4000 CAE Vocabulary List

n. 藏身之处 hiding place; secret store of valuables or money
The detectives followed the suspect until he led them to the cache where he had stored his loot.

n. 仙人掌 any plant of the order Cactaceae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus
A novelty to foreign visitors, the cactus is as common on the Mexican plate as potatoes or rice in many other parts of the world.

n. 尸体 corpse; dead body, especially one intended for dissection
In some states, it is illegal to dissect cadaver.

n. 军校或警官学校的学生 younger of two brothers; student at a military school who is training to be an officer
A cadet should understand that the war he or she joins four or five years from now will be a different war altogether.

n. 钙 silvery, moderately hard metallic element
We need some calcium every day; it is an essential element for bone health.

a. 预先计划好的,算好的,合适的 deliberately planned; carefully thought out in advance
Her conventional suit was one calculated to appeal to the conservative judges.

n. 能力,品质 ability; degree or grade of excellence or worth; diameter of a tube or gun barrel
Einstein's cleaning the blackboards again? Albert quit it! A man of your caliber shouldn't have to do such tasks.

a. 硬心肠的,无情的 emotionally hardened; unfeeling; toughened
He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.

a. (天气,海洋等)静的,平静的 freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity
It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a sense of peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.

v. 伪装 exploit natural surroundings to disguise something; conceal
To rescue Han Solo, Princess Leia decided to camouflage herself in the helmet and cloak of a space bandit.

n. (政治或商业性)活动,竞选活动 battle; a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
The Clinton campaign has raised more money in the first three months of this year than all nine Democratic candidates combined.

n. 金丝雀,女歌星 pale yellowish color; wine made in the Canary Islands; canary bird; quick and lively dance
The canary is a small yellow songbird.

n. 开诚布公,坦率 frankness; quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
Jack can carry candor too far: when he told Jill his honest opinion of her, she nearly slapped his face.

a. 狗的 related to dogs; dog-like; affecting or derived from dogs
They will then incubate the viruses in canine tissue cells to see how well they grow.

n. 经典,真作 law, rule, or constitution made by authority; books of the Bible officially accepted; a group of literary works
She kept the durable canon of American short fiction.

n. 伪善,黑话 inclination or slope; slanted or oblique surface; jargon, especially of thieves; dialect
I strayed from my own voice and slipped into jargon, cant, or false sentiment.

n. 帆布,画布 heavy closely woven fabric; background against which events unfold, as in a historical narrative
My canvas is my life, and I give you the colors and brushes of me.

n. 峡谷 narrow chasm with cliff walls, cut into the earth by running water; a gorge
Valles Marineris on Mars is the largest known canyon in the solar system.

a. 有能力的 having the ability required for a specific task
Canadian politicians have been capable of ending this primitive practice.

n. 容量,生产量,能力 mental or physical ability; ability to accommodate
Mike had the capacity to handle several jobs at once.