888.consolidate(v.)合并
Murayama is pressing a more substantive gambit：to get the U.S.to consolidate some bases on Okinawa.
〔日本首相〕村山正在推行一个比较实际的策略，那就是要求美国将冲绳岛上的一些基地合并。
注：substantive (a.)实在的，实质的
889.contravene(v.)触犯
〖同〗break
Proponents of the North American pact (NAFTA)argue that nothing in the agreement will contravene the GATT accord，if it is ever reached.
北美自由贸易协定的支持者辩称，这项协定若能实现，丝毫不会与关税及贸易总协定相抵触。
890.culminate (v.)到达(极点，指某件事情的结束)
There it (the Olympic torch)began an 84day，24，000-km odyssey that will culminate in Atlanta's Olympic Stadium at the climactic moment of the July 19opening ceremony.
奥运圣火自该地开始经过了84天、长达2.4万公里的旅程，全程的高潮是7月1s日在亚特兰大奥林匹克运动场的开幕典礼。
注：odyssey (n.)长期旅程;climactic(a.)最高潮的，顶点的
891.dabble (v.)涉猎，浅尝
But Bonnie Lu Nettles，who dabbled in astrology，believed it (their relationship)was fated in stars.
但对占星术有所涉猎的内托斯深信，他们的关系在星象中早已注定。
892.debilitate (v.)使(人)衰弱
〖同〗weaken
More than half the 122patients in one study showed significant improvement without debilitating side effects.
在一项针对122名患者的研究中，超过半数的人病情有了显著的改善，而且没有出现使身体衰弱的副作用.
893.decry (v.)非难，贬抑
〖同〗condemn
Abuse experts also decry the argument that a man's obsessive love can drive him beyond all control.
研究虐待问题的专家也谴责这种论点：男人爱得太深会失去理性。
注：obsessive (a.)沉溺的，无法自拔的
894.deluge (v.)使……大量涌至
〖同〗flood
Disney Interactive has been deluged with calls from unhappy parents who purchased the Lion King Animated Storybook CD.IOM and were unable to get it to roar.
迪斯尼交互公司接到许多父母的投诉电话，因为他们买了狮子王动画光盘，却没办法使光盘运作。
895.despise (v.)鄙视
We don’t despise the veterans of America's 90's war，the Gulf War，we merely pity them.
我们不鄙视90年代参加海湾战争的美国老兵，只是可怜他们。
896.dissemble (v.)隐瞒(真正的意图)，掩饰(内心的感受)
They discounted his (Clinton's)womanizing and his dissembling about the draft because they like his energy and intelligence and the fact that he wasn't George Bush.
他们对克林顿的排闻与他对兵役问题的遮掩并不在意，因为他们喜欢克林顿的干劲与才智，而且因为他不是布什。
注：discount (v.)不予重视，同disregard；womanize (v.)(口语〕玩女人；draft (n.)服役，征兵
897.diverge (v.)分歧
〖同〗part
Their paths diverged when Ben went East to get a master’s degree in business and Harold started building satellites on the West Coast.
后来，本去东部念商学硕士，哈洛德则去西岸制造卫星，两人分道扬镳。