综合英语3词汇合编6.doc

Unit 9 Chinese Food Words and Expressions Paragraphs 1- 4 1. attend to sb./sth. 注意;照料;处理;致力于 (1) deal with business or personal matters; get down to; take care of, look after; pay attention to; take seriously e.g. I may be late – I have got one or two things to attend to. 我也许会迟到，我有一两件事情要处理。 Mother attended to the baby while I went shopping. to attend to one’s duties 做好自己的工作，尽职 Synonym: see to, take care of (2) to help a customer in a shop or a restaurant; work for or be a servant to 接待（顾客） e.g. to attend to a customer 接待（或招呼）顾客 Synonym: serve Derivations: n. a. attentive 注意的,专心的 e.g. an attentive audience一位专心的观众 Ministers should be more attentive to the needs of families.部长们更应该关心家庭的需要 attentiveness ad. attentively 2. well-being n. [U] 健康,幸福 (1) the state of feeling healthy, happy and comfortable; a feeling of being comfortable, healthy, and happy e.g. People doing yoga benefit from an increased feeling of well-being. We saw an improvement in the patient’s well-being. Synonyms: welfare(福利,福利事业,幸福), health, happiness, comfort Collocation: well-being of physical/psychological ,etc. well-being a sense/feeling of well-being 3. ecstasy n. (pl. ecstasies) 入迷,狂喜,忘形 (1) [C, U] sudden intense feeling or excitement; a feeling of extreme happiness e.g. There was a look of ecstasy on his face. Collocations: in (an) ecstasy 兴奋不已 go into ecstasies 变得欣喜若狂become very happy and excited Synonyms: rapture, elation(n.兴高采烈,得意洋洋) Derivations: a. ecstatic 狂喜的,入迷的 ad. ecstatically 狂喜地,心醉神迷地 4. derive from 源自,出自,源于 to develop or come from something else e.g. This word is derived from Latin. 这个词来源于拉丁文。 Almost all the world’s energy resources derive from the sun. 世界上几乎所有的能源都来自太阳。 Derivations: derivation n [C, U] derivative a. 衍生的,派生的 derivable a. 可引出的,可推导的 Practice: 英语中的“man”一词源于梵语中的“manas”。 There are some English words whose spelling derives from incorrect etymology. 5. in advance (of sth) 在（某事）发生之前；预先，提前 before somet