新概念第三冊(cè)Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness? 是本能還是機(jī)智
    【New words and expressions】 生詞和短語(yǔ)
    ●insect n. 昆蟲(chóng)
    ●wage v. 進(jìn)行(斗爭(zhēng))
    ●contaminate v. 弄臟
    ●provocation n. 惹怒
    ●spider n. 蜘蛛
    ●wasp n. 黃蜂
    ●moth n. 飛蛾
    ●ant n. 螞蟻
    ●revulsion n. 厭惡
    ●horde n. 群
    ●uncanny adj. 神秘的，不可思議的
    ●erase v. 擦，抹去
    ●praying mantis 螳螂
    ●entranced adj. 出神的
    ●beetle n. 甲蟲(chóng)
    ●sheltered adj. 傷不著的，無(wú)危險(xiǎn)的
    ●luscious adj. 甘美的
    ●cluster n. 一簇
    ●aphid n. 蚜蟲(chóng)
    ●underside n. 底面，下側(cè)
    ●colony n. 一群
    ●sticky adj. 粘的
    ●scurry v. 小步跑
    ●swarm v. 聚集
    ●ingenuity n. 機(jī)靈
    ◆insect n. 昆蟲(chóng)
    ◆wage v. 進(jìn)行(斗爭(zhēng))
    wage: begin and continue a struggle
    wage a war against / on
    Eg: life means perpetual struggle against poverty.
    carry on
    undertake to do 著手
    Eg: He undertook to inform people concerned.
    engage in / be engaged in / be determined on sth. / be dedicated to sth. / be devoted tosth.
    ◆◆◆contaminate v. 弄臟
    contaminate / pollute
    contaminate: make dirty or bad or impure by mixing with dirty or poisonous matter.
    Eg: Don’t eat the apple. It has been contaminated by flies.
    Never eat food contaminated by flies.
    Don’t read the hot story just because it will contaminate your mind. 別閱讀黃色書(shū)刊。
    hot story 色情小說(shuō) blue movie 色情電影
    pollute
    Eg: The air has been polluted severely / terribly / badly.
    pollution / polluted
    tint vt. 弄臟(通常指壞因素對(duì)你的影響)
    Eg: Don’t read the hot story just because it will contaminate / tint your mind.
    His reputation was tinted by the scandal. 他的名聲被丑聞?wù)次哿恕?BR>    scandal 丑聞
    foul : 弄臟 make sth. dirty
    Eg: Dogs are forbidden to go into the streets because we are afraid the streets will be fouled.
    The factory is responsible for fouling up the air. (相當(dāng)于pollute)
    foul up == pollute
    defile 弄臟，污染 make sth. impure
    Eg: I like honey, but I don’t want to drink the honey defiled by flies.
    poison / foul up / pollute
    Eg: Gases from cars are poisoning the air of our city.
    Read: pollute / foul up / poison / contaminate / defile / tint
    Eg: He is contaminated / tinted by hot stories.
    Hot stories contaminate / tint his mind.
    ◆provocation n. 惹怒
    provoke v.
    1. make angry or bad-tempered
    Eg: He was provoked beyond his endurance.
    He was provoked and it was more than he could endure.
    2. cause 引起，導(dǎo)致，激起
    arouse
    Eg: The book arouses / provokes my interest.
    bring about / result in / lead to / give rise to
    provoke sb’s interest in sth.
    provoke sb, to do / provoke sb. into doing / cause sb. to do sth.
    Eg: You provoked him to say so. Why?
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    Eg: His provocation is beyond my endurance.
    ◆spider n. 蜘蛛
    ◆wasp n. 黃蜂
    ◆moth n. 飛蛾
    ◆ant n. 螞蟻
    ◆revulsion n. 厭惡
    disgust / dislike
    ◆horde n. 群
    ◆uncanny adj. 神秘的，不可思議的
    mysterious
    Eg: They are leading a mysterious life.
    In spite of this, he survived mysteriously.
    eerie 怪誕的，奇異的
    Eg: He looks eerie. / What he said is eerie to me.
    weird 怪異的，怪誕的，神秘的 (行為舉止讓人摸不著頭尾)
    Eg: I can’t get along well with him because he is a weird person.
    Why do you decide to many such a weird person?
    cryptic 神秘的，鬼鬼崽崽的
    Eg: Why did you do such a little thing in a cryptic way.
    Read: eerie / weird / cryptic / mysterious / uncanny
    ◆erase v. 擦，抹去
    Eg: Erease the idea from your mind!
    He erases the name from the namelist.
    cancel / write off / cross off
    Eg: The word is unnecessary here, so it is crossedoff.
    wipe out
    Eg: I want to write on the blackboard, so I have towipe all the words here out.
    I can’t imaging why you are so hot, please wipe outsweat on your face.
    obliterate 涂去
    Eg: He obliterated two words in ink / with a pen.
    I obliterate the word with chalk.
    ◆praying mantis 螳螂
    ◆entranced adj. 出神的
    entrance
    entrance to the room / hall
    entrance: carry away with joy and delight 入迷，出神
    be entranced in thought
    Eg: I don’t know what he has in his mind. Anyway he is entranced in thought.
    be entranced with fear 嚇得魂不附體
    Eg: At the story at night, I was entranced with fear.
    be pleased with / be satisfied with / be popular with / be entranced with performance / film /book
    Eg: He was entranced with film.
    Are you entranced with the story?
    He listened to the story entranced.
    The writer watched ants entranced.
    ◆beetle n. 甲蟲(chóng)
    ◆sheltered adj. 傷不著的，無(wú)危險(xiǎn)的
    ◆luscious adj. 甘美的
    ◆cluster n. 一簇
    ◆aphid n. 蚜蟲(chóng)
    ◆underside n. 底面，下側(cè)
    ◆colony n. 一群
    ◆sticky adj. 粘的
    ◆scurry v. 小步跑
    ◆swarm v. 聚集
    ◆ingenuity n. 機(jī)靈
    Eg: The boy shows ingenulity in making toys.