infection, etc.疾病、感染等）to disappear 痊愈；治愈； 消失:Jfas your rash deared up yet?你的皮瘆消失了 吗？ .clear 'up | .dear sth—'up to make sth clean and neat 使整洁；清理：Jt’s rime to dear up.该打扫了。◊ J’m/ed up wit/i clearing up qfter you/ 你弄涵 的地方总 是姜我嫉打扫，我受够了！ ◊ CZear up your own mess/ 看你把这里弄得又脏又乱的，你自己来收拾吧! ,clear sth—‘up to solve or explain.sth 解决；解答;.解释：to clear up a mystery/difficulty/misunderstanding ^ Jf 谜团；解决困难；消鹼误会 madv.

►                NOT NEAR/TOUCHING 不靠近V 不触及 1 〜（of sth) away from sth; not near or touching sth 离开；不靠近；.本 接触：Stand dear 〇/the train doors.未要龠运火车f] 站立◊ He injured his arm as he jumped dear of the car.也跳离汽车时手臂受.X伤。◊ By〖ap two WaZfcer was two metres dear qf the rest 〇/ fhe runners.跑第二圈时， 沃克已领先其他赛跑者两米。

►                ALL THE WAY - tY 2 (especially NAm^) all the way to sth that is far away — 直（到远处）：She could see clear down the highway into the town.她顺着公路一直望去，

能看到远处的那座城镇。

fl7f?il keep/stay/steer clear (of sb/stK) to avoid a person or thing because it may cause problems 避.开； 回避；躲避一more at way n. clearance /'kliarans; NAmE 'klir-/ noun 1 [C, 0] the removal of things that are not wanted 清除；排除；清 理：/orest ciearances'伐空i的林地◊ diim dearance (= the removal of houses that are in very bad condition in an area of a town)拆除贫民窟◊ a dearance sa〖e (= in a shop/store, when goods are sold cheaply to get rid of them quichy)请仓大甩卖 2 [U，‘C] the amount of space or distance that is needed between two objects so that they do not touch each other 净全；间距；间隙：There is not much clearance for vehicles passing under this bridge.车辆在这座桥下通过时没有多少余隙。4◊ a dear- ance 〇/one metre —米的间距 3 [U，,C] official permission that is given to sb before they can work somewhere, have particular information, or do sth they want to do (录用或准许接触机密等以前的）审查许可，审核批准：

SYNONYMS同义词辨析

clear

obvious ♦ apparent * evident ♦ plain ♦ crystal clear

These words all describe sth that is easy to see or understand and leaves no doubts orconfusion,以上各

词均形容事物显而易见、明白易懂、清楚、明确。 dear easy to see or understand and leaving no doubts 指显而易见的、明白易懂的、清楚的、明确的：/fvws 分w/'fe c/eor to me she vwk /y/'/ig.我十分清楚她在’

撒谎。

obvious easy to see or understand 指’日月’显的、显然 的、易理解的：ft’s obvious _from what he said that 根据他所说的，显然是出何鹚了。 apparent [not usually before noun] {rather formal) easy to see or understand指k而易见、明白易懂、蛊 然—：It was apparent from her face that she was really ups杜从面容上-眼就可以看出她确实心绪烦乱。 evident [rather formal) easy to see or understand 楚的、明白的、显然的：The orchestra played with ev/•企nf eryoymenf.管弦乐队演奏得兴致勃釦。 plain easy to see or understand 指清楚的'、明显的_、浅 白的：He made it very plain that he wanted us to leave. 他明确表示要我们离开。

WHICH WORD?词语辨析

These words all have almost exactly the same meaning. There are slight differences in register and patterns of use. If you make sth dear/plain, you do so deliberately because you want people to understand sth; if you make sth obvious, you usually do it without meaning to. ir 各词意思几乎相同，只是在语体风格和句型使用上稍有 区别。make sth clear/plain表示刻意为使别人明白； make sth obvious 通常种'非刻意：/ hope / make myself obvious‘ o Try not to make it so dear/pbin. In the

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J’m. waiting ./or dearance 介om headquarters•我在等待总 部的录用审查许可。.◊ AH emp丨oyees at.t/ze submarine base require security dearance•所肴潜水艇基地的雇员必 须得到安全:部门的审査许可方可录用。4 [U] official permission for a person or vehicle to enter or leave an airport or a country (人、交通工具出入空港或出入境 的}许可，准许The pilot was waiting for clearance for tafce-o#飞行员在等待起飞的许可。5 [U，C] the process of a cheque being paid by a bank '.(支票的 > 兑现 6 [C] a clearance in football (soccer) and some other sports is when a player kicks or hits the ball away from the goal of his or her own team (足球及其他一些体育运动中 的）^围

.dear-'cut adj. definite and easy to see or identify 的；明显的；易_认的：There is no dear-cut answer fo this question.这个问题没有确切的答案。

,clear-1 headed able to think in a clear and sens­ible way, especially in a difficult situation (尤指在困境 中脑清醒的，明白事理的

clear-ing /'kliarir)； 'klirii]/ noun an open space in a forest where there are no trees 林中空地 H3Z1 glade

'clearing bank noun (in Britain) a bank that uses a clearing house when dealing with other banks (..英

国）$算银行,票据交换银行

'clearing house noun 1 a central office that banks use in order to pay each other money and exchange cheques，etc.(银行 > 票据交换所，清算中心，结算所 2 an organization that collects and exchanges informa­tion on behalf of people or other organizations fg S 换机构；信息交流所

dearly 〇i» /'kliali; 'klirli/ adv.

1 in a way that is easy to see or hear 清楚地；清晰地： Please speak clearly after the tone, if n/f fij  ^ ^ ^

讲话。2 in a way that is sensible and easy to under- stand 明'.自地 ^ 易懂地：S/ie expiai/ied everything'very cZearfy•她把一切_解释得很明白。3 used to emphasize that what: you are saying is obvious and true 明显:地；

expressions clear majority, for obvious reasons, for no apparent reason and plain to see, none of the other words can be used instead. You can have a(n) clear/ obvious/plain case of sth but not an clear majority (明显多数）、for envious reasons」因为显而易见的 原因」for no apparent reason (.没智明显的原因 > 和 plain to see (显而易见）中，表示明蛊的词不能替换。

访奴用 clear/obvious/plain case of sth (.明氧的情況 1, 但不能用 evident case of sth。Apparent and evident are both rather formal. They can always be replaced by obvious. Obvious and evident can both be used before a noun for an emotion, meaning that the emotion is easy to see with your eyes. * apparent 和 evident 巧相当: 正先往何时候知可用obvious代替。obvious和evident 均可用于表示情感的名词前，意为这种情感显而易见：

She read the letter out with obvious/evident reluctance. 她显然很不情愿地把信大声读出。 crystal dear very easy to see or understand, leaving no doubt or confusion at all指显而易见的、浅興易懂 的：/ wont to make wy   c〇/5fo/ c/eflr•我想把我

的意思解释得清清楚楚。

PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS

►                clear/obvious/apparent/evident/plain/crystal clear to sb/sth

* clear/obvious/apparent/evident/plain/crystal clear that/what/who/how/where/why ...

►                to be/look/seem/become/make sth clear/obvious/ apparent/evident/plain/crystal clear

►                perfectly/quite/very dear/obvioys/apparent/evident/ plain

►                fairly/pretty clear/obvious/apparent/evident/plain

not at all clear/obvious/apparent/evident/plain