高考高頻詞匯:embarrass、finance、mess、pioneer、

embarrass[?m?b?r?s]

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v. 使尷尬；使局促不安；使困窘

【例】v. 使尷尬

（2011廣東）When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me.

【譯】在我青少年時(shí)期，媽媽蹩腳的英語(yǔ)讓我覺得尷尬。

【派】embarrassed [?m?b?r?st] adj. 尷尬的；窘迫的

finance[fa??n?ns]

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n. 財(cái)政；財(cái)政學(xué)；金融

v. 負(fù)擔(dān)經(jīng)費(fèi)；籌措資金；供給……經(jīng)費(fèi)

【派】financial [fa??n?n?(?)l] adj. 金融的；財(cái)政的；財(cái)務(wù)的

【例】adj. 財(cái)政的

（2011江西）Many small clubs have suffered financial losses recently, as they cannot compete with the large ones.

【譯】許多小俱樂部最近都遭受了財(cái)政損失，因?yàn)樗麄儧]有能力和大俱樂部競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。

mess[mes]

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n. 臟亂；混亂；困境；麻煩

v. 弄臟

【例】n. 麻煩

（2013湖北）Perri admits that she can't sort out all the mess in the households, even though she knows it drives her mother crazy.

【譯】佩里承認(rèn)她解決不了所有的家庭麻煩，盡管她知道那些麻煩會(huì)讓她母親抓狂。

【詞組】sort out：解決

【派】messy [?mesi] adj. 凌亂的；骯臟的；污穢的

pioneer[?pa???n??(r)]

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n. 拓荒者；先驅(qū)

v. 倡導(dǎo)；開創(chuàng)

【例】n. 先驅(qū)

（2009天津）Many roads and places in Singapore are named in order that the pioneers will be remembered by future generations.

【譯】在新加坡，許多道路和地點(diǎn)的命名是為了先驅(qū)們能被后人銘記。