problematic ADJ. /忧郁的;忧心忡忡的;心存疑虑的;有疑问的/doubtful; unsettled; questionable; perplexing. Given the way
building costs have exceeded estimates for the job, whether the arena will ever be completed is problematic.
proclivity N. /倾向;自然倾向/inclination; natural tendency. Watching the two-year-old voluntarily put away his toys, I
was amazed by his proclivity for neatness.
procrastinate V. /推迟;延期/postpone; delay or put off. Looking at four years of receipts and checks he still had to
sort through, Bob was truly sorry he had procrastinated for so long and not finished filing his taxes long ago.
prod V. /刺;刺激;激励/poke; stir up; urge. If you prod him hard enough, he'll eventually clean his room.
prodigal ADJ. /浪费的/wasteful; reckless with money. Don't be so prodigal spending my money; when you've earned
some money yourself, you can waste it as much as you want! also N.
prodigious ADJ. /巨大的/marvelous; enormous. Watching the champion weight lifter heave the weighty barbell to
shoulder height and then boost it overhead, we marveled at his prodigious strength.
prodigy N. /奇才;天才/marvel; highly gifted child. Menuhin was a prodigy, performing wonders on his violin when he
was barely eight years old.
profane V. /亵渎/violate; desecrate; treat unworthily. The members of the mysterious Far Eastern cult sought to kill
the British explorer because he had profaned the sanctity of their holy goblet by using it as an ashtray. alsoADJ.
profligate ADJ. /放荡的;放肆的;不检点的/dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral. Although surrounded by wild and profligate
companions, she nevertheless managed to retain some sense of decency.
profound ADJ. /深刻的/deep; not superficial; complete. Freud's remarkable insights into human behavior caused his
fellow scientists to honor him as a profound thinker. profundity, N.
profusion N. /过量;过剩/overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess. Freddy was so overwhelmed by the profusion of
choices on the menu that he knocked over his wine glass and soaked his host. He made profuse apologies to his host, the waiter, the bus boy, the people at the next table, and the attendant handing out paper towels.
progenitor N. /祖先/ancestor. The Roth family, whose progenitors emigrated from Germany early in the nineteenth
century, settled in Peru, Illinois.
progeny N. /后裔/children; offspring. He was proud of his progeny in general, but regarded George as the most
promising of all his children.
prognosis N. /预言;疾病警告/forecasted course of a disease; prediction. If the doctor's prognosis is correct, the patient
will be in a coma for at least twenty-four hours.
projectile N. /发舐;导弹/missile. Man has always hurled projectiles at his enemy whether in the form of stones or of
highly explosive shells.
proletarian N. /无产阶级的;蓝领的/member of the working class; blue collar person. "Workers of the world, unite! You
have nothing to lose but your chains" is addressed to proletarians, not preppies. So is Blue Collar Holler. proletariat, N.
proliferation N. /迅速增长，倍增;扩散/rapid growth; spread; multiplication. Times of economic hardship inevitably
encourage the proliferation of countless get-rich-quick schemes. proliferate,V.
prolific ADJ. /多产的;丰富的/abundantly fruitful. My editors must assume I'm a prolific writer: they expect me to revise
six books this year!
prolixity N. /冗长的;啰嗦的/tedious wordiness; verbosity. A writer who suffers from prolixity tells his readers everything
they never wanted to know about his subject (or were too bored to ask). prolix, ADJ.
prologue N. /序(诗歌，歌剧的)/introduction (to a poem or play). In the prologue to Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
introduces the audience to the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.
prolong V. /拖延/make longer; draw out; lengthen. In their determination to discover ways to prolong human life,
doctors fail to take into account that longer lives are not always happier ones.
prominent ADJ. /显著的;突出的;卓越的/conspicuous; notable; sticking out. Have you ever noticed that Prince Charles's
prominent ears make him look like the big-eared character in Mad comics?
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