本书旨在帮助读者攻克这两个难关。
无论是大中学生，还是其他英语学习者，都已经积累了一定数量的英语单词。本书的目的就在于充分利用这个现有条件，帮助读者在无须增加新单词的前提下、科学地、大幅度地扩充词汇量，全面提高阅读能力和表达能力，以使原先掌握的英语单词和基础知识得到以一当十的发挥和运用，快速、准确地拓展英语视野。
本书精选的词条都来自多彩鲜活的英语世界，不但妙趣横生，而且非常实用。通过直接触摸到其灵活性，读者将系统地发现、理解、掌握它们组合的规律，使学到的英语活起来、地道起来。
善于学习英语的人，除下工夫外，还必须掌握合理的学习方法。本书的编排完全符合读者心理，讲究循循善诱，一经点拨，便会过目不忘。

人体篇
arm
give one's right arm
have a long arm
an arm and a leg
back
stab in the back
the back of one's hand
with one's back to the wall
beard
beards wag
laugh in one's beard
singe sb's beard
speak in one's beard
to sb's beard
blood
bad blood
blood and thunder
sweat blood
bone
a bg of bones
a bone of contention
bare bones
bone up on
bred in the bone
cast a bone between
close to the bone
feel in one's bone
get into sb's bones
have a bone to pick with
in sb's bones
make no bones about
no bones about it
to the bone
breast
at the breast
beat one's breast
breast up to
keep sb.breasted of
past breast
chest
off one's chest
on one's chest
play sth.close to one's chest
throw a chest
ear
about one's ears
be all ears
lend an ear
play it by ear
wet behind the ears
withhalf an ear
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颜色篇
数字篇

本书精选若干*常用的单词及由其派生的词组、短语，通过新颖的编排，使读者科学、快捷、大幅度地将已掌握的单词得到以一当十的发挥和运用，从而提高词汇量及表达能力和阅读能力。丛书编排独具匠心，一经点拨，便会过目不忘。