898.diversify (v.)使多样化.
〖同〗branch out
Says…a Nissan dealer who now also sells Fords："We'll never sell Toyotas，but there is definitely a move to diversify.Consumers want variety.”
一名兼售福特汽车的日产汽车经销商表示：“我们绝不卖丰田汽车，但确实有股力量要求我们的产品多元化；顾客总希望商品五花八门、琳琅满目。”
899.don (v.)穿上，截上
〖同〗put on
Today’s bikini offers more support，and the body-conscious woman is able to don a bikini in confidence.
今天的比基尼给人体多一些支撑，让担心自己身材的女士敢穿上它。
900.dub (v.)命名
〖同〗name
Many tore down traditional homes and uprooted venerable trees to build concrete dream houses using nearly every square meter of the plot.The new architectural model was dubbed "the monster house.”
许多人拆除老式建筑、挖起老树，几乎用尽每一平方米来建筑梦中的水泥之屋。这种新式建筑被称为“怪物屋。”
注：plot (n.)：土地
901.elude (v.)逃避
〖同〗escape
But where Clinton imposed sanctions on firms doing business with Cuba，he infuriated allies like Canada but eluded a certain Republican trap.
但克林顿对于与古巴有生意往来的公司施加制裁，激怒了像加拿大这样的盟国，但也避开了共和党的某种圈套。
902.entertain (v.)抱有(信念、感情)
〖同〗harbor
Many progressive，westernized Albanians had continued to entertain hopes for a rational settlement of the crisis.
许多改良派的、西化的阿尔巴尼亚人原本一直抱有危机会理性化解的希望。
903.entitle (v.)使有资格，使有权利
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt sat in the White House six decades ago…one U.S .tenet has never changed；if you are poor and eligible，you are entitled to cash paid by the Federal Government to improve your life.
60年前罗斯福总统入主白宫以来，美国有一项信条就始终维持不变：只要你是穷人，而且符合资格，你就有权领取联邦政府支付的现金来改善生活。
904.epitomize （v.)作为典范，代表）
There are hardly any major designers，who have not been influenced by the kind of American style Calvin epitomizes…
设计大师中鲜有不受到卡尔文所代表的那种美国风格的影响。
905.evaporate (v.)蒸发，消失
〖同〗disappear
When Bill Clinton ran for president four years ago，he missed no opportunity to distance himself from incumbent George Bush's foreign policy.: Once he triumphed，though，Clinton's difference，evaporated like dew in July.
4年前，克林顿竞选总统时，从不错过任何一个机会来显示他与在任总统布什外交政策不同的地方；一旦选上，克林顿与布什的不同就像7月的露珠一样消失了。
906.extol (v.)宣扬
A brochure promoting investment opportunities in Kwangju touts its reputation as “the Vanguard of Democracy”and extols those citizens “who sacrificed so much against the past unjust regime in order to recover its freedom.”
为促进光州投资机会而制作的小册子中，以“民主先锋”之名来宣扬光州，也夸耀光州人民“为了恢复光州的自由，对抗不公正的旧政权，做过重大的牺牲”。
907.flout (v,)抗拒，违反
〖同〗defy
Last July 4，Nye County commissioner Richard Carver,flouting federal law，used a bulldozer to break open a road in a national forest and then filed a criminal complaint against forest-service workers who tried to stop him.
去年7月4日，奈县行政长官理查德·卡.弗践踏了联邦法律，用推土机在国有森林里开出一条道路，并对试图阻挠他的林管局人员提出刑事诉讼。