Confirm
/ H" K L5 I5 b4 S5 a用法：If something confirms what you believe, suspect, or fear, it shows that it is definitely true.
. b. R0 r: H) O" t% F( [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)
" U" z- s2 j. S& y8 M6 t②This supposition was confirmed by missions to the Moon such as Surveyor and Apollo.(2002-08) ) J+ ~0 i: b$ ]" M
! ?, m9 ? }! n5 b( N4 B1 iConsistent
+ e8 `" x/ @2 Z" `1 F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. : n1 V. `" E( Z+ O0 w2 c' S' {
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) " |. t0 C* _% E. t$ p8 i
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用法：You use constant to describe something that happens all the time or is always there. * T1 J/ j2 |' s' ]% u1 D
例句：Notwithstanding preening and constant care, the marvelously intricate structure of a bird’s Feather inevitably wears out.（2001-05）
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1 [. ]% E. h2 O* o$ q2 S! w( cConsume
; i3 Q; B y+ g* k- d用法：① If you consume something, you eat or drink it. (FORMAL)
4 m% G7 r. |# u0 K② If a feeling or idea consumes you, it affects you very strongly indeed. 3 a( L# ?* @0 W) J. f
例句：① Neolithic farmers usually raised more food than they could consume, and their surpluses permitted larger, healthier populations.（2002-09） : m9 R+ ?8 h! T: Q# f. L% d
② The memories consumed him. 3 n4 b2 ~" D0 T3 ~
/ |$ }7 w8 X' M3 dContain ; ~+ P' C3 n8 o( a% l$ c
用法：①If something such as a box, bag, room, or place contains things, those things are inside it.
* g7 t' C6 A- u2 K% x+ H8 q9 _6 P②If a substance contains something, that thing is a part of it.
) N: y# }: m. C3 i; A; H% c* T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） ! l m, Z B% l/ I0 h
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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