☑️ 动词

evacuate

撤离

The fire is threatening about sixty homes, and residents have evacuated the area.

rendezvous

['rɑndevʊ] 会面

They know to rendezvous here.
The plan was to rendezvous with him on Sunday afternoon.
Their rendezvous would be the Plaza Hotel. 会面地点

hunker down

蹲下

Betty hunkered down on the floor.
Their strategy for the moment is to hunker down and let the fuss die down. 保持低调

detonate

引爆

detonated a bomb

pry

刺探; 窥探

We do not want people prying into our affairs.

撬开

We use an iron bar to pry the box open.
I got my pry bar in! Somebody get me a jack!

divert

转移

A wave of deadly bombings has forced the United States to divert funds from reconstruction to security.

interrogate

[ɪn'terəgeɪt] 审讯

He's interrogating the bomber.

eke

勉强维持生计

He was eking out an existence on a few dollars a day.
try to eke a living
For 97 years, we have eked out an existence, hoping that someday our descendants would return to earth...[S01E09, The 100]

sterilize

消毒

sterilize your hands

banish

驱逐

John was banished from England.

inoculate

预防接种

a program to inoculate every child in the country.
His dogs were inoculated against rabies.

blow off

对..置之不理

I don't think we can afford just to blow this off.

cauterize

/ˈkɔːtəˌraɪz/ 对伤口的烧灼治疗

He cauterized the wound with a piece of red-hot iron.

lobby

游说

Kane's lobbying for votes.

be that as it may

即便如此

cull

宰杀 (病弱动物以减少其数目)

To save remaining herds and habitat, the national parks department is planning to cull 2000 elephants.

stand up to

勇敢面对，抵抗

He hit me, so I hit him back–the first time in my life I'd stood up to him.

经受住

Is this building going to stand up to the strongest gales?

soak

浸泡

What I need is to soak in a hot tub.
The water had soaked his jacket and shirt.
There's a radiation-soaked forest between us and our next meal. [S01E01, The 100]

stay put

停住不动

simmer

炖，煨；（紧张关系）升温

Reports say a dispute has been simmering for months between ...
the continuing fight against a simmering Islamic insurgency
It's been 97 years since a nuclear apocalypse killed everyone on Earth, leaving the planet simmering in radiation. [S01E01, The 100]

strand

困住 （另作名词）

The climbers had been stranded by a storm.
In this moment, I'm not stranded in space. [S01E01, The 100 ]

chant

反复喊；吟诵，唱圣歌

Demonstrators chanted slogans. 示威者们反复地喊着口号。
The crowd chanted his name.
Muslims chanted and prayed.
The chanting inside the temple stopped.

vent

express your feelings forcefully. 发泄

She telephoned her best friend to vent her frustration.

resort

诉诸于

Congress has a responsibility to ensure that all peaceful options are exhausted before resorting to war.
Nuclear weapons should be used only as a last resort.
You cannot resort to trial and error.

（另作名词：度假胜地）

garner

[formal] gain; collect (something useful or valuable)

Durham had garnered three times as many votes as Carey.
He has garnered extensive support for his proposals.

cram

强塞，死记硬背

I don't want you to cram this formula.
She was cramming for her Economics exam.

retain

[formal]保持

The interior of the shop still retains a nineteenth-century atmosphere.

stop short of

decide not to do or say it although you almost do

I stopped short of telling him the brutal truth.

exacerbate

[formal]加剧，使之恶化
..., exacerbating Beijing’s fears that Taiwan could declare independence.

whet

If someone or something whets your appetite for a particular thing, they increase your desire to have it or know about it, especially by giving you an idea of what it is like.

This list is just a starting point — something to whet your appetite.
Here's an example of what recurrent neural nets can now do to whet your interest!

obfuscate

混淆

It is language intended not to reveal but to conceal, not to communicate but to obfuscate.
Since then, I do whatever I am able to obfuscate my identity for simple security