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bait V. /欺负,玩弄,折磨/harass; tease. The school bully baited the smaller children, terrorizing them.
baleful ADJ. /恶意的,有害的/deadly; having a malign influence; ominous. The fortune teller made baleful predictions of terrible things to come.
balk V. /反对;阻止/foil or thwart; stop short; refuse to go on. When the warden learned that several inmates were planning to escape, he took steps to balk their attempt. However, he balked at punishing them by shackling them to the walls of their cells.
ballast N. /配重;沙袋/heavy substance used to add stability or weight. The ship was listing badly to one side; it was necessary to shift the ballast in the hold to get her back on an even keel. alsoV.
balm N. /(止痛的)安慰物/something that relieves pain. Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
balmy ADJ. /柔和的;芳香的/mild; fragrant. A balmy breeze refreshed us after the sultry blast.
banal ADJ. /平凡,陈腐,老生常谈/hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality. The hack writer's worn-out clich6s made his comic sketch seem banal. He even resorted to the banality of having someone slip on a banana peel!
bandy V. /传话/discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly. While the president was happy to bandy patriotic generalizations with anyone who would listen to him, he refused to bandy words with unfriendly reporters at the press conference.
bane N. /祸根/cause of ruin; curse. Lucy's little brother was the bane of her existence: his attempts to make her life miserable worked so well that she could have poisoned him with ratsbane for having such a baneful effect.
bantering ADJ. /可笑的,嘲弄的/good-natured ridiculing. They resented hisbantering remarks because they thought he was being sarcastic.
barb N. /鱼钩,钩状物/sharp projection from fishhook, etc.; openly cutting remark. If you were a politician, which would you prefer, being caught on the barb of a fishhook or being subjected to malicious verbal barbs? Who can blame the president if he's happier fishing than back in the capitol listening to his critics' barbed remarks?
bard N. /(吟游)诗人/poet. The ancient bard Homer sang of the fall of Troy.
baroque ADJ. /华丽的/highly ornate. Accustomed to the severe lines of contemporary buildings, the architecture students found the flamboyance of baroque architecture amusing. They simply didn't go for baroque.
barrage N. /弹幕,火力网/barrier laid down by artillery fire. The company was forced to retreat through the barrage of heavy cannons.
barren ADJ. /荒芜的,贫瘠的/desolate; fruitless and unproductive; lacking. Looking out at the trackless, barren desert, Indiana Jones feared that his search for the missing expedition would prove barren.