sensual ADJ. /感官的;肉欲的;感官论的/devoted to the pleasures of the senses; carnal; voluptuous. I cannot understand
what caused him to abandon his sensual way of life and become so ascetic.
sententious ADJ. /简洁的;警句式的,格言式的/terse; concise; aphoristic. After reading so many redundant speeches, I
find his sententious style particularly pleasing.
sentinel N. /哨兵/sentry; lookout. Though camped in enemy territory, Bledsoe ignored the elementary precaution of
posting sentinels around the encampment.
Word List 43 sequester-solvent
sequester V. /隐退;隔离/isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude. Banished from his kingdom, the wizard
Prospero sequestered himself on a desert island. To prevent the jurors from hearing news broadcasts about the case, the judge decided to sequester the jury.
serendipity N. /有发现意外之财的运气/gift for finding valuable or desirable things by accident; accidental good fortune
or luck. Many scientific discoveries are a matter of serendipity. Newton was not sitting under a tree thinking about gravity when the apple dropped on his head.
serenity N. /平静/calmness; placidity. The sound of air raid sirens pierced the serenity of the quiet village of Pearl
Harbor.
serpentine ADJ. /蜿蜒的/winding; twisting. The car swerved at every curve in the serpentine road.
serrated ADJ. /锯齿状的/having a sawtoothed edge. The beech tree is one of many plants that have serrated leaves. servile ADJ. /奴隶的;奴性的/slavish; cringing. Constantly fawning on his employer, humble Uriah Heap was a servile
creature.
servitude N. /奴隶身份;苦工/slavery; compulsory labor. Born a slave, Frederick Douglass resented his life of servitude
and plotted to escape to the North.
sever V. /切断/cut; separate. The released prisoner wanted to begin a new life and sever all connections with his
criminal past. Dr. Guillotin invented a machine that could neatly sever an aristocratic head from its equally aristocratic body. Unfortunately, he couldn't collect any severance pay. severance, N.
severity N. /严肃;严格;激烈/harshness; intensity; sternness; austerity. The severity of Jane's migraine attack was so
great that she took to her bed for a week.
shackle V. /手铐;枷锁;脚镣/chain; fetter. The criminal's ankles were shackled to prevent his escape. also N. sham V. /佯装;假的;赝品/pretend. He shammed sickness to get out of going to school. also N.
shambles N. /混乱的地方;肉铺/wreck; mess. After the hurricane, the Carolina coast was a shambles. After the New
Year's Eve party, the apartment was a shambles.
shard N. /碎片(陶瓷的)/fragment, generally of pottery. The archaeologist assigned several students the task of
reassembling earthenware vessels from the shards he had brought back from the expedition.
sheaf N. /捆;扎(秸秆)/bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together. The lawyer picked up a sheaf of
papers as he rose to question the witness.
shear V. /剪;修剪/cut or clip (hair, fleece); strip of something. You may not care to cut a sheep's hair, but Sarah shears
sheep for Little Bo Peep.
sheathe V. /插入鞘/place into a case. As soon as he recognized the approaching men, he sheathed his dagger and
hailed them as friends.
sheer ADJ. /纯粹的,,绝对的;透明的;峻峭的;避开,躲避;偏航,避开/very thin or transparent; very steep; absolute. Wearing
nothing but an almost sheer robe, Delilah draped herself against the sheer temple wall. Beholding her, Samson was overcome by her sheer beauty. Then she sheared his hair.
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