1. distress n. 痛苦，悲傷  vt. 使痛苦

    I pray that you will have pity on my distress.

    求你可憐可憐我的不幸遭遇。

    He couldn't distress her with his own terrible dilemma.

    他不能用自己糟糕的困境來折磨她。

    2. facility n. [pl.] 設(shè)備，設(shè)施；便利，方便

    The college has excellent sporting facilities.

    這所學(xué)院有極好的體育設(shè)備。

    Certainly geothermometry will be used with greater facility in sub-soil exploration and in detecting migrant fluids.

    可以肯定，地?zé)釡y(cè)量法在地下勘探和測(cè)試運(yùn)移流體方面更便于使用。

    3. faculty n. 能力，技能；系，學(xué)科，學(xué)院；全體教員

    This boy has a faculty of making friends easily.

    這個(gè)男孩有交友的能力。

    He is the dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

    他是醫(yī)學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)。

    Both faculty and students oppose the measures.

    全體教師和學(xué)生都反對(duì)這種方法。

    4. mixture n. 混合，混合物

    You need a spoon to beat the mixture smooth.

    你需要用一把調(diào)羹來攪均混合液。

    Air is a mixture， not a compound of gases.

    空氣是氣體的混合物，不是化合物。

    5. mood n. 心情，情緒；語氣

    the subjunctive mood 虛擬語氣

    I'm not in the mood to disagree with you.

    我沒有心思跟你爭(zhēng)論。

    6.moral a. 道德上的，有道德的

    His behavior transgressed the moral rules of the social conduct.

    他的行為違背了社會(huì)行為的道德準(zhǔn)則。

    7. prominent a. 突出的

    He is a prominent scholar in the field of linguistics.

    他是語言學(xué)領(lǐng)域的杰出學(xué)者。

    8. substance n. 物質(zhì)；實(shí)質(zhì)

    The emery is a hard metallic substance.

    金剛砂是非常堅(jiān)硬的金屬物質(zhì)。

    There is not anything of real substance in their book.

    他們的書中沒有什么實(shí)質(zhì)性的內(nèi)容。

    9.substantial a. 可觀的；牢固的；實(shí)質(zhì)的

    Substantial profits accrue when sales take off.

    當(dāng)銷售額突飛猛進(jìn)之后，可觀的利潤(rùn)就開始自然累積。

    Those workers have built many substantial buildings in the recent years.

    近幾年那些工人建造了許多堅(jiān)固的建筑。

    The reforms have made substantial headway.

    改革取得了實(shí)質(zhì)的進(jìn)展。

    10. prompt vt. 促使  a. 敏捷的，及時(shí)的

    Science and technology has prompted the rapid development of modern society.

    科學(xué)技術(shù)推動(dòng)了現(xiàn)代社會(huì)的迅速發(fā)展。

    Thank you for your prompt reply to our telegram.

    多謝您對(duì)我們電報(bào)的及時(shí)答復(fù)。