大学英语四级/cet4词汇带英文注释(八十)

　　rice

　　[a food grain]

　　Rice is a major food in much of the world.

　　rich

　　[(1) having much money or goods; (2) having plenty of something]

　　Her brother became a rich man. (1)

　　Oil made Kuwait a rich country. (2)

　　ride

　　[(1) to sit on or in and be carried along; (2) to travel by animal, wheeled vehicle, airplane or boat]

　　She and I ride horses every weekend. (1)

　　I ride the subway to work. (2)

　　right

　　[what a person legally and morally should be able to do or have; (2) agreeing with the facts; (3) good; (4) correct; (5) opposite wrong; (6) on the side that is toward the east when one is facing north; (7) opposite left]

　　It is their right to vote. (1)

　　You gave the right answer. (2)

　　He is the right kind of person for the job. (3)

　　She always seems to do the right thing. (4)

　　She said she was right and he was wrong. (5)

　　Our farm is on the right side of the river. (6)

　　Turn right, not left, at the second street. (7)

　　riot

　　[(1) to act with many others in a violent way in a public place; (2) a violent action by a large group of people]

　　Prisoners rioted and started fires inside the prison. (1)

　　The riot spread from the football game to the streets. (2)

　　rise

　　[(1) to go up; (2) to go higher; (3) to increase; (4) to go from a position of sitting or lying to a position of standing]

　　The moon will rise soon after the sun goes down. (1)

　　The river is rising and spreading out. (2)

　　The temperature rises as the sun gets higher. (3)

　　He rose to his feet as she walked into the room. (4)

　　risk

　　[the chance of loss, damage or injury]

　　He never considered the risk of a broken heart.

　　river

　　[a large amount of water that flows across land into another river, a lake or an ocean]

　　Native Americans called the big river "the Father of Waters."

　　road

　　[a long piece of hard ground built between two places so people can walk, drive or ride easily from one place to the other]

　　The road was straight until it reached the mountains.

　　rob

　　[(1) to take money or property secretly or by force; (2) to steal]

　　Someone robbed his television. (1)

　　The two men robbed her as she walked home from work. (2)

　　rock

　　[a hard piece of mineral matter]

　　He threw a rock across the river.