme )1. V-RECIP If one word rhymes with another or if two words rhyme, they have a very similar sound. Words that rhyme with each other are often used in poems. (字、词) 押韵例：June always rhymes with moon in old love songs.June（六月）在古老的情歌中总是和moon（月亮）押韵。例：.the sort of people who give their children names that rhyme: Donnie, Ronnie, Connie.给孩子们起押韵名字（如多尼、罗尼、康尼）的那种人。2. V-I If a poem or song rhymes, the lines end with words that have very similar sounds. (诗、歌曲) 押韵例：In his efforts to make it rhyme, he seems to have chosen the first word that came into his head.为了努力使其押韵，他似乎选择了进到他脑袋里的第一个词。3. N-COUNT A rhyme is a word which rhymes with another word, or a set of lines which rhyme. 押韵词例：The one rhyme for passion is fashion.与passion押韵的词是fashion。4. N-COUNT A rhyme is a short poem which has rhyming words at the ends of its lines. 押韵短诗例：He was teaching Helen a little rhyme.他在教海伦一首短小的押韵诗。5. N-UNCOUNT Rhyme is the use of rhyming words as a technique in poetry. If something is written in rhyme, it is written as a poem in which the lines rhyme. (诗歌中的) 用韵; 押韵例：The plays are in rhyme.这些剧作是用韵文写成的。4. convey /knve/ ( conveys, conveying, conveyed )V-T To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone. 传达例：When I returned home, I tried to convey the wonder of this machine to my husband.回到家之后，我设法让我丈夫知道这台机器的神奇之处。例：In every one of her pictures she conveys a sense of immediacy.她的每一张画都有一种直观性。5. emotion /mon/ ( emotions )1. N-VAR An emotion is a feeling such as happiness, love, fear, anger, or hatred, which can be caused by the situation that you are in or the people you are with. 感情例：Happiness was an emotion that Jerry was having to relearn.幸福是一种杰瑞当时不得不再学习的感情。2. N-UNCOUNT Emotion is the part of a persons character that consists of their feelings, as opposed to their thoughts. (与思想相对的) 情感例：.the split between reason and emotion.理智与情感间的分离。6. nursery /nrsri/ ( nurseries )1. N-COUNT A nursery is a room in a family home in which the young children of the family sleep or play. 育儿室例：He has painted murals in his childrens nursery.他在他家的育儿室画上了壁画。2. N-COUNT A nursery is a place where children who are not old enough to go to school are cared for. 托儿所 also at/from/to N例：She puts her baby in this nursery and then goes back to work.她把孩子送到这家托儿所然后回去上班。3. N-VAR Nursery is a school for very young children. 幼儿园4. N-COUNT A nursery is a place where plants are grown in order to be sold. 苗圃例：The garden, developed over the past 35 years, includes a nursery.这个有35年历史的园子里有一个苗圃。7. nursery rhyme n. 童谣；儿歌例：You could use their favourite nursery rhyme to play a game together or settle down and sing along to their favourite television theme songs.您可以通过他们最喜爱的童谣来和他们一起玩游戏或一起坐下来和他们一起唱他们最喜爱的电视主题曲。8. concrete /kkrit/ ( concretes, concreting, concreted, to concrete )1. N-UNCOUNT Concrete is a substance used for building which is made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water. 混凝土例：The posts have to be set in concrete.这些柱子必须固定在混凝土中。例：We sat on the concrete floor.我们坐在混凝土地板上。2. V-T When you concrete something such as a path, you cover it with concrete. 给 (道路等) 浇混凝土例：He merely cleared and concreted the floors.他只是清理了地板并浇上了混凝土。3. ADJ You use concrete to indicate that something is definite and specific. 明确具体的例：I had no concrete evidence.我当时没有明确而具体的证据。例：There were no concrete proposals on the table.没有提交讨论的具体提议。4. ADJ A concrete object is a real, physical object. 实物的例：.using concrete objects to teach addition and subtraction.用实物教加减运算。5. ADJ A concrete noun is a noun that refers to a physical object rather than to a quality or idea. 具体的 (名词) ADJ n9. repetition /rptn/ ( repetitions )1. N-VAR If there is a repetition of an event, usually an undesirable event, it happens again. (尤指令人不快的事情) 重演例：Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last years confrontation.今天市政府已经采取了措施来防止去年的冲突重演。2. N-VAR Repetition means using the same words again. 重复的语句例：He could also have cut out much of the repetition and thus saved many pages.他本来也可以删掉很多重复的语句，省去很多页数。10. contradictory /kntrdktri/ADJ If two or more facts, ideas, or statements are contradictory, they state or imply that opposite things are true. (事实、观点、陈述等) 相互矛盾的例：Customs officials have made a series of contradictory statements about the equipment.海关官员们对于这种设备做出了一系列相互矛盾的陈述。11. hush /h/ ( hushes, hushing, hushed, to hush )1. CONVENTION You say Hush! to someone when you are asking or telling them to be quiet. (用于告诉别人保持安静) 嘘！例：Hush, my love, its all right.嘘，亲爱的，没事。2. V-T/V-I If you hush someone or if they hush, they stop speaking or making a noise. 使安静下来; 安静下来例：She tried to hush her noisy father.她试图让吵吵嚷嚷的父亲安静下来。3. N-SING You say there is a hush in a place when everything is quiet and peaceful, or suddenly becomes quiet. 安静; (突然的) 寂静 also no det例：A hush fell over the crowd and I knew something terrible had happened.人群突然一片肃静，我便知道一定发生了什么可怕的事情了。12. mockingbird mkbdn. 模仿鸟；嘲鸫属鸣禽；蓝嘲鸫（等于mocking thrush）例：But they argue that it is unrealistic to expect all children to read “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Pride and Prejudice” for fun.但是他们认为，想让所有的孩子以阅读杀死一只知更鸟，或者傲慢与偏见作为消遣是不可能的。13. diamond /damnd, da-/ ( diamonds )1. N-VAR A diamond is a hard, bright, precious stone which is clear and colorless. Diamonds are used in jewelry and for cutting very hard substances. 钻石例：.a pair of diamond earrings.一对钻石耳环。2. N-COUNT A diamond is a shape with four straight sides of equal length where the opposite angles are the same, but none of the angles is equal to 90: . 菱形例：.forming his hands into the shape of a diamond.用他的双手比划出一个菱形。3. N-UNCOUNT-COLL Diamonds is one of the four suits of cards in a pack of playing cards. Each card in the suit is marked with one or more red symbols in the shape of a diamond. 方块 (扑克牌中的4个花色之一)例：He drew the seven of diamonds.他抽了方块7。N-COUNT A diamond is a playing card of this suit. (扑克牌中的) 方块牌例：.win the ace of clubs and play a diamond.赢了梅花A，打出一张方块。14. brass /brs/1. N-UNCOUNT Brass is a yellow-colored metal made from copper and zinc. It is used especially for making ornaments and musical instruments. 黄铜例：The instrument is beautifully made in brass.这个乐器是用黄铜精致铸造成的。2. N-SING The brass is the section of an orchestra which consists of brass wind instruments such as trumpets and horns. 铜管乐器例：Consequently even this vast chorus was occasionally overwhelmed by the brass.结果连这个大合唱偶尔也被铜管乐所压倒。15. billy-goat 公山羊例：The billy goat who jumps onto the stage, is what acting-out is.这只雄山羊跳跃进入舞台，就是激情演出的内容。goat /got/ ( goats )N-COUNT A goat is a farm animal or a wild animal that is about the size of a sheep. Goats have horns, and hairs on their chin which resemble a beard. 山羊16. flexible /flksbl/1. ADJ A flexible object or material can be bent easily without breaking. 柔韧的例：.brushes with long, flexible bristles.毛长而柔韧的刷子。flexibility N-UNCOUNT 柔韧性例：The flexibility of the lens decreases with age; it is therefore common for our sight to worsen as we get older.眼球晶状体的柔韧性随着年龄的增长而降低；因此普遍的情况是随着我们年纪变老，我们的视力就会变差。2. ADJ Something or someone that is flexible is able to change easily and adapt to different conditions and circumstances as they occur. 灵活的例：.flexible working hours.弹性工作时间。flexibility N-UNCOUNT 灵活性例：The flexibility of distance learning would be particularly suited to busy managers.远程学习的灵活性尤其会适合忙碌的经理们。17. pattern /ptrn/ ( patterns )1. N-COUNT A pattern is the repeated or regular way in which something happens or is done. 模式例：All three attacks followed the same pattern.3次袭击都依照同一模式。2. N-COUNT A pattern is an arrangement of lines or shapes, especially a design in which the same shape is repeated at regular intervals over a surface. 图案例：.a golden robe embroidered with red and purple thread stitched into a pattern of flames.一件用红紫相间的线镶了火焰图案的边的金色长袍。3. N-COUNT A pattern is a diagram or shape that you can use as a guide when you are making something such as a model or a piece of clothing. 参照图形例：.cutting out a pattern for slacks.剪出一个便裤的纸样。例：Send for our free patterns to knit yourself.索取我们免费的参照图形以便自己织。18. squire skwa 过去式squired 过去分词squired 现在分词squiring n. 乡绅；侍从；大地主；地方法官vt. 随侍；护卫例：This first novel by Thomas Hardy was about the on-again, off-again relationship between a son of peasants and the daughter of a local squire in Dorsetshire, England.这是托马斯哈代写的第一部小说，讲述了英格兰多塞特郡一个农民的儿子和当地一位乡绅的女儿悲欢离合的故事。19. cottage /ktd/ ( cottages )N-COUNT; N-IN-NAMES A cottage is a small house, usually in the country. 村舍例：They used to have a cottage in N.W. Scotland.他们过去在苏格兰西北部有间村舍。20. coffin /kfn/ ( coffins )1. N-COUNT A coffin is a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated. 棺材2. PHRASE If you say that one thing is a nail in the coffin of another thing, you mean that it will help bring about its end or failure. 断送例：A fine would be the final nail in the coffin of the airline.一笔罚款将最终断送该航线。21. sparrow /spro / ( sparrows )N-COUNT A sparrow is a small brown bird that is very common in the United States. 麻雀例：With a flap of its wings the sparrow flew off.麻雀忒儿一声飞了。22. kitten /ktn/ ( kittens )N-COUNT A kitten is a very young cat. 小猫例：She nursed her kitten all evening.整个晚上她一直抱着她的小猫咪。23. take it easy 从容；不急；松懈例：Now, I have a different outlook on life: Take it easy and simplify.如今，我换了一种截然不同的生活态度：轻松些，简单些。例：Children need excitement and activity on holiday as much as adults need to take it easy.孩子们在假期里需要兴奋和活动，就如同成年人需要放松一样。24. run out of 用完例：They either run out of time before listing any actions, or list more actions than they will ever be able to implement.他们要么在列出所有行动之前用完时间，要么列出多于能够实现的行动。25. cinquain skenn. 五行诗；五个的一组例：There are traditional poem types such as haiku , cinquain, and limerick .有传统诗歌类型， 如俳句、 五行诗和五行打油诗。26. be made up of 由所组成例：On the world stage 60 per cent think China is set to become the worlds leading superpower, while a third of us think Great Britain will be made up of four self-governed countries.在世界的舞台上60%认为中国势将成为世界领先的超级大国,而三分之一的美国人认为英国将由四个独立国家组成。27. tease /tiz/ ( teases, teasing, teased，to tease )1. V-T To tease someone means to laugh at them or make jokes about them in order to embarrass, annoy, or upset them. 嘲笑; 取笑例：He told her how the boys had set on him, teasing him.他告诉她那些男孩曾是如何攻击他、取笑他的。例：He teased me mercilessly about going Hollywood.他无情地取笑我想去好莱坞。N-COUNT Tease is also a noun. 嘲笑; 取笑例：Calling her by her real name had always been one of his teases.称呼她的真名曾是他一贯的取笑方式之一。2. N-COUNT If you refer to someone as a tease, you mean that they like laughing at people or making jokes about them. 爱嘲笑他人者; 爱取笑他人者例：My brothers such a tease.我弟弟就爱取笑他人。3. V-T If someone teases their hair, they separate the individual strands from each other, for example by combing it. 梳理例：Her hair was teased until it stood out and around her face.她的头发被梳得直垂在脸旁。例：.two women in party dresses and teased hair.两位身着礼服、头发梳理整齐的妇女。28. salty /slti/ ( saltier, saltiest )ADJ Something that is salty contains salt or tastes of salt. 含盐的; 咸的例：.salty foods such as ham and bacon.例如火腿和熏肉这样的咸味食品。29. droop /drup/ ( droops, drooping, drooped, to droop )V-I If something droops, it hangs or leans downward with no strength or firmness. 下垂例：Crooks eyelids drooped and he yawned.克鲁克的眼睑垂了下来，打起了呵欠。N-SING Droop is also a noun. 下垂例：.the droop of his shoulders.他肩膀的耷拉像。30. dread /drd/ ( dreads, dreading, dreaded, to dread )1. V-T If you dread something which may happen, you feel very anxious and unhappy about it because you think it will be unpleasant or upsetting. 害怕; 担忧例：Im dreading Christmas this year.我害怕今年的圣诞节。例：I dreaded coming back, to be honest.老实说，我很害怕回来。2. N-UNCOUNT Dread is a feeling of great anxiety and fear about something that may happen. 忧虑; 恐惧例：She thought with dread of the cold winters to come.想到寒冬即将到来，她就感到恐惧。3. PHRASE If you say that you dread to think what might happen, you mean that you are anxious about it because it is likely to be very unpleasant. 不敢想例：I dread to think what will happen in the case of a major emergency.我不敢想像万一出现重大紧急情况会怎么样。dreaded /drdd/1. ADJ Dreaded means terrible and greatly feared. 可怕的; 令人畏惧的 ADJ n例：No one knew how to treat this dreaded disease.没人知道如何治疗这种可怕的疾病。2. ADJ You can use the dreaded to describe something that you, or a particular group of people, find annoying, inconvenient, or undesirable. 讨厌的; 令人不快的INFORMAL ADJ n例：Shes a victim of the dreaded hay fever.她患了讨厌的花粉热。31. endless endlsadj. 无止境的；连续的；环状的；漫无目的的例：On all sides of us, endless pressure.我们的每一边，都是无尽的压力。例：Children seem to be endued with endless vitality.儿童们仿佛赋有无限活力。例：Thinking of you, dear, with endless love and affection on your birthday.想念你，亲爱的，以无限的爱和真情，祝你生日快乐。32. haiku hakun. 俳句；三行俳句诗例：Haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry.俳句是日本的一种诗歌。例：Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!小屋，小屋，小屋。 第一句是俳句。33. syllable /slbl/ ( syllables )N-COUNT A syllable is a part of a word that contains a single vowel sound and that is pronounced as a unit. So, for example, book has one syllable, and reading has two syllables. 音节例：We children called her Oma, accenting both syllables.我们这些孩子叫她Oma，两个音节都重读。34. minimum /mnmm/1. ADJ You use minimum to describe an amount which is the smallest that is possible, allowed, or required. 最小量的; 最低限度的 ADJ n例：He was only five feet nine, the minimum height for a policeman.他只有5.9英尺高，这是警察身高要求的底线。N-SING Minimum is also a noun. 最小量; 最低限度例：This will take a minimum of one hour.这最少要用一个小时。2. ADJ You use minimum to state how small an amount is. 很小的 ADJ n例：The basic needs of life are available with minimum effort.生活的基本需求花很小的力气就能得到。N-SING Minimum is also a noun. 很小量例：With a minimum of fuss, she produced the grandson he had so desperately wished for.她不声不响地生出了他翘首以待的孙子。3. ADV If you say that something is a particular amount minimum, you mean that this is the smallest amount it should be or could possibly be, although a larger amount is acceptable or very possible. 至少 amount ADV例：Youre talking over a thousand dollars minimum for one course.你们在讨论一门课程至少一千美元。35. translationtranslate /trnzlet/ ( translates, translating, translated, to translate )1. V-T/V-I If something said or written is translated from one language into another, it is said or written again in the second language. 翻译例：Only a small number of Kadares books have been translated into English.卡达莱的书只有一小部分被翻译成了英文。例：The Spanish word acequia is translated as irrigation ditch.西班牙语中的“acequia”一词被译为“灌溉渠”。例：The girls waited for Mr. Esch to translate.这些女孩们等着埃施先生来翻译。translation N-UNCOUNT 翻译例：The papers have been sent to Saudi Arabia for translation.这些文件已被送往沙特阿拉伯进行翻译。2. V-I If a name, a word, or an expression translates as something in a different language, that is what it means in that language. (翻译过来) 意思是例：His familys Cantonese nickname for him translates as Never Sits Still.他家人为他起的广东话绰号翻译过来意思是“永远坐不住”。3. V-T/V-I If one thing translates or is translated into another, the second happens or is done as a result of the first. 转变例：Reforming the stagnant economy requires harsh measures that would translate into job losses.改革停滞的经济需要严厉措施，而这将造成失业。36. branch /brnt/ ( branches, branching, branched, to branch )1. N-COUNT The branches of a tree are the parts that grow out from its trunk and have leaves, flowers, or fruit growing on them. 树枝例：.the upper branches of a row of pines.一排松树的上部枝条。2. N-COUNT A branch of a business or other organization is one of the offices, stores, or groups which belong to it and which are located in different places. (企业或机构的) 分支例：The local branch of Bank of America is handling the accounts.美国银行的本地分行正在处理这些账目。3. N-COUNT A branch of an organization such as the government or the police force is a department that has a particular function. 分支部门例：Senate employees could take their employment grievances to another branch of government.参议院的雇员可以将他们对工作的不满向另一政府分支部门申诉。例：He had a fascination for submarines and joined this branch of the ser