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Unit two New Words 1. inquiry n. We made some inquiries into what she had done on that day. 我们打听了一下她那天干的事。 After monthts of fruitless inquiry, we finally discovered the truth. 经过几个月毫无进展的探索，我们终于发现了事情的真相。 2. signal v. Both parties have signaled their determination to win. 两党都已经表示出要赢的决心。 The cyclist signaled and turned right. 骑车者发出信号后向右转。 3 column n. He totaled that column of figures. 他合计了那一栏的数字。 What column do you like best 你最喜欢哪个栏目？ rapping . You can learn a lot by rapping with people you think might be your enemies. 与你认为是敌人的人们随意交谈可以学到很多东西。 I’ve been really lucky,I have to say,”she reports,rapping on the table beside her.“Touch wood ! 我承认，自己真的很幸运”她叩击着身旁的桌子说: “避避邪！” Others are just passing through Tokyo, perhaps as the first stop on an Asian itinerary, and see there is easy money to be made rapping to inebriated Japanese. 另外一些人仅仅是路过东京，或者东京是她们亚洲之旅的第一站，她们发现只要是拍拍喝的醉醺醺的日本人就能这么容易地赚到钱。 n. I cross at the intersection. 我穿越十字路口。 Two cars collided at the intersection. 两辆车在交叉囗相撞。 The car stopped at a street intersection. 这辆车停在十字路口。 swine n.Circe metamorphosed men into swine. 女妖锡西把人变成了猪。收藏指正 Cast not your pearls before swine. bacon n. I love crispy bacon. 我喜欢脆的肉。 How about some bacon? 来点熏猪肉怎么样? veal n. The greatest calf is not the sweatest veal. 大而无当。 Veal tastes better when you boil it gently. 文火煮出的牛肉味道要可口一些。 pullet n. That is to vaccinate a pullet flock at least twice for IBD. 这就是：对青年鸡至少进行2次IBD免疫。 redundancy n Actually, redundancy is internal to language. 实际上，冗馀是自然语言的一个内在属性。 The threat of redundancy was suddenly removed. 裁员的威胁顿时消除了。 There is too much redundancy in this essay. 这篇论文重复过多。 n. The child died aborning. 孩子在出生的时候就死了。 The plan died aborning. 这计划还未实行就夭折了。 oxymoron n.Or with Bush filling the slot, is that an oxymoron? 或者，当布什窜升首位的时候，大家只不过希望这是一种“矛盾修辞法”？The first stage of CBD is the era of monolithic components, a seeming oxymoron that describes the adolescent state of components today. CBD的第一阶段是单片式组件的时代，是今天组件青春期表