barricade  

 【考法1】n.  障礙物：an obstruction or rampart thrown up across a way or passage

 【例】The police put up barricades to block off the parade route. 員警設立了路障來阻擋遊行的隊伍

 【近】fence, hedge, wall, barrier, obstacle, blockade, obstruction

 【考法2】v.  用障礙物阻止通過：to prevent access to by means of a barricade

 【例】streets have been barricaded by authorities   街道被當局封鎖了

 【近】bar, check, hinder, impede, obstruct, wall off

 【反】permit       允許

barter 

 【考法1】v.  以物換物：to trade (goods or services) without the exchange of money

 【例】barter wheat for cotton  以小麥換棉花

 【近】swap, trade

batch  

 【考法1】n.  一批次的量： a number of things considered as a unit

 【例】a batch of cookies  一批次烘烤的餅乾

 【近】array, collection, package, parcel, group

 【考法2】n.  一小群人： a usually small number of persons considered as a unit

 【例】Show the next batch of applicants in, please.  請帶下一批申請人進來

 【近】band, body, cluster, party

  bathetic 

 【考法1】adj.  平凡的，陳腐的：characterized by exceptional commonplaceness

 【例】a bathetic funeral scene      平凡的葬禮場面

 【近】trite, cliché, commonplace, hackneyed, stale, stereotyped

 【反】offbeat      離奇的

       exceptional   不平常的，非凡的

 【派】bathos      n.  平凡的事物

bawdy  

 【考法1】adj.  下流的，猥褻的： boisterously or humorously indecent

 【例】a bawdy joke     黃色笑話 || bawdy house  妓院

 【近】obscene, lewd, ribald, vulgar

 【反】decent, decorous     得體的