林语堂先生常常强调在句子和上下文中理解词。^_^

He abandoned himself to despire.    放弃 这里很地道地引申用了
They danced with wild abandon.      放纵
'Sept' is an abbreviation for 'September'.
忍受 abide        I cannot abide him.
 -> endure, bear
     abide by 忠于,服从   I must abide by the decision
You should read the newspapers to keep abreast of current affairs.                         keep abreast of
abortive  落空的，失败的
There is a road of an abrupt turn. 突然的 -> 陡峭的
He has an abrupt manner.    粗鲁的 
absent (from somewhere)
The books here is not accessible to the public.
accessory  附件
This hotel can accommodate up

  开始背Merriam Webster

  一天五页，采取的方法是数字标记。熟悉标0，陌生标5，似乎认识标3。第二天复习昨天的，0的不看，3的努力记，数字降下来，5得记不得就放弃。加上词根和同反义联想。这样得话170天左右可以看完一遍。其中还重点需要看的是词组以及一些词的微妙用法。

 单词也都记下来，作为日记和复习。

 这几天的：
 
 abandon, forsake, desert, relinguish, waive
 abacus
 abandon 放纵
 abase, demean, humble, degrade, humiliate
 abash, embarrass, discomfit, disconcert, rattle, faze
 abash 一个吃白食的（谐音）－>羞愧 ->bash 粗暴对待v （因为你吃白食）
 abate, wane, ebb, subside               rebate 回扣
 abbreviate, shorten, curtail, abridge, retrench
 abduct, kidnap  ab- duct（管道）  ->脱离正常管道
 abdicate 推位  ab- 离开 dictate v. 口述

I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still farther in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
  A perfect misanthropist's heaven 厌世者的天堂.  当他遇到了希克厉的时候,最后竟有感觉说"It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him." 人和人冷漠残酷的时候,不愿意互相交往,其实内心有很深痛苦.作为一个在社会上比较厌世的人来到呼啸山庄,遇到了比他厌世的多的Mr Heathcliff. 作者极力烘托渲染

A noble gangster
There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago have to pay large sums of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made the remarkable discovery that people would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
Six hundred years ago, Sir Johan Hawkwood arrived in Italy with a band of soldiers and settled near Florence. He soon made a name for himself and came to be known to the Italians as Giovanni Acuto. Whenever the Italian city-states were at war with each other, Hawkwood used to hire his soldiers to princes who were willing to pay the high price he demanded. In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, a