二十一、費用(fee)

1.payment [?pe?m?nt]

【例句】Thousands of its customers are in arrears with loans and mortgage payments.

【翻譯】有數千客戶拖欠其貸款和抵押貸款還款。

2.cost [k?st]

【例句】Companies are moving jobs to towns with a lower cost of living.

【翻譯】各公司正在把工作崗位轉移至生活費用較低的城鎮。

3.spending [?spend??]

【例句】He's a staunch supporter of controls on government spending.

【翻譯】他堅決支持控制政府開支。

4.expense [?k?spens]

【例句】They want to cut down their utility expenses.

【翻譯】他們想削減公用事業上的支出。

5.expenditure [?k?spend?t??(r)]

【例句】It is questionable whether the expenditure on this project is really justified.

【翻譯】該項目的開支是否真的合理還未可知。

6.toll [t??l]

【例句】All vehicles travelling across the bridge have to pay a toll.

【翻譯】所有過橋的車輛都要付過橋費。

二十二、差別差異(difference)

1.distinction [d??st??k?n]

【例句】Many people make a sharp distinction between humans and other animals.

【翻譯】很多人認為人類和其他動物截然不同。

2.divergence [da?'v?:d??ns]

【例句】A minimal error or deviation may result in wide divergence.

【翻譯】失之毫厘,謬以千里.

3.discrepancy [d?s?krep?nsi]

【例句】The discrepancy in their ages seemed not to matter.

【翻譯】他們之間年齡的差異似乎沒有多大關系。

二十三、矛盾沖突(conflict)

1.paradox [?p?r?d?ks]

【例句】“More haste, less speed.”is a paradox.

【翻譯】“欲速則不達”是一句似非而是的雋言。

2.contradiction [?k?ntr??d?k?n]

【例句】Once the principal contradiction is grasped, all problems will be readily solved.

【翻譯】一旦抓住了主要矛盾, 一切問題就迎刃而解。

3.controversy [?k?ntr?v?:si]

【例句】They had a bitter controversy over the question.

【翻譯】他們在這個問題上有很大的爭論。

4.dispute [d??spju:t]

【例句】They agreed to try to settle their dispute by negotiation.

【翻譯】他們同意通過談判來努力解決糾紛。

二十四、趨勢(trend)

1.tendency [?tend?nsi]

【例句】Matters have taken a new tendency to〔towards〕peace.

【翻譯】事態有了向和平方向發展的新趨勢。

2.inclination[??nkl??ne??n]

【例句】He did not show the slightest inclination to leave.

【翻譯】他絲毫沒有表現出要離開的意思。