1.migrate v.移居(to move from one country, place, or locality to another)
詞根記憶:migr(移動)+ate--移居
例:The three species most closely related to crook beaks do not migrate at all.
派生詞:migration(n.遷移)
同根詞:immigrate(y.移入)
2.mileage n.英里數;(耗油1加侖所行駛的)英里里程(total length, extent, or distance measured or expressed in miles)
詞根記憶:來自mile(幾,莢里)
例:This brand of gasoline will improve your mileage.
3.milieu n.環境(an environment or a setting)
聯想記憶;mi( d)(中間)+lieu(地方)--在一個地方之中就是在一個環境里--環境
例:Reactionist writers took the view that frontier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu.
4.militancy n.戰斗(性):戰斗精神(the quality or state of being militant)
詞根記憶:milit(戰斗)+ancy(表性質)--戰斗
例:political militancy政治交戰狀態
同根詞:militarily( ad.以武力地);militarism(n.軍國主義):military(a.軍事的)
5.millennium n.[pl. millennia]一千年(a span of one thousand years)
詞根記憶:mill(千)+ennium(年)--一千年
例:millennium baby千禧嬰兒
同根詞:biennium(n.二年期間)
6.millipede n.千足蟲(a small creature with a long thin body divided into many sections, each with two pairs of legs)
詞根記憶:milli千)+ped(腳)+e--千足蟲
Capuchin monkeys often rub their bodies with a certain type of millipede.
同根詞:centipede(n.蜈蚣,百足蟲)
7.mimic v.(模仿,效仿to copy, to imitate)
例:Advertising firms will continue to use imitators to mimic the physical mannerisms of famous singers.
8.mineralize v.使礦物化(to transform(a metal) into an ore)
詞根記憶:mine(礦)+ralize--使礦物化
例:None of these high-technology methods are of any value if the sites to which they are applied have never mineralized.
派生詞:mineralization(n.礦化;礦化作用)
同根詞:mineral(a.礦物的:n.礦物)
9.miniature a.微型的,小型的(small);n.縮小的模型(a copy or model that represents or reproduces something in a greatly reduced size)
詞根記憶:mini(小)+ature--小型的,微型的
例:This model car is a miniature of a real one.
同根詞:minikin(n.小東西):minimal(a.最小的)