L开头的动词
launch：发射
The communications satellite launched from the space shuttle on Thursday is now in its correct orbit.
Leave：造成
Leaking gas caused an explosion that left hundreds of people without their gas supply yesterday.
Lobby: 游说
1．Egypt is one of the members of the UN nuclear watchdog’s board of directors, which the United States and Europe are lobbying efforts to pressure Iran to accept the deal. The directors of the watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, met yesterday in Vienna.
2. Byeon Yang-ho, 51, former head of the Finance and Economy Ministry’s Financial Policy Bureau, is accused of accepting 200 million won (US$208,000) in bribes from a lobbyist （说客）for South Korea’s largest automaker, said Lee Jong-seok, a judge at the Seoul Central District Court.
M开头的动词
Maintain：保持；坚持说（近义词：claim）
1. Lafarge said it aims to maintain growth at a "sustained pace" by expanding a cement business that is already the world’s biggest. The company will focus mainly on emerging markets, adding capacity by opening new plants and making acquisitions, it said, without elaborating.
2. The spokesman said both Koreas want to maintain dialogues with each other.
3. The main cause of the tragedy, the senator maintains, lies in the neglect of duties of the officials concerned. (这位议员坚持认为，这场悲剧的根源在于有关官员玩忽职守。)
Mark：庆祝 (近义词：celebrate)
The drama company will offer its debut of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to mark the 425th anniversary of the playwright’s birthday.
Measure: 衡量，测试
The test measures children’s achievements in reading, spelling and maths.
Migrate：移民
In the past some researchers have argued that the ability to use symbolism did not develop until people had migrated to Europe some 35,000 to 40,000 years ago. （参考另一种说法：By the time people were populating Europe）
Murder：谋杀
APRIL belongs to serial sex killer John Wayne Gacy, convicted of killing 33 young men and boys, while May is for Jeffrey Dahmer, who ate 17 men. June features Satanic worshiper and murderer Richard Ramirez. The 2007 Serial Killer Calendar depicts some of the world’s most notorious murderers painted by "the vampire of Paris," Frenchman Nico Claux who himself served 7 years for murder.
Mushroom：to grow and develop very quickly迅速增长 （如雨后春笋般地涌现）
1．In 2003, the concept gained popularity instantly in Shanghai. Franchised stores under the banner of Qi Mei Toy House, Xiaowantong (Little Naughty Boy) and Lezhiyuan (Source of Happiness) mushroomed. Qi Mei alone had more than 60 franchised stores in the city and the others had many outlets too. None of these stores survived.
2．When lack of journalists loomed as a serious problem in the country a few years ago, news-reporting courses mushroomed in many colleges and universities.
N开头的动词
Nominate: 提名
1. Lee was the first Chinese American nominated to head the Civil Rights Division.
2. Jane Campion was one of the people nominated for the ‘Best Director’ award.
3. The President has power to nominate people to certain key offices, including judge of the Supreme Court.
4. Next year Mr Jenks will retire and Mr Broadbent will be nominated as his replacement.(参考另一种“接某人的班”的表达方法：Blankfein, president and chief operating officer since 2003, was named chairman and CEO on June 2. He succeeds Henry Paulson, 60, who was nominated as US Treasury Secretary.)
O开头的动词
Occupy：占领
1. Ramadi emerged as the main hotspot since a major US military offensive crushed militants occupying nearby Falluja on the River Euphrates in 2004.
2. The incoming prime minister would not specify distribution of ministries, including key posts of interior, which controls police, and defense, which runs the army. US and British officials have insisted those posts go to people without ties to sectarian militias, believed responsible for many of the tit-for-tat killings of Sunnis and Shiites. "The direction we took, and which was agreed upon by the political groups, was that the two who will occupy these posts be independent and unaffiliated with a party or a militia," he said.
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