为你记单词

Day4

Jog
v.        慢跑，慢步长跑(尤指锻炼); (偶然地) 轻击，轻撞，轻碰;
n.        慢跑(尤指锻炼); 轻推; 轻碰; 轻击;
Early one Sunday morning,when I came in from my jog,I ran into a family touring the White House.

Undergo
v.        经历，经受(变化、不快的事等);
Undergo drug treatment

Recidivism
惯犯;但累犯;再犯;累犯;累犯,惯犯
The program was very successful,with a much lower recidivism rate than the prison system.

Droll
adj.        离奇可笑的; 滑稽古怪的;
He called me and said in his droll way.

Constituent
n.        (选区的) 选民，选举人; 成分; 构成要素;
adj.        组成的; 构成的;
Reno also was immensely popular with his constituents.

Narcotic
n.        致幻毒品; 麻醉品; 麻醉性镇痛药; 镇静剂; 麻醉药;
adj.        致幻的; 麻醉的; 催眠的;
Immigration and narcotics cases

Omnibus
n.        (广播、电视) 综合节目; (若干种作品的) 汇编，选集; 公共汽车;
adj.        综合性的; 选编的;
By far the largest was whether to include health-care reform along with the economic plan in the omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act.

Filibuster
n.        (议会中为拖延表决的) 冗长演说;
v.        阻碍议案通过; 阻饶议事; 掠夺，侵夺;
Since the Senate had forty-four Republicans,the probability that they would at least try to filibuster health care was high.
Construe
v.        理解; 领会;
He was adamant that health-care reform could not be construed as part of the basic budget process.

Unjustifiable
adj.        不可原谅的; 无法接受的; 无正当理由的;
Most of the team wanted to cut farm supports and other rural programs,which they thought were unjustifiable.

Day5

Snap
v.        (使喀嚓) 断裂，绷断; (使啪地) 打开，关上，移到某位置; 厉声说; 怒气冲冲地说; 不耐烦地说;
n.        (尤指关上或断裂的声音) 啪嗒声，咔嚓声; (尤指抢拍的) 照片; “对儿”牌游戏(游戏者轮流下牌，出现相同的牌时要抢先喊“对儿”);
adj.        匆忙的; 仓促的;
A New Yorker with a brusque,candid manner,Howard snapped.

Shaft
n.        (电梯的) 升降机井; 通风井; 竖井; 井筒; (箭、高尔夫球杆等的) 杆; (锤等的) 柄; (机器的) 轴;
v.        亏待; 苛待; 欺骗;
The middle class had been shafted in the eighties.

Quadrupling
v.(使) 变为四倍;
burdened by the quadrupling of the debt

vitality
n.        生命力; 活力; 热情;
Restore the vitality of the American dream

Surcharge
n.        额外费用; 附加费; 增收费;
v.        向(某人)收取额外费用;
10 percent surcharge on incomes

这些都是在看克林顿的自传《我的生活》中碰到的单词。

Magnitude
n.巨大; 重大; 重要性; 星等; 星的亮度; 震级;
At the end of the speech, I did my best to bring home the magnitude of the deficit problem.
Handily
adv.        方便地; 便利地; 容易地; 轻松地;
The House passed the bill handily.

No-nonsense
adj.        简单直接的; 言简意赅的; 不说废话的;
I loved Hugh Rodham,with his no-nonsense gruffness and fiercefamily loyalty.

Scruffy
adj.        不整洁的; 邋遢的;
When I was scruffy,penniless.

Ethos
n.        (某团体或社会的) 道德思想，道德观;
We need a new ethos of individual responsibility and caring.

Day6

Bigotry
n.顽固盲从; 偏执;
He deplored religious bigotry.

Defuse
v.缓和; 平息; 拆除(炸弹的)引信;
defuse problems

Cauldron
n.大锅;
a cauldron of diverse ethnic provinces

Precision
n.        精确; 准确; 细致;
The choir sang with precision.

Hedge
n.        树篱; 防止损失(尤指金钱)的手段;
v.        避免正面回答; 不直接许诺; 拐弯抹角; 在(田地等周围)植树篱; 用树篱围住; 包围; 限制;
I had no interest in hedging my bets.

Bombastic
adj.夸夸其谈的; 大话连篇的; 词藻华丽空洞的;
He was vain and bombastic.

Contentious
adj.可能引起争论的; 爱争论的; 充满争吵的;
a host of difficult,contentious problems

Visceral
adj.        (未经过认真思考而) 出自内心的，发自肺腑的; 内脏的; 脏腑的;
I never overcame a visceral antipathy for the monarchy.

Snide
adj.        讽刺的; 挖苦的;
Make a snide remark

Snob
n.        势利小人; 谄上欺下的人; 自以为优越的人; 自命高雅的人;
Going to a private school had made her a snob.

英语中很多多义词，也是比较头疼的。

Day7
Antiseptic
n.        防腐剂; 抗菌剂;
adj.        防腐的; 抗菌的; 无菌的; 消过毒的;
This cruel policy came to be known by a curiously antiseptic name:ethnic cleansing.

Budge
v.        (使) 轻微移动，挪动; (使) 改变主意，改变观点;
Both sides say they will not budge.

Overture
n.(歌剧或芭蕾舞的) 序曲，前奏曲; 友好姿态; 建议;
rebuff the overture

Consensus
n.        一致的意见; 共识;
The consensus of the reviews was that my initial performance was mixed.

Blot out
[词典]        遮住; 挡住; 遮蔽; 抹去（记忆）; 排除，挤掉（其他想法或记忆）;
I had let my sense of urgency blot out the memory of another of my laws of politics.

Gravitate
v.        被吸引到; 受吸引而参加;
Whenever we had relatives or friends staying with us,we always gravitated to the solarium.

Acquit
v.        宣判…无罪; 表现好(或坏等);
He was acquitted.

Jar
n.        (玻璃) 罐子; 广口瓶; 一罐，一瓶(的量); 缸; 坛子;
v.        (使) 撞击，受震动而疼痛; (对…) 产生不快的影响; 使烦躁; (与…) 不协调，不和谐，相冲突;
Jar the changes

Bona fide
adj.真诚的; 真实的; 合法的;
a bona fide member

Unclutter

网络        整理;
Unclutter your life