英语词汇提高Capter 20.pptVIP

Chapter 20 elaborate adj. very detailed and complicated eg. 1) The university has worked out an elaborate management training scheme for graduates. 学校针对毕业生做了详尽的管理培训计划。 2) It was clearly an elaborately planned operation. 那显然是一次精心策划的行动。 v. to give more details or information about sth. eg. 1) His task was to elaborate policies which would make a market economy compatible with a clean environment. 他的任务是制定详细政策，使得市场经济与清洁环境能共存。 2) A spokesman declined to elaborate on a statement released late yesterday. 一位发言人拒绝对昨天晚些时候发表的声明详加说明。 〔词根〕labor = to work labor n. 劳工；劳动；工作；努力 labor force manual labor cheap labor collaborate eg. The conductor collaborated brilliantly with the members of the orchestra. laborious eg. We eventually began the laborious task of sorting through his disordered papers. 我们最终开始了整理他那凌乱的文件这一费力的工作。 laboratory n. 实验室 emerge v. 1. to come out of sth. or out from behind sth. 2. to stop being involved in a difficult situation or period of time eg. The country is slowly emerging from a recession. 3. to become known 显露；知晓 eg. 1) Some worrying rumours were beginning to emerge. 2) It emerged that he had saved a child by donating his kidney. 〔词根〕merg, mers = to dip, to plunge emergence n. eg. The economic development of society largely depends on the emergence of new scientific ideas. emergency n. eg. It’s illegal to use the fire alarm except in case of emergency. immerse eg. He immersed himself in his studies to the detraction of his social life. submerge eg. 1) Floods have submerged parts of the island, killing 29 people. 2) She felt her individuality was being submerged by family life. 前缀ex-, e-, ef- = out; out of; former eject （e+ject掷，扔） eg. They were ejected from the house because they had not paid their rent. 他们因未付房租而被赶了出去。(vt. 投出，掷出) evade （e+vade走→走出去） eg. He could not evade the punishment of the law because of his commitment of the murder. 他逃脱不了法律的制裁。 (vt. 逃脱，逃避) effluence （ef+flu流＋ence→流出） eg. The mist