小美:你要凭良心好好教给我You must be guided by your conscience。
available“可用的,可提供的”,例:我们没有房间了。We have no room(×); We have no room available(√)。I have no time tonight(×);I have no time available tonight. I’m not available tonight.(√)
词根vail=use
avail
1名词“效用,效益,帮助”,例:The advice we got was of no avail.我们得到的这个建议根本没用。
2动词“有用于,有助于”,例:It avails nothing to cry.哭是没有用的。搭配avail oneself to利用,例:You must avail yourself of every opportunity to speak English.你必须利用任何机会说英语。
prevail=pre(之前)+ vail(use)
1“取胜,占优势”,例:Justice will prevail over evil.正义终当战胜邪恶。
其形容词为prevalent“流行的,普遍的”,例:Eye diseases are very prevalent in some tropical countries.在很多热带的国家,红眼病是非常流行的。
treat=tr(出)+ eat(吃)出来吃
1动、名“款待,请客”,例Let me treat you to have dinner.我请你吃晚饭。It’s my treat我请客(It’s on me.)。
2动词“治疗”
其名词为treatment.
torture=tort(turn)+ ure
1“折磨”,如be tortured with a disease受疾病的折磨
2“拷打,拷问”
其同义词为torment动、名“.折磨”,搭配be in great torment倍受折磨,如be tormented by hunger饱受饥饿之苦
retort=re(back)+ tort(turn)动词“反驳”,例:He retorted that it’s not his business.他反驳说不关他的事。
distort=dis(away)+ tort(turn)动词“扭曲,歪曲”,如a face distorted by pain因疼痛而扭曲的脸,例:The newspaper accounts of international affairs are sometimes distorted.报纸对于一些国际事件的报道有时是歪曲事实的。
torrent=tor(turn)+ rent“急流,山洪”
confident=con(fully)+ fid(trust)+ ent“自信的”,例:We are more confident of our future.我们对自己的未来更自信了。