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例句：The police must be able to react swiftly in an emergency.
      警方在面对紧急情况时必须能迅速作出反应。

2.activate vt.刺激,使活动,创设

例句：Activated its Emergency Operations Center.
      启用它的紧急行动中心

3.spark vt.导致

例句：This accidental killing sparked major riots in the cities.
      这次意外的杀人事件导致了不少城市的大骚乱。

4.tolerate vt.容许; 承认

例句：The teacher cannot tolerate eating on the class.
      老师不容许在课堂上吃东西。

5.robust adj.强壮的; 健全的

例句：That chair's not very robust; don't sit on it.
      那把椅子不太结实, 别坐它了。

6.botch vt.vi.搞坏，搞砸，笨拙地做

7.reinstate vt.使恢复原职;使恢复原有权利

例句：The firm reinstated the man who was wrongly dismissed.
      商行把那个冤枉开除了的员工复职了。

8.heighten v.(使)提高; (使)加强[重]

例句：The news heightened my fears.
      这消息使我更加恐惧。

9.halve vt.把…分成两半;把…减半，对分

例句：to halve your income
      把收入分为两相等部分

      The shares have more than halved in value since the summer high of 572p.
      股价从夏天572 便士的高价已经下跌了一半以上。

10.convert v.皈依, 改变(信仰); 使）改变（宗教或信仰）;（使）皈依, 归附
 
例句：Not surprisingly, he failed to convert her.
      他没能使她改变看法并不奇怪。

11.prohibit vt.禁止; 阻止

例句：Prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages.
      禁止出售含酒精的饮料。
 
      The high cost prohibits the widespread use of the drug.
      该药昂贵, 影响广泛应用。