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accelerate accelerare, accumulare和accurate共享一个含义为to的词根，后半截分别是：fast, pile up, care (关心则精确). 近/反义词: expedite, hasten, hurry, hightail, hotfoot, press fo 阅读全文
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academy at/in school都行，academy一般用at。 The word comes from the Academy in ancient Greece, which derives from the Athenian hero, Akademos. Outside the ci 阅读全文
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abuse 近/反义词: ill-treat, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, prostitute, spoil; defame, disparage, malign, reproach, slander, upbraid, vilify, vituperate; cher 阅读全文
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absurd How: absolutely, completely, clearly, faintly, manifestly, obviously, patently, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat, utterly, wonderfullyVerbs: b 阅读全文
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CHAPTER 11 ENGLAND UNDER MATILDA AND STEPHEN The King was no sooner dead than all the plans and schemes [不是schema] he had laboured at so long, and lie 阅读全文
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abstract abstract, extract和tractor有个共同词根tract(拉丁文: pull)。从论文里pull内容，就形成了摘要。 An abstract is a brief summary of a research article, thesis, review, conf 阅读全文
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absorb 物理的absorb比较直观。被书本/知识absorb也好理解。涉及到money/time时有点抽象，但汉语也有“吸金”的说法，consume, use up。可以吸收击打, cushion the blow，也可以吸收比喻的冲击，endure/accommodate. 如: The i 阅读全文
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absent 1. A teacher asked in a class who killed Abraham Lincoln. A blonde said "It wasn't me, I was absent yesterday."2. A teacher was taking attendan 阅读全文
