英語單詞超好背 第0476期

humor

英 [?hju?m?] 美 [?hju?m?r]

n. 幽默，詼諧；心情

vt. 迎合，遷就；順應

例句：

The movie mixes broad humor with romance.
那部電影把粗俗幽默和浪漫故事結合在一起。

It's filled with a really fun sense of humor.
它充滿了真正有趣的幽默感。

He has found that humor is a double-edged sword.
他發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默是一把雙刃劍。

peripheral

英 [p??r?f?r?l] 美 [p??r?f?r?l]

adj. 外圍的；次要的；（神經(jīng)）末梢區(qū)域的

n. 外部設備

例句：

Fund-raising is peripheral to their main activities.
對他們的主要活動而言，籌集資金是次要的。

Companies are increasingly eager to contract out peripheral activities like training.
公司越來越渴望把像培訓這樣的次要活動外包出去。

The curriculum then becomes peripheral and is dealt with by the reserve capacity of the brain.
然后，課程就變成了次要的，就可以被大腦的備用容量所接收了。

photograph

英 [?f??t?ɡrɑ?f] 美 [?fo?t?ɡr?f]

n. 照片，相片

v. 攝影，為......照相；在照片上顯得

例句：

The photograph had been framed.
照片已鑲了框。

He peered closely at the photograph.
他聚精會神地端詳著相片。

It wasn't a very flattering photograph.
這張照片照得不如本人好看。

varnish

英 [?vɑ?n??] 美 [?vɑ?rn??]

n. 亮光漆，清漆；虛飾；光澤面

vt. 裝飾，粉飾；在…上涂清漆；使…有光澤

例句：

The varnish takes a few hours to harden.
清漆需要幾個小時才能干透。

You can buy brushes, paint, varnish and suchlike there.
你在那兒能買到刷子、油漆、清漆之類的東西。

Research showed it was the same ordinary varnish used on furniture.
研究表明，它和家具上使用的是一樣的普通清漆。

portray

英 [p???tre?] 美 [p??r?tre?]

vt. 描繪；扮演

例句：

He has worked hard in recent months to portray New York in a better light.
最近幾個月他一直努力工作要從一個更好的角度描繪紐約。

Though advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides.
盡管支持者將草飼產(chǎn)品描繪成對所有人都有利的雙贏局面，但這些產(chǎn)品也有缺點。

Why does cartoonist Mike Luckovich portray groundhog Phil confessing in front of reporters that he accepted money from the White House?
漫畫家麥克·盧科維奇為什么在畫中描繪土撥鼠菲爾在記者面前承認自己收受了白宮的錢呢？

回顧

1. humor
2. peripheral
3. photograph
4. varnish
5. portray