Americans and the Land

Group 6Group 6

• Quotation of the Day:

• Desire has no rest. 人的欲望无止境。

• Leave behind a clean world for future generations.留给下一代一个清洁的地球。

• If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too. 杀鸡取卵。

• savagery • n. extremely cruel and violent behavior• E.g. He used to beat the boy with great savagery.

• blast• v. destroy ,to make sth. dry up and die• blast the stream 拦河筑坝• n. blast

• reckless • a. not caring or worry about the possible bad or dangerous results of

your actions• reckless driving 莽撞的驾驶• a reckless adventure 无所畏惧的冒险家• a reckless waste of money • n. recklessness

• pillage • v. use violence to steal from and damage a place 抢劫，掠夺• n. pillage 掠夺 pillager 掠夺者

• dump• v. to put sth. Somewhere in a careless ,untidy way• n. dump 垃圾堆

• toxic• a. poisonous• A toxic waste dump 有毒废物弃置场• N. toxicity

• belch • v. to give or send out large amounts of smoke ,fire ect• Blue smoke belched from the car’s exhaust pipe. 汽车的排气管中冒出蓝色的烟雾。• n. belch

• combustion• n. the process of burning• a. combustible 易燃的，可燃的

• uninhibited• a. expressing your feelings easily without feeling embarrassed• uninhibited laughter 开怀大笑

• come at • To move towards someone in a threatening way• Meg came at me with a knife

• drive off• To force sb./sth. that is attacking or threatening you to go away 驱赶

，驱逐• We keep dogs in the yard to drive off intruders. 我们在院子里养着几只狗以驱赶闯入者。

• foray• n. a sudden attack or raid by a military force • e.g. The officer sent a few of his men on a foray.

军官送了一些他的人去突袭。 • v.• e.g. They forayed into enemy territory.

他们突袭了敌军的领土。• ~ (into sth) an attempt to become involved in a different activity or

profession• ~ (to / into ...) a short journey to find a particular thing or to visit a

new place

• massacre• n. the action of killing of a lot of people• The massacre was a crime against humanity.

这场大屠杀是一桩反人类的罪行。 • v. • The hunters came from the East to massacre the buffaloes of the

plains, killing several million in a short time. 这批猎手从东部来到这片平原上大肆捕杀野牛，很快就有几百万只野牛惨遭杀戮。

• raid• n. a sudden short attack • To make a raid on.

袭击：对…发动突袭• v. to use force to enter a place suddenly in order to arrest people or

search for something such as illegal drugs

• slaughter• Noun: • the killing of animals (as for food) • slaughter calf 屠用犊牛 • slaughter house 屠场 • slaughter pig 屠宰税 • adj: slaughterous

• kill, ,slaughter, massacre, kill :can be used on any kind of lethal behavior.slaughter: kill animals or kill a lot of people like animals massacre: stronger than slaughter ; kill a lot of people, especially those who lost the ability to defend themselves in the war

• drift• v. move about aimlessly or without any destination• drift along (v.+adv.) • 1.move slowly forward in no particular direction drift along • The boat drifted along, with the child asleep inside it and no one

guiding its direction.• 小船缓缓向前漂去 , 船上的孩子睡着了 , 无人掌舵。• drift apart (v.+adv.) 漂离 ; 飘离 ; 分离• drift away (v.+adv.) 慢慢飘〔走〕 , 逐渐离去• drift in (v.+adv.) 偶尔到来 , 顺便来访 • adj. drifty

• full-fledged• Adjective: • (of a bird) having reached full development with fully grown adult

plumage; ready to fly • (of persons, e.g.) having gained full status; • full-fledged warfare 全面战争

• goodly: a large amount 大量，许多 adj.

• a goodly time/number/sum

• only before noun 仅用于名词前

• half-breed:a very offensive word for someone whose parents are of different races, especially one white parent and one Native American parent 杂种 n.

• half-blooded :is used of a person whose parents are of different races. n.

• trickle ： a thin slow flow of liquid 涓涓细流 n.

• The water in the stream had been reduced to a trickle.

• 1)v. liquid flows slowly in drops or in a thin stream 滴，淌 trickle down/into/out

• 2)v. people, vehicles, goods etc move slowly in small groups or amounts 缓慢而零星地移动

• trickle in/into/away

• peasant stock ： to belong to a family that in the past were peasant 农民世家

• Scottish stock 出身于苏格兰家庭• good stock 出身良好的家庭

• treasonable ： betraying the country 叛国的 adj.

• Treasonous adj. 叛国的• Treason n. 叛国（罪）

• boundless: having no limit or end adj.

• boundlessly adv.

• boundlessness n.(U)

• Maintain: v.1)to continue to keep unchanged. 维持 2)to keep 坚持• 3)to look after, feed, clothe, etc. 供养 4)to keep in good condition or

in operation. 维修 5)to continue to argue or belive. 主张• Noun: maintenance.

• freshet: n./a great rise or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow.

• spring freshet.

• naked: adj./with nothing more on top ；裸露的• E.g. ； you can see the bacteria with naked eyes. （肉眼）• rip off: removed by force; 迁移• E.g.: The explosion ripped off the whole front of the restaurant.

• It is no (little, small) wonder (that): It is not (hardly) surprising/No wonder 难怪，并不奇怪。

• E.g. “He says he feels sick.” “No wonder, after eating all that ice cream.”

• It is a wonder (that): It is surprising (that)

• rip up ： tear up into small pieces.

• roam: vi/t. to work or travel around an area without any definite aim and direction. 漫步，闲荡。

• roam over sth.: 1 ） talk about various things, or various aspects of sth.

• E.g.: The speaker roamed freely over the events of the past week.

• 2) to move slowly over every part of sb/sth.

• E.g.: His gaze roamed over her.

• Synonym: wander

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