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托福常見單字與片語 (二) 

1) posse  (N.)   一群（人）

例句

(1) A posse of Marsh's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea. 

(2) He posed a posse of rhetorical questions.

2) characteristic (N./ Adj.)  特徵 ； 特有的；典型的

例句

(1) Genes determine the characteristics of every living thing.

(2) Each member's impairment informs their characteristic dance style. 

3) transmit (V.)  傳遞；傳播；傳送（信號）

例句

(1) There was no danger of transmitting the infection through operations. 

(2) There was no vibration transmitted to the handles and the machine wasn't noisy either.

4) subsequent  (Adj.)  隨後的

例句

(1) Those concerns were overshadowed by subsequent events. 

(2) They won only one more game subsequent to their Cup semi-final win last year. 

5) ground  (N.)   地面； 土；土壤；土地 ； （有特殊用途的）地域 ； 原因；根據； （知識、經驗等的）領域

例句

(1)The ground had eroded. 

(2) He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content from theground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality.

6) capacity  (N.) 容量；生產能力；（尤指某人或某組織的）辦事能力； 職位；工作；角色

例句

(1)Toronto hospital maternity wards were filled to capacity.

(2) His career constant is a capacity to make news.

7) outwit (V.)  （智力上）超過，勝過；智勝

例句

(1)Seeing how cleverly he had been outwitted he made no complaint. 

(2) Hopefully the owner was not some perv he would have to outwit.

8) dominant  (Adj.)  主要的；主導的；佔優勢的

例句

(1) Because it is carried by a dominant gene, an affected individual can expect about half of his or her children to inherit the illness. 

(2) He rapidly became the dominant force on the committee. 

9) dominate  (V.)  統治；控制

例句

(1) t's one of the biggest buildings in this area, and it really dominates this whole place.

(2) In normal circumstances it should completely dominate the record.

10) mercy  (N.) 憐憫；仁慈；寬容 ； 恩惠；解脫

例句

(1)It's portrayed as a sort of mercy killing.

(2) Other British artists also loom large on Have Mercy.

11) be at the mercy of sb/sth   完全受…的支配

例句

(1)His life was [lay] at the mercy of the king.

(2) We were left out at the mercy of the autocratic 

employer.

12) impulse (N.)  突然的強烈欲望 ； 脈衝； 動機；動力；刺激

例句

(1) Ms. Robuck was driven by a similar revisionist impulse. 

(2) After lunch she decided on impulse to take a bath. 

13) inevitable  (Adj.) 不可避免的；必然發生的

例句

(1) The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. 

(2) Its the inevitable Ying-Yang thing happening in the universe.

14) vent (V./ N.)  通風口 ； 發泄，表達（負面的情緒）

例句

(1) The rioters were prevented from venting their anger on the police.

(2) Top each vol-au-vent with a small pastry circle.

15) give vent to sth （常指不公地）發泄（負面情緒）

例句

(1) Forget dry legal language - now's the chance to give vent to your softer creative side.

(2) While she listens they share their concerns, speak from their experience, give vent totheir grievances.

16) gratify  (V.)  使高興；使滿意；滿足（某人的願望、需求等）

例句

(1) Every whim will be gratified. 

(2) The result, slimy with implausible plotting, will gratify those who consider all politics to be a conspiratorial murk.

17) demand  (V./ N.)   強烈要求；強要； 需要

例句

(1)Researchers wrongly assumed that people were quite clear about the demands of the task.

(2) Confronted with such facts, some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more extreme and far-reaching measures, such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitate to ward gendered play.

18) immediately  (Adv.) 立即，馬上； 一…就

例句

(1) The cause of the accident was not immediately apparent. 

(2) But the artistic part of negotiation I think has to do with responding immediately to cues one gets in the process of negotiation.

19) produce  (V./ N.)  生產；出產； 引起 ； 製作 ； 製作 （尤指大量生產的）食品，農產品

例句

(1) Talks aimed at producing a new world trade treaty have been under way for six years. 

(2) Flood basalts on the ocean floor produce oceanic plateaus. 

20) struggle  (V./ N.) 奮鬥 ； 苦苦掙紮； 打鬥； 抗爭

例句

(1) Life became a struggle for survival. 

(2) They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor struggling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room - a prospect that teachers find most irritating and students view as, well, inevitable.