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词汇讲解：

1. bid vt. 出价， 投标
例句：He used to bid at the auction.
过去,他常去拍卖场出价竞买。

2. promote vt. 促进，推进
例句：The policy will promote rather than hinder reform.
这项政策将促进而不是妨碍改革。

3. provoke vt.激起，挑起
例句：If you provoke the dog, he may bite you.
你如果激怒了这条狗,它可能会咬你。

4. modernize vt.使现代化
例句：For China to modernize its economy, it must further industrialize, and urbanize.
为了使经济现代化，中国必须扩大工业化和城市化。

5. strengthen vt. 加强，巩固;勉励
例句：You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
削弱强者不能使弱者变得强壮。

6. confine vt.限制;局限于
例句：I can not afford to confine myself to one set of advisers.
我不能使自己拘限于只听到一批顾问的意见。

7. terrorize vt.使恐怖;胁迫
例句：who habitually endeavoured to terrorize his opponent's witnesses.
他惯于设法恐吓对方的证人。