寒假生活：家庭、学习与娱乐的完美结合

名词质量，品质; 美质，优点; 才能，能力，技能，素养; 品种

形容词优质的，高质量的; 上流社会的

1. 质量；品质
The quality of something is how good or bad it is.

e.g. Everyone can greatly improve the quality of life...
每个人都可以大大改善生活质量。
e.g. Other services vary dramatically in quality.
其他服务在质量上差别很大。

2. 优质;高级
Something of quality is of a high standard.

e.g. ...a college of quality...
优秀的学院
e.g. In our work, quality is paramount.
我们的工作追求品质至上。

3. 优秀品质;品德
Someone's qualities are the good characteristics that they have which are part of their nature.

e.g. Sometimes you wonder where your kids get their good qualities...
有时你会想，孩子们身上的优秀品质是从何而来呢？
e.g. He wanted to introduce mature people with leadership qualities...
他想引进具有领导素质的成熟人才。

4. 特征；性质;特性
You can describe a particular characteristic of a person or thing as a quality .

e.g. ...a childlike quality.
孩子般的天真特质
e.g. ...the pretentious quality of the poetry...
这首诗浮夸造作的特点

5. 内容严肃的报纸
The quality papers or the quality press are the more serious newspapers which give detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society.

e.g. Even the quality papers agreed that it was a triumph.
即使是内容严肃的报纸也认为这是一次胜利。

及物/不及物动词烹调; 编造; 篡改; 密谋

及物动词煮; 烹调

不及物动词烹调; 做菜

名词厨师; 厨子

1. 烹饪;烹调;煮;烧
When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.

e.g. I have to go and cook the dinner...
我得去做饭了。
e.g. Chefs at the St James Court restaurant have cooked for the Queen...
圣詹姆斯皇家饭店的厨师们曾经为女王烹制菜肴。

名词时期; （一段）时间; 学时; 句号

形容词具有某个时代特征的; （关于）过去某一特定历史时期的; （家具、服饰、建筑等）某一时代的

1. 一段时间；时期
A period is a length of time.

e.g. This crisis might last for a long period of time.
这次危机可能持续很长时间。
e.g. ...a period of a few months.
几个月时间

2. （个人、组织或社会的）阶段，时期，时代
A period in the life of a person, organization, or society is a length of time which is remembered for a particular situation or activity.

e.g. ...a period of economic good health and expansion...
经济健康发展并且不断扩张的一段时期
e.g. He went through a period of wanting to be accepted...
有一段时间他很想被人接受。

3. （历史上的）阶段，时期
A particular length of time in history is sometimes called a period. For example, you can talk about the Victorian period or the Elizabethan period in Britain.

e.g. ...the Roman period...
罗马帝国时代
e.g. No reference to their existence appears in any literature of the period.
这一时期的文学作品中都没有提及他们的存在。

4. （服装、家具、乐器）过去的，古代的，具有某个时代特征的
Period costumes, furniture, and instruments were made at an earlier time in history, or look as if they were made then.

e.g. ...dressed in full period costume.
穿着宽松的古装
e.g. ...replicas of period instruments.
古乐器的复制品

5. （练习、训练、学习的）时间，时段
Exercise, training, or study periods are lengths of time that are set aside for exercise, training, or study.

e.g. They accompanied him during his exercise periods.
练习的时候他们陪着他。

6. 课；课时；节
At a school or college, a period is one of the parts that the day is divided into during which lessons or other activities take place.

e.g. ...periods of private study.
自习课
e.g. ...taking his scripts to school in order to learn the lines in free periods.
把他的剧本带到学校以便空闲的时候背台词

7. 月经
When a woman has a period, she bleeds from her womb. This usually happens once a month, unless she is pregnant.

8. 到此为止；不再说了
Some people say period after stating a fact or opinion when they want to emphasize that they are definite about something and do not want to discuss it further.

e.g. I don't want to do it, period.
我不想做，这事就到此为止吧。

9. 句号
A period is the punctuation mark (.) which you use at the end of a sentence when it is not a question or an exclamation.

名词假期，休假; [古] 空出，撤出，辞去

不及物动词度假

1. （大学或美国大中小学的）假期
A vacation is a period of the year when universities and colleges, and in the United States also schools, are officially closed.

e.g. During his summer vacation he visited Russia...
暑假期间他去俄罗斯了。
e.g. Did you have a lot of reading during the vacation?
放假期间你读了很多书吗？

2. 假日;休假
A vacation is a period of time during which you relax and enjoy yourself away from home.

e.g. They planned a late summer vacation in Europe...
他们打算夏末去欧洲度假。
e.g. We went on vacation to Puerto Rico.
我们去了波多黎各度假。