2017年翻译资格中级口译词汇学习(9)
1. bosom ['bʊzəm]
ADJ A bosom buddy is a friend who you know very well and like very much. 亲密度，知心的;
N-COUNT A woman's breasts are sometimes referred to as her bosom or her bosoms.乳房
eg: He exchanged intimacies with his bosom friend at the party.
在晚会上，他和他的亲密朋友交谈。
2. barter ['bɑrtɚ]
V-T/V-I If you barter goods, you exchange them for other goods, rather than selling them for money. 以物交换; 以物易物;N-UNCOUNT Barter is also a noun. 物物交换
eg: The colonists bartered calico for Indian land.
殖民者以印花布交换印第安人的土地。
note: calico, N-MASS Calico is printed cotton fabric. 印花布
3. maverick ['mævərɪk]
N-COUNT If you describe someone as a maverick, you mean that they are unconventional and independent, and do not think or behave in the same way as other people. 特立独行的人;ADJ Maverick is also an adjective. 特立独行的
eg: Robby was a maverick vice cop, never doing things in legal way.
罗比是个特立独行的黑警察，从不以正当手段行事。
4. aesthetics [ɛs'θɛtɪks]
N-UNCOUNT Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the idea of beauty. 美学，审美学
eg: This is the aesthetics subordinated to politics.
这是那种隶属于政治的美学观。
5. millennium [məˈlɛniəm]
N-COUNT A millennium is a period of one thousand years, especially one which begins and ends with a year ending in "000," for example the period from the year 1000 to the year 2000. 一千年
eg: Hunger and drought led to the collapse of Mayan civilization a millenniumago.
一千年前饥荒和旱灾引发了玛雅文明的失落。
6. iota [aɪ'otə]
QUANT If you say that there is not an iota or not one iota of something, you are emphasizing that there is not even a very small amount of it.一点儿; 极小的量;
PHRASE You can use an iota or one iota to emphasize a negative statement. Not an iota or not one iota means not even to a small extent or degree. 丝毫的
eg：Our credit standards haven't changed one iota.
我们的信贷标准从未有丝毫改变。
There is not an iota of truth in his remarks.
他说的那番话一点儿真实性也没有。
7. spur [spɝ]
V-T If one thing spurs you to do another, it encourages you to do it. 鼓动; 激励;
V-T If something spurs a change or event, it makes it happen faster or sooner. 使更快发生; 加速;
N-COUNT Something that acts as a spur to something else encourages a person or organization to do that thing or makes it happen more quickly. 促进因素; 推动;
PHRASE If you do something on the spur of the moment, you do it suddenly, without planning it beforehand. 一时冲动之下
eg: The administration may put more emphasis on spurring economic growth.
政府可能会更努力地刺激经济增长。
8. commemoration [kə'mɛmə'reʃən]
N. a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something 纪念，纪念仪式
eg: People are lining up to buy commemoration stamps.
人们正在排队购买纪念邮票。
