4000 FCE Vocabulary List

v. 集合,装配 put together; bring or call together into a group or whole
Washington announced its decision to dissolve the core group of nations, the US, India, Japan, and Australia; it would assemble to deliver aid.

n. 集会,参加集会的人们 gathering; meeting; a group of persons gathered together for a common reason
What critical missions remain for shuttles after station assembly is completed?

v. 估计,估算,评估,评价 estimate  value; judge worth of something
They say that they lack both the money and the resources to deploy officials across the country to assess each ferry's safety.

n. 评价,评估,判断 act of judging or assessing; amount determined as payable
Key to this assessment is the critical geographical fact that North Korea is adjacent to South Korea, an affluent democracy.

n. 财产,资产 properties; advantage; useful or valuable quality
Hilary Rosen of the Recording Industry Association of America: American intellectual property is our nation's greatest trade asset.

v. 分配,指定,让与 appoint; allot; point out authoritatively or exactly
Never underrate the difficulties your pupils will have to encounter or persuade them that what you assign is easy.

n. 任务,作业 a task that was given to students; job; distribution; appointment
I believe that this assignment is the most challenging of them all.

v. 吸收,同化 incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
How the United States could assimilate immigrants during the 19th and early 20th century will always be a source of pride to Americans.

v. 援助,帮助 give help or support to, especially as a subordinate
A good way to assist is to bring entrepreneurial and business skills to them.

n. 协助,援助 help, especially money or resources that are given to people  
The government has pledged in return for IMF assistance to redouble its efforts to reform the economy.

n. 助手,助教 helper; a person who assists or helps someone else
I am a textile designer under the title assistant designer at a western wear company.

v. 关联,联合 connect or join together; combine
The public is likely to associate a word or mark with a given company.

n. 联盟,联合,协会 connection, whether of persons or things; a union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose
I benefited a lot from my association with him.

n. 各类物品的聚集,混合物 variety; collection containing a variety of sorts of things
A great assortment of cars was on display.

n. 假定,设想,采取 something taken for accepted as true without proof; taking over or taking possession of
The young princess made the foolish assumption that the regent would not object to power.

n. 担保,保证,确定,自信 promise or pledge; certainty; self-confidence; freedom from doubt
Even in BP CEO Tony Hayward's new television commercial, his assurance is ambiguous.

v. 使惊讶 surprise someone very much; shock
From this wonderful writer who continues to astonish us, now comes a chilling ghost story.

a. 惊人的,奇迹的 very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; surprising greatly
What I find a bit astonishing is that folks encourage others to do the same.

a. 迷路的,误入歧途的 away from the correct path or direction, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering
Such ideas will only lead the world's people astray.

n. 天文学家 a physicist who studies astronomy
He felt much as an astronomer feels who has discovered a new planet--no doubt, as far as strong, deep, unalloyed pleasure is concerned.