第一课 chinese woman- key words.docVIP

leap, a. a long or high jump跳越；跳跃；跳高；b. leap (in sth) a sudden large change or increase in sth骤变；剧增；激增。 womankind, (old-fashioned, formal) women in general（统称）女人，女性。 celebrated, famous for having good qualities著名的；闻名的；驰名的。 number, [sing.] (formal) a group or quantity of people一群人；许多人。 earthly, [usu before noun] connected with life on earth and not with any spiritual life人间的；尘世的；世俗的。 irrelevant, not important to or connected with a situation无关紧要；不相关：Many people consider politics irrelevant to their lives.许多人认为政治与他们的生活不相干。 feminist, a person who supports the belief that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men女权主义者；女权运动者。 pillar, a. a large round stone, metal, or wooden post that is used to support a bridge, the roof of a building, etc. especially when it is also decorative柱子，桥墩（尤指兼作装饰的）；b. a basic part or feature of a system, organization, belief, etc.（组织、制度、信仰等的）核心，基础，支柱。 rhetoric, a. (formal, often disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people but that is not completely honest or sincere华而不实的言语；花言巧语：the rhetoric of political slogans政治口号的虚华词藻。b. (formal) the skill of using language in speech or writing in a special way that influences or entertains people修辞技巧；修辞。 saturate, a. (often technical术语) to make sth completely wet使湿透；浸透：The continuous rain had saturated the soil.连绵不断的雨把土地淋了个透。b. [often passive] to fill sth/sb completely with sth so that it is impossible or useless to add any more使充满；使饱和：The company had saturated the market for personal organizers (= so that no new buyers could be found).那家公司的产品已使电子记事簿市场饱和。There was saturation coverage (= so much that it was impossible to avoid it or add to it) of the event by the media.媒体对这件事做了连篇累牍的报道。 blast, to violently destroy or break sth into pieces, using explosives（用炸药）炸毁，把…炸成碎片；爆破。blast off, (of spacecraft宇宙飞船) to leave the ground发射升空。 revealing, a. giving you interesting information that you did not know before揭露真相的；发人深省的：The document provided a revealing insight into the go