这个夏天选了一门课， 学习的过程中，发现自己有很多生词，有些是老词的一些新的用法， 把它们收集起来，帮助自己学习记忆。只收集自己认为有用的用法，不是简单来自词典。

11. devoid 全无的, 缺乏的

• be devoid of something
• be devoid of compassion
• be devoid of love
• be devoid of comforts
• be devoid of emotion
• be devoid of faith
• be devoid of caring
• be devoid of colour
• be devoid of friendship

12. hark back: 追溯，回忆 recall the past; refer to the original form of something; be reminiscent of the olden days

• hark back to sth.

definition: If someone harks back to something in the past, they talk about it again and again, often in a way which annoys other people

e.g. He’s always harking back to his childhood and saying how things were better then.

13. corollary 必然的结果; 推论; 系

• the corollary

14. all the more 更加

15. coerce 强制; 强迫

• be coerced into
• be coerced into an illegal action

16. to be labeled as 被贴上标签

17. prediction 预言, 预报

• conform to predictions

18. truism 老套, 老生常谈

• everyday truisms
• some of those famous truisms you can find on the internet are as the following:

“a little knowledge can go a long way

a lot of professionals are crackpots

a man can’t know what it is to be a mother

a name means a lot just by itself

a positive attitude means all the difference in the world”

19. bombardment 炮击; 轰炸
 

• out of the bombardment of information 有大量的信息

• information bombardment

• In a society bombarded with commercials for drugs that are guaranteed to do everything from curing the common cold to giving new life to “fired blood,” it is no wonder that drug related problems are a major social issue.
  
  
  20. regardless of the circumstances 不论情况如何