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续2
我也快考了,但是还是抽时间打了出来,例句非常好,很实用
BEGIN 开始 v.
1.commence
E.g. The President of Americacannot commence military operations without congressional authorization.
2. initiate
The police didn't initiate prosecution against the prominent coach.
3. embark (start a journey; set out to do something)
e.g. The Bush administration is going to embark upon a colossal, risky military operations against Saddam
4. inaugurate
e.g. They will inaugurate a whole bunch of new applications.
e.g. to inaugurate th meeting
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OLD adj.
1. archaic
e.g. Dialing up the Internet has become an archaic practice.
2. antiquated
3. obsolete
4. obsolescent
Facing the high-tech, many old people are shut out out of New Economy, obsolescent.
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GROW v.
1. multiply ( to increase in number at a rapid rate)
e.g. If those illegal Internet cafes continue to multiply, problems will multiply.
2. mushroom (to develop rapidly)
e.g. Tha mushingrooming scandals has ended the carrer of some 250 priests and several bishops.
e.g. The mushrooming controversy put an abrupt end to the doctor's incipient teaching career.
3.proliferate (to grwo by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells or offspring; to increse or spead at a rapid rate)
e.g. Such illegal sites will continue to proliferate.
4. sprout (to emerge and develop rapidly)
e.g. Skyscrapers are once again sprouting throughout the territory.
5. burgeon (to put forth new buds, new leaves)
e.g. The burgeoning demand bolsters up/buttress the real estate market.
6. wax (to grow by degree)
e.g. As the number of online game players multiplies, many big companies tend to cash in on the burgeoning/ waxing market.
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increase v.
1. amplify (to enlarge)
e.g. One of our foremost taskes is to amplify the public's voices on the state affairs.
2. magnify
e.g. After being dumped by your girlfriend, you've fallen to pieces, a sad love song will amplify/ magnify your pain.
3. augment /supplement (to make complete or make up for a deficiency)
e.g. Green energy is still in its embryonic stage, so it can just supplement/augment fossil fuels.
e.g. work part-time to augment/supplement one's income
e.g. suppletment one's diet with all kinds of vitamin supplements
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Intensify 增强 v.
1. aggravate / exacerbate (to increase severity, violence, or bitterness of)
e.g. aggravate/ exacerbate the situation(恶化了情况)
2。escalate(to increase i extent, volume, number, amount, internsity, or scope)
e.g. The Bush administration's warning about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction havebeen escalating in the past months.
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Lessen 减少,减弱 v.
I减少,减弱
1. abate (to reduce in amount, degree or intensity)
e.g. abate tensions 减轻紧张局势
2. attenuate(to lessen)
e.g. The attenuated relationship between the two countries won't last long.
3. detract (to take away from something)
detract from something
e.g. Your behavior detracts a lot from what I think of you.
4.diminish (to make smaller or lesser)
e.g. Wang Zhizhi's absence from the national squad diminished the Chinese team's prowess at the World Championships.
5. slacken( to make less intense)
e.g. Terrorists are sleeprs. When authorities slacken crackdowns, they hit again.
II削弱
1。 curtail /curb
curb偏重restrain.
e.g. Developing countries demand rich nations to dimish subsidies to their farmers.
e.g. Kyoto Protocal aims to curb/ curtail the emission of greenhouse gases.
2. pare/ prune/ slash/ trim/ whittle (to reduce in number, amount)
e.g.The company is going to slash(幅度最大,表示大刀阔斧) its workforce by 40%.
e.g.A company in dire financial straits tends to whittle down expenditures, whittle away excess inventories, whittle down its payroll.
e.g. With the busting of the Internet bubble, many high-tech companies pare down/ prune/ trim the company's debt load.(削减负债)
III 减轻
1.allay /assuage/ mollify/ soothe (减轻concern, fear, worries,suspicion)
e.g. President Jiang's speech helps allay/ assuage/ mollify/ soothe fears of the so-called "China treat".
2.mitigate
e.g.In light of the fact that AIDS is diminishing hopes for sustainable development, the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS calls for strategies to mitigate the impact of the disease.
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Decrease v.
1. dwindle (to become gradually less)
e.g. The ban was prompted by the country's rapidly dwindling cod stocks.
2. ebb / recede (to decrease)
e.g. The figure suggests that the current downturn is ebbing/ receding.
3. subside(to sink or fall to the bottom; to decrease)
e.g.The public panic began to subside after local authorities debunked the rumors.
4. wane(to decline)
e.g. Many worry that China's domination in the pingpong game will waning. |
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