名词离婚; 分离
及物动词与…离婚; 分离
及物/不及物动词与（某人）离婚，判（某人）离婚
1. 离婚
A divorce is the formal ending of a marriage by law.
e.g. Numerous marriages now end in divorce...
现在许多婚姻都以离婚收场。
e.g. Their divorce became final this weekend...
他们离婚一事在这周末尘埃落定。
2. (与…)离婚
If a man and woman divorce or if one of them divorces the other, their marriage is legally ended.
e.g. My parents divorced when I was very young...
我很小的时候父母就离婚了。
e.g. He and Lillian had got divorced...
他和莉莲已离婚了。
3. 分离;脱离
A divorce of one thing from another, or a divorce between two things is a separation between them which is permanent or is likely to be permanent.
e.g. ...this divorce of Christian culture from the roots of faith...
基督教文化和信仰根基的脱离
e.g. This process is, in no sense, a divorce between the Labour Party and the trade union movement.
这个进程绝不是工党和工会运动相脱离。
4. 使分离;使分开
If you say that one thing cannot be divorced from another, you mean that the two things cannot be considered as different and separate things.
e.g. Good management in the police cannot be divorced from accountability...
对警察队伍的良好管理和应负的责任是分不开的。
e.g. We have been able to divorce sex from reproduction.
我们已经能够将性和生育完全分开了。
名词力量; 优点，长处; （光、声、色等的）力度; 人力[数]
1. 体力;力气;力量
Your strength is the physical energy that you have, which gives you the ability to perform various actions, such as lifting or moving things.
e.g. She has always been encouraged to swim to build up the strength of her muscles...
一直有人鼓励她去游泳以强健体魄。
e.g. He threw it forward with all his strength...
他使尽全力把它扔向前方。
2. (面对困境的)信心，勇气
Someone's strength in a difficult situation is their confidence or courage.
e.g. Something gave me the strength to overcome the difficulty...
有些事给了我克服困难的勇气。
e.g. His strength is an inspiration to me in my life...
他的自信是对我人生的一种鼓舞。
3. 强度
The strength of an object or material is its ability to be treated roughly, or to carry heavy weights, without being damaged or destroyed.
e.g. He checked the strength of the cables.
他检查了一下钢索的强度。
e.g. ...the properties of a material, such as strength or electrical conductivity.
一种材料的特性，比如强度或导电性
4. 实力;影响力
The strength of a person, organization, or country is the power or influence that they have.
e.g. America values its economic leadership, and the political and military strength that goes with it...
美国重视其经济领导地位以及随之产生的政治和军事实力。
e.g. The Alliance in its first show of strength drew a hundred thousand-strong crowd to a rally...
该联盟的第一次实力展示便吸引了 10 万余众参加集会。
5. (情感、意见、信念的)深度，强烈程度，影响程度
If you refer to the strength of a feeling, opinion, or belief, you are talking about how deeply it is felt or believed by people, or how much they are influenced by it.
e.g. He was surprised at the strength of his own feeling...
他感情之强烈令他自己都很吃惊。
e.g. ...the Civil War and the strength of feeling it had engendered among the Spanish people...
内战以及其在西班牙民众中所激发的强烈情感
6. 优势;优点;长处
Someone's strengths are the qualities and abilities that they have which are an advantage to them, or which make them successful.
e.g. Take into account your own strengths and weaknesses...
考虑一下你自己的优缺点。
e.g. Vision and ambition are his great strengths...
目光远大、雄心勃勃是他的两大优点。
7. (货币、经济、工业的)坚挺
If you refer to the strength of a currency, economy, or industry, you mean that its value or success is steady or increasing.
e.g. ...the long-term competitive strength of the American economy...
美国经济的长期竞争力
e.g. The drop was caused partly by the pound's strength against the dollar.
下降的部分原因在于英镑对美元的升值。
8. 人数;人力
The strength of a group of people is the total number of people in it.
e.g. ...elite forces, comprising about one-tenth of the strength of the army.
约占军队总人数1/10的精锐部队
9. (风等的)强度，力度，速度
The strength of a wind, current, or other force is its power or speed.
e.g. Its oscillation depends on the strength of the gravitational field...
它的振动幅度取决于引力场的强度。
e.g. A tropical storm is gaining strength in the eastern Atlantic.
在大西洋东部，一场热带风暴的风力正逐渐增强。
10. (饮料、化学品、药品的)浓度，浓淡程度
The strength of a drink, chemical, or drug is the amount of the particular substance in it that gives it its particular effect.
e.g. It is very alcoholic, sometimes near the strength of port...
它的酒精浓度很高，有时接近波尔图葡萄酒的浓度。
e.g. Each capsule contains between 30 and 100 pellets of morphine sulphate according to the strength of dose required...
根据所需剂量的浓度不同，每颗胶囊里含有 30 至 100 个吗啡硫酸盐颗粒。
11. (味道、气味、颜色、声音、光照的)程度
You can talk about the strength of a flavour, smell, colour, sound, or light to describe how intense or easily noticed it is.
e.g. The wine has lots of strength of flavour.
该酒口味醇厚。
12. 日益兴隆;不断取得成功;信心倍增
If a person or organization goes from strength to strength, they become more and more successful or confident.
e.g. Since her heart and lung transplant operation she has gone from strength to strength...
做过心肺移植手术后，她的身体不断好转。
e.g. A decade later, the company has gone from strength to strength.
十年后，该公司已经逐渐壮大。
13. (队伍或军队的)全员，满员，最佳阵容
If a team or army is at full strength, all the members that it needs or usually has are present.
e.g. He needed more time to bring US forces there up to full strength.
他需要更多时间来增派兵力，以确保驻扎在那里的美国军队兵力充足。
e.g. ...a full-strength team.
阵容齐整的队伍
14. 大量，大批(聚集)
If a group turns out in strength, they arrive in large numbers.
e.g. Mr Gore called on voters and party workers to turn out in strength...
戈尔先生号召选民和政党工作人员积极前来投票。
e.g. Security forces have been out in strength.
已经出动了大批安全部队。
15. 在…的影响下;凭借;依赖
If one thing is done on the strength of another, it is done because of the influence of that other thing.
e.g. He was elected to power on the strength of his charisma...
他凭借其个人魅力而当选掌权。
e.g. On the strength of those grades, he won a scholarship to Syracuse University.
凭借那些成绩，他赢得了锡拉丘兹大学的奖学金。
16. (军队或队伍)人员不足，阵容不全
If an army or team is under strength or below strength, it does not have all the members that it needs or usually has.
e.g. His regiments were considerably under strength...
他的几个团兵力严重不足。
e.g. They had been beaten by a below-strength side.
他们被一支阵容不齐的队伍打败了。
形容词顽固的，固执的; 顽强的或有决心的; 坚持的; 棘手的
1. 倔强的;固执的;顽固的;执拗的
Someone who is stubborn or who behaves in a stubborn way is determined to do what they want and is very unwilling to change their mind.
e.g. He is a stubborn character used to getting his own way...
他性格固执，惯于一意孤行。
e.g. His face was set in an expression of stubborn determination.
他脸上流露出固执坚定的表情。
名词目击者，见证人; [法]证人; 证据
及物动词出席或知道; 作记录; 提供或作为…的证据
不及物动词见证; 做证人
1. 见证人;目击者
A witness to an event such as an accident or crime is a person who saw it.
e.g. Witnesses to the crash say they saw an explosion just before the disaster...
空难目击者称，就在灾难发生之前他们看见飞机发生了爆炸。
e.g. No witnesses have come forward.
没有目击证人站出来。
2. 目击;目睹
If you witness something, you see it happen.
e.g. Anyone who witnessed the attack should call the police...
目睹这次袭击的人都应向警方报告。
e.g. It was the quickest swimming lesson I'd ever witnessed.
这是我所见过的最速成的游泳课。
3. (出庭的)证人
A witness is someone who appears in a court of law to say what they know about a crime or other event.
e.g. In the next three or four days, eleven witnesses will be called to testify.
接下来的三四天里，将传唤11名证人出庭作证。
4. 见证人;连署人
A witness is someone who writes their name on a document that you have signed, to confirm that it really is your signature.
5. 为(文件的签署)作证;连署
If someone witnesses your signature on a document, they write their name after it, to confirm that it really is your signature.
e.g. Ask a friend to witness your signature.
请一位朋友给你的签名作证。
6. 见证，经历(事件、变化等)
If you say that a place, period of time, or person witnessed a particular event or change, you mean that it happened in that place, during that period of time, or while that person was alive.
e.g. India has witnessed many political changes in recent years...
印度近年来经历了很多政治变动。
e.g. The year 1886 witnessed the first extended translation into English of the writings of Eliphas Levi...
1886年，埃利法斯·莱维的作品第一次有了长篇英译本。
7. 以…为证;…便是明证
You use witness to introduce an example of what you have just been talking about.
e.g. Americans are a generous people: witness the increase in charitable giving, even during the recession.
美国人是个慷慨的民族：即使是在经济萧条时期，慈善捐赠也在不断增加，这便是明证。
8. 是…的见证人;是…的目击者
If you are witness to something, you see it happen.
e.g. Too often children are witness to a disturbing amount of violence.
孩子们经常会目睹暴力事件,其数量之多令人不安。
9. 证明;为…作证
If a person or thing bears witness to something, they show or say that it exists or happened.
e.g. Many of these poems bear witness to his years spent in India and China...
这些诗中有很多见证了他在印度和中国度过的岁月。
e.g. Many veterans believe it is their job to bear witness to the horrors of war that they personally experienced.
很多老兵认为他们有职责为他们亲身经历的战争的恐怖作证。
名词极大的痛苦; 苦恼，烦闷; 临死的挣扎; （感情的）迸发
1. （肉体或精神的）极度痛苦，创痛
Agony is great physical or mental pain.
e.g. A new machine may save thousands of animals from the agony of drug tests...
一种新型机器也许可以将成千上万的动物从药物试验的痛苦中解脱出来。
e.g. She called out in agony...
她疼得叫出声来。
名词愤怒; 怒气; 生气; 愤懑
及物/不及物动词激怒; 使发怒; [医]〈旧，非正式〉使（伤口）炎或疼痛; 恼火
不及物动词发怒; 恼火
1. 怒；愤怒
Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
e.g. He cried with anger and frustration...
他愤怒而又沮丧得哭了起来。
e.g. Ellen felt both despair and anger at her mother.
埃伦对她的母亲感到既绝望又生气。
2. 使发怒；使生气；激怒
If something angers you, it makes you feel angry.
e.g. The decision to allow more offshore oil drilling angered some Californians.
允许进行更多近海石油钻探的决定激怒了一些加利福尼亚人。
名词文明社会; 文明，文化; 开化，教化; 修养
名词恭维; 敬意; 道贺，贺词; 致意
及物动词称赞; 向…道贺; 向…致意
名词胆小鬼，懦夫
形容词怯懦的，胆小的
1. 胆小鬼;懦夫;胆怯者
If you call someone a coward, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid dangerous or difficult situations.
e.g. She accused her husband of being a coward.
她指责丈夫胆小懦弱。
动词逃脱; 逃离; 躲过; 泄露
名词逃走; 逃跑工具或方法; 野生种; 泄漏
形容词使逃避困难的; 使规避问题的
1. 逃离;逃脱
If you escape from a place, you succeed in getting away from it.
e.g. A prisoner has escaped from a jail in northern England...
一名囚犯从英格兰北部的一所监狱中越狱。
e.g. They are reported to have escaped to the other side of the border...
有报道称他们已经逃过了国境线。