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3. Three helping one another bear the burden of six.三人互相幫助,可擔(dān)六人重負(fù)。(=The four factors work together in bination.) 28. undermine: vt. to weaken or destroy gradually*The kidnappings undermined several months of delicate peace negotiations.晚睡會(huì)損害健康。例如:*She gave him an adoring look. 她向他投以敬慕的一瞥。 equivalent 這些形容詞均含“相同的”之意。right普通用詞,指某人或某物擁有符合法律、道義或道德的權(quán)利。spin off (從旋轉(zhuǎn)體中)甩出;派生出*The wheel spun off and the car crashed into a tree.車輪甩了出去,汽車撞到一棵樹上。 屢次地。ll finish on time.)5. deplore: vt. to disapprove of sth. very strongly and criticize it severely, especially publicly *The United Nations has issued a statement deploring the continued fighting.她譴責(zé)他那那些不道德的行為。(Directions:) Fill in the blanks with the words above. Change theform where necessary.(1) The ball ___into the street.(= rolled)(2) The Earth _____on its axis once every 24 hours. (= rotates)(3) The boy was _____ around in his father39。 hard to find 那時(shí)是戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)時(shí)期, 食物短缺。(=The professor was revered for his immense learning.)*Collins was revered by his fellow countrymen. (=Most of us revere the Bible, but few of us read it regularly.) CF: revere, adore amp。(=We often patronize our nearby WalMart supermarket.) (2) to support or give money to an organization or activity *At last, the rich man decided to patronize that young musician.如今,一些城市居民資助貧困地區(qū)的孩子上學(xué)。intensify指深化或強(qiáng)化某事或某物,尤指其特別之處。弗林特11 / 11。例如: *Can we further enhance our petitiveness? 我們能否進(jìn)一步增強(qiáng)我們的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力?heighten通常指使某物的某種性質(zhì)變得不同于一般的顯著或突出。(=That report has pletely misrepresented my opinions about immigration.)25. patronize: vt. (1) to use or visit a shop, restaurant etc*It39。(=The group is lobbying for a reduction in defense spending.)22. legislation: n. [U] a law or set of laws*The government has promised to bring in new legislation to bat this problem. 法律規(guī)定騎摩托車者要戴頭盔。re highly intelligent.照你的說法,他肯定不是兇手。revolve強(qiáng)調(diào)指物體圍繞本身以外的中心旋轉(zhuǎn),即公轉(zhuǎn)。(=This budget will fuel inflation and cut our living standard.)4. pull together: (of a group of people) to work hard to achieve sth.*Parents, teachers, and students should all pull together to tackle the school39。)6. We call such bidding petition, but note that such petition differs fundamentally from another kind of “petition”… (1) What does the first “such” refer to here? (= It refers to what had mentioned in the previous sentence.)(2) Compare the two “such” in the sentence. (=These two words have different parts of speech. The first one is a pronoun while the second one is an adjective.)7. If the owners of General Motors spread nails on the roads leading to Ford factories and dealerships, this is a form of noneconomic petition—and a most undesirable form. What is the author’s purpose of citing the example of “spreading nails”? (=He just wants to support his argument – sometimes petition is not good.) 8. But notice that identically undesirable consequences occur when General Motors and Ford cooperate with each other to lobby successfully for import restrictions on foreign automobiles. Why doesn’t the author think much of the “import restriction on foreign automobil