【例1】Stocks may boom today, but drop tomorrow.股票可能今天暴漲,但明天又下跌。
【例2】Foreign investments boomed the city.國外投資使這個城市迅速繁榮起來。
【例3】We could hear the enemy guns booming(away) in the distance.我們能聽到遠處敵人的大炮轟隆聲。
【例4】This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.而反過來成人教育熱又促進了整個國家文化水平的提高。
【例5】The baby boom swelled the population.嬰兒潮(生育高峰)使人口膨脹。
【派生】booming a.急速發展的
【真題】Many consumers seem to have been influenced by stock-market swings, which investors now view as a necessary ingredient to a sustained boom.許多消費者似乎一直受股票市場波動的影響,投資者把這種波動視為持續繁榮的必要因素。
★ bruise
n.青腫,挫傷,傷痕
v.打青,挫傷
【例1】He was covered in bruises after falling off his bicycle.他從自行車上掉下來,摔得全身青一塊紫一塊。
【例2】Don’t handle the tomatoes, you’ll bruise them!別搬那些西紅柿,你會把它們碰壞的!
【派生】bruiser n.彪形大漢
★ parcel
n.包裹,郵包;部分
v.打包,捆扎;分配
【例1】Please send this parcel by express delivery.請用快遞寄送這個包裹。
【例2】Her stinginess is part and parcel of her nature.她生性吝嗇。
【例3】We parceled up some games and toys to take to the Children Home at Christmas.圣誕節我們把一些文娛用具和玩具包裝起來送去兒童之家。
【例4】The two big nations parceled out the little country between them.這兩個大國把那個小國瓜分了。
★ pollute
v.弄臟,污染
【例1】Most rivers are polluted with filthy waste from the factory.多數河流被該廠所排出的污穢廢物所污染。
【例2】Our store never sells books which pollute the mind.我們書店從不出售污染心靈的書籍。