每天背單詞 第256期

refuge

英 [?refju?d?] 美 [?refju?d?]

n. 避難；避難所；庇護

vt. 給予…庇護；接納…避難

vi. 避難；逃避

例句：

They took refuge in a bomb shelter.
他們在一個防空洞里避難。

They took refuge in the embassy compound.
他們在大使館圍區(qū)內(nèi)避難。

A further 300 people have taken refuge in the US embassy.
又有300人在美國大使館避難。

sponsorship

英 [?sp?ns???p] 美 [?spɑ?ns?r??p]

n. 贊助；發(fā)起；保證人的地位；教父母身份

例句：

Sport is being debased by commercial sponsorship.
體育運動因受商業(yè)贊助而降低了聲譽。

Eventually, we alighted on the idea of seeking sponsorship.
最后我們偶然想到了尋求贊助。

Industrial sponsorship is a supplement to government funding.
工業(yè)界的贊助是對政府撥款的補充。

prominent

英 [?pr?m?n?nt] 美 [?prɑ?m?n?nt]

adj. 突出的，顯著的；杰出的；卓越的

例句：

He had an angular face with prominent cheekbones.
他有一張顴骨突出、棱角分明的臉。

He went on to earn a prominent professorial position.
他接著得到了一個著名的教授職位。

Here the window plays a prominent part in the design.
這里，窗戶在設(shè)計中有著突出的作用。

shrub

英 [?r?b] 美 [?r?b]

n. 灌木；灌木叢

例句：

Once shrub covers everything, you lose the meadow habitat.
一旦灌木覆蓋了一切，你就失去了草地的棲息地。

Once the fire is out, the grass and shrub ecosystems should return quickly.
火一旦被熄滅，草和灌木的生態(tài)系統(tǒng)就會很快恢復。

An unremarkable shrub on the gravel plain moved and resolved into an ostrich.
礫石平原上的一株不起眼的灌木移動了一下，變成了一只鴕鳥。

scorn

英 [sk??n] 美 [sk??rn]

n. 輕蔑；嘲笑；藐視的對象

v. 輕蔑；藐視；不屑做

例句：

Researchers greeted the proposal with scorn.
研究者們對這個提議報以輕蔑的態(tài)度。

Her fellow teachers greeted her proposal with scorn.
別的老師對她的提議不屑一顧。

The man looked at him with scorn.
那人輕蔑地看著他。

回顧

1. refuge
2. sponsorship
3. prominent
4. shrub
5. scorn