柯林斯词典版—人教版高中英语选修7U3词汇表.doc

人教版高中英语选修七UNIT 3柯林斯高级英汉双解词典M7 Unit31、 snorkel /snkl/ vi. 戴潜水通气管潜泳n.（潜水艇或潜水者的）通气管(snorkelling, snorkelled, snorkels) 1. N-COUNT A snorkel is a tube through which a person swimming just under the surface of the sea can breathe. (潜水者用的) 呼吸管2. V-I When someone snorkels, they swim under water using a snorkel. 使用呼吸管潜泳例： Swim off the side of the ship and snorkel in some of the clearest waters imaginable. 游离小船边，用呼吸管潜游到可以想像得到的一些最清澈的水域。2、 aquarium /kwrm/ n. 水族馆；水族箱；养鱼缸(aquaria /kwr/ ) 1、N-COUNT An aquarium is a building, often in a zoo, where fish and underwater animals are kept. 水族馆2、N-COUNT An aquarium is a glass tank filled with water, in which people keep fish. 鱼缸3、anecdote /nkdt/ n. 轶事；奇闻(anecdotes)N-VAR An anecdote is a short, amusing account of something that has happened. 趣闻轶事例： Pete was telling them an anecdote about their mother. 皮特正告诉他们一个关于他们母亲的趣闻轶事。4、Clancy n. 克兰西（男名）5、baleen /blin/ n. 鲸须 N whalebone 鲸骨6、baleen whale 须鲸7、annual /njl/ adj. 每年的；按年度计算的n.年刊；年鉴(annuals) 1、ADJ Annual events happen once every year. 每年一次的ADJ n例： The issues will be voted on at the companys annual meeting on April 21 in Wilmington. 这些问题将在该公司4月21日在威尔明顿的年会上投票表决。 2、annually ADV每年一次地ADV with v例： Companies report to their shareholders annually. 各公司每年向其股东们汇报一次。 3、ADJ Annual quantities or rates relate to a period of one year. 年度的ADJ n例： The electronic and printing unit has annual sales of about $80 million. 电子与印刷部有约八千万美元的年度销售额。4、annually ADV年度地例： El Salvador produces 100,000 tons of refined copper annually. 萨尔瓦多一年生产10万吨精炼铜。5、N-COUNT An annual is a book or magazine that is published once a year. 年鉴; 年刊例： I looked for Wymans picture in my high-school annual. 我在我的中学年鉴里找过怀曼的照片。 6、N-COUNT An annual is a plant that grows and dies within one year. 一年生植物例： Maybe this year Ill sow brilliant annuals everywhere. 也许今年我会到处种上鲜艳的一年生植物。8、migration n. 迁徙；迁居；移居9、witness /wtns/ vt. 当场见到；目击 n.目击者；证人；证据(witnessing, witnessed, witnesses) 1、N-COUNT A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it. 目击者例： Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster. 这起坠机事故的目击者说, 在灾难发生之前他们看到了爆炸。2、V-T If you witness something, you see it happen. 目击例： Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police. 任何目睹了那场攻击的人都应该报警。 3、N-COUNT A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event. 证人例： In the next three or four days, eleven witnesses will be called to testify. 在随后的三四天里，11名证人将传唤来作证。4、N-COUNT A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature. 连署人例： The codicil must first be signed and dated by you in the presence of two witnesses. 该遗嘱附件必须首先由你当着两个连署人的面签名并写上日期。 5、V-T If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature. 连署例： Ask a friend, (not your spouse), to witness your signature. 请一位朋友（不可以是你的配偶），来连署你的签名。 6、V-T If you say that a place, period of time, or person witnessed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive. 见证例： India has witnessed many political changes in recent years. 印度近些年见证了许多政治变革。10、accommodation /kmden/ n. 住所；住宿(accommodations)1、N-UNCOUNT Accommodation is buildings or rooms where people live or stay. 住所英国英语also N in pl例： The government will provide temporary accommodation for up to three thousand homeless people. 政府将为多达三千无家可归的人提供临时住所。 2、N-UNCOUNT Accommodation is space in buildings or vehicles that is available for certain things, people, or activities. (楼内或车内等) 专用空间正式例： Their offices are housed in rented accommodation in a modernized wing of the Mathematics Institute. 他们的办公室坐落在数学研究所的现代化侧楼的租赁楼层中。11、shore /n. 岸；海滨(shores)1、N-COUNT The shores or the shore of a sea, lake, or wide river is the land along the edge of it. Someone who is on shore is on the land rather than on a ship. 岸also prep N例： They walked down to the shore. 他们往下走到了岸边。例： .elephants living on the shores of Lake Kariba. 生活在卡里巴湖滨的大象。. 2、N a prop, post, or beam used to support a wall, building, ship in dry dock, etc 支柱3、V to move or drag (a boat) onto a shore 把(船)拖上海岸 4、V to prop or make safe with or as if with a shore 用支柱撑住; 使稳住12、offshore /f/adv.&adj. 近海（的）；离岸（的）. 1、ADJ Offshore means situated or happening in the sea, near to the coast. 海上的; 近海的ADJ n例： .the offshore oil industry. 近海石油业。 2、ADV Offshore is also an adverb. 海上地; 近海地例： One day a larger ship anchored offshore. 一天，一艘更大的船在近海抛锚。 3、ADJ Offshore investments or companies are located in a place, usually an island, which has fewer tax regulations than most other countries. (公司) 设在海外的 (尤指设在岛上，有较少税制的)商业ADJ n例： The island offers a wide range of offshore banking facilities. 这座岛提供广泛的海外银行业务。13、opposite /pzt/ prep. 在对面adj. 相对的；相反的(opposites)1、PREP If one thing is opposite another, it is on the other side of a space from it. 在对面例： Jennie had sat opposite her at breakfast. 吃早餐时，珍妮已坐在她的对面。2、ADV Opposite is also an adverb. 在对面地例： He looked up at the buildings opposite, but could see no open window. 他抬头看了看对面那些楼，但看不见一扇开着的窗户。 3、ADJ The opposite side or part of something is the side or part that is furthest away from you. 对面的ADJ n例： .the opposite corner of the room. 房间里的另一个对角4、ADJ Opposite is used to describe things of the same kind which are completely different in a particular way. For example, north and south are opposite directions, and winning and losing are opposite results in a game. 截然相反的例： All the cars driving in the opposite direction had their headlights on. 所有迎面开来的车都开着前灯。. 5、N-COUNT Theoppositeof someone or something is the person or thing that is most different from them. 正好相反的人或事物例： Ritter was a very complex man but Marius was the opposite, a simple farmer. 里特是个非常复杂的人，而马里厄斯则恰恰相反，是个单纯的农民。例： Well, whatever he says you can bet hes thinking the opposite. 哦，无论他说什么，你都能肯定他想的是另外一套。14、yell /jl/ vi. 大叫；呼喊n.叫声；喊声(yelling, yelled, yells)1、V-T/V-I If you yell, you shout loudly, usually because you are excited, angry, or in pain. (因兴奋、生气或痛苦) 大声叫喊例： Eva! he yelled. “伊娃！”他大声叫道。例： Im sorry I yelled at you last night. 很抱歉我昨晚对你大喊大叫了。2、PHRASAL VERB Yell out means the same as . 大声叫例： Are you coming or not? they yelled out after him. “你来还是不来？”他们在他身后大声叫喊。3、N-COUNT A yell is a loud shout given by someone who is afraid or in pain. (恐惧或痛苦中的人发出的) 大声叫喊例： Something brushed past Bobs face and he let out a yell. 什么东西擦过了鲍勃的脸，他发出了一声大叫。15、pause /pz/ vi. & n. 暂停；中止(pausing, paused, pauses) 1、V-I If you pause while you are doing something, you stop for a short period and then continue. 停顿例： Its rather embarrassing, he began, and paused. “这很让人尴尬，” 他开始说道，又停顿了片刻。例： He talked for two hours without pausing for breath. 他谈了两个小时，没有停下来喘口气。2、N-COUNT A pause is a short period when you stop doing something before continuing. 停顿例： After a pause Al said sharply: Im sorry if Ive upset you. 停了一下之后艾尔突然说：“如果我让你不安了，我很抱歉。”16、oar /n. 桨；橹(oars)N-COUNT Oars are long poles with a wide, flat blade at one end which are used for rowing a boat. 桨17、telescope /tlskp/ n. 望远镜(telescopes)N-COUNT A telescope is a long instrument shaped like a tube. It has lenses inside it that make distant things seem larger and nearer when you look through it. 望远镜例： Its hoped that the telescope will enable scientists to see deeper into the universe than ever before. 希望该望远镜能让科学家们比以往更深入地观察宇宙。18、teamwork /timwk/ n. 协作；配合N-UNCOUNT Teamwork is the ability a group of people have to work well together. 团队协作能力例： Todays complex buildings require close teamwork between the architect and the builders. 当今复杂的建筑物需要建筑师和建筑工人的密切协作19、blow-holen. （鲸鱼的）鼻孔；（隧道的）通风口20、dive /dav/ vi. & n. 跳水（的动作）；潜水（的动作）；俯冲(diving, dove, dived, dives) 1、V-I If you dive into some water, you jump in head first with your arms held straight above your head. 跳水例： He tried to escape by diving into a river. 他企图跳入河中逃走。例： She was standing by a pool, about to dive in. 她正站在池边，准备跳进去。2、N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 跳水例： Pat had earlier made a dive of 80 feet from the Chasm Bridge. 早些时，帕特曾从卡泽姆大桥进行过80英尺高的跳水。. 3、V-I If you dive, you go under the surface of the sea or a lake, using special breathing equipment. 潜水例： Bezanik is diving to collect marine organisms. 贝赞尼克正在潜水采集海洋生物。 4、N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 潜水例： This sighting occurred during my dive to a sunken wreck off Sardinia. 这次亲眼所见发生在我向撒丁岛外一艘沉船潜水的期间。 5、V-I When birds and animals dive, they go quickly downward, head first, through the air or through water. (鸟等动物) 俯冲例： .a pelican which had just dived for a fish. 一只刚刚下潜捕鱼的鹈鹕。 6、V-I If you dive in a particular direction or into a particular place, you jump or move there quickly. 跃向; 冲向例： They dived into a taxi. 他们冲进了出租车。7、N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 冲; 扑例： He made a sudden dive for Uncle Jims legs to try to trip him up. 他猛地扑向吉姆大叔的双腿，试图绊倒他。8、V-I If shares, profits, or figures dive, their value falls suddenly and by a large amount. (股票、利润、数字等) 突然暴跌journalism例： They feared the stock could dive after its first day of trading. 他们担心这支股票在其第一个交易日后会暴跌。例： Profits have dived from $7.7m to $7.1m. 利润从770万美元骤跌至710万美元。 9、N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. (股票、利润、数字等) 骤降例： Stock prices took a dive. 股票价格暴跌。 10、N-COUNT If you describe a bar or club as a dive, you mean it is dirty and dark, and not very respectable. 低级酒吧; 低级夜总会非正式例： Weve played in all the little clubs and dives around Philadelphia. 我们玩遍了费城所有的小酒吧和低级夜总会。21、flee /fli/ vi. (fled, fled) 逃避；逃跑vt. 逃离(fleeing, fled, flees) V-T/V-I If you flee from something or someone, or flee a person or thing, you escape from them. 逃离书面no passive例： He slammed the bedroom door behind him and fled. 他砰地关上卧室的门就逃走了。例： .refugees fleeing persecution or torture. 逃避迫害或折磨的难民们。22、harpoon /hpun/ n.（捕鲸用的）鱼叉(harpooning, harpooned, harpoons) 1、N-COUNT A harpoon is a long pointed weapon with a long rope attached to it, which is fired or thrown by people hunting whales or large sea fish. (捕鲸等用的)鱼镖; 鱼叉2、V-T To harpoon a whale or large fish means to hit it with a harpoon. 用鱼叉捕获(鲸鱼等)例： Norwegian whalers said yesterday they had harpooned a female minke whale. 挪威的捕鲸人昨天说他们用捕鲸叉捕获了一头雌性小须鲸。23、drag /dr/ vt。拖；拉；扯(dragging, dragged, drags) 1、V-T If you drag something, you pull it along the ground, often with difficulty. (费力地) 拖例： He got up and dragged his chair toward the table. 他站起来，把椅子拖向桌子。 2、V-T To drag a computer image means to use the mouse to move the position of the image on the screen, or to change its size or shape. (用鼠标) 拖计算机例： Use your mouse to drag the pictures to their new size. 用鼠标拖拽图片到新尺寸。3、V-T If someone drags you somewhere, they pull you there, or force you to go there by physically threatening you. 硬拉; 硬拽例： The vigilantes dragged the men out of the vehicles. 治安联防员将这些人从车里拽了出来。 4、V-T If someone drags you somewhere you do not want to go, they make you go there. 强迫例： When you can drag him away from his work, he can also be a devoted father. 当你能强迫他远离工作的时候，他也可以是个充满爱心的父亲。 5、V-T If you say that you drag yourself somewhere, you are emphasizing that you have to make a very great effort to go there. 勉强强调例： I find it really hard to drag myself out and exercise regularly. 我发现实在很难强迫自己定期出来锻炼。 6、V-T If you drag your foot or your leg behind you, you walk with great difficulty because your foot or leg is injured in some way. 拖着 (受伤的脚或腿) 行走例： He was barely able to drag his poisoned leg behind him. 他勉强拖着中了毒的腿向前走。7、V-T If the police drag a river or lake, they pull nets or hooks across the bottom of it in order to look for something. (用网或钩) 在水中搜寻例： Police are planning to drag the pond later this morning. 警方正计划今天上午晚些时候在池塘里进行打捞搜寻。8、V-I If a period of time or an event drags, it is very boring and seems to last a long time. (时间或事件) 拖沓例： The minutes dragged past. 时间一分一分地过去了。9、N-SING If something is a drag on the development or progress of something, it slows it down or makes it more difficult. 阻碍例： The satellite acts as a drag on the shuttle. 卫星是对航天飞机发展的阻碍。 10、N-SING If you say that something is a drag, you mean that it is unpleasant or very dull. 讨厌的事; 很没意思的事非正式例： As far as shopping for clothes goes, its a drag. 买衣服在某种程度上是个挺没意思的事。11、N-COUNT If you take a drag on a cigarette or pipe that you are smoking, you take in air through it. (抽烟时的) 一咂非正式例： He took a drag on his cigarette, and exhaled the smoke. 他咂了口烟，然后吐出烟雾。12、N-UNCOUNT Drag is the wearing of womens clothes by a male entertainer. (喜剧演员) 男扮女装例： Drag has been with us since the birth of comedy, because its funny to see a man pretending to be a woman. 自喜剧诞生时就有男演员反串的表演, 因为看男人假扮女人很有趣。13、PHRASE If a man is in drag, he is wearing womens clothes. (男子) 穿着女装14、PHRASE If you drag your feet or drag your heels, you delay doing something or do it very slowly because you do not want to do it. 拖延例： The government was dragging its feet, and this was threatening moves toward peace. 政府一拖再拖，这是有碍和平的行径。24、depth /dp/ n. 深（度）；深处(depths)1、N-VAR The depth of something such as a river or hole is the distance downward from its top surface, or between its upper and lower surfaces. 深度例： The depth of the shaft is 520 yards. 这个通道的深度是520码。例： The smaller lake ranges from five to fourteen feet in depth. 这个较小的湖的深度在5至14英尺之间。例： The depth of a standard straight valance is usually about 12 inches. 标准直边床幔的高度通常是12英寸左右。2、N-VAR The depth of something such as a wardrobe or drawer is the distance between its front surface and its back. 厚度3、N-VAR If an emotion is very strongly or intensely felt, you can talk about its depth. (感情的) 深厚例： I am well aware of the depth of feeling that exists in Ontario. 我深知安大略人情感的深厚。4、N-UNCOUNT The depth of a situation is its extent and seriousness. 强烈程度例： The countrys leadership had underestimated the depth of the crisis. 这个国家的领导层低估了这次危机的严重程度。 5、N-UNCOUNT The depth of someones knowledge is the great amount that they know. (知识的) 渊博例： We felt at home with her and were impressed with the depth of her knowledge. 我们和她一见如故，并且被她知识的渊博所折服。6、N-PLURAL The depths are places that are a long way below the surface of the sea or earth. (指远离表面) 深处文学性例： Leaves, brown with long immersion, rose to the surface and vanished back into the depths. 长时间浸泡而成褐色的叶子浮上了水面，又消失在了水的深处。7、N-PLURAL If you talk about the depths of an area, you mean the parts of it which are very far from the edge. (指距地区边缘) 深处例： .the depths of the countryside. 乡村深处。 8、N-PLURAL If you are in the depths of an unpleasant emotion, you feel that emotion very strongly. (不快情绪的) 深重例： I was in the depths of despair when the baby was terribly sick every day, and was losing weight. 宝宝每天都病得很重并且体重在下降的时候，我陷入绝望的深处。 9、PHRASE If you deal with a subject in depth, you deal with it very thoroughly and consider all the aspects of it. 全面透彻地例： We will discuss these three areas in depth. 我们将全面透彻地讨论这3个领域。. 10、see also in-depth 11、PHRASE If you say that someone is out of their depth, you mean that they are in a situation that is much too difficult for them to be able to cope with it. 力所不及例： Mr. Gibson is clearly intellectually out of his depth. 吉布森先生显然在智能上有所不及。12、PHRASE If you are out of your depth, you are in water that is deeper than you are tall, with the result that you cannot stand up with your head above water. 在没顶的水中例： Somehow I got out of my depth in the pool. 不知什么原因我在池子里没了顶。25、meantime /mintam/ adv. 其间；同时1、PHRASE In the meantime or meantime means in the period of time between two events. 在期间例： Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life, but in the meantime she relies on your support. 最终你的孩子将会离开家去过她自己的生活，不过在此期间她依赖你的支持。2、PHRASE For the meantime means for a period of time from now until something else happens. 暂时例： Some of her stuff is stored for the meantime with her children. 她的一些东西暂时保存在她的孩子那里。26、in the meantime 在此期间；与此同时27、lip /lp/ n. 一片嘴唇；（容器或洞的）边，口(lips)N-COUNT Your lips are the two outer parts of the edge of your mouth. 嘴唇例： Wade stuck the cigarette between his lips. 韦德嘴里叼着烟。28、overboard /vbd/ adv. 越过船舷进入水中1、ADV If you fall overboard, you fall over the side of a boat into the water. 从船上 (落) 入水中ADV after v例： His sailing instructor fell overboard and nearly drowned during a lesson. 他的帆船教练在一次课上落水，差点溺死。 2、PHRASE If you say that someone goes overboard, you mean that they do something to a greater extent than is necessary or reasonable. 过分非正式例： Women sometimes damage their skin by going overboard with abrasive cleansers. 女性有时因为过度使用研磨型的洁面乳而损害了皮肤。29、urge /d/ vt. 催促；极力主张；驱策(urging, urged, urges) 1、V-T If you urge someone to do something, you try hard to persuade them to do it. 敦促 (某人做某事)例： They urged Congress to approve plans for their reform programme. 他们敦促国会批准他们有关改革项目的计划。2、V-T If you urge someone somewhere, you make them go there by touching them or talking to them. 鼓动 (某人去某地)例： He slipped his arm around her waist and urged her away from the window. 他悄悄用一只手臂揽住她的腰，劝她离开了窗口。3、V-T If you urge a course of action, you strongly advise that it should be taken. 竭力主张例： He urged restraint on the security forces. 他竭力主张限制安全部队。 4、N-COUNT If you have an urge to do or have something, you have a strong wish to do or have it. 强烈欲望例： He had an urge to open a shop of his own. 他很想开一家自己的商店。30、abandon /bndn/ vt. 放弃；遗弃；抛弃(abandoning, abandoned, abandons)1、V-T If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, e