大学英语第四册unit1总结含词根

Unit 1 课文笔记

1.be tempted by sth. 受……的诱惑

eg. They are attempted by an ad. that promises them an easy way to earn a lot

2.dignity尊严indignity 不光彩dignitary显要人 物，权贵

3.look into 看一看，考虑

eg. The boys said they would look into the magazine-delivery thing.

4.on a business trip 公差

5.snap 厉声地说eg. “super” she snapped (at me ) 6.cram vt. 塞满，填满eg. They are crammed wall-to-wall all through the house in stacks(成堆的 stack 还有烟囱的意思)taller than your oldest son. 7.band and slide 打捆封装

8.know better than to do 明事理而不至于eg. I had a marvelous steak, but knew better by now than to say so.

9.in the language of diplomacy 外交言辞

10.be at (sth/doing sth) 忙于eg. They’ve at it for hours.

11.ceiling 天花板

12.make a dent 取得初步进展 13.bodily harm 人身伤害

14.obtain an audience with sb 得到一次与某人见面 的机会

15.have business doing 没理由做

16.settle for 勉强同意eg. The work had no business settling for 5 bucks. 17. a like amount 相同的数量

18.reveal 表明eg. The investigation revealed that……

19.be done with sth. 用不着了，做完了eg. We thought you were done with them! 单词笔记

1.lucrative 有利的，赚钱的lucre—“钱”filthy lucre 臭钱 2.reproduce procreate breed 均有生殖，繁殖的意思

breed+动物/植物：饲养/培育其主动形式表示繁殖eg. Rabbits breed fast. 兔子繁殖很快。

3.辨析activist 积极分子radical 激进分子

4.shrink vi. 减少变小，畏缩eg. A soldier should never shrink from the duty of defending his country even in the face of certain death. 名词有心理医生的意思

5.人ly=a. eg fatherly motherly 赐福/慈母般的。 课后习题

1.sound beating 痛揍eg give them a sound beating http://www.doczj.com/doc/0d115031.html,e to terms with 达成协议

3.always practice what he preaches 说到做到 4.attempt 未遂【反】manage 成功 5.embarrass humiliate ashamed 羞愧的

6.facile 轻而易举的（但没什么价值的）v. facilitate 7.grantee 领奖学金的人

8.不寻常的unusual strange peculiar odd curious unbelievable incredible

9.校长headmaster principle president 院长/系主任dean 10.公司firm corporation company 企业enterprise

11.old>rather old rather = somewhat/slightly 但加绝对意义的形容词前则表示“相当的”如：quite full 此时quite=entirely/thoroughly completely

12.historic :具有历史意义的 historical:历史的，历史上的

13.respectable 尊敬的respected 品德高尚的，值得尊敬的，受人尊敬的respectful 有礼貌的，尊重他人的

14.childlike :like a child, simple, innocent Childish : not suitable for an adult