赖世雄进阶英语词汇3500 Unit108

 　　precisely¹

　　adv.精确地

　　The plane will take off at 10 o'clock precisely. =The plane will take off at 10 o'clock exactly.=The plane will take off at 10 o'clock sharp.=The plane will take off at 10 o'clock on the dot.

　　飞机将在十点整起飞。

　　agreeable

　　a.令人喜悦的；可接受的，赞成的

　　Mary is a very agreeable girl.

　　玛丽真是讨人喜欢的女孩。

　　Can anyone come up with a solution that will be agreeable to all?

　　有谁能想出一个大家都觉得合适的解决之道呢？

　　I'm glad that everyone here is agreeable to the plan. =I'm glad that everyone here agrees to the plan.

　　我很高兴这儿的每个人都赞成这项计划。

　　convention

　　n.惯例，习俗（可数或不可数皆可）；代表大会，会议（可数）

　　Business people wear suits according to social convention.

　　生意人根据社会习俗穿西装。

　　Issues concerning the use of mercy killings² are raised and discussed in the medical convention.

　　关于使用安乐死的数个议题在医学会议上被提及与讨论。

　　conventional

　　a.传统的，惯例的

　　It is conventional for Japanese to bow to one another.

　　日本人彼此鞠躬行礼是传统。

　　detective

　　n.侦探；刑警 a. 侦测的

　　Patricia paid a detective to secretly follow her husband.

　　派翠西亚花钱雇了一位侦探偷偷跟踪她老公。

　　They have invented various detective devices.

　　他们发明了各种侦测装置。

　　elsewhere

　　adv.在别处

　　You can't find this bag for a lower price elsewhere.

　　这个包包你在别的地方找不到比这里更便宜的了。

　　acre

　　n.英亩

　　Mr. Brown just bought 200 acres of land in Southern India.

　　伯朗先生刚在印度南部买了 200英亩的地。

　　percentage

　　n.百分比

　　The scientists expressed the figures as percentages.

　　这科学家以百分比表示这些数据。

　　A large percentage of prisoners come from poor families.

　　相当大百分比的囚犯来自穷苦家庭。

　　A small percentage of the company revenues was donated to charity.

　　该公司捐出一小部分的收入给慈善机构。

　　percent

　　n.百分之（几）

　　One percent of the students in this school have passed the test.

　　该校有百分之一的学生通过测验。

　　Five percent of the gold in the world is found in this area.

　　该区拥有世界上百分之五的黄金。

　　imply

　　vt.暗示

　　Are you implying that I'm a hypocrite?

　　你在暗示说我是个伪君子吗？

1 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

2 killings   

谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发

参考例句：

• His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
• The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。