Confirm 5 D G( @2 v6 e* h/ Y
用法：If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
6 L; Q0 T+ h n' S: h8 Y例句：①If observations confirm the scientists’ predictions, the theory is supported. If observations do not confirm the predictions, the scientists must search further.(1996-01) / K: I1 J& o0 l1 T, g; ?
②This supposition was confirmed by missions to the Moon such as Surveyor and Apollo.(2002-08) . N/ `% N7 y: Y) {2 K: w
! P. W1 }( ^/ MConsistent
0 F4 D4 y/ |+ {3 c- G7 @' }; |) B用法：Someone who is consistent always behaves in the same way, has the same attitudes towards people or things, or achieves the same level of success in something. & f7 b" S+ H- w) \" V" W' U7 Y
例句：Most important, perhaps, was that they had all maintained with a certain fidelity a manner of technique and composition consistent with those of America’s first popular landscape artist, Thomas Cole, who built a career painting the Catskill Mountain scenery bordering the Hudson River.(1999-05) D `$ P4 A" s2 C0 u
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Constant 9 m3 `2 X* k" q. T4 o0 ^! m
用法：You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there. 6 U5 ?, D7 ?1 Y
例句：Notwithstanding preening and constant care, the marvelously intricate structure of a bird’s Feather inevitably wears out.（2001-05） , b1 M5 J' m* H
% V5 S7 K3 b1 xConsume
' d$ Q$ c, b7 l7 Y8 T8 W& p用法：① If you consume something, you eat or drink it. (FORMAL) g- w- g; D: q1 }
② If a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly indeed.
& h& A. M; c; J0 F+ f' O3 d例句：① Neolithic farmers usually raised more food than they could consume, and their surpluses permitted larger, healthier populations.（2002-09） * N. T2 T/ D9 }% |, N
② The memories consumed him. 9 L. B4 H0 t0 I9 H
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Contain
, i: n* S0 f$ S' |# G/ A% a g用法：①If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
6 j0 T" @; D! a/ A. \4 {/ B% @②If a substance contains something, that thing is a part of it.
9 L( ?+ R! u5 z( T3 c, } v例句：① Those who believe that drama evolved out of ritual also argue that those rites contained the seed of theater because music, dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used.（1995-08） 5 t$ Z7 {7 \# `; ]' L2 e ?
② They contained niches for ceremonial objects, a central fire pit, and holes in the floor for communicating with the spirits of tribal ancestors.（1995-12） |
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