剑桥雅思词汇精选J

J

1.jam

Their car was stuck in a traffic jam for hours.

The crowds jammed the streets, and no cars can pass.

2.jar

No payment will be made for empty jars, which do not need to be returned.

3.jealous

When she kisses the baby, it makes the older child jealous.

4.jerk

I then asked eighteen blind volunteers to feel the wheels and assign one of the following motions to each wheel: wobbling, spinning fast, spinning steadily¹, jerking or braking.

5.jewelery / jewelry²

The Acoma and San Ildefonso pueblos³ have establish highly profitable pottery⁴ businesses, while the Navajo and Hopi groups have been similarly successful with jewellery.

6.jigsaw⁵

What about jigsaw puzzle designed for visually handicapped?

7.join

Ever since I joined the Street Kids International Program I have been able to buy my family sugar and buns for breakfast.

The island is joined to the mainland by a bridge.

8.joint⁶

The Youth Skills Enterprise Initiative in Zambia is a joint program with the Red Cross Society and the Y.W.C.A.

A biomechanic films an athlete in action and then digitizes her performance, recording⁷ the motion of every joint and limb in three dimensions.

9.journal

It is estimated that by the end of the 18th century 401 German scientific journals had been established as opposed to 96 in France and 50 in England.

10.journey

Photographs, maps and practical advice will guide your journeys on foot through the forests of the southern continent.

11.judge

It may be, however, that the comparison with HAL no longer seems quite important, and AI can now be judged by what it can do, rather than by how well it matches up to a 30-year-old science-fiction film.

Who will judge the next case?

The judge sentenced her to 12 month’s imprisonment⁸.

12.juice

And here’s your bottle of orange juice and your apple.

13.junction⁹

The accident happened at one of the country’s busiest railway junctions¹⁰.

14.jungle

In 1942 Allan R Holmberg, a doctoral student in anthropology¹¹ from Yale University, USA, ventured deep into the jungle of Bolivian Amazonia and searched out all isolated¹² band of Siriono Indians.

15.junior

Now, this season we’ll be playing all our matches for both the junior and senior competitions at King’s Park, instead of Royal Park, which was used last season.

Training sessions will be held in King’s Park on Wednesday afternoons for the juniors and they will be wearing red shirts again this year.

16.jury

The jury found the prisoner hot guilty.

17.justice

The fundamental conditions and resources for health are peace, shelter, education, food, a viable¹³ income, a stable eco-system, sustainable resources, social justice and equity¹⁴.

The police must do all they can to bring criminals to justice.

18.justify¹⁵

But do ports all produce a range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities together under a single generic¹⁶ label?

19.juvenile¹⁷

Eighty percent of deaths among juvenile fur seals occur because playing pups fail to spot predators¹⁸ approaching.

1 steadily   

adv.稳定地；不变地；持续地

参考例句：

• The scope of man's use of natural resources will steadily grow.人类利用自然资源的广度将日益扩大。
• Our educational reform was steadily led onto the correct path.我们的教学改革慢慢上轨道了。

2 jewelry   

n.（jewllery）（总称）珠宝

参考例句：

• The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
• Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。

3 pueblos   

n.印第安人村庄( pueblo的名词复数 )

参考例句：

4 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

5 jigsaw   

n.缕花锯，竖锯，拼图游戏；vt.用竖锯锯，使互相交错搭接

参考例句：

• A jigsaw puzzle can keep me absorbed for hours.一副拼图就能让我沉醉几个小时。
• Tom likes to work on jigsaw puzzles,too.汤姆也喜欢玩拼图游戏。

6 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

7 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

8 imprisonment   

n.关押，监禁，坐牢

参考例句：

• His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
• He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

9 junction   

n.连接，接合；交叉点，接合处，枢纽站

参考例句：

• There's a bridge at the junction of the two rivers.两河的汇合处有座桥。
• You must give way when you come to this junction.你到了这个路口必须让路。

10 junctions   

联结点( junction的名词复数 )； 会合点； （公路或铁路的）交叉路口； （电缆等的）主结点

参考例句：

• Metals which were mutually soluble would tend to give strong junctions. 可互溶的金属趋向于产生牢固的结合点。
• Some adhering junctions are present as narrow bands connecting two cells. 有些粘附连接以一窄带的形式连接两个细胞。

11 anthropology   

n.人类学

参考例句：

• I believe he has started reading up anthropology.我相信他已开始深入研究人类学。
• Social anthropology is centrally concerned with the diversity of culture.社会人类学主要关于文化多样性。

12 isolated   

adj.与世隔绝的

参考例句：

• His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident. 他的不良行为只是个别事件。
• Patients with the disease should be isolated. 这种病的患者应予以隔离。

13 viable   

adj.可行的，切实可行的，能活下去的

参考例句：

• The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
• The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。

14 equity   

n.公正，公平，（无固定利息的）股票

参考例句：

• They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
• To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值，墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。

15 justify   

vt.证明…正当(或有理)，为…辩护

参考例句：

• He tried to justify his absence with lame excuses.他想用站不住脚的借口为自己的缺席辩解。
• Can you justify your rude behavior to me?你能向我证明你的粗野行为是有道理的吗？

16 generic   

adj.一般的，普通的，共有的

参考例句：

• I usually buy generic clothes instead of name brands.我通常买普通的衣服，不买名牌。
• The generic woman appears to have an extraordinary faculty for swallowing the individual.一般妇女在婚后似乎有特别突出的抑制个性的能力。

17 juvenile   

n.青少年，少年读物；adj.青少年的，幼稚的

参考例句：

• For a grown man he acted in a very juvenile manner.身为成年人，他的行为举止显得十分幼稚。
• Juvenile crime is increasing at a terrifying rate.青少年犯罪正在以惊人的速度增长。

18 predators   

n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 )；奴役他人者（尤指在财务或性关系方面）

参考例句：

• birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
• The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》