SAT巴朗3500基礎(chǔ)詞匯精選（七）

SAT巴朗3500基礎(chǔ)詞匯精選（七）

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　　blunder N./錯誤/error. The criminal's fatal blunder led to his capture. alsoV.
　　blurt V./脫口而出/utter impulsively. Before she could stop him, he blurted out the news.
　　bluster V./咆哮;嚇唬/blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully. "Let the stormy winds bluster," cried Jack, "we'll set sail tonight." Jill let Jack bluster. she wasn't going anywhere, no matter what he said.
　　bode V./預(yù)兆/foreshadow; portend. The gloomy skies and the sulphurous odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.
　　bogus ADJ./贗品/counterfeit; not authentic. The police quickly found the distributors of the bogus twenty-dollar bills.
　　bohemian ADJ./不合習俗;放蕩不羈/unconventional (in an artistic way). Gertrude Stein ran off to Paris to live an eccentric, bohemian life with her writer friends. Oakland was not bohemian: it was too bourgeois, too middle-class.
　　boisterous ADJ./狂暴;喧囂/violent; rough; noisy. The unruly crowd became even more boisterous when he tried to quiet them.
　　bolster V./支持，增援/support; reinforce. The debaters amassed file boxes full of evidence to bolstertheir arguments.
　　bolt N./門閂;螺釘;布匹的長度/door bar; fastening pin or screw; length of fabric. The carpenter shut the workshop door, sliding the heavy metal bolt into place. He sorted through his toolbox for the nuts and bolts and nails he would need. Before he cut into the bolt of canvas, he measured how much fabric he would need.
　　bolt V./猛沖，上門閂，囫圇吞下/dash or dart off; fasten (a door); gobble down. Jack was set to bolt out the front door, but Jill bolted the door. "Eat your breakfast," she said, "don't bolt your food."
　　bombardment N./轟擊(導彈)/attack with missiles. The enemy bom­bardment demolished the town. Members of the opposition party bombarded the prime minister with questions about the enemy attack.
　　bombastic ADJ./夸張的/pompous; using inflated language. Puffed up with conceit, the orator spoke in such a bombastic man­ner that we longed to deflate him. bombast, N.
　　booming ADJ./快速增長的，欣欣向榮;深刻的/deep and resonant; flourishing, thriving. "Who needs a microphone?" cried the mayor in his booming voice. Cheerfully he boomed out that, thanks to him, the city's economy was booming. boom,V.
　　boon N./恩惠，福利/blessing; benefit. The recent rains that filled our empty reservoirs were a boon to the whole community.
　　boorish ADJ./粗魯;笨拙/rude; clumsy; ungentlemanly. Natasha was embarrassed by her fellow spy's boorish behavior. "If you cannot act like a gentleman, Boris, go back to Russia: espi­onage is no job for clumsy boors." boor, N.

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　　boundless ADJ./無限的/unlimited; vast. Mike's energy was bound­less: the greater the challenge, the more vigorously he tack­led the job.
　　bountiful ADJ./富足的;慷慨的/abundant; graciously generous. Thanks to the good harvest, we had a bountiful supply of food and we could be as bountiful as we liked in distributing food to the needy.
　　bourgeois ADJ./中產(chǎn)階級;平庸的/middle class; selfishly materialistic; dully conventional. Technically, anyone who belongs to the mid­dle class is bourgeois, but, given the word's connotations, most people resent it if you call them that.
　　bovine ADJ./牛的;遲鈍的;耐心的/cowlike; placid and dull. Nothing excites Esther; even when she won the state lottery, she still pre­served her air of bovine calm.
　　bowdlerize V./刪除/expurgate. After the film editors had bowd­lerized the language in the script, the motion picture's rat­ing was changed from "R" to "PG."
　　boycott V./抵制/refrain from buying or using. To put pressure on grape growers to stop using pesticides that harmed the farm workers' health, Cesar Chavez called for consumers to boycott grapes.
　　braggart N./自夸，吹噓/boaster. Modest by nature, she was no brag­gart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak for them­selves.
　　brandish V./揮舞/wave around; flourish. Alarmed, Doctor Wat­son wildly brandished his gun until Holmes told him to put the thing away before he shot himself.
　　bravado N./虛張聲勢/swagger; assumed air of defiance. The bravado of the young criminal disappeared when he was confronted by the victims of his brutal attack.
　　brawn N./強壯的肌肉/muscular strength; sturdiness. It takes brawn to become a champion weightlifter. brawny,ADJ.
　　brazen ADJ./厚顏無恥;傲慢/insolent. Her brazen contempt for authority angered the officials.
　　breach N./違約;突破;打破/breaking of contract or duty; fissure or gap. Jill sued Jack for breach of promise, claiming he had broken his promise to marry her. They found a breach in the enemy's fortifications and penetrated their lines. alsoV.
　　breadth N./寬度/width; extent. We were impressed by the breadth of her knowledge.
　　brevity N./簡短，短暫/conciseness. Brevity is essential when you send a telegram or cablegram; you are charged for every word.
　　brindled ADJ./有條紋或斑點的/tawny or grayish with streaks or spots. He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled, he had hoped for animals of a uniform color.
　　bristling ADJ./豎立的/rising like bristles; showing irritation. The dog stood there, bristling with anger.
　　brittle ADJ./易碎的;困難的/easily broken; difficult. My employer's self-con­trol was as brittle as an egg-shell. Her brittle personality made it difficult for me to get along with her.
　　broach V./介紹，提出，引見/introduce; open up. Jack did not even try to broach the subject of religion with his in-laws. If you broach a touchy subject, it may cause a breach.
　　brochure N./小冊子/pamphlet. This brochure on farming was issued by the Department of Agriculture.
　　brooch N./胸針/ornamental clasp. She treasured the brooch because it was an heirloom.
　　browbeat V./嚇唬/bully; intimidate. Billy resisted Ted's attempts browbeat him into handing over his lunch money.

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browse V./吃草;瀏覽/graze; skim or glance at casually. "How now, brown cow, browsing in the green, green grass." I remem­ber lines of verse that I came across while browsing through the poetry section of the local bookstore.
　　brunt N./沖擊/main impact or shock. Tom Sawyer claimed credit for painting the fence, but the brunt of the work fell on oth­ers. However, he bore the brunt of Aunt Polly's complaints when the paint began to peel.
　　brusque ADJ./唐圖;直率;粗暴無禮/blunt; abrupt. Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob's request with a curt "Not now!"?
　　buccaneer N./海盜/pirate. At Disneyland the Pirates of the Caribbean sing a song about their lives as bloody bucca­neers.
　　bucolic ADJ./田園的/rustic; pastoral. Filled with browsing cows and bleating sheep, the meadow was a charmingly bucolic sight.
　　buffet N./自助餐/table with food set out for people to serve them­selves; meal at which people help themselves to food that's been set out. Please convey the soufflé on the tray to the buffet. (Buffet rhymes with tray.)
　　buffet V./毆打，斗毆/slap; batter; knock about. To buffet something is to rough it up. (Buffet rhymes with Muffett.) Was Miss Muf­fett buffeted by the crowd on the way to the buffet tray?
　　buffoonery N./滑稽的/clowning. In the Ace Ventura movies, Jim Carrey's buffoonery was hilarious: like Bozo the Clown, he's a natural buffoon.
　　bullion N./金條，銀條/gold and silver in the form of bars. Much bullion is stored in the vaults at Fort Knox.
　　bulwark N./壁壘/earthwork or other strong defense; person who defends. The navy is our principal bulwark against invasion.
　　bumptious ADJ./盲目自大/self-assertive. His classmates called him a show-off because of his bumptious airs.
　　bungalow N./小平房/small cottage. Every summer we rent a bun­galow on Cape Cod for our vacation home. The rent is high, the roof is low-it's a basic bungalow.
　　bungle V./搞砸/mismanage; blunder. Don't botch this assign­ment, Bumstead; if you bungle the job, you're fired!
　　buoyant ADJ./可漂浮的，樂觀的/able to float; cheerful and optimistic. When the boat capsized, her buoyant life jacket kept Jody afloat. Scrambling back on board, she was still in a buoyant mood, certain that despite the delay she'd win the race.
　　bureaucracy N./官僚機構(gòu)/over-regulated administrative system marked by red tape. The Internal Revenue Service is the ultimate bureaucracy. taxpayers wasted so much paper fill­ing out IRS forms that the IRS bureaucrats printed up a new set of rules requiring taxpayers to comply with the Paper­work Reduction Act.
　　burgeon V./發(fā)芽，成長/grow forth; send out buds. In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.
　　burlesque V./作秀，滑稽/give an imitation that ridicules. In Spaceballs, Rick Moranis burlesques Darth Vader of Star Wars, outra­geously parodying Vader's stiff walk and hollow voice.
　　burly ADJ./魁偉，結(jié)實/husky; muscular. The burly mover lifted the packing crate with ease.
　　burnish V./擦拭/make shiny by rubbing; polish. The maid bur­nished the brass fixtures until they reflected the lamplight.

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　　bustle V./喧囂，繁忙，熙熙攘攘/move about energetically; teem. David and the children bustled about the house getting in each other's way as they tried to pack for the camping trip. The whole house bustled with activity.
　　buttressV./支持/support; prop up. The attorney came up with several far-fetched arguments in a vain attempt to buttress his weak case. also N.
　　buxom ADJ./豐滿;充滿活力;歡快/plump; vigorous; jolly. The soldiers remembered the buxom nurse who had always been so pleasant to them.
　　cabal N./內(nèi)閣/small group of persons secretly united to promote their own interests. The cabal was defeated when their scheme was discovered.
　　cache N./藏身之處/hiding place. The detectives followed the sus­pect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot. He had cached the cash in a bag for trash: it was a hefty sum.
　　cacophonousADJ./不和諧/discordant; inharmonious. Do the stu­dents in the orchestra enjoy the cacophonous sounds they make when they're tuning up? I don't know how they can stand the racket. cacophony, N.
　　cadaver N./尸體/corpse. In some states, it is illegal to dissect cadavers.
　　cadaverousADJ./尸體似的，蒼白的/like a corpse; pale. By his cadaverous appearance, we could see how the disease had ravaged him.
　　cadence N./平仄，重音/rhythmic rise and fall (of words or sounds); beat. Marching down the road, the troops sang out, follow­ing the cadence set by the sergeant.
　　cajole V./哄騙，勾引/coax; wheedle. Diane tried to cajole her father into letting her drive the family car. cajolery, N.
　　calamity N./災(zāi)難，不幸/disaster; misery. As news of the calamity spread, offers of relief poured in to the stricken community.
　　calculated ADJ./預(yù)先計劃好的，算好的;合適的/deliberately planned; likely. Lexy's choice of clothes to wear to the debate tournament was carefully calculated. Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.
　　caldron N./大鍋/large kettle. "Why, Mr. Crusoe," said the sav­age heating the giant caldron, "we'd love to have you for dinner!"
　　caliber N./能力;品質(zhì)/ability; quality. Einstein's cleaning the black­boards again? Albert, quit it! A man of your caliber shouldn't have to do such menial tasks.
　　calligraphy N./漂亮的書法/beautiful writing; excellent penmanship. As we examine ancient manuscripts, we become impressed with the calligraphy of the scribes.
　　callous ADJ./硬心腸的，無情的/hardened; unfeeling. He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffer­ing in the wards. callus, N.
　　callow ADJ./年幼，稚嫩;無經(jīng)驗/youthful; immature; inexperienced. As a fresh­man, Jack was sure he was a man of the world; as a sopho­more, he made fun of freshmen as callow youths. In both cases, his judgment showed just how callow he was.
　　calorific ADJ./產(chǎn)熱的/heat-producing. Coal is much more calorific than green wood.
　　calumny N./誹謗;中傷/malicious misrepresentation; slander. He could endure his financial failure, but he could not bear the calumny that his foes heaped upon him.
　　camaraderie N./友情/good-fellowship. What he loved best about his job was the sense of camaraderie he and his co­workers shared.
　　cameo N./貝殼上的浮雕;特寫(演員)/shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film. Don't bother buying cameos from the street peddlers in Rome: the carvings they sell are clumsy jobs. Did you enjoy Bill Murray's cameo in Little Shop of Horrors? He was onscreen for only a minute, but he cracked me up.
　　camouflageV./偽裝/disguise; conceal. In order to rescue Han Solo, Princess Leia camouflaged herself in the helmet and cloak of a space bandit.

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