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swagger
【考法 1】 vi. 大搖大擺地走，趾高氣昂地走： to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner
【例】 The young man confidently swaggered across the room. 年輕人高傲地在房間里走來走去。
【近】 prance, sashay, stalk
【考法 2】 v. 自夸，吹噓： boast, brag
【例】 I would swagger if I'd won first place in the bowling tournament. 如果我贏了保齡球錦標賽我肯定會自夸。
【近】 brag, vapor, vaunt, gasconade
swear
【考法 1】 vi. 咒罵： to use profane or obscene language: curse
【例】 no one is allowed to swear in this house 這個房間里禁止說臟話
【近】 blaspheme, curse, cuss
【反】 accolade 贊美
【考法 2】 v. 宣誓： to promise or pledge with a solemn oath; vow
【例】 He swore his oath of allegiance to the queen. 他宣誓效忠女王
【近】 attest, depose, covenant, pledge, vow
sweltering
【考法 1】 adj. 酷熱的： oppressively hot
【例】 The air conditioning was broken, and it was sweltering in the room. 空調壞了，房間里酷熱難耐。
【近】 boiling, scorching, searing, sultry, torrid, fiery
【反】 algid, arctic, bone-chilling, freezing, frigid, frozen, glacial, ice-cold, iced, icy 嚴寒的
swerve
【考法 1】 vi. 突然改變方向： to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course
【例】 The car swerved sharply to avoid the squirrel in the road. 為了避開路中的松鼠，汽車猛地轉向。
【近】 detour, deviate, diverge, sheer, swing, veer
【反】 maintain direction, straighten 保持方向，直行
swill
【考法 1】 vt. 痛飲，大口地吃： to drink greedily, to eat greedily or to excess
【例】 Considering the way she swills carbonated drinks, she ought to own stock in Pepsi company. 鑒于她對碳酸飲料消費的貢獻，百事公司應該給她分點股份。
【近】 gulp, quaff, swig
【反】 sip 啜飲
swindle
【考法 1】 vt. 欺騙，騙取： to cheat or defraud of money or property
【例】 Hundreds of people were swindled out of their savings 幾百人都被騙去了存款。
【近】 bilk, con, hustle, fiddle, gyp, bunco, flimflam
sybarite
【考法 1】 n. 沉于奢侈逸樂者，酒色之徒： a person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary
【例】 The prince was remembered as a self-indulgent sybarite. 王子酒色之徒的名聲遠揚。
【近】 debauchee, decadent, hedonist, sensualist
【反】 spartan, ascetic 禁欲者
sycophant
【考法 1】 n. 馬屁精： a servile self-seeking flatterer
【例】 When her career was riding high, the self-deluded actress often mistook sycophants for true friends. 當她的事業如日中天之時，該演員總是把一些馬屁精誤以為是真朋友。
【近】 fawner, flunky , lickspittle, toady, apple-polisher, bootlicker, brownnoser
syllabus
【考法 1】 n. 提綱，摘要：課文、演講或研究課題的要點的概要或提綱： an outline or a summary of the main points of a text, lecture, or course of study
【例】 Have you got next year’s syllabus? 你拿到明年的教學大綱了嗎？
syllogism
【考法 1】 n. 由一般到個別的推理；演繹： reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction
【例】 The syllogism was at the core of traditional deductive reasoning, where facts are determined by combining existing statements, in contrast to inductive reasoning where facts are determined by repeated observations. 從一般到個別的推理是傳統演繹推理的核心由結合現存狀態所確定，而歸納推理則由重復觀測來確認。
【派】syllogize v. 用三段論論證
v. 詐取，騙取 n. 詐取，騙局
