4000 CPE Vocabulary List

bacchanalian:
a. 喝醉的,耍酒瘋 drunken; relating to reveling and drunkenness

backdrop:
n. 舞台背景,背景 background; the view behind something

badinage:
n. 開玩笑,揶揄,取消 teasing conversation; good-humored, playful conversation

baffle:
v. 挫敗 frustrate as by confusing or perplexing; impede force or movement of

balance:
n. 平衡 being in equilibrium; equilibrium; symmetry; stability

bale:
n. 大包裹 a bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation

baleful:
a. 惡意的,有害的 portending evil; harmful in intent or effect.

balk:
v. 反對,阻止 stop short and refuse to go on; refuse obstinately or abruptly

ballast:
n. 配重,沙袋 heavy substance used to add stability or weight

ballet:
n. 芭蕾舞 a sort of theatrical representation by dancers

banal:
a. 平凡,陳腐,老生常談 obvious and dull; commonplace; lacking originality

bandmaster:
n. 樂隊指揮 a conductor of a band

bandy:
v. 傳話 discuss lightly or glibly; exchange words heatedly

bang:
n. 發出砰的一聲,重擊 a vigorous blow; a conspicuous success

bankrupt:
v. 破產,生意失敗 cause to become financially ruin; ruin

bantering:
a. 可笑的,嘲弄的 good-natured ridiculing; cleverly amusing in tone

barbecue:
n. 烤肉野餐 a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

bard:
n. （吟遊）詩人 poet, especially lyric poet

barn:
n. 穀倉,畜棚 an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals

barometer:
n. 氣壓計,晴雨表 an instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere