高考英语熟词生义总结（完整版）

access机会

We have access to the teachers. 有条件向老师请教

add补充说

I should like to add that we are pleased with the test result.

address 发言，满足需求

The president is addressing the whole nation.  

We should do our uttermost to address the customers’ needs.

afford 承担得起, 有时间、精力做

I can't afford three weeks away from work.  

against 以什么为背景

The picture looks better against the light wall.

allow for 考虑

We must allow for the traffic delays and start earlier. 

alone 仅仅，要用在单词或者句子后面

Great people alone can not change the history.

argue认为 argument 论点，观点

Any good speaker should be able to reinforce his argument with facts.

attend to 照料

Leave him to attend to (see to) the problem.

badly很，极，非常

It’s hard for him playing against me. I’ve got nothing to play for，but for him，he needs to win so badly.

back 支持

Many of his friends backed up plan .

block 阻挡

Remove the trees that block the view.

branch分支机构；分部

The head office of the bank is in Beijing, but it has branches all over the country.  

campaign（有益的大型）活动

Several steps are required to develop an advertising campaign.

cast投掷

cast a glance at将眼光投向，cast light on something提供新信息，帮助理解

cast a shadow on something在某件事情上留下阴影

cell: 电池，细胞

All of the cells in a particular plant start out with the same kind of genes.

chance   可能性

There is a chance that I will see him．可能我会遇见他。

charge 充

Please charge the gun with powder. (charge the battery)

company 作伴

He kept me company. (enjoy my company)   

cost 使失去 （生命 ，健康）

The patient’s dangerous condition cost the doctors and nurses many a sleepless night .

cover 走完，够付，看完 ，涉及 ，报道

Here is $ 5 ; that should cover all your expenses .

draw 抽出，取出，平局

draw a sword / draw a lesson from / draw 20dollars from the bank

The game ended in a draw.

due 到期，到站，预期的（适当的）

Their plane is due in 15 minutes.  

You should give due consideration to the problem.

employ 使用，利用

Why didn't you employ the new method?    

She employs her time wisely.

exercise 运用

exercise your intelligence to solve the problem.

far from   远远不是  
The show was far from being a failure；it was a great success．

figure 人物，想出，猜想

Remember the great figures of history.

He figured the whole scheme at once.(=figure out)

I figure he'll be back soon.

fair 集市

There’s a trade fair in Guangzhou every spring and autumn.

free   没有，免交；远离（常与of连用）

Most of the roads are free of snow．

the last 最没可能的

He is the last man for the job.   

lines 台词

The actress spent hours learning her lines.

live up to 使行为和…相符

The WTO can not live up to its name if it does not include a country that is home to one fifth of mankind .

long 渴望

He longed to read the novel by Qiong Yao.

make it 按时到达某地；成功

You can make it if you hurry .

make a hit 很成功， 很受欢迎

Alice was so happy that her boy friend made a hit with her parents.

mean 小气的，卑鄙的

He is mean with money.(对比generous with) 

be meant to do (for) 注定

I believe he is meant to be a soldier.

must 必需品

Warm clothes are a must in the mountains.   

narrowly 差点儿没；仔细地

One car went too fast and narrowly missed hitting the other one .

note 注意

Please note that this bill must be paid within 10 days.

object 反对 

They objected to leaving school and going to work .

occur 被想到

It did not occur to me that you would object .

be well / badly off 经济状况好/坏

He is well off, it appears , and willing to work for nothing .

passage 通道，走道

Please wait in the passage.

picture 想象

She pictured herself at school in a foreign country.

plain 简单的

the plain meal/living/clothes 便饭/朴素的生活/便服 

plant 工厂

chemical plant 化工厂power plant 发电厂

promise 预示，有希望

Early mist promises fair weather. (promising 有希望的)

The new movie promises to be one of the biggest money-makers of all time. 

You said it . 我同意你的看法

--- Let’s go home .      --- You said it . I’m too tired now .

short不足的，短缺

—Why didn’t you buy the camera you had longed for?

—I had planned to，but I was ￡50 short.

sort分类整理

Sort out these papers and fasten them together with a clip, please.

spare 剩余

We paid our bills and had money to spare.

succeed 继承， 接着…当 

Tom will succeed David as speaker of the meeting .

stand 看台，架子

He kicked the ball into the stands.  

store 存储

Who knows what the future has in store for us?

strength长处

To make members of a team perform better, the trainer first of all has to know their strengths and weaknesses.

strike想到

An idea suddenly struck me.    

the subject of an experiment实验对象

treasure 珍惜

He treasures the watch his mother gave him.

turn达到；超过，越过，逾(一定年龄、数量等)

Happy birthday, Alice! So you have turned twenty-one already!  

ｗill（willpower）意志

His will forced us not to give up .