WORD
1.tawdry
1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词廉价的;俗气的 If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
* ...tawdry jewellery. 廉价珠宝
2.debunk
VERB 动词指出…的错误;揭穿…的吹嘘（或虚假） If you debunk a widely held belief, you show that it is false. If you debunk something that is widely admired, you show that it is not as good as people think it is.
【语法信息】：V n
* Historian Michael Beschloss debunks a few myths.
历史学家迈克尔·贝施洛斯破除了几个不实传言。
3.pertinent
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词有关的；相关的 Something that is pertinent is relevant to a particular subject.
【搭配模式】：oft ADJ to n
【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式
* She had asked some pertinent questions...
她问了一些相关的问题。
4.furtive
1.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词偷偷摸摸的;鬼鬼祟祟的;秘密的 If you describe someone's behaviour as furtive, you disapprove of them behaving as if they want to keep something secret or hidden.
【语用信息】：disapproval
* With a furtive glance over her shoulder, she unlocked the door and entered the house.
她鬼鬼祟祟地往身后扫了一眼，然后打开门锁进了房子。
furtively
* He walked towards the summerhouse, at first furtively, then with more confidence.
他朝凉亭走去，开始还偷偷摸摸地，后来就壮大了胆子。
5.dredge up
PHRASAL VERB 短语动词忆起;想起 If someone dredges up a piece of information they learned a long time ago, or if they dredge up a distant memory, they manage to remember it.
【语法信息】：V P n (not pron)
【语法信息】：Also V n P
* ...an American trying to dredge up some French or German learned in high school...
试图回想起一些中学时学的法语或德语的美国人
6.infatuation
1.N-VAR 可变名词热恋;着迷;迷恋 If you have an infatuation for a person or thing, you have strong feelings of love or passion for them which make you unable to think clearly or sensibly about them.
* ...his infatuation with bullfighting...
他对斗牛的迷恋
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