[3分38秒] 每日英语听力训练：盲听+跟读+反复听，轻松提升听力水平

名词精力; 活力; [物]能量; 精神

1. 力气;力量
Energy is the ability and strength to do active physical things and the feeling that you are full of physical power and life.

e.g. He was saving his energy for next week's race in Belgium...
他正为下周在比利时的比赛养精蓄锐。
e.g. We try to boost our energy by eating.
我们试图通过吃东西来增强体力。

2. 毅力；活力
Energy is determination and enthusiasm about doing things.

e.g. At 54 years old her energy and looks are magnificent...
她54岁了，精力和气色都非常好。
e.g. You have drive and energy for those things you are interested in.
你对那些感兴趣的事情干劲十足。

3. 努力;精力
Your energies are your efforts and attention, which you can direct towards a particular aim.

e.g. She had started to devote her energies to teaching rather than performing...
她已经开始将精力从表演转移到教学中。
e.g. We must concentrate our energies on treating addiction first.
我们必须首先集中精力治疗毒瘾。

4. 能量;能源
Energy is the power from sources such as electricity and coal that makes machines work or provides heat.

e.g. ...those who favour nuclear energy...
那些支持利用核能的人
e.g. Oil shortages have brought on an energy crisis...
石油短缺已经造成了能源危机。

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。

动词信任; 料想; 笃信宗教

及物动词相信; 信任; 以为，认为; 对…信以为真

1. 相信；认为
If you believe that something is true, you think that it is true, but you are not sure.

e.g. Experts believe that the coming drought will be extensive...
专家们认为即将发生的旱灾将侵袭大片地区。
e.g. I believe you have something of mine...
我想你拿了我什么东西。

2. 相信（某人或某人的话）
If you believe someone or if you believe what they say or write, you accept that they are telling the truth.

e.g. He did not sound as if he believed her...
他听起来似乎并不相信她。
e.g. Never believe anything a married man says about his wife...
永远不要相信一个已婚男人说的任何有关他妻子的话。

3. 相信有…；认为…存在
If you believe in fairies, ghosts, or miracles, you are sure that they exist or happen. If you believe in a god, you are sure of the existence of that god.

e.g. I don't believe in ghosts...
我不相信有鬼。
e.g. Do you believe in magic?
你相信魔法真的存在吗？

4. 认为…是应该的（或正确的）
If you believe in a way of life or an idea, you are in favour of it because you think it is good or right.

e.g. He believed in marital fidelity.
他认为婚内应该忠诚。
e.g. ...decent candidates who believed in democracy.
信奉民主政治的正派候选人

5. 对…有信心；信任；信赖
If you believe in someone or what they are doing, you have confidence in them and think that they will be successful.

e.g. If you believe in yourself you can succeed.
只要自信，就能成功。

及物动词经营; 使用; 完成（困难的事）; 明智地使用（金钱、时间、信息等）

及物/不及物动词办理，设法对付

不及物动词能解决（问题）; 应付（困难局面等）; 凑合着活下去; 支撑

1. 管理;经营;掌管
If you manage an organization, business, or system, or the people who work in it, you are responsible for controlling them.

e.g. Within two years he was managing the store...
不出两年他就开始管理这家店了。
e.g. Most factories in the area are obsolete and badly managed...
这个地区的绝大多数工厂都十分陈旧，经营状况也非常糟糕。

2. 谨慎地使用，好好地利用(时间、金钱等)
If you manage time, money, or other resources, you deal with them carefully and do not waste them.

e.g. In a busy world, managing your time is increasingly important...
在忙碌的世界里，善于利用时间变得越来越重要。
e.g. Josh expects me to manage all the household expenses on very little.
乔希指望我对每笔家庭支出都精打细算。

3. 设法做到;成功完成
If you manage to do something, especially something difficult, you succeed in doing it.

e.g. Somehow, he'd managed to persuade Kay to buy one for him...
不知用了什么方法，他成功说服凯给他买了一个。
e.g. I managed to pull myself up onto a wet, sloping ledge...
我终于爬上了一块潮湿倾斜的暗礁。

4. 成功对付;设法应对
If you manage, you succeed in coping with a difficult situation.

e.g. She had managed perfectly well without medication for three years...
3年来，她一直没有服药却挺了过来。
e.g. I am managing, but I could not possibly give up work...
我正在努力应付，但我不可能放弃工作。

5. 抽出，腾出，安排出(时间、金钱等)
If you say that you can manage an amount of time or money for something, you mean that you can afford to spend that time or money on it.

e.g. This makes it ideal for those who can only manage a few hours in the morning or evening...
对于那些只能在早晚抽出几个小时的人来说，这是最理想不过的了。
e.g. 'All right, I can manage a fiver,' McMinn said with reluctance.
麦克明不情愿地说：“好吧，我可以出5镑。”

6. 勉强做出（微笑、寒暄等);强作
If you say that someone managed a particular response, such as a laugh or a greeting, you mean that it was difficult for them to do it because they were feeling sad or upset.

e.g. He looked dazed as he spoke to reporters, managing only a weak smile...
跟记者谈话的时候，他只是勉强挤出一丝淡淡的微笑，显得非常恍惚。
e.g. He managed a few sentences about his visit to the prison...
他勉强描述了一下探监情况。

7. （对他人给予帮助的婉拒）我能对付，我能行
You say 'I can manage' or 'I'll manage' as a way of refusing someone's offer of help and insisting on doing something by yourself.

e.g. I know you mean well, but I can manage by myself...
我知道您是一番好意，不过我一个人能行。
e.g. 'I'll do it, Eleanor,' Angus said, quickly jumping up. But this time she only shook her head. 'I'll manage,' she said firmly.
安格斯一跃而起道：“让我来，埃莉诺。”可是，这一次她只是摇了摇头，坚定地说：“我能应付。”

名词（枪）扳机; 起动装置，扳柄; 引发其他事件的一件事; [电子学]触发器，触发电器

及物动词引发，触发; 扣…的扳机; 发射或使爆炸（武器或爆炸性弹药）

1. (枪的)扳机
The trigger of a gun is a small lever which you pull to fire it.

e.g. A man pointed a gun at them and pulled the trigger.
一名男子拿枪指着他们，接着扣动了扳机。

2. (炸弹的)引爆器
The trigger of a bomb is the device which causes it to explode.

e.g. ...trigger devices for nuclear weapons.
核武器的引爆器

3. 引爆;启动;触发
To trigger a bomb or system means to cause it to work.

e.g. The thieves must have deliberately triggered the alarm and hidden inside the house...
盗贼肯定是故意触发了报警器，然后躲在房子里。
e.g. The one thousand pound bomb was triggered by a wire.
那颗重达 1,000 磅的炸弹是由一根导线引爆的。

4. 引起;发动;促使
If something triggers an event or situation, it causes it to begin to happen or exist.

e.g. ...the incident which triggered the outbreak of the First World War...
导致第一次世界大战爆发的事件
e.g. The current recession was triggered by a slump in consumer spending…
目前的经济衰退是由消费支出骤跌引起的。

5. 诱因;起因;引发…的原因
If something acts as a trigger for another thing such as an illness, event, or situation, the first thing causes the second thing to begin to happen or exist.

e.g. Stress may act as a trigger for these illnesses.
压力可能会成为引发这些疾病的原因。