cherubic

【考法 1】 adj. 天使般可爱的：innocent-looking usually chubby and rosy

【例】A representation of Cupid as a naked, cherubic boy usually is used as a symbol of love. 丘比特作为小天使

般的少年裸体画像被用作爱的象征

【反】fiendish, devilish 恶魔般的

chicanery

【考法 1】 n．诡计多端，欺骗 ：deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry

【例】 Well-doer never does chicanery and person who is good at chicanery does not belong well-doer. 善者不

辩，辩者不善。|| He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes. 他不是用欺骗来赢得选票的。

【近】deception, artifice, legerdemain, wile, subterfuge

【反】aboveboard action 光明正大的行为；honest dealing 诚实的行为；forthrightness 坦白

chide

【考法 1】 v. 责备：to scold mildly so as to correct or improve

【例】My wife chided me for forgetting to offer our guests some refreshments. 我妻子责备我忘记给客人们点心。

【近】reprove, reprimand, reproach, tick off

【反】praise, commend 称赞

choleric

【考法 1】 adj. 易怒的，暴躁的：easily angered; bad-tempered.

【例】choleric disposition 易怒的性情 || men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing 易怒的人喜欢踢和

打碎东西

【近】crabby, cranky, irascible, peevish, petulant, bad-tempered, hot-tempered, short-tempered, testy

【反】difficult to provoke, pacific, placid, calm, serene, tranquil, composed, nonchalant 难以被激怒的，平静的

【派】choler n. 易怒：ready disposition to irritation : irascibility also : anger

【考法 2】 adj. 生气的：feeling or showing anger: angry, irate

【例】I absolutely get choleric when a salesman calls during the dinner hour. 当一个推销员午休时间打来电话的

时候我彻底愤怒了。

【近】angered, apoplectic, ballistic, enraged, furious, incensed, inflamed, enflamed, infuriated, irate, ireful,

outraged, rankled, riled, wrathful

【反】angerless, delighted, pleased

chord

【考法 1】 vi. 和谐一致；符合：to be in accord; agree.

【例】The revised system chords perfectly with the original goals. 新版的系统非常符合最初的目标。

【近】accord, agree, conform, consist, correspond, dovetail, fit, harmonize, jibe, rhyme, square, tally

【反】differ from, disagree with

chromatic

【考法 1】 adj. 彩色的： relating to colors or color

【例】the chromatic paintings of Matisse and the other Fauvists 马蒂斯和其他野兽派画家的彩色画

【近】colored , colorful, motley, multicolored, multihued, varicolored, variegated, kaleidoscopic

【反】colorless, pallid, blanched 无色的；monochromatic, monochromic, monotone, self-colored 单色的

chronic

【考法 1】 adj. 经常发生的，复发的：marked by long duration or frequent recurrence

【例】chronic disease 慢性病

【近】frequent, usual, routine

【反】sporadic 偶然发生的；infrequent 不经常的

【考法 2】 adj. 习惯性的，不可能改变的：being such by habit and not likely to change

【例】a chronic smoker who has quit many times 一个戒了很多次烟的老烟民

【近】inveterate

churl

【考法 1】 n. 粗野的人; a rude, boorish person

【例】By the 19th century, ‘churl’ had a new and pejorative meaning, “one inclined to uncivil or loutish behavior”. 19

世纪的时候，churl 有了一个新的贬义含义的意思，“一个粗鲁没有教养的人”

【近】boor, lout

【派】churlish adj. 粗野的，暴躁的：of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar

【近】crude, coarse, boorish, loutish, uncultured, unpolished

【反】genteel, complaisance, courtly, polished 文雅的，彬彬有礼的；sophisticated 机智圆滑的

【考法 2】 n. 吝啬鬼：a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money

【例】Don't bother asking a churl for donations. 别自找麻烦向一个吝啬鬼要捐款。

【近】miser, niggard, skinflint, penny-pincher

【反】generous/ liberal/ munificent person 慷慨的人；waster, wastrel, spendthrift, prodigal, profligate, dissipater

败家子

cipher

【考法 1】 n. 无影响或无价值的人：a person of no importance or influence

【例】The intern is a mere cipher in the company. 这个实习生在公司里是个无足轻重的小人物。

【近】dwarf, half-pint, insect, insignificancy, lightweight, morsel, nonentity, nothing, nullity, snippersnapper,

whippersnapper, zero

【反】big shot, big wheel, bigwig, eminence, figure, personage

【考法 2】 v. 计算（价值）：to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations

【例】We were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total. 当

我们算出我们沉船游览的总花费时，我们都惊呆了。

【近】compute, work out

【考法 3】 n. 密码： a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning

【例】convert their messages into cipher 把他们的信息转换成密码

【近】code, secret message

circuitous

【考法 1】 adj. 不直接的：not being forthright or direct in language or action

【例】We took a circuitous route to the airport so as to avoid the massive traffic jam. 我们走了一条迂回的路线

去机场来躲避堵车。

【近】indirect, circular, roundabout

【反】direct, straight, straightforward 直接的

【派】circuity n. 不直接：lack of straightforwardness

【反】straightforwardness, direction 直接

【考法 2】 adj. 冗长的：using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea

【例】a circuitous explanation for what seems like a fairly basic concept 对一个非常基本的概念的冗长的解释

【近】circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy

【反】compact, concise, pithy, succinct, terse 简洁的