【核心词汇】DAY 117

你可能一直埋怨背单词枯燥

就算“枯燥”15分钟又怎样

成功的人并不是做了多少

而是每天都在坚持做

坚持本身就是一种成功

单词日历

Let's begin

hurricane ['hʌrikən]

n.飓风，暴风

词根 ：hurri＝hurry，cane＝can：hurry一点就可以can逃脱hurricane harridan（n 老巫婆）不hurry就变成dan了。

参考例句

1 . The hurricane destroyed the whole village.
飓风把整个村子都毁掉了。

2 . The hurricanes creamed outside.
外面飓风呼啸著。

3 . The hurricane has a speed of 73 miles per hour.
飓风每小时73英里。

4 . It was blowing gales of hurricane this time yesterday.
昨天的这个时候正刮着狂风。

abandon [ə'bændən]

v. 放弃，遗弃，沉溺
n. 放纵

词根 ：a+band乐队+on，一个乐队在舞台上。想想黑豹、唐朝、零点等疯狂的摇滚乐队，不仅他们在放纵，你们听他们的歌本身也是一种放纵。

参考例句

1 . She rationalized her decision to abandon her baby by saying she could not afford to keep it.
她为抛弃婴儿事辩称自己抚养不起。

2 . Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed.
那些自暴自弃的人无法成功。

3 . The next-best solution is to abandon the project altogether.
仅次于最佳的解决方法是放弃全部计划。

4 . He abandoned himself to despair.
自暴自弃。

hike [haik]

n. 徒步旅行，远足，涨价
vi. 远足，提高
vt. 突然拉动或提高，涨...的价，徒步跋涉过

词根 ：读：骇客（帝国），联想最后女主角突然跳起定格的一幕。我like hike徒步旅行。

参考例句

1 . Take a hike !
哪儿凉快哪儿歇着去吧。

2 . The ten-mile hike told on Bill.
10英里路的远足使比尔疲惫不堪。

3 . He always bring a canteen with him on a hike .
他作徒步旅行时总是带著水壶。

4 . The storm upset their plans for a hike .
暴风雨破坏了他们的远足计画。

prescription [pris'kripʃən]

n. 药方，对策，开处方

词根 ：源于：prescribe（v 指示；开处方），pre前，scribe（v 描述）

参考例句

1 . The doctor dispensed a prescription to his patient.
医生开处方给病人配药。

2 . His prescription for economic recovery was not well received.
他为经济复苏提出的对策反应不佳。

3 . The prescription of drugs is a doctor's responsibility.
开药方是医生的职责。

4 . The doctor is writing a prescription .
医生正在开处方。

pasture ['pɑ:stʃə]

n. 牧场，草原
vi. 吃草
vt. 放牧

参考例句

1 . Grazing land; pasture .
放牧的土地; 牧场

2 . Nitrate of soda may be sown on pasture that does not eat off.
可以把硝酸钠撒在牧草还没有吃光的草地上。

3 . He's pasturing his cattle on the top meadow.
他正在高处的草地上放牛。

4 . We have put our cattle out to pasture .
我们已经把牛放到牧场上吃草去了。

overpass [.əuv'pæs]

n. 天桥，立交桥
vt. 超越，胜过，忽略

参考例句

1 . Is that why they're constructing so many underpasses, overpasses and highways?
那就是他们建这么多天桥、地下通道和公路的原因吗？

base [beis]

n. 基底，基础，底部，基线，基数，(棒球)垒，[化]碱
vt. 以...作基础
adj. 卑鄙的，不道德的

参考例句

1 . Her reply caught him off base .
她的答覆使他不知所措。

2 . His base conduct was condemned by everyone.
他的无耻行为受到所有人的谴责。

3 . This film is based on a novel by D.H.Lawrence.
这部影片是根据D.H.劳伦斯的小说改编的。

4 . How many military bases are they maintaining on foreign soil?
他们在外国保持多少个军事基地？

melody ['melədi]

n. 旋律，曲子，美的音乐，曲调

词根 ：mel甜蜜，ody唱－旋律

参考例句

1 . The beautiful melody is lingering in my mind.
美妙的音乐在我心中回荡。

2 . The song has plaintive melody .
这首歌曲的曲调悲伤。

3 . The organist played a famous melody .
这位管风琴手演奏了一首著名的曲子。

4 . Next the melody is taken up by flutes.
这主调接着由长笛合奏。

hinge [hindʒ]

n. 铰链，关键
vt. 用铰链装
vi. 依情况而定

参考例句

1 . A casement is a window that opened by means of hinge at the side.
竖铰链窗是一种用边上的铰链开启的窗户。

2 . The door opens easily because the hinges were oiled.
这门开起来很容易，因为合页上了油。

predecessor ['pri:disesə]

n. 前辈，前任，原有事物

词根 ：pre前，de，cess走，or人：在前面走的人－前辈

参考例句

1 . He undid most of the good work of his predecessor .
他把前任的大部分业绩毁掉了。

2 . Our new doctor is much younger than his predecessor .
我们新来的医生比他的前任年轻许多。

contemplate ['kɔntem.pleit]

vt. 注视，沉思，打算

词根 ：con共同，temple（n 寺庙；太阳穴；鬓角），ate－庙里有一堆人专心注视着墙上的九阴真经，陷入仔细而长久的深思中，可是单词还是没有背会，该吃饭了！身体是考G的本钱！

参考例句

1 . It terrified me to contemplate the consequence of your action.
想到你行动的后果，我就感到害怕。

2 . The doctor contemplated the difficult operation he had to perform.
医生细想他要进行的棘手的手术。

3 . The police contemplated various kinds of trouble after the football match.
警方料想足球赛后会发生各种各样的麻烦。

concern [kən'sə:n]

n. 关心，忧虑，关心的事
n. 公司，企业
vt. 涉及，影响，关心

参考例句

1 . This restaurant is a family concern .
这家饭店是由一家人经营的。

2 . These problems concern all of us.
这些问题影响到我们每一个人。

3 . How much money I earn is none of your concern .
我挣多少钱与你无关。

hypothesis [hai'pɔθisis]

n. 假设，猜测，前提

词根 ：hypo在…下面，thesis（n 论题；论文）－论题的背后－假设

参考例句

1 . Science continued to throw up discoveries which further backed up his hypothesis .
科学不断地提供新的发现，从而进一步证实了他的假设。

2 . Several conclusions flow from this hypothesis .
从这项假设中可以得出几个结论。

3 . All these fact have borne out the hypothesis .
所有这些事实证明了假设的正确性。

correlate ['kɔ:rə.leit]

n. 有相互关系的东西，相关物
v. 使有相互关系，互相有关系

词根 ：cor共同，relate（v 使联系）－把东西联系在一起－使有联系

参考例句

1 . Research workers find it hard to correlate the two sets of figures.
研究人员发现很难使这两组数字互相关连。

2 . The results of this experiment do not correlate with the results of earlier ones.
这次试验的结果与以往试验的结果毫不相干。

3 . Researchers cannot correlate the two sets of figures.
研究者们看不出这两组数字有什麽联系。

4 . We can often correlate age with frequency of illness.
年龄的大小往往与发病率有关。