听例句背四级单词03

[00:13.89]apply?

[00:15.31]We should apply to the publishers for permission to reprint an extract.?

[00:21.32]attack?

[00:23.40]It immediately ran away when she saw it,

[00:26.90]and experts confirmed that a puma¹ will not attack a human being unless it is cornered.?

[00:34.89]available?

[00:36.53]There were no tickets available for Friday's performance.?

[00:41.35]award?

[00:42.99]The Nobel Prize is awarded to commemorate² Nobel,

[00:47.15]the great chemist.?

[00:49.00]background?

[00:51.08]I would also like to learn more about the culture behind the language.

[00:55.46]When you understand the cultural background,

[00:58.52]you can better use the language.?

[01:01.47]commit?

[01:03.34]China will,

[01:04.65]as always,

[01:05.74]commit itself to reform,

[01:07.61]opening-up and modernization³ drive.?

[01:12.63]communicate?

[01:13.73]The Minister of Foreign Affairs

[01:16.07]has already communicated on this event with the American President.?

[01:21.88]crisis?

[01:23.74]Negotiations between the two countries are approaching a crisis.?

[01:28.55]effective?

[01:31.51]They took effective measures to prevent poisonous gases from escaping.?

[01:37.85]employ

[01:39.60]The firm employs the retired⁴ professor as an advisor⁵.

[01:44.41]entire

[01:46.93]In order to hedge his bets he didn't tell the other party his entire plan.?

[01:52.95]exhaust?

[01:55.24]Some web addicts⁶ often exhaust themselves by surfing the Internet for days on end.?

[02:03.55]growth?

[02:04.88]Russia President Putin stressed that the energy tariffs⁷ should be raised gradually

[02:11.33]and in accordance with the growth in people's income.?

[02:17.12]harm?

[02:18.44]The car was badly damaged but none of the passengers came to any harm.?

[02:23.90]incident?

[02:26.10]The anti-war demonstration⁸ proceeded without incident.?

[02:31.02]model?

[02:33.21]They try to build their system of democracy on the American model.?

[02:38.14]opinion?

[02:40.98]In the opinion of my doctor,

[02:43.05]I should be well enough to travel by next week.?

[02:47.33]preference?

[02:49.29]Do you have a preference for a particular food??

[02:53.23]side?

[02:55.53]People on both sides of the Taiwan Straits

[02:58.48]should inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese culture.?

[03:04.06]single?

[03:06.36]Don't stake everything on a single cast of the dice⁹.?

[03:10.18]supply?

[03:12.92]He was arrested for supplying arms to the terrorists.?

[03:17.08]adapt?

[03:19.81]Can you adapt your way of thinking to the new life style??

[03:23.75]adopt?

[03:26.27]Three concepts have been adopted for the Beijing Olympic Games,

[03:30.86]namely, the Green Olympics,

[03:33.05]the High-tech¹⁰ Olympics and the People's Olympics.?

[03:37.54]advocate?

[03:40.50]Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life

[03:43.77]Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed.?

[03:47.71]approach?

[03:50.12]Few writers can approach Shakespeare in talent.?

[03:53.84]approve?

[03:56.79]My parents don't approve of me smoking cigarettes.?

[04:00.51]circumstance?

[04:03.47]Circumstances alter cases.?

[04:07.30]consume?

[04:09.70]In the mid-seventies Americans consumed about seventeen million barrels of oil daily.?

[04:17.36]convey?

[04:20.20]This train conveys over three hundred passengers every day.?

[04:24.91]creative?

[04:26.77]We need some creative thinking to solve this problem.?

[04:31.79]crime?

[04:33.51]Last year,the crime rate in Chicago sharply declined.?

[04:37.67]define?

[04:39.86]When boundaries between countries are not clearly defined,

[04:44.02]there's usually trouble.?

[04:46.53]efficient?

[04:49.03]The new secretary is a quick,efficient worker,

[04:52.65]and the boss is quite satisfied with her.?

[04:56.25]emotion?

[04:58.44]The speaker appealed to our emotions rather than to our minds.?

[05:03.37]expectation?

[05:06.75]They had great expectations for their son,

[05:10.15]but he didn't really live up to them.?

[05:12.88]express?

[05:16.17]No words can express the grandeur¹¹ of that parade.?

[05:19.78]failure?

[05:23.17]Failure is the mother of success.／Failure teaches success.?

[05:28.97]gap?

[05:31.05]There were some unaccountable gaps in his story.

1 puma   

美洲豹

参考例句：

• The police and the volunteers combed the forest for the lost puma from the zoo.警察和志愿者们在森林里到处寻找动物园迷失的美洲狮。
• A businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.一位商人去钓鱼，看见那只美洲狮在树上。

2 commemorate   

vt.纪念，庆祝

参考例句：

• This building was built to commemorate the Fire of London.这栋大楼是为纪念“伦敦大火”而兴建的。
• We commemorate the founding of our nation with a public holiday.我们放假一日以庆祝国庆。

3 modernization   

n.现代化，现代化的事物

参考例句：

• This will help us achieve modernization.这有助于我们实现现代化。
• The Chinese people are sure to realize the modernization of their country.中国人民必将实现国家现代化。

4 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

5 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

6 addicts   

有…瘾的人( addict的名词复数 )； 入迷的人

参考例句：

• a unit for rehabilitating drug addicts 帮助吸毒者恢复正常生活的机构
• There is counseling to help Internet addicts?even online. 有咨询机构帮助网络沉迷者。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

7 tariffs   

关税制度； 关税( tariff的名词复数 )； 关税表； （旅馆或饭店等的）收费表； 量刑标准

参考例句：

• British industry was sheltered from foreign competition by protective tariffs. 保护性关税使英国工业免受国际竞争影响。
• The new tariffs have put a stranglehold on trade. 新的关税制对开展贸易极为不利。

8 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

9 dice   

n.骰子；vt.把（食物）切成小方块，冒险

参考例句：

• They were playing dice.他们在玩掷骰子游戏。
• A dice is a cube.骰子是立方体。

10 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

11 grandeur   

n.伟大，崇高，宏伟，庄严，豪华

参考例句：

• The grandeur of the Great Wall is unmatched.长城的壮观是独一无二的。
• These ruins sufficiently attest the former grandeur of the place.这些遗迹充分证明此处昔日的宏伟。