【達人】新概念英語單詞:Lesson 17　A man-made disease 人為的疾病

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Lesson 17 A man-made disease 人為的疾病

settlement [?setlm?nt] n. 新拓居地，解決，協(xié)議

【搭】in full settlement 償還全部債務

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A: Have all the problems settled?

B: Yes, all the problems have come to a settlement.

A：問題處理完了嗎？

B：是的，所有問題都已經解決了。

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enterprising [?ent?praizi?] adj. 有事業(yè)心的

settler [?setl?] n. 移居者

promiscuous [pr??miskju?s] adj. 雜亂的

【派】promiscuously 雜亂地

【擴】littery 雜亂的　　messy 雜亂的

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A: Promiscuous eating habits is bad for your health.

B: I see. But sometimes the work left me no time to have a meal.

A：不規(guī)則的飲食習慣對你的健康很不利。

B：我知道，但是有時候工作起來根本沒時間吃飯。

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abandon [??b?nd?n] n. 放縱，縱情，放任

【例】Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed.

　　　那些自暴自棄的人無法成功。

overrun [??uv?r?n] v. 蔓延，泛濫

【擴】overswell 泛濫　　deluge 使泛濫

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A: My house has been overrun by cockroaches.

B: Don't you want to do anything about it?

A：現(xiàn)在我的家中蟑螂猖獗。

B：你就不想做些什么嗎？

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devastation [?dev??stei??n] n. 破壞，劫掠

【擴】destruction 破壞，毀滅　　demolishment 破壞，毀壞

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A: The devastation of the ecological environment in some areas has worsened.

B: If they don't stop that behaviour, they will be punished by nature.

A：在某些地區(qū)，對生態(tài)環(huán)境的毀壞更嚴重了。

B：如果他們不停下來的話，會被大自然懲罰啊。

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burrow [?b?r?u] v. 挖，掘

【擴】grub 挖掘　　excavate 挖掘

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A: I had to burrow in the library for the books I needed.

B: Wait a moment. I'll go with you.

A：我只好在圖書館搜尋我所需要的書。

B：等一下，我跟你一起去。

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susceptible [s??sept?b?l] adj. 易受感染的

【搭】be susceptible of 能……的　　be susceptible to 對……敏感的

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A: We are all susceptible to advertising.

B: So let's turn off the television.

A：我們都容易受廣告的影響。

B：那我們把電視給關了吧。

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virus [?vai?r?s] n. 病毒

myxomatosis [?miks?m??t?usis] n. 多發(fā)性粘液瘤

infect [in?fekt] v. 傳染

【派】infection 傳染

【搭】be infected with 染上

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A: Go away. I don't want to infect you with my cold.

B: Have you taken any medicine?

A：走開，我可不想把我的感冒傳染給你。

B：你吃感冒藥了嗎？

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epidemic [?epi?demik] n. 流行病

【搭】an influenza epidemic 流行性感冒

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A: The village was smitten by a kind of epidemic.

B: The villagers there must be very panicked.

A：那個村子被一種傳染病侵襲了。

B：那兒的村民肯定特別恐慌。

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mosquito [m??ski?t?u] n. 蚊蟲

carrier [?k?ri?] n. 帶菌者

exterminate [ik?st??mineit] v. 消滅

【派】extermination 消滅

【擴】perish 消滅　　extirpate 消滅，根除

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A: I must exterminate the mosquitoes before going to sleep, or I can't sleep well in the night.

B: But we don't have any insecticide now.

A：我睡覺前必須把這些蚊子消滅掉，否則晚上我就沒法睡好了。

B：但是我們已經沒有殺蟲劑了。

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ironically [ai?r?nik?li] adv. 具有諷刺意味地

【例】Ironically, most people came to watch the match on the day it poured with rain.

　　　老天爺好像成心捉弄人，很多人前來看比賽卻偏偏下起瓢潑大雨。

bequeath [bi?kwi?e] v. 把……傳給

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A: He bequeathed all of his property to his daughter.

B: He also has a son, right?

A：他把全部財產都遺贈給了他女兒。

B：他還有個兒子對吧？

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pest [pest] n. 害蟲，有害動物

pestilence [?pestil?ns] n. 瘟疫

confine [k?n?fain] n. 范圍

【派】confinement 限制

【擴】scope 范圍　　extent 范圍

【搭】between the confines of ……界限之間

domesticate [d??mestikeit] v. 馴養(yǎng)

【派】domesticated 馴養(yǎng)的，馴服的

【擴】tame 馴養(yǎng)，使馴服

【例】Thousands of years ago people had learned how to domesticate animals.

　　　幾千年以前人們就學會了飼養(yǎng)動物。