【突破英文词汇】pon, pos -- put 放置

1. depose¹ /dɪˈpəʊz/

-- (literally, "put down") put out of office; dethrone

Did the king abdicate² or was he deposed³?

那个国王是自己放弃了王位还是被废的？

 

 

2. impose /imˈpəuz/

-- put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict⁴

Cleaning up after the job is the repairman's responsibility. Don't let him impose it on you.

工作之后，清理收拾是修理工人的责任，别让他把这项工作加在你身上。

 

 

3. postpone⁵ /ˌpəustˈpəun/

-- (literally, "put after") put off; defer⁶; delay

Mr. Marx has postponed⁷ the test until tomorrow to give us an extra day to study.

马克思先生已将考试延至明天，好让我们多一天复习的时间。

 

 

4. superimpose /ˌsju:pərɪmˈpəʊz/

-- put on top of or over; attach as an addition

Today's snowfall superimposed a fresh two inches on yesterday's accumlation.

昨天的积雪上又新添加了两寸今天的雪。

 

 

5. transpose /trænsˈpəʊz/

-- (literally, "put across") change the relative order of; interchange

There is a misspelled word on your paper, "strenght". Correct it by transposing the last two letters. 

你的考卷上有个拼错的单词“strenght”，把最后两个字母调换过来改正它。

1 depose   

vt.免职；宣誓作证

参考例句：

• The witness is going to depose.证人即将宣誓做证。
• The emperor attempted to depose the Pope.皇帝企图废黜教皇。

2 abdicate   

v.让位，辞职，放弃

参考例句：

• The reason I wnat to abdicate is to try something different.我辞职是因为我想尝试些不一样的东西。
• Yuan Shikai forced emperor to abdicate and hand over power to him.袁世凯逼迫皇帝逊位，把政权交给了他。

3 deposed   

v.罢免( depose的过去式和过去分词 )；（在法庭上）宣誓作证

参考例句：

• The president was deposed in a military coup. 总统在军事政变中被废黜。
• The head of state was deposed by the army. 国家元首被军队罢免了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 inflict   

vt.(on)把…强加给，使遭受，使承担

参考例句：

• Don't inflict your ideas on me.不要把你的想法强加于我。
• Don't inflict damage on any person.不要伤害任何人。

5 postpone   

v.延期，推迟

参考例句：

• I shall postpone making a decision till I learn full particulars.在未获悉详情之前我得从缓作出决定。
• She decided to postpone the converastion for that evening.她决定当天晚上把谈话搁一搁。

6 defer   

vt.推迟，拖延；vi.(to)遵从，听从，服从

参考例句：

• We wish to defer our decision until next week.我们希望推迟到下星期再作出决定。
• We will defer to whatever the committee decides.我们遵从委员会作出的任何决定。

7 postponed   

vt.& vi.延期，缓办，（使）延迟vt.把…放在次要地位；[语]把…放在后面（或句尾）vi.（疟疾等）延缓发作（或复发）

参考例句：

• The trial was postponed indefinitely. 审讯无限期延迟。
• The game has already been postponed three times. 这场比赛已经三度延期了。