当代英美散文名篇选读下册词汇总结表-中英文释义

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上专心-专注-专业专心-专注-专业精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上专心-专注-专业Unit 1 Why Dont We Complain?unctuously: insincerely 油腔滑调的mortification: shame and embarrassment 屈辱，禁欲discreet: careful and prudent 谨慎的；小心的rectify: correct ostentatiously: showily 招摇的，铺张的bellicose: fond of fighting or quarreling 好战的，好斗的de

2、ferentially: respectfully 谦恭的，表示敬意的reproof: censure, rebuke 责备，谴责virile: full of masculine strength 有男子气概的apathy: lack of interest, indifferent 冷漠，没兴趣plenipotentiary: fully empowered 全权代表的impervious: not affected or influenced 不受影响的，无动于衷的unobtrusive: not too noticeable 谦虚的，不引人注目的doleful: sad, sorrow

3、 fortify: strength 加强，增强telltale: revealing 泄密的，搬弄是非的；迹象，搬弄是非者raring: very eager 渴望的，急切的whisk: cause to move very quickly 飞奔，疾过notorious: infamousresignation: passive acceptance, patient submission 顺从，放弃primed: brief, prepare 待发的，准备好的nonchalantly: indifferently, unconcernedly 冷淡的，漠不关心的visualize: fro

4、m a mental picture, imagine 形象化head-on: firm and direct 正面的，直接的showdown: final fight to settle a dispute 最后一决胜负，摊牌presumption: supposition 推测irksome: troublesome, annoying 令人厌烦的intimate: hint, make known indirectly 暗示，通知compliance: willingness to yield, agreement 顺从，服从Unit 2 College Pressuresscribbl

5、e: write very fast or carelessly 潦草的写，乱写authentic: true, reliableunswervingly: unchangingly, firmly 坚定不移的savor: relish, enjoy 尽情享受；品尝，欣赏venerated: respect deeplyinduce: lead, cause 诱导，引用intangible: that cannot be easily defined, vague dimension: aspect, sidevisualize: form a clear picture in the min

6、d, imaginesample: get to know by experience 取样，尝试exhilarated: make cheerful and excited, thrill 振奋的，高兴地accrue: accumulate 获得，累积exhort: urge or advise 忠告，劝诫tenacity: doggedness, perseverance 韧性，固执pay-off: reward synthesize: bring separate parts into a whole, fuse(融合) 合成，综合vacillate: be uncertain of w

7、hat action to take 踌躇，犹豫furtively: stealthily, secretly 偷偷地，暗中地symptomatic: indicative, being a sign 有症状的perceive: view, interpret things in a certain way 感觉，理解，认知contagious: tending to spread easily from person to person 感染的reverse: change around completely juggle: rearrange nurture: train, educate

8、, develop circuitous: long and indirect 迂回的potent: very effective and powerful 有效的，强有力的positively: definitely, indeed, really 明确的，断然的intertwine: intermingle, interweave, be twisted so as to become joined 纠结，缠绕steer: direct the course of 控制，引导drab: uninteresting, dull 单调的；浅褐色的Unit 4 Portrait of an Ac

9、tresscongenial: agreeable 意气相投的，一致的seasoned: experienced 老练的，经验丰富的grate: make a harsh unpleasant sound 发摩擦声growl: say in a low, rough, angry voice 咆哮phantom: illusioninsubstantial: imaginary, not realscribble: write quickly and roughlybuffet: push roughly from side to side 与搏击；斗争stumble: walk unstea

10、dily 蹒跚sham: fraud, something not real 假装 incongruous: out of place 不协调的domesticity: the state of living at home with your family 家庭生活forsake: abandon, desert 放弃，断念solitude: the state of being alone 孤独，隐居surge: arise suddenly and intensively 汹涌，起大浪，蜂拥而来outrageous: very usual and slightly shocking 令人

11、吃惊的contradicted: say something that conflicts with something said by another minute: very detailed, accurate 详细的ramble: walk for pleasure with no special destination 漫步，闲逛defy: be so difficult as to make impossible 对抗stock: commonly used 存货的，常备的Unit 5 A Wagner Matineelegacy: something left behind sc

12、ourge: cause great pain and suffering 鞭打，蹂躏fumble: finger or handle awkwardly 摸索，笨拙的做upshot: final result, outcome 结果revert: return, come back 恢复，归回原状doggedly: perseveringly 顽强的，固执的haggard: tired and thin-faced 憔悴的conjecture: guess, speculate 推测，猜想inert: not wanting to move or act or think 呆滞的，迟缓的tr

13、epidation: fear or nervousness 恐惧excruciatingly: intensely, unbearably 极其痛苦的，难以忍受的matinee: a performance held in the afternoon or morning 日场演出drowsy: half asleep, feeling sleepy 昏昏欲睡的jocularity: the quality of being humorous or given to joking and jesting 滑稽，幽默deluge: flood, an overwhelming amount 洪水，泛滥interminably: endlessly 无限的，漫无止境的seething: boiling 沸腾的myriad: countless, innumerable 无数的infatuation: intense but foolish love 迷恋，醉心contour: outline, shape 轮廓slender: slight, sma