1.embark v.着手，开始做(to make a start)

例：Our company embarked on the major construction project of the government building.

2.embarrass v.（使）描口睑（to place in doubt, perplexity, or difficulties）

联想记忆：em+barr(看作bar酒吧)+ass(蠢驴)--在酒吧喝醉了表现得像一头驴--尴尬

例：The author's statements were made in order to embarrass the officials responsible for the drug-control program.

3.embarrassed a.尴尬的;窘迫的（uncomfortable because of shame or difficutties）

词根记忆：来自embarrass(v.使困窘)

例：In his later years he was embarrassed by what he considered as the excessive sentiment in the poems in his first two collections.

同根词：embarrassment(n.窘迫；难堪)

4.embed v.嵌入(to enclose closely in)

联想记忆：em(进入…中)+bed(床)--杷…嵌入床中--嵌入

例：a crown embecktbd with jewels

5.embellish v.装饰c to decorate)；润色(to add ornamental or fictitious details to)

词根记忆：em+bell(美)+ish--使…美--装饰

例：We embe/kshecf our room with a new rug, lamp, and picture.//Just tell the truth and don't embellish the story by any means.

派生词:embellishment(n.装饰)

6.embrace v.拥抱(to hug)；信奉；接受(to take up readily)

词根记忆：em(进入…中)+brace(胳膊)--搂进胳膊里--拥抱

例：Many lrish American people embrace St.Patrick's Day.//The new democratic value system was not immediately embraced by society as a whole.

Victory won't come to me unless I go to it.
胜利是不会向我走来的，我必须自己走向胜利。

——美国女诗人穆尔(M Moore,American poetess)