每天背單詞 第264期

dove

英 [d?v; d??v] 美 [d?v; do?v]

n. 鴿子；鴿派（參政者）；溫和派；棕灰色

v. 潛水（dive 的過去式）

n. (Dove) （美）達(dá)夫 （人名）

例句：

The dove is symbolic of peace.
鴿子是和平的象征。

The dove is an emblem of peace.
鴿子是和平的象征。

He wore a dove-grey suit.
他穿了一套鴿灰色西裝。

ice-bound

[?a?s ba?nd]

冰封的

冰封

例句：

For major issues such as the melting ice caps and the greenhouse effect, governments and large companies are duty-bound to take necessary measures.
對于諸如冰冠融化和溫室效應(yīng)等重大問題，政府和大公司有責(zé)任采取必要的措施。

Estimates kept growing, until researchers could determine how thick the ice sheets - and it looks like it could tally in the billions of tonnes of water - in ice sheets and bound up in minerals.
估算值一直在增長，直到研究人員可以判斷冰層的厚度——總量似乎能達(dá)到數(shù)十億噸水——以冰層夾雜著礦石的形式存在著。

Ice still fringes much of the land, but it is thinning. In many places, particularly around Banks Island, the land-bound sea ice is blue, pointing to thin ice or the presence of water on the ice.
在很多地方，尤其是班克斯島周邊，陸地邊沿的海上浮冰是藍(lán)色的，表明冰層較薄或浮冰上有水。

medicine

英 [?medsn; ?med?sn] 美 [?med?sn]

n. 藥；醫(yī)學(xué)；內(nèi)科；巫術(shù)

vt. 用藥物治療；給…用藥

例句：

Laughter is the best medicine.
歡笑是一副良藥。

Did you take your medicine?
你吃過藥了嗎？

The medicine has clearly done its stuff.
這藥顯然起作用了。

foreman

英 [?f??m?n] 美 [?f??rm?n]

n. 領(lǐng)班；陪審團(tuán)主席

n. (Foreman)人名；(英、西)福爾曼

例句：

He had never let a foreman see him slacking.
他從未讓工頭見到他偷懶過。

I was working as a foreman on a building site.
我在一個(gè)建筑工地當(dāng)工頭。

He still visited the dairy daily, but left most of the business details to his manager and foreman.
他仍然每天去牛奶公司，但將多數(shù)生意上的細(xì)節(jié)留給了經(jīng)理和工頭。

chilly

英 [?t??li] 美 [?t??li]

adj. 寒冷的；怕冷的

n. (Chilly)人名；(法)希伊

例句：

It was too chilly for swimming.
游泳太冷了。

It was a chilly afternoon.
那是一個(gè)陰冷的下午。

The visitors got a chilly reception.
客人遭到了冷遇。

回顧

1. dove
2. ice-bound
3. medicine
4. foreman
5. chilly