SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇(List 41)

　　SAT1(Barrons)巴朗3500基础词汇

Word List 41       resentment-sacrosanct

resentment         N./怨恨；愤恨/indignation; bitterness; displeasure. Not wanting to appear a sore loser, Bill tried to hide his resent­ment of Barry's success.

reserve       N./自我控制；疏远/self-control; formal but distant manner. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's air of reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness. reserved,ADJ.

residue        N./残留物；余额/remainder; balance. In his will, he requested that after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to his wife. residual,ADJ.

resigned      ADJ./认命，顺从；听天由命/accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive. Resigned to his downtrodden existence, Bob Cratchit was too meek to protest Scrooge's bullying. resig­nation,  N.

resilient       ADJ./弹性的/elastic; having the power of springing back. Highly resilient, steel makes excellent bedsprings. resilience,  N.

resolution    N./坚定；决心；决定/determination; resolve. Nothing could shake his resolution that his children would get the best education that money could buy. resolute,ADJ.

resolve        N./决心；解决/determination; firmness of purpose. How dare you question my resolve to take up sky-diving! Of course I haven't changed my mind!

resolve        V./决定；安排/decide; settle; solve. Holmes resolved to travel to Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the king.

resonant      ADJ./共鸣的/echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound. The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.

respiration  N./呼吸；呼吸作用；呼气/breathing; exhalation. The doctor found that the patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of respiration.

respite        N./暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punish­ment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vaca­tioning in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.

resplendent  ADJ./辉煌的；光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, "But he's naked!"

responsiveness   N./响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delight­ing the performers by its responsiveness.

restitution    N./归还；补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.

restive         ADJ./焦躁不安的；难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting con­trol. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.

restraint     N./抑制；控制/moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction. Control yourself. young lady! Show some restraint!

resumptionN./恢复；重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.

resurge        V./复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disinte­grated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence,  N.

retain           V./保持；使用/keep; employ. Fighting to retain his seat in Con­gress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection campaign.

retaliation    N./报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treat­ment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown's mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.

retentive      ADJ./保持的；记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.

reticence     N./不动声色的；深藏不露的；沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes pre­ferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.

retinue         N./随行人员；扈从/following; attendants. The queen's retinue fol­lowed her down the aisle.

retiring         ADJ./退休的；谦虚的，害羞的/modest; shy. Given Susan's retiring personal­ity, no one expected her to take up public speaking; sur­prisingly enough, she became a star of the school debate team,

retort            N./反驳；曲颈甑/quick sharp reply. Even when it was advisable for her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a quick retort. alsoV.

retract          V./撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction,  N.

retrench       V./裁减，削减；紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment,  N.

retribution   N./复仇；补偿；惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.

retrieve        V./重新得到；找回/recover; find and bring in. The dog was intelligent and quickly learned to retrieve the game killed by the hunter.

retroactive   ADJ./反动的；（法律）追溯的（由制定之日前的某一天生效）/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.

retrograde   V./倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.

retrospective       ADJ./回顾的/looking back on the past. The Museum of Graphic Arts is holding a retrospective showing of the paintings of Michael Whelan over the past two decades.

revelry          N./狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year's Eve is a night of revelry

reverent       ADJ./尊敬的；可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don't feel properly reverent. revere,V.

reverie         N./冥想；发呆；白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.

revert           V./回复；故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.

revile           V./辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-cap­tains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.

revoke         V./撤回；取消/cancel; retract. Repeat offenders who continue to drive under the influence of alcohol face having their dri­ver's licenses permanently revoked.

revulsion     N./剧变（情感的）；抽回；收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.

rhapsodize  V./狂热地描述；写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthu­siastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.

rhetoric        N./说话的学问；花言巧语/art of effective communication; insincere lan­guage. All writers, by necessity, must be skilled in rhetoric.

rhetorical     ADJ./修辞色彩的；花言巧语的/pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language. To win his audience; the speaker used every rhetorical trick in the book.

ribald           ADJ./下流的；放荡的；亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.

riddle           V./刺出无数窟窿，打排孔；充斥，弥漫；通过粗眼筛子过滤；谜语；解决，解释；提出，解谜/pierce with holes; permeate or spread through­out. With his machine gun, Tracy riddled the car with bullets till it looked like a slice of Swiss cheese. During the proof­readers' strike, the newspaper was riddled with typos.

rider            N./附文；扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster's tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollu­tion riderto the bill.

rife               ADJ./普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.

rift                N./裂缝；破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.

rig                V./配备；装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with bal­lots marked in his candidate's favor.

rigid             ADJ./刚硬的；不屈的/stiff and unyielding; strict; hard and unbending. By living with a man to whom she was not married, George Eliot broke Victorian society's most rigid rule of respectable behavior.

rigor             N./严格，苛刻；精确/severity. Many settlers could not stand the rigors of the New England winters.

rigorous      ADJ./严峻的；严格的；严厉的/severe; harsh; demanding; exact. Disliked by his superiors, the officer candidate in An Officer and a Gen­tleman endured an extremely rigorous training program.

rile                V./激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.

riveting        ADJ./迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt's novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.

rivulet         N./小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.

robust          ADJ./健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and tak­ing karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.

roil               V./搅动（使水变浑）;激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor.

roster           N./列表/list. They print the roster of players in the sea­son's program.

rostrum        N./演讲台；讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to lis­ten to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.

rote              N./生搬硬套；死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.

rotundity  N./圆形，球状；洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Wash­ington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.

rousing       ADJ./活跃的；煽动的/lively; stirring. "And now, let's have a rousing welcome for TV's own Roseanne Barr, who'll lead us in a rousing rendition of 'The Star-Spangled Banner."'

rout             V./吓跑；赶出；击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also  N.

rubble         N./碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.

ruddy           ADJ./红的；红润的，白里透红的；健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus's ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer's bright red nose.

rudimentary   ADJ./原始的；最初的；原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother's English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make her­self understood.

rue               V./懊悔；后悔；感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.

ruffian         N./流氓；恶棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.

ruminate     V./反复咀嚼；消化；深思；反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.

rummage     V./到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rum­maged through the trunks in the attic, we found many sou­venirs of our childhood days. also  N.

ruse             N./技巧；策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.

rustic           ADJ./乡村的；笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.

ruthless      ADJ./无情的/pitiless; cruel. Captain Hook was a danger­ous, ruthless villain who would stop at nothing to destroy Peter Pan.

saboteur     N./破坏分子；怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.

saccharine  ADJ./糖精的；代糖的；极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.

sacrilegious  ADJ./亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.

sacrosanctADJ./非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insur­ance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.