英国语文第三册生词英释lesson18

Latch
A latch is a fastening on a door or gate. It consists of a metal bar which you lift in order to open the door.
You left the latch off the gate and the dog escaped.
Want
Flap
1 If something such as a piece of cloth or paper flaps or if you flap it, it moves quickly up and down or from side to side.
Grey sheets flapped on the clothes line...
They would flap bath towels from their balconies as they chatted.
= flutter
2 If you flap your arms, you move them quickly up and down as if they were the wings of a bird.
...a kid running and flapping her arms.
Poultry
You can refer to chickens, ducks, and other birds that are kept for their eggs and meat as poultry.
Lamb
1 A lamb is a young sheep.
2 People sometimes use lamb when they are addressing or referring to someone who they are fond of and who is young, gentle, or unfortunate.
She came and put her arms around me. `You poor lamb. What's wrong?'
sty
for want of the nail the wheel comes off
Safe bind,safe find
Better safe than sorry
Hue-and-cry
1 A hue is a colour. (LITERARY)
The same hue will look different in different light.
= shade
2 If people raise a hue and cry about something, they protest angrily about it. (WRITTEN)
Just as the show ended, he heard a huge hue and cry outside.
Iron
If you iron clothes, you remove the creases from them using an iron.
She used to iron his shirts...
...a freshly ironed shirt.
Stir
If you stir a liquid or other substance, you move it around or mix it in a container using something such as a spoon.
Stir the soup for a few seconds...
There was Mrs Bellingham, stirring sugar into her tea...
You don't add the peanut butter until after you've stirred in the honey.
Pell-mall
If you move pell-mell somewhere, you move there in a hurried, uncontrolled way. All three of us rushed pell-mell into the kitchen.
Sprain
If you sprain a joint such as your ankle or wrist, you accidentally damage it by twisting it or bending it violently.
He fell and sprained his ankle.
Boil
1 When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
I stood in the kitchen, waiting for the water to boil...
Boil the water in the saucepan and add the sage...
...a saucepan of boiling water.
2 When you boil a kettle or pan, or put it on to boil, you heat the water inside it until it boils.
He had nothing to do but boil the kettle and make the tea...
Marianne put the kettle on to boil.
3 When a kettle or pan is boiling, the water inside it has reached boiling point.
Is the kettle boiling?
Scorch
To scorch something means to burn it slightly.
The bomb scorched the side of the building.
Scold
If you scold someone, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong. (FORMAL)
If he finds out, he'll scold me...
Later she scolded her daughter for having talked to her father like that...
`You should be at school,' he scolded.
Stable
1 You can describe someone who is seriously ill as stable when their condition has stopped getting worse.
The injured man was in a stable condition.
2 If someone has a stable personality, they are calm and reasonable and their mood does not change suddenly.
Their characters are fully formed and they are both very stable children.
≠ unstable
3 If something is stable, it is not likely to change or come to an end suddenly. The price of oil should remain stable for the rest of 1992.
...a stable marriage.
4 A stable or stables is a building in which horses are kept.
Colt
A colt is a young male horse.
To say nothing of ...。