【例】Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of men pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.人們有時會絆倒在真理上,但其中大部分人爬起來后就趕快走開了,好像什么事情也未發生過一樣。
【同義替換】stagger
【派生】stumbling a.蹣跚的,阻礙的
【真題】Hunting for a job late last year, lawyer Gant Redmon stumbled across Career Builder, a job database on the Internet.
甘特·雷德曼律師去年找工作時,偶然在互聯網上發現了一個叫Career Builder的就業數據庫。
furious
a.(with sb. at sth.)狂怒的,狂暴的,猛烈的
【例】The police commissioner is furious because the suspect hasn’t been found.警務處長大發雷霆,因為嫌疑犯尚未找到。
【同義替換】irate, violent
【派生】furiously ad.狂怒地
【真題】It’s usually the case that people seldom behave in a rational way when in a furious state.
通常狀況下,人們很少能在盛怒之下做出理智的舉動。
generate
v.產生,發生;生殖
【例】Natural gas, which used to be available to generate electricity, was already in short supply.以往能夠用于發電的天然氣,現在早已短缺。
【構詞】gen(產生)+er+-ate(動詞后綴)→產生
【同義替換】produce
【派生】generator n.發電機,發生器
【真題】Most people seem to have more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they are working through negative feelings generated during the day.