mutinous ADJ. /反抗的;暴动的/unruly; rebellious. The captain had to use force to quiet his mutinous crew. mutiny, N. myopic ADJ. /鼠目寸光;缺乏远见/nearsighted; lacking foresight. Stumbling into doors despite the coke bottle lenses on
his glasses, the nearsighted Mr. Magoo is markedly myopic. In playing all summer long and ignoring to store up food for winter, the grasshopper in Aesop's fable was myopic as well.
myriad N. /无数，非常多/very large number. Myriads of mosquitoes from the swamps invaded our village every twilight.
also ADJ.
mystify V. /迷惑，蛊惑/bewilder purposely. When doctors speak in medical jargon, they often mystify their patients,
who have little knowledge of medical terminology.
nadir N. /谷底，最低点;天底/lowest point. Although few people realized it, the Dow-Jones averages had reached their
nadir and would soon begin an upward surge.
naiveté N. /天真烂漫的，简单的/quality of being unsophisticated; simplicity; artlessness; gullibility. Touched by the
naivetd of sweet, convent-trained Cosette, Marius pledges himself to protect her innocence. naive, ADJ.
narcissist N. /自我陶醉的人;逞能的人/conceited person; someone in love with his own image. A narcissist is her own
best friend.
narrative ADJ. /解说的/related to telling a story. A born teller of tales, Tillie Olsen used her impressive narrative skills to
advantage in her story "I Stand Here Ironing." narrate,V.
nascent ADJ. /初生的/incipient; coming into being. If we could identify these revolutionary movements in their nascent
state, we would be able to eliminate serious trouble in later years.
natty ADJ. /穿着整齐干净的/neatly or smartly dressed. Priding himself on being a natty dresser, the gangster Bugsy
Siegel collected a wardrobe of imported suits and ties.
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nauseate V. /令人作呕的/cause to become sick; fill with disgust. The foul smells began to nauseate him.
nautical ADJ. /航海的/pertaining to ships or navigation. The Maritime Museum contains many models of clipper ships,
logbooks, anchors and many other items of a nautical nature.
navigable ADJ. /可以通航的/wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; able to be steered. So much sand
had built up at the bottom of the canal that the waterway was barely navigable.
nebulous ADJ. /暧昧的，混浊不清的/vague; hazy; cloudy. After twenty years, she had only a nebulous memory of her
grandmother's face.
necromancy N. /巫术，妖术，招魂术/black magic; dealings with the dead. The evil sorceror performed feats of
necromancy, calling on the spirits of the dead to tell the future.
nefarious ADJ. /十恶不舎的/very wicked. The villain's crimes, though various, were one and all nefarious.
negate V. /拒绝，否定，取消/cancel out; nullify; deny. A sudden surge of adrenalin can negate the effects of fatigue:
there's nothing like a good shock to wake you up.
negligence N. /疏忽，没能尽力的/neglect; failure to take reasonable care. Tommy failed to put back the cover on the
well after he fetched his pail of water; because of his negligence, Kitty fell in.
negligible ADJ. /可忽略不计的/so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may be easily disregarded. Because the damage
to his car had been negligible, Michael decided he wouldn't bother to report the matter to his insurance company.
nemesis N. /复仇的人;寻衅者/someone seeking revenge. Abandoned at sea in a small boat, the vengeful Captain Bligh
vowed to be the nemesis of Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers.
neologism N. /新生词/new or newly coined word or phrase. As we invent new techniques and professions, we must
also Invent neologisms such as "microcomputer" and "astronaut" to describe them.
neophyte N. /新入教者;新信徒/recent convert; beginner. This mountain slope contains slides that will challenge experts as well as neophytes.
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