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托福常見同義字 (九) 

1) Addict (N. / V.)　有癮的人； 入迷的人； （吸毒）成癮者；使沉溺； 使上癮； 使自己沾染（某些惡習）

例句：

(1) She is a TV addict and watches as much as she can.

(2) He's only 24 years old and a drug addict.

2) give in to 屈服於

例句：

(1) To fit it all in, something had to give. 

(2) What was Israel going to give up in return? 

3) surrender (N. /V.)　投降； 屈服； 自首；； 放棄； 交出； 聽任； 屈服； （保險的）解約

例句：

(1) They have been ordered to surrender their passports. 

(2) Gen. Morgan's troops yesterday surrendered their heavy weapons to Belgian and US troops. 

4) habituate (V.) 使習慣於

例句：

(1) According to my ancient love manual, I habituate to a extraordinary and humor man.

(2) You must habituate yourself to hard work. 

5) Allure (N. /V.) 誘惑力，魅力；引誘，誘惑； 吸引

例句：

(1) It's a game that has really lost its allure.

(2) But his allure is not just about the words. 

6) seduce (V.) 勾引，引誘； 誘姦（婦女）； 誘使…墮落； 迷惑，使入迷

例句：

(1) Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.

(2) To seduce the representatives from their duty to their constituents.

7) coax (N. /V.) 哄； 用好話勸誘； 哄騙； 輕輕地弄好；同軸電纜； 花言巧語； 油嘴滑舌的人

例句：

(1) The government coaxed them to give up their strike by promising them temporary residence permits.

(2) The WPC talked yesterday of her role in trying to coax vital information from the young victim. 

8) tempt (V.) 引誘，慫恿； 吸引； 冒…的風險； 使感興趣；有吸引力

例句：

(1) Don't let credit tempt you to buy something you can't afford. 

(2) It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressive(退步的)and hail the American system as superior.

9) lure (N. /V.) 吸引力，魅力； 誘惑物； 誘餌；吸引，引誘

例句：

(1) The lure of rural life is proving as strong as ever.

(2) The average amount of time students now take to complete an undergraduate degree has stretched to six years and seven months as students interrupted by work, inconvenienced by unavailable classes, or lured by one more football season find it hard to graduate.

10) attract (V.) 吸引； 誘惑； 引起…的好感（或興趣）；具有吸引力； 引人注意

例句：

(1) Opinion polls suggest that the two rebels have attracted a lot of sympathy.

(2) Anything with strong gravity attracts other things to it.

11) Approximately 近似地，大約

例句：

(1) They did not have even an approximate idea what the Germans really wanted. 

(2) By about 6 weeks of age, most babies begin to show something approximating a day/night sleeping pattern.

12) roughly (Adv.) 粗略地； 大體上； 大致上； 粗暴地

例句：

(1) They have complained of discrimination and occasional rough treatment.

(2) We had this understanding that courses were roughly the same weight. 

13) about 關於； 大約； 在…周圍；在附近的； 四處走動的； 在起作用的； 在流行中的

例句：

(1) Leadership is about the ability to implement change. 

(2) I think there's something a little peculiar about the results of your test. 

14) around 大約； 旋轉； 到處，四處； 在周圍

例句：

(1) He straightened up slowly and spun around on the stool to face us.

(2) He glanced discreetly around the room at the other people. 

15) close to 離…近； 與…關係密切； 近乎； 臨近

例句：

(1) That's made everything just too close to call. 

(2) He gets very close to many of his subjects.

16) Baffle (N. /V.) 使受挫折； 使困惑，使迷惑； 用隔音板隔音； 擋住（水流等）；隔板，擋板； 迷惑； 遮護物，阻礙體； 迷彩

例句：

(1) An apple tree producing square fruit is baffling experts. 

(2) An investigation found that many of the super-rich were baffled by the infinite choices their money made available.

17) confuse (V.) 使困窘； 使混亂； 使困惑； 使更難於理解；使糊塗

例句：

(1) I can't see how anyone could confuse you with another! 

(2) To further confuse the issue, there is an enormous variation in the amount of sleep people feel happy with.

18) perplex (V.) 使迷惑，使混亂； 使複雜化

例句：

(1) It perplexed him because he was tackling it the wrong way.

(2) But fitting the tracksuit seemed to perplex Dolce.

19) bewilder (V.) 使迷惑； 使為難； 使手足無措； 使變糊塗

例句：

(1) With this sensory onslaught, he seems to be trying to bewilder us, in the service of a larger obsession; namely, bewilderment. 

(2) Again and again passages in his essays exasperate or bewilder.

20) puzzle (N. /V.) 使迷惑，使難解；為難，傷腦筋；智力測驗，智力玩具； 難題； 令人費解的事[人]； 謎一般的事物

例句：

(1) A rather neat option allows you to design your own fiendish puzzle. 

(2) As the excavation proceeds more...pieces of the archaeological jigsaw puzzle will be discovered. 

21) confound (V.) 使混淆，使混亂； 挫敗； 詛咒

例句：

(1) The choice of Governor may confound us all.

(2) In other words, will they confound the stereotypes?