新视野3Unit5课前预习词汇.docVIP

新视野3Unit 5课前词汇预习 1. gauge V-T If you gauge the speed or strength of something, or if you gauge an amount, you measure or calculate it, often by using a device of some kind. (常指用仪器) 测量 例： He gauged the wind at over thirty knots. 他测量出风速为30节以上。 2. N-COUNT A gauge is a device that measures the amount or quantity of something and shows the amount measured. 测量仪器 例： ...temperature gauges. …温度计。 3. V-T If you gauge peoples actions, feelings, or intentions in a particular situation, you carefully consider and judge them. 判定 例： His mood can be gauged by his reaction to the most trivial of incidents. 他的情绪可以通过他对最琐碎的小事的反应来判定。 4. N-SING A gauge of someones feelings or a situation is a fact or event that can be used to judge them. (评价、判断的) 标准 例： The index is the governments chief gauge of future economic activity. 这个指数是政府对未来经济活动的主要判断标准。 2. suffice 1. V-I If you say that something will suffice, you mean it will be enough to achieve a purpose or to fulfil a need. 足够 例： A cover letter should never exceed one page; often a far shorter letter will suffice. 附信绝不应超过一页；通常一封更短的信就足够了。 2. PHRASE Suffice it to say or suffice to say is used at the beginning of a statement to indicate that what you are saying is obvious, or that you will only give a short explanation. 不必多言 例： Suffice it to say that afterwards we never met again. 不必多言，后来我们再也没见过面。 词组短语 同近义词 同根词 词根：suffice adj. sufficient 足够的；充分的 adv. sufficiently 充分地；足够地 3. prone 1. ADJ To be prone to something, usually something bad, means to have a tendency to be affected by it or to do it. 易于 (受某事物影响或做某事) 的 例： For all her experience as a television reporter, she was still prone to camera nerves. 尽管有丰富的做电视记者的经验，她仍然倾向于在镜头前紧张。 2. COMB in ADJ -prone combines with nouns to make adjectives that describe people who are frequently affected by something bad. 易受…影响的 (与名词结合构成形容词) 例： ...the most injury-prone rider on the circuit. …赛车道上最容易受伤的车手。 3. ADJ If you are lying prone, you are lying on your front. 面朝下的 例： Bob slid from his chair and lay prone on th