9. hurl (vt) (1) [(+at)] 厲聲叫罵  to shot out violently 

                   (2) [(+at/upon)] 猛力投擲  to throw things (esp. big and heavy )

                         with force    

              (vi) 猛力投擲; 美【口】【棒】投球

   The crowd hurled abuse at the police.  人群大罵警察

   A Saturn rocket hurled Apollo aloft.  一枚土星號火箭把阿波羅航天飛船送入空中

   He hurled all the books out of the window   他把書全都扔出窗外

   The tribesmen picked up great rocks to hurl at us.

    部落男子揀起大石塊朝我們擲來

10. suede (n) 絨面革,起毛革; 仿麂皮織物

11. tingle (vi) (1) 感到刺痛;感到臉紅[(+with)]

                       (2) 震顫;激動[(+with)]

                       (3) 發出叮叮聲;發出鈴鈴聲;(耳等)鳴響

         (vt) (1) 使感刺痛;使激動

               (2) 使發叮叮聲;使發出鈴鈴聲

         (n) [S] (1) 刺痛;震顫;激動

                     (2) 叮叮聲;鈴鈴聲;(耳等的)鳴響

His cheek tingled from the slap she had given him.

他的面頰因挨了她一記耳光而感到刺痛

She was tingling with excitement.  她激動不已

My ears often tingle.  我常常耳鳴

The cold caused a tingle in my fingers.  嚴寒使我的手指有刺痛感

She feels a tingle of excitement.  她激動不已

12. pedal (n) [C] 踏板;腳蹬

                 (v) 踩踏板; 騎腳踏車

He pushed hard on the brake pedal to avoid a collision.

他使勁踩下煞車踏板以避免撞車

I saw him pedal to school every morning.  我看到他每天早晨騎自行車上學

Tom pedaled his bicycle down the street.  湯姆沿著街道騎自行車

13. brake (n) (1)煞車,制動器,閘

                       (2) 阻礙,約束[(+on)]

                 (vt) 煞住(車); 抑制,約束

The car accident was attributed to faulty brakes.   

 這一汽車事故起因於煞車不靈

He braked his car just in time to avoid an accident.  

 他及時煞車,避免了一次事故

There is little the government can do to brake inflation. 

政府沒有多少辦法抑制通貨膨脹

14. obstacle- fraught

fraught (a) [F][(+with)] 充滿...的; 尤指充滿不愉快的事

She had a life fraught with hardship.  她的一生充滿了艱辛

15. holler (vt; vi) infml esp. AmE to shout out, eg to attracto attention or because of     pain  (為引起注意或因疼痛而) 叫喊; 大聲叫喊 

                  (n) 呼喊

   類 bark (vi  (狗,狐等)吠叫; 厲聲說話;咆哮)

   “Let go ,” he hollered.

16. overtake (vt) (1) 追上;趕上;超過

                            (2) [(+by/with)]突然侵襲;壓倒

I had to walk very fast to overtake you.   為了趕上你,我不得不走得很快

He was overtaken by misfortune.    他突然遭遇不幸

Utter weariness overtook me an hour later.   一小時之後,我感到困乏極了

17. Intricacy (n) (1) [U] the quality or state of being intricate 錯綜複雜; (因複雜而產 生的)難以理解

                   (2) [C 常用複數] 錯綜複雜的事物

   Intricate (a) containing mamy detailed parts, and thus sometimes difficult to understand 錯綜複雜的;複雜精細的;難解的

   An intricate pattern / story 花紋精細的圖案; 情節複雜的故事

   The intricacy of the lace/ the problem 花邊的精細; 問題的複雜性

   The intricacies of political manoeuvring 複雜的政治技倆

18. precariously (ad) unsafe; not firm or steady; full of danger不安全地,危險地;

                    碰機會地,不穩定地,靠不住地; 充滿危險

precarious (a) (1) 不穩的;危險的 

                               (2) 碰機會的,說不定的

Our financial situation is still precarious.  我們的財政狀況仍不穩定

The climber had only a precarious hold on the slippery rock. 

登山者在滑溜溜的岩石上只有一個非常不穩的支揚點

She had a cup of tea balanced precariously on her knee.

 她把一杯茶很不安全地放在膝蓋上