赖世雄英语流利词汇6000：Unit 41 mp3下载1.thrive [θraiv]繁荣，兴隆；繁茂地生长eg.The company began to thrive after a new CEO took charge.
（公司在新的首席执行官上任后生意日益兴隆。）
赖世雄英语流利词汇6000：Unit 41 mp3下载
1.thrive [θraiv]繁荣，兴隆；繁茂地生长
eg.The company began to thrive after a new CEO took charge.
（公司在新的首席执行官上任后生意日益兴隆。）
【英语单词衍生词】
prosper [‘prɔspə] 繁荣④
eg.May you prosper, may you help preserve and save our planet for your children, and all future children of the world.
希望你们成功，也希望你们保护和拯救我们这个星球，为了你们的孩子，以及未来所有的孩子。
2. sanction[‘sæŋkʃən] 制裁
eg.We need to have the board’s sanction before we make any investment.
（我们必须先得到董事会的许可才能进行任何的投资。）
【英语单词短语】
impose sonctions against_对……实施制裁
eg.The council has reached a decision to impose economic sonctions against tnat country.
(议会达成决议要对那个国家实施经济制裁。)
3.verge [və:dʒ]边缘
【英语单词短语】
be on the verge of．． 在……的边缘
eg.Ihe heavy workload made Tim feel like he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
（庞大的工作量让提姆觉得他在精神崩溃边缘。）
4.brink [briŋk] 逸缘
【英语单词短语】
on the brink of．． 在……的边缘
eg.Rising antagonism between different ethnic groups in that country has put it on the brink of a civil war.
（口益fj升的族群对立使该国处于内战爆发边缘。）
5.irony [‘aiərəni] 讽刺（不可数）
eg.”Thanks a bunch, dude. You really saved me a lot of trouble,”said George with irony.
（“老兄，真多谢。你让我省了好多麻烦哪，”乔治讽刺地说。）
【英语单词近似词】
sarcasm [‘sɑ:kæzəm]讽刺
eg.I want to add in a clause here –This is true, unless she says ‘Thanks a lot’ –that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all.
我很想在这里加一句–她如果只说谢谢，那么她是真心的，但她如果说非常感谢的时候，她只是想讽刺你罢了，根本没有一丝谢意。
6.ironic [ai’rɔnik,-kəl]讽刺的
eg.I found it rather ironic when the author of the best-selling guidebook to Japan admitted that he had never set foot in that country.
（那位畅销H本旅游书的作者竟然承认他自己从没去过日本，我觉得这件事可真讽刺。）
【英语单词衍生词】
ironically [ai’rɔnikli] 讽刺地，说来可笑的是
eg.Out of over a dozen demands there is only one I agree with —open borders —and, ironically, many on Wall Street probably favor that as well.
在提到的是几个要求里面，只有一个我是支持的——开放边境——讽刺的是，许多在华尔街工作的人也支持这一点。
7.mainstay [‘meinstei]支柱，靠山
eg.The computer industry is the mainstay of the country’s economy．
（电脑产业是该国的经济支柱。）
【英语单词近似词】
backbone [‘bækbəun] 骨干，支柱
eg.The army, after all, is the backbone of the regime, and attacking it is as forbidden as attacking Mubarak himself.
毕竟一国的军队是其政权的支柱，攻击军队就像是攻击穆巴拉克自己一样被严控。
8.divert[dɪˈvɚt]转变：转移注意力
eg.Management decided to divert more money into new product development.
（管理阶层决定将更多的钱转用在新产品研发L。
【英语单词短语】
divert A from B 将A转移开B
eg.The psychiatrist asked me to divert my attention from work for the moment, saying that it would be good for my health.
（精神科医师要我现阶段先将注意力从工作上头转移，说这对我的健康比较好。）
9. overlap [,əuvə’læp, ‘əuvəlæp]重叠
eg.Terry’s views on this book overlap (with) mine.
（泰瑞对这本书的意见跟我重叠。）
【英语单词短语】
overlap with… 与……重叠
eg.Some functions in the F&O library overlap with functions defined in EXSLT, while each library provides functions not supported by the other.
F&O 库中的一些函数和 EXSLT 中定义的函数重叠，但是两者都提供了对方所不具备的函数。