张汉熙《 高级英语 》重点词汇表整理第一册5

Lesson Five Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of USSR

Words and Expressions to Learn

1.Nouns

Winston Churchill, conviction, account, luncheon, appetite, aggression, opponent, spectacle, threshold, champion, onslaught, locust, prey, bomber, subjugation, vestige, doom, tyranny, prelude, Western Hemisphere, outrage,

2.Verbs

wring, cow, smart, concur, moralize, hurl, intervene, fortify, lure, slacken, till, revert, thrive, redouble, enlist, broadcast, ground, unfold, clank, click, resolve, parley, strengthen, rescue, impel, prosper

3.Adjectives and Adverbs

presently, enormous, arch, indistinguishable, devoid, ferocious, consistent, hideous, dandified, crafty, drilled, docile, brutish, villainous, irrevocable, steadfastly, woefully, hateful, namely

4.Noun Phrases

the Nazi regime, racial domination, ferocious aggression, time immemorial, means of existence, primordial human joys, cataract of horrors, an attempted invasion, hearth and home

5.Verb Phrases

make a favorable reference, round up, excel in, flash away, rid…off…, appeal to, engage in, subjugate…to…, count on, redouble exertions, revert to,

6.Other phrases

the same is true of…, to the effect that, in due course, no more than, in vain, with rapidity and violence, on the threshold, it is not for me to speak of

7.Cultural Background

Winston Churchill, WWII , Dominions, Commonwealth of Nations,