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instinct n. Instinct is the natural tendency that a person or animal has to behave or react in a particular way. 表示人类或者动物按照某种特定方式行动的天然趋势。 I didn't have as strong a maternal instinct as some other mothers... If you have an instinct for something, you are naturally good at it or able to do it. 表示天生擅长某事。 Farmers are increasingly losing touch with their instinct for managing the land... = aptitude If it is your instinct to do something, you feel that it is right to do it. 表示你认为这么做是正确的。 I should've gone with my first instinct, which was not to do the interview... |
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vogue n. If there is a vogue for something, it is very popular and fashionable. 表示非常流行或者时尚的东西。 Despite the vogue for so-called health teas, there is no evidence that they are any healthier... = trend, fad If something is in vogue, is very popular and fashionable. If it comes into vogue, it becomes very popular and fashionable. comes into vogue 表示变得非常流行。 Pale colours are much more in vogue than autumnal bronzes and coppers. |
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reverse v. When someone or something reverses a decision, policy, or trend, they change it to the opposite decision, policy, or trend. 表示改变主意。 They have made it clear they will not reverse the decision to increase prices... If you reverse the order of a set of things, you arrange them in the opposite order, so that the first thing comes last. 表示顺序完全颠倒。 The normal word order is reversed in passive sentences. |
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convert v. To change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product; transform: 变换：使（某物）转变成另一种形式、物质、状态或结果；使转化： convert water into ice. To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another; adapt to a new or different purpose: 使改变：将（某物）从一种用途、功能或目的转变成另一种；使…适应于新的或不同目的： convert a forest into farmland. To persuade or induce to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief: 使皈依：劝说或诱导…相信某一特定宗教、信仰或信念： convert pagans to Christianity; was converted to pacifism by the war. |
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modernize v. To modernize something such as a system or a factory means to change it by replacing old equipment or methods with new ones. 表示在旧系统的基础上进行改进。 ...plans to modernize the refinery... |
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prescription n. A prescription is the piece of paper on which your doctor writes an order for medicine and which you give to a chemist or pharmacist to get the medicine. 医生的处方。 You will have to take your prescription to a chemist. |
