【例】She saw his face through a mist of tears.她淚眼朦朧地望著他的臉。
【同義替換】fog
【派生】misty a.模糊的;有霧的
★ elegant
a.優雅的,端莊的
【例】The princess has acute intellect and elegant manners.公主才思敏捷,舉止優雅。
【同義替換】graceful, exquisite
【派生】gracefully ad.優雅地 gracefulness n.優雅,高雅
【真題】People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19th-century department stores that offered vast s of goods in an elegant atmosphere.人們融入了19世紀百貨商店倡導的消費文化,這些百貨商店有優雅的環境,提供各式各樣的商品。
★ elaborate
v.精心制作;詳細闡述
a.精心制作的;詳細闡述的
【例1】The professor asked me to elaborate on my proposal.教授讓我詳細說明我的提議。
【例2】The guests amassed in the kitchen to see the host cut the elaborate cake.客人們聚在廚房里看主人切那個制作精美的蛋糕。
【真題】Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers.俄羅斯人深深熱愛自己的語言,在腦子里記下了大段的詩歌。而意大利的政客們往往精心準備演講,這對大多數英語國家的人來說似乎不合時宜。
★ approximate
a.近似的
vi.(to)接近
【例1】What is the approximate size of this room?這間屋子大概有多大?
【例2】Your story approximates to the facts we already know.你所說的與我們已經了解的事實很接近。
【構詞】ap-+proxim(接近)+-ate→接近
【同義替換】approach
【派生】approximately a.大約,近似地 approximation n.接近;近似值
【真題】Still, Jefferson freed Hemings’s children—though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.雖然Hemings本人及其他約150名奴隸沒有得到自由,杰弗遜還是給了Hemings的孩子們自由。