(一) Accumulate, accumulative(ly), accumulation, accumulator;
(1) His father has accumulated an impressive collection of paintings. (Vt.)(积聚)
True poetry accumulates meaning every time it is read. (获得)
To accumulate wealth/wisdom/knowledge/vocabulary/an ill will;(郁结)
(2) Dust accumulates on top of the table. (Vi.)
Our knowledge accumulates if we read widely.
The accumulating evidence suggests that……
Disasters accumulated around his life path.
He paused and let the silence accumulate for a while.(持续)
(3) His success depends on the steady accumulation of knowledge and skills.(积累)
(二) Attribute v./n., attributable; attributive n. /adj. ;
(1) The fall in the price is attributed/ attributable to a sharp reduction in demand.
He attributed his success to hard work.
They attributed their failure to their superiors.
(2) The unsigned painting was wrongly attributed to Raphael.
He attributed this pottery to the Bronze Age.
(3) The success of the new movie is attributable to its actors and actresses.
(4) Kindness is one of her best attributes.
(三) Detriment, to the detriment of, without detriment to, detrimental(ly);
(1) The war caused great detriment to the country’s economy.
(2) The country can carry out these new policies without detriment to its popularity.
(3) A poor diet will be detrimental to one’s health.
(4) He is always smoking a lot to the detriment to his health.
(四) Stereotype n./v., stereotyped;
(1) Their bold reform is actually breaking through the stereotypes.
(2) Most characters in the new movie are stereotypes.
(3) Restricted by racial stereotypes, her mother didn’t agree that her daughter would marry a black man.
(4) The government won’t encourage the practice of stereotyping jobs by sex.
(5) Most students are asked to remember stereotyped answers.
(6) Most opponents have stereotyped opinions about euthanasia/mercy killing.
(五) suspicion, suspicious, suspiciously, suspiciousness;
(1) The behavior of the stranger aroused our suspicion.
(2) He is under suspicion of murder.
(3) He has been arrested on suspicion of spying.
To dispel sb.s suspicion; treat someone with suspicion; hole someone in suspicion; To have suspicions about; above/beyond suspicion;
(4) I have a suspicion that; (模糊的想法)
Her father did not have the least suspicion of the approaching marriage.
(5) There were suspicious circumstances about his death.
(6) Some people are suspicious of the government’s intensions. |
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