1. distress n. 痛苦，悲傷 vt. 使痛苦

　　I pray that you will have pity on my distress.

　　求你可憐可憐我的不幸遭遇。

　　He couldn't distress her with his own terrible dilemma.

　　他不能用自己糟糕的困境來折磨她。

　　2. facility n. [pl.] 設備，設施;便利，方便

　　The college has excellent sporting facilities.

　　這所學院有極好的體育設備。

　　Certainly geothermometry will be used with greater facility in sub-soil exploration and in detecting migrant fluids.

　　可以肯定，地熱測量法在地下勘探和測試運移流體方面更便于使用。

　　3. faculty n. 能力，技能;系，學科，學院;全體教員

　　This boy has a faculty of making friends easily.

　　這個男孩有交友的能力。

　　He is the dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

　　他是醫(yī)學院院長。

　　Both faculty and students oppose the measures.

　　全體教師和學生都反對這種方法。

　　4. mixture n. 混合，混合物

　　You need a spoon to beat the mixture smooth.

　　你需要用一把調(diào)羹來攪均混合液。

　　Air is a mixture, not a compound of gases.

　　空氣是氣體的混合物，不是化合物。

　　5. mood n. 心情，情緒;語氣

　　the subjunctive mood 虛擬語氣

　　I'm not in the mood to disagree with you.

　　我沒有心思跟你爭論。

　　6.moral a. 道德上的，有道德的

　　His behavior transgressed the moral rules of the social conduct.

　　他的行為違背了社會行為的道德準則。

　　7. prominent a. 突出的

　　He is a prominent scholar in the field of linguistics.

　　他是語言學領域的杰出學者。

　　8. substance n. 物質(zhì);實質(zhì)

　　The emery is a hard metallic substance.

　　金剛砂是非常堅硬的金屬物質(zhì)。

　　There is not anything of real substance in their book.

　　他們的書中沒有什么實質(zhì)性的內(nèi)容。

　　9.substantial a. 可觀的;牢固的;實質(zhì)的

　　Substantial profits accrue when sales take off.

　　當銷售額突飛猛進之后，可觀的利潤就開始自然累積。

　　Those workers have built many substantial buildings in the recent years.

　　近幾年那些工人建造了許多堅固的建筑。

　　The reforms have made substantial headway.

　　改革取得了實質(zhì)的進展。

　　10. prompt vt. 促使 a. 敏捷的，及時的

　　Science and technology has prompted the rapid development of modern society.

　　科學技術推動了現(xiàn)代社會的迅速發(fā)展。

　　Thank you for your prompt reply to our telegram.

　　多謝您對我們電報的及時答復。