综合英语4-Unit 11 Vocabulary.doc

Unit 11 The Story of An Eyewitness I. Words and Expressions Paragraph 1 conflagration: n.[C] (formal) 大火an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property; a very large fire that destroys a lot of buildings, forests, etc e.g. A conflagration in 1947 reduced 90 percent of the houses to ashes. Towards evening the conflagration was got under. The conflagration spread rapidly through the old town. 冲突；战争a violent situation or war e.g. We hope we can work closely together to prevent conflagration in North Korea. 我们希望我们能更紧密地合作，预防朝鲜半岛的武装冲突。 Derivation: conflagrate v. （不过，Oxford和Longman词典均未列出此词。） wrought：beaten out or shaped by hammering; caused to happen（课本解释）; made or done in a careful or decorative way (CALD3) e.g. a carefully wrought plan. 一项精心制定的计划熟铁 e.g. wrought-iron gates Paragraphs 2-16 wipe sth out:消灭,彻底摧毁 phrasal verb [M]. to destroy sth completely (CALD3) e.g. The local administration is determined to wipe out insect pests and plant diseases. The plague once could wipe out a village. 鼠疫曾一度可以夺走整个村庄村民的生命。One bad harvest could wipe out all of a grower’s profits for the previous two years. (CALD3) nabob: n. [C] (old-fashioned) a person of conspicuous wealth, status and power（课本解释）; a rich or powerful person (CALD3); a rich or important person (OALD8) e.g. The old nabob left the world with nothing like anyone else. Synonym: big boy, big cheese, big wheel, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck, kingfish, kingpin, big shot, nawab fringe:边缘,流苏 n. [C] (often the fringes) the outer, marginal, or extreme part of an area, group, or sphere of activity（课本解释）；EDGE the outer or less important part of an area, group or activity e.g. They have to live in rural-urban fringe . 他们不得不住在城乡结合部。 They live on the western fringe of London.the radical fringes of the party lurid: 可怕的,骇人听闻的,鲜明的,耀眼的a. very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect（课本解释