通过句子背单词 | 生疏的四六级词汇 3

通过句子背单词，从记住到会用。

例句精选自 权威词典、新概念、报纸、杂志、名著等。

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eminent ['emɪnənt] adj.显赫的；非凡的；杰出的

- ( of people 人 ) famous and respected, especially in a particular profession （尤指在某专业中）卓越的，著名的，显赫的

- famous, respected, or important 显赫的；卓越的；著名的

• Judges, however wise or eminent, are human and can make mistakes. [NCE3]

• This attracted the attention of Richard Humphries who was then the most eminent boxer in England. [NCE3]

• Seven years ago, The Atlantic surveyed a group of eminent historians to create a ranked list of the 100 people who had done the most to shape the character of modern America. [Atlantic]

• Mr Marsh, who is now one of Britain's most eminent neurosurgeons, says the operation was simply bad science. [BBC]

pre-eminent [ˌpriː ˈemɪnənt] adj. 杰出的，卓越的

• (硅谷) There is no credible rival for its position as the world’s pre-eminent innovation hub. [Economist ]

作为世界上最卓越的创新中心，没有一个可靠的竞争对手。

• Dickens was pre-eminent among English writers of his day. 

狄更斯在其同时期英国作家中最为出色。

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resolve [rɪˈzɒlv]

vt. 决定；溶解；使……分解；决心要做……；[主化]解析

vi. 解决；决心；分解

n. 坚决；决定要做的事

1. V-T To resolve a problem, argument, or difficulty means to find a solution to it. 解决 [正式]

• We must find a way to resolve these problems before it's too late.

我们必须找到一个办法去解决这些问题,不然就太晚了。

2. V-T If you resolve to do something, you make a firm decision to do it. 下决心 [正式]

• She resolved to report the matter to the hospital's nursing supervisor.

她决心把这件事向该医院的护士长汇报。

3. N-VAR Resolve is determination to do what you have decided to do. 决心 [正式]

• So you're saying this will strengthen the American public's resolve to go to war if necessary?

那么你是说，这将会坚定美国公众在必要时参战的决心？

• We resolve to get up earlier each morning, eat less, find more time to play with the children, do a thousand and one jobs about the house, be nice to people we don't' like, drive carefully, and take the dog for a walk every day. [NCE3]

• Indeed, where parents successfully resolve arguments, children can learn important positive lessons which can help them navigate their own emotions and relationships beyond the family circle. [BBC]

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reckless/ˈrɛklɪs/ 

ADJ If you say that someone is reckless, you mean that they act in a way which shows that they do not care about danger or the effect their behaviour will have on other people. 鲁莽的; 不顾后果的

• He is charged with reckless driving.

他被控莽撞驾驶。

• Consider a career change, but don’t be reckless. [hbr]

• It was caused largely by reckless bankers on both sides of the Atlantic taking advantage of increasingly lax regulations. [spectator]

lax 不严格的，松弛的

• The thing is, if some people do decide they’ve had the vaccine because they get a reaction, and as a result behave in a more reckless manner, that will tend to reduce the apparent efficacy of the vaccine, not increase it. [science]

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stab /stæb/

1. V-T If someone stabs you, they push a knife or sharp object into your body. (用刀等利器) 刺; 捅

• Somebody stabbed him in the stomach.

有人刺了他的腹部。

• She was stabbed several times in the chest.

她胸口被捅了几刀。

2. to make a short, forceful pushing movement with a finger or a long, thin object（用指头或细长物）戳，捅

• He stabbed at the meat with his fork.

他用叉子戳着那块肉。

• Goldstone flipped through the pages and stabbed his thumb at the paragraph he was looking for.

戈德斯通快速翻动书页，用拇指按住他正在寻找的段落。

3 N the act of pushing a knife into someone, or an injury caused by stabbing （用刀）戳，刺，捅；戳（或刺、捅）的伤口

• He was admitted to hospital with stab wounds.

他因刀伤被送进了医院。

4 N a sudden feeling, especially an unpleasant one such as pain

突发的一阵感觉；（尤指）一阵难受，一阵刺痛

• She felt a stab of envy when she saw all the expensive presents Zoe had been given for Christmas.

她看到佐伊圣诞节收到的那些贵重礼物，顿生妒意。

5 N an action or remark that attacks someone's reputation

中伤，诽谤

• Her criticism of the company's plans was a stab at the chairman himself.

她对公司计划的批评是对董事长本人的中伤。

• A third woman was also taken to hospital after being found with a serious stab wound in Vale Road four hours after the first attacks. [BBC]

• A man started stabbing schoolchildren who were waiting for a bus in a city just south of Tokyo.[BBC]

• Stab wound surgery was performed using a modified version of the procedure previously described by Hashimoto et al. [nature]

take a stab at 尝试;试图做某事

• A few bright engineers could take a stab at the likely technological solutions and then tweak the system so that it delivered the desired levels of performance.[hbr]

一些聪明的工程师可以尝试可能的技术解决方案，然后调整系统，使其达到预期的性能水平。

• If the problem was within his control, ask him to apply the possible solutions you’ve discussed, take another stab at reaching the goal, and check in with you more frequently. [hbr]

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obstruct /əbˈstrʌkt/ 

to block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way 阻塞，堵塞，阻挡（道路、通道、入口等）

• After the earthquake many roads were obstructed by collapsed buildings.

地震过后，许多道路都被倒塌的建筑物堵住了。

• Her view of the stage was obstructed by a pillar.

一根柱子挡住了她的视线，她看不见舞台。

to try to stop something from happening or developing

阻碍；阻止，阻挠；妨碍

• He got five years in prison for withholding evidence and obstructing the course of justice.

他因隐藏证据、妨碍司法而被判入狱5年。

•  Left unaddressed, these tensions increase distrust in families and obstruct performance in their organizations. [hbr]

• Uncertainty in precipitation observations and limited observations of shallow circulations further obstruct our understanding of the ocean’s influence on weather and climate. [nature]

• Single-cell RNA sequencing is a powerful method to study gene expression, but noise in the data can obstruct analysis. [nature]

• AS and Piloty’s acid exert rapid release with short half-lives (t 1/2), which may obstruct their therapeutic effects. [science]