第二课单词2

亚当斯昨天轻松获胜，这无异于告诉人们奥运代表队中应有他的位置。
Stake : n.1桩 篱笆桩 2股份 3赌注 2用桩支撑
v. 1以....打赌 拿...冒险 习语： at stake
成败难料；有风险 为维护自己的观点不惜赴汤蹈火

go to the stake over /for st


他推开问题并转移了话题。
shuffle out of sth: try to avoid some unpleasant task by acting dishonestly 推托 e.g. I mistrust the way in which they shuffle out of sustained efforts. 我对他那拈轻怕重的方式提出质疑。
小心， 别踩着那水坑。
eg：He told me I was trespassing on private land.
他说我在擅闯私人土地。 Trespass on sth 滥用，不公正地利用

velvet: n. 丝绒 天鹅绒 eg：She was wearing a white ruffled blouse and a blue velvet skirt. 她穿着一件有花边的白色上衣和一条蓝色天鹅绒裙子。 velvety adj. 天鹅绒的 软绵绵的

sidle v.悄悄地走 偷偷地走进 eg： He can not sidle away from personal responsibility. 他不能逃避个人的责任。 sidlesidled up to me and asked if I wanted a ticket for the match.
紧邻我的人将我挤进角落里。
Wedge n.楔子 三角木 a wedge of cake 一角蛋糕

zigzag: 曲折前进 e.g. The narrow path zigzags up the cliff. 狭窄的小路曲曲折折地通向悬崖。
n. a line or pattern that looks like a series of letter W’s as it bends to the left and then to the right again
souped-up adj.提高效率 加强马力的

eg：The engine of the car has been souped-up. 这汽车的发动机加大了马力。 spread n. 范围 广度 分布范围 vt.伸展 打开 (使）传播

vi.景色的展现 人群的散开
adj.张开的
eg: The spread of the bullet holes is very large .

锯齿形线条(或形状）；之字形
e.g. The path descended the hill in zigzags. 小路呈连续的之字形顺着山坡蜿蜒而下。 a. [only before noun]只用于名词前 e.g. a zigzag line/path/pattern 弯弯曲曲的线条、小路、形状
（消息等)向野火般蔓延；迅速传开


展翅高飞（更自信地尝试新事物）
spread the word
散布消息
spread yourself too thin 样样都抓哪样都抓不好

stake (out) / a / your claim (to / for/ on sth) 公开宣布自己（对某物）的所有权 eg:Adams staked his claim for a place in the Olympic team with his easy win yesterday.


Synonym: scrawl
e.g. He scribbled a note to his sister before leaving.
他在离开前给他姐姐写了一张纸条。
She scribbled down her phone number and pushed it into his hand. 她胡乱的写下她的电话号码并递到他手上。

wager (that): used to say that you are so confident that sth. is true or will happen that you would be willing to bet money on it
打赌 ；打包票 e.g. I’ll wager that she knows more about it than she’s saying. 我敢担保她一定比她说的知道的多。
慢吞吞的走 拖脚而行 e.g.A fat woman was shuffling along with a pushchair. 胖女人推着婴儿车慢吞吞的走。


Collocations: shuffle sth. off: avoid talking or thinking about sth. because it is not considered important 脱掉 摆脱 推开 e.g. He shuffled the question off and changed the topic.
expansionary adj.扩张性的
expansive adj.广阔的 辽阔的
expand v.使......变大 扩张

fidgety adj.坐立不安的 不安定的 eg: He felt fidgety and put his head in the cold water .


他觉得很烦躁，把头伸进了冷水里。


wedge: v. force into a narrow space; fix sth. in position by using a wedge or sth. Else


将...挤进 (或塞进 插入）
e.g. The people sitting close to me wedged me into the corner.

routinely adv. 例行公事地 老一套地 eg：All adult dogs are routinely wormed at least every six months. 所有的成年狗至少每半年要例行打一次虫。 routine n. 常规 例行程序 adj.常规的 scribble: 乱写 潦草的书写

shrink v.收缩 缩水 畏缩 n.收缩 畏缩 eg：There was a general acceptance that the defense budget would shrink. 人们普遍相信国防预算将会缩减。 shrinkage n. 收缩 皱缩

shuffle: v. walk by dragging one’s feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground
v. 1.使收缩 使紧缩 2.沾染 感染(疾病等）

expansionist n. 扩张主义者 膨胀主义者 eg：He was a ruthless expansionist . 他是个残酷的扩张主义者。 expansionism n.扩张主义


expansion n.扩大 扩张 扩张物


wager: v. (a more formal term for) bet
打赌 担保 下赌注
wager (sth.) (on sth.);打赌 压赌注
wager sth./sb. that…: 打赌 压赌注 bet money on sth.打赌 压赌注

e.g. She wagered £ 50 on a horse. 她在一匹马上下了50 英镑的赌注。 I had wagered a great deal of money that I would beat him. 我下了大赌注打赌，赌这次比赛我会赢他的。


他爱莱弗斯太太，她超脱世俗，离奇古雅，愤世嫉俗。
relentless adj.不间断的 无情的 残酷的
eg：She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume.

她受不了没完没了的音乐，就把音量调小了。 relent v.动怜悯心 发慈悲心 relentlessly adv.无情地 残酷地

弹孔的范围很大。
The bird spread its wing . 鸟展开翅膀。
The disease spreads easily. 这种疾病容易传播。

习语： spread like wildfire spread your net 撒开网寻找 ；大面积排查 spread your wings
Slinky: n. A Slinky (“机灵鬼”，一种用软弹簧做成的会翻跟头的玩具) is a coil-shaped spring invented by mechanical engineer Richard James in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Slinkys come in various sizes and shapes. They can “walk” down stairs as the coils stretch and reform as gravity moves them down each step, the spring’s momentum causing it to spill end over end from one step to the next.