针头尖利的针。
She felt a sharp pain in her heart at the news.
听到那个消息,她心里感到一阵强烈的疼痛。
Recently there has been a sharp decline in interest in gardening throughout the town.
最近全镇对园艺的兴趣已急剧下降。
I will meet you at 3 o'clock sharp at the station.
我将于3点整在车站接你。
【思维拓展】
sharpen v.削尖;磨快
sharpener n.削刀;磨床
sharply adv.锐利地;急剧地
sharpness n.锐利
5.sighting n. 目击;发现
【典型例句】
This is about a reported sighting of a UFO.
这是一篇关于看到不明飞行物的报道。
【要点归纳】
sighting n. 看见某物的动作,尤指见到不寻常或正在寻找的东西。
【相关链接】
(1)sight n.视力;眼界
at first sight 初看时,乍一看;out of sight 看不见
(2)sight,view,scene,和scenery的辨析:
sight和view都可以用来指视野、视域,sight可指"看见"这个动作,也可以指看见的事物;而view指景观、景物;scene 多指某一特定"场景、现场",而 scenery 指风景,景色。
6.claim vt.要求;认领;声称;主张
n.要求,主张
【典型例句】
Did you claim on the insurance after your car accident?
你的车子出事之后,要求领保险金了吗?
Still nobody came to claim the bag I found in the restaurant.
仍然没有人来认领我在饭店见到的那个包。
Fishermen and sailors sometimes claim to have seen monsters in the sea.
有时渔夫和水手声称看到过海里的妖怪。
They made a claim for higher pay.
他们要求涨工资。
【要点归纳】
claim作名词时,意为"要求权,要求而得到的事物"。
7.calm adj.平静的;镇定的
v. (使)平静;(使)镇定
【典型例句】
After the storm it became calm again.
暴风雨过后,天气又恢复了平静。
The sea was calm at the beginning of our voyage.
我们出海时,海上风平浪静。