SAT巴朗3500词汇分享（二十）

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　　augury N. /占卜;预言/omen; prophecy. He interpreted the departure of the birds as an augury of evil.　augur,V.

　　august ADJ. /威严的;令人印象深刻的/impressive; majestic. Visiting the palace at Versailles, she was　impressed by the august surroundings in which she found herself.

　　aureole N. /日冕/sun's corona; halo. Many medieval paintings depict saintly characters with aureoles　around their heads.

　　auroral ADJ. /曙光的，极光的/pertaining to the aurora borealis. The auroral display was particularly　spectacular that evening.

　　auspicious ADJ. /幸运的，吉祥的/favoring success. With favorable weather conditions, it was an auspicious　moment to set sail. Thomas, however, had doubts about sailing: a paranoid, he became suspicious　whenever conditions seemed auspicious.

　　austere ADJ. /严厉的;朴素的/forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented. The headmaster's　austere demeanor tended to scare off the more timid students, who never visited his study willingly. The　room reflected the man, austere and bare, like a monk's cell, with no touches of luxury to moderate its　austerity.

　　authenticate V. /鉴别/prove genuine. An expert was needed to authenticate the original Van Gogh　painting, distinguishing it from its imitation.

　　authoritarian ADJ. /独裁/subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will.　The leaders of the authoritarian regime ordered the suppression of the democratic protest movement. After　years of submitting to the will of her authoritarian father, Elizabeth Barrett ran away from home with the　poet Robert Browning.

　　authoritative ADJ. /权威;独裁/having the weight of authority; peremptory and dictatorial. Impressed by the　young researcher's well-documented presentation, we accepted her analysis of the experiment as　authoritative.

　　autocratic ADJ. /独裁/having absolute, unchecked power; dictatorial. Someone accustomed to exercising　authority may become autocratic if his or her power is unchecked. Dictators by definition are autocrats.　Bosses who dictate behavior as well as letters can be autocrats too.

　　automaton N. /机器人/mechanism that imitates actions of humans. Long before science fiction readers　became aware of robots, writers were presenting stories of automatons who could outperform men.

　　autonomous ADJ. /自治/self-governing. Although the University of California at Berkeley is just one part of　the state university system, in many ways Cal Berkeley is autonomous, for it runs several programs that　are not subject to outside control. autonomy, N.

　　autopsy N. /验尸/examination of a dead body; post-mortem. The medical examiner ordered an autopsy to　determine the cause of death. alsoV.

　　auxiliary ADJ. /辅助的/helper, additional or subsidiary. To prepare for the emergency, they built an auxiliary　power station. also N.

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