每天背單詞 第011期

plateau

英 [?pl?t??] 美 [pl??to?]

n. 高原；穩(wěn)定水平；托盤；平頂女帽

vi. 達(dá)到平衡；達(dá)到穩(wěn)定時(shí)期

例句：

The U.S. heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau.
美國(guó)的海洛因市場(chǎng)目前似乎已進(jìn)入了一個(gè)穩(wěn)定階段。

We took a plane southwest across the Anatolian plateau to Cappadocia.
我們乘飛機(jī)朝西南方,越過安納托利亞高原,飛往卡帕多細(xì)亞。

A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land.
一個(gè)寬闊的山谷展開，通向一片平坦的高原耕地。

whale

英 [we?l] 美 [we?l]

n. 鯨；巨大的東西

v. （非正式）毆打；捕鯨；使慘敗

n. (Whale) （愛）惠爾（人名）

例句：

A whale is a fish. True or false?
鯨魚是魚，對(duì)還是錯(cuò)？

A whale was found washed up on the shore.
一頭鯨被發(fā)現(xiàn)沖到了岸上。

The whale dived as the harpoon struck it.
鯨被魚叉射中后下潛。

tigress

英 [?ta?ɡr?s] 美 [?ta?ɡr?s]

n. 雌虎；兇悍的女人

例句：

They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress.
他們迅速堪比母虎。

Tigers fight to death only when a tigress is defending her young, or when a tiger is guarding a tigress from the attentions of other males.
只有當(dāng)一只母老虎在保護(hù)自己的幼崽時(shí)，或者當(dāng)一只老虎在保護(hù)一只母老虎不受其他雄性動(dòng)物的注意時(shí)，老虎才會(huì)搏斗致死。

A liger is a hybrid cross between a male lion and a tigress.
獅虎獸是雄性獅子和雌性老虎的后代。

prestige

英 [pre?sti??] 美 [pre?sti??]

n. 威望，聲望；聲譽(yù)

adj. 令人敬仰的；受尊重的；貴重的

n. （Prestige）（英）普雷斯蒂奇（人名）

例句：

It was his responsibility for foreign affairs that gained him international prestige.
是他在外交事務(wù)中的盡職盡責(zé)為他贏得了國(guó)際聲望。

As the president's prestige continues to fall, they're clearly beginning to consider him a liability.
隨著總統(tǒng)的威信持續(xù)下降，他們顯然開始認(rèn)為他是一個(gè)累贅。

Some did not get much more prestige than that.
很少有人能享有如此聲望。

jewelry

英 ['d?u??lr?] 美 [?d?u??lri]

n. 珠寶；珠寶類

例句：

I asked him to have my jewelry valued.
我請(qǐng)求他為我的珠寶估價(jià)。

The one on the right wears jewelry.
右邊的一個(gè)人戴著首飾。

We have purchased some valuable jewelry.
我們購(gòu)置了幾件貴重的珠寶飾物。

回顧

1. plateau
2. whale
3. tigress
4. prestige
5. jewelry