maudlin ADJ. /多愁善感/effusively sentimental. Whenever a particularly maudlin tearjerker was playing at the movies,
Marvin would embarrass himself by weeping copiously.
maul V. /粗手粗脚的处理/handle roughly. The rock star was mauled by his over-excited fans.
maverick N. /没打烙印的动物;闹独立的人;非国教徒;造反者/rebel; nonconformist. To the masculine literary establishment,
George Sand with her insistence on wearing trousers and smoking cigars was clearly a maverick who fought her proper womanly role.
mawkish ADJ. /过分多愁善感;感情脆弱到令人作呕的/mushy and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; maudlin. Whenever Gigi
and her boyfriend would sigh and get all lovey-dovey, her little brother would shout, "Yuck!" protesting their mawkish behavior.
maxim N. /至理名言;格言/proverb; a truth pithily stated. Aesop's fables illustrate moral maxims.
meager ADJ. /瘦的;贫乏的，不足的/scanty; inadequate. Still hungry after his meager serving of porridge, Oliver Twist
asked for a second helping.
meander V. /弯曲;蜿蜒/wind or turn in its course. Needing to stay close to a source of water, he followed every twist
and turn of the stream as it meandered through the countryside.
meddlesome ADJ. /爱管闲事的;好事的;好插手的/interfering. He felt his marriage was suffering because of his
meddlesome mother-in-law.
mediate V. /调解;仲裁/settle a dispute through the services of an outsider. King Solomon was asked to mediate a
dispute between two women, each of whom claimed to be the mother of the same child.
mediocre ADJ. /普通的，一般的/ordinary; commonplace. We were disappointed because he gave a rather mediocre
performance in this role.
meditation N. /沉思冥想/reflection; thought. She reached her decision only after much meditation.
medley N. /混合/mixture. To avoid boring dancers by playing any one tune for too long, bands may combine three or
four tunes into a medley.
meek ADJ. /谦卑的，驯服的;温和的;顺从的/quiet and obedient; spiritless. Can Lois Lane see through Superman's disguise
and spot the superhero hiding behind the guise of meek, timorous Clark Kent? Mr. Barrett never expected his meek daughter would dare to defy him by eloping with her suitor.
melancholy ADJ. /忧郁/gloomy; morose; blue. To Eugene, stuck in his small town, a train whistle was a melancholy
sound, for it made him think of all the places he would never get to see.
mellifluous ADJ. /优美的;流畅的;蜜一样的/sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious. Italian is a mellifluous language,
especially suited to being sung.
membrane N. /(动植物的)膜，薄膜/thin soft sheet of animal or vegetable tissue. Each individual section of an orange
is covered with a thin, transparent membrane. membranous, ADJ.
memento N. /有象征意义的物品;纪念品/token; reminder. Take this book as a memento of your visit.
menagerie N. /动物园/collection of wild animals. Whenever the children run wild around the house, Mom shouts,
"Calm down! I'm not running a menagerie!"
mendacious ADJ. /撒谎成性的;撒谎的，假的/lying; habitually dishonest. Distrusting Huck from the start, Miss Watson
assumed he was mendacious and refused to believe a word he said.
mendicant N. /乞丐/beggar. "O noble sir, give alms to the poor," cried Aladdin, playing the mendicant.
menial ADJ. /仆人的;卑贱的/suita ble for servants; lowly; mean. Her wicked stepmother forced Cinderella to do menial
tasks around the house while her ugly stepsisters lolled around painting their toenails.
mentor N. /门特;顾问;导师/teacher. During this very trying period, she could not have had a better mentor, for the teacher was sympathetic and understanding.
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