1.cultivation n.教化(refinement)；耕种（the act or art of cultivating or tilling）

词根记忆：来自cultivate(v.培养；陶冶)

例:Not all of the acreage in Teruvia currently planted with rice is well suited to the cultivation of rice.

同根词：cultivator(n.耕者)

2.cumbersome a．累赘的(burdensome);麻烦的(troublesome)

词根记忆：cumber(妨碍)+some一妨碍的一麻烦的

例:Insulin must still be administered by the cumbersome procedure of injection under the skin.

3.cupidity n.贪婪，贪心(greed)

词根记忆：Cupid(丘比特)是罗马神话中的爱神，爱神引起人们对爱情的“贪婪”。

注意：covet(v.贪求)

例:The woman gazed at the silverware and jewels with cupidity.

4.curb n．路边(an edging built along a street to form part of a gutter);v.控制 (to control, to check)

例:The containers will be placed at the curb twice a week for trash collection.//They propose a way to curb illegal digging while benefiting the archaeological profession.

5.curiosity n.好奇，好奇心(desire to know);珍品，古董(antique)

词根记忆：curio(古董)+sity --对罕见的古董充满了好奇心--好奇；古董

例:In 1905 Bela Bart6k and Zoltan Kodtily began their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable cunosity.

同根词：curious(a．好奇的)

6.currency n.流通(circulation);货币(something as coins treasury notes, and banknotes that is in circulation as a medium of exchange)

例:Predictions of slower economic growth sometimes trigger declines in currency value.//currency exchange rates外汇汇率

7.curriculum n.全部课程（the courses offered by an educational institution）

例:Mathematics and history are required courses in the high school curriculum.

8.cursorial a．适于行走的，善于奔跑的(adapted to or involving running)

例:Two opposing scenarios, the "arboreal" hypothesis and the "cursoriar' hypothesis, have traditionally been put forward concerning the origins of bird flight.

9.curtail v.缩减(to shorten)

词根记忆：把cur看作cut, tail是尾巴之意，整个词可以理解为把尾巴削了，即“截短，缩短”之意

例:lf we are to reduce the risk of an oil spill without curtailing our use of oil, we must invest more in offshore operations.

10.customize v.定制，定做(to make or alter according to the buyer's or owner's wishes)

例:customized computer software定制的计算机软件