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oblige
v.①强迫；②责成；③(使)感激，施恩于
【例 1】 Moreover, the integration of the European community will oblige (①)television companies to cooperate more closely in terms of both production anddistribution.【译】 另外，欧共体的融合性也会迫使电视集团在节目的制作和流通中，与他人更进一步地合作。【例 2】 We are obliged (③) to them because some of these languages havesince vanished, as the peoples who spoke them died out or became assimilated andlost their native languages.【译】 我们之所以感激他们(两位先驱)，是因为在此之后，这些(土著)语言中有一些已经不复存在了，这是由于说这些语言的部族或是消亡了，或是被同化而丧失了自己的本族语言。

opening
n.①口子，孔;②开始，开端;③空缺，机会;a.开始的，开幕的
【例 1】 Three weeks later, he got his first notification of an opening (n.③).【译】 过了三个星期，他接到第一份有职位空缺的通知。【例 2】 In the opening (a.) paragraph, the author introduces his topic bymaking a comparison.【译】 在起始段，作者通过比较引入主题。