[scode type="blue"]1.muscle
n.力量;实力;威信[/scode]
英英释义：
If you say that someone has muscle, you mean that they have power and influence, which enables them to do difficult things.
例句：
①Eisenhower used his muscle to persuade Congress to change the law.
艾森豪威尔用他的影响力说服国会修改了该项法律。
②In one town, all the women were urged to remove their money from the banks on an allotted day, to demonstrate women's financial muscle.
在某市，所有的女性都被建议在指定日期从银行取走她们的钱，以展示女性群体的经济实力。
拓展：
这里补充一个短语“flexes its muscles”显示实力;小试身手【If a group, organization, or country flexes its muscles, it does something to impress or frighten people, in order to show them that it has power and is considering using it.】
例如：
The Fair Trade Commission has of late been flexing its muscles, cracking down on cases of corruption.
公平交易委员会最近在显示威力，严厉打击腐败事件。
[scode type="blue"]2.spoils
n.战利品;因成功获得的好处[/scode]
英英释义：
The spoils of something are things that people get as a result of winning a battle or of doing something successfully.
例句：
①True to military tradition, the victors are now treating themselves to the spoils of war.
按照军事惯例，胜者正在分享战利品。
②Competing warlords and foreign powers scrambled for political spoils.
相互争斗的军阀及外国列强们正在争夺政治上的收益。
拓展：
注意，spoil表示“战利品;因成功获得的好处”时，一定要用复数形式。
除此之外，这里再讲一个与“spoil”相关的短语：too many cooks spoil the broth 人多添乱，人多反而碍事【said to mean that something may not be successful if too many people try to do it at the same time.】
例如：
There is an old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth.
[scode type="blue"]3.period
adv.到此为止；不再说了[/scode]
英英释义：
Some people say period after stating a fact or opinion when they want to emphasize that they are definite about something and do not want to discuss it further.
例句：
I don't want to do it, period.
我不想做，这事就到此为止吧。
拓展：
“period”除了可以表示“到此为止；不再说了”，还可以表示“句号”；
【补充】
‘逗号’的表达是comma
‘分号’的表达是semicolon
“period”还可以表示“月经”,这是比较日常的表达，正式的表达是“menstruation”
电影《当幸福来敲门》也出现了这个表达：
[scode type="blue"]4.embrace
v.包括;涵盖[/scode]
英英释义：
If something embraces a group of people, things, or ideas, it includes them in a larger group or category.
例句：
①This is a theory that would embrace the whole field of human endeavour.
这是一个将囊括人类活动的各个领域的理论。
②No single theory can embrace and explain every facet of human behavior.
没有一种理论能包括并阐释人类行为的每个方面。
③The cat family embraces lions and tigers.
猫科包括狮和虎。
[scode type="blue"]5.fertile
adj.主意多的;富有创意的[/scode]
英英释义：
A fertile mind or imagination is able to produce a lot of good, original ideas.
例句：
A chess player must have a fertile imagination and rich sense of fantasy.
一个棋手必须有丰富的想象力，并善于奇思妙想。
