★ rouse

　　v./vi.唤醒，唤起；激励；激起

　　【例1】By the latter part of the thirteenth century, Europe was only beginning to rouse from its intellectual stupor.直到十三世纪后半叶，欧洲才刚刚从智力的麻木中醒过来。

　　【例2】The speaker was trying to rouse the audience to enthusiasm.那位演讲者正设法激起听众的热情。

　　【同义替换】wake, arouse

　　【派生】rousing a.充满活力的；激励人的

　　★ attempt

　　v.企图，试图

　　n.努力，尝试，企图

　　【例】They are attempting to climb the steepest part of the mountain.他们努力攀登这座山最陡的部分。

　　【构词】at-(加强)+tempt(尝试)→尝试，试图

　　【同义替换】try, essay, seek

　　【派生】attemptable a.可以尝试的

　　【真题】Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass (the amount of living biological matter) of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time.他们的方法并非试图去估算在海洋中的某些特定部分的鱼类的实际数量，而是估算随着时间推移鱼类数量的改变。

　　★ depict

　　v.描绘；描写，描述

　　【例】That gentleman was depicted as an intelligent and dignified businessman。那位绅士被描绘成一个精明又威严的商人。

　　【构词】de-(加强)+pict(描写)→描绘，描述

　　【同义替换】portray, describe, delineate, represent

　　【派生】depiction n.描绘；描写  depictive a.描绘的；描写的

　　【真题】After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness?那么，几乎完全致力于描绘幸福的现代表达方式究竟是什么呢？

　　★ dynamic

　　a.动力的，电动的；有生气的

　　【例】My boss is a man of dynamic personalities.我老板是个精力充沛的人。

　　【构词】dynam(力量)+-ic→动力的

　　【派生】dynamically ad.充满活力地  dynamics n.动力学，力学

　　【真题】 “While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,” says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can’t yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world.”“虽然我们知道如何让机器人去纠正一个特定的错误，”NASA的一个机器人项目经理戴维·拉维里说，“我们仍然不能赋予机器人以足够的‘常 识’，使它们能够与动态的世界进行可靠的交流。”