resource /rɪˈzɔːs/ CET4 TEM4
1.N-COUNT The resources of an organization or person are the materials, money, and other things that they have and can use in order to function properly. 财力
例：
Some families don't have the resources to feed themselves adequately.
一些家庭没有钱填饱肚子。
2.N-COUNT A country's resources are the things that it has and can use to increase its wealth, such as coal, oil, or land. 资源
例：
...resources like coal, tungsten, oil, and copper.
…像煤、钨、石油和铜等资源。

intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃən/ CET4 TEM4
1.N-VAR An intention is an idea or plan of what you are going to do. 意图
例：
The company has every intention of keeping the share price high.
该公司有将自己的股票保持在高价的意图。
It is my intention to remain in my position until a successor is elected.
我的打算是我继续留任直到选出接班人。
2.PHRASE If you say that you have no intention of doing something, you are emphasizing that you are not going to do it. If you say that you have every intention of doing something, you are emphasizing that you intend to do it. 不打算/打算强调
例：
I have no intention of allowing you to continue living here alone.
我不打算让你继续独自生活在这里。

preliminary /prɪˈlɪmɪnərɪ/ CET4 TEM4
1.ADJ Preliminary activities or discussions take place at the beginning of an event, often as a form of preparation. 初步的
例：
Preliminary results show the Republican Party with 11 percent of the vote.
初步结果显示共和党得到11%的选票。
2.N-COUNT A preliminary is something that you do at the beginning of an activity, often as a form of preparation. (程序性或礼节性的) 预备事务
例：
You all know why I am here. So I won't waste time on preliminaries.
你们都知道我为什么在这里。所以我就不浪费时间讲客套话了。
词组短语 同近义

cyan /ˈsaɪæn, ˈsaɪən/
1.N a highly saturated green-blue that is the complementary colour of red and forms, with magenta and yellow, a set of primary colours 青色
2.ADJ of this colour 青色的
蓝绿色

plankton /ˈplæŋktən/
1.N-UNCOUNT Plankton is a mass of tiny animals and plants that live in the surface layer of the sea. 浮游生物
例：
...its usual diet of plankton and other small organisms.
...它通常赖以为食的浮游生物和其他微生物。

refract /rɪˈfrækt/ (refracting,refracted,refracts)
1.V-T/V-I When a ray of light or a sound wave refracts or is refracted, the path it follows bends at a particular point, for example when it enters water or glass. (使)折射
例：
As we age, the lenses of the eyes thicken, and thus refract light differently.
随着我们年龄的增长，眼睛的晶状体变厚，因此对光线的折射也会发生变化。
...surfaces that cause the light to reflect and refract.
...导致光线发生反射和折射的表面。
2.N-UNCOUNT refraction
例：
...the refraction of the light on the dancing waves.
...起伏的波浪上光线的折射。

glacial /ˈɡleɪsɪəl/ TEM8
1.ADJ Glacial means relating to or produced by glaciers or ice. 冰河的; 冰的
例：
...a true glacial landscape with U-shaped valleys.
…U形山谷中真正的冰河地貌。
2.ADJ If you say that something moves or changes at aglacial pace, you are emphasizing that it moves or changes very slowly. 非常缓慢的强调
例：
Change occurs at a glacial pace.
变化来得极为缓慢。

stately /ˈsteɪtlɪ/ TEM8
1.ADJ Something or someone that is stately is impressive and graceful or dignified. 威严的; 高贵的; 有尊严的
例：
Instead of moving at his usual stately pace, he was almost running.
不像平时那样迈着庄严的步子，他几乎是在跑。

bromide /ˈbrəʊmaɪd/
1.N-MASS Bromide is a drug that used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset. 溴化物镇静剂
例：
...a dose of bromide.
...一服溴化物镇静剂。
2.N-COUNT A bromide is a comment that is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but that has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. 陈词滥调
例：
The meeting produced the usual bromides about macroeconomic policy, third-world debt and the environment.
会议上提出的还是那些老掉了牙的话题：宏观经济政策、第三世界债务和环境问题。

macro /ˈmækrəʊ/
1.ADJ You use macro to indicate that something relates to a general area, rather than being detailed or specific. 宏观的
例：
...coordinated programmes of regulation of the economy both at the macro level and at the micro level.
…从宏观和微观两方面进行的经济调控计划。
2.N-COUNT A macro is a shortened version of a computer command which makes the computer carry out a set of actions. 宏指令
micro /ˈmaɪkrəʊ/
1.ADJ You use micro to indicate that something relates to a specific area, rather than a general one. 微观的; 具体领域的
例：
The vital task was to allow the economy to operate freely at a micro level.
关键任务是要让经济能够在微观层面上自由运转。

latter /ˈlætə/ CET4 TEM4
1.PRON When two people, things, or groups have just been mentioned, you can refer to the second of them as the latter. 后者
例：
He tracked down his cousin and uncle. The latter was sick.
他追踪找到了他的堂兄和叔叔。后者病了。
2.ADJ Latter is also an adjective. 后面的
例：
There are the people who speak after they think and the people who think while they're speaking. Mike definitely belongs in the latter category.
有些人先想后说，有些人边想边说。迈克当然属于后一类人。
3.ADJ You use latter to describe the later part of a period of time or event. 晚期的
例：
He is getting into the latter years of his career.
他正进入职业生涯的晚期。

laud /lɔːd/ (lauding,lauded,lauds)
1.V-T If people laud someone, they praise and admire them. 嘉许; 称赞
例：
He lauded the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
他赞扬了联合国难民事务高级专员的工作。
They lauded the former president as a hero.
他们称颂前总统为英雄。
Dickens was lauded for his social and moral sensitivity.
狄更斯因他的社会和道德敏感度被称赞。
2.ADJ lauded
例：
...the most lauded actress in New York.
...纽约最受褒扬的女演员。

severely polluted with garbage
严重垃圾污染
Ningxia Hui autonomous region
宁夏回族自治区

default /dɪˈfɔːlt/ CET6 TEM4 (defaulting,defaulted,defaults)
1.V-I If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it. 不履行 (义务); 违约
例：
The credit card business is down, and more borrowers are defaulting on loans.
信用卡生意正在走下坡路，更多的借贷人不履行还贷责任。
2.N-UNCOUNT Default is also a noun. 不履行; 违约
例：
The corporation may be charged with default on its contract with the government.
该公司可能会被指控违反了与政府签订的合同。
3.ADJ A default situation is what exists or happens unless someone or something changes it. 原样的
例：
He appeared unimpressed; but then, unimpressed was his default state.
他看似不为所动，但是，不为所动就是他的原样。
4.N-UNCOUNT In computing, the default is a particular set of instructions which the computer always uses unless the person using the computer gives other instructions. 默认值
例：
The default setting on Windows Explorer will not show these files.
视窗浏览器上的默认系统设定不显示这些文档。
5.PHRASE If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened. 在另外的可能性没有发生的情况下
例：
I would rather pay the individuals than let the money go to the State by default.
我宁可把钱付给个人，也不会毫无选择就把钱交给国家。

unimpressed /ˌʌnɪmˈprɛst/
1.ADJ If you are unimpressed by something or someone, you do not think they are very good, intelligent, or useful. 未被…留下深刻印象
例：
He was also very unimpressed by his teachers.
他也没觉得他的老师们有多好。