【正文】 ager in this pany.Advance: our understanding of human genetics has considerably(非常的，可換做vastly) advanced.Enhance: the publicity has enhanced his 改變：Transform:多指改頭換面，完全改變，不能用于形容slight change。說到人口變化：the increasing population has transformed the landscape and structure of local industry 強(qiáng)調(diào)：Highlight：the report highlight the decline in the numbers of native(可以換作local) plants and insects.Stress: He stresses the need for parents to listen to their children.Accentuate: the crisis accentuates the gap between rich and poor.(highlight and emphasize 的區(qū)別：highlight是告訴人們重點(diǎn)，因而能夠讓別人注意，類似于老師勾重點(diǎn)；而emphasize則是使重點(diǎn)清晰，不管別人是否能注意得到。而stress則和emphasize差不多)：Cultivate: cultivate the ability of … ；培養(yǎng)情操；cultivate a more relaxed and positive way towards life.Nurture: 養(yǎng)育，同樣可以指培養(yǎng)人才（talents）the sea nutures ample marine animals. 破壞：Impair：impair ability。 主要是破壞能力，莫亂用。Undermine這個詞也是指的是抽象意義上的破壞，有逐漸削弱之意，重點(diǎn)是循序漸進(jìn)的過程。Undermine one’s ability/confidence/authority/position/credibilityJeopardize: 不能亂用，破壞的東西要上一定的等級才能配上此詞。比如Jeopardize the process of Devastate特指毀滅、蹂躪 the earthquake devastated the whole city. 保存Preserve、Conserve 保護(hù)資源用的就是這個詞，不要用protect，protect這個詞用在保護(hù)具體的東西。 With解決Tackle: tackle the problem.Resolve: resolve dispute爭論/conflict沖突/problem/issue/crisis危機(jī)；來自拉丁語，比較正式。 需要Require：xxx requires courage and confidence.Necessitate: 用法不簡單，沒有摸透。call for（這也是個很高級的用法，奧巴馬就用這個【我不曉得奧巴馬咋個用的，原帖是這樣說的，并且call for也挺正式的】）：跟need一樣的用法形容詞替換： 普遍的Widespread: 隨便用Prevalent：Drug abuse is especially prevalent among teenagers.Overflow：泛濫 the garden is overflew with colors of flowers.Rampant: 特指有害的東西泛濫，比如疾病，犯罪等，并且難于控制。H1n1 Virus is rampant in the 好的（太多了）Impressive, glorious, amazing, brilliant, incredible, attractive…Beneficial（反義詞：detrimental）the drug is beneficial to the immune system.Advantageous: 特指有益的。Advantageous industry：優(yōu)勢產(chǎn)業(yè) 有害的Unfavorable, horrible, disgustingInhumane: 沒人性的lousy (I’m fed up with the lousy job.)severe (severe problem, illness, injuries.)abysmal(低谷：their performance is abysmal.)Detrimental: smoking is detrimental to your health.Baneful: 現(xiàn)階段用不到，文學(xué)作品里面的“邪惡”，完全詰屈聱牙。 富有的Wealthy、Affluent、ampleThere are a myriad of stars in the Milky Way. (銀河系好多星星?。?！) 貧窮的Impoverished（動詞表示使貧窮： The great depression had impoverished many third world countries.）an impoverished student. 嚴(yán)重的Severe 明顯的Manifest: a manifest error judge明顯判斷失誤。 Adv. Manifestly .. a manifestly unfair system.Apparent、EvidentPatent: patent impossibilities. 顯然不可能的事。 便宜的Economical：經(jīng)濟(jì)的，不浪費(fèi)，而不是單純指某物便宜。經(jīng)濟(jì)適用房：economically affordable housing。Inexpensive=cheapReasonable：價格合理的。Reasonable priceAffordable：能夠支付的。名詞替換： 祖先Ancestor、PredecessorGap（簡單但是牛）溝，generation gap——very mon use in CET4/6Distinction: sharp/clear distinction between allergy and food intolerance (TBBT里面的Howard就有l(wèi)actose intolerance，一吃peanuts就會腫，長蕁麻疹rash哈哈。)再想牛就用schism。比如“填平兩個分支學(xué)科之間的分歧”heal the schism between clinical medicine and public health.(有本書就叫這個。) 犯罪Delinquency：一般crime都用不到。指道德敗壞，違法行為，為顯示詞匯量可以與crime連用Criminal Act：犯罪行為 環(huán)境Circumstance：under the circumstances. 相當(dāng)抽象的詞，“情況”。Surrounding：表示周圍居住的環(huán)境，想當(dāng)具體。Nearby可與之互換。The surrounding area.Atmosphere、Ambience：這兩個詞可替換，但是當(dāng)atmosphere表示大氣層的意思的時候則不能。 污染Contamination: 我覺得太裝B了，他的pp還不錯：contaminated water—特指被污染的水 人類Individual/men/ones/以及一切表示工人，農(nóng)民公務(wù)員等等的詞The human raceHumankindHumanity：特別指出，用來表示人性。其他一概不要用。雖然也有人之類的意思。 危險Hazard：化學(xué)、物理危害；隱患：polluted water is a hazard to wild life and nature；safety/nature hazard. modern society 在當(dāng)今社會In contemporary societyIn presentday societyIn this day and age（這是最牛的說法）