【例】All the villagers kept themselves in readiness to retreat as soon as the enemy came.所有的村民都時刻準備著等敵人一來就撤退。
【同義替換】retire, withdraw
【真題】It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful.
【例】Although these figures are only rough estimates, they do strikingly underline the seriousness of the problem.雖然這些數字是比較粗略的估計,但在很大程度上表面了這個問題的嚴重性。
【同義替換】unsmooth; approximate
【派生】roughly ad.粗略地,大約;粗暴地,粗糙地,粗魯地
approximately ad.近似地,大約
【真題】What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented—and human perception far more complicated—than preciously imagined.
【真題】His argument is that the unusual history of these people has subjected them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this paradoxical state of affairs.