sabnormal 不正常的 abnormal adj. 反常的，不规则的；变态的 These drugs interrupt the growth of the abnormal cells that produce amyloid protein. 这些药品可也阻碍生成淀粉样蛋白的异常细胞的生长。 They have one abnormal gene from that parent and one normal gene from the other parent. 他们具有来自父母一方的一个异常基因和来自父母另一方的一个正常基因。 The machinist pressed his ear to the instrument in order to listen and tell where the abnormal sound came from. 机械师把耳朵紧贴在仪器上想听出和找出反常的声音出自何处。 —————————————— abolish 废除 abolish vt. 废除，废止；取消，革除 I asked them not to abolish AmeriCorps, as they had threatened to do. 我要求他们不要取消美国服务队，因为他们曾经威胁过要这么做。 If it is an unjust law you would abolish, that law was written with your own hand upon your own forehead. 如果那是一个你们想要废除的法律，这法律正是由你们的手写在你们的额头上的。 The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go away. 瑞典海盗党建议废除软件专利权，如果真的这样了，这个问题便不再是问题。 —————————————— abrupt 突然 abrupt adj. 生硬的；突然的；唐突的；陡峭的 Excuse me for my abrupt question. 请原谅我这个唐突的问题。 American officials seem not to have noticed this abrupt and dangerous change in global patterns of trade and finance. 美国官员似乎没有注意到全球贸易和金融格局发生的这个突然和危险的变化。 A severe facade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular to the facade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt right angle. 大门的上方便是那房屋的正面，气象庄严，一道和房屋正面垂直的墙紧靠在大门旁边，构成一个生硬的直角。 —————————————— absurd 荒谬的 absurd adj. 荒谬的；可笑的 n. 荒诞；荒诞作品 The proposal borders upon the absurd. 那项提议几乎是荒唐的。 What an absurd idea! 多么荒唐的念头! The policy was followed to an absurd extreme. 这项政策被执行到了极端荒谬的程度。 —————————————— abundance 丰富 abundance n. 充裕，丰富 They have an abundance mentality. 她们有丰富的心理世界。 But I vote for infinite abundance, on demand. 但我投票赞成无限丰富的按需租赁。 By measuring these energy fingerprints in Hyperion data, the group estimated the abundance of sulfur and other deposits at the spring. 通过测量海波龙数据中的这些能量指纹，研究小组估计出泉水一带丰富的硫及其他沉积。 —————————————— academy 学院 academy n. 学院；研究院；学会；专科院校 The lecture was given under the auspices of the Academy of Sciences. 这次报告会是由科学院主办的。 The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 这项研究的成果会在国家科学学会汇刊上发表。 Later I return to the monument with Inga, an architecture student at Riga’s Academy of Arts who bristles with pride and knowledge about the city. 后来我又和英嘉一起来到了纪念碑，她是在里加艺术学院学建筑的学生，她对这座城市深有了解并为此而自豪。 —————————————— accessory 附件 accessory n. 配件；附件；[法] 从犯 adj. 副的；同谋的；附属的 And the only accessory inside is a wall charger. 盒子内唯一的附件就是一个充电器。 Behind them, smaller companies—accessory makers, vendors, and Asian component suppliers—fill out the rest of the available floor space, right up to the back wall. 在其之后，嗨哟更小的企业——配件制造商、供应商和亚洲的零件供应商——填满了剩余的摊位，一直摆到大厅的后面。 To keep track of who was taking what, he installed small digital kiosks next to each cabinet and asked employees to swipe their badge and mark which accessory they took. 为了追踪谁拿了哪些东西，他在每个储藏柜旁安装了小型数字商亭，要求领取配件的员工自行刷卡，并标注自己领取了哪些配件。 —————————————— accommodate 适应 accommodate vt. 容纳；使适应；供应；调解 vi. 适应；调解 She tried to accommodate her way of life to his. 她试图使自己的生活方式与他的生活方式相适应。 You can change the sizes of these fields to accommodate your content. 您可以更改这些字段的大小，以适应您的内容。 The runway of this airport is undergoing expansion to accommodate large planes. 这个机场的跑道正在扩建以适应大型飞机起落。 —————————————— accord 协议 accord n. 符合；一致；协议；自愿 vt. 使一致；给予 vi. 符合；一致 Our information does not accord with his reports. 我们所了解的情况与他的报告不一致。 His behaviour does not accord with his principles. 他的行为与他的原则不相符合。 Mitigation really focused on the fact that for the first time in the Copenhagen Accord all the major economies agreed to implement either targets or actions. 关于减缓的讨论真正聚焦这样的事实，既首次在哥本哈根协议中，所有主要经济体同意实施或目标或行动。 —————————————— acknowledge 承认 acknowledge vt. 承认；答谢；报偿；告知已收到 He seemed by implication to acknowledge that fact. 他似乎含蓄的承认了那个事实。 Anyhow Tony intended to acknowledge him as his son. 不管怎样托尼打算承认他为自己的儿子。 She refused to acknowledge her cancer, but she demanded that everything reasonable and unreasonable be done for the illness she insisted did not exist. 她拒绝承认自己患了癌症，但又要求为这个她坚信并不存在的疾病做一切合理和不合理的治疗。 —————————————— acquaint 了解 acquaint vt. 使熟悉；使认识 I'll acquaint you with my daughter when she arrives. 我女儿来后我将介绍你们认识。 Each of the next four sections will acquaint you with one of our classes, as well as the RDBMS feature onto which it maps. 下面的四节中，每一节都会帮助您熟悉我们的一个类，还有这些类映射到的 RDBMS 功能。 In this section, we will acquaint ourselves with the practical details of the platform through development of a real-world application on a phone interface. 在这一部分中，我们将通过开发一个现实的电话界面应用程序来熟悉这个平台的实践细节。 —————————————— acquisition 收购 acquisition n. 获得物，获得；收购 In fact you could consider the nurturing of this awareness as fundamental to skills acquisition. 事实上你可以把这种对认知的培养作为获得技能的基本法则。 “If females have a biological predisposition to favour colours such as pink, this preference should be evident regardless of experience of the acquisition of gender concepts, ” they said. 她们说：“如果女性是生理上倾向于喜欢粉红这类颜色，那么不管性别概念获取的经验如何，这种偏好都应该是明显的。” This might be the first step in a move towards a more service oriented architecture or perhaps the integration of a batch system acquired by acquisition into a more transactional environment. 这可能是第一步，帮助过渡到面向服务特征更明显的体系结构，或者在收购后将获得的批处理系统集成到更为事务化的环境。 —————————————— activate 激活 activate vt. 刺激；使活动；使活泼；使产生放射性 vi. 激活；有活力 But how do you effectively reach these people and activate them? 但是他们如何有效地影响到这些人并且激活他们呢？ XUL allows you to create, arrange, and activate all these components. XUL 允许您创建、安排和激活所有这些成分。 Add this script to the activation engine to automatically activate the network identity. 将这个脚本添加到激活引擎，以自动地激活网络标识。 —————————————— acute 急性 acute adj. 严重的，[医] 急性的；敏锐的；激烈的；尖声的 A bad tooth can cause acute pain. 一颗蛀牙可以引起激烈的疼痛。 He is an acute observer. 他是一个敏锐的观察家。 Acute dysentery wracked and sapped life from his body. 急性痢疾严重伤害了他的肌体。 —————————————— adhere 坚持 adhere vi. 坚持；依附；粘着；追随 vt. 使粘附 We adhere to the principle that everyone should be treated fairly. 我们坚持人人都应该被平等对待这一原则。 But this means they cannot always adhere to the strict codes of practice dictated in UN headquarters. 但是这就意味着它们无法总是坚持联合国总部规定的严格的实践规章。 That's why I steadfastly adhere to my disciplined approach to buying and selling, which calls for taking profits at intervals of 25% gains in the Nasdaq, and buying on 10% declines. 这就是为什么我始终严格坚持自己的买进卖出策略，即在纳斯达克指数上涨25%时获利回吐，在股市下跌10%时逢低买进。 —————————————— adjacent 相邻 adjacent adj. 邻近的，毗连的 The house adjacent to ours is under repairs. 与我家相邻的房子正在修缮。 In the same manner, enter US in the adjacent cell. 以同样的方式，在相邻的单元格中输入 US。 Next, we need to define the region of adjacent cells. 然后，我们需要定义邻近单元的区域。 —————————————— adjoin 毗邻 adjoin vi. 毗连，邻接 vt. 毗连，邻接 Our two houses adjoin. 我们俩的房屋邻接着。 The jewels glitter between her breasts enticing him to another happenstance of sex. The two adjoin like vacuums of self into another lustful foray of plight. 吊坠在她的胸前闪耀着，诱惑他与她进行再一次的性爱偶发事件，他们在一起就像是空虚的真我进入另一个欲望的困境变革。 "Living African elephant species interbreed where their ranges adjoin, with males of the bigger species out-competing the smaller for mates, " he explained in a press release. “现存的非洲象会在领地交界处发生品种间交配，较大体型的种类会将较小体型的淘汰出局，获得交配的权力。” 他在一次新闻发布会上解释道。 —————————————— administer 管理 administer vt. 管理；执行；给予 vi. 给予帮助；执行遗产管理人的职责；担当管理人 They had the right to administer their own internal affairs. 他们有权管辖他们自己的内部事务。 This allows you to administer your server from remote computers. 它允许你从远程计算机管理你的服务器。 In order for you to administer these different resources, the appliance provides both a graphical user interface and a command line interface. 为了帮助您管理这些不同的资源，该设备提供了一个图形用户界面和一个命令行界面。 —————————————— adolescent 青少年 adolescent adj. 青春期的；未成熟的 n. 青少年 He led the adolescent side of the study. 他领导了青少年方面的研究。 It is very controversial as to whether or not an adolescent or young child should be allowed to explore their transsexual feelings. 对于一个青少年或是小孩子是否应该被允许去探究他们那种异性转化欲有很大的争论。 This was particularly true for hyperactivity and "bad" behavior, report the researchers in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. 小儿与青少年医学档案的研究者报告说，这点对极度活跃和“不良”行为而言尤其正确。 —————————————— advent 出现 advent n. 到来；出现；基督降临；基督降临节 With the advent of apps, though, it’s become more like my religion. 随着应用程序的出现，它变得更像我的信仰。 When I met him in 2002, he seemed mostly depressed by the advent of the Web. 2002年我遇到他的时候，他看起来似乎对网络的到来没有一点欣喜。 For these patients, our treatment options effectively go back to the era that predates the advent of antibiotics. 对于这类患者，我们的治疗选择实际上回到了抗生素出现以前的时期。 —————————————— adverse 不良 adverse adj. 不利的；相反的；敌对的（名词adverseness，副词adversely） My sister's taste in dresses is adverse to my own. 我妹妹的服饰审美观完全与我相反。 Currently, discrimination because of sex is defined as adverse action against another person, which would not have occurred had the person been of another sex. 如今，性别歧视被定义为做出对另一性别的人的反对行为，如果那个人是相反的性别就不会发生这种歧视了。 It points out that "as with all medicines, rare adverse reactions may only be detected once the vaccines are used in large numbers of people". 也指出，“和所有其它的药一样，只有当疫苗大范围的人群中使用之后，少有的不良反应才可能会发现”。 —————————————— advertise 做广告 advertise vt. 通知；为…做广告；使突出 vi. 做广告，登广告；作宣传 In that world they advertise, it's always on. 在那个世界他们做广告说它永远运转着。 If you want to sell your product you must advertise it. 如果你要推销自己的产品，你就必须做广告。 See what happens when companies use stairs to advertise their products. 看看当公司用楼梯给产品做广告会发生什么。 —————————————— advocate 提倡 advocate vt. 提倡，主张，拥护 n. 提倡者；支持者；律师 I guess that makes me an advocate of death panels. 我想正是这使我成为“死亡项目”的支持者。 SIMM does not advocate or require a linear movement from one maturity level to the next. SIMM 并不提倡或要求从一个成熟度到下一个成熟度的线性迁移。 Moreover, we should advocate a more frugal lifestyle so as to reduce the growing scale of waste pollution. 此外，我们应该提倡一种更加节俭的生活方式，以减小垃圾污染的增长规模。 —————————————— aerial 空中 aerial adj. 空中的，航空的；空气的；空想的 n. [电讯] 天线 The birds perched upon the television aerial. 那些鸟栖在电视天线上. The aerial can be adjusted to the frequency of those signals by lengthening or shortening the spout. 靠加长或缩短这根水柱，天线就能调节到相应的信号频率。 After class, he told them about his adventures in aerospace, and he showed them some aerial photographs. 下课，他告诉学生们他在太空的冒险，并向他们展示一些空中拍摄的照片。 —————————————— aesthetic 审美 aesthetic adj. 美的；美学的；审美的，具有审美趣味的 He finds beauty all around him, and his aesthetic is like no other. 他能从周围的生活中发现美，他的审美观独一无二。 Historically, there are many reasons for environmental injustice: some economic, some aesthetic; some are simply due to a lack of community resources available. 历史上，环境的不公正的原因有许多：一些是经济的、一些是美学的；一些仅仅是由于缺乏可用的社区资源。 Above all, in each project a translator makes decisions on what might be called the aesthetic and contextual order. 首先，在每一个项目中，是译者决定文章是否可称得上具有美感，是否上下文通顺。 —————————————— affiliate 下属 affiliate n. 联号；隶属的机构等 vt. 使附属；接纳；使紧密联系 vi. 参加，加入；发生联系 What of the affiliate groups or the "network of networks"? 那些附属组织或者称“网络的网络”又将怎样？ Afterwards, data can be shared between and among the root and affiliate registries with the assurance that each given key partition is unique. 这样，在确保每一个给定的键分区是唯一的情况下，根注册中心和附属注册中心之间就可以共享数据了。 Some services of general interest used by these companies also are public in nature and are registered in the UBR, which is the root registry for the pharmaceutical affiliate. 这些公司使用的一些通用服务在本质上也是公共的，并已在 UBR 中注册（UBR 是制药附属注册中心的根注册中心）。 —————————————— affirm 确认 affirm vt. 肯定；断言 vi. 确认；断言 They affirm some personal rights for the slave, but not all. 他们肯定奴隶有一些人权，但不具备全部的。 Maybe was looking to me to affirm whatever that was, if only I could tune into it. 或许她是在向我确认那是什么，要是我能感受到那些想法就好了。 Every boy, as he grows up, wants to have his manhood affirmed and the most important person to affirm it is his dad. 在每个男孩的成长中，都想要证明他的男子汉气质，能肯定男孩的最重要的人就是他的父亲。 —————————————— afflict 折磨 afflict vt. 折磨；使痛苦；使苦恼 AIDS and cancer are maladies that afflict humanity. 爱滋病和癌症是折磨人类的疾病。 Lunacy, bankruptcy, suicide and other unthinkable fates sooner or later afflict the noblest of clans with an undertow of gloom. 疯狂的、破产的、自杀的以及其他的想象不到的天意迟早会以忧郁的回潮折磨家族的尊贵。 The question raised by the successive failures is whether either party has a cure for the maladies that afflict America. Or are those maladies beyond the power of politics to heal? 这一连串的失败所导致的问题是这两个政党对折磨美国的弊病还有没有良方，抑或这些弊病已超出了政治权力治疗的范围？ —————————————— agenda 议程 agenda n. 议程；日常工作事项；日程表 Let's proceed to the next item on the agenda. 让我们进入下一项议程。 We now proceed to the next item on the agenda. 我们现在着手讨论下一项议题。 If there is no objection, the agenda is adopted. 如果没有意见， 议程就通过了。 —————————————— aggravate 加剧 aggravate vt. 加重；使恶化；激怒 Her questions aggravate him. 她的问题激怒了他。 This might irritate your bladder and aggravate your condition. 这可能会刺激您的膀胱，并加剧您的病情。 Prolonged sitting can aggravate the injury, as can a tight lower back. 久坐会加重这个问题，因为久坐会让腰背部紧张。 —————————————— agitation 搅动 agitation n. 激动；搅动；煽动；烦乱 Her voice quivered with agitation. 她激动得声音发抖。 That proposal, unexpectedly, roused Linton from his lethargy, and threw him into a strange state of agitation. 出乎意料之外，那个建议却把林惇从他的昏沉中唤醒，使他堕入一种激动的奇怪状态。 Avoid or decrease your intake of caffeine so you can reduce agitation and so you can get to sleep a little earlier tonight. 避免或减少你对咖啡因的摄入，这样你就可以减少莫名的激动，所以你晚上就可以早些睡了。 —————————————— agony 痛苦 agony n. 苦恼；极大的痛苦；临死的挣扎 The old woman expired in agony. 老妇在极度痛苦中断气。 During that year of agony and the following year of my grieving, everything stopped for me. 在那一年的痛苦和接下来整整一年的悲恸中，我生活中的一切都停止了。 You pretend that despair and agony are only preliminaries, that ideally one should overcome them if one is not to become an automaton. 你假装绝望与痛苦只是准备工作，你假装理想的人应该战胜它们，如果人不想变成机器人的话。 —————————————— agreeable 和蔼可亲的 agreeable adj. 令人愉快的；适合的；和蔼可亲的 To be idle sometimes is agreeable, but to be idle all the time might become monotonous . 一段时间空闲是令人愉快的，整日无所事事可能就单调乏味了。 The main reason you settle is because the unknown is not an agreeable place to reside; you can’t predict what will happen. 你安定下来的主要原因是因为未知并非一个惬意的居所；你无能预知将发生什么。 If the limits put forth are real but the parties share a mutual desire to reach a compromise, then a collaborative exercise in problem-solving will usually yield an agreeable outcome. 如果提出的限制是真实的，但各方共同的愿望相互达成妥协，然后协调工作解决问题，通常会产生一个令人愉快的结果。 —————————————— alert 警报 alert vt. 警告；使警觉，使意识到 adj. 警惕的，警觉的；留心的 n. 警戒，警惕；警报 n. (Alert)人名；(西)阿莱尔特 They were quiet during the alert. 警戒期间他们保持安静。 Hearing this, I was instantly on the alert. 我一听这话，当下就警惕起来。 We downgraded the military alert from emergency to standby. 我们把军事戒备从紧急状态降至待命状态。 —————————————— alien 外星人 alien adj. 外国的；相异的，性质不同的；不相容的 n. 外国人，外侨；外星人 vt. 让渡，转让 n. (Alien)人名；(法)阿利安 Print your name and Alien Registration number on the back of each photo. 在每张照片的背面写上你的名字和外国人注册号。 Also, Arkansas must still have seemed an alien place for her to settle, though she no longer felt it was the other side of the moon. 另外，阿肯色州在她看来肯定仍是一个非常陌生的地方来成家立命，尽管她已经不再觉得它远在月球的另一面。 It should not be a completely alien user experience. The user still needs to know or easily figure out how to get done what they need to get done. 我认为这抓住了差异化的用户体验的本质，它不应该是一个完全陌生的用户体验，用户需要知道如何更容易去做事情。 —————————————— allege 称 allege vt. 宣称，断言；提出…作为理由 The court papers allege she may be a voyeur. 法庭文件宣称她可能是一个偷窥狂。 Police officers are now routinely arresting people in order to add their DNA sample to the national police database, an inquiry will allege tomorrow. 明天将有一份调查宣称：警察官们如今例行抓人是为了采集他们的DNA样本放入国家警用数据库。 Invading Iraq was not the act of a war criminal or a buffoon, as his critics allege, but it was a controversial war that went badly wrong and made America, the victim of 9/11, look like an aggressor. 入侵伊拉克并非如批评者所宣称的那样是一个战犯或丑角的行为，但它却是一场充满争议的战争，而且不善的结局让美国，这个9.11的受害者看上去倒像个侵略者。 —————————————— alleviate 缓解 alleviate vt. 减轻，缓和 You can alleviate this somewhat by having an abstract superclass that contains empty implementations of all methods for all visitors. 您可以使用一个抽象超类，在其中包含所有访问者的所有类的空实现，从而略微缓解难度。 In this article, you have learned how to alleviate some of the restrictions and problems that developers unknowingly create for their consumers during development time. 在本文中，您了解了如何减轻开发人员在进行开发时不知不觉为用户制造的一些限制和问题。 He not only feels a sorrow of the same kind with that which they feel, but as if he had derived a part of it to himself, what he feels seems to alleviate the weight of what they feel. 说倾听者和他们一起分担忧愁似乎不大合适，他不仅和他们一样感觉到了悲伤，而且似乎在他们的心理负担减轻了之后，自己又得到了一些悲伤。 —————————————— alliance 联盟 alliance n. 联盟，联合；联姻 This is an alliance for offensive and defence. 这是一个攻守同盟。 They made an alliance against the common enemy. 他们联合起来抵御共同敌人。 They contracted an alliance with another country. 他们与另外一个国家结成了同盟。 —————————————— allocate 分配 allocate vt. 分配；拨出；使坐落于 vi. 分配；指定 We then allocate the memory. 然后我们分配内存。 It allocates protected memory just after the memory you allocate. 它就在您分配内存后分配受保护的内存。 Your answer—how and to whom you want to allocate your finite attention—will increasingly attract the attention of others. 你的答案——你希望如何以及向谁分配你有限的注意力——将日益引起其他人的关注。 —————————————— allowance 津贴 allowance n. 津贴，零用钱；允许；限额 vt. 定量供应 Don't scrounge my pen without my allowance! 我不允许，你不能擅自拿我的钢笔用! They deducted the cost of the broken window from his allowance. 他们从他的津贴中扣除损坏窗户的费用。 Beijing University provided her with an allowance when she was studying there. 北京大学在她学习期间给她提供了津贴。 —————————————— ally 盟友 ally n. 同盟国；伙伴；同盟者；助手 vt. 使联盟；使联合 vi. 联合；结盟 n. (Ally)人名；(巴基)阿利；(法)阿利；(英)艾丽(女子教名 Alice 的简称)；(尼日利)阿利 Another ally can do this but not that. 另一个盟国能这样、又不能那样做。 I hesitate to even mention this because I believe in the power of one, but you can find an ally to help. 我很犹豫是否提到这个，因为我相信个体的力量。 但是你可以找一个同盟者来帮忙。 Treat the larger body of humanity as your friend and ally, and it will respond in kind. 把人类的那个上层“躯体”视为你的朋友和同盟者，它将以同样的方法来回报你。 —————————————— alongside 与 alongside adv. 在旁边 prep. 在……旁边 They campaigned alongside the friendly forces. 他们与友军并肩作战。 We use the whiteboards alongside one of the walls, where you just write down your name if you have a question. 用其中一面墙壁旁边的白色书写板，如果有问题，你只要在那里写下你的名字。 Clearly so many are reaching this weight that clothes to fit them are available on the High Street alongside normal sizes. 很明显很多人达到了这个重量，所以商业街上标准尺寸衣服旁，有适合他们的衣服售卖。 —————————————— alternate 备用 alternate vi. 交替；轮流 vt. 使交替；使轮流 adj. 交替的；轮流的 n. 替换物 The two patterns alternate over periods of two to seven years in the tropical Pacific. 在热带的太平洋地区，这两种现象的交替周期超过了两到七年。 Alternate nostril breathing optimizes both sides of your brain so you can access your whole brain, and all the benefits that go with it. 交替鼻孔呼吸能够充分利用左右大脑并提高整个大脑的使用能力，并充分利用随之而来的其他好处。 To make the tiger blink, you alternate the transparency between the two areas by locating both the areas and paths in the corresponding XML. 要让老虎眨眼，可以通过在相应的 XML 中定位这两个区域及其路径来在两个区域间交替透明性。 —————————————— amateur 业余 amateur n. 爱好者；业余爱好者；外行 adj. 业余的；外行的 He's no amateur in farming. 种庄稼他可不外行。 Only the baby video seems to be an amateur one. 只有这个婴儿的视频似乎是一个业余的。 A fellow journalist once told me that if you are not writing every day, then you are an amateur. 一个同行的记者曾经告诉我，如果你不每天写写，那么你是一个业余爱好者。 —————————————— ambassador 大使 ambassador n. 大使；代表；使节 She agreed to accompany the ambassador. 她同意陪大使。 An ambassador is entitled “Your Excellency”. 大使被尊称为“阁下”。 The ambassador refused to give any interviews to journalists or TV men. 该大使拒绝接见任何新闻记者或电视台记者。 —————————————— ambiguous 模棱两可的 ambiguous adj. 模糊不清的；引起歧义的 His answer was ambiguous. 他的答复是含糊的。 We show in this section that both terms are ambiguous and not helpful in describing the nature of the service bus or the integration layer. 在本节中，我们要说明这两个术语的含义都很模糊，对于描述服务总线或集成层的性质没有帮助。 If they investigated more from reliable sources, they would find that claims of danger are more ambiguous than they’ve heard. 如果他们从可靠的来源详细调查，他们可能会发现，危险的断言比他们听到的更加模糊不清。 —————————————— ambitious 雄心勃勃的 ambitious adj. 野心勃勃的；有雄心的；热望的；炫耀的 The program is laudably ambitious. 这项计划雄心勃勃， 值得称赞。 You have before you an ambitious and important agenda. 大家面临一个宏大和重要的议程。 The ambitious young man used his friends to further his career. 这位野心勃勃的年轻人利用朋友来推动他的事业的发展。 —————————————— amend 修改 amend vt. 修改；改善，改进 vi. 改正，改善；改过自新 n. (Amend)人名；(德、英)阿门德 Actually, I need to amend this. 实际上，我需要稍做修改。 Congress may amend the proposed tax bill. 议会可能会修正提议的征税法。 Before you look in detail at the transform, amend the rule class to invoke this generated class. 在您详细察看转换之前，我们先要修正规则类，使其能够调用刚刚产生的类。 —————————————— amends 补偿 amends n. 赔偿；赔罪 v. 修订（amend的第三人称单数）；改进 Full amends was made. 作了全部赔偿。 And they've actually come back to make amends. 他们回来真的是要赔偿我们。 The emperor has tried to make amends with Japan's neighbors during his visits in Asia by speaking openly of the suffering inflicted by Japanese troops during World War II. 在天皇访问亚洲国家期间，他也曾公开提到二战期间日军队这些国家人民造成的痛苦，并试图以此为日本的邻邦赔罪。 —————————————— ample 充足的 ample adj. 丰富的；足够的；宽敞的 n. (Ample)人名；(西)安普尔 Agriculture has developed rapidly, thus providing light industry with ample raw materials. 农业迅速发展，从而为轻工业提供了充足的原料。 "We have ample reason to conclude that chronic anger is bad for us," he said. “我们有足够的理由作出长期的生气有害健康这个结论，”他说。 "With all of these new discoveries, we should have ample reason to believe that humans will follow, " said Chaikin. “根据所有这些最新的发现，我们有足够的理由相信人类不会就此止步”，查金表示。 —————————————— amplify 放大 amplify vt. 放大，扩大；增强；详述 vi. 详述 This will amplify the impact of our activities and our resources. 这将扩大我们各项活动和资源的影响。 But we must do more to amplify their voices and give them a seat at the table, whether in their village or at the global level, among nations. 但是我们必须进一步扩大他们的声音，给予他们一个代表席位，无论是在村里还是在全球层面，在各国之间。 Coastal features can then either reduce or amplify some of the energy as the wave reaches land. 而当波浪到达陆地后，当地的海岸地形特征则会削弱或增强某些能量。 —————————————— analogy 类比 analogy n. 类比；类推；类似 The analogy is rather farfetched. 这个比方有点驴唇不对马嘴。 Everyone has analogy fatigue at this point. 在这一点上，人人都有类比疲劳。 That is my analogy of where we are. 我是这么类比我们现在的处境。 —————————————— analytic 分析 analytic adj. 分析的；解析的；善于分析的 And while it has some value if you want to be very introspective and analytic, for most of us, it just bogs us down. 虽然它在某种意义上有其一定价值，除非你想变得喜欢自我反省和分析，对于大多数人，它只是麻烦的制造者罢了。 If you have an existing collection for the current diagram type, you can put this analytic in that by choosing the second option. 如果对于当前的图表类型有了已存在的集合，那么您可以选择第二个选项来将该分析置于管理器中。 For the most part, these same forces have been a boon, so far, to Americans who have a good education and exceptional creative talents or analytic skills. 而对于那些受到良好教育，具有特殊的创新能力或分析技能的人们来说，同样的情况在很大程度上是一种恩惠。 —————————————— analytical 分析 analytical adj. 分析的；解析的；善于分析的 Perhaps you have experienced one or more of these curses of the analytical thinker yourself. 也许你自己也曾经历过一两个这样的分析型思想者之咒。 The data, however, is unstructured to an analytical system because there is no meaning associated with it. 不过，该数据对分析系统而言是非结构化的，因为它没有与之关联的意思。 Thus the topology model, which represents the analytical state of the IT system or its piece, may not be able to express all of the capabilities or requirements (or even the members) of that unit. 于是这个代表这个 IT 系统或者它的一部分分析状态的拓扑模型，可能就不能表现那个单元的所有性能或者需求（或者甚至是成员）。 —————————————— angel 天使 angel n. 天使；守护神；善人 vt. 出钱支持 n. (Angel)人名；(德、塞、俄、保、瑞典、挪)安格尔；(土)安盖尔；(法、葡)安热尔；(西)安赫尔；(英、罗)安杰尔 I tell you, Billy, she’s an angel. 我对你说，比利，她真是一个天使。 Sometimes, in your life, you meet with people who play the role of healing angel for a while. 有时候，在你的生活中，你会遇到一些人在一段时间内扮演疗愈天使的角色。 She trusted him with her life even though she knew no one would believe her when she told them what the angel said. 即使她知道当她告诉他们这位天使所说的话，也没有人会相信之时，她也会用生命去相信他。 —————————————— anniversary 周年纪念日 anniversary n. 周年纪念日 The post office centralizing the town celebrated its 20th anniversary yesterday. 作为市镇中心的邮局昨天庆祝它建局二十周年。 On your wedding anniversary: Love joins our present with the past and the future . 祝贺你们的结婚周年纪念日：爱连结我们的过去、现在和未来。 I offer you these thoughts, on the anniversary of my divorce, with the holidays coming. 我已经离婚一周年了，随着假日来临，我现在给你们谈谈我的想法。 —————————————— anonymous 匿名 anonymous adj. 匿名的，无名的；无个性特征的 Why is it anonymous? 为什么它是匿名的？ Each chunk is executed as the body of an anonymous function. 每个块都是作为一个匿名函数体来执行的。 If so, then within that language, types likely can no longer be anonymous. 如果这样，那么在该语言中，类型可能不再是匿名的。 —————————————— antarctic 南极 —————————————— antique 古董 antique adj. 古老的，年代久远的；过时的，古董的；古风的，古式的 n. 古董，古玩；古风，古希腊和古罗马艺术风格 vi. 觅购古玩 This carved chest is a genuine antique. 这只雕花盒子是件古玩真品。 He delights in browing through antique stores. 他喜爱逛古董店随意观看商品。 They won’t only be using rare, antique pottery this time, however. 然而，这一次他们不会只使用那些稀有的古式陶瓷。 —————————————— appendix 附录 appendix n. 附录；阑尾；附加物 The final list together with an appendix would be sent to the manager for his approval. 最后的名单连同一份附录将被送到经理那里等候他的批准。 This appendix should give you a good overview of the DOM data model and show you how to access the information you are looking for. 这个附录应该可以使您对 DOM 数据模型有一个很好的全面了解，并且展示了如何访问所要查找的信息。 The highlight of his day is lumbering to the mailbox, leaning on his mother, who was told recently by doctors that she had carcinoid tumors in her appendix and colon. 除了去医院的时候，他的一天的重要事情就是，靠着他母亲，打开邮箱。 他母亲最近也被告知，在她的阑尾和结肠发现良性肿瘤。 —————————————— applaud 鼓掌 applaud vt. 赞同；称赞；向…喝彩 vi. 喝彩；鼓掌欢迎 I applaud you for being yourself. 做你自己，我会为你鼓掌。 I applaud him for it, and offer him my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day. 我为他鼓掌喝彩，同时也对他敬爱的外祖母没有活着看到这一天而表示真挚的同情。 We applaud our members for this remarkable show of solidarity for striking Writers Guild of America writers. 我们赞同我们的成员在这件事上表现出的团结，这是对编剧协会罢工的支持。 —————————————— appraisal 评估 appraisal n. 评价；估价（尤指估价财产，以便征税）；估计 So that on this question of appraisal and bestowal. 所以在关于评价和赋予的问题上。 So in that example, she was ignored earlier because her appraisal was so low. 所以在那个例子里，她之前被忽略,因为她的评价很低。 Remember I have two kinds of appraisal? 记得我说的两种评价么？ —————————————— appreciable 可感知的 appreciable adj. 可感知的；可评估的；相当可观的 The cost of screen drag is appreciable in almost all installations. 阻尼网的阻力损耗在几乎所有的装置中都是很大的。 Did she have any appreciable influence on him, and thus on history? 她有没有试图对他施以影响，从而改变历史呢？ Adults with appreciable amounts of brown fat are usually those who have certain types of cancer or hyperthyroidism, conditions that stimulate the growth of brown fat. 那些患有某种癌症或甲状腺功能亢进症的成年人通常有数额可观的棕色脂肪，身体的这种状况刺激了棕色脂肪的增长。 —————————————— apprehension 忧虑 apprehension n. 理解；恐惧；逮捕；忧惧 Victory after apprehension and fear. 胜利在忧虑和恐惧以后。 He knew that his apprehension was in part due to his lack of knowledge of Six Sigma. 他知道他的忧虑部分原因是对六西格玛原则的不了解。 Mice with altered digestive bacteria showed less apprehension and were less afraid to go into the well-lit box, a common sign the animals are under the influence of drugs or illness. 肠道细菌水平改变了的小鼠显现出了更少的恐惧，更敢于走进有光照的箱子。 这是动物中毒或生病后的普遍症状。 —————————————— apt 恰当的 apt adj. 恰当的；有…倾向的；灵敏的 n. (Apt)人名；(法、波、英)阿普特 It was an apt comment. 这是一个恰当的评论。 If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyer's cases. 如果某人不善于详细查看事物， 仅限于用一事物去和另一事物对比、解释的话， 就让他去见识见识律师怎么办案子。 Though Anna Jarvis never married and never had kids, she is also known as the Mother of Mothers Day, an apt title for the lady who worked hard to bestow honor on all mothers. 虽然安娜贾维斯从未结婚，从未发生过，她也是作为母亲节母亲，一个恰当的标题为夫人谁努力在所有已知的母亲赐予荣誉的孩子。 —————————————— arc 弧 arc n. 弧（度）；弧光（全称electric arc）；弧形物；天穹 adj. 圆弧的；反三角函数的 vt. 形成电弧；走弧线 n. (Arc)人名；(法)阿尔克 The rainbow described an arc in the sky. 彩虹在天空形成了一道圆弧。 The muscles in her back tightened, pulling down from her spine and causing her back to arc slightly. 她后背上的肌肉绷紧着，使她脊梁骨向下沉，背部有点弯成了一个弧形。 Conceptually it's just one link to the software you want, but in practice there are many possible resources from which you can get it, and each of these is a separate arc. 从概念上看，这个链接仅仅是指向所需软件的一个简单链接，但实际上，可以从许多可能的资源中获得这个链接，并且每个资源都是一个独立的弧。 —————————————— arch 拱 arch n. 弓形，拱形；拱门 adj. 主要的 vt. 使…弯成弓形；用拱连接 vi. 拱起；成为弓形 n. (Arch)人名；(德)阿尔希；(英)阿奇 She twined the bridal arch with flowers. 她将新娘拱形头饰用花缠起来。 Looking from a distance like a gigantic arch, it is a continuous loop, a kind of square doughnut. 从远处看像一座巨大的拱门，实际上它是一个连续的环，有点像方形面包圈。 To start, slot your foot (big toe up, pinky toe down) into the crack up to the arch of your foot, keeping your knee out to the side. 首先，把脚尖到足弓的部分楔入裂缝中去（大脚趾在上，小指在下），膝盖保持向外。 —————————————— architect 架构师 architect n. 建筑师 缔造者 But I am an architect. 但是我是一名建筑师。 They commissioned an architect to design the new library. 他们委托一位建筑师设计这座新图书馆。 The building was constructed from the design of that architect. 这幢大楼是按那位建筑师的设计建造的。 —————————————— arctic 北极 arctic adj. 北极的；极寒的 n. 北极圈；御寒防水套鞋 n. (Arctic)人名；(英)阿克蒂克 What’s notable this year is that the pattern of high pressure over the Arctic is more pronounced than at any time since 1950. 今年占上风的是北极上空的高气压，而且值得注意的是，这次高气压的强度是1950年以来最大的。 Like smoke signals from infinity, these shape-shifters in the Arctic night sky have the quality of some half-imagined fairytale. 这些在北极夜空中的移形换影像源于无限处的烟雾信号一样具有一些半想象童话的性质。 Conversely, he said, mammals that live in arctic regions develop a layer of fat to insulate against the cold. 他还说：相反，居住在北极地区的哺乳动物长出了一层脂肪，起到了御寒的作用。 —————————————— array 数组 array n. 数组，阵列；排列，列阵；大批，一系列；衣服 vt. 排列，部署；打扮 We can do that by turning it into an array. 我们可以通过把它转为一个数组来完成以上操作。 In this case, it would store its decisions, and then update the array of nodes after its last decision. 在这种情况下，它将存储它的判定，然后在最后一个判定做出后更新数组的节点。 Even if you already know that a string is an array of characters, read this part. 即使你已经知道一个字符串是一个字符数组，你也应该阅读本部分。 —————————————— articulate 善于表达 articulate vt. 清晰地发（音）；明确有力地表达；用关节连接；使相互连贯 vi. 发音；清楚地讲话；用关节连接起来 adj. 发音清晰的；口才好的；有关节的 n. 【动物学】有节体的动物 After the injury the bones did not articulate as well as before. 受伤后骨的关节不如以前连接得好。 Be careful to articulate your words so that everyone in the room can understand you. 小心使你的话发音清晰，使室内每人都能听懂。 Their chief achievement was to articulate a language of control and design that worked for biology, social sciences, and computers. 他们最主要的成就是清晰描述了控制和设计语言，为生物学、社会科学和计算机学效力。 —————————————— ascend 提升 ascend vi. 上升；登高；追溯 vt. 攀登，上升 This forced him to ascend directly to the surface. 这导致他直接上升到了水面。 This is Jesus about to ascend into heaven, talking to his disciples, right outside Jerusalem in the suburbs of Jerusalem. 讲的是耶稣即将上升天堂，与他的门徒的对话，就在耶路撒冷郊外。 But utility isn’t the point; the real point is to ascend into Apple’s elegant world. 但是重要的并不在于效用，而实际上在于上升到苹果公司那高雅的世界之中。 —————————————— ascertain 确定 ascertain vt. 确定；查明；探知 It's difficult to ascertain the coal deposits. 煤储量很难探明。 If, then, we see meanness and smallness in the people whom we meet, it would be well to ascertain if we ourselves are not causing such qualities to emanate from us. 如果我们在我们遇到的人身上看到了卑鄙和小气，那么，最好是确定一下我们自己是否没有使这些品质从我们这里散发出来。 Graphic artists usually produce the visual images; the role of the editor is to conceptualize the graphic, find the information it should contain or illustrate, and ascertain its accuracy. 图像艺术家通常负责提供视觉形像，而编辑的作用是将这些形像赋予思想，找出它应代表或显示的资讯，并确定其准确性。 —————————————— ascribe 把 ascribe vt. 归因于；归咎于 Some ascribe healing powers to the muddy shores and mineral-rich salts. 一些人把这些归因于泥泞的海岸和高矿物质含量。 It is too easy to ascribe project problems to individuals or unique events; my experience has been that most problems are systemic and will repeat until the root causes are dealt with. 我们很容易将项目中的问题归咎于个人或者独特的事件，但是我的经验是绝大多数问题是系统的，它们会一直重复直到根本的原因被解决。 The Monetary Maniacs may ascribe the entire move to low interest rates. 货币至上论者可能会将整个上涨归因于低利率。 —————————————— assault 攻击 assault n. 攻击；袭击 vt. 攻击；袭击 vi. 袭击；动武 The man saw us and stopped his assault. They both waved me on. 那个男人停止了攻击看这我们，并朝我们挥动着拳头。 The foetal development of boys may also be more sensitive to this kind of chemical assault, the authors speculate, which could explain why boys are more likely to have behavioural problems than girls. 该报告的作者推测，男孩在胎儿发育阶段可能对此类化学袭击反应更为敏感，这就可以解释为什么男孩比女孩更有可能出现行为问题。 These members "are standing with young democracies in the Middle East that are under assault by terrorists and violent extremists," he said. 他说，这些成员"与受到恐怖分子和暴力极端分子攻击的中东的年轻民主政体站在一起"。 —————————————— assert 断言 assert vt. 维护，坚持；断言；主张；声称 “If you fail to avoid high inequality, you will need more prisons and more police,” they assert. “如果不能消除这种高度的不平等，你们将需要更多的监狱和警察，”他们断言。 At the same time, the manager should step in and assert authority only when required, which should be rarely. 与此同时，经理应该只有在需要时插手并声称权力，这应该很少发生。 One difference is that you can assert, for instance, that the plan-driven approach will extend our project duration from twelve to fourteen weeks, an increase of two weeks. 区别之一就是您能够断言，例如计划驱动的方法将把您的项目周期从十二周扩展到十四周，增加了两周的时间。 —————————————— asset 资产 asset n. 资产；优点；有用的东西；有利条件；财产；有价值的人或物 n. （法）阿塞（人名） You then need to categorize the asset in the next screen. 然后在下一个屏幕中，需要对资产进行分类。 On the other hand, your debt is an asset to the bank, but it is your liability. 在另一方面，你的债务是银行的一种资产，但它却是你的债务。 You could prefix the configuration names with abbreviations for the asset registry to which they belong. 您可以将这些配置的名称的前缀设定为它们所属的资产注册的缩写。 —————————————— assimilate 同化 assimilate vt. 吸收；使同化；把…比作；使相似 vi. 吸收；同化 Europeans and Jews do not readily assimilate. 欧洲人和犹太人不易同化。 China needs to assimilate a good deal of foreign progressive culture, but she must not swallow anything and everything uncritically. 中国需要大量吸收外国的进步文化， 但决不能无批判地兼收并蓄。 You will also find that holding on to what is no longer there, or more correctly where you no longer are, impedes your own ability to observe, assimilate and respond. 你还会发现，固守已经一去不复返的东西，或者更确切的说，是你已经离开的地方，会妨碍你自身的观察、吸收和反应的能力。 —————————————— assumption 假设 assumption n. 假定；设想；担任；采取 He based his assumption of her guilt on the fact that she had no alibi. 他以她不在犯罪现场的事实为根据做出她犯罪的假定。 This project was predicated on the assumption that the economy was expanding. 这一计划是以经济发展的设想为依据的。 Why have they received an assumption of being safe for us all without scientific evidence? 没有科学的证据，为什么它们已经得到一个假设它们对我们是安全的？ —————————————— assurance 保证 assurance n. 保证，担保；（人寿）保险；确信；断言；厚脸皮，无耻 He gave me assurance in black and white. 他给了我书面保证。 So let me give you my assurance.I would never tolerate that. 我给你们我的保证，我不会容忍那样的事情发生。 Migrating those applications to GAE might be costly, because you not only need to identify the issues and create workarounds, but also do quality assurance for the entire application all over again. 将这些应用程序迁移到 GAE 可能是昂贵的，因为您不仅需要识别问题并创建解决方法，而且还要从头再为整个应用程序做质量保证。 —————————————— astronomy 天文学 astronomy n. 天文学 He dipped into astronomy. 他对天文学稍有涉猎。 Do you know anything about astronomy? 你懂天文学吗? In both cases, these insights come not from the science of astronomy but from atmospherics — and that's not really so surprising. 两种情形下，这些见解并非来自于天文学，而是来自大气干扰—— 而且，那并不令人感到如此的吃惊。 —————————————— athlete 运动员 athlete n. 运动员，体育家；身强力壮的人 She will make a very good athlete. 她将来会成为一名很好的运动员。 You think that you could never be an athlete like your brother, or all the other kids. 你认为自己永远不可能成为你哥哥那样的运动员，甚至比不上别的孩子。 But the Olympics is the goal of every athlete. 不过奥运是每一位运动员的目标。 —————————————— attendance 出席 attendance n. 出席；到场；出席人数；考勤 The attendance has dropped away recently. 近来出席人数越来越少。 Manchester City claim that most of their fans come from Manchester, but they only have a 44,000 average attendance. 曼城宣称他们的球迷基本都是本地人，但是到场观众却只有平均44,000人左右。 During the workshop, attendance by all of the project's stakeholders is critical to ensure success. 在讨论会期间，项目的所有参与者的出席对于确保成功至关重要。 —————————————— attendant 服务员 attendant adj. 伴随的；侍候的 n. 服务员，侍者；随员，陪从 She walks into a small pet shop and explains her need to the attendant. 她走进一家小型宠物店，向服务员说明了自己想要的宠物。 Such patients run an increased probability of hospitalization, with all the attendant costs to the patient and to the health care system that hospitalization entails. 此类患者趋于住院治疗的的几率增加，随之而来的患者和医疗保健系统住院治疗所承担的费用也增加。 Ambler's dinosaur troubles began because we humans, with our attendant minds, think we are more like Ambler than ants. 安伯乐恐龙烦恼的产生是因为我们人类——带着伴随我们的思想——认为我们比蚂蚁更像安伯乐。 —————————————— attorney 律师 attorney n. 律师；代理人；检查官 The attorney for the defense challenged the juror. 被告辩护律师不同意这位陪审员。 He delegated his power of attorney to his sister-in-law. 他把他的代理人的权力委托给他的嫂子。 The attorney for the defense challenged the evidence as hearsay. 被告辩护律师驳斥该证据为道听途说。 —————————————— augment 增加 augment vi. 增加；增大 vt. 增加；增大 n. 增加；增大 This is in sharp contrast to heterosexual fathers, who often augment their work hours and career commitments after having children. 这跟直男爸爸们行程强烈对比。 后者有孩子以后经常增加工作时间，往事业投入更多精力。 The finding not only points to a promising way to augment practicing when learning a new physical skill, it could also help people regain skills after injuries such as stroke. 该发现不仅指出一个在学习一种技能时增加练习的充满前景的方法，还能帮助那些损伤后如中风的人们从新获得技能。 We will also examine more advanced topics that are not currently addressed in these APIs, and even demonstrate ways to augment the published methods. 我们还将研究更高级的问题，这些问题目前在这些 API 中尚未解决，我们甚至还将演示增加发布的方法的方法。 —————————————— authentic 真实的 authentic adj. 真正的，真实的；可信的 I see them longing and reaching out for authentic community. 我看到他们渴望并向可信的集体张开双臂。 People who participate feel like they know me, because my heart, my authentic self, my gratitude, is all up in this thing. 那些参与活动的人们感到他们认识我，因为我的心，真实的自我，我的感恩，全都投入在这件事情上。 God created you and so He wants you to be the real you. By being authentic when you speak to God, you worship Him as your Creator. 是神创造了你，他想要你活出真正的你。你与神交谈时要作真实的你，你要敬拜神，真的把他看为你的创造者。 —————————————— authoritative 权威的 authoritative adj. 有权威的；命令式的；当局的 Except,I mean,you could use it, but not use it as authoritative. 我的意思是你可以使用它，但不要把它当作权威。 I’m not an expert and this is not authoritative or exhaustive, but hopefully you find it interesting. 本人非专家，以下非权威性分析，也不全面，但我还是希望你们能够觉得有趣。 And this means for Hobbes, first of all, adopting his book as the authoritative teaching on moral and political doctrine in the universities. 鉴于此，霍布斯的首要任务，是把他的著作作为权威的教学方式,在大学里讲授道德和政治学说。 —————————————— authorize 授权 authorize vt. 批准，认可；授权给；委托代替 Do not authorize it to any transmit queues. 不要将其授权给任何传输队列。 "Microsoft did not authorize or license its technology for this use," it said. “微软不会授权或者许可技术在这种途径应用，”它说明道。 However, this step is very similar to the authentication step, in that you first extract and then authorize. 不过，此步骤非常类似于身份验证步骤，因为您首先进行提取，然后授权。 —————————————— automation 自动化 automation n. 自动化；自动操作 They phrase in new machinery for increased automation. 他们逐步采用新机器以提高自动化程度。 This factory has phased in new machinery for increased automation. 这家工厂已开始逐渐使用新机器以提高自动化程度。 Then you could have your test automation read, parse, and use the data in this file. 然后您可以让您的测试自动化读取、解析和使用该文件中的数据。 —————————————— autonomy 自治 autonomy n. 自治，自治权 Give me some autonomy. 给我一些自主权。 One way or another, the days of Fed autonomy are coming to an end, as well they should. 无论哪个法案被通过，美联储自治的日子都将走到尽头，这也是他们应得的。 However, this decoupling and autonomy conflicts with the use of shared databases. 但是，这种解耦和自治与共享数据库的使用格格不入。 —————————————— avail 效果 avail n. 效用，利益 vt. 有益于，有益于；使对某人有利。 vi. 有益于，有益于；使对某人有利。 I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts. 恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了。 We try to help, giving our time and soul, but it’s to no avail. 我们试图付出时间和灵魂来帮助，但一切都无济于事。 My attacker rushed me again. He rammed me in the chest with his head and body, striking me over and over again with all his might, still to no avail. 我的袭击者又冲向了我，用他的脑袋和身体撞击我的胸膛，一次又一次，竭尽全力却无济于事。 —————————————— avert 避免 avert vt. 避免，防止；转移 But these measures may not be sufficient to avert disaster. 但这些措施并不足以避免灾难的发生。 He apologized to avert trouble. 他道歉以避免麻烦。 The only way to avert more serious problems is a new wave of reform. 想要避免更为严重的问题，惟一的办法是进行新一轮改革。 —————————————— aviation 航空 aviation n. 航空；飞行术；飞机制造业 No so fast, says Aviation Week. 没有这么快，《航空周刊》说。 International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO); 国际民航组织 The center is part of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command that provides research, development and engineering technology and services for the Army’s aviation and missile platforms. 该中心是美国陆军研究，开发和工程司令部的一部分，该司令部为陆军航空和导弹平台研究提供研究，开发，工程技术和服务。 —————————————— axis 轴 axis n. 轴；轴线；轴心国 They are generally round but stretch longer along one axis than along the other. 总体上它们是圆的，但沿一根轴比另一根轴延伸得要更长一些。 Imagine it like this: If you spin something, the direction of the axis tends to wobble. 这样想一下：如果你旋转什么东西，这个轴的方向将会变化。 In this case I will assume the cylinder is falling with the axis of the cylinder parallel to the ground (so the person would land on the back). 在这种情况下，我假设该圆柱是以柱轴跟地面平行的方式下落的（这样才能使人背部着地）。 —————————————— bachelor 本科 bachelor n. 学士；单身汉；（尚未交配的）小雄兽 n. (Bachelor)人名；(英)巴彻勒 Distrusting women, he remained a bachelor all his life. 由于不信任女人， 他做了一辈子单身汉。 If that is our idea of bachelor then we can see just by consulting our own ideas that all bachelors must be unmarried. 如果那就是我们关于单身汉的理解,接下来通过自身意识的理解，认为所有的单身汉必须是未婚的。 I fail to understand that some men want both; they want to get married and they even want to live like a bachelor with all hook ups and freedom. 我不明白那些想两个都要的男人们；他们想要结婚，他们还想要像单身汉一样自由的生活钩住所有的女人。 —————————————— badge 徽章 badge n. 徽章；证章；标记 vt. 授给…徽章 The boy pins a badge on his jacket. 这个男孩子把一枚徽章别在外套上。 The policeman's badge deflected the bullet. 那名警察的徽章使子弹偏转了。 If you get noticed by the propagandists, wear that attention like a badge of honor. 如果你注意到这个宣传，谨记那些就像你的荣誉徽章一样。 —————————————— baffle 挡板 baffle vt. 使…困惑；使…受挫折；用挡板控制 n. 挡板；困惑 vi. 做徒劳挣扎 Sometimes the decisions baffle and enrage me. 有时候作出的决定使我困惑甚至愤怒。 It used to baffle me why the media loved to do a hatchet job on single women, until I sensed something fishy going on. 我常常为媒体对单身女性的攻击和诽谤而感到困惑，直到有一天我意识到这里边的猫腻。 The presence of a baffle lock appears to override Ms Martin's autonomy. 设置障碍似乎践踏了马丁女士的自主性。 —————————————— bald 秃头 bald adj. 秃顶的；光秃的；单调的；无装饰的 vi. 变秃 n. (Bald)人名；(英)鲍尔德；(德、法、波)巴尔德 He's getting bald.; He's going baldish. 他的头开始秃了。 There is a whole world of anxiety and disillusion behind those bald employment figures. 在那些光秃秃的就业数字背后是整个世界的焦虑和幻灭。 They do not yet know how they would be able to trigger hair to grow in bald patches without causing excessive growth all over the body. 他们目前还没有弄清楚的是怎样在不让毛发在全身过度地生长的情况下，使得头发得以在秃斑块上正常地生长。 —————————————— ballet 芭蕾舞 ballet n. 芭蕾舞剧；芭蕾舞乐曲 n. (Ballet)人名；(西)巴列特；(法)巴莱 I also like classical music and ballet. 我还喜欢古典音乐和芭蕾舞。 She danced the principal role in the ballet. 她在这个芭蕾舞中担任主角。 Ballet dancers practise their skill every day. 芭蕾舞演员每天练功。 —————————————— ban 禁止 ban vt. 禁止，取缔 n. 禁令，禁忌 n. (Ban)人名；(日)蕃(名)；(缅、老、柬)班；(东南亚国家华语)万；(法)邦；(中)饼(广东话·威妥玛)；(德、塞、罗、阿拉伯)巴恩；(英)班恩 The film came under the ban of censor. 该影片被审查官员禁止上映。 A ban might be misunderstood abroad, and not only in the Muslim world. 禁令可能会在国外也被误解，而不仅是在穆斯林世界。 It is not clear whether the ban was issued because they tried to flee. 目前不清楚发布这个禁令是否是因为他们试图逃离埃及。 —————————————— bandage 绷带 bandage n. 绷带 vt. 用绷带包扎 Blood started from the bandage. 血从绷带上又渗了出来。 Don't tie the bandage too tight. 绷带不要扎得太紧。 His head has been hung over with thick bandage except two eyes. 除了两只眼睛，他的头裹上了厚厚的绷带。 —————————————— bankrupt 破产 bankrupt adj. 破产的 vt. 使破产 n. [经] 破产者 The court adjudicated the company bankrupt. 法庭宣判那家公司破产。 They thought we would to bankrupt, but we managed. 他们以为我们会破产，但我们设法支撑了下来。 We must recover our losses immediately,or we shall be bankrupt. 我们必须立即弥补上我们的损失，否则我们将破产。 —————————————— barely 几乎没有 barely adv. 仅仅，勉强；几乎不；公开地；贫乏地 The ruined economy is barely breathing. 遭受严重损害的经济几乎不能生存。 He was barely listening until the salary was mentioned. Then he pricked up his ears. 他几乎没有注意听讲些什么， 但当提到工资时， 他却侧耳细听。 He barely survives and passes onto his son, the duty of leading “the family” in a mob war. 他勉强活下来，并让他的儿子继承了他的事业，在暴徒的战争中领导“家族”的责任。 —————————————— barren 贫瘠的 barren adj. 贫瘠的；不生育的；无益的；沉闷无趣的；空洞的 n. 荒地 n. (Barren)人名；(西、英)巴伦 The formerly [once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields. 昔日的荒地今天成了良田。 We should see nothing but barren fields, overrun with weeds and biers; and the farmer would feel that a winter of want and distress is before him. 我们只会看到贫瘠的土地，野草疯长，荆棘丛生。 这个时候农民们就会感觉到，一个匮乏而忧伤的冬季就在他们面前。 Without the "oxygen elevator" in its mantle the earth would probably be a barren planet hostile to life. 在其地幔中如果没有“氧气提升机”，地球很可能是一个生命难以存在的荒芜星球。 —————————————— basement 地下室 basement n. 地下室；地窖 The pump sucked water from the basement. 水泵把地下室里的水抽出来了。 In the basement there's no room to stash. 在地下室，没有存东西的地方了。 They transformed the basement into a reading room. 他们把地下室改建成阅览室。 —————————————— batch 批处理 batch n. 一批；一炉；一次所制之量 vt. 分批处理 n. (Batch)人名；(英)巴奇 Normally I see this in batch or static packages. 我通常会在批量或静态包中看到此情形。 While we are at it, notice that the prior servers probably do the wrong thing in that they feed each new batch of records only to one client. 在我们这样做的时候，请注意以前的服务器可能会犯错误，因为它们只向一个客户机提供每批新记录。 These allow you to perform batch creation and absorption of fragments. 这些可以让您执行一批创建和片断吸收操作。 —————————————— bearing 轴承 bearing n. [机] 轴承；关系；方位；举止 v. 忍受（bear的ing形式） This question has a bearing on a much more important one. 这个问题关系到一个更重要的问题。 In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a ball bearing using an Array Object. 在本教程中，您将学习如何创建一个使用数组对象的球轴承。 It can see the distance, bearing, heading, velocity, and energy level of other robots. 它可以知道其它机器人的距离、方位、方向、速度和能量等级。 —————————————— beforehand 事先 beforehand adv. 事先；预先 adj. 提前的；预先准备好的 No one expected this beforehand. 没人事先预料到这事。 She is always beforehand with the rent. 她总是预先付房租。 Actually I meant to notify you beforehand. 实际上我是想事先通知你的。 —————————————— betray 背叛 betray vt. 背叛；出卖；泄露（秘密）；露出…迹象 Then I began to betray her. 后来，我开始背叛她了。 Their betray disorganized the party. 他们的背叛瓦解了该党。 Only they will not abandon me, only they will not betray. 只有它们不会遗弃我，只有它们不会背叛。 —————————————— bewilder 使不知所措 bewilder vt. 使迷惑，使不知所措 Some hard problems in arithmetic bewilder me. 算术上一些难题使我糊涂。 Iran expelled or imprisoned the mainstream media for a reason: to blind the world, to bewilder it, to make it forgetful. 伊朗之所以驱逐或者监禁主流媒体记者，原因之一就是要对世界搞障眼法，令其困惑，并使其遗忘。 I am surrounding myself with shadows, which bewilder me, by aping the realties of life. 我把我自己包围在与现实生活似是而非以致使我迷惘的阴影之中。 —————————————— bias 偏见 bias n. 偏见；偏爱；斜纹；乖离率 vt. 使存偏见 adj. 偏斜的 adv. 偏斜地 n. (Bias)人名；(法、德、葡、喀)比亚斯；(英)拜厄斯 Don't let her insults bias you against your husband. 别让她的辱骂使你对你丈夫抱有偏见。 He's absolutely impartial.; He is free from any bias. 他丝毫不偏心。 Knowing her political bias we discounted most of her story. 由于了解她的政治偏见，我们对她的大部分报道都持怀疑态度。 —————————————— bibliography 参考书目 bibliography n. 参考书目；文献目录 You can do so through footnotes, a bibliography, or some other kind of scholarly device. 你可以透过附注、参考书目或其他学术性工具方式交待。 A supplementary bibliography at the end of this volume comprises the most important of these new publications. 本书末的补充参考书目包括了这些最新出版的重要著作。 Although much of the Nixon visit to China has been covered by the principals themselves in their published memoirs, the bibliography and notes to On China give helpful leads to many other sources. 尽管尼克松访华的很多细节在双方当事人自己出版的回忆录里都有记载，但是通过《论中国》一书的参考书目和注释，很容易寻找更多的信息来源。 —————————————— bid 报价 bid vt. 投标；出价；表示；吩咐 vi. 投标；吩咐 n. 出价；叫牌；努力争取 n. (Bid)人名；(俄)比德 Do as I bid you. 照我吩咐你的去做。 Do as I bid. 照我的吩咐去做。 No other buyers have bid higher than this price. 没有别的买主的出价高过此价。 —————————————— biography 传记 biography n. 传记；档案；个人简介 This book is a carefully documented biography. 这是一本文献佐证翔实可靠的传记。 After reading a biography of Lincoln he was able to tell many stories about the President. 他读了林肯的传记后， 能讲出许多关于这位总统的故事。 White granted access to his papers on condition that he be allowed to read and comment upon the biography in progress. 怀特允许埃里奇查阅他的私人资料，条件是他可以在传记写作过程中，随时阅读并评论。 —————————————— bizarre 奇怪的 bizarre adj. 奇异的（指态度，容貌，款式等） The building was of bizarre construction. 这建筑构造奇异。 This is our first bizarre facts list of 2010. I hope you enjoy the facts. 这是在2010年我们推出的第一份怪异真相列表，我希望你们能喜欢。 This is bizarre, because there's really no good reason for it to do that, but this has been true from the beginning and some programs depend on that. 这是很奇怪的，因为实际上并不存在这样做的很好理由，但是它从一开始就是这样，并且有些程序还依赖这个特性。 —————————————— blaze 大火 blaze vt. 在树皮上刻路标；公开宣布 n. 火焰，烈火；光辉；情感爆发 vi. 燃烧；照耀，发光；激发 n. (Blaze)人名；(法)布拉兹；(马其)布拉热 This clump of paper birch trunks was backlit by a blaze of reds and yellows. 这一堆纸桦树的树干是由红色和黄色的火焰来作为它的背光。 So if he sang and played during the blaze, it was likely on a different instrument. 那么如果他在大火时忘情声乐，那么用的也是另外一种乐器。 And for as long as the economy continues to blaze, it is metallurgical coal imports that will be stoking the furnace. 只要一个经济体继续“燃烧”，就只有冶金煤的进口才可以为熔炉的运作不断添煤生火。 —————————————— bleak 荒凉的 bleak adj. 阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的 The bleak ground pullulated with jackrabbits. 荒凉的土地上到处是长耳大野兔。 Volvo should now be able to sell more cars in China; without the deal its future was bleak. 沃尔沃现在应该可以在中国卖更多的车；而如果没有这桩买卖，它的未来是暗淡的。 Along with its bleak desert conditions, Sudan is one of the worst places on the planet. 除了它荒凉的沙漠条件外，苏丹肯定是世界上最差劲的地方之一。 —————————————— bless 祝福 bless vt. 祝福；保佑；赞美 n. (Bless)人名；(英、意、德、匈)布莱斯 In this special festival, I bless you! 在这个特殊的节日里我祝福你！ God bless you all. 愿上帝保佑你们。 This gives you the opportunity to pray for and bless the other, thereby blessing yourself. 它其实是给了你一个机会，去为他人祈祷和祝福，从而赐福给你自己。 —————————————— blossom 开花 blossom vi. 开花；兴旺；发展成 n. 花；开花期；兴旺期；花开的状态 n. (Blossom)人名；(英)布洛瑟姆 A blossom develops from a bud. 花朵是从蓓蕾孕育而开放的。 Did the wisteria blossom this year? 紫藤今年开花吗? There is no blossom this year on the plum trees. 今年李子树不开花。 —————————————— blunder 错误 blunder vi. 跌跌撞撞地走；犯大错 vt. 做错 n. 大错 You just committed the blunder to end all blunders. 你正好犯了一个超过所有大错的最大错误。 Sadly, we are still living with the consequences of that moral and strategic blunder. 可悲的是，我们仍然要容忍那些道德和战略大错的后果。 The move is a blunder because it glorifies Mr Assange, and also because it confuses a cause with a symptom. 此举是一个弥天大错，因为它不仅美化了阿桑奇，而且还混淆了原因与症状。 —————————————— blunt 钝 blunt adj. 钝的，不锋利的；生硬的；直率的 vt. 使迟钝 n. (Blunt)人名；(英)布伦特 Wine can blunt the senses. 酒会使感觉迟钝。 No, if I may be so blunt. 恕我直言，我不这样认为。 The knife is blunt. 刀钝了。 —————————————— blush 脸红 blush vi. 脸红；感到惭愧 n. 脸红；红色；羞愧 vt. 红著脸表示；使成红色 n. (Blush)人名；(英)布拉什 His words raised a blush on her cheeks. 他的话使她脸红。 The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make a hooker blush. 修女用吻满足驾驶员的幻想，这是会让妓女脸红的事。 If you look into the eyes of the one you love,you blush; But in front of the person you like,you smile. 假如你凝视的是心爱的人,你会脸红;但假如你凝视的是喜欢的人,你会微笑. —————————————— bonus 奖金 bonus n. 奖金；红利；额外津贴 n. (Bonus)人名；(西、塞)博努斯 The boss crawfished on the Christmas bonus. 老板取消了发圣诞节奖金的许诺。 The workers expected to share out a year-end bonus. 工人们期望年终分红。 In addition to his salary， he has a bonus of 25 yuan per month. 除工资外， 他每月还有二十五元钱奖金。 —————————————— boom 繁荣 boom vt. 使兴旺；发隆隆声 vi. 急速发展；发隆隆声 n. 繁荣；吊杆；隆隆声 n. (Boom)人名；(法、德)博姆 How long can the present business boom last? 目前这种商业繁荣能持续多久? So why the boom? 为什么如此繁荣？ The country is basking in a great boom in industry. 这个国家的工业正处于蓬勃发展之中。 —————————————— boost 提高 boost vt. 促进；增加；支援 vi. 宣扬；偷窃 n. 推动；帮助；宣扬 n. (Boost)人名；(英)布斯特；(德)博斯特 He always boost his company. 他老是宣扬他的公司。 But how to boost growth? 但怎样刺激经济增长？ So go out there and boost your brainpower, your mind will thank you. 所以走出去提升你的智力，你的思想会感谢你自己。 —————————————— boycott 抵制 boycott vt. 联合抵制；拒绝参加 n. 联合抵制 n. (Boycott)人名；(英)博伊科特 But villagers warned that they would boycott the vote, if it did. 但村民们告诫政府，如果政府真的这么做，他们就抵制选举。 If everyone votes for him anyway, will he persist with his boycott? 如果每个人都投票选他，他会坚持抵制的主张吗？ The party has threatened to boycott the election because it believes it will not be democratic. 该党威胁要抵制选举，因它认为这次选举将不会是民主的。 —————————————— brace 撑 brace n. 支柱；[语] 大括号；曲柄 vt. 支撑；振作起来；激励；撑牢 vi. 支持；打起精神 adj. 曲柄的 n. (Brace)人名；(英)布雷斯；(法)布拉斯 The gentle curve of the plywood louver creates its own structural brace and rigidity while softening the daylight around its profile. 百叶窗的柔和曲线的胶合板创建其自身的结构支撑和刚度，同时围绕日光其轮廓。 Most problems with the content of the configuration file are introduced when a semicolon or brace is missing. 配置文件内容方面的大多数问题都是由于缺失分号或大括号而引起的。 I would be on crutches for a couple of months and in a soft leg brace after that. 我还需要拄几个月拐杖，之后我要戴一个柔软的大腿支架。 —————————————— bracket 支架 bracket n. 支架；括号；墙上凸出的托架 vt. 括在一起；把…归入同一类；排除 Policy expressions really are just logic expressions using a pointy-bracket format, with assertions as clauses. 实际上，策略表达式只是使用一个尖括号格式的逻辑表达式，断言是子句。 When we detect an open bracket, we have found the start of a tag and return the collected characters after we have reversed their sequence. 当检测到一个开括号时，我们就找到了一个标签的开头，并将收集到的字符在逆转顺序之后返回。 The second part of the class signature (following the closing angle bracket) gives the superclass and superinterface (if any) signatures. 类签名的第二部分（尖括号外）给出了超类和超接口（若存在）的签名。 —————————————— breakdown 分解 breakdown n. 故障；崩溃；分解；分类；衰弱；跺脚曳步舞 This shows you the response time breakdown for each page element. 这将针对每个页面元素显示响应时间分解。 Small shippers are most often disserviced by transportation breakdown. 小件托运者往往因运输故障而受损。 To capture response time breakdown data, you must enable it in a test or schedule, and configure the amount of data to be captured. 为了捕获响应时间分解数据，您必须在一个测试或者调度中启动它，然后配置将要捕获的数据的信息。 —————————————— bribe 贿赂 bribe vt. 贿赂，收买 vi. 行贿 n. 贿赂 n. (Bribe)人名；(西)布里韦 The merchant offers a bribe to him. 这商人向他行贿。 The mayor lowered himself by accepting a bribe. 市长因受贿而降低了自己的身份。 The official demeaned himself by accepting the bribe. 这名官员因受贿而辱没自己。 —————————————— brisk 轻快的 brisk adj. 敏锐的，活泼的，轻快的；凛冽的 vi. 活跃起来；变得轻快 vt. 使……活泼；使……轻快；使……兴旺 n. (Brisk)人名；(法、芬)布里斯克 He wants to brisk her up. 他要她活泼起来。 It was, for a brief time, a brisk stroll into the future. 在一个短暂时间内，它是一次迈向未来的轻快漫步。 There is something special about clearing the head with a brisk walk or a powerful gym workout. 来一次轻快的散步或是一场激烈的健身锻炼，对于清脑会有特别的好处。 —————————————— brittle 脆 brittle adj. 易碎的，脆弱的；易生气的 Brittle things break easily. 脆的东西容易破碎。 All that sun, water and chlorine made your hair dry, rough, brittle, and frizzy? 所有那些阳光、水和氯使你的头发干燥、粗糙、脆弱以及卷曲？ But their brittle interpretation of sovereignty is an old-fashioned, and even dangerous, notion in world affairs. 但他们的脆弱解释却是在世界事务中主权是一个过时的甚至是危险的概念。 —————————————— bronze 青铜 bronze n. 青铜；古铜色；青铜制品 adj. 青铜色的；青铜制的 vt. 镀青铜于 vi. 变成青铜色，被晒黑 n. (Bronze)人名；(葡)布龙泽 The statue was cast in bronze. 这座塑像是用青铜铸成的。 These ancient weapons are all cast out of bronze. 这些古兵器都是用青铜铸成的。 I mean, from the bronze age up to titanium alloy steel you had all this amazing progress, and since then — nothing. 我是说，从青铜时代到钛合金钢，人类取得了巨大的进步，可是从那以后呢？ ---再没有了。 —————————————— brood 苦思冥想的 brood vt. 孵；沉思 n. 一窝；一伙 n. (Brood)人名；(瑞典)布罗德 You also have a tendency to brood and to bear grudges and can be suspicious and vindictive. 另外，你喜欢沉思，易于记仇，而且可能会有些多疑，又怀有报复心。 After an argument, one partner may brood, slam the door, and then drive to a local bar to drown their sorrows in alcohol. 一次争执之后，情侣的一方可能会沉思、摔门，然后开车到一个当地酒吧买醉。 Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. 雄性海马在腹部或前部生有孵化囊，交配的时候雌性海马会将卵子排进雄性海马的囊中，然后由雄性海马在体内使其受精。 —————————————— bruise 瘀伤 bruise n. 擦伤；挫伤；青肿 vt. 使受瘀伤；使受挫伤 vi. 擦伤；受伤 Her feelings bruise easily. 她的感情易受伤害。 We both bruise too easily. 我们两人都太易受伤害。 Have you noticed that you bruise easily? 你是否感觉到自己很容易受挫伤？ —————————————— brutal 残酷的 brutal adj. 残忍的；野蛮的，不讲理的 Her baby was rent away from her arms by a brutal bandit. 她的婴儿被一个野蛮的强盗从她怀里抢走。 I can only assume this gets the bride ready for the brutal reality of marriage. 我只能假设，这样可以是新娘对残酷的婚姻现实做好准备。 While harsh internal criticism may be brutal to hear, the ability to have that kind of dialogue is often a sign of a healthy company. 虽然犀利的内部批评听起来可能有些残忍，但是，有能力展开这样的对话通常表明这是一个健康的公司。 —————————————— bud 芽 bud n. 芽，萌芽；蓓蕾 vi. 发芽，萌芽 vt. 使发芽 n. (Bud)人名；(英)巴德；(中)布特(蒙语·汉语拼音)；(罗、匈)布德 A blossom develops from a bud. 花朵是从蓓蕾孕育而开放的。 Nip it in the bud. 把它消灭在萌芽状态。 These dots were markers that enabled them to measure every change in the size and shape of the flower as it went from bud to bloom. 这些点作为记号可以使他们测量到百合花从花蕾到开花过程中大小和形状的每一次变化。 —————————————— budget 预算 budget n. 预算，预算费 vt. 安排，预定；把…编入预算 vi. 编预算，做预算 adj. 廉价的 The congress approved the budget. 国会批准了国家预算。 She stretched money to keep within a budget. 为了不超出预算，她精打细算地花钱。 With a limited budget the society is handicapped in its operation. 由于该协会的预算有限， 其活动受到限制。 —————————————— buffer 缓冲 buffer n. [计] 缓冲区；缓冲器，[车辆] 减震器 vt. 缓冲 Then repeat with the next buffer size in the next iteration of Step 3. 然后在步骤 3 的下一个迭代中重复下一个缓冲区大小。 This improves performance for these LOBs because you can access them through the buffer pool. 这提高了这些 LOB 的性能，因为可以通过缓冲区池对其进行访问。 By raising the value of LOGBUFSZ to 64 (256K) or more, the log buffer will not fill, and there will only be one log write (at commit) for the bulk insert. 如果将 LOGBUFSZ 的值增加到 64 页（256K）或者更大，缓冲池就不会被填满，这样的话对于该批量插入就只有一次日志写（在提交时）。 —————————————— bug 错误 bug n. 臭虫，小虫；故障；窃听器 vt. 烦扰，打扰；装窃听器 vi. 装置窃听器；打扰 We can't help you ,so bug off. 我们帮不了你，因此，你停止烦扰而走开吧。 Yes, that tree outside is your relative, as is every bug and blade of grass. 是的，外面那棵树是你的亲戚。 同样的，所有的虫子和青草都是。 A result is not necessarily a problem, mistake, or bug, but be sure to evaluate each result in the list to determine what action, if any, you need to take. 一个结果并不必须是一个问题、错误或者漏洞，但是请确保评价列表中的每一个结果，决定您所需要采取的行动。 —————————————— bull 牛 bull n. 公牛；看好股市者；粗壮如牛的人；胡说八道；印玺 adj. 大型的；公牛似的；雄性的 vt. 企图抬高证券价格；吓唬；强力实现 vi. 价格上涨；走运；猛推；吹牛 n. (Bull)人名；(英、葡、瑞典、芬、挪、德)布尔 A bullock is a castrated bull. 阉牛是切除了睾丸的公牛。 He was tossed by the bull. 他被这头公牛用角挑了起来。 He glared at me like a bull at a red rag. 他像公牛怒视红布一样对我怒目而视。 —————————————— bulletin 公告 bulletin n. 公告，公报 vt. 公布，公告 You ever look in the course bulletin? 你们看到课程公报了吗？ The secretary of the office pastes a bulletin on the wall. 办公室秘书把一张公告贴在墙上。 He posted a bulletin on the board. 他在布告板上贴了一张公告。 —————————————— bump 撞 bump n. 肿块，隆起物；撞击 vi. 碰撞，撞击；颠簸而行 vt. 碰，撞；颠簸 adv. 突然地，猛烈地 n. (Bump)人名；(英、西)邦普 There was no bump, no sound, nothing. Yet I know it was there, and I had driven over it. 虽然没有撞击，没有声音，什么动静都没有，但我知道它的存在，而且我从它的身上飞驰而过。 Though they are the largest and most widely scattered objects in the universe, galaxies do go bump in the night. 虽然它们是宇宙中最大和最空旷的物体，星系们还是会在夜空里撞在一起。 Modify the dimensional shift parameters to be highly sensitive, and every significant bump, drop, or shake can be recorded. 修改空间移位参数使其具有高灵敏度，任何较大的撞击、坠落或震动都会被记录下来。 —————————————— bunch 群 bunch n. 群；串；突出物 vi. 隆起；打褶；形成一串 vt. 使成一串；使打褶 n. (Bunch)人名；(英)邦奇 Check out the worst one of the bunch. 从这一群人中找出最糟的一个。 A bunch of red roses drip their golden scent. 一束红玫瑰花散发出浓郁的芳香。 Jack bunched his girlfriend a bunch of flowers. 杰克向他的女友赠送了一束花。 —————————————— bureaucracy 官僚主义 bureaucracy n. 官僚主义；官僚机构；官僚政治 The masses won't go for bureaucracy. 对于官僚主义， 群众是不买账的。 There were a few articles in the newspaper inveighing against bureaucracy. 报纸上有几篇抨击官僚主义的文章。 He praised her ability to fight corruption and “entrenched bureaucracy,” and cited her working-class roots and her ability to understand the problems of working people. 他赞扬了佩林打击腐败和"根深蒂固的官僚主义"的能力，并提到她植根于工薪阶层并能够了解其面临的问题。 —————————————— burial 埋葬 burial n. 埋葬；葬礼；弃绝 adj. 埋葬的 The estimated time of burial was placed in the early Tang Dynasty. 埋藏的时间估计在唐朝早期。 So if you want to become part of the dirt you will go into, consider a simpler and closer to nature way of burial. 所以，如果你想成为你将融入的泥土的一部分，那你可以考虑一种更简单的、更接近自然的埋葬方式。 A thousand pounds of metal is an enormous amount of wealth in this era. To waste so much of it in a burial is pretty unusual. 在那个时代，一千磅的金属材料是一笔数额巨大的财富，耗费这么多的材料用来埋葬是相当不寻常的。 —————————————— buzz 嗡嗡声 buzz vt. 使嗡嗡叫；暗中散布 vi. 作嗡嗡声；东奔西忙 n. 嗡嗡声 n. (Buzz)人名；(英)巴兹 Slow down too. Don't take action on an idea for a week and see if it still seems like a great idea after the initial buzz wears off. 要慢下来.对一个想法不采取行动,过一个礼拜,当初期的嗡嗡声在耳边渐渐平息时，看看它似乎仍是一个很好的想法。 Even when I pressed hard on the accelerator to pass a group of slower cars on the highway, I didn't hear the sewing-machine buzz typical of small engines. 我在高速公路上要超越一溜速度很慢的车子时猛踩了油门，没有听到小型发动机常见的那种缝纫机般的嗡嗡声。 We live in the buzz. 我们生活在忙乱中。 —————————————— bypass 绕过 bypass vt. 绕开；忽视；设旁路；迂回 n. 旁路；[公路] 支路 You want to bypass them because otherwise you may not be able to, say, open windows. 您需要绕过这些特性，否则就不能执行一些操作，例如打开窗口。 And to do the same sort of attack to bypass authentication, you might do something like Listing 5. 要执行类似的攻击以绕过身份验证，您可能会使用类似清单 5 的方法。 If they just registered, we know who it is and, immediately after registering, the user information is stored and we can bypass the login page. 如果他们只是注册，我们知道了他是谁，并且在注册后，立即存储用户信息，我们就可以绕过登录页面了。 —————————————— cafeteria 自助餐厅 cafeteria n. 自助餐厅 Deposit your lunch tray at the cafeteria door. 把你的午餐托盘放在自助餐馆门口。 We walked back around the cafeteria, to the south buildings by the gym. 我们往回走，绕过自助餐厅，走到南边体育馆旁的建筑物那里。 One girl sat next to me in both Trig and Spanish, and she walked with me to the cafeteria for lunch. 有个女孩在三角函数课和西班牙语课上都坐在我旁边，午餐时间她和我一起去自助餐厅。 —————————————— canvas 帆布 canvas n. 帆布 vt. 用帆布覆盖，用帆布装备 adj. 帆布制的 We need a piece of canvas that weathers well. 我们需要一块经久耐用的帆布。 They toted canvas sacks over their shoulders. 他们肩上扛着帆布袋。 Starting with paintings like this one, the canvas is the whole object, the whole universe, and there is nothing beyond it. 从诸如这样的绘画开始，画布就成为一个完整的对象，完整的宇宙，没有任何东西可以超越。 —————————————— capsule 胶囊 capsule n. 胶囊；[植] 蒴果；太空舱；小容器 adj. 压缩的；概要的 vt. 压缩；简述 You can take extracts of these in liquid or capsule form. 你可以服用由这些药用菌提取的口服液或胶囊。 The patient swallowed the capsule without drinking water. 这个病人不喝水就吞下了胶囊。 Yet this was the problem facing him when a capsule returned to earth in 2006 from a probe called Stardust. 然而，当2006年一个太空舱从一个叫做“星尘”的探测器回到地球时，他又一次面对了这个问题。 —————————————— captive 俘虏 captive adj. 被俘虏的；被迷住的 n. 俘虏；迷恋者 Captive animals should not be inoculated against smallpox. 不应为圈养动物接种天花疫苗。 These cells can be stored and multiplied in culture, and are theoretically capable of making any tissue in the body — including sperm cells that could be used in assisted captive breeding programmes. 这些细胞可以保存起来并且在培养皿繁殖，理论上还有能力制造出身体上的任何组织——包括可能用于协助圈养繁殖计划的精子细胞。 "Any time we lose a species it diminishes us all." Biologists captured 16 rabbits in a remote area of Douglas County in 2001 to start the captive breeding program. 2001年，生物学家在道格拉斯县的一处偏远地区捕捉到了16只这种侏儒兔，并从那时开始了哥伦比亚盆地侏儒兔的圈养繁殖计划。 —————————————— cartoon 卡通 cartoon n. 卡通片，[电影] 动画片；连环漫画 vt. 为…画漫画 vi. 画漫画 I like this cartoon. 我喜欢这幅漫画。 I drew a cartoon of a cheerleader on my paper. 我在纸上画了一幅拉拉队领队的漫画。 The cartoon represented the president as a devil. 这幅漫画把总统画成了魔鬼。 —————————————— carve 雕刻 carve vt. 雕刻；切开；开创 vi. 切开；做雕刻工作 n. (Carve)人名；(西、瑞典)卡韦 Then they began to carve separate letters. 然后他们开始雕刻独立的字体。 Your future is like that block of stone, your future has greatness inside it, but you have to carve the greatness out. 你的未来就像一块石头，你的未来拥有无限可能，但是你需要通过自己的努力将它雕琢出来。 Other times I have a particular subject matter that I would like to carve and I look for an appropriate shaped pumpkin. 其他时候我对我将要雕刻出的作品会有一个特定的题材，然后再去寻找形状合适的南瓜。 —————————————— casualty 伤亡 casualty n. 意外事故；伤亡人员；急诊室 We have had our first casualty. One runner has dropped out with cramp. 我们有了第一位伤员，有一位队员因腿部痉挛退出了。 Any history of bombing must also be a history of civilian casualty, for bombing saves the lives of soldiers only at the expense of other lives. 任何空袭的历史也必定是平民伤亡的历史，因为空袭救了士兵的性命只能以其他人的生命为代价。 The first item always on that was the overnight casualty report from Iraq and Afghanistan, and I would often come and see that had been circled by the president or that he would be reflecting on that. 上面的第一条永远是,这一晚在伊拉克和阿富汗,士兵的伤亡报告，我来的时候会看到那条消息,被布什总统圈了出来,他看着报告会陷入沉思。 —————————————— category 类别 category n. 种类，分类；[数] 范畴 In this post, I want to talk about the Content category. 在这篇文章中，我将要讨论的是“内容”这个类别。 This also grants read, edit, or delete access to each taxonomy and category that you have read, edit, or delete access to. 这还授予对您已具有读取、编辑或删除访问权的每种分类法和类别的读取、编辑或删除访问权。 However, there are others in this category that are not discussed here. 然而，在这个分类中仍然有其它没有被讨论的。 —————————————— cater 满足 cater vt. 投合，迎合；满足需要；提供饮食及服务 n. (Cater)人名；(英)凯特 To be successful selling to them, you have to cater to their emotions and concerns more than ever before, even when selling products that men traditionally buy. 为了成功的向她们推销，你必须比以往更加迎合这部分人群的情感和关切，甚至传统上由男人来购买的产品也是一样。 We cater to different industries, and what separates them is not necessarily the business processes, but the unique products they handle. 我们迎合不同的行业，它们之间的区别不一定是商业过程，而是它们处理的那些独特产品。 To compete and secure a job, you need to have an online presence, manage it effectively, and cater to your network. 为了竞争并弄到一份工作，你必须拥有一个网站，有效地管理它并迎合你的网络。 —————————————— cathedral 大教堂 cathedral n. 大教堂 The clergyman has been beneficed in that cathedral. 这位教士被请到该大教堂担任有俸圣职。 But an official says the church calls itself the Washington National Cathedral because many services of national interest have been held there. 但是一位官员说，该教堂称自己为华盛顿国家教堂，因为许多涉及国家利益的服务在这里举行。 Then, the rich merchant hired the architect to build a very big and modern cathedral on that place. 随后，富商便雇佣了这位建筑师，让他在这个地方盖一栋很大很现代的大教堂。 —————————————— catholic 天主教 Catholic adj. 天主教的；宽宏大量的 n. 天主教徒；罗马天主教 He was a Catholic but didn't practise his religion. 他那时是天主教徒，但并不实践信仰。 But first, you have to be single and you must be Catholic. 但首先你必须是单身的且你必须是天主教徒。 So what I saw in that incident was these two halves of myself — my Catholic half and my Chinese half — coming into conflict. 因此，我从这个事件中感到我作为天主教徒的一半和我作为中国人的一半发生了冲突。 —————————————— caution 谨慎 caution n. 小心，谨慎；警告，警示 vt. 警告 I suggest you use caution with this one. 对于这个方法我建议谨慎使用。 All reports emanating from that country should be treated with caution. 所有来自那个国家的报告都应谨慎处理。 The Italian did what generations of his managerial countrymen have done before him and opted for caution away from home. 这位意大利人所做的都是他的前辈教练已经做过的事，在客场做战时都倾向于谨慎。 —————————————— cautious 谨慎的 cautious adj. 谨慎的；十分小心的 He was even more cautious than ever, and did his utmost to win the trust and favour of the superior. 他更加谨小慎微， 兢兢业业， 以尽力取信讨好其上司。 You should be cautious of these distractions, but allow yourself the occasional distraction to break up your day. 对于这些让人分心的事物你应该谨慎，但是你也要允许自己偶尔的分心去分解你的一天。 But we need to be more cautious. 但是，我们需要更加小心谨慎。 —————————————— cavity 腔 cavity n. 腔；洞，凹处 In contrast to cavity QED systems, the researchers can custom tailor the circuitry in many areas. 相对于腔QED系统，研究人员可以在许多领域自定义定制电路。 Ultraviolet radiation and violent stellar winds have blown out an enormous cavity in the gas and dust enveloping the cluster, providing an unobstructed view of the cluster. 紫外线和猛烈的星际风，在气体以及包裹星群的灰尘上吹出了一个硕大的洞，（为人类）提供了一个畅通无阻的观察星群的视野。 In all lasers, light is repeatedly reflected within a mirrored cavity. 在所有的激光器中，光都在一个反射腔中重复反射。 —————————————— cellar 地窖 cellar n. 地窖；酒窖；地下室 vt. 把…藏入地窖 n. (Cellar)人名；(捷)采拉尔 Spiders cobwebbed the cellar. 蜘蛛使地窖布满了蛛网。 They laid up a store of vegetables in the cellar. 他们在地窖里贮藏了蔬菜。 The tornado is coming, so we had better batten down the hatches here and get to the cellar. 龙卷风即将来临，因此我们最好把这里的舱口封上，到地下室去。 —————————————— census 人口普查 census vt. 实施统计调查 n. 人口普查，人口调查 If so, the next census in 2021 could show the beginnings of a shift towards normality. 如果真是这样，下一次2021年的人口普查会显示转向正常的开端。 In China, the 2010 census reveals there are now 118 boys for every 100 girls, a skewed sex ratio that is higher than a decade ago. 在中国，2010年人口普查结果显示，现在男女比例为118比100，这样一个不平衡的性别比例比十年前还要高。 Throughout much of the South, the number of same-sex couples living together increased in the 2010 census, especially in metropolitan areas. 遍及南方的许多地区，住在一起的同性恋的数量在2010年的人口普查中增加了，尤其在大城市。 —————————————— ceramic 陶瓷 ceramic adj. 陶瓷的；陶器的；制陶艺术的 n. 陶瓷；陶瓷制品 Then I studied ceramic engineering at school. 然后我又在学校攻读陶瓷工程学。 My Chinese ceramic plate was a gift from an antiques collector in Shanghai and it came to America in my suitcase. 我的中国陶瓷盘是一位上海古董收藏家送给我的礼物，它随着我的行李箱来到了美国。 This takes a little while to switch all of your plastic storage containers over to ceramic, glass or stainless steel but its definitely worthwhile. 把你所有的塑料存储容器换成陶瓷的，玻璃的，或者不锈钢的你会浪费你一点时间。 但这绝对是值得的。 —————————————— cereal 麦片 cereal n. 谷类，谷物；谷类食品；谷类植物 adj. 谷类的；谷类制成的 She dribbled some milk onto the cereal. 她把一些奶滴在燕麦片上。 Cereal dribbled from the little girl's mouth. 麦片碎屑从小女孩嘴边落下。 I like to add it to cereal, oatmeal, or the aforementioned Greek Yogurt. 我喜欢把它添加在谷类，燕麦片或者前面提到的希腊酸奶。 —————————————— certainty 确定 certainty n. 必然；确实；确实的事情 And, if we know it for a certainty, how do we know it? 如果我们确实知道这些情况，我们又是如何得知的呢？ Therefore certainty is not only something of no use, but is in fact damaging, if we value reliability. 因此如果考虑可靠性的价值，确定性不仅仅没有用处，而且事实上还有害处。 In an election year, this is no certainty. 在选举年，这有很大的不确定性。 —————————————— certify 证明 certify v. 证明；保证 We can certify for his honesty. 我们可以保证他的诚实。 I can certify to his innocency. 我可以证明他清白。 We can certify for him competence as an editor. 我们可以保证他能胜任编辑工作。 —————————————— chaos 混乱 chaos n. 混沌，混乱 n. (Chaos)人名；(西)查奥斯 That is the age of political chaos. 那是个政治上呈纷乱状态的时代。 The city has restored order out of chaos. 这个城市已从骚乱中恢复了正常秩序。 The local government was taking emergency measures to rectify the state of chaos. 地方政府正在采取紧急措施整顿这种混乱局面。 —————————————— characterize 描述 characterize vt. 描绘…的特性；具有…的特征 vi. 塑造人物 How do you characterize the leadership style? 你如何刻划领导层的类型？ One useful way to characterize current practice is to look at the different ways in which the models are synchronized with the source code they help describe. 一个有用的刻画当前实践特色的方法是看一下用于同步模型和源代码的不同的方法。 This is what we characterize as elasticity, making the asynchronous service framework an elastic queue. 这就是我们所说的弹性特征，这使得异步服务成为一个弹性队列。 —————————————— charity 慈善机构 charity n. 慈善；施舍；慈善团体；宽容；施舍物 He disposed his money in charity. 他将自己的钱用于慈善事业。 What do you do in charity school? 你在慈善学校做些什么呢？ They dispensed the money to charity. 他们把钱捐给慈善事业。 —————————————— charm 魅力 charm n. 魅力，吸引力；魔力 vt. 使陶醉；行魔法 vi. 有魔力；用符咒 The skirt lends charm to her. 这条裙子使她增添了魅力。 He could resist her charm no longer. 他再也抗拒不住她的魅力。 Her fans were stormed by her performance and her charm. 她的表演和魅力使她的狂热爱好者倾倒。 —————————————— charter 宪章 charter vt. 特许；包租；发给特许执照 n. 宪章；执照；特许状 n. (Charter)人名；(法)沙尔泰；(英)查特 We think that the principles and purposes of the UN Charter should be the basic norms for us to handle international affairs. 我们认为《联合国宪章》的宗旨和原则应该成为我们处理国际事务的基本准则。 Our action had the backing of NATO, which, for the first time in its history, activated the provision of its charter that declares an attack against one an attack against all. 我们的行动得到了北约的支持，而且，这是北约有史以来第一次激活了其宪章的一个条款，宣称对北约某一成员国的袭击就是对北约所有成员国的袭击。 From there charter a small plane to drop you in a jungle settlement or beach village. 从那里租用一架小型飞机，将你空投到丛林定居点，或海滨村庄。 —————————————— chat 聊天 chat vi. 聊天；闲谈 vt. 与…搭讪；与…攀谈 n. 聊天；闲谈 n. (Chat)人名；(英)查特(教名Carol、Carola、Caroline、Carolyn的昵称)；(西)查特；(越)质；(柬)乍；(泰)察；(捷)哈特；(中)质(广东话·威妥玛)；(法)沙 They're having a chat. 他们在聊天。 He often keeps aloof when we chat together. 当我们在一起聊天的时候，他常常避开不参与。 I find it quite boring to chat with those who are lacking in humour. 我觉得跟缺乏幽默的人聊天很乏味。 —————————————— cherish 珍惜 cherish vt. 珍爱 vt. 怀有（感情等）；抱有（希望等） Life is hope, so we should cherish life. 生命就是希望,所以我们要珍爱生命. Many people search for love without success so if you have found it then cherish it and count yourself lucky. 许多人没能成功的找到爱，因此如果你已经找到了，珍惜它并认为自己是幸运的。 My only other advice is to cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey, as I have done this summer. 我唯一一个额外的建议就是在你人生旅途的每一段，珍爱与你所爱的每一个瞬间，正像我在今年夏天所做的那样。 —————————————— chip 芯片 chip vt. 削，凿；削成碎片 vi. 剥落；碎裂 n. [电子] 芯片；筹码；碎片；(食物的) 小片; 薄片 But if there’s a little unused space in a chip, why not fill that with an entertaining design? 但是，如果芯片里有没有被用到的空间，为什么不用一种令人愉快的设计去填满它呢？ Data can be downloaded directly from the chip upon recapture, or it can be downloaded wirelessly from up to 500 meters away. 而且，可以直接通过芯片下载数据到，也可以通过无线方式下载数据，最大距离可达到500米。 I see some signs that chip prices have hit bottom as inventories are running out. 我观察到一些芯片价格已经降到底的信号，比如投资者得流出。 —————————————— chord 和弦 chord n. 弦；和弦；香水的基调 n. (Chord)人名；(英)科德 This poem has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of its readers. 这首诗引起了读者的共鸣。 First of foremost, they have to be enriched with wisdom and motivation that strikes a chord within you. 第一点也是最为重要的一点是，他们都充满智慧和激励，能够扣动你的心弦。 If so,how many chords are involved in this chord change and are they changing at a regular or irregular rate? 是否有和弦的转变，这次和弦转变一共用了多少和弦,他们的变化率是规则还是不规则的？ —————————————— chorus 合唱 chorus n. 合唱队；齐声；歌舞队 vt. 合唱；异口同声地说 vi. 合唱；异口同声地说话 n. (Chorus)人名；(法)肖吕斯 All of us joined lustily in the chorus. 我们全都劲头十足地加入了合唱。 In college there was no time for Band, but I joined the University of Houston Chorus, and traveled to performances around the state with that august group. I loved it. 进大学后没有时间参加乐队，但是我加入了休斯顿大学的合唱队，并且和这个尊贵的团体一起巡游全国演出，我很喜欢。 Be an Early Bird: The morning chorus just after sunrise is the best time of day to spot spring birds, as that is the time when most birds are singing and foraging. 做个“早起鸟”：太阳刚刚升起的早晨鸟儿的合唱是春季的一天中观察鸟儿的最佳时间，因为这事是大多是鸟儿歌唱和觅食的时候。 —————————————— chronic 慢性 chronic adj. 慢性的；长期的；习惯性的 n. (Chronic)人名；(英)克罗尼克 "We have ample reason to conclude that chronic anger is bad for us," he said. “我们有足够的理由作出长期的生气有害健康这个结论，”他说。 "I believe that the power of nature can cure chronic diseases, so I stopped treatment after the surgery," he said. “我相信大自然有治愈慢性疾病的力量，所以我在手术后就停止其他治疗。” 他说。 The chronic procrastinators I know have spent years of their life looped in this cycle. 我所知道的习惯性的拖拉者数年来都是在这样的怪圈中打转。 —————————————— circulation 循环 circulation n. 流通，传播；循环；发行量 The circulation of gossip is vicious. 传播流言蜚语是可恶的。 Do you know the circulation of this magazine? 你知道这本杂志的发行量吗？ We must constantly adjust the amount of money in circulation. 我们必须对货币的流通不断进行调节。 —————————————— circus 马戏团 circus n. 马戏；马戏团 The team performs under a circus tent. 这队在马戏团帐篷下演出。 The horses pranced in the circus ring. 马匹在马戏场上腾跳。 Circus monkeys are trained to be very docile and obedient. 马戏团的猴子训练得服服贴贴的。 —————————————— cite 引用 cite vt. 引用；传讯；想起；表彰 Can you cite another case like this one? 你能举出另一个像这样的例子吗? This research tool will help you collect, organize and appropriately cite any sources you find over the Web. 这个研究工具会帮助你收集、组织并适当地引用你在网上发现的任何资源。 He continues to cite the article as evidence of his legitimacy. 他不断引用该文章作为自己研究合法性的证据。 —————————————— civilian 平民 civilian adj. 民用的；百姓的，平民的 n. 平民，百姓 The enemy soldier disguised as civilian. 一名敌兵伪装成了平民。 But the civilian world cannot be far behind. 但是平民的世界不能落后。 Therefore, for us to have the people with us, we must avoid civilian casualties. 因此，我们必须避免平民死伤，这样才能赢得人民的支持。 —————————————— clamp 夹 clamp vt. 夹紧，固定住 n. 夹钳，螺丝钳 They called it Brain, and it was basically a wheel-clamp for PCs. 他们把这段代码称之为“大脑”，它大致相当于一个个人电脑的“轮夹”。 Blades without clips are held by screws and the clamp on the handle. 失去金属夹的刀片由螺丝和把手上的夹子支撑。 My old artificial hand had a pretty basic open-close mechanism similar to a clamp. 我的旧人工手有一个基本的开合机构，如同一个夹子。 —————————————— clarity 清晰 clarity n. 清楚，明晰；透明 n. (Clarity)人名；(英)克拉里蒂 This is done for consistency and clarity only. 这样做只是为了一致性和清晰。 Without one, the other suffers; together, both provide clarity and truth. 这两种行为结合在一起提供了明晰和真理，是缺一不可的。 Plan to the extent where you get clarity on what you have to do next, then take action right away. 计划一定要包括你要很清楚下一件事情你要做什么，然后马上行动。 —————————————— clash 冲突 clash n. 冲突，不协调；碰撞声，铿锵声 vi. 冲突，抵触；砰地相碰撞，发出铿锵声 vt. 使碰撞作声 Those black shoes clash with that white skirt. 那些黑鞋与那条白色的裙子很不协调。 It's a pity the two concerts clash; I want to go to both. 可惜两个音乐会时间冲突， 我都想去听。 It seems that the armed clash is necessitated between the two countries. 看来两国间的军事冲突是不可避免的了。 —————————————— clasp 扣 clasp n. 扣子，钩子；握手 vt. 紧抱；扣紧；紧紧缠绕 vi. 扣住 She caught the clasp on her necklace. 她扣好项链上的搭扣。 At the core of CLASP are thirty new activities that can be integrated into a software development process. 在CLASP的核心有三十个新的活动，他们可以集成到一个软件开发过程。 When you do fall, tuck your knees in, release the clasp of your hands, relax, and tumble out of the pose onto your back like a child doing a somersault. 万一失去平衡，要先卷曲膝盖，松开扣紧的手指，身体向后背的方向滚落，就像小孩子翻跟头那样。 —————————————— classic 经典 classic adj. 经典的；古典的，传统的；最优秀的 n. 名著；经典著作；大艺术家 The classic example is that of event messages. 这种用例的经典示例是事件消息。 As part of one classic test, you watch letters flashed on a computer screen. 作为经典测试的一部分，你会看到一些字母在电脑屏幕上闪现。 This is a classic example of how a top-down scripting problem can be solved, but in the next section you change your approach completely and think in terms of objects. 这是如何解决自顶向下的脚本问题的经典示例，但是在下一个部分中，您将完全改变这种方法，并从对象的角度考虑问题。 —————————————— clause 条款 clause n. 条款；[计] 子句 n. (Clause)人名；(法)克洛斯 What clause do you require in the contract? 你要求在合同中订上什么条款? We should include an arbitration clause in the contract. 在合同中，我们应该加进仲裁的条款。 Some students learned how to be a lawyer, how to face the clients and how to make every clause of the contract clear. 有的学生学习如何成为一名律师，如何面对委托人并且如何使合同上的每个条款都非常清楚。 —————————————— clearance 间隙 clearance n. 清除；空隙 The Protocol will help prevent and reduce the occurrence of the ERW and promote the clearance of the exiting and future ERW. 该议定书对预防和减少遗留爆炸物的产生、清除现有和将来可能产生的遗留爆炸物都具有积极作用。 Many bikes racing in the TTXGP series suffer ground-clearance issues when leaning into a turn, but the E1PC has no such trouble. 许多TTXGP系列赛事中的赛车在转弯倾斜时会遇到离地间隙问题，E1PC却没有这个麻烦。 Mine impact surveys, better information systems and more sophisticated mine clearing efforts now ensure that “mine clearance is safer and more productive than it was 10 years ago,” Kidd said. 基德说，对地雷影响所作的调查、信息系统的改进和更先进的清除地雷的方法现在已能确保"清除地雷的工作比10年前更安全，更富有成果"。 —————————————— client 客户端 client n. [经] 客户；顾客；委托人 What about your client? 那你的客户呢？ It is impossible for the client to recover. 该诉讼委托人不可能胜诉。 The client left his visiting card on his desk. 客户将自己的名片留在他的桌上。 —————————————— climax 高潮 climax n. 高潮；顶点；层进法；极点 The fifth scene was the climax of the play. 第五场是全剧的高潮。 The enthusiasm of the audience was heightened by the climax of the play. 全剧的高潮令观众的情绪高涨。 Horses rarely climax, despite masturbating dozens of times per day—so what motivates the dalliance of a stallion or, for that matter, a mare? 马很少高潮，尽管它们每天自慰大把的时间——所以就此而言，是什么激发了种马或母马的这种闲情逸致？ —————————————— cling 抓住 cling vi. 坚持，墨守；紧贴；附着 Despite the low rate of success at the market, parents cling to the hope that they will find a suitable match for their offspring. 尽管在市场上取得成功的几率比较低，家长们还是坚持希望要为他们的后代找到一个合适的配偶。 Often opposition comes not only from the conservatives, who cling to tradition, but also from the extremist militants, who favor neither the old nor the new. 通常，反对者不光是那些墨守成规的保守派，也有可能来自既不喜新亦不厌旧的极端主义好斗者。 The all-powerful and benevolent God is strongly disconfirmed for residents of Haiti, yet they continue to cling to the view that God is both good and all powerful. 饱受地震蹂躏的海地居民的经历证明全能和仁慈的上帝不存在，但这不妨碍他们继续坚持认为上帝对他们友好而又法力无边。 —————————————— clinic 诊所 clinic n. 临床；诊所 He detoxed at a clinic. 他在诊所里戒毒。 He started his first clinic when he was 20 . 他20岁时，开了他立业的第一个诊所。 The clinic was accused of ping-ponging patients from one specialist to another. 那家诊所让病人从一个又一个专科医生那里接受不必要的检查，因而受到责难。 —————————————— clip 剪辑 clip n. （塑料或金属的）夹子；回纹针；修剪；剪报 vt. 剪；剪掉；缩短；给…剪毛（或发）用别针别在某物上，用夹子夹在某物上 vi. 剪；修剪；剪下报刊上的文章（或新闻、图片等）；迅速行动；用别针别在某物上，用夹子夹在某物上 Please clip these cards together. 请把这些卡片夹在一起。 You can put them on your desk or clip them to your monitor. They can be attached to your dashboard in your car. 你也可以将它们放在办公桌上或者将他们夹在电脑屏幕上面，甚至它们也可以被粘贴在你的汽车仪表盘上。 It even offered a video clip of these flying penguins, which became one of the most viewed videos on the Internet. 它甚至还提供了一个这些飞行企鹅的视频剪辑，成为了互联网上最受欢迎的视频。 —————————————— clockwise 顺时针方向 clockwise adv. 顺时针方向地 adj. 顺时针方向的 Positive values for the angle rotate the object clockwise if you look along the positive rotation axis. 角度为正值，则表示若您顺着正旋转轴方向观察，对象是按顺时针旋转的。 After 14 months of repairs, the giant machine was restarted on Friday evening and the first beam started circulating in a clockwise direction around the tunnel about 10pm. 经过14个月的修理，这台巨型机器于周五晚上重新启动，晚上10点左右，第一束粒子波开始沿顺时针方向在隧道内环行。 Flights over Moscow are made only in the clockwise direction. 在莫斯科上空飞行只能是沿着顺时针方向。 —————————————— closet 衣橱 closet n. 壁橱；议事室，密室；小房间 adj. 秘密的，私下的；空谈的 vt. 把…关在私室中 n. (Closet)人名；(法)克洛塞 These boots belong in the closet. 这些靴子应搁在壁橱里。 My “half, ” however, included the closet. 呵，是我，但我的那“一半”包括衣橱。 A mouse darted out of the closet and ran across the room. 一只耗子从壁橱窜了出来并跑过房间。 —————————————— cluster 集群 cluster n. 群；簇；丛；串 vi. 群聚；丛生 vt. 使聚集；聚集在某人的周围 n. (Cluster)人名；(英)克拉斯特 Do this for all nodes in the cluster. 对集群中的所有节点都这样做。 This can be done on any server of the cluster. 可以在集群的任何服务器中这样做。 Unless otherwise stated, you must run the tasks here on each and every node of the cluster. 除非特别声明，您必须在集群中的每一个节点上运行这里的任务。 —————————————— clutch 离合器 clutch n. 离合器；控制；手；紧急关头 vi. 攫；企图抓住 vt. 抓住；紧握 adj. 没有手提带或背带的；紧要关头的 At this stage, your clutch is your enemy, steer clear of it! 此时，离合器是你的大敌，千万不要动它！ Careless use of the clutch may damage the gears. 离合器使用不慎可能损坏传动装置. Aboard the Corvo, Colt became fascinated with the ship's wheel, particularly the way it could alternately spin or be locked in a fixed position through the use of a clutch. 登上科尔沃号后，柯尔特开始痴迷于轮船的舵轮，尤其是其通过使用离合器来进行交替旋转或者锁定在特定的位置的方式。 —————————————— coherent 连贯的 coherent adj. 连贯的，一致的；明了的；清晰的；凝聚性的；互相耦合的；粘在一起的 Their views coalesced to form a coherent policy. 他们的各种观点已统一为一致的政策。 The members cooperate with each other and the CF to provide coherent access to the database from any member. 这些成员相互合作且与 CF 一同提供对来自任何成员的数据库的一致访问。 Take a look at existing employee files or, if no files exist, gathering all the papers into coherent personnel files. 看看现有员工档案，如果没有档案存在，收集所有文件成为一份连贯的人事档案。 —————————————— coincide 一致 coincide vi. 一致，符合；同时发生 vi. (在性格、品质等方面)完全一致，相符 The two triangles coincide. 这两个三角形相重合。 He happened to coincide with you on this point. 在这一问题上， 他与你不谋而合。 Whether the interests of these countries coincide with those of the wider world, though, is moot. 只是这些国家的利益是否与世界更广泛国家的利益一致还不确定。 —————————————— coincidence 巧合 coincidence n. 巧合；一致；同时发生 Is this coincidence? 这是巧合吗？ And when you add these two up, you have an amazing coincidence that we have discussed before. 如果你加上这两个，会发现以前我们讨论过的,惊人的巧合。 For nothing happens by accident in God’s world, and there is no such thing as coincidence. 因为在上帝的世界里，没有一件事是偶然发生的，也没有巧合这回事。 —————————————— collaboration 协作 collaboration n. 合作；勾结；通敌 So what kind of collaboration is this? 因此，这是一种什么样的合作呢？ There is great opportunity for collaboration, but this is yet to be grasped. 合作的机遇是巨大的，但是迄今为止还没有抓住机遇。 No, this is about collaboration with your customers in every aspect of your business. 这是关于与你的客户在业务的每个方面进行协作。 —————————————— collide 碰撞 collide vi. 碰撞；抵触，冲突 vt. 使碰撞；使相撞 If all goes well, the machine will accelerate and collide particles in December. 如果各方面进展顺利，对撞机将在十二月进行粒子的加速和碰撞。 That’s a consumer’s dream, but eventually it’s going to collide with reality: if newspapers’ profits vanish, so will their product. 这是一个消费者的美梦，它最终将受到现实的抵触：如果报纸的利润消失殆尽，它们的产品也一样。 This means that when you want to create two modules with the same interface, you must give the exports different names or the names of the queues and WSDL files will collide, with undesirable results. 这意味着，当需要创建两个具有相同接口的模块时，您必须为导出指定不同的名称，否则队列和 WSDL 文件的名称将发生冲突，并且会带来不必要的结果。 —————————————— colonial 殖民 colonial n. 殖民地居民 adj. 殖民地的，殖民的 In his mind, a good education is composed three attributes—English, music, and golf—all of which have their roots in the colonial era. 在他的观念里，一个良好的教育由三个部分组成—英语，音乐和高尔夫—所有这些都有着殖民时代的根源。 Walking through the city's narrow streets you can see the history of its colonial past in its buildings and traditions. 走在城市狭窄的街道上，你能够从建筑物和一些生活习惯中看到这个城市被殖民的历史。 Under British colonial rule, a 1929 treaty reserved 80 percent of the Nile’s entire flow for Egypt and Sudan, then ruled as a single country. 在英国殖民统治下，1929年的一份条约将尼罗河全部流量的80%保留给了埃及和苏丹，随即它们合为一个国家。 —————————————— combat 战斗 combat vt. 反对；与…战斗 vi. 战斗；搏斗 n. 战斗；争论 adj. 战斗的；为…斗争的 n. (Combat)人名；(法)孔巴 The combat troops have been helmeted. 所有的作战部队均已配备了头盔。 A reporter interviewed the combat hero. 记者访问了这位战斗英雄。 To create such “combat” jewelry designer cuts the bullet to allow them to become part of the composition. 为了创造这样的“战斗”首饰，设计师们将子弹切开，让其成为作品的组成部分。 —————————————— comedy 喜剧 comedy n. 喜剧；喜剧性；有趣的事情 This ridiculous situation borders upon comedy. 这种可笑的局面近似于喜剧。 He also emphasized that the nominees would not be subdivided, as with the Golden Globes, which are awarded for best drama as well as best comedy or musical. 他同样也强调，提名影片不会像金球奖那样再被细分归类，比如颁发最佳剧情影片，最佳喜剧影片或是最佳音乐剧影片。 How often do you start a tale of fame and fortune, comedy, or tragedy with this phrase? 你会多长时间使用这个词组来开始一个名声和财富，喜剧，或者悲剧的故事？ —————————————— comet 彗星 comet n. [天] 彗星 n. (Comet)人名；(法)科梅 As the comet nears the sun, its ice melts, releasing gas and dust that stream away into space. 当彗星靠近太阳时，它的冰层融化，释放的气体和尘埃远远地飘向太空。 Given enough time, the comet-like planet could theoretically evaporate away completely, but it would take about a trillion years. 理论上只要有足够时间，彗星样的行星最终会完全蒸发掉。 但那大约需要一万亿年。 He was an early proponent of the theory that life on Earth may have come from Mars in rocks ejected by asteroid and comet impacts. 他是这项理论早期的支持者：地球生命也许来自火星，通过小行星和彗星冲撞而由岩石喷射而出。 —————————————— commemorate 纪念 —————————————— commence 开始 commence v. 开始；着手；<英>获得学位 The performances will commence in a minute. 演出马上就开始。 I shall forthwith commence the duties of the high trust to which you have called me. 现在我就将开始你们召唤我上任的被赋予如此高度信任的职务。 A new round of legislative jockeying will commence when congressional appropriations committees—the panels that cut federal checks—turn their attention to the space program after the election. 新一轮的立法争夺将开始，当国会拨款委员会—-削减联邦支票的专家团---在选举后把注意力转向太空计划时。 —————————————— commend 赞扬 commend vt. 推荐；称赞；把…委托 vi. 称赞；表扬 And I want to commend you for your courage. 我还要赞扬你们所表现出的非凡勇气。 I should like to commend this dictionary to you. 我愿向你推荐这部词典。 Tell him he’s good at his job, or commend his ability to provide for his family. 告诉他，他对工作胜任有余，或是称赞他为家人创造高质量生活的能力。 —————————————— commentary 评论 Separately and simultaneously, a commenting module can associate free from commentary, discussion, and debate with any node. 一个评论模块能独立或同时地将注释、讨论和辩论自由关联到任意节点。 The fashion commentary follows her even on less formal occasions, as when she strides across the South Lawn or steps off Air Force One. 甚至她在跨过白宫南草坪，或是从空军一号下来这样非正式的场合上，对其着装的评论也不曾停歇。 But even if he proposes good policies, the fact that Mr. Obama feels the need to wrap these policies in bad metaphors is a sad commentary on the state of our discourse. 然而，即便提出很好的政策，奥巴马感到有必要用这种不要词汇包装这一事实本身就是对我们当前讨论话题的状态一种不幸的注释。 —————————————— commitment 承诺 commitment n. 承诺，保证；委托；承担义务；献身 But I do expect some commitment to reinforce coordination. 但我认为会做出一些承诺以加强协调。 To do this, we must have commitment at the highest level of government. 要做到这一点，我们必须获得政府最高层的承诺。 This principle is an extension of both the commitment principle and the success principle. 这个原则是对承担义务原则和成功原则的一种扩展。 —————————————— commodity 商品 commodity n. 商品，货物；日用品 There is an abundance of commodity supplies on the markets. 商品供应充足。 Commodity prices remain stable and there are plenty of goods on the market. 商品价格稳定, 市场货源充足。 For commodity services, this may not be an issue. 对于商品服务，也许这不能算是问题。 —————————————— commonplace 司空见惯的事 commonplace n. 老生常谈；司空见惯的事；普通的东西 adj. 平凡的；陈腐的 Chinese people seem to have gotten used to reading reports like these and gradually they have accepted them as commonplace. 中国人似乎已经习惯了看这些报道，并慢慢接受它们，把它们当成司空见惯的事了。 I'm sure that every reader can think of rewards that have lost their effectiveness due to their having become a commonplace occurrence within an organization. 我确信每个读者都可能认为奖励失去它们的有效性是因为它们已经变成组织中太平凡所事情。 The adoption of industry standards that allow expressing such abstractions, such as UML, is therefore commonplace in the industry today for documenting software systems. 采取业界标准可以表达这种抽象性，例如UML，因此在现今的产业中文档化软件系统是非常平常的事情。 —————————————— commonwealth 英联邦 commonwealth n. 联邦；共和国；国民整体 This is in the earliest years of the commonwealth government. 这是在联邦政府刚成立不久的几年间。 As the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts I am confident each and every one of you will serve with distinction, honor and integrity. 作为马萨诸塞联邦的长官，我确信你们每一个人都将正直、卓越的服务于此项工作，并为之带来荣耀。 The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said people "should be aware" of the outbreak, but it was not currently advising people against travelling to affected areas of Mexico and the US. 外交部和联邦办公室表示人们应该意识到疫情的爆发,目前并不建议人们不要去墨西哥和美国的已感染区域旅行. —————————————— commute 上下班 commute vi. （搭乘车、船等）通勤；代偿 vt. 减刑；交换；用……交换；使……变成 n. 通勤（口语） These cars have the fuel efficiency, reliability and space to get you through your daily commute with ease. 这些汽车所具备的燃油效率、性能和空间可以使您轻松度过每日上下班的时光。 Leaving the car at home and sharing your commute with others can help you reach your gallon goal very quickly. 把汽车在家里和与其他人分享您的通勤，可以帮助您很快达到一加仑的目标。 One in three employees with a commute longer than 90 minutes say they have had recurring neck or back pain within in the past 12 months. 在上下班时间超过90分钟的雇员里面，有三分之一的人表示在过去的12个月里经常发生脖子或者背痛。 —————————————— compact 紧凑的 compact n. 合同，契约；小粉盒 adj. 紧凑的，紧密的；简洁的 vt. 使简洁；使紧密结合 This compact approach does have some limitations. 这种紧凑的方法确实有一些缺陷。 I think this is the most desirable of the compact cars. 我认为这款车型是紧凑型车中最诱人的一款。 That is this rewritten in a much more compact notation because you have the value of this. 这就使你在重写的时候能有一个更紧凑的标记,因为你已经有了这个值的概念。 —————————————— comparable 类似的 comparable adj. 可比较的；比得上的 You created the model based on other comparable houses in the neighborhood and what they sold for (the model), then put the values of your own house into this model to produce an expected price. 这个模型建立在邻近地区内的其他有可比性的房子的售价的基础上（模型），然后再把您自己房子的值放入此模型来产生一个预期价格。 If you have a comparable production server in place, measuring its actual load patterns over a period of time can go a long way towards getting accurate concurrency rates and is highly recommended. 如果您在适当位置有一个可比较的产品服务器，经过一段时间测量其实际负载模式可能对获取精确并发比率有很大的帮助，强烈推荐。 I don't know why, as we eat shrimps, which are very comparable. 我不知道为什么，就像我们吃基围虾，两者是有可比性的。 —————————————— compartment 室 compartment n. [建] 隔间；区划；卧车上的小客房 vt. 分隔；划分 Nikolai ushered me into his compartment and introduced me to his friends Victor and Walli. 尼古拉把我带到他的车厢里，把我介绍给他的朋友维克多和瓦利。 So easily did we get into our compartment, however, that I felt sure the worst was yet to come. 接着我们竟那样容易地走进了车厢，以至于我总觉得最糟糕的情况还会到来。 She staffs one of two 'silver bullets, ' Airstream-type trailers fitted out with communications suites, a compartment for the VIP and his or her aides, and lavatories. 她是两辆流线型“银弹”拖车上的工作人员，此类拖车配备有通信套间，一节专供VIP及其助手的车厢，以及洗手间。 —————————————— compatible 兼容的 compatible adj. 兼容的；能共处的；可并立的 So, how can you ensure that the file is compatible? 那么，您如何确保这个文件是可兼容的呢？ It should allow the dynamic substitution of compatible partners. 它应该允许动态替换相容的合作者。 Just as with LEGOs, the fact that everyone uses one compatible size means your designs can be shared with anyone who uses the library, no matter where they use it. 就像使用 LEGO 一样，所有的人都使用同一兼容尺寸这一事实，意味着设计可以在使用库的人之间共享，不论他们在哪里使用它。 —————————————— compensate 补偿 compensate vi. 补偿，赔偿；抵消 vt. 补偿，赔偿；付报酬 So how will they compensate me? 那他们会怎样补偿我呢? You must compensate me for this loss. 你必须补偿我的这个损失。 Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 失去健康是无法补偿的。 —————————————— competence 能力 competence n. 能力，胜任；权限；作证能力；足以过舒适生活的收入 We can certify for him competence as an editor. 我们可以保证他能胜任编辑工作。 Your scholarship and research competence will be questioned if any of the above applies to your proposal. 如果你的研究计划里有任何上述问题，你的学术和研究能力就会受到质疑。 It is easy to criticize the competence of those with greater responsibilities than ourselves, and even easier to fantasize about how we would do the job better. 对那些责任比我们更大的管理者的能力说三道四很容易，幻想自己在那个位置上肯定会做得更好更是不费吹灰之力。 —————————————— competitive 有竞争力的 competitive adj. 竞争的；比赛的；求胜心切的 But we also have some competitive advantages that we should explore more. 但是我们也有一些应该进行更多探索的竞争优势。 Competitive intelligence or in other words knowing who your competitors are and what they do and how they do it is essential for any business. 竞争智能，或者换句话说，弄清楚谁是你的竞争者，以及他们做什么和怎样在做，是任何商业的要义。 But it did come from success in competitive markets. 但它确实来自在竞争市场上的成功。 —————————————— compile 编译 compile vt. 编译；编制；编辑；[图情] 汇编 You only have to compile it. 您只须编译它。 Compile and run this job in the designer. 在设计器中编译和运行这个任务。 You can then edit, compile, and debug your project. 然后，您可以编辑、编译和调试您的项目。 —————————————— complement 补充 complement n. 补语；余角；补足物 vt. 补足，补助 You do not want to duplicate efforts, though you may come to complement them. 虽然您可能会为其做补充，您不会想去做重复的工作。 All of these agencies and people either complement or facilitate our work, or express the health needs of populations. 所有这些机构和人士要么补充或便利我们的工作，要么表达人民的卫生需求。 The aim of this section is to consolidate and complement the earlier discussions. 本部分的目的是对这些早期的讨论进行整合和补充。 —————————————— complication 并发症 complication n. 并发症；复杂；复杂化；混乱 So this is a complication in any stage theory. 这是所有阶段理论的一个复杂之处。 They do not have the capabilities to treat this complication here. 而在这个地方，医生没有能力治疗这种并发症。 With still no sign of Teri and Kim Jack calls Alberta Green to inform her of the complication in plans and his intention to go back and look for them. 杰克仍然没有看到泰瑞和金姆的踪迹，他打电话给阿尔贝塔.格林，将计划中出现的复杂情况告知她，并提出自己意图折回去寻找她们母女。 —————————————— compliment 赞美 compliment n. 恭维；称赞；问候；致意；道贺 vt. 恭维；称赞 Compliment her often. 经常赞美她。 Compliment someone with a genuine comment on what you appreciate or respect about them. 对他人就你一直欣赏或敬重的某一点表示真诚的赞美。 If you grew up with harsh criticism and ridicule and impatience, then be sure to compliment, love, and exercise patience with your children. 如果你在苛刻的批评，嘲笑和焦躁下成长，请确保一定要称赞，疼爱并且寻来耐心地对待你的孩子。 —————————————— comply 遵守 comply vi. 遵守；顺从，遵从；答应 It is your choice as to whether you choose to comply. 选择是否遵守这些法律取决于您自己的决定。 When one states that an entity must leave, it must comply. 当你宣告一个存有必须离开时，它必须顺从。 If the consumer strays out of the fence after agreeing to comply, the consumer runs the risk of violating the policy. 如果用户在同意遵守策略后跳出了该范围，那么用户就处于违反策略的风险中。 —————————————— composite 复合 composite n. 复合材料；合成物；菊科 adj. 复合的；合成的；菊科的 vt. 使合成；使混合 This "composite" pattern then provides guidance to developers on how to code the components themselves. 然后这个 "合成" 模式提供向导来帮助开发者为组件编码。 Then, along with other services, they can assemble it into a composite application as part of an SOA solution. 然后，同其他服务一起，它被合成到一个应用程序中，作为SOA解决方案的一部分。 Although read-only in this form, it could be used as the starting point for creating an administration tool for migrating composite applications. 虽然是只读形式，但是它可以作为一个起点，在此基础上创建用于迁移复合应用程序的管理工具。 —————————————— compulsory 强制 compulsory adj. 义务的；必修的；被强制的 n. （花样滑冰、竞技体操等的）规定动作 It was settled by compulsory arbitration. 此事已通过强制性仲裁得到解决。 Government-granted monopoly privilege in the form of compulsory producer cartels or patents do not protect property rights; they invade them. 政府批出的特权是强制生产者同盟垄断或专利的形式不仅不受保护，反而要制裁他们。 The new compulsory course consists of seven parts, he said. 这项新设立的必修课程由七个部分组成。 —————————————— concede 承认 concede vt. 承认；退让；给予，容许 vi. 让步 I concede! 我让步！ I concede that they may be hard to detect in the beginning, but like a concave bowl, with everything gathered together in the middle that you can only understand when you come out. 我承认，人们开始可能很难察觉，然而它们就像一只凹形的碗一样，所有的东西都集中在中间，你只有出来的时候才能了解。 Burton says that using the essays as part of an application would be fraudulent and that he discourages it, but both men concede it's a possibility. 波顿说使用这些论文作为申请的一部分是欺骗性的，他并不鼓励这一点，但这两位均承认存在这种可能性。 —————————————— conceive 怀孕 conceive vt. 怀孕；构思；以为；持有 vi. 怀孕；设想；考虑 We can't conceive of living without a telephone. 我们简直设想不出没有电话人怎么活下去。 The doctor told her that she couldn't conceive again. 医生告诉她不能再怀孕了。 All women don't conceive the first time they have sex, as they should have unprotected sex at the right time of the month for pregnancy to occur. 所有女人都不会在第一次做爱的时候怀孕，因为他们要选择一个月中正确的时间做无防卫的性爱才能让怀孕发生。 —————————————— conception 概念 conception n. 怀孕；概念；设想；开始 This conception has been rigidified. 这种观念已被僵化。 You have no conception of our needs, only what you and your master thought to be our needs. 你对我们的需要毫无概念，只有那些你和你的总领认为我们需要的。 Well, this brings me to some criticisms or at least some questions about Hobbes' conception of the laws of nature. 好，这令我产生了批判的想法,至少是一些关于霍布斯,对于自然法概念的问题。 —————————————— concession 让步 concession n. 让步；特许（权）；承认；退位 We can not make heavy concession to the matter. 我们在这个问题上不能过于让步。 As a concession to his reasonable demand, the doctor allowed him to work. 医生向他的合理要求让步了， 允许他工作。 I am prepared to make some concession on minor details, but I cannot compromise on fundamentals. 在一些细节上我可以作些让步，但在基本原则上我是不会妥协的。 —————————————— concise 简洁的 concise adj. 简明的，简洁的 Be sure to make it clear and concise and avoid long-windedness. 注意简明扼要， 反对长篇大论。 Because we only had to override one simple method, this was a concise way to achieve our goal. 因为我们只需要覆盖一个简单的方法，所以这是实现我们目标的简明方法。 However, if possible, it is good practice to avoid them where possible to keep the code concise. 但是，好的实践方法是：如果可能，尽量避免使用它们，从而保持代码简练。 —————————————— confer 授予 confer vt. 授予；给予 vi. 协商 n. (Confer)人名；(英)康弗 It seems only fair to confer a similar accolade on North Korea's dictator-in-waiting: the Phantom Leader, perhaps. 对于这位朝鲜的储君，需要再授予他一个类似的称号：傀儡领袖，似乎只有这样才略显公平。 When governments try to confer an advantage to their exporters through currency depreciation, they risk a war of debasement. 当政府试图通过货币贬值给予出口商们好处时，他们正在承担贬值大战的风险。 Preferred stock represents your ownership in a company, just like common stock, but most preferred shares do not confer any voting rights, unlike common stock. 优先股代表你在一家公司里的所有权，就像普通股一样，但大多数优先股不授予任何投票权，不像普通股股票。 —————————————— confidential 保密 confidential adj. 机密的；表示信任的；获信任的 This must be kept absolutely secret.; This is strictly confidential. 这事绝对保密。 Soon after, I made confidential inquiry as to how and when it all happened. 不久之后，我对这一切是如何以及何时发生的做了秘密调查。 So talk directly with your counselor about what he or she considers confidential. 因此与你的辅导员直接谈谈，她或他认为什么是保密性。 —————————————— configuration 配置 configuration n. 配置；结构；外形 In this article, however, we deal with only one such configuration. 然而在本文中，我们只涉及其中的一种配置。 You can run with it right away on any database tool without further configuration. 您可以在任何数据库工具上立即运行它而无需进一步配置。 With this, you have built the source mappings and configuration for the connector. 至此，您已经为这个连接器构建了源映射和配置。 —————————————— conform 符合 conform vi. 符合；遵照；适应环境 vt. 使遵守；使一致；使顺从 adj. 一致的；顺从的 It's not just humans, there's evidence that chimps conform as well. 不仅限于人类，也有证据表明黑猩猩也符合这项理论。 These must be in the best interest of the enterprise and also conform to applicable laws and regulations. 这些计划必须是为了企业利益最大化，并且符合需要遵从的法律及规章制度。 By embracing SOA, a customer organization can define its data model and service interfaces, and tender for competing solutions that conform to its interfaces and meet its requirements. 实施SOA以后，客户组织可以定义其数据模型和服务接口，还能对那些符合其接口和需求的计算解决方案进行投标。 —————————————— confront 面对 confront vt. 面对；遭遇；比较 We must confront future with optimism. 我们必须乐观地面对未来。 I live in accordance to certain priorities as I have to confront them. 我以一些优先考虑的事为标准生活,因为我必须面对它们。 Although they pose no direct military threat, this attitude would tend to justify defense concerns and the development of weapons with which to confront them. 虽然他们没有摆出直接的军事威胁，这种态度将倾向为国防关注和对抗他们的武器的发展提供正当理由。 —————————————— confusion 混乱 confusion n. 混淆，混乱；困惑 His interference spilt over into confusion. 他的干预引起了混乱。 His speech flung the meeting into confusion. 他的发言使得会议陷入混乱。 He reaffirmed that he was wholly responsible for the confusion. 他再次表明对此混乱情况他负有全部责任。 —————————————— conscientious 有责任心的 conscientious adj. 认真的；尽责的；本着良心的；小心谨慎的 She is very conscientious and never skimps her work. 她办事认真， 从不敷衍了事。 To give the devil his due, he is quite a conscientious worker. 平心而论， 他工作还是认真的。 Don't do your work in a slipshod manner. You should be conscientious and have a sense of responsibility. 对工作不能随随便便， 要认真负责。 —————————————— consecutive 连续 consecutive adj. 连贯的；连续不断的 Two consecutive tasks in a business model may use different business items as the output and input. 业务模型中的两个连续任务可以使用不同的业务项作为输出和输入。 You may want to set up some more complex patterns, such as defining a minimum time between two consecutive builds, or only triggering a build after a certain number of changes. 您可能想要建立一些更为复杂的模式，比如在两个连续的构建之间定义一个最短时间，或者仅在一定数量的变化之后触发某个构建。 For several consecutive Fridays after that, she stated she was experiencing the Passion of Christ, supposedly suffering in her own body along with all his historic agonies. 在这之后的连续几个星期五，她说，她正在经历基督的受难史，据说她的身体遭受了他曾经遭受的一切痛苦。 —————————————— consensus 共识 consensus n. 一致；舆论；合意 Take a straw poll of your friends and we guarantee that you will find no consensus. 在你的朋友中进行一个民意投票，我们保证你不会得到一致的意见。 In 30 years of reporting on the region, I have never encountered this kind of consensus in these quarters. 在该地区30年来的报道中,我从未遇到过在这种地区人们竟有这样的共识。 The implications for today depend on which of these interpretations you believe, which means that consensus about the "lessons" of these conflicts will be elusive and fragile. 这些暗示都是取决于哪些解释是你相信的。 这就意味着人们对于这些冲突的“教训”的共识 是脆弱的，易被忘记的。 —————————————— consequent 顺向 consequent n. 结果 adj. 随之发生的；作为结果的 If we got an if then statement are we asserting an antecedent, an if clause or the consequent, Q the then clause, or are we saying if P then Q. 如果我们的论述中有如果,我们在主张先行词，假设条件句或者结果，然后从句，或者我们说如果P那么。 But disasters are similar to battlefields in their degree of confusion and complexity, and in the consequent unreliability and incompleteness of the information available. 但是，灾难现场和战场，在混乱和复杂程度上甚为相似；在随之发生的不信任和信息接收的不完全上也一样。 The first two waves were the financial crisis and the consequent global economic crisis. 最初的两波浪潮为金融危机和随之发生的全球经济危机。 —————————————— conserve 节约 conserve vt. 保存；将…做成蜜饯；使守恒 n. 果酱；蜜饯 So the body needs salt and knows how to find it and how to conserve it. 所以我们的身体需要盐、知道怎么去找到盐，也知道如何节约用盐。 They conserve energy by avoiding the cold outdoors, opting instead to remain in dark lodgings inside their pile of wood and mud. 他们节约能源，避免受到室外的寒冷，反而选择留在黑暗的住所内，里面包含的了许多的椿木和泥。 Some automobile makers and customizers can fit your tank with a kind of foam used in race cars to protect fuel tanks and conserve fuel. 一些汽车制造商和定制服务商可以在你的油箱里填入一种用于赛车的泡沫材料来保护油箱和节约燃料。 —————————————— consolidate 巩固 consolidate vt. 巩固，使固定；联合 vi. 巩固，加强 What do they have to consolidate? 他们还有什么可巩固的？ He believed that the European Economic Community should consolidate. 他认为欧洲经济共同体应该加强。 By doing this, the proposed change strategy is validated, and you can begin to build and consolidate the central tooling infrastructure. 通过这样做，被建议的变化策略得到了证实，现在您可以开始建立和巩固中心的加工基础架构。 —————————————— conspicuous 引人注目的 conspicuous adj. 显著的；显而易见的 She is a conspicuous figure. 她是个引人注目的人物。 But moths survive by being camouflaged, and [ladybugs] survive by being conspicuous and telling birds not to eat them. 然而飞蛾通过伪装自己生存，瓢虫却通过引人注目来告诉鸟类不要吃他们。 The code is unusually conspicuous, complex, and enigmatic; it attracts an inordinate amount of attention to itself, and this attention has to acquire the rigor of a method. 这种代码通常很显著，复杂，神秘;,它把大量的注意力都吸引到自己身上，这种注意力得有一种方法的严肃性。 —————————————— constituent 组成 constituent n. 成分；选民；委托人 adj. 构成的；选举的 This process or activity is broken down into its constituent tasks. 这个过程或者活动被分解为若干个组成的任务。 At a lower level of decomposition it, too, could be described in terms of its constituent components. 在一个更低层级的分解中，它还可以进一步被描述为它自身的组成要素。 It also helps to show the ownership relationship between the identified major contributors and the constituent data types for each of the major contributors. 它还可以帮助显示标识的主要占用者和每个主要占用者的组成数据类型之间的所属关系。 —————————————— constrain 限制 constrain vt. 驱使；强迫；束缚 Within the J2EE application, you can define and name security roles and constrain resource access based on those roles. 在 J2EE 应用程序内，您可以基于这些角色定义和命名安全角色及约束资源访问。 It is an architecturally neutral but formal specification of the requirements that does not over-constrain the SOA solution. 它是与体系结构无关的但是正式的需求规范，它它并不过度约束 SOA 解决方案。 Assertions constrain the existence of elements and attributes and their values. 断言约束元素和属性的存在和它们的值。 —————————————— consultant 顾问 consultant n. 顾问；咨询者；会诊医生 So she contacted his consultant at once to consult with him about this. 于是她立刻联系他的顾问医生向他请教怎么办。 To measure the cashflow, the politician has a money meter on his back that the consultant can see as he uses the steering wheel to direct his client. 为了计算一下如流水的钱，政客的背上有个美元计数器，这样，当他的顾问使用方向盘为他导向时就能看得见钱数。 First, these two months will allow you to calm down a bit and meet your travel consultant. 首先，这头两个月可以使你稍微平静下来，并且去会一下你的旅游顾问。 —————————————— consumer 消费者 consumer n. 消费者；用户，顾客 So much of that depends on the consumer. 这在很大程度上依赖于消费者。 You know only what any consumer has to do to use the service and what any provider must do when implementing it. 您只知道任何一个消费者使用服务必须做什么，以及任何一个提供者执行它时必须做什么。 What color is the consumer when you put him on the marketplace? 你将消费者放入市场的时候，他该是什么颜色？ —————————————— contaminate 污染 contaminate vt. 污染，弄脏 Aflatoxins are carcinogenic fungal toxins that can contaminate corn, peanuts and other food crops such as tree nuts under certain conditions. 黄曲霉毒素是致癌的真菌毒素，可在某些条件下污染玉米、花生及其他粮食作物，如树坚果。 Paraffin is a known carcinogen, and hydrogen peroxide can harm the digestive system. Chopsticks irresponsibly disposed of can contaminate water and soil quality. 石蜡是一种已知的致癌物，而过氧化氢则对消化系统有害。随意丢弃木筷则可能污染水和土壤质量。 It is highly contagious and spreads through mucus, saliva or body fluids that can contaminate materials such as clothing, crates, truck beds, and hay and be transmitted to other animals. 它的传染性极强并可通过粘液、唾液或体液蔓延污染诸如服装、板条箱、卡车车厢和干草等，继而将病毒传播给其他动物。 —————————————— contemplate 考虑 contemplate vt. 沉思；注视；思忖；预期 vi. 冥思苦想；深思熟虑 He goes to the park every day to sit and contemplate. 他每天去公园，坐在那里沉思默想。 As we contemplate the great number of people who have died in this tragedy, we may feel very strongly that we ourselves, in some part or manner, also have died. 当我们对此次灾难中庞大的遇难人数进行沉思时，我们可能会强烈地感觉到我们自己的某种部分或以某种方式死亡了。 Time is only created by the inadequate ability of Nature to contemplate the divine. 时间是在沉思神圣时被自然的不充分的能力创造出来的。 —————————————— contempt 蔑视 contempt n. 轻视，蔑视；耻辱 He interpreted the silence as contempt. 他把这沉默看做轻蔑的表示。 The judge ordered him to purge his contempt by apologizing to the court. 法官命令他做出道歉以赎蔑视法庭之罪。 Lo, I teach you the Superman: he is that sea; in him can your great contempt be submerged. 大家注意啦，我教你们什么是超人：他就是那大海；你们的大轻蔑可以被淹没在他之中。 —————————————— contend 认为 contend vi. 竞争；奋斗；斗争；争论 vt. 主张；为...斗争 Whatever caused the ancient fluctuations in isotope ratios, the researchers contend, those variations are a sign that climate back then varied from year to year just as it does today. 研究者们主张，不论是什么因素导致了氧同位素在古代的波动，这些波动确实证明了当时气候也曾逐年变化，就如同现在一样。 So, while we accept Christ and are covered with His righteousness, we still must contend with the sin nature within us. 因此，当我们接受了耶稣，并且在他的义的翅膀下的时候，我们依旧必须和我们内心的罪行相抗衡。 Developing nations have always had to contend with infectious diseases. 发展中国家常常要与传染性疾病作斗争。 —————————————— context 上下文 context n. 环境；上下文；来龙去脉 Can you guess the meaning of the word from the context? 你能从上下文猜出那词的意思吗? But we do need to be very careful about how we use them, and in what context. 但是在什么语境下和如何使用这些语词和概念我们应该特别加以小心。 With these functions, we can find out everything about the trigger or its context. 通过这些函数，我们可以查明关于触发器及其上下文的所有信息。 —————————————— contradict 矛盾 contradict vt. 反驳；否定；与…矛盾；与…抵触 vi. 反驳；否认；发生矛盾 The shy girl was afraid to contradict. 这个害羞的女孩不敢提出反驳意见。 For me, these thoughts hardly contradict. 对我而言，这些想法并不矛盾。 These ideas need not be implemented immediately; that would contradict the purposes of stimulus. 这些办法不用现在就执行；这与我们刺激经济的目的相矛盾。 —————————————— contribution 贡献 contribution n. 贡献；捐献；投稿 China ought to make a greater contribution to humanity. 中国应当对人类作出较大贡献。 We have to do all of that for their team contribution as well. 我们也应该根据他们团队的贡献来考核他们。 The Chinese people should make a greater contribution to mankind. 中国人应当对人类有较大的贡献。 —————————————— contrive 设计 contrive vt. 设计；发明；图谋 vi. 谋划；设法做到 I can contrive without your help. 没有你的帮助，我也能设法做到。 In contrast with Tom’s goals of socializing, I contrive to learn new and complex things. 汤姆来的目的是社交。 相比之下，我想设法学些新鲜、复杂一点的东西。 A skillful cook, who understands how to oblige his guests, will contrive to make it as expensive as they please . 手艺高明的厨师既懂得如何投客人之所好，自然要想尽法子把这道菜做得越贵重越好。 —————————————— controversial 有争议的 controversial adj. 有争议的；有争论的 They tried their best to run away from controversial issues. 他们尽力避开有争议的问题。 As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism. 作为一名有争议的公众人物，他毅然对付了许多带有敌意的批评。 The idea itself is not that controversial. 这个观念本身是没有争议的。 —————————————— controversy 争议 controversy n. 争论；论战；辩论 But the controversy is far from over. 但是选举引发的争议还远没有结束。 Their findings have not been published, perhaps because of the controversy. 他们的发现尚未发表，或许是由于这一争议。 Although endured a lot of discussion and controversy for a while because of its title. 虽然忍受了一段时间大批的争议和论战，就因为那个书名。 —————————————— converge 收敛 converge vt. 使汇聚 vi. 聚集；靠拢；收敛 The eye tends to follow these lines to the point where they converge. 人们的目光一直追随着这些线条直到会聚点。 This approach might not be any more reliable than measuring the execution times until they converge, but it is simpler to implement. 这种方法可能并不比度量执行时间直至收敛的方法更可靠，但是更容易实现。 It's very easy to estimate the scheduling cost of adding systems or replacing them when your machines will converge to a known state shortly. 当机器将很快收敛到一个已知状态时，就可以很容易地估计添加系统或替换它们的调度成本。 —————————————— convict 罪犯 convict vt. 证明…有罪；宣告…有罪 n. 罪犯 He was another convict for life, who had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. 这个受着终身监禁的囚犯，和舍尼杰一样，也是从狱中提出来的，也穿一件红衣，他是卢尔德地方的乡下人，比利牛斯山里几乎近于野人的人。 Finally the young man revealed that he was a paroled convict returning from a distant prison. 最后这个年轻人吐露了实情，他是个获得假释的犯人，刚刚从服刑监狱回来。 Ms. Tymoshenko says Mr. Yanukovych is the instigator of what she called a “crooked” court action that will likely convict her of abuse of power charges. 季莫申科说，亚努科维奇背后策划了这个她称为“不正当”的法律行动。 这个法律行动可能会以滥用职权将她定罪。 —————————————— conviction 信念 conviction n. 定罪；确信；证明有罪；确信，坚定的信仰 This spark is the strength of conviction. 这个火花就是信念的力量。 Every other week, we broadcast our series "This I Believe" and invite you to send in your own essay about personal conviction. 每隔一周，我们播出系列节目“这是我的信念， ”并邀请您发表自己的散文，分享您的个人信念。 What grew chiefly upon me, rather, was the conviction that only those who are trustworthy know how to trust. 在我心中慢慢地成长起来的，主要的倒是这样的信念：只有可信任的人才会信任人。 —————————————— cooperative 合作 cooperative adj. 合作的；合作社的 n. 合作社 The cooperative law indeed brought the shadow economy out into the open. 合作社法确实把影子经济引向到了公开的层面。 Cooperative communication between page and module would be available only through specific interfaces. 页面和模块间的合作通信只能通过特定的接口来进行。 Then one dictator seized it, then another and so on, until a civilian government handed control to a worker cooperative a few decades ago. 之后，一个独裁者强占了种植园，然后就一波接一波，直到数十年前民选政府才把它交予工人合作社。 —————————————— cordial 亲切 cordial adj. 热忱的，诚恳的；兴奋的 n. 补品；兴奋剂；甜香酒，甘露酒 Not exactly cordial, but at least we were talking. 不完全是亲切的，但至少我们在会谈。 The hall was circumfused with a cordial and friendly atmosphere. 大厅中充满了亲切友好的气氛。 I have brought with me the cordial greetings and best wishes of the Chinese government and people towards the government and people of Lesotho! 请允许我在此转达中国政府和人民对莱索托政府和人民的亲切问候和良好祝愿。 —————————————— corporate 企业 corporate adj. 法人的；共同的，全体的；社团的；公司的；企业的 So what should we do to prevent these threads from becoming the plaything of undisclosed corporate interests? 那么我们应该做些什么来阻止这些主题成为见不得人的公司利益的玩物呢？ Do you want to work at home, outside or in a posh corporate environment? 你想在家工作，在外工作，还是在一个豪华的企业环境里工作？ If you're looking for some inspiration for your next corporate design, then this is the place to be. 如果你正在寻找一些灵感，然后用在下一次的公司设计，这也许是不错的选择。 —————————————— corps 队 corps n. 军团；兵种；兵队；（德国大学的）学生联合会 n. (Corps)人名；(西、德)科尔普斯 The Army and Marine Corps have 80 systems in theater. 陆军和海军陆战队在战场上有80套系统。 This fifth-generation fighter will provide the US Marine Corps and other future customers with increased capability and the option to deploy from forward bases. 这种第五代战斗机将为美国海军陆战队和其他未来的客户提供更强的能力以及前沿作战基地的部署选择。 The best option left seemed to be enrolling in law school and joining the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps at the University of Arkansas. 我所剩下的最佳选择似乎是报名读法学院，然后加入阿肯色大学的陆军预备役军官训练军团。 —————————————— correlate 关联 correlate vi. 关联 vt. 使有相互关系；互相有关系 n. 相关物；相关联的人 adj. 关联的 This would cause problems if you tried to correlate sent and received messages. 这将导致您在关联发送与接收到的消息时产生问题。 This brings up the question of how you correlate a response to its respective request. 这就带来了一个问题，您如何将一个响应关联到其请求。 In the next paper, the authors will demonstrate how to receive the events and correlate them. 在下一篇文章中，作者将论述如何接收事件并将它们相关联。 —————————————— correspondence 对应 correspondence n. 通信；一致；相当 She took a French course in a correspondence school. 她在函授学校修法语课程。 Our correspondence is limited to a few commercial letters. 我们之间的通信只限于几封商业函件。 I can show you correspondence that will prove what I am saying. 我可以给你看我们的通信来证明我说的都是真的。 —————————————— correspondent 记者 correspondent n. 通讯记者；客户；通信者；代理商行 Our correspondent says these accusations and withdrawals have dented the credibility of the elections. 我们的记者说这些指控和撤退对选举的可信度造成了影响。 The information below was compiled by our correspondent. 以下资料是我们的记者收集整理的。 Another correspondent found him asleep while he was supposed to be meditating in private. 另一个记者在他本应该独自冥想的时候发现他在睡觉。 —————————————— corrode 腐蚀 corrode vt. 侵蚀；损害 vi. 受腐蚀；起腐蚀作用 Iron tools corrode easily. 铁制工具易受腐蚀。 These debts corrode your life as it's happening. And no bailout later in life can reverse time. 这些债务一旦发生将会腐蚀你的生活，而且没有什么能够逆转你的人生。 In the grates below, the chemicals are hissing, beginning to corrode the pipe. 在排水道中，化学反应发出嘶嘶声，化学品开始侵蚀管道。 —————————————— corrupt 腐败的 corrupt adj. 腐败的，贪污的；堕落的 vt. 使腐烂；使堕落，使恶化 vi. 堕落，腐化；腐烂 They posted this organization as corrupt. 他们公开谴责该组织腐败。 The congressman laced into the government for being corrupt. 国会议员谴责政府腐败。 The corrupt mayor should be removed from office and prosecuted. 这个腐化堕落的市长应当撤职查办。 —————————————— cosmic 宇宙 cosmic adj. 宇宙的（等于cosmical） Because of its huge mass, the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass, causing light to bend around it. 由于这个星系团的巨大质量，它相当于一个宇宙的放大镜，使光线在它的四周弯曲。 As a result, should one be seen, scientists should be able to trace its path back to the distant cosmic event that spawned it. 因此，一旦一个中微子被探测到，科学家就可以沿着它的路径追踪到那个遥远的，产生它的宇宙事例。 The upshot: One day your descendants, if they survive a swelling Sun and other cosmic and human perils, will have at least 960 hours to work with each day. 结论：如果你的后代能够幸免于火辣辣的太阳和其他宇宙及人类的灾难，那么将来有一天他们每天至少要工作960个小时。 —————————————— costume 服装 costume n. 服装，装束；戏装，剧装 vt. 给…穿上服装 The advertisements of costume in Paris broadened his outlook. 巴黎的服装广告使他大开眼界。 She blacked herself up and rigged her costume for the evening performance. 她在脸上抹了黑油彩，身上穿了戏装以参加晚上的演出。 Your statesman regards a campus backdrop and academic robes as the ideal stage set and costume for the utterance of large, grave thoughts. 你们政治家认为站在校园幕布前，穿着学士服是发表伟大的、重要的思想的最理想舞台和装束。 —————————————— couch 沙发上 couch n. 睡椅，长沙发；床；卧榻 vi. 蹲伏，埋伏；躺着 vt. 使躺下；表达；弯下 n. (Couch)人名；(英)库奇 I mean you love the couch, why? 我的意思是你爱沙发，为什么？ After lunch he reposed on the couch. 午饭后他躺在长沙发上休息。 When I came home,all I wanted to do was to crash and burn on the couch. 当我回家时，我想做的就是一头栽进沙发睡一大觉。 —————————————— counsel 法律顾问 counsel n. 法律顾问；忠告；商议；讨论；决策 vt. 建议；劝告 vi. 商讨；提出忠告 "They ask to see legal opinions from the PRC counsel and in some cases even question the legal basis for those opinions, " he added. 他又说，“在有些情况下，他们要求看中国律师的法律意见书，甚至会对这些意见书的法律基础提出问题。” Not only must a defendant have a lawyer, the Court ruled, but that lawyer must provide real assistance, or as the courts have put it, effective counsel. 最高法院裁定，被告不仅必须有律师，而且律师必须提供真正的协助，也就是，按照法院的说法，有效的法律顾问。 Consult your legal counsel if you have any doubts about reusing content. 若对重用内容有任何疑问，请咨询您的法律顾问。 —————————————— counterpart 对应 counterpart n. 副本；配对物；极相似的人或物 Each of them has a counterpart column in the database tables. 每个字段在数据库表中有一个对应的列。 If there is a RUP work product but no counterpart in your software project management process, should you add this work product? 如果在你的软件项目管理过程中存在RUP工作产品中没有副本，你是否应该增加这个工作产品？ The fund operates under the coordination of its Government counterpart, the Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh (BRR). 资金的操作是在政府的对应机构，即亚奇恢复与重建机构（BRR），的协调下进行的。 —————————————— courtesy 礼貌 courtesy n. 礼貌；好意；恩惠 adj. 殷勤的；被承认的；出于礼节的 He is wanting in courtesy. 他缺乏礼貌。 She called on us merely for the sake of courtesy. 她来访只是为了礼貌。 "How would you feel?" is a good way to help the child understand what courtesy is all about. 比如问孩子“要是你，你会怎么想？” 是帮助孩子了解礼貌究竟何为的一个很好的方式。 —————————————— coward 懦夫 coward n. 懦夫，懦弱的人 adj. 胆小的，懦怯的 n. (Coward)人名；(英)科沃德 A bully is always a coward. 暴汉常是懦夫。 Noticing that there was likely to be trouble, the coward sneaked away. 那个胆小鬼看到有可能发生骚乱时就溜开了。 I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. 我知道你来这里是杀我的。动手吧，胆小鬼，你只是要杀个人而已。 —————————————— cradle 摇篮 cradle n. 摇篮；发源地；发祥地；支船架 vt. 抚育；把...搁在支架上；把...放在摇篮内 The baby was rocked asleep in the cradle. 婴儿在摇篮里被摇得入睡了。 O! The Huanghe （River）， cradle of the Chinese nation. 啊! 黄河， 你是中华民族的摇篮。 The sea is running high; the boat is rocking like a cradle. 海上波涛汹涌，小船像摇篮似的来回摇摆。 —————————————— creation 创建 creation n. 创造，创作；创作物，产物 I was full and effervescing with joy of creation. 由于创作的乐趣， 我感到满足和欢欣。 This completes the creation and implementation of your transformation extension. 这完成了您的转换扩展的创建和实现。 On the other hand, I have difficulty editing because by that point the creation process is already over for me. 另一方面，我不喜欢编辑，因为那个时刻对我来说，创作过程已经是结束了。 —————————————— cripple 削弱 cripple vt. 削弱；使跛；使残废 n. 跛子；残废 adj. 跛的；残废的 I was abandoned by family and friends as a supposedly hopeless cripple. 我被家庭和朋友当作一个恐怕是毫无希望的跛子抛弃了。 If the Japanese and Turks were to take on the United States, that would be the place they would have to strike first, to blind us, to cripple us. 如果日本人和土耳其人要占领美国，他们首先要在空间攻击美国，从而使美国失去辨别能力，实力受到削弱。 But an agreement modified along those lines would effectively cripple the Google project, because it would mean that most orphan works would be digitally invisible. 但由此修订的版本，会大大削弱谷歌的这项计划，因为这样一来，很多孤儿作品数字化后，大家看不见。 —————————————— crisp 脆 crisp adj. 脆的；新鲜的；易碎的 vt. 使卷曲；使发脆 vi. 卷曲；发脆 n. 松脆物；油炸马铃薯片 n. (Crisp)人名；(英)克里斯普 These pears are sweet and crisp. 这种梨又甜又脆。 What a crisp voice she has! 听她的嗓音多脆! It should be extremely crisp, but not crunchy or tough. 面包皮应该非常酥脆，但是不会嘎吱作响或太硬。 —————————————— criterion 标准 criterion n. （批评判断的）标准；准则；规范；准据 Practice is the sole criterion of truth. 实践是检验真理的惟一标准。 Practice is the sole criterion of truth. 实践是检验真理的唯一标准。 Only social practice can be the criterion of truth. 真理的标准只能是社会的实践。 —————————————— crucial 至关重要的 crucial adj. 重要的；决定性的；定局的；决断的 She broke into the conversation at a crucial moment. 她在关键时刻打断了谈话。 We have found two issues of crucial importance: location and scale. 我们发现了两个至关重要的问题：地点和规模。 But the crucial thing about this first view that we want to talk about is that the mind is thought of as something separate from, and distinct from, the body. 但是这个关于我们想要讨论的第一个观点的决定性的东西是思维被考虑为是从某种从身体中分离出来的，并且截然不同的东西。 —————————————— cruise 巡航 cruise vi. 巡航，巡游；漫游 vt. 巡航，巡游；漫游 n. 巡航，巡游；乘船游览 n. (Cruise)人名；(德)克鲁伊泽；(英)克鲁斯 If you plan to cruise, how many crew may be aboard? 如果你计划巡航，船上将有多少位水手？ Most travel in cruise ships to view the ice caps and wildlife such as penguins. 大多数巡游船的旅行是为了观看冰盖和企鹅之类的野生动物。 Its really hard where to start with this one as War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise was an amazing film and it was not just because of Tom, it was because of the money spent on it. 真不知道该从哪里开始对这部片子的评论。 要知道，汤姆·克鲁斯主演的《世界大战》十分精彩，而这并不仅仅因为主角是老汤，也因为花在拍片上的那些钱。 —————————————— cue 提示 cue n. 提示，暗示；线索 vt. 给…暗示 n. (Cue)人名；(西)库埃 Will you cue me on my lines? 你愿意在我的台词方面给我提示吗? We can take the cue from our fears and plunge the world into chaos. 我们应该从我们的忧虑中以及世界陷入混乱中获取暗示。 In fact, you can take a cue from GCC: Maintain many sets of environment variables per application and switch from one pool to another depending on the work at-hand. 事实上，您可以从 GCC 获得一个暗示：可以为每个应用程序维护多个环境变量集合，根据手边的工作从一个集合切换到另一个集合。 —————————————— culminate 达到高潮 culminate vi. 到绝顶；达到高潮；达到顶点 vt. 使结束；使达到高潮 A series of international meetings held over the last ten weeks will culminate in the Geneva meeting. 过去十周内举行的一系列国际会议将于这次日内瓦会议达到高潮。 Opponents of the planned set of nuclear reactors vow they will press forward with a mass rally set to culminate in Jaitapur next Monday. 反对建设一系列核反应堆的人们誓言，他们将在下星期一在贾拉普尔市举行大规模集会，将反对行动推向高潮。 Training is ongoing and will culminate in a joint NATO-Russia exercise with live aircraft in early to mid-2011. 培训正在进行之中，最终将于2011年中期，在北约与俄罗斯联合演习中和现场的飞机一起达到顶点。 —————————————— cumulative 累积 cumulative adj. 累积的 If the preferred is cumulative, it means dividends that are not paid will be added up. 如果优先权是累积的，这就意味着没有支付的股息将加在一起来算。 Health professionals should consider the cumulative exposures of their patients that come from work, personal habits, and living locations. 健康专家应该考虑患者来自于工作、个人习惯和居住地的累积的污染暴露。 First, we perform the new technique of cumulative test analysis on the results from the testing above. 首先，我们对来自于上面测试的结果执行累积测试分析的新技术。 —————————————— curb 抑制 curb n. 抑制；路边；勒马绳 vt. 控制；勒住 We must curb the spread and use of these weapons. 我们必须遏制这类武器的扩散和使用。 We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in agriculture and food. 我们应该加大农业投入，发展先进技术，抑制市场投机，增加粮食援助，加强农业和粮食合作。 Such measures include implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, such as raising taxes on tobacco, banning tobacco advertising and legislating to curb smoking in public places. 这些措施包括《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》的执行，如：提高烟草税、禁止烟草广告及通过立法抑制在公共场所吸烟等。 —————————————— curt curt curt adj. 简略的；简要的；草率的；简单粗暴的 n. (Curt)人名；(法)屈尔；(英)柯特；(德、西、芬、罗、瑞典)库尔特 “You’re just upset, ” Curt said. “你只是心情不好，”Curt说。 I didn’t want any of us to miss that game, because I knew that Curt’s career was coming to an end. 我不希望我们任何人错过赛事，因为我知道，Curt的投球生涯即将结束。 Whatever the reason, addressing the bullying of Billy has become a second job for his parents: Curt, a senior data analyst, and Penney, the owner of an office-supply company. 不管原因是什么，解决针对儿子的暴力问题成了他的父母的第二职业。 他的爸爸Curt是高级数据分析师，母亲penney是一家办公用品公司的老板。 —————————————— currency 货币 currency n. 货币；通货 This currency exchanges at par. 这些货币平价兑换。 The currency has devalued at a rapid rate. 货币已以很快的速度贬值了。 You can change your sterling into the local currency at the airport. 你可以在机场把你的英镑兑换成当地的货币。 —————————————— curriculum 课程 curriculum n. 课程 总课程 The curriculum must be preplanned. 课程设置必须事先计划好。 Where do you find your curriculum? 你在哪里找到你的课程的？ Once we plant the seeds of concurrency in these base courses, we then could expand on them throughout the curriculum. 一旦我们在这些基础课程中种下了并行的种子，那么我们就可以在课程中展开它们。 —————————————— customary 习惯 customary adj. 习惯的；通常的 n. 习惯法汇编 But we were actually named after relatives,as was customary among American Jews at the time. 但实际上，我们是根据亲属的名字命名的，这是当时在美国犹太人的习惯。 At the time it was customary instead of presenting a sheet of vellum to hang on the wall to present graduates like Borough with a pair of perfumed gloves. 在那个年代，按照惯例，毕业生——博洛也是其中之一——会被授予一双熏香过的手套，而不像现在，得到一张可以挂到墙上的上等皮纸文书。 But in reality, interpretations of customary codes, as well as traditional mourning and burial rites, often deny widows virtually all of their universally recognized rights. 但在现实中，对习惯法规的各种解读以及传统的丧葬礼仪往往剥夺了寡妇几乎所有的普遍公认权利。 —————————————— cylinder 油缸 cylinder n. 圆筒；汽缸；[数] 柱面；圆柱状物 The piston is reciprocating inside cylinder. 活塞在汽缸内部往复运动。 This large gear turns the small one to rotate the cylinder. 这个大齿轮带动小齿轮使滚筒旋转。 You see a green cylinder with a clock next to it while you create this array. 在创建此阵列时，您会看到一个绿色的圆筒，旁边还有一个时钟。 —————————————— cynical 愤世嫉俗的 cynical adj. 愤世嫉俗的；冷嘲的 You might think she’d be cynical by now. 你也许会认为她现在一定愤世嫉俗。 He was so cynical that he sneered at everything that made life worth living. 他也太玩世不恭了，凡是对人生有意义的事，他一概加以嘲笑。 Using cynical language that would offend the gays and the military alike if it became public, they drafted a memo on how to handle the subject. 使用愤世嫉俗的语言,可能触犯同志、军事一样如果成为公众场合,他们起草了一份备忘录,说明如何处理这个问题。 —————————————— damn 该死的 damn vt. 谴责；罚…下地狱 vi. 谴责 n. 一点；诅咒 adj. 可恶的 adv. 非常 int. 讨厌 Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! 该死的鱼雷!全速前进! Damn you all! she wants none of your tears! 你们都该死！ 她才不要你们的眼泪哩！ So I gave it to my mom, and now, every time I walk by her room, I see that damn jewelry box. 所以我把它送给了我妈。 可是现在，每次我走过她的房间，都会看到那个该死的首饰柜。 —————————————— dazzle 耀眼的光 dazzle n. 耀眼的光；灿烂 vt. 使……目眩；使……眼花 vi. 眼花缭乱；炫耀 Alas, it did not dazzle enough. 唉，因为它颜色不够炫丽。 And, though the gleams blind and dazzle, yet do they convey a hint of beauty and serenity greater than we have known or imagined. 虽然这光芒令人眼花缭乱，但它确实给予我们一种不曾经历和无法想象的美感和静谧的启示。 The candidates you meet are all going to try to dazzle you with their remarkable personalities, experience, work ethic, and love of teamwork. 你看到的应聘者都会试着用他们非凡的性格、经验、职业道德和对团队合作的热爱而让你眼花缭乱。 —————————————— deadly 致命的 deadly adj. 致命的；非常的；死一般的 adv. 非常；如死一般地 The shock was deadly to him. 这次打击对他是致命的。 The accident subjected her to a deadly blow. 这次意外使她受到致命的打击。 The combination of topography and weather can be deadly as well. 地形和天气相结合也可能是很致命的。 —————————————— decent 体面的 decent adj. 正派的；得体的；相当好的 There isn't even a decent table in this room. 这屋里连张像样的桌子也没有。 He was the only thing there that seemed decent: and I thought he never looked better. 他是那里唯一的看上去很体面的人；我认为他从来没有这样好看过。 A decent argument can almost certainly be made against all of those statements, which is why this award is so close this year, especially between Kobe and Paul. 一个得体的争论几乎可以明确的作出来对抗所有这些争论，那就是为什么今年这个奖项如此激烈，特别是在科比和保罗之间。 —————————————— decimal 小数 decimal adj. 小数的；十进位的 n. 小数 The last figure of the decimal 0.63 repeats. 小数0.63的末位数是循环的。 The little dot near the centre is the decimal point. 怪圈中心近处的那个小圆圈，就是小数点。 Britain converted to decimal currency on February 15th, 1971. 英国于1971年2月15日改用十进位币制。 —————————————— decisive 决定性的 decisive adj. 决定性的；果断的，坚定的 The battle for Abidjan will be decisive. 阿比让的战斗将是决定性的。 But group mind seems to be a liability in the decisive moments of touchdown, where there is no room for averages. 但是，群体智慧在飞机着陆的决定性时刻似乎成了不利条件，这时不能有什么平均的想法。 This was the first decisive stage of my training. 这是我第一个决定性的锻炼阶段。 —————————————— declaration 宣言 declaration n. （纳税品等的）申报；宣布；公告；申诉书 Another war declaration was handed down by the government. 政府又颁布了另一项战争宣言。 Who's the first man to subscribe to the Declaration of Independence? 谁是第一个在“独立宣言”上签名的人? We agree, and we seek to uphold this and the other Articles of the Declaration. 我们同意，并且我们试图拥护人权宣言上这一项和其它的内容。 —————————————— decline 下降 decline n. 下降；衰退；斜面 vi. 下降；衰落；谢绝 vt. 谢绝；婉拒 The decline in sales embarrassed our company. 销售下降使我们公司陷于困境。 The rate of decline, however, "will be gentler than in the US or Europe". 不过，日本报纸的下降速度“会比美国或欧洲要更加缓慢。” The move stopped the pound's decline but failed to bring about a significant rally. 这个行动制止了英镑的下跌， 但是未能使比价有很大上升。 —————————————— dedicate 奉献 dedicate vt. 致力；献身；题献 To her I dedicate this book. 我把这本书献给她。 She vowed to herself that she would dedicate her life to scientific studies. 她默默地发誓要献身于科学研究。 To my teacher I dedicate this dictionary in token of affection and gratitude. 我谨以此词典献给我的老师，以表示对他的爱戴和感激之情。 —————————————— deem 认为 deem vt. 认为，视作；相信 vi. 认为，持某种看法；作某种评价 n. (Deem)人名；(英)迪姆 I deem it advisable to buy property now. 我认为现在购置房地产是明智的。 And by the way, these high-value points that we deem necessary have already been validated by our customers. 顺便说一下，这些我们认为是必要的高价值点已经被我们的客户确认是有效的。 Some observers expressed their concern that China would use the East Asia Summit to expand its influence in this region. Do you deem the concern reasonable? 一些观察家表示，担心中国利用此次东亚峰会扩大中国在这一地区的影响力，你认为这一担心是否有道理？ —————————————— deficiency 缺乏 deficiency n. 缺陷，缺点；缺乏；不足的数额 Though fully aware that the source of unhappiness is in us, we nevertheless turn a personal defect into a metaphysical deficiency. 虽然我们充分的意识到痛苦的来源在于我们自身，但我们仍然把形而上学的缺乏变成个人的缺陷。 They also show deficiency in the development of social poise, which might not be available otherwise and this deprives them of their privilege. 同时，他们也暴露出在社交方面的不足，这点或许在其他方面察觉不到，由此剥夺了他们社会交往的权利。 To live in despair is a mark of great endurance, whereas to grow dull and stupid after a great unhappiness is a mark of deficiency. 生活在绝望之中象征着巨大的忍耐力，而在经历巨大的痛苦之后变得迟钝愚蠢则是缺乏忍耐力的表现。 —————————————— deficit 赤字 deficit n. 赤字；不足额 We have a great deficit this year. 我们今年有很大亏损。 They must retrench their expenditure for the purpose of making up the deficit. 为了弥补赤字，他们必须压缩开支。 These measures would not enlarge the budget deficit because they would be paid for. 这些措施不会扩大预算赤字，因为他们都是被买过单的了。 —————————————— defy 藐视 defy vt. 藐视；公然反抗；挑衅；使落空 n. 挑战；对抗 We had to defy them whatever the cost. 无论付出什么代价，我们都得对抗他们。 In the mobile world we have devices that require us to defy those practices. 在移动世界，我们有设备要求我们挑战这些实践。 We have this instinctual response to people who defy social conventions in a way that threatens the group. 我们对于公然反抗社会传统，威胁到群体的人会有这种本能的反应。 —————————————— degenerate 简并 degenerate vt. 使退化；恶化 vi. 退化；堕落 adj. 退化的；堕落的 n. 堕落的人 What about the degenerate cases? 退化的情形是怎样的？ And all is well, provided that the light returns and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. 一切都很好，只要光明重现，只要暂时的隐没不要退化成黑夜就是了。 That happens to be the question the Nazis’ “Degenerate” show posed about modern art. 这也碰巧是纳粹“堕落”艺术展给现代艺术提出的问题。 —————————————— degrade 降低 degrade vt. 贬低；使……丢脸；使……降级；使……降解 vi. 降级，降低；退化 This will degrade performance. 这样将降低性能。 As they degrade, the phosphates migrate into the soil. 它们在降解以后，磷酸盐会进入土壤。 Be sure not to use either paper towels, which can leave lint and other fibers, or solutions like window cleaner, which can degrade your display. 请确认没有用纸毛巾，如果用这些将能够留下棉和其它一些纤维，或者像用一些擦窗器，它将降低你的显示。 —————————————— delegate 委托 delegate vt. 委派…为代表 n. 代表 They drafted him to serve as their delegate. 他们选派他作他们的代表。 Each delegate could then be invoked separately. 然后可以单独调用每个委托。 These classes delegate responsibility for base class behavior to an instance of the base class. 这些类将基础类行为的责任委托给基础类的一个实例。 —————————————— deliberate 深思熟虑的 deliberate adj. 故意的；深思熟虑的；从容的 vt. 仔细考虑；商议 I hope you will deliberate on these issues. 我希望你们对这些问题进行商议。 This can happen for a variety of reasons, and these reasons can be unintended as well as deliberate. 这一情况可能是由多种原因造成的，这些原因可能是无意的，也可能是故意的。 You can only intervene if you believe this is a deliberate tactic to waste time. 如果您相信这种故意的战术是用来浪费时间的，那么你只能去干预它。 —————————————— denial 否认 denial n. 否认；拒绝；节制；背弃 You can be in denial about something happening to you or to someone else. 你可以因发生在自身或是他人身上的事件而进入否认状态。 It means facing difficulties without denial, as well as fully enjoying the beauty of each moment. 它意味着不拒绝面对困难，同样也完全地享受目前每一秒钟的美好。 Most organizations think of threat detection and threat denial but rarely do they plan, with a qualified security professional, what to do if or when their systems are breached. 大多数组织都考虑到了威胁检测和威胁拒绝，但很少为此作出规划，对于一名合格的安全专家，如果系统遭到破坏怎么办。 —————————————— denote 表示 denote vt. 表示，指示 The flashing lights denote dangerous roads ahead. 闪光表示前方道路危险。 These lines denote a flow out of the process dependent on a condition. 这些线表示了依赖于条件的，自这个过程出发的流向。 A gateway acts as a proxy service, and you can use it to mediate protocols or to denote the interface available to a partition. 一个网关充当一个代理服务，你可以使用它来协调协议或者表示一个划分上的可以利用的接口。 —————————————— denounce 谴责 denounce vt. 谴责；告发；公然抨击；通告废除 And if we fail, they will denounce us. 如果我们失败了，会遭到谴责。 They denounce deficit spending, declaring that you can’t solve debt problems with more debt. 他们谴责赤字型开支，声称不能用更多的债务解决债务问题。 "When we catch them and beat them up to put them back on the right track, they denounce us at the police, " he added. “如果抓住他们痛打一顿，把他们拉回正轨，他们会向警察告发我们，”熊谷正敏又说道。 —————————————— dentist 牙医 dentist n. 牙科医生 牙医诊所 The dentist will treat my tooth. 这名牙医将医治我的牙齿。 Could you put me on to a good dentist? 你能帮我找个好的牙医吗? The word “dentist”denotes a doctor whose work is the care of teeth. “牙科医生”一词意谓其工作是医治牙齿的医生。 —————————————— depict 描述 depict vt. 描述；描画 You may not know this but women CAN get highly aroused even with just words, especially those that depict what you plan to do to them in bed. 你可能不知道这点，但脏话确实能够非常好地带动女性的情绪，特别是那些描述你即将在床上要做的动作的脏话。 You could also use it as a place to gather diagrams from the more detailed models of a solution, so that you can depict various architecturally significant viewpoints of that solution. 您还能够将它用作一个从解决方案的细节模型中收集图的地方，从而您就能够描述那个解决方案的各种各样的架构的重要观点。 How can we expect to be respected if we do not respect ourselves, if our media and our literature always depict us by our blackest traits? 如果我们的媒体与文学作品总是把我们最黑暗的特质描绘出来，而我们自己都不尊重自己，那我们又怎么能奢望别人来尊重我们呢？ —————————————— depression 抑郁症 depression n. 沮丧；洼地；不景气；忧愁；低气压区 During a depression money circulates slowly. 在商业萧条时期， 货币流通滞缓。 Many people associate dark clouds with depression and gloom. 许多人把乌云与沮丧、阴郁联系起来。 The depression smashed him. 萧条的经济使他破产了。 —————————————— deprive 剥夺 deprive vt. 使丧失，剥夺 If you deprive them of education, the nation cannot progress. 如果剥夺了她们受教育的权利，国家就不能进步。 Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, and you have the gamin. 你把一些无用的东西送给一个人，又从他身上把必需的东西剥夺掉，你便有了一个野孩。 People love to read stories, and there’s only one you in this world, so don’t deprive them of yours! 人们很喜欢看故事。 因为你是世界上独一无二的，所以你不应该剥夺人们了解你的权利。 —————————————— depute 授权给 depute vt. 委任；授权给；指定…为代理人 The depute at the moment revolves around whether other delegates should attend. 此刻的辩论围绕著其他代表们是否应该参加。 “I hereby depute you to handle my affairs during my absence,” announced my boss, as he handed me the keys. “我特派你代理我出门期间的一切事物。” 我的老板一边递给我钥匙，一边宣布。 The royalty also plays an important part in the calculation of compensation amount on depute cases such as infringing trademark right and patent right. 许可使用费在侵犯商标专用权、专利权纠纷案件得赔偿数额计算中，也起着十分重要的作用。 —————————————— descendant 后代 descendant adj. 下降的；祖传的 n. 后裔；子孙 He was a descendant of Spanish soldier. 他是一名西班牙士兵的子孙。 Every man is the descendant of every king and every slave that ever lived. 每一个人都是已往的每一个君王和每一个奴隶的后裔。 If you must use descendant selectors, prefer child selectors, which at least only require evaluation of one additional node, not all the intermediate nodes up to an ancestor. 如果您必须使用后代选择器，尽量使用子代选择器，这最少只需评估一个额外的节点，而非中间直至祖先的所有节点。 —————————————— descent 血统 descent n. 下降；血统；袭击 vt. 除去…的气味；使…失去香味 The authors show how this was triggered by his belief in the common descent of all humans. 作者表明，这张图是如何由他的信仰引发出来的，达尔文相信全人类属于共同的血统。 For extra bases (no, not really) adjust the "Angle of Descent" to see how a little curve becomes a big one in your peripheral vision. 对于额外基地(没有，不真正地)调整“下降角”看小的曲线怎么成为一个在您的周边视觉。 When the birds arrive atop a rock, and any threats have passed, they jump to the ground using their wings to slow the descent; that is how Dr. Dial believes flight may have begun. 当这些鸟爬到岩石顶部且所有的威胁都消失后， 它们就会跳到地面上，其间会用翅膀减速降落——这就是戴尔博士所认为的飞行可能已经开始了。 —————————————— designate 指定 designate vt. 指定；指派；标出；把…定名为 adj. 指定的；选定的 For each set, you must designate one primary persona; the others are all secondary. 对每个组，您必须指派一个主要角色，其他的都是次要的。 And so what we do, in order to designate the identity of an atom, is the following. 所以，我们要做什么，为了标出原子的特性，这就是我们要做的。 You could designate one of your internal machines as the time server. 您可以指定一台内部的机器作为时间服务器。 —————————————— despatch 匆匆离开 despatch vt. 派遣；发送；匆匆吃下 vi. 匆匆离开 n. 派遣；发送（等于dispatch） Men would not have had the information or wherewithal to build computers, to fly to the moon, or write and despatch editorials like this one. 人类将不会获得知识和必要的资金来制造计算机，去飞往月球，或者写作和发表像本文这样的社论。 In that despatch Mr Chun reportedly says some Chinese officials were willing to "face the new reality" that North Korea was of little value to China as a buffer state. 据说，千英宇提到一些中国官员愿意“面对新的现实”，即对于中国而言，朝鲜已经失去了作为一个缓冲国家的作用。 The organisations and businesses taking part in the programme are Transport for London, the Government Car and Despatch Agency, the Metropolitan Police Service, News International and Sky. 参加该规划的组织和企业包括大伦敦交通委员会，政府汽车及调遣局，所在地的警察总部等。 —————————————— despise 鄙视 despise vt. 轻视，鄙视 As to you, I despise you. 至于你，我看不起你。 I despise such people; they've no character. 我藐视这种人， 他们没骨气。 Strategically we should despise all our enemies, but tactically we should take them all seriously. 在战略上我们要藐视一切敌人， 在战术上我们要重视一切敌人。 —————————————— destined 注定 destined adj. 注定的；命定的；去往…的 v. 注定（destine的过去式和过去分词） Those who can draw lessons from failure are destined for success. 那些能从失败中吸取教训的人是注定会成功的。 Some revert to the letter of the gospel law: Since these people have heard the literal words of the gospel and refused to name the Name, they are destined for hell. 一些回复的信福音:因为这些法律人都听过福音的直译的话,拒绝的名字叫什么,它们都是注定下地狱的。 Perhaps we are only destined to dream of only flying without wings and never do it. 也许我们命中注定只能在梦中做无翼飞行，而在现实中永远叶做不到。 —————————————— destiny 命运 destiny n. 命运，定数，天命 n. (Destiny)人名；(英)德斯蒂尼，德斯蒂妮(女名) This is our destiny. 这是我们的命运。 He always pins his destiny to other person. 他常把自己的命运依附于别人身上。 You gotta buck up on certain situations and create your own destiny, which is up to each and every one of us. 在一些特定环境下你要振作精神，创造属于你自己的命运，这对我们每个人都是受用的。 —————————————— destructive 具有破坏性的 destructive adj. 破坏的；毁灭性的；有害的，消极的 Which brings me back to the destructive effect of focusing on invisible monsters. 这个问题又将我们带到看不见怪物引起的破坏性作用上。 This destructive activity soon spread to other areas of the city and, in the days that followed, to other parts of the country. 这种破坏性活动很快蔓延到伦敦的其他地区，还在以后的几天里蔓延到了这个国家的其他城市。 We talk about "healthy" and "destructive" conflict, and generally we have worked very hard to eliminate it. 我们会谈到“健康的”和“破坏性的”冲突，一般来说，我们会努力消除冲突。 —————————————— detach 分离 detach vt. 分离；派遣；使超然 We "detach" the response entity, as discussed before. 如上所述，我们“分离”了响应实体。 Put away (or “detach”) the data that your application does not need by storing the data into some persistent data store. 通过将数据存储到一些永久性数据存储中而收起（或 “分离”）应用程序不需要的数据。 And if I want to detach it, I just click and drag, and now I can go back and put different puzzle pieces there altogether. 另外，假如我想分离它，我只需要单击并拖动，然后就可以回到过去那个状态,再继续把不同的拼图放到一起。 —————————————— detective 侦探 detective adj. 侦探的 n. 侦探 The man was tailed by a detective. 那个人被一个侦探尾随着。 He unbent his mind by reading detective stories. 他以读侦探小说来使他的心情松弛。 The detective turned up some new clues to the case. 侦探发现了这个案子的一些新线索。 —————————————— deteriorate 恶化 deteriorate vi. 恶化，变坏 vt. 恶化 Food is apt to deteriorate in summer. 食物在夏天爱变质。 “The goal is to do a scan on someone before they get the disease and be able to tell if they’re at higher risk or starting to deteriorate,” she said. “我们的目标是在某人患上老年痴呆病之前， 对他的脑部进行扫描，从而预先告知他们是否处于较高疾病风险或情况开始恶化，”她说。 If you ignore your paying customers, and they hear from you only through their invoices, then you can expect the relationship to deteriorate over time. 如果你忽视了你的付费顾客，然后他们仅能通过他们的发票了解你们，接下来你可以预期到随着时间你们的关系会恶化。 —————————————— deviate 偏离 deviate vi. 脱离；越轨 vt. 使偏离 We hope our leaders do not deviate far from a market-oriented global economic system. To do so would risk damaging a system that has served us well for thirty years. 我们希望我们的领导人们不会偏离市场导向的全球经济体系太远，否则一个为我们良好运行了三十年的体系将会有受损的危险。 The original designed degree of friction was obviously chosen to maximize the balance between the two forces at play; any change can only deviate from that, and away from that original ideal balance. 原始的设计中，选择这样的摩擦角度显然是为了最大程度的平衡运行中的两种力；任何改变都只会背离这种初衷，也无法达到这种理想的平衡。 If the lines deviate too much, the computer voice tells them to slow down. 如果红线偏离的角度太大，电脑语音会警示进食者慢下来。 —————————————— diagnose 诊断 diagnose vt. 诊断；断定 vi. 诊断；判断 How did they diagnose you? 他们怎么给你的诊断的？ What tools do you need to help you diagnose the problem, and where do you get them? 您需要什么工具来帮助您诊断问题，可以从哪里获得这些工具？ Evidently this springs from some defect in their nature, but it is one not altogether easy either to diagnose of to cure. 这种情形显然源于他们本性上的某种缺陷，但是这种缺陷既不容易诊断也不容易治疗。 —————————————— diet 饮食 diet n. 饮食；食物；规定饮食 vi. 节食 vt. [医] 照规定饮食 n. (Diet)人名；(法)迪耶 We must diet and take more exercise. 我们必须节食并多锻炼。 She attributes her great age to carefully planned diet. 她认为她的高寿是精心安排饮食的结果。 More exercise and a change of diet will tone up your body. 多进行锻炼并改变饮食会使你身强体壮。 —————————————— differentiate 区分 differentiate vi. 区分，区别 vt. 区分，区别 A botanist can differentiate varieties of plants. 植物学家能区分各种不同的植物。 Its unusual nesting habits differentiate this bird from others. 这种鸟非同寻常的筑巢习惯是它区别于其他鸟的特征。 He was unable to differentiate even between the circle and the ellipse. 他甚至不能区别圆和椭圆。 —————————————— diffuse 扩散 diffuse adj. 弥漫的；散开的 vt. 扩散；传播；漫射 vi. 传播；四散 The printing press helped diffuse scientific knowledge. 印刷品有助于传播科学知识。 Such collisions would have left lasting marks in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the diffuse light left over from the Big Bang that pervades the universe, the researchers say. 研究人员说，这种碰撞会在宇宙微波背景（CMB）的辐射中留在下持久的标记，那就是大爆炸所遗留下来遍及宇宙的漫射光。 The chemicals diffuse quickly across the minute gap between the neurons and dock with receptors on the surface of the receiving neuron. 这些化学物质迅速扩散通过神经元之间的小间隙，与接收神经元表面的受体对接。 —————————————— dignity 尊严 dignity n. 尊严；高贵 They have to be treated well, with dignity. 必须善待申请人，让人有尊严。 We do this because we believe in the dignity and value of every person. 我们这样做是因为我们相信每个人的尊严和价值。 This award must be shared with everyone who strives for justice and dignity. 我一定要与所有为正义和尊严奋斗的人分享此奖。 —————————————— dilemma 两难的境地 dilemma n. 困境；进退两难；两刀论法 This creates yet another dilemma. 这就造成了另一个困境。 You place me in sth. of a dilemma. 你真叫我有点进退两难。 So the real dilemma lies not in what handset you choose, but which network you opt for. 所以真正的困境不在于你选择什么手机，而在于你选择什么网络。 —————————————— dilute 稀释 dilute adj. 稀释的；淡的 vt. 稀释；冲淡；削弱 vi. 变稀薄；变淡 Dilute the juice (with water) before you drink it. 喝果汁之前，用水把它冲淡。 If for any reason you cannot avoid drinking alcohol, drink water soon after or dilute your alcoholic drink with ice or water. 要是你实在不能避免要喝酒，那么之后赶紧多喝水或是通过吃冰或饮水来稀释你所饮用的酒。 There the people-made pollutants increasingly surpass the ability of air and water to dilute the contaminants to safe levels. 在那里，人为的污染物质日益超越了空气和水将污染物分解稀释到安全水平的能力。 —————————————— diminish 减少 diminish vt. 使减少；使变小 vi. 减少，缩小；变小 Time will not diminish our friendship. 时间的流逝将不会减弱我们的友谊。 Time will never make our friendship diminish. 时间的流逝永不会使我们的友谊减弱。 But our minds are not evolved to think about strangers, and we obsess, needlessly, about what people think of us and how these insults will diminish us in the eyes of others. 但是当我们想到那些陌生人，当我们被别人的看法和那些侮辱在别人眼中会怎样削弱自己的想法所缠绕时，我们的思想是不会演化的。 —————————————— dine 吃饭 dine vi. 进餐，用餐 vt. 宴请 n. (Dine)人名；(意、葡)迪内；(英)戴恩；(法)迪纳 Fish may dine underwater, but they still need to remember their manners at mealtime. 鱼可以在水下用餐，不过它们也需要记住就餐时的举止。 A central, terraced veranda welcomes guests to relax, dine or swim in the salt water pool at its base. 住客可以在一个位于中央的梯形阳台放松，用餐，也可以在下面的盐水池游泳。 I am invited to lunch with supermarket PRs, to dine in restaurants for free and sometimes to try out beauty serums, or, as I call them, slimes. 我被邀请同超级市场公关们一起午餐，免费在餐馆吃饭，偶尔试试美容精华，或者当我联系他们后，为我涂抹深海泥。 —————————————— diploma 文凭 diploma n. 毕业证书，学位证书；公文，文书；奖状 vt. 发给…毕业文凭 The master diplomaed him a high school diploma. 校长发给他中学毕业证书。 If you have a lot of knowledge and practical experience in your field but no diploma to show for it, life experience credits may give you some of the recognition you deserve. 你知识渊博，在你的专业领域有很多的实践经验，但是这些不能通过证书来反映。 生活经历学分会带给你一些你应得的荣誉。 One of my aims when setting out on the diploma was to give my PR work a decent theoretical grounding, in the same way as I have with my marketing work. 我在开始学这个文凭时的其中一个目的是，为我的公共关系工作提供一个像样的理论基础，正如我对营销工作所做的一样。 —————————————— diplomatic 外交 diplomatic adj. 外交的；外交上的；老练的 He will go far in the diplomatic service. 他在外交部门会大有前途。 This would be against diplomatic etiquette. 这将在外交上犯失礼的错误。 He has long credentials of diplomatic service. 他的外交工作资历很深。 —————————————— directory 目录 directory n. [计] 目录；工商名录；姓名地址录 adj. 指导的；咨询的 Think of it like a directory within a file system. 可以将它想象为文件系统内的一个目录。 Examine this directory to debug problems, or to see the status of activation. 检查这个目录以调试相关的问题，或者查看激活的状态。 However, as soon as you do that, the directory itself and all its subdirectories pop right back up again. 但在您删除后，目录本身及其所有子目录又会立即出现在原来的位置。 —————————————— disable 禁用 disable vt. 使失去能力；使残废；使无资格 I will disable it again after the migration. 我将在迁移结束后再次禁用它。 We can disable this behavior by defining the closure to be static. 我们可以通过将闭包定义为静态闭包禁用此行为。 Therefore, for performance reasons, you might be tempted to disable all diagnostics during normal operation of the system. 因此，出于性能方面的原因，您可能希望在系统正常运行期间禁用所有诊断功能。 —————————————— disastrous 灾难性的 disastrous adj. 灾难性的；损失惨重的；悲伤的 The consequences of these actions were disastrous. 这些行动的结果是灾难性的。 Yet as I said, there’s a push for a repeat of this disastrous performance. 然而，正如我前面所说的那样，有人推动要重演灾难性的这一幕。 Since I have been on my own, however, I have been far more appreciative of it, conscious of how disastrous it would be to lose it. 然而，自从我得依靠我自己以来，我对这份工作就喜欢多了，因为我意识到了，如果失去这份工作，那将是灾难。 —————————————— discern 辨别 discern vt. 识别；领悟，认识 vi. 看清楚，辨别 We should learn to discern and analyze the essentials of complicated questions. 我们应该学会认识和分析复杂问题的本质。 Some of the traditional top-down heavily marketed hits I think will lose because it's so easy for people to discern whether they are really good or just marketed very well. 我认为一些管理传统的市场热卖品将会处于劣势，因为人们可以很容易的分辨出这些畅销品是否真的很好或者只是销售的很好而已。 It is about enabling potential consumers to discern through contract metadata which service and capability may best meet their need. 它的内涵是，促使潜在消费者通过契约元数据来辨别最符合它们需要的服务和能力。 —————————————— disclose 披露 disclose vt. 公开；揭露 I cannot disclose more of what we are doing but something has to be changed. 至于我们现在正在做什么，我不能透露过多，但事情一定会有所改观。 And if you do wish to disclose your name, you certainly can, per the directions on this page. 如果你非常想公开你的名字，你当然也可以，通过这个页面上的指示。 She declined to disclose what caused the glitch. 但她拒绝透露导致该问题的原因。 —————————————— discount 折扣 discount n. 折扣；贴现率 vi. 贴现；打折扣出售商品 vt. 打折扣；将…贴现；贬损；低估；忽视 We can discount ten percent for you . 我们可以给你10%的折扣。 The store will discount 5% for cash payment. 本店对现金付款打九五折。 The store promised to discount prices at 10%. 该店承诺所有商品打10%的折扣。 —————————————— discrepancy 差异 discrepancy n. 不符；矛盾；相差 One area where this gap is often revealed is in a discrepancy between dedicated resources and estimated costs. 这种隔阂常常显露出的一个区域是专用的资源和估算的成本之间的差异。 At first, they questioned their findings, but then Polacheck and Kamm realized that the cause of the discrepancy is the existence of two competing mechanisms. 首先，他们质疑了他们的发现，但是接着珀拉切克和卡姆意识到这种差异的原因是两种竞争机制的存在。 We don't know why there is this discrepancy. 我们尚不清楚为什么会存在这种差异。 —————————————— discrete 离散 discrete adj. 离散的，不连续的 n. 分立元件；独立部件 Whatever course you have set for development, that course possesses discrete processes. 不论您为开发设置的什么过程，该过程拥有离散的过程。 By organizing the solution into discrete levels, architects are able to focus on a single aspect of the solution while ignoring for the moment all remaining complexities. 通过将解决方案组织到离散的层次，架构师可以将精力集中在解决方案的单个方面而忽略所有剩余的复杂性。 By organizing the solution into discrete levels, architects are able to focus on a single aspect of the solution while ignoring all remaining complexities. 通过将解决方案组织到离散的层次，架构师可以专注于解决方案的单个方面而忽略所有剩余的复杂性。 —————————————— discriminate 歧视 discriminate vt. 歧视；区别；辨别 vi. 区别；辨别 I can discriminate right from wrong. 我能辨别是非。 He is able to discriminate good book from bad. 他具有区分优秀图书与低劣图书的能力。 The child can discriminate one thing from another. 这孩子能把一事物与另一事物区别开来。 —————————————— disguise 伪装 disguise vt. 掩饰；假装；隐瞒 n. 伪装；假装；用作伪装的东西 She tried to disguise her real feelings. 她试图掩饰自己的真实情感。 Temptation comes to all of us, whether or not we succumb depends on our ability to recognize its disguise. 每个人都会受到诱惑，我们是否屈服与诱惑决定于我们识破其伪装的能力。 One of the best ways to slip in complex information is to disguise it with fun or the 'wow' factor. 悄悄插入复杂信息的最佳方式之一就是用有趣的或者令人惊奇的事实来伪装它。 —————————————— dismay 沮丧 dismay n. 沮丧，灰心；惊慌 vt. 使沮丧；使惊慌 Technology commentators have reacted with fury and dismay to the Google ruling. 技术评论员对谷歌受到的判决感到愤怒和沮丧。 Unlicensed software, music, and videos are downloaded freely on the Internet, to the dismay of industry. 令娱乐工业沮丧的是，未经许可的软件、音乐和影像在互联网上无偿下载。 Can you work up anger and regret and dismay over that? 你会因此而变得生气，懊悔和沮丧吗？ —————————————— dispatch 调度 dispatch n. 派遣；急件 vt. 派遣；分派 These handlers should always be deployed after the dispatch phase. 这些处理程序应该始终部署在调度阶段后。 A basic use of a selector is for simple dispatch, which means you can dynamically reroute the destination of a service call from one component or import to another. 选择器的基本用途是进行简单的分派，这意味着您可以将服务调用的目标从一个组件或导入动态地重新路由到或导入另一个组件。 We have covered how you can use a selector in a simple dispatch scenario. 我们向您介绍了如何在简单的分派场景中使用选择器。 —————————————— disperse 分散 disperse vt. 分散；使散开；传播 vi. 分散 adj. 分散的 The police fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd. 警察朝天开枪，企图驱散人群。 It was only when the ash from the disintegrating moon rained down on their faces and breasts that they began to disperse. 当灰尘从即将碎裂的月亮上面落下来拂过她们的脸庞和乳房的时候，她们才开始散开。 Even central banks, until recently keen to disperse some of their gold holdings, could soon be sniffing around for more of the precious metal, analysts say. 分析师称,即便是近期还热衷于要分散部分黄金储备的各国央行,可能很快也会到处寻求吸纳更多黄金. —————————————— displace 取代 displace vt. 取代；置换；转移；把…免职；排水 I'm trying to displace him in his job. 我在试图取代他的工作。 Those resources can displace nuclear power. 那些能源能取代核能。 China cannot displace the United States from Asia; only the United States can. 中国不能取代美国在亚洲的位置；只有美国有这个能力。 —————————————— disposition 性格 disposition n. 处置；[心理] 性情；[军] 部署；倾向 She has a good disposition. 她的性情好。 The twin brothers are alike in appearance but differ greatly in disposition. 这对孪生兄弟外貌很相像， 但性格却相差很大。 These descriptions help to realize the disposition of the leading character. 这些描写有助于使主人公的性格显得真实。 —————————————— disregard 不顾 disregard vt. 忽视；不理；漠视；不顾 n. 忽视；不尊重 Please disregard the mess and sit right here. 请不顾凌乱状态，就坐在这儿吧。 Some of the comments under the video displayed how a bias can make us disregard something without even looking at what it is. 从视频下面的评论可以看出，成见可以让我们忽视一些我们甚至还弄清楚那是什么东西的东西。 If there are things that would change your mind and you know that they would change your mind about your behavior, ? how can it be rational to disregard them? 如果有什么东西会改变你的想法,而你知道它们会改变你的行为，无视它们又怎么能是合理的呢？ —————————————— disrupt 破坏 disrupt vt. 破坏；使瓦解；使分裂；使中断；使陷于混乱 adj. 分裂的，中断的；分散的 But people went with the flow, and no one let those issues disrupt the class. 但是人们跟着流程走，而没有人会允许这些问题扰乱课堂。 Chatty colleagues not only disrupt their own schedules, but also prevent you from completing your task on time. 爱讲闲话的同事不仅扰乱自己的日程安排，也会阻碍你按时完成工作。 It also assumes that components to be deleted will not disrupt the interoperability of remaining components with others. 同样，它也假定要删除的组件将不会破坏剩余组件之间的互操作性。 —————————————— dissipate 消散 dissipate vt. 浪费；使…消散 vi. 驱散；放荡 Don't dissipate your efforts. 不要浪费你的精力。 In fact, by acknowledging their presence and providing a channel for them to dissipate, we can dissolve our emotions gradually. 其实，承认它们的存在，并为其提供一个消散的通道，我们才能逐渐化解这些情感。 In Russia, suspicion of products that are discounted has only recently begun to dissipate. 在俄罗斯，人们对打折商品的疑虑直到最近才开始消散。 —————————————— distil 蒸馏 distil vi. 蒸馏；提炼；渗出 vt. 蒸馏；提取…的精华；使渗出 By the tenth century, Arabs had figured out how to distil it; the streets of Cairo were lit by the stuff. 在第十世纪，阿拉伯人想出了如何蒸馏石油。 开罗用这种材料来照亮大街。 Try a variety of materials to extract the oils. They will not always smell the same after extraction as before, as some oils are easier to distil this way. 尝试一下用各种材料来提炼精油。它们提炼后的气味经常与提炼之前不同，并且有一些精油更容易用这种方法提炼。 When they took the paper out, Shereshevskii could remember it exactly…Shereshevskii could remember, but he couldn’t distil. 当他们再次把这张纸拿到所罗门·舍雷舍夫斯基面前时，他依旧能准确地记起来。 他能记得事实，却无法提炼。 —————————————— distort 扭曲 distort vt. 扭曲；使失真；曲解 vi. 扭曲；变形 But the more they control and distort the agenda of those institutions, the more they weaken them. 他们越是控制和扭曲这些机构的职责，这些机构的功能就越被弱化。 If you don't account for the timing of these events, they can seriously distort your timing results. 如果您不处理这些事件的计时问题，那么它们会严重歪曲您的计时结果。 Massive objects like the sun can bend light, but colossal clouds of dark matter create "bubbles" in the cosmos that magnify, distort and duplicate the light of galaxies or stars behind them. 巨大的星体，例如太阳能够使光弯曲，但是庞大的暗物质云会产生宇宙“气泡”，由星系或星体发出的光经过这些“气泡”会被放大，扭曲和复制。 —————————————— distract 分散 distract vt. 转移；分心 Several people talking at once distract a listener. 几个人同时讲话会使听者分散注意力。 I owe you this duty and nothing will distract me from it. 这是我对你的一个义务，任何事情都不能让我分心。 If we let them, such irritants can distract us from the enjoyment of life. 如果我们允许，这种刺激能使我们从生活的快乐中转移出去。 —————————————— disturbance 干扰 disturbance n. 干扰；骚乱；忧虑 The disturbance was repressed at last by the riot police. 骚乱最终被防暴警察镇压下来。 It's impossible to localize the effect of this political disturbance. 无法将这场政治骚乱的影响限制在局部范围内。 You can work in here without any disturbance. 在这儿你可不受任何干扰地工作。 —————————————— diversion 转移 diversion n. 转移；消遣；分散注意力 We had for a short time a tutor of whom this was a pet diversion. 有一位教我们时间很短的家庭老师，这样的行为就是他最得意的消遣。 Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of diversion, and brought news of the outside world. 陌生人和旅游者是受欢迎的消遣的来源，他们带来外部世界的新闻。 Up to a quarter of what governments spend on medicines each year is lost to fraud, bribery and diversion of pharmaceuticals, says the World Health Organization. 世界卫生组织说，各国政府每年在医药上的投入可能有多达四分之一因为制药商的欺诈、行贿和转移而损失。 —————————————— divert 转移 divert vt. 转移；使…欢娱；使…转向 vi. 转移 n. (Divert)人名；(法)迪韦尔 Otherwise it will divert resources where they’re needed. 否则它会将资源转移到需要的地方。 The passenger is stabilised and monitored with the assistance of a doctor on the flight and the decision is made to continue the journey rather than divert to the nearest airport. 最终在航班上一名医生的协助下，患病乘客状况得以稳定并处于监控中，机组决定继续航程而不用转移到就近机场。 But to look away, you have to really look away, meaning you have to divert enough of your attention to something else while you’re looking away. 不但要移开目光，还要真的是把注意力转移开。 也就是说你必须放足够的注意力在其他的事情上。 —————————————— divine 神圣的 divine adj. 神圣的；非凡的；天赐的；极好的 vt. 占卜；预言；用占卜勘探 vi. 占卜；预言；使用占卜勘探矿 n. 牧师；神学家 n. (Divine)人名；(英)迪万 The oracles were expected to divine the future. 传神谕者被期盼能预言未来。 I don't believe that astrologers are able to divine. 我不相信占星家能作预言。 In ancient mythology there was no impassable gulf separating the divine from the human beings. 在上古神话中， 神与人之间没有不可逾越的鸿沟。 —————————————— dizzy 头晕 dizzy adj. 晕眩的；使人头晕的；昏乱的；心不在焉的；愚蠢的 vt. 使头晕眼花；使混乱；使茫然 n. (Dizzy)人名；(英)迪齐 Weapons like arrow,poison arrow and dizzy arrow. 武器有普通弓箭、毒箭和眩晕箭。 I felt dizzy when I looked down from the top of the television tower. 当我从电视塔顶往下看时，我感到头晕目眩。 I have been called a dizzy queen by some friends, and that's all right. 有些朋友叫我‘头晕的皇后’，我觉得这样的称呼没什么不好。 —————————————— dock 码头 dock n. 码头；船坞；被告席；尾巴的骨肉部分 vt. 使靠码头；剪短 vi. 入船坞 n. (Dock)人名；(老)多；(英、法、瑞典)多克 They easied on approaching the dock. 船驶近码头时他们停止了划桨。 The ship disgorged its passengers at the dock. 船在码头下客。 The dockers disburdened the merchandise at the dock. 码头工人把货物卸在码头上。 —————————————— doctrine 学说 doctrine n. 主义；学说；教义；信条 What is his doctrine of Christ? 他关于基督的教义是什么？ The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx's economic theory. 剩余价值学说是马克思经济理论的基石。 How, then, should one support any social or political doctrine? 那么，人凭什么支撑任何社会或政治学说呢？ —————————————— domain 域 domain n. 领域；域名；产业；地产 n. (Domain)人名；(英、法)多曼 But there would be other domain. 但是也还有其他领域的人。 The domain is vast. 领域广大。 Next, I have my domain objects implement the interface. 下一步，我使我的域对象实现该界面。 —————————————— dome 圆顶 dome n. 圆屋顶 vi. 成圆顶状 vt. 加圆屋顶于…上 n. (Dome)人名；(法)多姆 We are all under the dome. 我们都生活在穹顶下。 It has 5 halls with historical documents, 5 halls on the first floor and another one right under the dome of the building. 建筑包含有5个放有历史文献的大厅，这5个大厅在一楼，另有一间在建筑的圆顶之下。 To this day, no building in Florence may rise above the dome. 时至今日，在佛罗伦萨没有任何一栋建筑高过这个圆顶的。 —————————————— dominant 占主导地位的 dominant adj. 显性的；占优势的；支配的，统治的 n. 显性 This is the tyranny of the dominant signature, caused by the limitation of expressing the element with only one name. 这就是主导签名的专制，由只使用一个名称来表示元素的限制所导致的。 Numerous persons with only a few Negroid traits annually pass over and are ab-sorbed into the dominant Caucasoid population. 许许多多只有少许黑人特征的人每年都被当作白人而被吸收为占优势的高加索种群人口。 Fear once was the dominant driver in my life and I was dying inside because of it. 一旦恐惧成为了我生命中占有优势的掌控者，我的心灵将会因此而死去。 —————————————— dominate 占据主导地位 dominate vt. 控制；支配；占优势；在…中占主要地位 vi. 占优势；处于支配地位 She must dominate her passions. 她必须控制自己的情感。 They had the ambition to dominate this small country. 他们有控制这个小国的野心。 No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation. 没有哪一个国家能够或应该试图主宰另一个国家。 —————————————— donate 捐赠 donate vt. 捐赠；捐献 vi. 捐赠；捐献 n. 捐赠；捐献 n. (Donate)人名；(西)多纳特 Donate books to your local library or school. 向当地的图书馆或学校捐赠图书。 We donate to the school endowment fund every year. 我们每年向学校的捐赠基金捐款。 What we could do is to donate some money for them. 我们所能做的就是为他们捐赠一些钱和衣物。 —————————————— doom 厄运 doom n. 厄运；死亡；判决；世界末日 vt. 注定；判决；使失败 n. (Doom)人名；(泰)伦 But stretched away unto the edge of doom. 但愿它能绵延至毁灭的边际。 So it is not all doom and gloom, there are positives in the game today. 所以这并非都是厄运与苦难，今天的比赛也有积极的一面。 If the planet orbits faster than its star spins, it should gradually be moving inward towards its sun, and its doom. 如果行星运行快于母星的旋转速度，它会渐渐地向内移动向他的母星，也是它的毁灭。 —————————————— doubtless 毫无疑问 doubtless adv. 无疑地；确定地；大概，多半 adj. 无疑的；确定的 It was doubtless his own fault. 这无疑是他自己的错。 And then they pointed to the empty loom, for they believed the other could doubtless see the cloth. 然后他们指着空的纺织机，因为他们相信别人无疑能看到那织物。 Nature and fertility would have been all-important; they would have worshipped sun gods, water gods, moon gods and doubtless bison gods. 最重要的一点肯定是自然资源的丰饶多产，他们崇拜太阳神、水神、月亮神，无疑还有野牛神。 —————————————— drainage 排水 drainage n. 排水；排水系统；污水；排水面积 One of the big risks for any construction on peat bogs is that the disrupted drainage will cause whole hillsides of waterlogged or dried out peat to slide and eventually oxidise. 不管在泥炭沼泽上进行何种施工，最大的风险是扰乱排水后将会造成整个山坡被水淹没，或导致泥炭干涸而崩塌滑坡，且最终氧化。 This could be seen in the way he treated practical aspects of his work. Providing for adequate drainage and other engineering considerations mattered as much as arranging surface features. 这一点从他对待自己作品的实用角度可以看出。提供足够的排水系统和其他的工程考虑与安排地表特征同等重要。 In addition, the massive damage to infrastructure, such as roads, canals, irrigation and drainage systems, has been another drawback, particularly along the west coast of Sumatra. 此外，对基础设施的巨大破坏，如道路、沟渠、灌溉和排水系统等，是另一个损失，特别是沿苏门答腊岛的西海岸。 —————————————— drastic 激烈的 drastic adj. 激烈的；猛烈的 n. 烈性泻药 The boss dropped by him.They had a drastic dispute over the draft. 老板顺便拜访他。 他们在草稿问题上有着激烈的争执。 If you're dealing with an Artful Dodger, then you may have to apply more drastic measures and reduce his list to one task at a time. 如果你对付的是一个狡猾的躲避者，那你可能需要采取更激烈的措施，每次把他的任务清单减少到一个任务。 And there might be drastic changes in the climate of some regions as ocean currents shift. 随着洋流的变动，一些地区的气候将会产生急剧的变化。 —————————————— drawback 缺点 drawback n. 缺点，不利条件；退税 But they have one big drawback. 但社交网有一大弊端。 In our case, the only drawback I see is that I can’t share certain information with him. 在我们这段关系中，我看到的唯一缺点就是我不能和他分享某些信息。 The drawback of this approach is that it only moves the rules themselves and registered columns, but not the metadata associated with them (for example, the execution history). 该方法的缺点是，它只能移动规则本身和注册的列，不能移动与它们相关的元数据（例如，执行历史）。 —————————————— dreadfu dreadfu —————————————— drought 干旱 drought n. 干旱；缺乏 n. (Drought)人名；(英)德劳特 The crops died during the drought. 干旱期间庄稼都枯死了。 We had to replant after the drought. 旱灾之后我们只得重新再种。 The lakes and wells all dried up during the drought. 在旱灾期间，所有的湖泊和水井都干涸了。 —————————————— dual 双 dual adj. 双的；双重的 n. 双数；双数词 n. (Dual)人名；(法)迪阿尔 I have dual personality. 我具有双重性格。 All of these things have a dual outcome. 所有这些方式都会产生双重结果。 The reason, the researchers say, is that we have a dual vision system. 其中的原因，研究人员说是因为我们有双重的视觉系统。 —————————————— dubious 可疑的 dubious adj. 可疑的；暧昧的；无把握的；半信半疑的 The testimony given by him is dubious. 他所作的证据是可疑的。 You burst in on her doing something dubious and she is trying to neutralise it by involving you. 你在她做可疑事情的时候突然出现，她是在试图把你卷进来，从而息事宁人。 Now without doubt this is a dubious theory of classical anthropology. 现在毫无疑问这是一个关于古典人类学的可疑学说。 —————————————— duplicate 重复的 duplicate vt. 复制；使加倍 n. 副本；复制品 adj. 复制的；二重的 vi. 复制；重复 Don't duplicate what you already do. 不要重复你已经在做的工作。 We had to duplicate all applications for each release, with hundreds applications in each release. 我们必须为每个版本复制所有的程序，一个版本中有数百个程序。 If applications wish to match this behavior, they must utilize and duplicate the output of those applications. 如果应用程序希望匹配这一行为，它们必须利用并复制这些应用程序的输出。 —————————————— dwell 住 dwell vi. 居住；存在于；细想某事 They dwell at Bath but work in the city. 他们住在巴斯，但在城里工作。 There let him dwell! 让他住在那里！ We dwell in the country but work in the city. 我们住在乡下，但在城里工作。 —————————————— earnings 收益 earnings n. 收入 He drinks half his earnings. 他喝酒喝掉了一半收入。 His earnings come to ￡5,000 a year. 他的薪金收入每年达五千英镑。 You can sell all of your stocks and sit on the beach, but you cannot cash in the next 10 years of earnings. 你可以卖掉你的所有股票，坐在海滩上享受悠闲，但你不能变现你未来10年的工作收入。 —————————————— eccentric 偏心 eccentric adj. 古怪的，反常的 n. 古怪的人 He was better at teaching artillery than natural philosophy, and was disliked by some cadets for his brusqueness, lack of sympathy and eccentric behavior. 与自然哲学相较，他更擅长教授炮兵战术原则，因为他的直率，缺乏同情以及古怪的行为，一些学员并不喜欢他。 The scientists say that simply moving your mouth like other folks do allows you to intuit their potentially eccentric speech patterns, and get what they say. 科学家认为，只要模仿其他人的口音动动你的嘴皮子，就会让你直觉般地了解那古怪的话语模式，并懂得他们要说些什么。 The buyers, like the cars, are often eccentric with a weakness for the quirky and unique — along with a bit of money, too. 公司的客户和这里的汽车有些像，古怪精灵的，有点儿小钱，对新奇和独特的东西也没什么抵抗力。 —————————————— eclipse eclipse eclipse vt. 使黯然失色；形成蚀 n. 日蚀，月蚀；黯然失色 An eclipse is an interesting phenomenon. 日[月]蚀是一个有趣的现象。 Western Europe will see the beginning stages of the eclipse before moonset, while western Asia will get the later stages after moonrise. 欧洲西部将会在月落之前看到月食的开始阶段，而亚洲西部在月升之后将看到后期阶段。 The eclipse provides a crucial opportunity to fight superstitions by raising awareness to remove the fears foisted by some people and electronic media. 这次日食为我们提供了反对迷信、提高意识破除一些人和电子媒体灌输恐惧心理的重要机会。 —————————————— ecology 生态 ecology n. 生态学；社会生态学 Having gone through the earthquake, he cared for nature more than before. So he started to study ecology. 在经历了地震之后，他比以前更注意大自然了，因此开始学习起生态学来。 Whether or not the unique ecology of this island can be saved, she says, she is determined to keep its good name. 当被问到这个岛的生态还有没有被挽救过来的余地时，她只是说，她要维护这个岛的好名声。 Future research, he says, should look at the behavior and ecology of these worms to understand what caused the new species to arise. 他说，未来的研究应该看看这些蠕虫的行为与生态学，以了解新物种的出现是由什么造成的。 —————————————— economics 经济学 economics n. 经济学；国家的经济状况 We do not comment on national economics. 我们对国民经济不做评论。 —————————————— edible 可食用的 edible adj. 可食用的 n. 食品；食物 But blood is edible, I point out. 但血液是可食用的，我指出。 Ah, but this was theatrical edible blood, which looks gory but can be eaten by vegetarians, with no health risk. 啊，但这是戏剧性的可食用血液，看起来血淋淋的，但是素食主义者可以吃，没有健康风险。 When edible fruits ripen, they change their colours or scent which appeal to humans, to ‘invite’ us to take them. 当可食用的水果成熟时，它们改变自己的颜色和香味，以吸引人类，邀请我们食用它们。 —————————————— edit 编辑 edit vt. 编辑；校订 n. 编辑工作 n. (Edit)人名；(罗、匈)埃迪特 We can edit them one by one. 我们可以逐一编辑它们。 It is not yet decided who will edit it. 由谁校订未决。 You can then edit, compile, and debug your project. 然后，您可以编辑、编译和调试您的项目。 —————————————— editorial 编辑 editorial adj. 编辑的；社论的 n. 社论 The editorial needs to be rewritten. 这篇社论需要重写。 The editor dummied up the editorial page. 编辑制好了社论版样张。 The newspaper editorial defamed the politician. 该报社论诬蔑这名政治家。 —————————————— ego 自我 ego n. 自我；自负；自我意识 n. (Ego)人名；(日)依怙 (姓)；(法)埃戈 Everything you do involves your ego. 你做的每件事都涉及你的自我。 I suspect that we live not in an age of science and empiricism, but rather in an age of ego. 我因此而怀疑我们并非生活在科学与经验的时代，而是生活在自我的时代。 By accepting such a gesture, he only proved that his ego is at least the size of his statue. 他接受这样一个姿势，唯一表明的就是，他的自我意识至少跟那座雕像一样巨大。 —————————————— eject 喷射 eject vt. 喷射；驱逐，逐出 So in this case, we don't have enough energy to eject an electron, so, an electron is not ejected. 所以在这种情况下，我们没有足够的能量,去逐出一个电子，这样没有电子被逐出。 So we see that we do not eject electrons in the case of the laser pointer, even if we have this intensity, it is still not related to the energy of an individual photon, so we won't see an effect. 所以我们看到我们用激光笔,还是没有逐出电子，即使我们有这样的强度，它仍然与一个单个的光子能量无关,所以我们不会看到光电效应。 He says Pyongyang's recent moves to eject international inspectors and resume activity at its main nuclear reactor have dealt a serious blow to the process. 他说，平壤最近驱逐国际核查人员以及恢复其主要核反应堆的作法都对和谈进程造成了严重的打击。 —————————————— elapse 时间的过去 elapse vi. 消逝；时间过去 n. 流逝；时间的过去 Many years, however, usually elapse between such destructive. 不过，这种破坏性的地震之间往往相隔多年。 There is much debate among physicians and ethicists over how much time should elapse between cessation of heart function and declaration of death. 到底在心脏机能停止之后要多长时间才能宣布死亡，医生和伦理人士之间一直存在很大争议。 No matter how talented you are, at the beginning of time can only start from the most simple things, "mushroom" experience for the growing young people, is a step that must elapse before emergence. 无论你是多么优秀的人才，在刚开始的时候都只能从最简单的事情做起，“蘑菇”的经历对于成长中的年轻人来说，是羽化前必须经历的一步。 —————————————— elbow 肘 elbow n. 肘部；弯头；扶手 vt. 推挤；用手肘推开 She dug her elbow into his ribs. 她用胳膊肘戳了一下他的肋部。 He jogged me with his elbow to give me warning. 他用肘轻推我以给我警告。 The injured man levered himself up on his elbow. 受伤者靠肘部费劲地抬起身子。 —————————————— elderly 上了年纪的 elderly adj. 上了年纪的；过了中年的；稍老的 The application must be usable by the elderly and others who have difficulty reading small text. 应用程序必须对老年人和其他阅读小文本时有困难的人是可用的。 We make this mistake when we refuse to see the needs for intimacy even in the most debilitated elderly. 我们犯这种错误是因为我们抗拒看到亲近的需要，甚至是出于最虚弱的老人。 Also, elderly inmates without family or community ties have virtually no chance of parole, which is granted only for those with a reliable guardian. 此外，没有家庭或者社会关系的老年犯人几乎没有假释的机会，虽然假释只需要一名可靠的监护人。 —————————————— electrician 电工 electrician n. 电工；电气技师 The electrician refitted my old radio set. 电工将我的旧收音机加以改装。 The electrician took the houselights down. 电工将剧场中观众席上的灯光减弱了一点。 I've heard an electrician got hurt when he hiked. 我听说有个电工在高空检修电线时摔伤了。 —————————————— electronics 电子产品 electronics n. 电子学；电子工业 I have no computer, no electronics in my life. 我的生活里没有电脑，没有电子产品。 The company branched out into electronics and computers. 这家公司另外开辟了电子器件和电脑业务。 In communications, the problem of electronics is how to convey information from one place to another. 在通讯系统中，电子学要解决的问题是如何把信息从一个地方传递到另一个地方。 —————————————— elegant 优雅的 elegant adj. 高雅的，优雅的；讲究的；简炼的；简洁的 A man's demeanor is high and elegant. 器宇高雅。 That required flexibility and performance, but also the ability to express elegant interfaces. 这需要灵活性和性能，但也要有表达优雅界面的能力。 Now you have an elegant way to determine both the content and the style of each cell in the table. 现在，您已经掌握了一种优雅的方式，确定表中每个单元格的内容和样式。 —————————————— elevate 提升 elevate vt. 提升；举起；振奋情绪等；提升…的职位 Soon they will elevate you to a high rank in their society. 很快你就会被提升到他们的社会中较高的阶层。 Every ten years or so, a new dominant platform emerges to elevate computing to another level. 每隔大概十年，一个新的平台就会诞生并占据市场，把计算提升到新的水平。 We’re not going to become Confucians, but we can elevate education on our list of priorities without relinquishing creativity and independent thought. 我们美国人并不打算成为儒家弟子，但我们可以提升教育的优先度，同时不放弃创造性和独立思考。 —————————————— elicit 引起 elicit vt. 抽出，引出；引起 And he does things I would never do. He lies to people himself, for example, to elicit the truth. 他做了一些我永远也不会做的事，比如为了引出真相，他自己都对人撒谎。 Stimulating other locations on the cortical surface might elicit a specific taste, a vivid childhood memory, or a fragment of a long-forgotten tune. 刺激其他临界面的位置可能会引起一种特定的味道、一个生动的童年回忆或一段忘却很久的曲调。 Women who cry in front of their husbands or lovers may elicit sympathy but they will make themselves less attractive to them, new research suggests. 最新研究显示，女人们在她们的丈夫或是情人面前哭泣可能会引起他们的同情，但也可能会削弱她们自身的吸引力。 —————————————— eligible 符合条件的 eligible adj. 合格的，合适的；符合条件的；有资格当选的 n. 合格者；适任者；有资格者 He is an eligible young man. 他是一个合格的年轻人。 Any number of eligible products can be installed to a package group. 可以在一个包组中安装任意数量的符合条件的产品。 This set is input to the cost-based optimizer that decides whether to use any of the eligible indexes or not. 将该组索引输入到基于成本的优化器，这个优化器决定是否使用任何合适的索引。 —————————————— elite 精英 elite n. 精英；精华；中坚分子 Above all, we must look beyond an “elite retail" model of research. 首要的一点，我们必须超越“精英零售型”的研究模式。 The court is one of the few institutions in which people have to do some elite thinking. 在像最高法院这类为数不多的机构里，人们必须做一些精英化的思考。 But what if the basis for all this stress and disappointment—the idea that getting into an elite college makes a big difference in life—is wrong? 但是，如果所有这些紧张和失望产生的根源——那种认为进不了精英学校会让生活有天壤之别的想法——是错误的呢？ —————————————— eloquent 有说服力的 eloquent adj. 意味深长的；雄辩的，有口才的；有说服力的；动人的 His eloquent speech called out a response in the heart of every man. 他雄辩的演说在每个人的心里引起了反应。 If you’re not feeling eloquent enough to explain your decision to others, let us say it for you. 如果你感到你没有足够的口才向他人解释你的决定，让我们替你说。 The night before, he had imagined the reaction of the girl and her female allies to his message, and had composed an eloquent retort to throw at these petty-minded women. 昨天晚上，他曾经想象女孩和她的支持者们对他的留言会有怎样的反映，还为反驳这些心地狭窄的女人构思出雄辩的腹稿。 —————————————— embark 开始 embark vi. 从事，着手；上船或飞机 vt. 使从事；使上船 But are we, the fans, ready for them to embark on something new? 但是我们这些粉丝准备好他们从事别的事了吗？ Experts argue that although most companies see the need to reform in a crisis, many embark on the wrong kind of change. 专家辩称，尽管多少公司在危机中看到改革的需求，许多公司会从事一类错误的变革。 We'll also include some lessons learned from our experience that will hopefully help you if you decide to embark on a similar project. 我们还将提供一些经验教训，如果您决定着手一个类似的项目，这些经验教训可能会提供帮助。 —————————————— embassy 大使馆 embassy n. 大使馆；大使馆全体人员 You have to visit the consulate or embassy. 你必须到领事馆或大使馆去。 Explosive shells torn into the walls of the embassy. 爆炸的炮弹炸穿了大使馆的墙壁。 He was quartered at the embassy when he arrived in Paris. 他到达巴黎后被安排在使馆里住下。 —————————————— embed 嵌入 embed vt. 栽种；使嵌入，使插入；使深留脑中 Finally you could embed one type of document inside of another. 最终你可以在一个类型的文件中嵌入另一个。 You can use these APIs from the debugger, or you can embed them in your programs, instead. 您可以使用这些来自调试器的 API，或者反过来，您可以将它们嵌入到您的程序中。 You can use it as part of your production system, embed and distribute it in your applications, or simply use it for development purposes. 可以把它作为生产系统的一部分使用，将其嵌入和部署到应用程序中，或者只是使用它进行开发。 —————————————— embody 体现 embody vt. 体现，使具体化；具体表达 n. (Embody)人名；(英)恩博迪 As a ballerina, to embody the duality of the Swan Queen and the black swan can be a fiendishly difficult task. 作为一名芭蕾舞女演员，去体现天鹅女王和黑天鹅的两面性可能是一个残忍的困难的任务。 Any narrative, any model, that could embody the fundamental organizing principles of human affairs can only be vague in its formative stages. 任何能体现人类事务中组织性的原则的叙述性，模范式的言语，在他的形成阶段都是模糊地。 All you have to do is unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody. 你所需要做的就是，在精神和情感方面，将你所希望体现的好的德行合为一体。 —————————————— empirical 经验 empirical adj. 经验主义的，完全根据经验的；实证的 For this reason he is often considered as the father of empirical science and scientific method. 因为这个原因，他通常被认为是经验科学和科学方法的创始人。 So it applies to macroscopic systems that are in equilibrium, and how to go from one equilibrium state to another equilibrium state, and it's entirely empirical in its foundation. 因此，热力学研究的是平衡态的宏观系统,以及如何从,一个平衡态过渡到另一个平衡态，它完全是建立在经验的基础上的。 He concluded that empirical evidence supports the efficacy of these treatments. 他总结说，经验证据支持这些治疗方法的疗效。 —————————————— enclosure 外壳 enclosure n. 附件；围墙；围场 Down below, the mare paced the small enclosure and snorted nervously. 母马在下面的围场里踱步并发出紧张的哼声。 For each item, the stylesheet prints some basic information: title, description and a link to the enclosure. 对于每一项，样式表将输出基本的信息：标题、描述和附件链接。 For their hibernation studies, the researchers monitored five bears, setting the animals up in wooden den boxes in an enclosure deep in the woods. 在他们的冬眠研究中，研究人员监视了五头熊，将它们安置在森林深处围起来的木盒子中。 —————————————— endeavor 努力 endeavor n. 努力；尽力（等于endeavour） vi. 努力；尽力（等于endeavour） vt. 努力；尽力（等于endeavour） She improved visibly from day to day, until Martin wondered if he was doing right, for he knew that all her compliance and endeavor was for his sake. 她一天比一天进步了，直到马丁怀疑起自己的做法是否得体。 因为他明白她的这一切迁就和努力都是为了他。 We cannot succeed in this endeavor alone, but we can lead it. 我们不可能独自完成这项努力，但我们可以发挥带头作用。 There is no more important partner for India in this endeavor than the United States. 对印度来说，在这一努力中没有比美国更为重要的伙伴了。 —————————————— endow 赋予 endow vt. 赋予；捐赠；天生具有 Flesh simulations can endow computer-generated characters with realistically bulging muscles and rippling fat. 皮肤模拟可以赋予电脑合成人物具有真实感的健壮肌肉或者肥厚脂肪。 Rather than hiding this division, the EU now needs a model in which fast-lane nations act as pioneers who endow the whole project with new purpose. 欧盟不应掩盖分歧，而是需要采用一种模式，让行驶在快车道的成员国充当先锋，为整个欧洲一体化项目赋予新的目标。 You may either positively or passively endow. 赋予也可以分成主动的赋予与被动的赋予。 —————————————— endurance 耐力 endurance n. 忍耐力；忍耐；持久；耐久 But, for me, it was also an endurance test. 但是，于我，也是一次耐久性的实验。 It is not only an embarrassment for sufferers but a test of endurance for family and friends. 这不仅对当事人来说很尴尬，对于家人和朋友也是一种忍耐力的考验。 For all of these dimensions you should strive for increasing your endurance and your strength. 对于这些不同的范畴你需要努力提高你的耐力和体力。 —————————————— energetic 精力充沛的 energetic adj. 精力充沛的；积极的；有力的 It was like an energetic movement through me. 就像一次穿过我的积极的运动。 If you have strong, mildly zany or energetic interviewees, then rely on them as much as possible to carry the story. 如果你遇到了强壮、稍微有点滑稽或者精力充沛的被采访者，那么尽可能地依靠他们表达故事。 For if many groups or individuals change and refine their energy field, this will attract another energetic reality to earth. 因为如果许多群体或个人改变并精炼他们的能量场，这就会吸引又一个积极现实来到地球。 —————————————— engagement 订婚 engagement n. 婚约；约会；交战；诺言 He broke off his engagement to her. 他和她解除了婚约。 When Mary broke off the engagement, John seemed to go into a flat spin. 玛丽毁除婚约， 约翰似乎神经失常。 Besides the interview on the day of the engagement, we have heard nothing from either him or from Kate. 除了订婚那天的采访之外，我们再没听到有关他或者凯特的任何消息。 —————————————— enhance 增强 enhance vt. 提高；加强；增加 How might you enhance the structure? 您会如何增强这个结构呢？ The computer can enhance the quality of photographs transmitted from space. 计算机可增强从太空发回的照片的质量。 [参见 computer-enhanced] The developers should not fear about the learning curve as it would enhance their knowledge. 开发者不应该惧怕学习曲线，因为它将增强他们的知识。 —————————————— enlighten 启发 enlighten vt. 启发，启蒙；教导，开导；照耀 Can you enlighten her on this subject? 对这个问题你能启发启发她吗? I hope the results of my research will enlighten my colleagues. 我希望我的研究成果会对我的同事们有所启发。 The more horrible the events about which we read and heard, the more certain we became of our responsibility to enlighten and accuse. 我们读到和听到的那些事件愈是可怖，我们受到的启发和谴责的责任感则愈是确定无疑。 —————————————— enrich 丰富 enrich vt. 使充实；使肥沃；使富足 n. (Enrich)人名；(西)恩里奇 By identifying the purpose of your goals, you enrich your perspective. 通过确定目标的用意，你就充实了你的愿景。 Internet is invented to enrich our life,and to improve the efficiency of our rather than shackle us with a chain. 互联网发明是为了丰富我们的生活,连接你和我,为提高工作效率,而非束缚我们的枷锁. These impediments slow their speed, so they can enrich star-forming gas clouds with the ingredients for new generations of stars and planets. 重重障碍减缓了它们的速度，使它们能够以组成新一代恒星和行星的材料充实孕育恒星的气体云。 —————————————— enroll 招收 enroll vt. 登记；使加入；把...记入名册；使入伍 vi. 参加；登记；注册；记入名册 The school will enroll new students in August. 这所学校将于八月份招收新生。 Build a queue manager and enroll it in the cluster. 构建队列管理器并在集群中对其进行注册。 You might enroll your child in public speaking or theatre to build confidence in speaking in front of others. 你还可以让你的孩子参加演讲或戏剧，这样他就有自信在公众面前发言。 —————————————— ensue 随之而来 ensue vi. 跟着发生，接着发生；继起 vt. 追求 They argue that access should be made available because of the global benefits that would ensue. 为了继起的全球利益，他们主张应该让访问变得可行。 As a seasoned politician, he was also aware of the possible panic that would ensue should people come to believe a meltdown was imminent. 同时，作为一个经验丰富的政客，他也意识到了一旦民众相信熔毁即将发生，恐慌会随之而来。 By this account, men avoid aggression towards women because of the likely social censure that will ensue, whereas women will avoid targeting men because of their tendency to have greater strength. 按照这种解释，男人避免攻击女性是害怕可能随之而来的社会谴责，而女性避免攻击男性是因为男性往往力气比她们大。 —————————————— entail 需要 entail vt. 使需要，必需；承担；遗传给；蕴含 n. 引起；需要；继承 Awareness does not only entail informing people of the problem, but also presenting them with solutions. 普及卫生意识不仅包括让人民知道问题，而且要提出解决方案。 He could not confess Veronica’s revival in his life, for that would entail confession of the earlier liaison. 他不能够承认维罗妮卡在他的生活中复活了，因为这牵扯到要承认他们以前的隐情。 He wanted to be on time for work, so he wrote down what that would entail: waking up, showering, dressing, preparing breakfast, eating, driving, parking and buying coffee—all before 9 a.m. 他想要按时工作，所以他把需要做到的都写下来：起床、淋浴、更衣、准备早餐、吃饭、开车上班、停车和买咖啡——所有的这些都要在早晨9点之前完成。 —————————————— enterprise 企业 enterprise n. 企业；事业；进取心；事业心 The enterprise has excellent prospects. 这家企业的远景极其美好。 All our capital is locked up in that enterprise. 我们的资金全部搁死在那个企业了。 The funds needed will mainly be drawn from accumulation within the enterprise. 所需资金主要取给于企业内部的积累。 —————————————— entertainment 娱乐 entertainment n. 娱乐；消遣；款待 Television has displaced film as our country's most popular form of entertainment. 电视已取代了电影，成为我国最大众化的娱乐形式。 But those that do—and do so as well as the innovative newcomers to the information and entertainment business—will do more than merely survive. 但那些这样做的——以及做得和创新的信息和娱乐新兴产业同样好的——旧媒体公司将比仅仅是生存下来得到更多。 To be empty of thought, of goals, of ambition, of perpetual motion or entertainment. 没有想法，没有目标，没有野心，也没有不断的运动或者娱乐。 —————————————— enthusiastic 热情的 enthusiastic adj. 热情的；热心的；狂热的 Here the crowd was thickest and most enthusiastic. 这里的人群最密集， 热情也最高。 And not only that, people just like to be around enthusiastic people in general. 不仅仅如此，总体来说，人都比较倾向于与热情的人往来。 Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. 热心的人同样热爱他们所做的，而不管金钱、头衔或者权威。 —————————————— entity 实体 entity n. 实体；存在；本质 This ensures that I have the right business entity. 这就确保了我得到了正确的业务实体。 Now, add to this all the permutations of getting partial attributes from each entity. 现在，将所有这些添加到从每个实体获取部分属性的排列中。 With this approach each data entity includes both the attributes and the inherited attributes of the class that it represents. 使用这种方法，每个数据实体就既包含属性又包含它所表示的类继承的属性。 —————————————— entrepreneur 企业家 entrepreneur n. 企业家；承包人；主办者 How would you define personal growth as an entrepreneur? 你会如何定义,一个企业家的个人成长？ “You have to be an optimist to be an inventor or entrepreneur, ” he concludes. 要成为一位发明家或企业家，你必须得是个乐天派。 Yet almost every entrepreneur I have known regrets not spending enough time with their children when they were growing up. 但几乎我认识的所有企业家都为子女成长时期与他们相处时间不够而感到遗憾。 —————————————— envisage 设想 envisage vt. 正视，面对；想像 You must envisage realities. 你必须正视现实。 We envisage that large scale projects might require additional methods; if so, they could reasonably be added to this class. 我们认为，大型项目可能还需要其他方法；如果是这样，完全可以将它们添加到此类中。 But I can envisage a time when we may adopt certain things. 但我可以想象，到时候我们也可以接受某些东西。 —————————————— episode 集 episode n. 插曲；一段情节；插话；有趣的事件 Have you ever seen an episode of The Simpsons where a car company asks Homer to help them design a car? 你看过《辛普森一家》动画片系列中,一家汽车公司请求荷马,帮助他们设计汽车的那一集吗？ A couple of weeks ago, I watched a Sex and the City episode, in which Charlotte, in her never-ending quest to find true love, attends a seminar to teach her how to do just that. 几周前，我看了''欲望都市''的其中一集，讲的是那个在寻找真爱之旅上永不放弃的夏洛蒂，去参加了一个刚好来教她如何能找到真爱的研讨会。 Well, maybe not every episode, but the season is young. 虽然不可能是每一集，但至少这一季才刚刚开始。 —————————————— epoch 时代 epoch n. [地质] 世；新纪元；新时代；时间上的一点 The epoch of revolution creates great figures. 革命时代造就伟大的人物。 The Renaissance was an epoch of unparalleled cultural achievement. 文艺复兴是一个文化上取得空前成就的时代。 That’s what the place looked like at some remote epoch. 这是这个地方在某个久远的时代的样子。 —————————————— equator 赤道 equator n. 赤道 The United States is north of the equator. 美国位于赤道以北。 In the hot zone near the equator the sun heats the air continually; hence the air there ascends. 在靠近赤道的热带地区，太阳不断地加热那里的空气，于是那里的热空气就上升。 Tropical cyclones tend to form along the Equator, over the warm waters of the tropics, then move northward or southward into the subtropics. 热带气旋往往沿着赤道，在热带温暖的水域生成，然后向南北移动到亚热带地区。 —————————————— equilibrium 平衡 equilibrium n. 均衡；平静；保持平衡的能力 So I release it at the equilibrium. 我在平衡状态，释放物体。 Because now we know this is an equilibrium problem. 因为现在我们知道这是一个平衡问题。 But we know thermodynamics is all about equilibrium. 但我们知道热力学都是关于平衡的。 —————————————— erosion 侵蚀 erosion n. 侵蚀，腐蚀 The cement petrified after many years' erosion. 经过多年的侵蚀，水泥石化了。 Former low domes were planated by wave erosion. 波浪式的侵蚀将以前的矮圆丘夷成平地。 But then the inevitable erosion of some of their privileges has barely begun. 但他们的部分特权不可避免地被侵蚀，这才刚刚开始。 —————————————— erroneous 错误的 erroneous adj. 错误的；不正确的 No erroneous ideas should be allowed to spread unchecked. 不能听任错误思想自由泛滥。 Proper measures were taken as soon as the erroneous ideas cropped up. 错误思想一冒头， 就及时采取了措施。 You ought to examine yourself honestly and find out the source of your erroneous views. 你应该老老实实地反躬自省， 找出你这些错误观点的根源。 —————————————— erupt 爆发 erupt vi. 爆发；喷出；发疹；长牙 vt. 爆发；喷出 Geysers and volcanoes erupt. 喷泉和火山均能喷发。 Steam and hot water erupt from geysers. 从间歇泉中喷出蒸汽和热水。 Look for some of them to erupt next year. 其中一些可能会在下一年爆发。 —————————————— escort 护送 escort n. 陪同；护航舰；护卫队；护送者 vt. 护送；陪同；为…护航 Yes, to escort him into the capital. 是的，他们会护送他进首都的。 In fact, I could only go around with a Red Army escort. 事实上，只有在一名“红军”的陪同下，我才能到处走走。 I try to photograph them where I find them, but I will sometimes gently escort one inside for a shoot before releasing it again. 我努力在发现它们的地方拍照片，但有时在再次释放一只蜘蛛之前，为了拍一张照片而将轻轻地在叶子里面护送一只蜘蛛。 —————————————— essence 本质 essence n. 本质，实质；精华；香精 n. (Essence)人名；(英)埃森丝 That, in essence, is the conundrum of consciousness. 而这才是意识之谜的实质所在。 The teacher cannot pin down the essence of ancient poetry. 老师不能清楚地解释古代诗歌的实质。 The two things are the same in outward form but different in essence. 这两样东西表面相同， 但实质不同。 —————————————— estate 房地产 estate n. 房地产；财产；身份 His sons have dilapidated the estate. 他的儿子们已把财产挥霍殆尽。 She cashed in on her real-estate investments. 她在房地产的投资上赚了钱。 He factored his cousin's estate for five years. 他经管他表兄弟的财产有五年之久。 —————————————— esthetic 审美 esthetic adj. 审美的（等于aesthetic）；感觉的 n. 美学；审美家；唯美主义者 From the esthetic view, it was a beautiful continent. 从美学的观点来看，那是一个美丽的大陆。 How could I still speak of beauty, and make esthetic remarks, when I am so sad, sad unto death? 当我如此沮丧，沮丧到了死的地步，我如何才能继续谈论美，并且进行美的谈话呢？ However, the popularity and esthetic value of drawings still remain high, especially among the fans of traditional art. 然而，绘图的普及程度与美学价值仍旧很高，尤其对那些传统艺术的爱好者是如此。 —————————————— eternal 永恒的 eternal adj. 永恒的；不朽的 My eternal purpose has decreed. 我的永恒目标已经确定。 As all the specialists in passion teach us, there is no eternal love but what is thwarted. 正如所有的爱情专家教导我们的那样，没有永恒的爱情而只有被阻断的爱。 After their deaths, the gods would allow Cleopatra to live with Antony in another form of existence, so they would have eternal life together. 在她与安东尼死后，诸神会允许她们以另外一种存在形式生活在一起。 这样她们就能永远的活在一起。 —————————————— ethics 道德 ethics n. 伦理学；伦理观；道德标准 It boils down to a question of ethics. 它可归结成一个伦理学问题。 Science and ethics tell us what we must do. 科学和道德规范告诉我们必须做什么。 But if we are to promote the ethics of Confucius, he was an upright and positive man of learning who believed that education was open to all. 但如果我们打算推广孔子的伦理学，他是一个正直和积极的学人，他相信教育是向所有人开放的。 —————————————— ethnic 少数民族 ethnic adj. 种族的；人种的 This susceptibility might not be due merely to ethnic genetic differences. 这种易感性可能不仅仅是由于民族遗传差异。 We do not differentiate between our workers on the basis of their background or ethnic origin. 我们不以工人们的背景或种族来源区别对待他们。 But then it explodes, as it did recently, with all the problems of ethnic strife that have never been resolved. 但是然后正如肯尼亚近来遇到的，它的所有未曾解决的民族冲突问题爆发了。 —————————————— evoke 唤起 evoke vt. 引起，唤起；博得 These extraordinary scenes in Tunis and Cairo, evoke those of Berlin and Prague in 1989. 在突尼斯和开罗，这些非凡的场景唤起1989年柏林和布拉格的那些记忆。 We should know that great works of art are measured by the emotions they evoke, not just how they look next to the plant stand. 我们应该懂得，伟大的艺术品是由它们自身所唤起的情感来衡量的，而不只是由他们在园艺架旁的外观所决定。 It should be a simple question, but is likely to evoke a lot of different opinions and arguments, as each of the many available embedding techniques have their own pros and cons. 本来应该是一个简单的问题，但是应该会引起很多不同的看法和争论，因为可用的嵌入技术很多，而每种都有其支持和反对者。 —————————————— exceptional 异常 exceptional adj. 异常的，例外的 n. 超常的学生 Its flesh has exceptional delicacies. 它的肉异常鲜美。 We all believe we live in an exceptional time, perhaps even a critical moment in the history of the species. 我们都喜欢相信我们生活在一个特殊的时间，甚至也许是人类有史以来最为关键的时刻。 I have never seen the video cable go bad, but I think that in exceptional circumstances it is possible. 我从来没有见过视频电缆出现问题，但我认为在特殊情况下那也是种可能。 —————————————— exclusive 独家 exclusive adj. 独有的；排外的；专一的 n. 独家新闻；独家经营的项目；排外者 Lack of exclusive content. 缺乏独有的内容。 No more exclusive contracts, US was last one. 不再有独家合同，美国是最后一份。 A journalist has tried to muscle in on my exclusive story. 一个记者一直想强行把我的独家报道弄到手。 —————————————— execution 执行 execution n. 执行，实行；完成；死刑 What is modeling for execution? 什么是为执行而建模？ Remember to do this for all execution groups. 请记住，对于所有的执行组都得这样做。 These should have variables map to the location in the execution environment. 这些应该让变量映射到执行环境中的位置上。 —————————————— exemplify 例证 exemplify vt. 例证；例示 All these recipes exemplify my cooking: healthy, delicious and quick. 所有这些食谱例证了我的饭菜：健康、美味、快捷。 Table 1 shows examples of possible formats for numbers that exemplify why the Globalize plugin is the best solution. 表 1 显示了数字的一些可能格式，也例证了 Globalize 插件为何是最佳解决方案。 Samson, one of the heroes of the Hebrew scriptures, seems to exemplify a different understanding of the power of hair: his awesome strength abandoned him as soon as his locks were trimmed. 参孙，希伯来圣经里的英雄之一，似乎例证了一种对头发的力量的不同理解：他的非凡力量随着头发被剪掉而消失。 —————————————— exempt 免除 exempt vt. 免除；豁免 adj. 被免除的；被豁免的 n. 免税者；被免除义务者 So we have the current argument over how much of the derivative market will be exempt from regulation. 所以我们就看到了当前有关衍生产品市场到底有多大份额可以得到规则的豁免的辩论。 If the FCC approves this bill, it would exempt the phone companies not only from these lawsuits, but also from any further state regulation of these charges. 如果联邦电信委员会批准这一法案，它不仅可使电话公司免除这些诉讼，而且还可使其免除各州对这些收费的任何进一步规定。 Perhaps more important, the risk committees will recommend which derivatives should be handled through clearinghouses, and which should be exempt. 可能更重要的是，风险管理委员会将推荐哪些衍生产品应该通过清算所交易，哪些可以豁免。 —————————————— exile 流亡 exile n. 流放，充军；放逐，被放逐者；流犯 vt. 放逐，流放；使背井离乡 Napoleon's exile to Elba was brief. 拿破仑被放逐到厄尔巴岛的时间很短。 So the work was probably concluded shortly after that date: so in exile or towards the end of the exilic period. 因此这部作品很可能就是在那个日期不久后结束的：,也就是在流放期间或流放即将结束时。 Though Mueller left Romania for Germany in 1987, she continued to wrestle with the themes of oppression and exile in her novels and poems. 尽管米勒1987年离开罗马尼亚定居德国，但她继续在小说和诗歌中探索着压迫和流亡的主题。 —————————————— exotic 异国情调的 exotic adj. 异国的；外来的；异国情调的 This month, no location would be too far or too exotic to visit. 这个月，你不会觉得什么地方会是太远或是太奇特的。 Find out which of these are native plants and which are exotic (or nonnative). 找出其中哪些是原生植物，哪些是外来（或非本地的）。 But thinking of my husband as an exotic species gave me the distance I needed to consider our differences more objectively. 但是，将丈夫作为外来物种给了我空间，我需要这种空间来客观地考虑我们之间的差异。 —————————————— expedition 探险 expedition n. 远征；探险队；迅速 See also Lewis and Clark Expedition. 又见刘易斯和克拉克远征。 The expedition started out before sunrise. 太阳出来之前探险队就出发了。 He tells me he used to run an expedition company and, for years, escorted backpackers through the Madagascan rainforest. 他告诉我，他以前经营着一家探险公司，陪伴背包客穿越马达加斯加的雨林好几年。 —————————————— expel 驱逐 expel vt. 驱逐；开除 And the little buggers also use our attempts to expel them with vomiting and diarrhea. 还有，这小家伙也利用了我们试图通过呕吐和腹泻来驱逐来的尝试。 In the ad, titled "Educational Responsibility, " the college said it had warned Arruda to change her behaviour and decided to expel her after talking to students, staff and Arruda herself. 在这则名为“教育之责任”的广告中，学校称已经警告过阿鲁达改变自己的行为，并在与学生、工作人员以及她本人交流后决定将其开除。 The Taliban have been waging a nine-year battle to overthrow the US-backed government and expel the 130,000 foreign troops there. 塔利班为了推翻这个美国支持的政府，发动了九年的战争，并且驱逐了那里130，000人的外国部队。 —————————————— expend 消耗 expend vt. 花费；消耗；用光；耗尽 To produce and sustain this growth, they must expend vast amounts of energy. 为了制造和维持这种增长，人们必须要消耗巨大的能量。 The military should not be permitted to expend considerable national resources in this effort, without congressional and public oversight. 军队在没有国会和大众的监督下，不允许在这方面消耗大量的国家资源。 But both of these concepts are paradoxical in nature. Because, in some scenarios, when we expend energy, we actually gain more of it. And when we spend time, we open more up in our lives. 在某些情况下，当我们消耗精力时，我们实际上能从中得到更多的精力，而我们花费时间时，我们会对生活敞开更多时间，这两个概念从本质上来讲是矛盾的。 —————————————— expenditure 支出 expenditure n. 支出，花费；经费，消费额 Put down your expenditure! 削减你的开支吧! Every branch of expenditure was provincialized. 开支的每一部门都已地方化了。 The gap between income and expenditure has widened to 11%. 收入和支出之间的差额已扩大到11%。 —————————————— expertise 专业知识 expertise n. 专门知识；专门技术；专家的意见 This led to development organizations with bodies of expertise in these areas. 这导致了在这些领域的具有专门技术的开发组织。 It is not like I came into this country (on my own). They called me into this country for my expertise. 不像我（完全靠自己）来到这个国家，而是他们因为我的专业技能而找我来的。 We must also provide support to the avian influenza network for diagnostic expertise and exchange of isolates with the WHO. 我们还必须支持提供诊断专门技术和与世卫组织交换分离种群的禽流感网络。 —————————————— expire 到期 expire vi. 期满；终止；死亡；呼气 vt. 呼出（空气） However, most of these contracts expire this month. 不过，这些合同大部分在本月到期。 Allowing this bill to expire would be a disaster for our infrastructure and our economy. 该法案被终止对我们的基础建设和经济而言将是一场灾难。 If in your application you need to expire the use of an application based on idleness, you have to explicitly code this in your application. 如果在您的应用程序中，您需要基于闲置来决定使用应用程序的过期，您必须在应用程序中明确的用代码写出来。 —————————————— explicit 显式的 explicit adj. 明确的；清楚的；直率的；详述的 Peter gives two explicit answers in verse 38 to what they need—what we need. 彼得给出了两个在38至诗他们需要什么，我们需要明确的答案。 Unfortunately, you do not receive an explicit error message if this error condition occurs. 不幸的是，出现这种错误条件时您不会收到明确的错误消息。 Both of these can be used to set explicit registrations, or you can use asterisks in the names as wildcard characters to affect multiple connections in one modify command. 这两者可用于设置明确的注册，或者您可以在名称中使用星号作为通配符以便影响一个修改命令中的多个连接。 —————————————— exposition 博览会 exposition n. 博览会；阐述；展览会 Do it quickly, or else we will miss the Electronics Exposition next month. 要弄快点，否则我们就要错过下个月的电子设备展览会了。 The forearm and torch of the Statue of Liberty on display at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876. 1876年，在费城的百年纪念博览会，自由女神的前臂和火炬进行展示。 In this winter, your smile and some words are enough to enable passion of the Exposition warm our campus and our city. 在这个冬天，你的一个微笑，你的一些话语，足以让世博会的热情温暖我们的校园、我们的城市。 —————————————— exquisite 精致的 exquisite adj. 精致的；细腻的；优美的，高雅的；异常的；剧烈的 n. 服饰过于讲究的男子 This exquisite embroidery won people's great admiration. 这件精美的绣品， 使人惊叹不已。 And then to look below and to see the model of the Statue of Freedom, it’s an exquisite sculpture. 而且，你向下看，你可以看到自由雕像的模型，这尊自由雕像的模型非常精美。 The food and service are exquisite. 食品和服务都是很精致的。 —————————————— extinct 已经灭绝的 extinct adj. 灭绝的，绝种的；熄灭的 vt. 使熄灭 These animals have a distinct instinct of protecting themselves from being extinct. 这些动物有一种明显的本能,能保护自己不灭绝. Most of those embedded viruses are now extinct, but in 2005 French researchers applied for permission to resurrect one of them. 嵌入病毒的大多数已经灭绝，但2005年法国的研究人员申请许可去复活其中的一种。 The authors argue the version of the disease that caused the medieval plague is likely extinct, but suggest that further study could reveal how it may have evolved into a less virulent strain. 作者们称引起中世纪瘟疫的品种可能已经灭绝了，但是他们认为进一步的研究可以揭示它是如何进化到一种没那么致命的类型。 —————————————— extinguish 扑灭 extinguish vt. 熄灭；压制；偿清 Look for and extinguish small fires. Eliminate fire hazards. 查找和扑灭小型火灾，以消除火灾危险。 But just because it's difficult, we can not give up the will to extinguish its lethal flame. 但是仅仅因为它是困难的，我们不能放弃将其致命的火焰扑灭。 If you have a cookout, extinguish coals with water and discard them in a designated receptacle. 如果你要进行野炊，请结束后用水熄灭煤炭，然后把它扔在指定的容器里。 —————————————— extract 提取 extract vt. 提取；取出；摘录；榨取 n. 汁；摘录；榨出物；选粹 In this case, you can use an extract. 在此情况下，您可以使用提取。 Wood ashes are leached to extract lye. 木炭被滤过以提取碱液。 Language teachers often extract examples from grammar books. 语言教师常从语法书里摘录例子。 —————————————— extravagant 奢侈的 extravagant adj. 奢侈的；浪费的；过度的；放纵的 Extravagant people never save money. 奢侈的人攒不下钱。 Don't attach any extravagant hope to it. 对此不要有什么奢望。 There is nothing wrong with occasionally treating ourselves to an extravagant gift or a long well-deserved time-off or vacation. 偶尔送我们自己一份奢侈的礼物或享受一个长期的受之无愧的假期是没有任何错的。 —————————————— fabricate 制造 fabricate vt. 制造；伪造；装配 However, if the goal is to design and fabricate a cold fusion reactor in one year, your job of designing a system for measuring performance will be much more difficult. 但是，如果目标是要在一年内设计并制造一个冷聚变反应堆，那么你设计的监测衡量机制就会非常复杂。 Gas reactors require enrichments in the order of up to 20%. So we need to fabricate the uranium into pellets which are clad in zirconium tubes which are placed into the reactor core. 气体反应堆要求充实，以此能,达到20%，所以，我们需要制造出在芯块中的铀,那是锆管道的金属外壳,那被放置入一个反应堆核心里去。 It angers me that people would fabricate a story like that. 人们编造这样的谎话让我感到愤怒。 —————————————— facet 方面 facet n. 面；方面；小平面 vt. 在…上琢面 To help you reflect, I’d share some questions you can ask yourself for each facet. 为了帮你回顾，我倾向分享一些你可以就每个方面自己问自己的问题。 Indeed, almost every facet of software development proffers at least one framework. 确实，几乎软件开发的每个方面都提供了至少一个框架。 After setting the daily tasks for each facet, all you need to do is ensuring that you do them. 在制定各个方面的各项任务之后，你所需要做的就是确保你会完成所有。 —————————————— facilitate 促进 facilitate vt. 促进；帮助；使容易 Modern inventions facilitate housework. 许多现代发明便利了家务劳动。 All of these agencies and people either complement or facilitate our work, or express the health needs of populations. 所有这些机构和人士要么补充或便利我们的工作，要么表达人民的卫生需求。 However, partitioning a system from only one perspective will not likely facilitate the allocation of all stakeholder needs. 然而，只从一个透视图来分割系统，可能将不会促进所有涉众要求的分配。 —————————————— fake 假的 fake n. 假货；骗子；假动作 vt. 捏造；假装…的样子 vi. 假装；做假动作 adj. 伪造的 n. (Fake)人名；(英)费克 Is that the fellow who hustled the fake jewels? 那是卖假珠宝的那个家伙吗? They used fake signal lights to bait the enemy ships onto the rocks. 他们用假信号灯诱使敌船触礁。 Why : She'll wonder about your fake adoration for him while they were together. 为什么 ：她会怀疑你当他们在一齐时候的对他的假崇拜。 —————————————— fantastic 神奇的 fantastic adj. 奇异的；空想的；异想天开的；古怪的；极好的，极出色的；不可思议的；不切实际的 n. 古怪的人 So, in a sense, we want her to break the date because it gives us a fantastic reality check. 在某种意义上，我们希望她取消约会，因为这给了我们一次奇妙的现实检验。 We don't have that, but we have a fantastic community of people who live near us and we have to look after them so they come back time and time again. 而我们没有这种条件，但我们有不可思议的一社区的人们住在我们附近，我们必须关心他们，他们才能一次又一次地回来光顾我们。 The shadow of her silhouette had lingered all those mornings when I dreamed in fantastic colors, but not by my door. 她的幻影一直徘徊在我梦幻到奇妙的颜色的那些早晨，但不在我门旁。 —————————————— fantasy 幻想 fantasy n. 幻想；白日梦；幻觉 adj. 虚幻的 vt. 空想；想像 vi. 耽于幻想；奏幻想曲（等于phantasy） To root up all evils is only a fantasy for the time being. 根除一切罪恶在目前只不过是一种幻想。 Smokers are an affront to this fantasy, and that is why no condemnation is strong enough for their presumption. 吸烟者是对这个幻想的侮辱，按他们的设想，这就是为什么强烈谴责吸烟者还是不够的。 What do I think, he asks, what should he do with an employee who spends company time in some little fantasy world. 我到底在想什么，他问我， 对于一个办公时间沉浸在某个小小的幻想世界里的员工，他应该怎么处理。 —————————————— fascinate 吸引 fascinate vt. 使着迷，使神魂颠倒 vi. 入迷 The cute aspect that she read the cartoon book fascinate me. 看到她上课时看漫画时可爱的样子我都着迷。 Angels fascinate, as Christmas-card-makers rediscover every year. 天使令人着迷，正如圣诞卡制造商们每年一再发现的那样。 While nobody in the West knows for sure how much corn China will want to import and how soon, the possibilities fascinate grain traders. 虽然没有任何西方人能确切地知道中国到底想进口多少玉米以及何时进口，但粮食交易商仍为这种可能性所深深着迷。 —————————————— fax 传真 fax vt. 传真 n. 传真 n. (Fax)人名；(英、法)法克斯 Can I fax this paper? 我可以传真这份文件吗？ I can fax or E-mail that information to you this afternoon. 我可以在今天下午把资料传真或寄电子邮件给你。 Do not send them your application by fax, for instance, if they ask for it by post. 比如，如果公司要求邮寄申请书，就不要把申请书通过传真机传输给他们。 —————————————— feast 盛宴 feast vt. 享受；款待，宴请 n. 筵席，宴会；节日 vi. 享受；参加宴会 They liquored up at the feast. 他们在筵席上狂饮。 They foraged a pig for the feast. 他们为筵席搞到一头猪。 After the feast the prince belched hugely. 筵席之后王子猛打嗝。 —————————————— federation 联合会 federation n. 联合；联邦；联盟；联邦政府 Data federation is one of them. 数据联合就是其中的一个。 All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese; 中华全国归国华侨联合会 Some of good men drained from the Russian Federation. 一些优秀人才离开了俄罗斯联邦。 —————————————— feeble 微弱的 feeble adj. 微弱的，无力的；虚弱的；薄弱的 The reactionaries are fierce in appearance but feeble in reality. 反动派看起来很强大， 实际上十分虚弱。 All of this ancient mystery that theologians agree cannot be fully understood to our feeble minds. 神学家都认为我们薄弱的智力,是无法完全理解这些古老的谜题的。 You stammer some feeble responses by way of reply, feeling your strength ebb away until you find an excuse to leave. 你结结巴巴地作出一个无力的回应，同时感觉自己的力量在消退，直到你找到一个借口离开。 —————————————— fellowship 奖学金 fellowship n. 团体；友谊；奖学金；研究员职位 A graduate fellowship was an escape that landed me in another city — Miami — with at least enough money to get by. 研究生奖学金对我来说是个逃避的机会，我因此可以到另外一个城市---迈阿密，至少有钱生活。 She will use the two-year fellowship to carry out her work at the Institute for Research and Development in Dakar, Senegal. 她将使用为期两年的奖学金在塞内加尔达喀尔的研究和发展研究所进行她的研究工作。 This is the question of fellowship. 这是团契相交的问题。 —————————————— feminine 女性化的 feminine adj. 女性的；妇女（似）的；阴性的；娇柔的 But are the ads about self-care and feminine indulgence all that much better? 但是那些关于自我照顾和女性放纵的广告真的有那么好吗？ Should he decide to transition to an adult female, he can take female hormones as well, which would raise his voice, grow breasts and develop other feminine physical characteristics. 如果他决定变成成年女性，他也可以接受女性激素，这将会提高他的声调，使他胸部丰满并发育出其他女性的身体特征。 The family we stayed with that night was headed by a widow of about 34. Tall and athletic, with graceful feminine curves, she looked me straight in the eye. 我们那个晚上所住的人家是由一位年约34岁、体格高大健壮的寡妇当家，她有着优雅的女性曲线，径直看着我。 —————————————— ferry 渡船 ferry n. 渡船；摆渡；渡口 vt. （乘渡船）渡过；用渡船运送；空运 vi. 摆渡；来往行驶 n. (Ferry)人名；(法、德、英、印尼)费里 He rode the ferry over, and I knew him the moment I saw him. 他乘坐了轮渡过来，当我看到他的一瞬间就认出了他。 It is windy today,so it would be difficult to put the ferry boat across. 今天刮风，要摆渡到对岸不容易。 The drive from the ferry terminal to our new house took hours and seemed relentlessly slow. 从轮渡终点站到我们的新家开车得几个小时，好像有种磨人的慢。 —————————————— finite 有限的 finite adj. 有限的；限定的 n. 有限之物 But if they actually do something, the code will require finite time to execute. 但如果它们有实际的事可做，这个代码将需要有限次地执行。 Your answer—how and to whom you want to allocate your finite attention—will increasingly attract the attention of others. 你的答案——你希望如何以及向谁分配你有限的注意力——将日益引起其他人的关注。 Then, during compilation, we can determine a finite bound on the set of legal instantiations and simply generate class files for all instantiations in this bound. 然后，在编译期间，我们可以对一组合法的实例化确定有限界限， 并且仅为该界限中的所有实例化生成类文件。 —————————————— fist 的拳头 fist n. 拳，拳头；〈口〉笔迹；掌握；[印]指标参见号 vt. 紧握；握成拳；用拳打 I struck him with my fist. 我用拳头揍他。 He nailed him on the chin with the fist. 他一拳击中了他的下巴。 He raised his fist and said,“I'll larn you.” 他举起拳头说：“我会教训你的。” —————————————— fitting 拟合 fitting n. 装配，装置；试穿，试衣 adj. 适合的，适宜的；相称的 n. (Fitting)人名；(英、德)菲廷 I don't mind fitting my timetable round yours. 我并不介意改变我的时间表来适合你的。 For the owner of the fishery, the government offered him a fitting position in a firm. 对于渔场的主人，政府给他在一家公司提供了一个适合的职位。 New homes need fitting out from floor to ceiling, a job that only professionals can do. 新房子从地板到天花板都需要装修，而这些只有专业人员才能做。 —————————————— fixture 夹具 fixture n. 设备；固定装置；固定于某处不大可能移动之物 Automats, or automated cafeterias, were popular, and it was also the time when laundromats, still a fixture in the urban landscape, appeared on the scene. 自动售货机或者自动食堂都广受欢迎，而且自助洗衣店也在那时登场，至今仍然是城市景观中的一个固定装置。 But in fact, we get it seriously wrong in the design of each and every fixture; our bodies are designed to squat and we sit on toilets. Our showers aim water down when they should aim water up. 但事实上，我们在设计每一个固定装置时都大错特错：我们被要求下蹲以坐在座便器上；我们的淋浴器本应该吸水反而放水。 In addition, the astronauts installed a backup ammonia jumper cable between the port 4 and 5 trusses of the station and transferred a power and data grapple fixture from the shuttle to the station. 另外宇航员们还安装了一个空间站4号端口和5号端口之间的氨跨接电缆备件，并且将一个发动机和数据绑缚设备从航天飞机转移到空间站上。 —————————————— flank 侧面 flank n. 侧面；侧翼；侧腹 vt. 守侧面；位于…的侧面；攻击侧面 vi. 侧面与…相接 adv. 在左右两边 n. (Flank)人名；(瑞典、匈)弗兰克；(法)弗朗克 It seems to have lost an entire 40-kilometre-long flank in one catastrophic event, say the researchers. 研究人员说，它似乎在一次灾难性事件中已失去了长达40公里的整个侧翼。 Magma can erupt to the surface and form lava flows through the volcano’s summit (frequently forming a crater), but it can also erupt from lava domes and flank vents along the volcano’s sides. 岩浆能喷发出地表，并通过火山峰顶形成熔岩流（大多情况会形成火山口），但它也能通过火山山体侧面的火山岩圆顶和侧面出口喷发出来。 A cannula (a narrow tube-like instrument) is placed into the abdominal cavity in the upper abdomen or flank just below the ribs. 会在病人的肋骨下，从上腹部的前面或者侧面向腹腔放入一根狭窄的套管。 —————————————— flap 皮瓣 flap n. 拍打，拍打声；神经紧张；[航] 襟翼 vi. 拍动；神经紧张；鼓翼而飞；（帽边等）垂下 vt. 拍打；扔；拉下帽边；飘动 This clouding can be caused by an inflammation under the flap of cornea tissue. 这种浑浊是由角膜瓣下角膜组织的炎症反应所造成的。 Thomas and colleagues used high-speed cameras to capture the details of how wings of the locust Schistocerca gregaria deform as they flap by bending and twisting. 托马斯和同事用高速摄像机捕获非洲沙漠蝗的翅膀在弯曲和扭转着拍打时形状变化的细节。 He was slapping his tambourine against his maroon wide-wale corduroys, a flap of shaggy brown hair lapping at his face, his eyes closed. 他正闭着眼睛，向自己身上穿的酱紫色粗条灯芯绒衣服上拍打手鼓 一缕褐色的头发不羁地搭在脸上，随着节奏上下抖动。 —————————————— flare 耀斑 flare vt. 使闪耀；使张开；用发光信号发出；使外倾 vi. 闪耀，闪光；燃烧；突然发怒 n. 加剧，恶化；底部展开；（鼻孔）张开的意思；闪光，闪耀；耀斑；爆发；照明弹 One possibility is that the blast was like an ultra-powerful solar flare. 一种可能的原因是这种爆炸很像有超级能量的太阳耀斑。 Indeed, last month, we looked at evidence that the last flare up occurred only a few hundred years ago. 事实上，上个月，我们在看最近一次，也就是几百年前的耀斑发生的有关证据。 Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. 它们半透明的闪光象征着优雅与悲剧，天真与绝望，悲伤与奢华。 —————————————— flatter 平 flatter vt. 奉承；谄媚；使高兴 Of course to flatter someone is to say nice things about them. 当然了，奉承某人就是指对某人说中听的话。 In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar it is said that a sure way to flatter Caesar is to remind him how he hates flatterers. 在剧作《凯撒大帝》中，莎士比亚写道，奉承凯撒大帝最稳妥的方法就是，告诉他他是如何地憎恨奉承者。 Atlas, the flatter of the two, has a diameter of only 18 kilometres from pole to pole, but is almost 40 kilometres across its waist. 阿特拉斯是两者中较平整的一个，从南极点到北极点的直径只有18公里，但是它的赤道周长却有40公里。 —————————————— flaw 缺陷 flaw n. 瑕疵，缺点；一阵狂风；短暂的风暴；裂缝，裂纹 v. 使生裂缝，使有裂纹；使无效；使有缺陷 vi. 生裂缝；变的有缺陷 It was a large diamond, but it had a flaw. 这是颗大钻石, 但它有一点瑕疵。 But the flaw is that all of production is unplanned. 然而，这个缺陷就是：所有的生产都是无计划的。 Your goal with a "Who I Am" story should be to reveal some type of flaw about yourself or mistake that you've made. “我是谁”这个故事的目的应该是向你的成员们透露一些你的缺点或你以前曾经犯过的差错。 —————————————— flee 逃离 flee vi. 逃走；消失，消散 vt. 逃跑，逃走；逃避 And we can emulate Jesus, who knew He had authority over Satan and commanded him to flee. 我们要努力赶上耶稣，他知道他拥有至高的权柄，能命令撒旦落荒而逃。 Others flee up through Africa towards the Mediterranean Coast and then across the Mediterranean. 有些人经由非洲北边逃离到地中海沿岸，再越过地中海。 They continue to flee their homes and nations and seek asylum because they are persecuted for being who they are. 他们因为自己生就的天性而被迫害，继续逃离他们的家园和国家寻求庇护。 —————————————— fling 舞 fling vt. 掷，抛；嘲笑；使陷入；轻蔑地投射；猛动 n. 掷，抛；嘲弄；急冲 vi. 猛冲，急行 Fling me back the ball,will you? 把球掷回给我，好吗? In so doing they fearlessly fling themselves into the air and catch onto a branch of the tree they are landing in. 这种情况下，它们无畏的把自己抛向空中，抓住要着陆的树枝。 The book's advice ranges from how to conduct a sleaze-free office fling or a disease-free one night stand, to how to smoke at social occasions and what to do when you meet a celebrity. 本书给出了大量建议，从如何策划一次“体面”的办公室嘲弄或者“卫生”的一夜情，到如何在社交场合吸烟和如何在名人面前表现得体。 —————————————— fluctuate 波动 fluctuate vi. 波动；涨落；动摇 vt. 使波动；使动摇 The latest data continue to show that suicide statistics in the Army frequently fluctuate. 最近的数据进一步表明，军队中的自杀统计结果经常波动。 The problem with this method is that methane and nitrous oxide emissions fluctuate strongly in time and space. 这种方法的问题是，甲烷和一氧化氮的排放量在不同时间和空间波动很大。 Shortly after China’s announcement, Malaysia said it would change its own currency peg and allow its currency to fluctuate more freely. 在中国作出这项宣布后不久，马来西亚说，它将改变钉住汇率的做法，让其货币更自由地浮动。 —————————————— flush 冲洗 flush n. 激动，洋溢；面红；萌芽；旺盛；奔流 vt. 使齐平；发红，使发亮；用水冲洗；使激动 vi. 发红，脸红；奔涌；被冲洗 adj. 大量的；齐平的；丰足的，洋溢的；挥霍的 She began to flush with excitement. 她由于激动脸开始发红。 The engineer decided to flush the hold of the ship. 轮机师决定用水冲洗船舱。 But if we tried to promote what we really flush down the toilet, I think some people might be grossed out. 不过如果我们试着拿我们的厕所真正冲下去的东西来宣传，我想可能会冒犯到一些人。 —————————————— flutter 颤振 flutter vi. 飘动；鼓翼；烦扰 vt. 拍；使焦急；使飘动 n. 摆动；鼓翼；烦扰 This means you position your eyes till they're but a breath away from her nipples and then flutter them open and close. 这意味着，你的双眼就位于离她乳头只不过一息之远的地方，就在那里停下来，然后睁开又闭上，颤动它们。 No one else leant over her, and whispered soothing words to her, or was near enough to hear the flutter of her beating heart. 没有其他任何人向她弯下身去，低声地对她说些安慰的话，或跟她挨得很近，可以听到她颤动的心房正在怦怦地跳动。 As he pushes open the gate and passes up the wide white walk, he sees a flutter of female garments; his wife, looking fresh and cool and sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him. 他推开前门，沿着宽阔的白色的步行道走去，看到女人飘动的衣衫；他的妻子，看上去气色很好，那么从容，那么甜蜜，从门廊的台阶走下来迎接他。 —————————————— foam 泡沫 foam n. 泡沫；水沫；灭火泡沫 vi. 起泡沫；吐白沫；起着泡沫流动 vt. 使起泡沫；使成泡沫状物 The goblet was mantling with foam. 这个高脚杯盖满了泡沫。 A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body. 再过一会儿，我的愿望就要为另一个躯体聚集微尘与泡沫。 The foam of it covered her lashes and brows and, with her red hair, for a minute she looked like a demented Queen Elizabeth. 泡沫盖在她的眼睫毛和眉毛上，加上她那头红发，看上去立刻像精神错乱的伊丽莎白女王。 —————————————— foil 箔 foil vt. 衬托；阻止，挡开；挫败；贴箔于 n. 箔，金属薄片；衬托，烘托；叶形片 abbr. 面向文件的翻译语言（file-Oriented interpretive language） n. (Foil)人名；(英)福伊尔 They can then be printed onto a roll of metal foil that becomes a continuous semiconductor. 然后他们可以把这种墨水印刷在一卷金属箔上，从而制成连续的半导体。 Basically what he did is he took a very thin metal foil and he bombarded it with charged particles. 简单的说他做的工作是,用一张非常薄的金属箔,然后用带电的粒子轰击它。 Bread will dry out quickly in the refrigerator, but it freezes well for up to six months if wrapped in plastic, then foil. 面包放在冷藏室中很快就会干掉，但如果先用塑料、再用金属箔包好，就能完好的保存长达六个月。 —————————————— foremost 最重要的是 foremost adj. 最重要的；最先的 adv. 首先；居于首位地 The foremost of these is other people. 这其中最重要的就是身边的人。 I can’t stand them. First — and by far — foremost, they don’t stay in my ears. 我不能忍受它们，到目前为止首要的问题就是它们不能待在我的耳朵里。 As for my children, they taught me that a parent should be foremost a listener, a quality I was lacking in many instances. 关于我的孩子们我想说，是他们教给我为人父母应首先学会倾听，这种品质我很多时候都不具备。 —————————————— foresee 预见 foresee vt. 预见；预知 Finally, I foresee a day when I can stay at home all day. 最后，当我整天呆在家里时，我都能预见一天会发生什么。 I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. 我预见有一天，除了电报和祷告，我们什么也读不到。 It is difficult to foresee the consequences that may arise from this action. 预见这一行动可能产生的后果是困难的。 —————————————— format 格式 format n. 格式；版式；开本 vt. 使格式化；规定…的格式 vi. 设计版式 I really like the format. 我真的喜欢那样的版式。 The format of the figure is very tasteful. 该图表的格式很雅致。 The designer dummied up the book so that they could study the format. 设计师设计制作了空白样本，这样他们便能研究开本(或版式)。 —————————————— formidable 强大的 formidable adj. 强大的；可怕的；令人敬畏的；艰难的 The task of assembling information about these plants is both vital and formidable. 搜集这些植物的信息的任务是很重要的也是很可怕的。 With him playing alongside [Chris] Kaman I think we will have a pair of excellent interior defenders, and that will make us a formidable team. 有他在卡曼的身旁，我想我们将构建出一对极出色的防守内线，并且将会让我们成为一个可怕的球队。 But I would still say good luck, because it is a very formidable task, particularly in the competitive market that already exists, and will be very much developing around the so-called clean cars. 但我依然要祝他好运，因为这是一个非常艰巨的任务，尤其是在这样一个已经充满竞争的市场， 在所谓的清洁汽车行业还有很多发展空间。 —————————————— formulate 制定 formulate vt. 规划；用公式表示；明确地表达 If a question asks you to take a position on some issue, try to formulate a more nuanced answer. 如果一个问题问你在某些问题中采取什么立场，那么尝试制订更细致的回答。 By visualizing where you want to be, you start helping your mind formulate ways to achieve that next goal in your life. 通过把你想达到的程度形象化，你就开始帮助自己的头脑制定目标——为了达到你生活中的下一个目标。 With so much content floating around these days, if you want your writing to be read then you've got to take up an interesting topic, thoughtfully formulate your thoughts, and back up your argument. 每天面对这么多漂浮在你身边的信息和内容，如果您希望您的文字被别人阅读，那么你可要找一个有趣的话题，花店功夫制定您的想法，并支持你的论点。 —————————————— fort 堡 fort n. 堡垒；要塞；（美）边界贸易站 vt. 设要塞保卫 vi. 构筑要塞 n. (Fort)人名；(法)福尔；(德、英、西、葡、匈)福特 The fort flanked on a swamp. 堡垒侧面靠着沼泽。 Enemy fire battered the walls of the fort. 敌人炮火轰击城堡的围墙。 The Fifth Armoured Division was based at Fort Knox. 第五装甲师驻扎在诺克斯要塞。 —————————————— forthcoming 即将到来的 forthcoming adj. 即将来临的 n. 来临 Are there any new applications planned for design or development or implementation for the forthcoming year? 是否计划在即将到来的一年里设计、开发或实现任何新应用程序？ Instead, and as I argue in both The Vision Revolution and my forthcoming Harnessed, these are powers we acquired by virtue of harnessing, or neuronal recycling. 相反，正如我在《视觉大革命》和我即将出版的《开发大脑》中所说，这些都是我们凭借开发大脑，或者说神经元循环所获得的力量。 But Shea said he does not know if any endorsement from the longtime Democratic senator is forthcoming, since Kennedy has close ties to a number of the presidential candidates in his party. 但谢伊说，他不知道这位老资格的民主党参议员是否即将对任何候选人表示支持，因为他与多位民主党候选人都有密切的关系。 —————————————— forum 论坛 forum n. 论坛，讨论会；法庭；公开讨论的广场 But this Forum tells us it can be done. 但本论坛告诉我们这是可以做到的。 Maybe they have some form of user forum? 也许他们有某种形式的用户论坛？ If I can only find a form by asking for it on a forum, the form is practically useless to me. 如果我只能通过到论坛中提问才能找到某个表单，那它对我来说几乎毫无用处。 —————————————— fossil 化石 fossil n. 化石；僵化的事物；顽固不化的人 adj. 化石的；陈腐的，守旧的 But how do you find a fossil of a symbolic thought? 但你如何找到一块象征性思维的化石呢？ At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil. 时间隔得这么久了， 很难确定这化石的年代。 So you have more information in it than almost any fossil you could think of. 这样以来，你可以比从其他任何化石中所能了解到信息都要多。 —————————————— foster 福斯特 foster vt. 培养；养育，抚育；抱（希望等） adj. 收养的，养育的 n. (Foster)人名；(英、捷、意、葡、法、德、俄、西)福斯特 He is going to run against Foster. 他准备与福斯特竞选。 Foster an enterprise culture of safety and security. 培育一个安全和可靠的企业文化。 If you have this quality in your relationship already, perhaps you can foster it so you can hold onto it. 如果在这段关系中你已经具备了这种能力，也许你可以培养它，因此掌握它。 —————————————— foul 犯规 foul adj. 犯规的；邪恶的；污秽的；淤塞的 vt. 犯规；弄脏；淤塞；缠住，妨害 vi. 犯规；腐烂；缠结 n. 犯规；缠绕 adv. 违反规则地，不正当地 This is an obvious foul. 这是一次明显的犯规。 If a contestant injures himself while attempting to foul his opponent, the referee will not take any action in his favor. 如果参赛者在企图对对手犯规时弄伤了自己，那么裁判不会采取有利于他的判罚。 No harm, no foul, no guilt. 没有伤害，没有犯规，没有罪恶。 —————————————— fracture 骨折 fracture n. 破裂，断裂；[外科] 骨折 vi. 破裂；折断 vt. 使破裂 A doctor can reduce a fracture or dislocation. 医生能使骨折或脱臼复原。 The more risk factors you have, the higher your fracture risk. 以上的这些危险因素，你占得越多，就越有可能骨折。 The more weight a woman gains after age 25, the lower her risk of fracture. 如果一个女性在25岁以后体重增加，就减少了骨折的风险。 —————————————— fragile 脆弱的 fragile adj. 脆的；易碎的 This kind of paper is too fragile. 这纸太脆。 This is a victory, but a fragile one. 这是一个胜利，但也是脆弱的胜利。 Until that money comes through, fragile nuclear reactors should not be our only worry. 在拿到那笔钱之前，脆弱的核反应堆不应是我们唯一的担忧。 —————————————— fraud 欺诈 fraud n. 欺骗；骗子；诡计 n. (Fraud)人名；(法)弗罗 How can he do fraud on the Internet? 就这样怎么可能在网络上诈骗呢？ The prosecutor accused the defendant of fraud. 原告控告被告犯有欺诈罪。 “We discovered some evidence of money laundering, fraud, and embezzlement, ” he said. “我们发现了一些洗钱、欺诈和贪污的证据，”他说。 —————————————— fringe 边缘 fringe n. 边缘；穗；刘海 adj. 边缘的；附加的 vt. 加穗于 The company plans to beef up our fringe benefit. 公司打算增加我们的附加福利。 And the protests are not just a fringe phenomenon. 而抗议活动并不仅是一个边缘现象。 Monopoly unions do tend to raise the earnings and fringe benefits of workers in the industries where they exist. 垄断型工会在其存在的行业的确为提高工人的收入和附加福利做出了努力。 —————————————— frustrate 阻挠 frustrate vt. 挫败；阻挠；使感到灰心 vi. 失败；受挫 adj. 挫败的；无益的 They made their preparations to frustrate the conspiracy. 他们作好准备挫败这个阴谋。 The harder you think the less chance you have of remembering it, but it will frustrate you so I recommend twiddling your thumbs to keep the stress levels down. 你越是使劲的回想，你一越难有机会回忆起来，这样会让你很挫败。 因此我建议玩弄你的姆子来降低压力。 Of course, some people don't believe they've done anything wrong, or don't care, so telling them you forgive them would only frustrate them and you. 当然，有些人并不认为自己做错了什么，也不在乎这些事，因此如果你告诉他们你原谅他们，那只会让他们受挫也让自己受挫。 —————————————— furious 愤怒的 furious adj. 激烈的；狂怒的；热烈兴奋的；喧闹的 He gulped back the furious reply he wanted to make. 他强忍住本想作出的愤怒的回答。 Instead, their large clouds of molecular gas and dust do, triggering furious episodes of star formation near the center of the cosmic wreckage. 相反其中巨大的分子、尘埃云气却搅在一起，在这宇宙废墟的中心附近引发激烈的恒星形成事件。 Now, when she frustrated or furious, she dances, sings and writes poetry and songs. 现在，当她沮丧或愤怒的时候，她就会去跳舞，唱歌，写诗歌。 —————————————— fuse 保险丝 fuse vi. 融合；熔化，熔融 vt. 使融合；使熔化，使熔融 n. 保险丝，熔线；导火线，雷管 n. (Fuse)人名；(意)富塞；(法)菲斯 He struck a match reignited the fuse. 他划了根火柴，重新点着了导火索。 If you plug in all these appliances at once,you'll fuse all the lights, 如果你把所有电器同时接上电，保险丝就会烧断，所有的电灯将熄灭。 The images fuse together and transform into other images in a rhythmic frenzy, as if they were moving oil paintings. 各种图像融合到一起，以一种有节奏的狂乱转化成别的图像，就好像是会移动的油画般。 —————————————— fusion 融合 fusion n. 融合；熔化；熔接；融合物；[物] 核聚变 The fusion of taste congratulations! 那融合的滋味恭喜你! If one of our chromosomes was formed by the fusion of two primate chromosomes, you know what it would have? 如果我们的一条染色体是由两条灵长类染色体融合而来的话，猜猜它能有点什么？ He adds that tomorrow's world will be a fusion of biology and technology, where robots do the chores, cars drive themselves and artificial limbs are better than real ones. 他还表示，未来世界将会是生物学和高科技的大融合，到时候，家务事都让机器人做，汽车都让自己开，假肢比真的肢体还好用。 —————————————— fuss 大惊小怪 fuss vi. 小题大作；忙乱；焦燥；焦急；无事自扰 n. 大惊小怪，大惊小怪的人；小题大作；忙乱 vt. 使烦恼，使烦忧 n. (Fuss)人名；(匈)富什；(法)菲斯 She’d make such a goddamn fuss over what we talked about at dinner, aiming at Topics of Common Interest, topics that celebrated our cohesion as a family. 她该死的小题大作的限定我们餐桌上谈话的内容，只能针对大家都感兴趣的话题，庆祝我们家庭团结在一起的话题。 These days I only kick up a fuss if a film completely fails to be consistent with itself, or a "science thing" is just completely at odds with its own logic. 这些日子以来我反而引发关于一个片子是否完全的不符合它本身，或是“一样虚构的东西”正好完全得与它自身的逻辑相违背的小题大做的事。 Joseph Doss, president of the International Bottled Water Association, also dismissed the fuss about the safety of bottled water at the hearing. 世界瓶装水协会主席-约瑟夫多斯也认为听证会上关于瓶装水安全的讨论过于小题大做了。 —————————————— galaxy 星系 galaxy n. 银河；[天] 星系；银河系；一群显赫的人 n. 三星智能手机品牌 2015年三星中国公布Galaxy的中文名称为“盖乐世” [ 复数galaxies ] Is this one galaxy or two? 这是一个星系还是两个？ Anyone interesting on that side of the galaxy? 还有谁对这片星系有兴趣的？ "I estimate that there may be about two million such systems in our galaxy," he said. “我估计，有可能在我们的银河系中大约有两百万个这样的系统，”他说。 —————————————— gallery 画廊 gallery n. 画廊；走廊；旁听席；地道 vt. 在…修建走廊；在…挖地道 vi. 挖地道 n. (Gallery)人名；(英)加勒里 And so, he gave this painting to the National Gallery. 因此他把这幅画捐给了英国国家美术馆。 The bright modern painting stares out at you in the otherwise conservative gallery. 有些古典派画廊也会陈列出明亮色彩的现代派绘画。 Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you! 无论你是想要浏览我们众多的画廊图片还是想要和其他人分享你的个人照片,这个网站绝对对你的味口。 —————————————— gamble 赌博 gamble vi. 赌博；孤注一掷；投机；打赌 vt. 赌博；孤注一掷；冒险假设 n. 赌博；冒险；打赌 n. (Gamble)人名；(英)甘布尔；(瑞典)甘布勒 Are you going to gamble on the result of the fight? 你准备对这场拳击赛的结果下赌注吗? The necessity of making a living disentranced him from his gamble. 谋生的必要使他醒悟，不再赌博了。 He did not drink, gamble or smoke. 他不饮酒、不赌博也不抽烟。 —————————————— gaol 监狱 gaol vt. 监禁 n. 监狱 On September 28, 1830, before a crowd of thousands, Frank Knapp was hanged in front of Salem Gaol. 1830年9月28日，当着数千人的面，弗兰克·克纳普被吊死在萨勒姆监狱前面。 A policeman was escorting a prisoner to gaol when his hat was blown off, " shall I run and get it for you?" 一个警官押送一个犯人去拘留所， 这时他的帽子被风吹跑了， “我可以去拿还给你吗？” All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells. 所有人都被拘禁在萨勒姆监狱中，这是一栋花岗岩砌成的大楼，铁窗森严，石壁牢固。 —————————————— garbage 垃圾 garbage n. 垃圾；废物 n. (Garbage)人名；(法)加尔巴热 That garbage can was belted with blue paint. 那只垃圾箱被漆上蓝色条纹标记。 They fouled the water by throwing in garbage. 他们向水中倾倒垃圾弄脏了水。 The smell from the garbage dulled her appetite. 闻到来自垃圾的臭味使她食欲大减。 —————————————— garment 服装 garment n. 衣服，服装；外表，外观 vt. 给…穿衣服 n. (Garment)人名；(英)加门特 The garment is studded with pearls. 衣服上缀满了珠子。 She disguised her true sex under a man's garment. 她穿着男人的衣服隐瞒自己的真实性别。 China will host an exhibition of international garment machinery. 中国将主办国际服装机械展览会。 —————————————— gasp 喘息 gasp vi. 喘气；喘息；渴望 vt. 气喘吁吁地说；喘着气说话 n. 喘气 Sometimes they just might hear me gasp as well! 只不过他们有时难免会听到我喘息！ It's the final gasp of the burst housing bubble. 它是房地产泡沫破灭前的最后一次喘息。 And I certainly serve customers with a smile. Sometimes they just might hear me gasp as well! 当然，对于顾客我面带微笑的。只不过他们有时难免会听到我喘息！ —————————————— gear 齿轮 gear n. 齿轮；装置，工具；传动装置 vi. 适合；搭上齿轮；开始工作 vt. 开动；搭上齿轮；使……适合；使……准备好 adj. 好极了 n. (Gear)人名；(英)吉尔 When she put the car in gear it began to buck wildly. 当她把汽车搭上齿轮时，汽车便开始颠簸地行进。 Gear lubricants may congeal and channel in cold weather. 天冷时齿轮润滑油可能凝结并形成凹槽。 This large gear turns the small one to rotate the cylinder. 这个大齿轮带动小齿轮使滚筒旋转。 —————————————— gene 基因 gene n. [遗] 基因，遗传因子 We all know we are the product of our genes, what are all the steps from gene to us? 我们都知道基因决定了每个个体，但基因是如何使我们成为现在的我们的呢？ Most cells in your body have two copies of every chromosome and, therefore, two copies of every gene: one from your mother and one from your father. 没条染色体在身体内的大多数细胞内都有两份拷贝，因此，每个基因也都具有两份拷贝：一份来自母亲，一份来自父亲。 The breakthrough permits direct detection of each nucleotide, allowing an entire gene to be sequenced in about an hour. 这个重大的突破允许直接检测每个核苷酸，可以在大约一小时之内测序整个基因。 —————————————— generalize 概括 generalize vt. 概括；推广；使...一般化 vi. 形成概念 They hope to generalize the use of this new soap. 他们希望推广这种新型香皂的应用。 You will need to be able to generalize knowledge and transfer it between circumstances to succeed. 您需要具有归纳知识并将其转用到其它情况的能力，这样才能成功。 A corollary of this principle is that a learning algorithm should never be evaluated for its results in the training set because this shows no evidence of an ability to generalize to unseen instances. 这个原理的一个推论是，一种学习算法永远不会对它训练集的结果进行评估，因为对于一种未知的事例而言，没有证据表明算法具有概括它们的能力。 —————————————— genetic 遗传 genetic adj. 遗传的；基因的；起源的 This susceptibility might not be due merely to ethnic genetic differences. 这种易感性可能不仅仅是由于民族遗传差异。 One biologist developed a formula for how much genetic material would have to be to saved in the act of altruism for it to be worthwhile. 一位生物学家发展了一套公式，用来计算到底有多少遗传物质可以被保留下来的时候，利他的行为才是值得的。 So what is the genetic algorithm? 那么什么是遗传算法呢？ —————————————— geology 地质 geology n. 地质学；地质情况 It is a problem that relates to geology. 那是一个与地质学有关的问题。 However, I have more interest in geology. 可是我对地质学更感兴趣。 All of this depends on certain assumptions and the meteorology, the geology and the hydrology of the area plus the contours of the land around this particular power plant. 所有的这些都是根据某些假设,和气象状态，地质情况，还有，水文请跨国,在加上土地的等高线,在这个特定的核能电站的周围。 —————————————— gigantic 巨大的 gigantic adj. 巨大的，庞大的 Looking from a distance like a gigantic arch, it is a continuous loop, a kind of square doughnut. 从远处看像一座巨大的拱门，实际上它是一个连续的环，有点像方形面包圈。 In a new study, British scientists have discovered that the gigantic females can swim for thousands of miles in a perfectly straight line. 在一项新的研究中，英国的科学家发现，巨大的雌性龟能在几乎完全直线的航道上游行上千英里。 The clouds roll around the Sierra behind us and then out to sea, and, sitting on the beach, the gigantic strikes flash around us like a giant strobe. 乌云从我们身后的塞拉利昂卷来，然后朝海上方向滚去。 坐在沙滩上，我们身边打起巨大的闪电，像打开了天上的大闸门。 —————————————— given 鉴于 given adj. 赠予的；沉溺的；规定的 prep. 考虑到 v. 给予（give的过去分词） n. (Given)人名；(英、土)吉文 She specified that she be given her son. 她提出把儿子交给她抚养作为条件。 His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。 Her parents pleaded that she should be given one more chance. 她父母请求再给她一次机会。 —————————————— glare 眩光 glare n. 刺眼；耀眼的光；受公众注目 vi. 瞪眼表示 vt. 瞪视；发眩光 And protect your eyes from snow and ice glare with dark glasses or goggles. 使用深色眼镜或者护目镜来保护你的眼镜不受冰雪眩光的影响。 He flicks the cigarette and looks up at the house, one hand lifted to block the glare. 父亲弹了弹香烟，抬起一只手挡住刺眼的光线，朝房屋的方向看了看。 A blue sheet had been hung behind Rosenberg, to deflect glare, and there was a dull hum in the background, perhaps from cars on a nearby street. 一块蓝色薄板挂在罗森博格身后用来偏转强光，背景里能听到隐约的嘈杂声，也许是附近街道上汽车的声音。 —————————————— gleam 线 gleam n. 微光；闪光；瞬息的一现 vi. 闪烁；隐约地闪现 vt. 使闪烁；使发微光 There is no gleam of hope. 没有一线希望了。 Their hope did not last long; the gleam was quickly eclipsed. 希望没有延长多久，微光很快就消逝了。 Missing from mainstream coverage of Syria's uprising: love, hope and the gleam in the eyes of Syrian people awake as never before. 尽管错过了叙利亚起义主流，但叙利亚人民的爱心，希望和闪烁在人民眼中的光芒从未如今天一样被唤醒。 —————————————— glide 滑翔 glide vi. 滑翔；滑行；悄悄地走；消逝 vt. 使滑行；使滑动 n. 滑翔；滑行；滑移；滑音 That summer was the glide path of our love. 那个夏天是我们爱情的下滑航道。 So, their innards do slide into their throat, but it’s a controlled glide. 所以它们的内脏确实是滑到了嗓子眼，但是这种滑动是可控制的。 I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to, a huge ball and they cling to the side and then fall off and fly and glide. 我有一种想法，就是对我们来说世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁，一个巨大的球，它们依靠在边上，然后离开、飞翔、滑行。 —————————————— glitter 闪闪发光的 glitter vi. 闪光；闪烁 n. 闪光；灿烂 Morning dews glitter in the sun. 晨露在阳光下闪烁。 There was stage smoke and glitter grit on the runway. 在展示台上有舞台烟幕和闪光的沙砾。 Smoothed flat by generations of wind and rain, they glitter in the sun. 它们被一代代的风雨磨平，在阳光下闪闪发光。 —————————————— global 全球 global adj. 全球的；总体的；球形的 We do not fight global warming because it is futile to do so. 我们不对付全球变暖的斗争，因为以这样做是徒劳的。 In his model, this would have only modest effects on global welfare; but how confident can we be of that? 在他的模型中，这只会对全球的福利产生些许影响；但我们对之能够相信多少？ These achievements show the power of determination and global solidarity, but they also remind us of the challenges. 这些成就显示了决心和全球团结的力量，但它们还提醒我们关注种种挑战。 —————————————— gloomy 悲观的 gloomy adj. 黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的 You must rid yourself of this gloomy mood. 你必须使自己摆脱这种闷闷不乐的忧郁情绪。 Why you look so gloomy? What are you looking for? 为什么你看起来那么沮丧？你在找什么？ Share prices plunged as a result of the gloomy economic forecast. 因为经济展望暗淡，因而股票价格大跌。 —————————————— gorgeous 华丽的 gorgeous adj. 华丽的，灿烂的；极好的 For instance, in 1957 most of the cars were gorgeous. 例如，在1957年大部分的汽车都是华丽的。 The planning and decoration of the palace amaze the visitors with its architectural forms and gorgeous furniture. 宅邸的设计和装饰让来访者大吃一惊，惊叹于其建筑形式和绚丽的家具。 Of the rest, only about 10% is circumstantial: big income or small, married or single, gorgeous or plain. 其余的，只有10%是来自周围环境：比如收入多或少、已婚或单身、华丽或淳朴等等。 —————————————— gossip 流言蜚语 gossip n. 小道传闻；随笔；爱说长道短的人 vi. 闲聊；传播流言蜚语 She discredited him with ugly gossip. 她用难听的流言蜚语臭他。 He discredited my good name with gossip. 他用流言蜚语败坏我的好名声。 The man loves to peddle gossip all over the office. 这个人喜欢满办公室散布流言蜚语。 —————————————— grab 抓住 grab vt. 攫取；霸占；将…深深吸引 vi. 攫取；夺取 n. 攫取；霸占；夺取之物 If, however, you do want to grab their attention, do those things. 但是，如果你要抓住他们的注意力，上面说的事情可以做。 Grab one of these five popular startup managers and beat back the startup clutter. 抓住这五种流行的启动项管理器其中的一款，“反击”启动混乱。 For testing, you should grab a database dump of your production environment from a certain point in time so that you have something to test with. 为了测试，您应该从您的生产环境的某个时点抓取一个数据库转储，以便您拥有可以测试的数据。 —————————————— gracious 亲切的 gracious adj. 亲切的；高尚的；和蔼的；雅致的 int. 天哪；哎呀 You are so gracious when I saw you . 当我见到您就觉得是那么亲切。 You may have asked your question out of a wish to be gracious, which I find commendable whether you are in a DS or a vanilla relationship. 你提出这个问题是出于一种高尚的愿望，无论这在主仆关系或普通关系中，我认为都是值得称赞的。 It sounds gracious on the surface—to say that God has no law, no standards, no expectations, no commandments, no threats—that he is simply there to affirm me in whatever I happen to be. 这听起来亲切的表面说，上帝没有法律，没有标准，没有期望，没有戒律，没有威胁，他就在那里，我肯定在什么我碰巧。 —————————————— graze 吃草 graze vt. 放牧；擦伤 vi. 吃草；擦伤 n. 放牧；轻擦 There is good grassland here for your cattle and horses to graze on. 这里有良好的草场可供你的牛马放牧。 There is good grassland here for your cattle and horses to graze on. 这里有很好的草地供你们放牧牛马。 When I find them I pour a little olive oil into the entrance of the hole. Then I anoint the head and nose of each sheep with the same oil and allow them to graze. 我会走遍整片草地，找到所有蛇洞，往里面倒入一些橄榄油，在每一只羊的头和鼻子上也涂上橄榄油，之后它们就能去吃草了。 —————————————— grease 油脂 grease vt. 涂脂于；贿赂 n. 油脂；贿赂 Grease fouled the drain. 油污堵塞了下水道。 If it contained salt, starch, and grease, we sold it. 反正只要是咸味，含淀粉和油脂的，我们就卖。 The protein of the eggs and the grease of the bacon form a great mixture that powers you through the day. 鸡蛋中丰富的蛋白质和培根中充分的油脂混合在一起为你的一天提供充分的能量。 —————————————— grief 悲伤 grief n. 悲痛；忧伤；不幸 Time cured him of his grief. 时光的流逝治愈了他的悲哀。 Her face was pinched with grief. 她的面容因悲伤而憔悴。 She rallied from the grief of her mother's death. 她已从丧母的悲痛中恢复过来。 —————————————— grieve 悲伤 grieve vt. 使悲伤，使苦恼 vi. 悲痛，哀悼 n. (Grieve)人名；(英)格里夫 We grieve for him at this very sad time. 在这非常悲伤的时刻我们向他表示哀悼。 It was then I finally allowed myself to grieve. 直到那时，我终于允许我自己可以伤心了。 Prison, she decided, would be where she could finally grieve her father. 她知道，监狱将是她最终令她父亲伤心的地方。 —————————————— grim 严峻的 grim adj. 冷酷的；糟糕的；残忍的 n. (Grim)人名；(英、德、俄、捷、匈)格里姆 Not all of their conclusions were that grim. 其实并非所有结论都是那么的严峻。 Straighten out these distortions and the picture is grim. 澄清这些扭曲和图片是严酷的。 All of which only underscores for Israelis the grim logic of developments in the region. 所有这些仅仅进一步加强了以色列人的严酷的生存逻辑。 —————————————— grin 露齿而笑 grin v. 露齿而笑，咧着嘴笑 n. 露齿笑 n. (Grin)人名；(法)格兰；(俄、罗、英)格林 She grinned an evil grin. 她又露出邪恶的笑容。 So why not grin? 那么，为什么不咧嘴微笑呢？ Look at him. Look at that fur, those eyes, that playful grin. 看看他，看看那皮毛，那眼睛，以及那活泼的咧嘴微笑。 —————————————— groan 呻吟 groan vi. 呻吟；抱怨；发吱嘎声 vt. 呻吟；抱怨 n. 呻吟；叹息；吱嘎声 The people groan under the burden of taxes. 人民在重税下痛苦呻吟。 But the animal I most hoped to find, I don't see at first; I hear it, though — a sustained groan that electrifies the forest quiet. 一开始我并没有发现我在寻找的那个小动物，然而我却听见了一阵打破森林里这片平静的呻吟声。 In reality, some people are vocal and may moan and groan, other folks may muffle any sounds with a pillow, and yet others may not make a single peep. 真实之中，有些人作声，可能叫唤或呻吟，其他某些人则可能用枕头把骚声闷住，还有一些人则可能不单是叽咕叽咕喃呢作声。 —————————————— grope 摸索 grope vi. 摸索；探索 vt. 摸索 n. 摸索；触摸 n. (Grope)人名；(德)格罗佩 When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators. 每当停电的时候，人们在摇曳的烛光下四处摸索；汽车在马路上彷徨-因为没有交通灯做导向；电冰箱不再“嗡嗡”，里面的食物也要变质了。 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night. 他们白昼遇见黑暗，午间摸索如在夜间。 A random unexpected grope is always welcome, even in public. Especially in public. 我们总是欢迎意想不到的随意触摸，即便是在公共场合；特别是在公共场合。 —————————————— guardian 《卫报》 guardian n. [法] 监护人，保护人；守护者 adj. 守护的 n. (Guardian)人名；(西)瓜尔迪安 Their uncle was declared guardian to the orphans. 这些孤儿的叔父成为他们的监护人。 The court constituted him legal guardian of the child. 法庭指定他为这个孩子的合法监护人。 The Guardian, I note, did not favour me with an obituary. 而我注意到，卫报连一份讣告都不愿为我写。 —————————————— guideline 指导方针 guideline n. 指导方针 参考 However, when the device does support CSS, the view should add the recommended style guideline class identifier, as in Figure 20. 但是，如果设备的确支持 CSS，视图就应该添加推荐的样式指南类标识符，如图 20 所示。 When a nonconformance in the process is found during an audit, there will likely be some difficulty in sorting out what is required vs. what is merely a guideline. 当在审计期间发现过程中有一个不一致问题时，在挑选出什么是必需的和什么仅仅是方针上可能会有一些困难。 In that case, an administrator or quality manager would validate whether the guideline was properly followed for the specific entity and then would invoke the transition to the next state. 在这种情况下，管理员或质量经理将验证特定实体是否恰当地遵循了指导方针，然后将调用转换，以过渡到下一个状态。 —————————————— guy 的家伙 guy n. 男人，家伙 vt. 嘲弄，取笑 vi. 逃跑 n. (Guy)人名；(西)吉；(法)居伊；(英)盖伊 He really whaled on that guy. 他确实狠狠揍了那家伙一顿。 This guy often stirs up troubles. 这家伙就爱干煽风点火的勾当。 That perverse guy has been nagging at me all day. 那个故意与我作对的家伙让我终日不得安宁。 —————————————— hamper 阻碍 hamper vt. 妨碍；束缚；使困累 n. 食盒，食篮；阻碍物 Similar restrictions hamper the distribution of foreign books and magazines. 类似的限制阻碍了国外书籍和杂志的销售。 But the lack of resources and capacity may hamper their efforts, experts have said. 但是专家说，缺乏资源和能力可能妨碍他们的举措。 The artery should get wider when blood flow in the area increases, but diseases such as atherosclerosis hamper this effect. 局部血流增加时，动脉应该增粗，但是诸如动脉粥样硬化之类的疾病妨碍这种作用。 —————————————— handbook 手册 handbook n. 手册；指南 Look at your handbook every morning before you start your day. 每天清晨，在开始你新的一天时，看一看你的手册。 As far as we know the term "guerrilla gardening" originated in this Handbook in 1993. 自1993年这个手册成立以来，我们就知道了园艺游击队这个组织。 What I teach in the Healthy Eating Handbook is how to achieve this balance, and maintain it for life. 在我的健康饮食手册中我教给大家如何达到这种平衡，并且如何为生活去维护。 —————————————— handicap 障碍 handicap n. 障碍；不利条件，不利的因素 vt. 妨碍，阻碍；使不利 He certainly does not dwell on his handicap. 他肯定没有老是想着自己的残疾。 On whether this will prove a serious handicap for China, one might differ: my own view is that much of current US military spending is not only a waste of resources, but a temptation to folly. 至于这是否会成为中国的一大障碍，有些人可能看法不同，但我的个人观点是：美国当前大量的军事开支不仅仅是浪费资源，也会诱人干蠢事。 At a news conference on May 25th, Ms Lagarde conceded that being European was not necessarily an asset for a candidate to run the IMF, but hoped that it would not be regarded as a handicap either. 在5月25日的新闻发布会上，拉加德女士承认，作为竞选国际货币基金总裁候选人，欧洲人的身份并不一定是一份资产，但她希望也不要被看成一种障碍。 —————————————— hasty 匆忙的 hasty adj. 轻率的；匆忙的；草率的；懈怠的 n. (Hasty)人名；(英)黑斯蒂 [ 比较级 hastier 最高级 hastiest ] This might not be a day for hasty decisions. 这一天可能不适合做出草率的决定。 The media let into the government for its hasty decision. 新闻媒介抨击政府做出草率的决定。 The dispersion of authority in pluralist theory prevents government from taking hasty, possibly imprudent action, but it also can prevent any action if important power centers disagree. 多元权力分散可以防止政府采取草率鲁莽的行动，但是当重要的权力中心意见不一致时，也可能无法采取任何行动。 —————————————— hatch 孵化 hatch n. 孵化；舱口 vt. 孵；策划 vi. 孵化 n. (Hatch)人名；(西)阿奇；(英)哈奇 When will the baby chickens hatch out? 小鸡什么时候孵出? It is the very hatch from where a cosmonaut came out to the Moon. 这是一个舱口，宇航员会从这里出来，搞个啥月球漫步的。 The problems do not end if crocodiles successfully hatch from the eggs. 即使鳄鱼成功地从卵中孵化出来，这些问题也不会终止。 —————————————— haul 拉 haul n. 拖，拉；用力拖拉；努力得到的结果；捕获物；一网捕获的鱼量；拖运距离 vt. 拖运；拖拉 vi. 拖，拉；改变主意；改变方向 n. (Haul)人名；(德)豪尔 They grab Jake and haul him to his feet. 他们抓住杰克，把他拖到跟前。 Air France was trying to maintain its full long-haul schedule, while canceling some flights on other routes. 法国航空取消了其他部分线路的航运，以图维持其排满的长途货运日程。 During the day they just felt too heavy to haul around. 白天的时候，拖着这些书到处走太沉了。 —————————————— haunt 困扰 haunt vt. 常出没于…；萦绕于…；经常去… vi. 出没；作祟 n. 栖息地；常去的地方 Do this or I will haunt you. 不然，我将时常萦绕你身旁。 People say ghosts haunt that old house. 据说那座老宅子有鬼魂出没。 The Wanglang Preserve in western Sichuan is the haunt of the giant panda. 川西的王朗自然保护区是大熊猫出没的地方。 —————————————— heal 治愈 heal vt. 治愈，痊愈；和解 vi. 痊愈 n. (Heal)人名；(英)希尔 This kind of ointment will heal the scald. 这种软膏能使烫伤痊愈。 The wound on your hand would heal over soon. 你手上的伤口很快就能愈合。 He could heal you of your pneumonia, you'd better go to see him as soon as possible. 他可以治好你的肺炎，你最好尽快去找他给你医治。 —————————————— hearing 听力 hearing n. 听力；审讯，听讯 v. 听见（hear的ing形式） n. (Hearing)人名；(英)希尔林 Hearing someone come in, he hid himself behind the curtain. 听见有人进来了，他一闪身藏在了窗帘的后面。 He ran the tape back to the original place after hearing it. 他听完录音后把磁带倒回到原来的地方。 He edited the report that was to be presented to the committee at the hearing. 他篡改了那份准备在听证会上向委员会提交的报告。 —————————————— heave 胀 heave vt. 举起；使起伏；投掷；恶心；发出（叹息等） vi. 起伏；举起；喘息；呕吐 n. 举起；起伏；投掷；一阵呕吐 With one last heave, the net was hauled in. 随着最后的一下猛拉，网被拖了上来。 Yet rather than keeping them in your life, consider giving them the heave-ho or you could suffer. 然而，你可以考虑与他们绝交或者你可以承受，也胜过继续与之交往。 And Moses gave the tribute, which was the LORD's heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the LORD commanded Moses. 摩西把贡物，就是归与耶和华的举祭，交给祭司以利亚撒，是照耶和华所吩咐摩西的。 —————————————— heighten 提高 heighten vt. 提高；增高；加强；使更显著 vi. 升高；变强 Both factors heighten the danger of a hacker break-in. 这两个因素提高了黑客入侵的危险。 Why, then, should they direct and heighten and provoke and curb every action of life? 既然如此，它们又为什么会指导、或加强、或引起、或阻止生命中的每个行为呢？ A few moments of silence each day will broaden your horizon, strengthen your self-awareness, and heighten your inner clarity. With clarity, you can do anything. 每天静默片刻可以开拓你的视野，加深你的个人意识，加强你内心的纯净。淡定下来，你可以做任何事。 —————————————— heir 继承人 heir n. [法] 继承人；后嗣；嗣子 She acknowledged him as her heir. 她承认他为自己的继承人。 He claims to be the rightful heir. 他要求做合法的继承人。 The signal agreed on between my father and me was that if he was her heir without being her husband I was to kick him under the table and he would not propose — otherwise he would. 我与父亲约定的信号是，假如他已经是继承人，我就在桌子下踢踢父亲的腿，那么他 不会求婚——否则，他就会当晚求婚。 —————————————— hemisphere 半球 hemisphere n. 半球 It is further divided into four regions, or lobes, in each hemisphere. 每个半球它又进一步分化为四个区域或四个脑叶。 Because language centers are smaller, and only located in one hemisphere, this puts males more at risk for language disorders like dyslexia. 因为语言中心更小，只位于一个半球，这也使男性陷入如失语症等语言紊乱的危险中。 The light is dying, for one thing, as Earth’s orbit around the sun and tilt on its axis combine to carry us in this hemisphere further away from receiving the sun’s rays most directly. 光线也在是失去活力，首先，由于地球绕着太阳的轨道，由于地球倾斜的轴线与我们所处的北半球相结合，最直接从太阳所接收到的光线，就愈为遥远。 —————————————— henceforth 从今以后 henceforth adv. 今后；自此以后 Its contribution henceforth, the official said, should be “harmony”. 这位官员说，从今以后，它的贡献就是“和谐”。 Henceforth, each date in the studio would involve dedicated work on a couple of tunes, after which the band would disappear to learn the next few songs. 自此以后，在录音室里的每一天都将对许多曲子进行精心的加工，随后乐队成员都将消失去学习另外一些歌曲。 A government could simply pass a law saying that the wages of public workers, welfare cheques and government debts would henceforth be paid in a new currency, converted at an official fixed rate. 政府要颁布一则法律，声明从今以后工人工资，福利支票以及政府债务将采用新的货币，并按照官方指定的比率转换。 这并非难事。 —————————————— heritage 遗产 If you could forget your heritage, your past and training. 如果你能忘掉你的传统，你的过往和知识。 He persistently asserted his right to a share in the heritage. 他始终声称他有分享那笔遗产的权利。 All of our cultural heritage which is useful should be inherited, but in a critical way. 凡属我国文化遗产中有用的东西， 都应当批判地继承。 —————————————— hierarchy 层次结构 hierarchy n. 层级；等级制度 What is Call Hierarchy? 什么是层级调用？ We need two new Classes at either end of the inheritance hierarchy to do this. 在继承层次的每个端点，我们需要两个新类来完成这个。 Thus you have only one hierarchy of loggers for all users. You lose isolation. 这样，所有的用户只有一个层次结构，您会失去隔离性。 —————————————— highlight 突出 highlight vt. 突出；强调；使显著；加亮 n. 最精彩的部分；最重要的事情；加亮区 You can highlight this by investigating the nature of the workload. 可以通过调查工作量的性质来突出这一点。 Of course we must highlight that the system can hardly be inaccurate. 当然我们必须强调这一点，即该系统根本不可能出错。 Highlight only those achievements that make you the best candidate for the job. 只突出让你显得最适合这个职位的那些成就。 —————————————— hinder 阻碍 hinder vi. 成为阻碍 vt. 阻碍；打扰 adj. 后面的 n. (Hinder)人名；(芬)欣德 I wouldn't hinder your work,I'm going swimming right now. 我不会妨碍你工作，我这就去游泳。 These are irrelevant and do not hinder the performance of the application. 这些是不相关的，并不会妨碍应用程序的性能。 They find it important to do certain things in the right way, but this need does not hinder their lives and can actually help them achieve great success. 这种人认为，以正确的方式做某些事很重要，但是这种习惯并没有妨碍他们的生活，反而能够帮助他们取得巨大的成功。 —————————————— hinge 铰链 hinge n. 铰链，折叶；关键，转折点；枢要，中枢 v. 用铰链连接；依…为转移；给…安装铰链；（门等）装有蝶铰 The wider the hinge, the further it folds. 铰链角度越大，它能折的距离越远。 By varying the width of the black lines, or hinges, researchers are able to change how far each hinge folds. 通过改变黑色线条或者铰链的宽度，研究员可以改变每条铰链可以折叠的范围。 Second, the heat has to be localized to the hinge in order to have fast and effective folding. 第二，热量必须定位在铰链上，才可以更快更有效的进行折叠。 —————————————— historian 历史学家 historian n. 历史学家 I am a historian, and I teach in an American university. 我是一位历史学家，在美国一所大学任教。 The historian drew a horizontal line on the date to remember it. 历史学家在日期上画了一条水平线来记住这天。 We know Socrates primarily from the accounts of other writers: from his student, Plato, from Xenophon, the historian, as well as from the plays of Aristophanes. 我们认识苏格拉底最初都是源于其他作家的记录，来自他的学生，如柏拉图，来自历史学家色诺芬，还有戏剧《亚里斯多芬》。 —————————————— historic 历史 historic adj. 有历史意义的；历史上著名的 We are living in a great historic era. 我们正处在一个伟大的历史时代。 The invaders gutted the historic building. 侵略者们将那幢历史上有名的建筑洗劫一空。 The US and Europe need to welcome this historic shift. 美国和欧洲必须欢迎这个历史转变。 —————————————— hitherto 迄今为止 hitherto adv. 迄今；至今 And indeed, what have I done hitherto, in the years behind me? 的确，迄今为止，过去的这些年里我都做了些什么？ Hitherto the withering flowers can’t withstand the sunshine notwithstanding my care. 尽管有我的呵护,这些凋谢的花至今仍经不起阳光. In other words, they are claiming that, unless there is some hitherto undetected systematic, neutrinos are traveling faster than light. 换言之，他们声称，除非有迄今未被探测到的系统误差，中微子传播速度超过了光速。 —————————————— hoist 提升机 hoist n. 起重机；升起，吊起 vi. 升起；吊起 vt. （用绳索，起重机等）使升起 n. (Hoist)人名；(英)霍伊斯特 I did frame three of my four walls on the ground, then raised them with the chain hoist. 我只在地面装好四面墙的三个框架，再用链式起重机把它们举起来。 Designers envision building the skybridges at the saddle and then using a jacking mechanism to hoist them into place. 设计师构想在三脚基底上建立天空之桥，然后升起机械结构让它们能扬起升空。 Worry, by its very nature, means thinking about the future—and if you hoist yourself into awareness of the present moment, worrying melts away. 担心，由于其本身的性质，意味着考虑未来——如果你把自己提升到当下时刻的意识里，担心就化为乌有了。 —————————————— homogeneous 均匀 homogeneous adj. 均匀的；[数] 齐次的；同种的；同类的，同质的 Calling two events by the same name does not make them homogeneous. 用同一个名字来称呼两个事件不会让它们同质化。 Some goods, however, are of a special nature. They are homogeneous, so that no one unit can be distinguished from another. 但是某些物品却比较特殊，它们具有同质性，以至于一件这样的物品无法和另一件同类物品区分开来。 They follow the DB2 procedure model and provide a homogeneous interface that maps many special features in the data sources to DB2. 它们遵循 DB2 过程模型并提供一个同质的接口，可以将数据源中的许多特殊特性映射到 DB2。 —————————————— horrible 可怕的 horrible adj. 可怕的；极讨厌的 My scalp began to prickle as I realized the horrible truth. 我了解到了那令人恐怖的事实时，顿时感到不寒而栗。 That's when I tell him something horrible that happened to me. 然后我又告诉他那些发生在我身上的可怕的事情。 And it is horrible. But there is good news. 但那是可怕的但还是有一个好消息。 —————————————— hose 软管 hose n. 软管；长统袜；男性穿的紧身裤 vt. 用软管浇水；痛打 He squirted me with a hose. 他用水管把我喷了个透心凉。 He rigged a rubber hose to the tap in the kitchen. 他将一条橡皮软管安装在厨房的水龙头上。 You should connect the hose to the tap and then turn on the water. 你应当先把软管连接在水龙头上然后再打开水源。 —————————————— hospitality 热情好客 hospitality n. 好客；殷勤 He intrudes upon their hospitality. 他强使他们款待他。 I'll pay her back for her hospitality by inviting her to dinner. 我要请她吃饭以回报她的殷勤款待。 I am very grateful to you for the cordial hospitality you accorded me. 蒙热情招待， 十分感激。 —————————————— hostage 人质 hostage n. 人质；抵押品 The hostage's mouth was taped. 人质的嘴被用胶布封住了。 Don't fire!He hijacked a girl as a hostage. 别开枪!他劫持了一名女孩子作人质。 At this point, he threatened to kill a hostage. 在这个节骨眼上，他威胁杀死人质。 —————————————— hover 徘徊 hover vi. 盘旋，翱翔；徘徊 n. 徘徊；盘旋；犹豫 vt. 孵；徘徊在…近旁 n. (Hover)人名；(英、德)霍弗 When you hover over a link, for example, you can 'peek' at the results without leaving the site, for example, and you can easily share any link right from the results page as well. 当你的鼠标悬停在一个链接之上时，你可以事先预览内容，而不用离开当前站点。 另外你也可以在结果页面上非常方便的分享任何链接。 There is nothing like a cold splash on your exposed nether regions as you sit or hover in terror over a public toilet. 没有什么比得上一个冷饮料打翻在你下面的地区暴露你坐或翱翔在公共厕所惊恐。 This backpack-sized small unmanned air vehicle can hover and "stare, " gathering battlefield information in support of small unit (down to platoon) operations. 这个背包大小的小型无人机可悬停“凝视”， 收集战场信息，支持排级以下小股部队行动。 —————————————— hug 拥抱 hug vt. 拥抱；紧抱；抱有，坚持 vi. 拥抱；紧抱在一起；挤在一起 n. 拥抱；紧抱；固执 n. (Hug)人名；(英)胡克；(法)于格；(德、瑞典)胡格 They hug each other. 他们互相拥抱。 Hug your child and tell them you love them. 拥抱你的孩子并对他们说你爱他们。 He'll never change, and will hug his cherished beliefs. 他不会改变的，他将永守他所抱的信仰。 —————————————— humidity 湿度 humidity n. [气象] 湿度；湿气 The humidity of soil helps to grow. 土壤潮湿有助于植物生长。 The house is not comfortable tonight because of the high humidity. 由于湿度高， 今晚屋子里不舒服。 If humidity not within the set point, turn on external ventilation. 如果湿度不在设置点内，那么打开外部通风。 —————————————— hurricane 飓风 hurricane n. 飓风，暴风 The hurricane devastated a large section of the coast. 飓风毁坏了沿海地区的大部分。 The hurricane demage was assessed at three million dollars. 飓风损害赔偿金的金额被确定为三百万美元。 The building can accommodate all of the offshore workers and protect them from hurricane damage. 这个建筑能容纳所有的海上工人并且保护他们不受飓风的伤害。 —————————————— hypothesis 假设 hypothesis n. 假设 We have another hypothesis as well. 我们提出了另一种假说。 But how can this hypothesis be tested? 但是怎么才能证明这一假设? A suggested explanation, so long as its correctness is still in doubt, is called a hypothesis. 提出来的解释，只要它的正确性仍然有疑问， 便称为假说。 —————————————— hysterical 歇斯底里的 hysterical adj. 歇斯底里的；异常兴奋的 “Hysterical” was how one man described to me the mood in his home, adding that the hysteria was followed by humiliation and shame. 一个人对我描述他全家的情绪，用的词是“歇斯底里”，并补充说，其次便是屈辱感和羞耻感。 All he can to calm myself down, he seems some hysterical, he wants to tell the person of whole world, I finally have the news magazine sent him manuscripts culverts. 一整天他都无法让自己的心平静下来，他开心的似乎有些歇斯底里，他想要告诉全世界的人这个消息，终于有杂志社给他发约稿涵。 Or, indeed, not to be, ah, clenched with hysterical panic — for there can be few things more humiliating than being asked to relax, anally speaking, by a stranger in a white coat. 或 者，说实在的，千万不要因歇斯底里的恐惧而紧张—因为很少有比被一位身穿白大褂的陌生人要求放松(意思是放松肛门周边的肌肉哦)更丢脸的事了。 —————————————— identification 识别 identification n. 鉴定，识别；认同；身份证明 But we leave them out in the identification of the premise and conclusion. 但是我们去掉了它们,在识别前提和论点的时候。 This completes the identification of the services and how they relate to the business requirements. 这就完成了对服务以及它们是如何同业务需求相关的识别。 The tags facilitate the identification and extraction of chunks for reuse while eliminating the need to create additional files. 标签可以识别和提取大量的内容支持再使用，而不必每次都创建额外的文件。 —————————————— identity 身份 identity n. 身份；同一性，一致；特性；恒等式 His real identity was surprised by me. 我无意间发现了他的真实身份。 What is my identity? 我的身份是什么？ Passports are frequently serviceable in proving the identity of the traveller. 护照往往可用来证明旅行者的身份。 —————————————— ideology 意识形态 ideology n. 意识形态；思想意识；观念学 Then you get this ideology. 然后就有了这种思想。 And they have an ideology of hate. 在他们的意识形态中只有仇恨。 These questions have nothing to do with party or ideology. 这些问题其实和党派和意识形态毫无关系。 —————————————— idiom 成语 idiom n. 成语，习语；土话 The idiom was overworn by my family. 在我们家这条成语都被用滥了。 What word does this idiom come under? 这个习语应列入哪个词条项下? Well, actually, it’s just the first half of an idiom. 哦，其实哦，这只是一个习语的前半部分。 —————————————— ignite 点燃 ignite vt. 点燃；使燃烧；使激动 vi. 点火；燃烧 It can ignite your spirit and make you feel like you can do anything. 它能点燃你的精神和使你感觉你能够做到任何事情。 If your craft is powered by solid or liquid fuel, chances are it will ignite and incinerate you. 如果你的飞船是固体或液体燃料驱动，它随时可能燃起大火，把你烧成灰烬。 Furthermore, some flawed ideas may ignite your curiosity and imagination, both of which have the ability to change the dynamics of everything. 而且，有时一些有瑕疵的想法可能会点燃你的好奇心和想象力，这两者都能够带来彻头彻尾的改变。 —————————————— ignorance 无知 ignorance n. 无知，愚昧；不知，不懂 What knocks me most is his ignorance. 最让我吃惊的是他的无知。 No plea can be set up on the ground of ignorance. 以无知为理由而提出的抗辩是不能成立的。 His mind was besotted with fear,ignorance and superstition. 他的头脑被恐惧、愚昧和迷信所麻痹。 —————————————— illusion 错觉 illusion n. 幻觉，错觉；错误的观念或信仰 It created an illusion reality. 这造成了一种宛如真实的梦幻。 His mind could no longer distinguish between illusion and reality. 他的头脑已不再能分清幻觉和现实。 Don't cherish the illusion that your father will always pay your debts. 不要幻想你的父亲总会替你还债。 —————————————— imaginative 富有想象力的 imaginative adj. 富于想象的；有创造力的 She would explore this sense of imaginative and emotional imprisonment in her fiction. 在小说中，她回忆着想象力和情绪都被禁锢的感觉。 Most important, you need friends imaginative enough to buy all this stuff in Beijing and have it shipped on time and intact. 最重要的是，你需要有足够想象力的朋友在北京把这一切东西买好，并且准时寄到这里而且完好无损。 Is it time that cleanses these old weapons? Or the lingering myth of medieval chivalry that turns knightly swords and lances into imaginative wonders? 是时间洗净了那些武器么？或者挥之不去的中世纪骑士传说使得骑士剑和长矛成为想象力的奇观？ —————————————— imitation 模仿 imitation n. 模仿，仿造；仿制品 adj. 人造的，仿制的 The use of language begins with imitation. 运用语言是从模仿开始的。 I hope your story encourages others to imitation. 我希望你的故事鼓励其他人仿效。 So the priorities should be: first education and imitation, second innovation. 因此优先顺序应当是：教育和模仿优先，其次才是创新。 —————————————— immerse 浸泡 immerse vt. 沉浸；使陷入 You can immerse yourself in it and absorb it. 你可以使自己沉浸其中并消化吸收。 Their rhythm lies not in what they bring to us, but rather in what we immerse ourselves in. 它的价值不在于带给我们什么，而在于我们自己沉浸其中。 Almost every night. He would almost immerse himself in whatever kind of alcohol came in handy. 几乎每天晚上，他都让自己沉浸在随手可及的任何美酒之中。 —————————————— immune 免疫 immune adj. 免疫的；免于……的，免除的 n. 免疫者；免除者 We are immune to advertising. 我们对广告是免疫的。 None of us is immune to the heartaches and sorrows that inhabit this misbegotten world. 我们当中无人能对存在于这个丑恶世界中的心痛和悲伤免疫。 If stress affects immune responses, then it should also affect how well the body heals itself. 如果压力影响免疫反应，那它必将也会影响身体自我疗愈的能力。 —————————————— impair 损害 impair vt. 损害；削弱；减少 For example, it can impair orientation and sense of smell in young clownfish, making them more vulnerable to predators. 例如，它能削弱幼年小丑鱼的方向感和嗅觉，让它们更容易受到捕食者的攻击。 They apprehend that every farther step forward on the road toward the socialization of enterprises will seriously impair the quantity and the quality of the products of every industry. 他们认识到，在向企业的社会主义化道路上每深入一步都将会严重地损害每个产业所生产的产品的数量和质量。 Never, ever build an environment where the loss of a solitary resource would impair the environment. 永远不要构建这样一个环境，即其中单个资源的丧失会损害整个环境。 —————————————— impart 传授 impart vt. 给予（尤指抽象事物），传授；告知，透露 If Campbell returns to Arsenal, he wants the impart the knowledge of those past glories to the present squad. 如果坎贝尔回到阿森纳，那么他想向现在的队伍传授过去那些获得荣誉的经验。 Impart urgency and convenience: in most instances, the sole objective of the cold call is to get an appointment. 告知急迫性和便利性：大部分情况下，冷不防打电话的唯一目的就是预约见面。 The episodes are each a few minutes in length — enough time, say, for Mr. Buffett and his animated acolytes to impart the importance of location when setting up a lemonade stand. 每集动画片长度只有几分钟，可以说，对巴菲特先生和他的动画助手们来说传授在搭建柠茶摊时选择位置的重要性已经足够了。 —————————————— imperative 必要的 imperative adj. 必要的，不可避免的；紧急的；命令的，专横的；势在必行的；[语]祈使的 n. 必要的事；命令；需要；规则；[语]祈使语气 The undertaking was not easy, she said, but it felt imperative. 她说，这个选择并不轻松，但她感觉是必要的。 This is part of reform for a healthy future, and it is imperative. 这势在必行，是为了健康的未来实行改革进程的一部分。 As we look to the future, we recognize the imperative for decisive and concerted action. 展望未来，我们认识到决定性和协调一致的行动势在必行。 —————————————— imperial 帝国 imperial adj. 帝国的；皇帝的；至高无上的；威严的 n. 纸张尺寸；特等品 n. (Imperial)人名；(西)因佩里亚尔 The princess, refusing to go without the fabric she loved, would finally break the imperial ban on silk worm exportation. 这位公主在没有她所爱的织物而拒绝出嫁，最终将打破了皇帝桑蚕出口的禁令。 His collegiality (“I like being the chairman of a team”) also signals an end to the imperial premierships of recent decades. 他的共同掌权方式（“我愿意成为一个团队的领导人”）也标志着近几十年帝国主义首相制的终结。 The US has clearly reached the point of imperial overreach. 美国已经明显地超过了帝国的过度扩张点。 —————————————— impetus 动力 impetus n. 动力；促进；冲力 Children need an impetus to study. 儿童学习需要动力。 They have also provided most of the impetus for the adoption of these practices. 同时，它们也为这些实践方法的采用提供了很大推动力。 And so that really was a major impetus, plus my wife always telling me that I should tell this story. 所以，这确实是一个主要的动力，另外我的妻子总是告诉我应该把这个故事公诸于众。 —————————————— implement 实现 implement vt. 实施，执行；实现，使生效 n. 工具，器具；手段 How do we implement this? 那我们怎么来执行呢？ How do you implement this practice? 您如何执行这个实践？ Otherwise, you would have to implement this feature yourself. 否则，您就需要自己想办法实现这个特性。 —————————————— implicit 隐式的 implicit adj. 含蓄的；暗示的；盲从的 Whether you use explicit or implicit feedback, or some combination of the two, is an important decision in designing any WOC system. 你是否使用明确或隐含的反馈,或将两者结合,在任何WOC系统中都是一种重要的决策设计。 Second, it makes the relations and their semantics explicit, whereas in a standard database schema many relations are implicit in design of the schema. 其次，它使关系和它们的语义变成显式的，而在标准的数据库模式中许多关系隐含在模式的设计中。 Implicit in this perspective is the belief that there is no positive potential for popular struggles to inform our basic conceptions of development and policy. 这种看法隐含的是这样一种信念，即：由于民众的斗争，明达我们关于发展的基本观念和政策，是绝对不可能的。 —————————————— impulse 冲动 impulse n. 冲动；[电子] 脉冲；刺激；神经冲动；推动力 vt. 推动 I don't know how to resist my impulse. 我不知道怎样抑制自己的感情冲动。 Please do not accuse me of presumption if I yield to this impulse of love. 请不要谴责我的放肆,如果我屈服于这爱的冲动。 Which impulse will you act upon? 那个冲动会让你行动吗？ —————————————— inaugurate 举行就职典礼 inaugurate vt. 创新；开辟；开创；举行开幕典礼；举行就职典礼 Next week he will inaugurate a new bout of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians, chaperoned by Egypt’s president and Jordan’s king (see article). 下周，他将正式开启新一轮由埃及总统和约旦国王斡旋的以色列和巴勒斯坦之间的直接谈判。 But even the default of an agglomeration of smaller countries would end any hope of an open international economy and inaugurate an age of financial nationalism. 不过，即使是中小国家的集中违约，也将彻底终结建立开放式国际经济的希望，并拉开金融民族主义时代的序幕。 This allowedFrege to inaugurate some profound developments in the philosophy of language. 这使得弗雷格在语言哲学上作出了重大的发展。 —————————————— incentive 激励 incentive n. 动机；刺激 adj. 激励的；刺激的 If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. 只有他们有了直接动机，他们才会思考这样做的意义。 Since the Americans have no leverage in these conflicts, they also have no incentive to pick sides. 由于美国人在这些冲突中没有影响力，他们也就没有选择站哪边的动机。 Content providers, however, have every incentive to control access to it because they rely on the goodwill of their audience. 但是，互联网的内容提供者有充分的动机去控制这些内容，因为他们靠他们观众的信任赚钱。 —————————————— incidence 发病率 incidence n. 发生率；影响；[光] 入射；影响范围 Western states have the highest incidence of suicide. 西部的州有更高的自杀发生率。 There is little seasonal variation in the incidence of the disease. 在该病的发病率方面存在着极小的季节性差别。 The incidence of this disease has dropped considerably in the past few years. 近几年这种病的发病率大大降低了。 —————————————— incidentally 顺便说一下 incidentally adv. 顺便；偶然地；附带地 Incidentally, here's another study tip based on research evidence about how the brain learns by association. 顺便，这是另一个有研究证据的关于大脑如何通过联系进行学习的提示。 Those movies all sound great to me, and, incidentally, I am prepared to write any of them, if there is interest. 这些电影听上去很棒，顺便说一句，如果有人感兴趣，我准备好了把它们任何一个写成剧本。 Notice, incidentally, that I said the manager lets his programmers pair. 请注意，顺便说说，我假设该经理 让他的程序员结对工作。 —————————————— inclusive 包容 inclusive adj. 包括的，包含的 But all of you insisted on an inclusive process driven by Member States. 但大家都一致坚持应通过由会员国推动的包容性进程开展改革。 An important question in US life: how to balance this wish to be inclusive with the need to maintain authentic competition and play to win? 在美国的社会生活中，一个重要的问题就是：如何平衡既要包容所有人又要保证权威性的竞争并且获胜？ As a convenience, I use the term "mechanism," as in the phrase "governance mechanism" to be all-inclusive of the components identified above. 为了方便起见，如在短语“治理机制”中一样，我使用术语“机制”来包括上面所识别的所有组成部分。 —————————————— incorporate 合并 incorporate vt. 包含，吸收；体现；把……合并 vi. 合并；混合；组成公司 adj. 合并的；一体化的；组成公司的 It allows you to harness existing technologies and incorporate them into one application. 它允许您利用现有的技术并将它们合并到同一个应用程序中。 The next step is to generate the report and then incorporate it as an affiliated document of the master document. 紧接着的步骤就是产生这个报告，然后将它作为主文档的附属文档与主文档合并。 Languages tend to incorporate patterns and other common idioms, where they disappear as part of the language abstraction itself. 语言趋向于包含模式和其他常见惯例，它们作为语言抽象自身的一部分出现。 —————————————— incredible 这是一种不可思议的力量！ incredible adj. 难以置信的，惊人的 It sounded incredible in common. 乍一听来， 简直不可思议。 "But you the community and the policy groups and staff and board have worked through them, which is absolutely incredible, " he said. 他说道：“但是你们这些社团、政策组织和委员会现在已经完成了这项工作，这绝对是难以置信的。” So when you take responsibility for your life and your results, you give yourself the opportunity to maximize your incredible potential. 所以当你对生活和你的结果负责时，你就会给自己一个机会，以使你惊人的潜力达到最大化。 —————————————— incur 承担 incur vt. 招致，引发；蒙受 The currency curriculum made the excursionist incur loss of time and money. 流通（货币）课程使得旅行者招致了时间和金钱的损失。 Long term dependence on the library may incur extended licensing costs and dependence on the vendor for regular updates and support. 对库的长期依赖可能招致额外的许可证花费，也要依赖厂商来提供正规的升级和支持。 Consequently, it must incur a long pause to defragment, or compact, the heap to coalesce many smaller free memory areas into larger free memory areas to satisfy a large allocation request. 因此，必然会引发长时间的暂停来整理碎片或进行压缩，堆将很多小块的自由内存区域整合为一块大的自由内存区域，从而满足大型分配请求。 —————————————— indefinite 不定 indefinite adj. 不确定的；无限的；模糊的 The union says an indefinite strike could blight Nigeria's oil production and petroleum distribution. 工会说，一次不确定的罢工可能会影响石油生产和石油销售。 A stem cell is a cell that can divide for indefinite periods in culture and is at least 'multipotent' — it can give rise to specialised cells (such as neurons or skin cells). 干细胞是一种在培养环境中可以无限分裂的细胞，而且至少是“多能的”——它可以变成专门细胞（诸如神经元或皮肤细胞）。 Locked up in controversy: The United States' practices of indefinite detention of alleged enemy combatants, torture, and extraordinary rendition garnered criticism around the world. 冻结战争论：美国用无限期拘留敌方战斗人员、酷刑和这种特别的反恐形式遭到了全世界的质疑。 —————————————— indicative 指示性 indicative adj. 象征的；指示的；表示…的 n. 陈述语气；陈述语气的动词形式 As a result of this normalization through familiarity, by the mid-1980s BDSM was no longer considered inherently indicative of mental illness. 通过这种熟悉的正常化的结果，1980年代中期BDSM便不再被认为是精神疾病的固有象征。 The catalog lists all the commodities we export, and the price list gives indicative prices for all our export articles. 目录里列出了我们出口的所有产品，价格表也给出了我们所有出口产品的指示性价格。 The way they deliberate every word before it comes out of their mouth is indicative of how they approach life: They look before they leap. 他们对每个将要从嘴里蹦出来的的字都仔细斟酌一番，这便是他们对待生活方式的一种象征：他们在行动之前一定会看清情况。 —————————————— indignant 愤怒的 indignant adj. 愤愤不平的；义愤的 At this news they were highly indignant. 听了这消息他们非常愤怒。 He was very indignant with his wife over her improper conduct. 他对他妻子的不端行为感到非常愤慨。 It said this view was shared by many delegates at the city legislature’s annual meeting in January, and ran some indignant-sounding quotes. 它报道说这种观点也普遍被今年一月召开的市人大会议所认可，并存在于一些令人非常气愤的引述中。 —————————————— indignation 愤怒 indignation n. 愤慨；愤怒；义愤 It caused some protest and indignation. 这引起了一些抗议和愤慨。 The rejection of this measure aroused the people to indignation. 对该议案的否决激起人民的愤慨。 The British ambassador to Israel expressed his indignation to the terrorism. 英国驻以色列的大使表达了对恐怖主义的愤慨。 —————————————— induce 诱导 induce vt. 诱导；引起；引诱；感应 That fluidity should induce some humility on the part of would-be media scolds, though it rarely does. 那种易变性应当引起对一些有预谋的媒体责骂保持某种谦卑,尽管那很难做到。 When their initial lure had played out, the pioneers of the West found other attractions to induce them to stay on. 这些西部拓荒者的最初的诱惑力逐渐消失之后，他们又转而寻找别的兴趣诱使他们继续留下。 Using blood to nourish and grow the stem cells, Zhu managed to induce them to differentiate into three lineages: first bone and cartilage, then muscle, and then neuron. 利用血液去培育干细胞获得成功以后，朱敏设法诱导它们分化成三种细胞系：先是骨骼和软骨细胞，然后是肌细胞，再是神经元。 —————————————— indulge 放纵 indulge vt. 满足；纵容；使高兴；使沉迷于… vi. 沉溺；满足；放任 What would you do if you had this power, the power of this magic ring, where you could commit any crime, indulge any vice, commit any outrage and be sure you could always get away with it? 你们如果也拥有这般神力，透过来自神奇戒指的魔力，将可以违犯任何罪行，放纵自己，干下任何不道德的行为或暴行,也不用担心,因为永远可以藉由神力遁逃？ Both rich and poor have special reason to indulge. 穷人和有钱人都有沉迷的特殊理由。 My philosophy is to try a little of everything but not over-indulge. 我的人生哲学就是：每样事物都尝试一点，但不要过度沉迷。 —————————————— inertia 惯性 inertia n. [力] 惯性；惰性，迟钝；不活动 Inertia carried the car to the pavement. 惯性使汽车驶到了人行道上。 Galileo and Descartes replaced that with the idea of inertia. 伽利略和笛卡尔用惯性的概念将其取代。 But the internal inertia against doing so appears too great at this time. 但反对这种作为的内部惰性这次似乎显得太过强大了。 —————————————— infectious 传染性 infectious adj. 传染的；传染性的；易传染的 Prisoners, and prison staff, come and go from Kenyan prisons every day, bringing with them potentially infectious diseases in both directions. 囚犯和监狱工作人员每天从肯尼亚监狱来来去去，可能患有传染性的疾病地往两方向跑。 The new point of view was infectious, and the next child did likewise, and then the next, till the whole three of them wailed loud. 这个新观点是有传染性的，第二个孩子也同样哭起来，接着又是一个，后来三个孩子都一起嚎啕大哭起来。 And what I mean by decisive is the same sort of medical control that we have over most infectious diseases today. 我所指的‘决定性’医疗控制和我们对现在大多数传染性疾病采用的医疗控制是同一性质的。 —————————————— inflation 通货膨胀 inflation n. 膨胀；通货膨胀；夸张；自命不凡 We are battling against inflation and unemployment. 我们正与通货膨胀和失业做斗争。 How are you going to swing the problem of inflation? 请问，你打算怎样解决当前的通货膨胀问题? David peppered the audience with an anti-inflation speech. 大卫做反通货膨胀的演说鼓动听众。 —————————————— inflict 造成 inflict vt. 造成；使遭受（损伤、痛苦等）；给予（打击等） Whether you inflict pain on another human or to an animal, the great accountability is the same. 无论你们给另一个人或一个动物造成痛苦，其巨大责任都是一样的。 “I spent all this time telling them we could continue to inflict pain on their loved one or we could make him comfortable,” he said, his hands still moving. “我一直在和他们说，我们或者继续给他们的亲人造成痛苦或者我们可以让他走的舒服一些，”他说的同时手仍然在微微发抖。 Either way, they were serene and unwilling to inflict pain on others—exactly like those who were given word of social acceptance. 在任一种情况下，他们都很平静，不愿对他人造成痛苦——完全像那些收到通知被社会接受的人。 —————————————— ingenious 巧妙的 ingenious adj. 有独创性的；机灵的，精制的；心灵手巧的 He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth. 他研究了纳米布甲虫，这是一种机灵的物种，生活在世界上最干燥的地方之一。 He thinks it was an ingenious experiment and perhaps even representative of the future of advertising. 他认为那是一个巧妙的的试验，甚至可能是未来广告的典型。 So we continue to listen out for the signal from aliens through ever more ingenious methods. But we are transmitting too. 我们用更精巧的方法继续聆听外星人发出的信号。但是我们也在发射信号。 —————————————— ingredient 成分 ingredient n. 原料；要素；组成部分 adj. 构成组成部分的 Start on the next common ingredient preparation. 开始准备下一种通用的配料。 But remember, none of these recipes for success will work without the key ingredient: willpower. 但请记住，这些成功的秘方在没有关键成分时都不会有效：那就是意志力。 For example, if genetic engineering simply moves a gene for a common food ingredient from one safe food crop to another, this does not expose consumers to new components in their food supply. 例如，如果基因工程单单从一种安全粮食作物的一种普通食物成分的基因转移到另一种作物，这并不使消费者受到事物供给中新成分的影响。 —————————————— inhabit 居住 inhabit vt. 栖息；居住于；占据 vi. （古）居住；栖息 Many of the bird groups with the most rapid declines in the last 40 years inhabit areas with the greatest potential for energy development. 在具有最大能源开发潜力的鸟类栖息的地方，许多鸟类群体数量在最近40间经历了急速的下降。 "The letter and spirit of the Forest Rights Act of 2006 has not been implemented by Vedanta," he told journalists, referring to the law that governs rights of tribes on forest lands they inhabit. “无论从字面还是内涵上，2006年林权法案都没有得到韦丹塔公司的落实”，他对记者说道。 此处提及的法案赋予部落对于其居住的林地的支配权利。 I illustrate this through various artistic processes that act as both reflective and connective forces between people and the environment they inhabit. 通过各种各样的艺术过程让人深思，进而把自身和居住的环境连接在一起，我就这样证明了这种状态。 —————————————— inhibit 抑制 inhibit vt. 抑制；禁止 They then had to inhibit that response and not press the button when a different stimulus appeared on the screen in its place. 然后，当屏幕的相应位置出现不同的刺激物时，他们必须抑制这种反应，而不去按下按钮。 The bacterium can also secrete chemicals that inhibit fungal growth, as well as hormones that stimulate the growth of its host plants. 这种细菌也能够分泌抑制真菌生长的化学物质，同时，它还能产生促进宿主植物生长的激素。 But they also seem to inhibit the development of the fatty plaques that can clog up blood vessels and cause strokes. 然而这种抗体看起来也抑制脂质斑块的形成，脂质斑块可以堵塞血管并导致中风。 —————————————— initiate 启动 initiate vt. 开始，创始；发起；使初步了解 n. 开始；新加入者，接受初步知识者 adj. 新加入的；接受初步知识的 Initiate verify and sync from this node. 从这个节点启动检查和同步。 Instead, you must initiate a transfer request to copy data into your local store. 相反，您必须发起一个传输请求将数据复制到本地存储中。 Moreover the business workers that initiate those methods are to be traced to corresponding system actors (User Roles) living in the System Use Case model. 此外，发起那些方法的业务操作者将追溯到相应的位于系统用例模型中的系统参与者（用户角色）。 —————————————— initiative 倡议 initiative n. 主动权；首创精神 adj. 主动的；自发的；起始的 Such initiative is highly commendable. 这种积极性是很可贵的。 I put it all down to his hard work and initiative. 我把这一切归因于他工作既勤奋又主动。 In this way they brought into full play the initiative, wisdom and power of the masses. 这样他们就使群众的积极性、智慧和力量都充分发挥出来。 —————————————— inject 注入 inject vt. 注入；注射 Once you inject one class, it leads to injecting the next and the next. 注入一个类后，它会导致注入下一个类，依此类推。 For DI to work, you must have an interface whose concrete class you can inject into the consumer of the behavior you desire. 为了让 DI 工作，必须拥有一个接口，可以把这个接口的具体类注入到需要的行为的消费者中。 I discussed the motivation and definition of DI and showed an example of how a container can inject dependencies from one component into another. 我讨论了 DI 的动机和定义，并用一个示例，演示了容器如何可以把依赖项从一个组件注入到另一个组件。 —————————————— inland 内陆 inland n. 内地；内陆 adj. 内陆的；内地的；国内的 adv. 在内地；向内地；向内陆；在内陆 The next day, we drove inland. 第二天，我们乘车开往内陆。 We beached the boat and headed inland. 我们想使船靠岸，朝内陆方向驶去。 An incident happened in an inland town. 一个事情发生在内陆的一个小镇。 —————————————— inlet 入口 inlet n. 入口，进口；插入物；水湾 v. 引进; 嵌入; 插入; These cannulas have inlet valves that allow the surgeon to inflate the abdominal cavity with carbon dioxide gas. 套管里有进气阀门。 外科医生通过这些阀门向病人腹腔内充入二氧化碳气体用于扩大腹腔。 The upper portion of the air intake is incorporated with an intake ramp designed to generate a rearward leaning oblique shock wave to aid the inlet compression process. 进气口的上部为进气口混合斜面设计，这样设计的目的是为了产生斜振波以帮助进气压缩过程。 The police had blocked the inlet to the inn. 警方已经封锁了客栈的入口。 —————————————— innovation 创新 innovation n. 创新，革新；新方法 This technical innovation will save us much time and labour. 这项技术革新可以为我们节省大量的时间和劳力。 How do you encourage creativity and innovation in your home? 在你的家里，你怎么鼓励创新和创造性呢？ Large numbers of machine tools have been rushed out since the implementation of technological innovation. 自从实行技术革新以来，大批机床迅速地生产出来。 —————————————— innumerable 无数的 innumerable adj. 无数的，数不清的 In the endless flow of absolute truth there are innumerable relative truths. 在绝对真理的长河中有无数相对真理。 Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy. 因为时间永远分岔，通向无数的将来。 在将来的某个时刻，我可以成为您的敌人。 It tells us that there is no Intelligence controlling the cosmos, and that life itself is the result of a blind process of natural selection, in which innumerable species failed to survive. 它告诉我们不存在控制宇宙的神，生命本身是自然选择这一盲目进程的结果，在这过程中无数的物种未能幸存。 —————————————— insane 疯狂的 insane adj. 疯狂的；精神病的；极愚蠢的 The doctor certified him insane. 医生确诊他精神失常。 Insane pumpkin carving of the Predator. 疯狂的南瓜雕刻——食肉动物。 Often, border police thought he must be insane. Some said they would permit him to cross, but not his motorcycle. 通常，边防警察都会认为他是一个精神病，有些人说，他们允许他过去，但不允许他的摩托车过去。 —————————————— insight 洞察力 insight n. 洞察力；洞悉 n. (Insight)人名；(英)因赛特 Where do you get all of your insight from? 你从哪儿得到所有这些见解的？ It provides an interesting insight to how open source projects work and some of the problems they encounter. 它包括对开源代码如何工作有趣的见解以及他们遇到过的一些问题。 Yet spouses do not lack insight. 然而配偶们并不缺乏洞察力。 —————————————— inspiration 灵感 inspiration n. 灵感；鼓舞；吸气；妙计 What an inspiration she was to all around her! 她对于她周围所有的人是一种多么大的鼓舞! Many poets and artists have drawn their inspiration from nature. 许多诗人和艺术家从大自然中获得灵感。 Where I go for inspiration: nature. 我去哪里寻求灵感：大自然。 —————————————— installment 分期付款 installment n. 安装；分期付款；部分；就职 I will cover these transitions in the next installment. 我将在接下来的部分中讨论这些转移。 As you can see, the client stub looks just like the code we used in the previous installment. 就象您能看到的，客户端的存根看上去就像我们在前面部分里使用过的代码。 In this installment of Mission:Messaging, I will walk you through the tasks to configure basic SSL channels with self-signed certificates, building two scripts as we go. 在《任务：消息传递》系列的这个部分，我将和您一起完成使用自签名证书配置基本 SSL 通道的任务，我们将构建两个脚本。 —————————————— instantaneous 瞬时 instantaneous adj. 瞬间的；即时的；猝发的 Only then can the user manipulate the data with the near instantaneous response of a true local application. 只有在这时，用户才能真正以本地应用程序接近即时响应的速度来处理数据。 So, the second method is almost always combined with the first, by checking the fields in instantaneous and then doing a batch validation before the form is submitted. 所以，第二种方法几乎总是和第一种方法结合在一起，先对域进行瞬时检查，然后在表单被提交之前执行批处理确认。 In today’s media world, not only is feedback instantaneous. Anyone with an Internet connection can be a publisher, can raise their voice, can tell the world what they see and what they think. 在现今的媒体世界，不仅读者反馈是即时的，任何人都可以通过因特网接入成为出版者，可以大声表达意见，可以告诉世界自己的所见所想。 —————————————— instrumental 仪器 instrumental adj. 乐器的；有帮助的；仪器的，器械的 n. 器乐曲；工具字，工具格 Then began the most hazardous task of all: our attempt to control the instrumental record. 接着，风险最大的任务开始了：着手控制仪器记录的数据。 Goldman continues playing bass in his indie instrumental band and has plans for a summer tour. 高曼继续在他的独立器乐乐队弹奏贝司，并为夏季巡演做计划。 A study by The Texas Commission on Drug and Alcohol Abuse found that students who took part in school instrumental programs were less likely to become involved with drugs. 得克萨斯药品与酒精滥用研究委员会的一项独立研究显示，参加学校器乐项目的学生沾染毒品的可能性更低。 —————————————— insulate 隔离 insulate vt. 隔离，使孤立；使绝缘，使隔热 This approach highlights how the notion of MDA can be applied to other areas and at higher levels of abstraction, and insulate the developer from changes in the technology. 这种方法着重于了MDA的概念如何能被运用到其它领域以及抽象的更高级别，该方法使得开发者可以隔离于技术的改变。 SOA also includes adapters that change the input and output data signatures of component operations; adapters insulate a service’s clients from changes in its interface at a slight performance cost. SOA 还包含更改组件的输入和输出数据签名的适配器；适配器能以很小的性能开销为代价将服务的客户机与其接口的更改隔离。 That information can in turn help people insulate themselves from potential disturbances during sleep — by wearing earplugs, for example, or requesting a room far away from the ice machine in a hotel. 这个敏感性信息将能够反过来帮助人们在睡眠期间，使自己与潜在的噪音干扰隔离开来——比如，可以通过戴耳塞，或者住宾馆时要求住的房间远离吵人的制冰机。 —————————————— intact 完整的 intact adj. 完整的；原封不动的；未受损伤的 The money was returned intact by its finder. 钱原封未动地被捡拾者送还。 "This is one of the largest intact savannas in Africa," he said. “这里是非洲最大最完整的热带草原，”埃尔坎说。 But if it were animated in a more traditional 2D style, the soul of each film would remain intact. 但如果用更传统的2D风格动画，每一部电影的灵魂仍然会原封不动的保留。 —————————————— integral 积分 integral adj. 积分的；完整的，整体的；构成整体所必须的 n. 积分；部分；完整 We have to compute the integral for flux. 我们需要计算通量的积分。 This call and response is integral to the use case. 这个调用和响应对于用例来说是完整的。 What coordinates do we use to compute this integral? 那用什么坐标系来计算这个积分呢？ —————————————— integrate 集成 integrate vt. 使…完整；使…成整体；求…的积分；表示…的总和 vi. 求积分；取消隔离；成为一体 adj. 整合的；完全的 n. 一体化；集成体 But what if you already have an existing user database that you need to integrate? 但是如果你已经有一个现存的用户数据库需要集成会怎样呢？ How should we integrate that kind of novel with novels that have more formal ambitions? 我们如何整合这种小说和那些,在形式目标上更明确的小说？ This includes skills about how to integrate these products with each other, as well as with existing systems, and how to optimize solutions running on them. 这包括有关这些产品彼此如何集成（以及如何与现有系统集成）和如何优化在其上运行的解决方案的技能。 —————————————— integrity 完整性 The ancient pagoda is still there, but not in its integrity. 那座古塔还在， 但是不完整了。 Therefore, the integrity, legitimacy, survival and effectiveness of this Organization depend on you all. 因此，联合国的完整性、合法性、生存和效力取决于整个大会。 I have integrity. 我很正直。 —————————————— intellect 智力 intellect n. 智力，理解力；知识分子；思维逻辑领悟力；智力高的人 Their power does not come from rank or title but from intellect and perseverance. 他们的权力并非来自等级或头衔，而是来自他们的智慧和毅力。 They do so in the hope that intellect, or some lost piece of knowledge, can save the world from the rise of the dragons. 他们这样做更是希望通过这些智慧或者失落的稀有知识经验能够拯救这个觉醒的巨龙们脚下的世界。 Our strength is derived from many sources, but most of all, we owe our success to the ingenuity, intellect and creativity of our people. 我们的力量来自许多源泉，但其中最重要的是，我们的成功归功于我们人民的聪明、智慧和创造性。 —————————————— intelligible 可理解的 intelligible adj. 可理解的；明了的；仅能用智力了解的 It is an entirely rational, intelligible process but no less miraculous for that. 这完全是一个理性的，可以理解的过程，但是依然那么不可思议。 The simplest and most intelligible answer to this question is that Truth is the object of Logic. 对于这个问题的最简单、最明了的答复是，真理就是逻辑学的对象。 Seems very hard to understand; now this is a real problem for Descartes because Descartes thinks causation is ultimately intelligible. 这似乎很难理解;,这对于笛卡尔来说，这真是个问题,因为他认为因果关系最终还是可以理解的。 —————————————— intensify 加强 intensify vi. 增强，强化；变激烈 vt. 使加强，使强化；使变激烈 WHO calls on all its Member States to intensify action against cancer by developing and reinforcing cancer control programmes. 世卫组织呼吁其所有会员国通过制定和加强癌症控制规划强化防治癌症的行动。 At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story. 有时候，她的离奇幻想会强化周围的自然程序，直到它们似乎变成她的历史中的一部分。 But I observe the flaws, and believe they are set to intensify. 但是我看到了问题，并认为这些问题会加剧。 —————————————— intent 意图 intent n. 意图；目的；含义 adj. 专心的；急切的；坚决的 But it is our intent that they learn something. 但是让他们学习些什么是我们的目的。 It was their intent to micromanage the issues, to become part of the process. 他们的目的是为了微观处理这个问题，使之成为整个过程中的一部分。 Before he accepts and attends daily or weekly meetings, he understands the agenda and goal of the meeting and how they mesh with his current intent. 在他接受并参加每日或每周的会议之前，他会了解会议的日程和目标，以及他们如何能接受他当前的意图。 —————————————— interact 交互 interact vt. 互相影响；互相作用 vi. 互相影响；互相作用 n. 幕间剧；幕间休息 How do we interact with this thing? 我们怎样与这个东西互动？ It allows us to separate the specification of the object (how you interact with it) from the implementation. 它允许我们从实现中剥离对象的规范（如何与它交互）。 It is important not to have any expectations, or we might simply interact with what we think is inside us, leading to further denial. 不要有任何期望，这很重要，否则我们可能只是和自己以为的内心进行了互动，而导致更多的自我否定。 —————————————— interim 临时 interim adj. 临时的，暂时的；中间的；间歇的 n. 过渡时期，中间时期；暂定 Please give me an interim receipt. 请给我一张临时的收据。 If we had thought carefully over the interim period, we could have avoided this. 如果我们在这个过渡时期谨慎地思考，我们可以避开它。 In fact you can also define interim levels of maturity: what is the next major maturity goal, defining roadmaps to attain each of these goals with clear business value. 实际上，您还可以定义临时的成熟度级别：下一个主要成熟度目标是什么，定义路线图以实现这些目标（具有明确的商业价值）。 —————————————— intermittent 断断续续的 intermittent adj. 间歇的；断断续续的；间歇性 "Why do you want to take a nice continuous process and turn it into an intermittent one by coupling it with solar [energy]?, " he asks. 所以，他问道，当你已有一个很好的连续性生产过程，为什么要把它变为一个间断的过程，而且还需要太阳能。 The answer to this question for most people is no, but if your intermittent claudication symptoms are very severe, or if they do not improve, further treatment may be considered. 对大多数人来说这个问题的答案是否定的，但如果你的间歇性跛行症状非常严重，或者没有改善，也可以考虑进一步治疗。 “Our moments of ecstasy have become far too intermittent,” she continued. “我们之间狂喜的时刻太断断续续了，”她继续说。 —————————————— intersection 十字路口 intersection n. 交叉；十字路口；交集；交叉点 What you see is an intersection. 你看到的是一个交叉点。 How far is it to the next intersection? 到下个十字路口，还有多远？ The traffic banked up at the intersection. 车辆在交叉路口拥塞起来。 —————————————— intervene 干预 intervene vi. 干涉；调停；插入 I said at the beginning of this process, we cannot and should not intervene every time there is an injustice in the world. 在这个进程开始之初，我曾经表示，我们不能也不应每逢世界上出现违背正义的情况就进行干预。 On the one hand, some question why America should intervene at all — even in limited ways — in this distant land. 一方面，有些人质疑美国到底为何要在这个遥远的地方进行干预——即使是有限的干预。 "We'd like to be able to intervene and potentially prevent autism in the future, " she said. 她说：“我们非常希望在不久的将来可以干预并有效地预防自闭症的发生。” —————————————— intimidate 恐吓 intimidate vt. 恐吓，威胁；胁迫 No one can intimidate us. 没有人能够胁迫我们。 If you try to intimidate us by threats, you'll get more than you bargained for. 如果你想用威胁来恐吓我们，后果将会严重到出乎你的意料。 Perhaps this person has the capacity, authority, or ability to intimidate or bully people, to do something unpleasant or uncomfortable to other people. 也许这个人具有威胁或者恐吓他人、做出让他人感到难受或者不舒服的能量、能力或者权势。 —————————————— intricate 错综复杂的 intricate adj. 复杂的；错综的，缠结的 The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. 第一个结构是一个复杂的网络，好像是由巨大的金属线条组成。 They said the paint used was also characteristic of that period, as was the intricate and costly style of the lace ruff worn by the man in the portrait. 他们还说，所用的油漆也具有是那个时期的特征，肖像画里男人所穿戴的复杂而又昂贵的花边环状领款式的情况也是这样。 In this article, you learned about some of the more intricate problems that can occur in class loading. 在这篇文章中，学习了一些在类装入中可能发生的更复杂的问题。 —————————————— intrigue 阴谋 intrigue n. 阴谋；诡计；复杂的事；私通 vt. 用诡计取得；激起...的兴趣 vi. 私通；密谋 He never dirtied his hands with political intrigue. 他从不参与政治阴谋玷污自己。 Intrigue and deceit seem to dog the management of just about every political party. 阴谋与欺骗看来尾随着几乎每一个政党的管理。 Whether or not any geostrategic intrigue is at play, there is no doubt that the growing energy diversification movement in the Middle East will have important ramifications for the region. 不管这些地缘政治的阴谋是否得逞，中东地区能源多样化无疑会对该地区开辟其它各种能源产生重大的的影响。 —————————————— intrinsic 内在 intrinsic adj. 本质的，固有的 In any competitive race you do not win by emulating your rivals but by building on your intrinsic strengths. 在任何竞技比赛中，你都无法通过模仿对手而获胜，而是要以自身内在优势为基础。 Another problem is that the study does not establish whether intrinsic properties of junk food cause the reduced intelligence, or whether it’s something else. 另一个问题就是这项研究并没有成立是否垃圾食品的内在特性会降低智力，或者有其他什么原因。 He judged the strategies of the civil rights movement not only by their intrinsic moral virtue, but also by their effectiveness in ending discrimination against black people. 他对民权运动战略的评判不仅基于其内在的道德价值，还基于这些行动对结束歧视黑人的现象是否有效。 —————————————— intuition 直觉 intuition n. 直觉；直觉力；直觉的知识 You may not like that, it may go against your intuition. 你也许不喜欢这个结论，它有悖于你的直觉。 Whether we call it gut feelings, a 'sixth sense,' or something else, we have all experienced intuition at one time or another. 不管我们是把它叫做直觉，一种'第六感觉'或者别的什么东西，我们都曾一度体验过直觉。 Use your intuition here: if you really feel that you should do it now, then follow your instinct. 这要靠你的直觉：如果你真得觉得现在是时候单干了，那么就跟随你的直觉。 —————————————— invalid 无效的 invalid adj. 无效的；有病的；残废的 n. 病人；残废者 vt. 使伤残；使退役 vi. 变得病弱；因病而奉命退役 This certificate is invalid. 这张证明已失效。 We regarded the contract as having become invalid. 我们认为这个合同业已失效。 How do you keep invalid data from getting into your system? 如何才能阻止无效的数据进入您的系统呢？ —————————————— invaluable 无价的 invaluable adj. 无价的；非常贵重的 Their insights were invaluable to me in putting the "how to" parts of these posts together. 在写这些通告的“如何去做”这部分时，他们的见识对我来说是无价的。 Once you get used to this infrastructure, you will find it totally invaluable for all the projects you work on. 一旦习惯了这种基础结构，将发现它对于您从事的所有项目来说都是无价的。 What you draw is an invaluable and unique representation of how you saw at that moment in that place according to your abilities. 每幅画都是无价的、独特的，它们如实的表述你在那个地点、在那个时刻、那时你能理解的视角。 —————————————— invariably 总是 invariably adv. 总是；不变地；一定地 When questioned, he invariably dummy up. 一问到他，他总是不吱声。 But election time invariably shows up the flaws in their model. 但是一到选举时期，总是显示出他们模式的缺点。 So why do we invariably connect higher temperatures with droughts and desertification? 为什么我们总是将气候变暖与干旱、沙漠化联系起来？ —————————————— inventory 库存 inventory n. 存货，存货清单；详细目录；财产清册 This concept appears in manufacturing where they count both scrap and inventory. 此概念会出现在制造业，在其中会计算废料和存货。 Some of the information in these rows is either duplicate or irrelevant for inventory projection. 在这些行中，有些信息是重复的，或者与库存反映无关。 If one of the manufacturing points operates too quickly, it will build up an inventory for the next station to consume. 如果其中一个制造点运作的太快，那么就将生成需要下一个岗位来消耗的存货。 —————————————— invert 反 invert vt. 使…转化；使…颠倒；使…反转；使…前后倒置 n. 颠倒的事物；倒置物；倒悬者 adj. 转化的 Select Invert Tree to change the view to child-parent format. 选择 Invert Tree，可以将该视图更改为子-父的形式。 But once it completes its calculation, it might have to broadcast the results, so its requirements would invert. 但一旦完成了计算，它也许会广播计算结果，因此发送和接收的容量需求又得调转。 This is precisely what data warehousing applications do offering the possibility to aggregate information along a variety of axis and to invert relationships in the data. 他所说的正是数据仓库应用的功能——沿着某些变量轴聚合信息并转化数据间的关系。 —————————————— irony 具有讽刺意味的 irony n. 讽刺；反语；具有讽刺意味的事 adj. 铁的；似铁的 The irony in all this? 还有比这更讽刺的吗？ What irony! 多么讽刺！ He paused to let the irony of this sink in. 他停顿一下，以便让大家领会其中的讽刺意味。 —————————————— irrespective 不管 irrespective adj. 无关的；不考虑的；不顾的 Labor standards and their enforcement apply to all workers, irrespective of their immigration status. 劳工标准及其执行应不论移民身份，实施于所有工人。 The Industry Models support the identification, analysis, and design of requirements-based solutions, irrespective of the target environment. 不论目标环境如何，行业模型支持基于需求的解决方案的识别、分析和设计。 As an academic, it's my job to tell the truth, to explain the scientific evidence before us, irrespective of how unfashionable my conclusions are. 作为一名学者，不论我的结论多么不受欢迎，但讲真话、解释摆在我们眼前的科学证据是我的职责。 —————————————— irrigation 灌溉 irrigation n. 灌溉；[临床] 冲洗；冲洗法 Irrigation is needed to make crops grow in dry regions. 干旱地区需要灌溉才能使作物生长。 Rivers and lakes provide us with water transport and irrigation. 江河湖泽给我们以舟楫和灌溉之利。 In the United States, by contrast, 41% goes for agriculture, almost all of it for irrigation. 与之相比，美国全年41%的水投向了农业，并几乎全都用在了灌溉上。 —————————————— irritate 刺激 irritate vt. 刺激，使兴奋；激怒 vi. 引起恼怒，引起不愉快 This might irritate your bladder and aggravate your condition. 这可能会刺激您的膀胱，并加剧您的病情。 Another person cannot annoy you or irritate you except you permit him or her to. 其他人不可能困扰或激怒你，除非你让他或她这么做。 Also, don't sit on your wallet, as that can irritate the sciatic nerve. 还有，不要坐在你的钱夹子上，那样会刺激你的坐骨神经。 —————————————— ivory 象牙 ivory n. 象牙；乳白色；长牙 adj. 乳白色的；象牙制的 n. (Ivory)人名；(英)艾沃里 It is carved from ivory. 它是用象牙雕成的。 The panel had a veneer of gold and ivory. 这木板上面镶饰了一层金和象牙。 What exquisite [delicate] ivory carvings these are! 这几件象牙雕刻做得真细! —————————————— jail 监狱 jail n. 监狱；监牢；拘留所 vt. 监禁；下狱 n. (Jail)人名；(英)杰尔 They carted him off to jail. 他们把他押到监狱。 He has done five years in the jail. 他已在这所监狱里服刑五年。 Its jail. 它的监狱。 —————————————— jeopardize 危害 jeopardize vt. 危害；使陷危地；使受危困 His foolish behaviour may jeopardize his whole future. 他的愚蠢行为可能会危及他的整个前途。 However, he did not want to jeopardize his health for life after playing. 然而，姚明不想因为比赛而危及自己一生的健康。 They mean well, but they could still be minimizing the abuse or you could jeopardize their safety by obtaining their help. 或许他们帮了你，你也可能会因此而危及到他们的安全，但他们的出发点还是好的。 —————————————— jerk 混蛋 jerk n. 肌肉抽搐；性情古怪的人；蠢人；急拉 vi. 痉挛；急拉；颠簸地行进 vt. 猛拉 n. (Jerk)人名；(俄)埃尔克；(匈)耶尔克 Don't jerk the box up,pull it up smoothly. 不要猛拉这只箱子，慢慢地把它搬起来。 So next time you think someone is important, remember: They may simply be a jerk. 因此，下次你认为某人重要的时候，记住：这些人可能仅仅只是一个混蛋。 If somebody turns into a jerk, they can run up your credit, refuse to pay and nobody can force them to pay. 如果某人变成一个混蛋，他们会刷光你的信用卡额度并拒绝付账，也没人能强迫他们付账。 —————————————— journalist 记者 journalist n. 新闻工作者；报人；记日志者 This journalist distorted the spokesman's remarks. 这名记者曲解了该发言人的话。 A journalist has tried to muscle in on my exclusive story. 一个记者一直想强行把我的独家报道弄到手。 A fellow journalist once told me that if you are not writing every day, then you are an amateur. 一个同行的记者曾经告诉我，如果你不每天写写，那么你是一个业余爱好者。 —————————————— junction 结 junction n. 连接，接合；交叉点；接合点 The cars collided at the junction. 汽车在交叉路口相撞。 This setup requires an SSL junction. 这个设置需要一个 SSL 连接。 In my last Wellness Junction article I discussed four food groups that can help you boost your metabolic rate. 在我最近的健康交界文章中我谈论了四种可以帮助你提高新陈代谢的食物。 —————————————— jury 陪审团 jury n. [法] 陪审团；评判委员会 adj. 应急的 n. (Jury)人名；(西)胡里；(英、法)朱里；(德)尤里 His words weighed heavily with the jury. 他的话对陪审团发生重要影响。 The verdict of the jury was given in his favour. 陪审团作出了对他有利的结论。 The lawyer charged that the jury had been stacked against his client. 该律师说陪审团已产生了不利于他的当事人的偏见。 —————————————— justification 的理由 justification n. 理由；辩护；认为有理，认为正当；释罪 But what we really want is a justification for this policy. 但我们真正需要知道的是制定这一策略的理由。 So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuse behind us, nor justification before us. 所以在敞亮的价值领域中，人们身后没有借口，面前没有理由。 You need a compelling reason to add something this complex at this juncture, and I don't have that justification yet. 您需要一个非常有说服力的理由才能在此接合点添加复杂的内容，而我还没有那样的理由。 —————————————— kidney 肾脏 kidney n. [解剖] 肾脏；腰子；个性 n. (Kidney)人名；(英)基德尼 Sugars are reabsorbed in the kidney. 在肾脏内糖被再吸收。 You can live with just part of a liver or a colon, or only one kidney or lung. 人在只有部分肝脏或结肠，或者只有一个肾或肺叶的情况下尚能存活。 At one point the doctor thought her kidney was packing up,but she's all right till now. 有一阵子大夫认为她的一个肾有毛病，但直到现在她也没事儿。 —————————————— kit 工具包 kit n. 工具箱；成套工具 vt. 装备 vi. 装备 n. (Kit)人名；(俄)基特；(东南亚国家华语)吉；(英)基特，姬特(女名)(教名 Christopher、Katherine 的昵称) Here’s the most basic computer maintenance kit that I think any user should have. 这些是最基本的电脑维护工具包，我觉得任何用户都应该有。 Inside the kit are the benchmark facilities for loading the database and driving the benchmark. 这个工具包中有用于装载数据库和驱动基准的一些基准工具。 A weekend with this book and the NXT kit is all you need to become an intermediate developer with the NXT system. 一个周末的时间，以及该书和 NXT 工具包，就是您成为 NXT 系统中级开发人员所需的全部。 —————————————— knit 针织 knit vi. 编织；结合；皱眉 vt. 编织；结合 n. 编织衣物；编织法 A knit dress packs well. 针织裙适于折叠包装。 How long will it take you to knit up this sweater? 你织完这件毛衫需要多长时间? Best of all, you can even knit yourself into the wedding party. 最好的就是你甚至可以把自己也编织进这个婚宴中去。 —————————————— knob 旋钮 knob n. 把手；瘤；球形突出物 vi. 鼓起 vt. 使有球形突出物 n. (Knob)人名；(匈、捷)克诺布 She twiddled the knob. 她轻轻地转动把手。 He twisted the knob of the door and went inside. 他转动门把手，然后走了进去。 Think of it as a volume knob, for example, that can't be turned any further. 例如我们可以认为它是一个音量调节旋钮，现在它已经无法再进行调节了。 —————————————— lamb 羊肉 lamb n. 羔羊，小羊；羔羊肉 vt. 生小羊，产羔羊 vi. 生小羊，产羔羊 n. (Lamb)人名；(英)兰姆；(德)兰布 I like lamb, too. 我也喜欢小羊肉。 Though lamb may be good, it is difficult to cook it to suit everyone's taste. 羊羔虽美， 众口难调。 Also, the Afghan culinary tradition is very tolerant in replacing meat in pilaf. You can change lamb in the meal with every kind of meat, except pork. 并且，在阿富汗的厨房传统中对于肉饭里肉类的更换是很宽容的，你可以把羊肉换成其它任何一种肉，猪肉除外。 —————————————— lame 蹩脚的 lame adj. 跛足的；僵痛的；不完全的；无说服力的；差劲的，蹩脚的 vi. 变跛 vt. 使跛；使成残废 The lame child lagged far behind. 那个跛足的孩子远远掉在后面。 The lame child lagged far behind. 那个跛足的孩子远远落在后面。 The soldier is lame from an old wound. 这个士兵由于受过伤而跛足。 —————————————— landscape 景观 landscape n. 风景；风景画；景色；山水画；乡村风景画；地形；（文件的）横向打印格式 vt. 对…做景观美化，给…做园林美化；从事庭园设计 vi. 美化（环境等），使景色宜人；从事景观美化工作，做庭园设计师 Mist often blurs the landscape. 薄雾常常使风景暗淡。 The boy painted a landscape on paper. 这个男孩子在纸上画了一张风景画。 He thumbtacked the picture of landscape to the wall. 他用图钉把那张风景画钉在墙上。 —————————————— latent 潜在的 latent adj. 潜在的；潜伏的；隐藏的 So in that sense, there is a certain degree of latent support for him. 所以从这种意义上讲，姆拉迪奇有一定的潜在支持度。 Are the organisms actually doing this in Mono Lake, or do they have the latent ability to do so? 那些生活在莫诺湖中的有机体实际上是否是这样生存的呢，或者它们是否有着这种潜在的能力呢？ Load related problems can be found in several areas: validation of ability to meet response and scalability criteria, determination of scaling factors, and the search for latent bugs. 与负载有关的问题可以在几个地方发现：验证能力是否满足响应和可伸缩性标准、确定扩展因素以及搜索潜在的错误。 —————————————— latitude 纬度 latitude n. 纬度；界限；活动范围 I thought at this Time the Rain felt Cold, and I was something chilly, which I knew was not usual in that Latitude. 我感到这回的雨有点寒意，身子感到有点发冷。 我知道，在这个纬度上，这是不常有的事。 Each card has not only a date but the latitude and longitude, salinity measures, temperatures and depth of each data point. 每个卡片不仅记有日期，还有每个数据点的纬度和经度，盐度，温度和深度的测量。 Research shows that the latitude of your birthplace and how much solar radiation you were exposed to in the womb affects your health, wealth, happiness, longevity and creativity. 研究显示，你的出生地的纬度，也就是说，你在子宫中会受到多少太阳的照射，会影响你的健康、财富、幸福、寿命甚至是创造力。 —————————————— layman 门外汉 layman n. 外行；门外汉；俗人；一般信徒 n. (Layman)人名；(英)莱曼 Where the law is concerned, I am only a layman. 谈到法律， 我不过是门外汉。 I'm a layman. What I'm going to say may expose myself to ridicule, yet I still want to say a few words. 我是个外行， 我说的话可能贻笑大方， 可我还是要说几句。 And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias. 然而，存在一个场合，在这里经济学家与犯有“造作工作成见”罪的普通门外汉从同一角度谈论岗位稀缺。 —————————————— leaflet 传单 leaflet n. 小叶；传单 The students went to factories to leaflet the workers. 学生们到工厂向工人们散发传单。 Promote your event or issue in a leaflet delivered by volunteers by ad mail, or by direct mail. 筹建你的活动，你可以选择自愿者散发传单，反复的发送邮件或者直接邮寄。 "Gillett and Hicks Out Now, " proclaimed a leaflet distributed by the Spirit of Shankly supporters group and held up by thousands during You'll Never Walk Alone. “希克斯和吉列马上离开”，成千上万尚克利精神支持者边唱你将永远不会独行队歌边发放的宣传单上这样写到。 —————————————— lease 租赁 lease n. 租约；租期；租赁物；租赁权 vt. 出租；租得 vi. 出租 They bargained over the terms of a lease. 他们就租约的条件进行谈判。 If your tenant signs a lease with an option to buy, the option payments are generally rental income. 如果你的承租人签订了一个租赁购买合同，分期付款一般来说是租金收入。 Retail client with three profitable stores in China told me that it has put its expansion on hold because present retail lease rates would be so high on any new stores, they would not be profitable. 一个在中国拥有三家盈利商店的零售商客户告诉我，现在他们已经叫停在中国的业务扩张，因为目前开一家新店的零售租赁费率是如此之高，很难盈利。 —————————————— legend 传说 legend n. 传奇；说明；图例；刻印文字 n. (Legend)人名；(西)莱亨德；(英)莱金德 This legend still spreads abroad among the people. 这个传奇故事依然在民间广泛流传。 If you are filtering a graph, the label is a legend in the graph. 如果您过滤的是一个图表，这个标签是图表中的图例。 So I imagined such a hero, one who had no choice but to try to live up to the legend because otherwise the people looking to him for hope would be truly lost. 所以我幻想着这么一位英雄，他没有选择，只能尝试达到传说中的那种境界，因为要不然那些视他为希望的民众真的就会迷失方向。 —————————————— legislation 立法 legislation n. 立法；法律 But policy and legislation can only go so far. 但政策和立法只能走这么远。 The new government dismantled their predecessors' legislation. 新政府废除了前任政府的立法。 The UN should be a key player, but legislation has to start at all levels, down to the local. 联合国应该成为一个关键参与者，但是立法应该从所有层次启动，直到地方层次。 —————————————— legitimate 合法的 legitimate adj. 合法的；正当的；合理的；正统的 vt. 使合法；认为正当（等于legitimize） Some of that is legitimate. 上述有些事情是合理的。 Must it do so in this situation in order to achieve its legitimate ends? 为了达到合法目的，政府在这种情形下必须得这么做吗？ So all of this is a legitimate source of concern. 因此，这些情况都是引发忧虑的合理根源。 —————————————— liability 责任 liability n. 责任；债务；倾向；可能性；不利因素 On the other hand, your debt is an asset to the bank, but it is your liability. 在另一方面，你的债务是银行的一种资产，但它却是你的债务。 Your savings are a liability to the bank even though those same savings are an asset to you. 你的储蓄对银行来说是一种债务，虽然这些储蓄也是你的一种资产。 But without the formal business entity, you have no hope of limiting your personal liability. 因为没有正规的商务体制，你就没有希望限制你的个人责任。 —————————————— lick 舔 lick vt. 舔；卷过；鞭打 vt. （非正式）战胜 vi. 舔；轻轻拍打 n. 舔；打；少许 n. (Lick)人名；(英、匈)利克 Or, you can opt to lick up her back. 或者你可以选择去舔她的香背。 Lick my lips! 舔我的嘴唇！ When sweet old ladies bend down to stroke her, Polly snarls and growls; but when confronted by a male of thuggish appearance, she leaps about joyfully and tries to lick him. 当和蔼的老妇人弯下腰轻抚她时，波莉会咆哮吼叫；然而当看到一个面露凶相的男人时，她却会快活地跳起来想要舔他。 —————————————— likelihood 可能性 likelihood n. 可能性，可能 Add these numbers together and rank the likelihood of adoption. 把这些数字加起来，排列出采用的可能性。 When you choose your partners, you increase the likelihood of success. 当你选择合适的合作伙伴，增加成功的可能性。 I am not as sold as many of my interlocutors on the likelihood of high inflation. 我并不像我对话者中的许多那样热衷于高度通货膨胀的可能性。 —————————————— limp 跛行 limp adj. 柔软的，无力的；软弱的 vi. 跛行，一拐一拐地走；缓慢费力地前进 n. 跛行 n. (Limp)人名；(英)林普 Your muscles are feeling loose and limp, so relaxed, so deliciously serene, so wonderfully lazy. 你的肌肉放松且柔软，如此的放松，如此平静至极，如此懒散至极。 Like many invertebrates, squid appear limp and squishy—but once they get a grip on you, they're incredibly powerful. 和许多无脊椎动物一样，鱿鱼看上去柔软黏糊——可是一旦它们将你抓住就变得无比有力。 In one attempt in 1971, a car careened into one carrying Mr. Kim, injuring both his hip joints and causing him to limp for the rest of his life. 在1971年的一次行动中，一辆汽车撞向载有金大中的轿车，导致他两侧髋关节受伤，在此后的岁月里走路一直一瘸一拐。 —————————————— linear 线性 linear adj. 线的，线型的；直线的，线状的；长度的 Each of them are linear. 每一个都是线性的。 OK, so how do I picture these linear combinations? 好了，我该怎么画出这些线性组合呢？ In this way, a large pool of memory can be addressed as if it were linear. 按照这种方法，如果某个大的内存池是线性的，那么它就可以被寻址。 —————————————— liner 衬管 liner n. 班轮，班机；衬垫；画线者 Then he would take an air liner to another city for travel. 然后他会乘一架班机去另一个城市旅游。 The black plastic liner should be hanging out a foot or so on all sides. 贴在箱内的黑色塑料膜内衬应该长出一英尺左右翻挂在箱体四边。 As you can see, up to 6 cores per JVM the maximum throughput increases at a near-liner trend. 您可以看到，每个 JVM 最多 6 个内核时，最大吞吐量是以接近线性的方式增长。 —————————————— linger 徘徊 linger vi. 徘徊；苟延残喘；磨蹭 vt. 消磨；缓慢度过 n. (Linger)人名；(德、捷、瑞典)林格；(法)兰热 His last words still linger in our ears. 他的临终嘱咐仍萦绕在我们耳际。 There they linger for two or three weeks, maybe four. 它们在那里消磨两、三个星期，或四个星期。 The night would linger long enough for what would come or not come. 夜晚还会逗留足够长的时间以至于发生什么或者不发生什么。 —————————————— literacy 读写能力 literacy n. 读写能力；精通文学 He joined a literacy program and later one on television training. 他先是加入一项识字计划，后来接受一个电视培训。 Literacy is an essential foundation for development and prosperity. 识字是发展和繁荣必不可少的基础。 So people have the responsibility to know, they can do that through literacy. 因此公民有责任了解，文化素养便是他们了解外界的工具。 —————————————— literal 文字 literal adj. 文字的；逐字的；无夸张的 You should plan on using literal encoding instead, whenever possible. 您都应该计划改而使用文字编码，只要有可能的话。 What if you want to include the literal matched pattern in the replacement text? 如果您希望在替换文本中包括字面匹配的模式，该怎么办呢？ This version is very literal in vocabulary and word order, although the resulting English is quite wooden. 这个版本在词汇和词序的文字方面非常信达，结果英语是相当呆板的。 —————————————— litter 垃圾 litter n. 垃圾；轿，担架；一窝（动物的幼崽）；凌乱 vt. 乱丢；给…垫褥草；把…弄得乱七八糟 vi. 产仔；乱扔废弃物 n. (Litter)人名；(匈、德)利特 Don't litter the ground with paper. 勿随地乱扔纸屑。 Don't litter the place with wastepaper. 不要乱扔废纸。 I hate people who litter in the forest. 我讨厌那些在森林里乱扔垃圾的人。 —————————————— lobby 游说团体 lobby n. 大厅；休息室；会客室；游说议员的团体 vt. 对……进行游说 vi. 游说议员 The delegates entered the assembly hall by way of the lobby. 代表们通过大厅进入会场。 The company hired the President's special trade representative to lobby Mr. Pierce. 公司雇用了总统的特别商业顾问去游说皮尔斯先生。 It held the record for the highest lobby in the world until the Shanghai Park Hyatt eclipsed it. 它在世界上保持了最高的大厅的记录，直到上海公园凯悦使它黯然失色为止。 —————————————— locality 位置 locality n. 所在；位置；地点 Since the reference is part of the data structure, it has good cache locality. 由于引用是数据结构的一部分，所以它有一个好的缓存位置。 No matter how many superficial and ornamental techniques these films employ to suggest a specific locality and moment in time, they seem to exist outside space and time. 不管这些电影采用了多少表面和装饰性的技巧来暗示一个特定的地点和时代，它们看起来似乎是脱离了时间和空间而存在的。 Multiple file servers can be mapped to the same name, thus providing redundancy and locality of data access. 可以把多个文件服务器映射到同一个名称，从而为数据访问提供冗余和位置。 —————————————— locomotive 机车 locomotive adj. 火车头的；运动的；移动的 n. 机车；火车头 This locomotive runs upon electricity. 这台机车是用电运转的。 At the conductor's whistle the engine-driver starts his locomotive-engine. 乘务员哨声一响， 司机开动机车。 I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. 几乎每晚，我都被机车的声音吵醒，它侵扰我的梦境。 —————————————— lofty 崇高的 lofty adj. 高的；崇高的；高级的；高傲的 n. (Lofty)人名；(英)洛夫蒂 Virtue is lofty, but it requires you to give. 美德是高尚的，但美德需要付出和给予。 The people all over the country resounded his lofty moral character. 全国人民都赞扬他高尚的品德。 Let us work together with wisdom and courage to build such a new order and advance the lofty cause of peace and development for mankind. 让我们拿出智慧和勇气，为推动建立这种新秩序，为人类和平与发展的崇高事业，团结奋斗，携手共进。 —————————————— longitude 经度 longitude n. [地理] 经度；经线 Each card has not only a date but the latitude and longitude, salinity measures, temperatures and depth of each data point. 每个卡片不仅记有日期，还有每个数据点的纬度和经度，盐度，温度和深度的测量。 Each pixel of the image is associated with information such as altitude, latitude, longitude and distance from the observer. 图像中的每一个像素都和海拔、维度、经度以及与观测者的距离等信息相关联。 Requests to the service specify query ranges for latitude, longitude, date, or magnitude, and the service returns all matching earthquakes grouped by region and in date order. 对服务的请求将指定经度、纬度、日期或震级的范围，并且服务将按地区和时间顺序分组返回所有匹配的地震。 —————————————— lounge 休息室 lounge n. 休息室；闲逛；躺椅；（英）酒吧间 vi. 闲逛；懒洋洋地躺卧；闲混 vt. 虚度光阴 After dinner we all adjourned to the lounge. 饭后我们都到休息室去了。 Rather than hanging out in the lounge with coffee or a snack, take a brisk walk or do some gentle stretching. 轻快地散一会儿步或者做一些轻柔的拉伸运动，不要只是端着咖啡或者茶点在休息室闲逛。 He brings pizza for classes that perform well on tests, and he's plastered the teacher's lounge with statistics on each student's performance. 对于在考试中表现好的班级他奖励比萨饼，他沉醉于张贴在教师休息室里每个学生的成绩统计表当中。 —————————————— lubricate 润滑 lubricate vi. 润滑；涂油；起润滑剂作用 vt. 使…润滑；给…加润滑油 Garage doors. Yes these need regular maintenance too. Check the door, tighten bolts and lubricate the spring as per manufacturers instructions. 车库门。是的，这些地方也需要维护。按照生产厂家的说明书，检查一下门，拧紧螺丝，给弹簧上好润滑油。 Abstainers seem to have a harder time making strong friendship bonds, perhaps because they don't have alcohol to lubricate their social interactions. 不饮酒的人似乎更难以建立牢固的友谊，这可能是因为他们在社会交往中没有酒作为润滑剂。 Now is time to wash the windows and screens and lubricate the tracks. 现在是擦窗户、擦纱窗（窗帘）、给幕帘轨道上润滑油的时候了。 —————————————— luminous 发光的 luminous adj. 发光的；明亮的；清楚的 The sound it emits at once gives a luminous comprehension of every phase of its nature. 它发出的声音立刻就给出了有关它的本质的短语的清楚的理解。 That's because, as well as neutrinos, it can detect the light given off by luminous organisms and bacteria. 这是因为，在监测中微子的同时，它还能够监测到发光生物体和细菌发出的光亮。 They pass along the base of a waterfall and come to a basin, or pond, completely surrounded by the luminous weeping willows. 他们从一条瀑布的底端穿过，来到了一个完全由发光的垂柳包围着的盆地——或者说池塘。 —————————————— lunar 月球 lunar adj. 月亮的，月球的；阴历的；银的；微亮的 n. (Lunar)人名；(西)卢纳尔 In the lunar calendar, the years are designated by the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. 阴历用干支纪年。 The astronauts gazed down upon the lunar craters, the first humans to see them from so close. 航天员们向下凝视着月球的环形火山口，这是人类首次从这样近的距离看到它们。 Although subtle, these colour variations tell us important things about the chemistry and evolution of the lunar surface. 虽然很微妙，但这些颜色的变化告诉我们，月球表面发生的化学变化和演变史。 —————————————— magnify 放大 magnify vt. 放大；赞美；夸大 vi. 放大；有放大能力 She is inclined to magnify her troubles. 她喜欢夸大她的困难。 He tried to magnify the part he acted in the play. 他试图夸大他在剧中扮演的角色。 Massive objects like the sun can bend light, but colossal clouds of dark matter create "bubbles" in the cosmos that magnify, distort and duplicate the light of galaxies or stars behind them. 巨大的星体，例如太阳能够使光弯曲，但是庞大的暗物质云会产生宇宙“气泡”，由星系或星体发出的光经过这些“气泡”会被放大，扭曲和复制。 —————————————— magnitude 级 magnitude n. 大小；量级；[地震] 震级；重要；光度 The models, though, disagree widely in the magnitude of the warming we can expect. 不过这个模型在升温的幅度上和我们的预期相当不一致。 "We need a president who understands the magnitude and complexity of the challenges we face, and has the strength and experience to address them from Day One," she said. “我们需要一位充分理解所面临挑战的数量级与复杂性的总统，有足够能力和经验，从履任第一天起就能解决问题，”她表示说。 Views of the magnitude of this cost differ. 对于这个代价大小的估计有不同的看法。 —————————————— majesty 陛下 majesty n. 威严；最高权威，王权；雄伟；权威 The majesty of the skyscraper awed me . 这幢摩天大厦的雄伟气势令我惊叹。 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. 论到耶和华妆饰华美的殿，他建立得威严，他们却在其中制造可憎可厌的偶像，所以这殿我使他们看如污秽之物。 All the rest of Hell is filled with murky flame, and against this background Satan stands out in awful majesty. 地狱的其他空间都充满了黑暗的火焰，在这样的背景下，撒旦可怕而威严地站在那里。 —————————————— mall 购物中心 mall n. 购物商场；林荫路；铁圈球场 n. (Mall)人名；(英)玛尔(女子教名 Mary 的昵称)；(阿拉伯)迈勒；(尼)马尔 In the winter I head for the mall. 在冬日里,我前往这个购物商场。 I saw you with your girlfriend at the mall! 我看到你跟你女朋友在购物中心里！ This way you can walk that extra distance from the mall or store back to your car. 这样，从商场或店铺到你的车子，你又可以走额外一段路程了。 —————————————— manifest 清单 manifest vt. 证明，表明；显示 vi. 显示，出现 n. 载货单，货单；旅客名单 adj. 显然的，明显的；明白的 Fear was manifest on her face. 她脸上显露出惧怕的神情。 So, all of those dependencies have to appear on one line in the manifest file. 因此，所有这些依赖项在清单文件中必须出现在一行。 If anything fails, then you might have left out some files in the cache manifest. 如果出现任何失败，那么您可能在缓存清单中遗漏了一些文件。 —————————————— manipulate 操作 manipulate vt. 操纵；操作；巧妙地处理；篡改 Do you know how to manipulate a computer ? 你知道怎样操作计算机吗? He quickly learned how to manipulate the controls of a plane. 他很快学会了操作飞机的操纵装置。 The treasurer was arrested for trying to manipulate the company's accounts. 这个会计因企图篡改公司账目而被捕。 —————————————— manoeuvre 策略 manoeuvre vi. 调动；演习；用策略 vt. 诱使；操纵；耍花招 n. 策略（等于maneuvre） Protection against external shocks gave Poland’s policymakers plenty of room for manoeuvre. 对外部震荡的防护给波兰政策制定者许多策略空间。 From 1968 there was still a long road to go before Gorbachev made it all the way up the party ladder to manoeuvre his way into the top job in the Kremlin in 1985. 从1968年开始，到后来戈尔巴乔夫沿着共产党内部的阶梯完成晋升调动直到于1985年在克林姆林宫登上生涯的巅峰，在此之前还是经过很长一段路。 The Supreme Court, in particular, has made several decisions in recent years that have narrowed trustbusters’ room for manoeuvre. 特别是最高法院已经于近些年作出若干限制联邦反垄断官员策略的决定。 —————————————— manuscript 手稿 manuscript n. [图情] 手稿；原稿 adj. 手写的 The editors have polished the manuscript. 编辑们为这篇底稿进行了润色。 I must return this manuscript to the author. 我必须把这篇文章底稿退还给作者。 He always checked the manuscript over carefully before passing it to the typist. 他总是先将手稿仔细检查一遍再交给打字员。 —————————————— marble 大理石 marble n. 大理石；大理石制品；弹珠 adj. 大理石的；冷酷无情的 n. (Marble)人名；(英)马布尔 It is difficult to engrave in marble. 大理石很难雕刻。 They are quarrying the hillside for marble. 他们正从山坡上采大理石。 The lower story of the building was cased with marble. 大楼底层的外墙砌上了一层大理石。 —————————————— marginal 边际 marginal adj. 边缘的；临界的；末端的 Marginal cultures in the past have rightfully entered the mainstream through business, taking money from the majority and infusing it into their own tribes. 过去，边缘文化曾通过商业活动合法地进入主流社会，从多数人那里挣得金钱，并注入到自己的部落。 And every year, like some sort of magic clockwork, it does more and more for less and less, bringing the marginal costs of technology in the units that we individuals consume closer to zero. 每年，就像某些神奇的发条装置一样，它能以越来越少的成本做越来越多的事情；由于大规模消费的存在，技术的单位边际成本渐趋于零。 But I never questioned his history of marginal employment again. 但我没有再问过他的边缘就业经历了。 —————————————— marsh 沼泽 marsh n. 沼泽；湿地 adj. 沼泽的；生长在沼泽地的 n. (Marsh)人名；(俄)马尔什；(英、瑞典)马什 He led them away from a marsh. 他把他们带离沼泽。 My urine and excrement are recycled by a system of ducts, pipes, wires, plants, and marsh-microbes, and redeemed into water and food which I can eat. 由众多的导管、管线、植物和沼泽微生物构成的系统回收了我的尿液和粪便，并将其还原成水和食物供我食用。 The chimp had a sweet and tactile side but could also be violent, messy and vicious. But as Marsh points out, that's what chimpanzees are like, that's how they behave. 这只猩猩有可爱和通人性的一面，但他也有粗暴、肮脏和邪恶的一面，但就像马什所指出的那样，黑猩猩本来就是那样的，都是本性的行为。 —————————————— marshal 元帅 marshal n. 元帅；司仪 vt. 整理；引领；编列 vi. 排列 n. (Marshal)人名；(英)马歇尔 Marshal walked next to me. 元帅走到我旁边。 Marshal and his wife were the only people our age in the group. 元帅和他的妻子是唯一的在我们这个时代的人本集团。 Marshal turned to watch her as she walked through the cafe, then he turned to us. 元帅转向看她，她走过的咖啡馆，然后他转过身来给我们。 —————————————— masculine 男性化的 masculine adj. 男性的；阳性的；男子气概的 n. 男性；阳性，阳性词 Finally, for gender theory the masculine anger of the philosopher, Mr. 最后，在性别理论看来,哲人男性气质中的怒气。 When I send messages I take the risk of flirting with women and I get a lot of replies because I am not afraid to show my masculine side. 当我发送信息时，就承担着会与女人调情的风险，我得到了很多回复，因为我并不害怕展现我男子气概的那一面。 But men process and express emotions differently than women, and they have no roadmap for how to combine the masculine requirement of being strong and emotional at the same time. 但是，比起女人，男人处理和表达情感的方式很不同，他们对如何将男性对强壮和感情的的需求同时结合起来没有一个规划图。 —————————————— massive 巨大的 massive adj. 大量的；巨大的，厚重的；魁伟的 Roads punched out of the wilderness by massive bulldozers. 巨大的推土机迅猛地从荒野中推出路来。 For example, during the elections, they have massive propaganda against Iran at that time. 例如，在选举期间，他们对伊朗进行大规模的负面宣传。 This massive investment indicates that there is demand for virtualization of resources inside the cloud. 这样巨大的投资表明，对云中资源的虚拟化存在着巨大的需求。 —————————————— masterpiece 杰作 masterpiece n. 杰作；绝无仅有的人 This book is his masterpiece. 这本书是他的杰作。 The book would be his masterpiece. 这本书将是他的杰作。 Every crystal was a masterpiece of design, and no one design was ever repeated. 每一片晶体都是设计上的杰作，而且没有一片是重复的。 —————————————— meadow 草地 meadow n. 草地；牧场 n. (Meadow)人名；(英)梅多 The meadow has been ploughed up. 那片草地已用犁翻过。 The colt bounded through the meadow. 那匹马驹跳着跑过牧场。 There are many lambs capering in the meadow. 很多小羊在草地上蹦蹦跳跳。 —————————————— mechanism 机制 mechanism n. 机制；原理，途径；进程；机械装置；技巧 What’s the mechanism behind these traits? 这些特征背后的机制是什么？ What if someone exploits some unknown limitations of the security mechanism to break through? 如果有人利用安全机制的某些未知的限制破解了它，那么会怎么样？ So, whatever your mechanism or system for storing and managing requirements, we recommend that you at least have one. 因此，无论您使用哪种机制或哪个系统来存储和管理需求，我们建议您至少有其中一个。 —————————————— medal 金牌 medal n. 勋章，奖章；纪念章 n. (Medal)人名；(西、捷)梅达尔 He received a medal for his heroism. 他由于英勇而获得一枚奖章。 The soldier was awarded a medal for his bravery. 那个士兵因勇敢而被授予一枚奖章。 The country bestowed its highest medal on the war hero. 国家给战争英雄颁发国家最高奖章。 —————————————— media 媒体 media n. 媒体；媒质（medium的复数）；血管中层；浊塞音；中脉 Most of us are known to succumb to persuasion through the media. 我们之中的大多数人都抵挡不住传播媒介的宣传。 The American media are coat-tailing the war as best as they can. 美国传媒全力以赴地对这场战争进行跟踪报道。 The spokesman for the State Department disinformed some information about the country's military strength and plans in the news media. (美国)国务院发言人在新闻媒体上提供有关该国一些军事实力、计划等的假情报。 —————————————— mediate 调解 mediate vi. 调解；斡旋；居中 vt. 调停；传达 adj. 间接的；居间的 The government must mediate the struggle for water resources. 政府必须通过调解解决对水资源的争夺。 The lawyer has been appointed to mediate between the employers and the union leaders. 这位律师被指定在雇主和工会领导人之间进行调解。 In short, you can mediate just about any type of destination in the service integration bus. 简而言之，您可以调解在服务集成中的关于任意类型的目标文件。 —————————————— medieval 中世纪的 medieval adj. 中世纪的；原始的；仿中世纪的；老式的 The poet tried to tell himself that he should be looking inward at his soul--the medieval view. 这位诗人试着说服自己，按照中世纪的观点，他应该看到人们内在的灵魂。 But still they are different sects, and that's related to the question of the synthesis among those four ingredients of medieval love, which still exist as ingredients in Catholic theology. 但他们终归是不同的教派，这与以上提到的中世纪的爱情的,四种成分的综合有关，这四种成分至今还存在于天主教神学中。 Legend has it that a student once asked a medieval rabbi if he could, while standing on one foot, tell the questioner all he needed to know about being a good person. 有个故事是这样的：一名学生请教一位中世纪拉比，当时这位拉比正在练单脚站立，学生问拉比能否告诉他如何才能做一个好人。 —————————————— mediterranean 地中海 Mediterranean n. 地中海 adj. 地中海的 The port town has lovely views of the Mediterranean. 这座海港城市有可爱的地中海景观。 If you’re on a cruise through the Mediterranean, you might only have one day in Athens. 假如你在一个穿越地中海的乘船观光团上，你就大概只能在雅典呆一天。 The Straits of Gibraltar are the strategic passage between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. 直布罗陀海峡是地中海通向大西洋的咽喉。 —————————————— melody 旋律 melody n. 旋律；歌曲；美妙的音乐 n. (Melody)人名；(英)梅洛迪 Well,but classical music has melody. 但是，古典音乐也有旋律啊。 This minimal contact could be enough for males from another group to the new melody. 对于雄性来说这微小的联系已经足够收到别的种群的新旋律了。 What but the melody of song can tell us of the goings and comings of the unknown bird? 除了歌的曲调，谁还能告诉我们这只无名的鸟的来来去去呢？ —————————————— membership 会员 membership n. 资格；成员资格；会员身份 Membership of the club has fallen away this year. 今年俱乐部会员数量减少了。 We offer membership for one month, half a year and one year. 我们提供一个月，半年和一年的会员卡。 Membership of the club has ballooned beyond all expectations. 该俱乐部会员人数出乎意料地激增了。 —————————————— menace 威胁 menace n. 威胁；恐吓 vi. 恐吓；进行威胁 vt. 威胁；恐吓 At the local police station, he assembled a small armory of pistols and carbines, to deal with any unexpected menace that might appear. 在当地警察局，他组装了一个小型的手枪和卡宾枪兵器库，以对付可能出现的任何意外的威胁。 Except a menace —a danger you've chosen to inflict on all of us. 纯粹是一个威胁——一个你所选择的，殃及我们所有人的危险分子。 There’s a touch of demon in his stealthy menace. 在他鬼鬼祟祟的威胁中有一种恶魔的气质。 —————————————— merge 合并 merge vt. 合并；使合并；吞没 vi. 合并；融合 n. (Merge)人名；(意)梅尔杰 How do I merge them? 我该怎么合并它们呢？ We can merge our two small businesses into a larger one. 我们可以把我们的两家小商店合并为一家大商行。 In this situation, you can either catch up the resource from the stream, release your version of the resource to the stream, or merge your work and the stream resource. 在这种情况下，您可以捕获来自流的资源，将您制订的该资源的版本发布到流中，或者也可以把您的工作与流资源合并起来。 —————————————— mess 混乱 mess n. 混乱；食堂，伙食团；困境；脏乱的东西 vt. 弄乱，弄脏；毁坏；使就餐 vi. 把事情弄糟；制造脏乱；玩弄 n. (Mess)人名；(德、罗)梅斯 Please disregard the mess and sit right here. 请不顾凌乱状态，就坐在这儿吧。 Your mother will bawl you out when she sees this mess. 当你母亲看到这混乱的局面时她会责骂你的。 By the end of last year, he had wiggled out of the mess. 到去年年底，他已经从困境中摆脱出来。 —————————————— messenger 信使 messenger n. 报信者，送信者；先驱 n. (Messenger)人名；(德)梅森格；(英)梅辛杰 She signed herself “A Peace Messenger.” 她在署名中把自己称作“和平使者”。 The president dispatched a messenger to tell the premier what happened. 总统派出一名信使向首相禀报所发生的事。 It breathes and takes wing, becoming a messenger in one or more of our innumerable transactions with the world and with each other. 它呼吸并翱翔着，或多或少的成为了我们人与世界和人与人之间不计其数交流联络的信使。 —————————————— metallic 金属 metallic adj. 金属的，含金属的 And, in some instances, they can be made to behave more nearly metallic. 而且，在一些情况下，它们能表现出更接近金属的性质。 A healthy tooth percussed with a metal instrument gives a metallic sound. 用金属器械对健康的牙齿作叩诊则发出金属声。 The first one is an intricate network of what appears to be huge metallic stripes. 第一个结构是一个复杂的网络，好像是由巨大的金属线条组成。 —————————————— metropolitan 大都会 metropolitan adj. 大都市的；大主教辖区的；宗主国的 n. 大城市人；大主教；宗主国的公民 On Friday, a woman taking a class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art stumbled into “The Actor, ” a work by Picasso dating to 1904 or 1905. 星期五，一位妇女在大都会艺术博物馆上课的时候拌倒在“演员”这幅画上，那是毕加索1904年或1905年的作品。 I started at the downtown campus of Metropolitan Community College. 我首先探访了市区的大都会社区大学。 The Metropolitan Police in London say detectives investigating the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World have identified 4, 000 potential victims. 伦敦的都市警察称，对世界新闻报电话窃听丑闻进行调查的探员鉴别出4,000名潜在的受害者。 —————————————— midst 中间 midst n. 当中，中间 prep. 在…中间（等于amidst） Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 他们就在那里钉他在十字架上，还有两个人和他一同钉着，一边一个，耶稣在中间。 But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered! 但是就在你们中间，却站着一个人，他的罪孽和耻辱并不为你们所回避！ And then we use that to compare what happens when they might be in the midst of a stressful financial decision. 然后我们用它来比较时会发生什么，他们可能是在一个紧张的财务决策之中。 —————————————— migrate 迁移 migrate vi. 移动；随季节而移居；移往 vt. 使移居；使移植 Some birds migrate as season changes. 有些鸟随季节迁徙。 Some tribes migrate with their cattle in search of fresh grass. 一些部落为寻找嫩草带着他们的牲口迁徙。 I wish we could migrate from here every winter, as the birds do! 但愿我们能像鸟儿一样，每年冬季从这里定期迁徙! —————————————— militant 激进分子 militant adj. 好战的 n. 富有战斗性的人；好斗者；激进分子 She was misrepresented in the press as a militant. 她被报界不符合事实地说成是一个激进分子。 On average, only one out of every seven U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan kills a militant leader. 平均而言，美国在巴基斯坦的无人机攻击只有七分之一击毙了激进头目。 Several days after the attack, the group released an audio recording of the militant leader it said proved he was still alive. 袭击几天后，塔利班公开了一份这位激进分子领导人的录音。 录音上说，马哈苏德仍然活着。 —————————————— mingle 打成一片 mingle vi. 混合；交往 vt. 使混合；使相混 n. (Mingle)人名；(加纳、英)明格尔 He used to train in a local park and mingle with other runners. 他过去常在地方公园里锻炼，并与其他跑步的人相交往。 In both types of surgery beauty and mental healing subtly mingle, he claims, and both benefit health. 所有的手术类型中，美和心灵治疗微妙地混合，他声称，都有益于健康。 The antiprotons are then pushed into the same trap as the positrons and left to mingle for a second or so. 然后将反质子推入到装有正电子的容器中，用大约一秒钟的时间等待它们混合。 —————————————— miniature 微型 miniature adj. 微型的，小规模的 n. 缩图；微型画；微型图画绘画术 vt. 是…的缩影 Paris is France in miniature. 巴黎是法国的缩影。 As a kind of miniature information center, KIOSKs play an important role in providing the public with information. 作为一种微型的信息中心，KIOSK 在为公众提供信息服务中扮演着重要的角色。 After lunch, I wandered through narrow alleyways, past an ancient mill and over a miniature replica of the Old Bridge. 午餐后，我在狭窄的小巷中随意溜达，走过一个古旧的磨房，还走上一座复制的小型老桥。 —————————————— minimal 最小的 minimal adj. 最低的；最小限度的 There will be some changes to the specification before UML 2 is completely adopted, but these changes should be minimal. 在 UML 2 完全地被采用之前，规范将会有一些修改，但是这些改变应该是极小的。 These features enable you to migrate SQL scripts from other database server products to DB2, either as is, or with minimal modifications. 这些特征可让您从其他数据库服务器产品移植 SQL 脚本到 DB2，即使是用最小的修改来移植。 Like we saw with the client, the impact to the server should be minimal. 正如在分析客户机时所看到的，对服务器的影响应该最小。 —————————————— minimize 最小化 minimize vt. 使减到最少；小看，极度轻视 vi. 最小化 At every stage we try to minimize waste. 在每个阶段，我们都努力减少浪费。 It might do us good to consider what we can do to minimize it. 考虑一下我们怎么做才能让它最小化，这是很有好处的。 This article discusses how to minimize privileges, so you can apply the same ideas to your programs. 本文讨论了如何最小化特权，您可以将同样的 思想应用到您的程序中。 —————————————— misery 痛苦 misery n. 痛苦，悲惨；不幸；苦恼；穷困 n. (Misery)人名；(法)米斯里 One usually associates poverty with misery. 人们一说到贫穷，常常就联想起悲惨的境遇。 The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people. 旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。 The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. 一个动物的一生就是痛苦和奴役，这是一个不争的事实。 —————————————— misfortune 不幸 misfortune n. 不幸；灾祸，灾难 She bewailed her misfortune. 她哀叹自己的厄运。 Some misfortune must have befallen him. 某种灾难必降临在他头上了。 Don't gloat,the same misfortune may happen to you one day. 不要幸灾乐祸，说不定同样的不幸会落到你的头上。 —————————————— missionary 传教士 missionary adj. 传教的；传教士的 n. 传教士 While not everyone has the missionary gift, every Christian is called to be on a mission to all four groups in some way. 虽然并非每人都有宣教的恩赐，但神呼召每个基督徒在某方面承担使命，向以上四类群体宣教。 He would sometimes take me along to a European missionary's house. 有时，他会带我们到一个欧洲传教士家里去。 Extremists from the group had gotten wind of my presence, assumed that I was a Christian missionary, and threatened to beat me. 一些极端分子不知从哪儿风闻我的存在，就武断地认为我是基督教传教士，威胁要揍我。 —————————————— mobilize 动员 mobilize vt. 动员，调动；集合，组织；使…流通；使…松动 vi. 组织；动员起来 That's a first for WHO, and another signal of the new way in which we are able to mobilize the strengths of our Organization in coordination with our Member States to make progress. 这对世界卫生组织来说是一个开端，也是采用一种新方法的另一个信号，以这种方法我们能够调动本组织的力量，与我们的会员国协同取得进展。 It is a necessary organizing principle that allows people to pool their resources for the common good and mobilize against common threats, whether they are floods or invading armies. 作为一个必要的组织原则，国家使人们可以为了共同利益而集合资源，可以动员起来对付共同威胁—不管是洪水还是侵略者。 Completion of this work, and its expansion to other countries, are now crucial and should form the basis for intensified efforts to mobilize the necessary resources from domestic and donor sources. 完成这项工作并将其推广到其它国家，在现在是至关重要的并应当构成强化努力的基础以便动员来自国内和捐助者的必要资源。 —————————————— mock 模拟 mock n. 英国模拟考试（mocks） vt. 愚弄，嘲弄 adj. 仿制的，模拟的，虚假的，不诚实的 vt. 不尊重，蔑视 How should the service mock work? 服务模拟应该如何工作？ You may mock if you like. 你们喜欢的话可以去嘲笑。 Those who mock history will be mocked by history. 嘲弄历史的人必将被历史所嘲弄。 —————————————— momentum 动力 momentum n. 势头；[物] 动量；动力；冲力 The spinning top was losing momentum. 旋转的陀螺正在失去动量。 A falling object gains momentum as it falls. 物体下落增进动量。 Once the excitement, the motivation and the initial momentum subside (and they will), what will keep you doing what you need to do, to create the change you want to see in your world? 人一旦兴奋，动机和最初的动力就会减弱（他们会这样），什么会让你保持做你要做的，去创造出这种在你的世界里你想看到的改变？ —————————————— monopoly 垄断 monopoly n. 垄断；垄断者；专卖权 But we have no monopoly on brains. 但我们脑子里没有垄断。 For now, the US and its allies have the drones, but this monopoly will end. 目前，只有美国及其盟国拥有无人战机，但这种垄断终将结束。 All they have is what has been allocated by the monopoly producer: the same things that have been allocated to everyone. 他们有的全部都是由那垄断的生产者所分配的：分给每个人的完全同样的那些东西。 —————————————— monster 怪物 monster n. 怪物；巨人，巨兽；残忍的人 adj. 巨大的，庞大的 I knew the oil industry. I could see the monster from the inside. 我了解石油工业，我可以从这个怪物的内部观察它。 I am going to stop there, next week we start with the monster of Malmesbury thank you . 今天先讲到这里，下周我们从马姆斯伯里的怪物开始讲起，谢谢大家。 In executing this man, I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, necessity's name is Fatality. 我处决了那个人，是由于服从需要；但是需要是旧世界的一种怪物，需要的名字叫做因果报应。 —————————————— morality 道德 morality n. 道德；品行，美德 This is about honor and morality. 这是有关荣誉与道德。 Animals do not have this morality. 而动物则没有这种道德。 How do you perceive the morality of career? 您是如何理解职业道德的？ —————————————— mortal 凡人 mortal adj. 凡人的；致死的；终有一死的；不共戴天的 n. 人类，凡人 n. (Mortal)人名；(法、葡)莫塔尔 Their solidarity was important in the face of every catastrophe (disaster) such as hurricanes and other mortal misfortunes. 每一次面临诸如飓风和其他致命的灾难时，他们的团结一致是很重要的。 Meanwhile, nevertheless, it was sad to think of the perchance mortal agony through which he must struggle towards his triumph. 然而，一想到他为了赢得胜利而在挣扎中所经受的致命的折磨，同时又令人神伤。 The master seemed confounded a moment: he grew pale, and rose up, eyeing her all the while, with an expression of mortal hate. 主人仿佛愣了一下。 他变得苍白了，站起来，一直望着她，带着一种不共戴天的憎恨的表情。 —————————————— mortgage 抵押贷款 mortgage vt. 抵押 n. 抵押 房屋抵押贷款 The bank refused to accept any mortgage on land. 银行拒绝接受任何土地抵押。 At this point, such claims have no bearing on the mortgage or housing crisis; they have bearing only on the holders of these securities themselves. 从这一点上来说，这些贷款凭证与抵押贷款或住房危机没有任何关系，他们只与拥有这些证券的持有者有关。 It is now up to the commercial banks to pass that on to their customers in the form of lower loan and mortgage rates but not all are enthusiastically willing to do that. 现在需要商业银行通过降低贷款和房贷利率来把降息的效应传导到它们的客户，但是并非所有商业银行都诚心愿意那样做。 —————————————— motel 汽车旅馆 motel n. 汽车旅馆 n. (Motel)人名；(德)莫特尔 The gas station just neighbours to the motel. 加油站就在汽车旅馆的附近。 The Hobbit Motel resembles an authentic hobbit hole built into the side of the mountain. 霍比特人汽车旅馆像真正的霍比特人洞穴一样建进了山的一边。 I also have to get back to the motel. The manager took my passport last night, and now he and the passport are nowhere to be found. 我也必须回到汽车旅馆去，因为旅馆经理昨天晚上拿走了我的护照，到现在为止他本人和我的护照都不知所踪。 —————————————— mourn 哀悼 mourn v. 哀悼；忧伤；服丧 At the center, pet owners mourn together. 而在中心，宠物主人在一起哀悼。 If this era is over, few will mourn its passing. 如果这个时代结束，很少人会哀悼它的消逝。 We mourn with husbands and wives, children and parents, friends and loved ones. 我们与丈夫和妻子，子女和父母，朋友和亲人们一起哀悼。 —————————————— muddy 泥泞的 muddy adj. 泥泞的；模糊的；混乱的 vt. 使污浊；使沾上泥；把…弄糊涂 vi. 变得泥泞；沾满烂泥 The old car was labouring along the muddy road. 那辆旧车在泥泞的路上吃力地朝前开着。 Don’t track up my clean floor with your muddy shoes! 你鞋上满是泥，别踩脏了我干净的地板! We were swagging on the muddy road when we saw a small village. 我们在泥泞的道路上一直颠簸着，终于看见了一座小村庄。 —————————————— multitude 许多 multitude n. 群众；多数 This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. 法老和他的群众乃是如此。 这是主耶和华说的。 And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude. 他应允了，就找机会要趁众人不在跟前的时候，把耶稣交给他们。 Rather than strive for optimization of any function, a large system can only survive by "satisficing" (making "good enough") a multitude of functions. 与其费劲将任一功能最优化，不如使多数功能"满意"（使“足够好”），这才是大型系统的生存之道。 —————————————— municipal 市政 municipal adj. 市政的，市的；地方自治的 And so in Delhi, as in Tehri, the poor line up at municipal water tankers and hand pumps. 因此，在德里，像特赫里这样的地方，穷人只能在市政的运水车和手动泵处排队。 In the closing months of 2010, we saw yields on municipal bonds rise to their highest levels since early 2009. 在2010年的最后几个月，我们看到市政债券收益率上升到2009年年初以来的最高水平。 The kingdom will hold its next municipal elections on Thursday, but women are not able to vote or run at this time. 沙特王国最近一次市政选举将在本周四举行，但届时女性还暂时不能参选或投票。 —————————————— murmur 杂音 murmur n. 低语；低语声；低声抱怨；潺潺声 vi. 低声说；私下抱怨；发出轻柔持续的声音 vt. 低声说 The noise of the city is a far-off murmur. 那时候，城市的喧嚣只变成远方的低语。 The breeze therefrom that ruffled our little world sounded in reality but little above a murmur. 那一阵从那而来的微风，吹皱了我们的小小世界，但它实际上的声音，只略高于低语。 My songs are one with my love, like the murmur of a stream, that sings with all its waves and currents. 我的歌和我的爱是一体，就像溪流的潺潺涟漪，以它的波浪和水流歌唱。 —————————————— muscular 肌肉发达的 muscular adj. 肌肉的；肌肉发达的；强健的 Then Ford sacrificed all that muscular flair and created this. 接着福特牺牲了所有肌肉的天资制造出了这个。 At the end of the movie, the big and muscular killer appeared again! 在电影的结尾，那个高大而且肌肉发达的凶手又出现了！ But the physicians who attended him on his deathbed marveled at his muscular arms and chest. 但是，在林肯临终时为他治疗的医生对他的手臂和胸部肌肉感到惊讶。 —————————————— mutter 低声含糊地说 mutter vi. 咕哝；喃喃自语 vt. 咕哝；抱怨地说；低声含糊地说 n. 咕哝；喃喃低语 n. (Mutter)人名；(法)米泰；(德、匈、西)穆特；(英)马特 I mutter, as they find their seats near us. 我咕哝道，因为他们座位离我们很近。 If she feels uncomfortable in any way she is to mutter out loud the phrase “I hope I’m not getting a cold.” 只要她感到有一丝不自在，她可以大声咕哝一句话来示警——“我希望我不会得感冒。” He suffers from serious bouts of spousal deafness but never fails to hear me when I mutter to myself on the other side of the house. 他患有严重的“配偶失聪症”，但从不会漏过我在房间另一头的喃喃自语。 —————————————— myth 神话 myth n. 神话；虚构的人，虚构的事 It's only a myth. 这不过是个神话。 What is Myth? 什么是神话? Why do we continue to indulge the myth that the fabulous wealth generated by this mode of production will in the fullness of time become available to all? 我们为什么要继续沉溺于由这种生产方式产生的巨大的财富在时机成熟时将成为所有人都可以拥有的这个神话呢？ —————————————— naive 天真的 naive adj. 天真的,幼稚的 This is a naive argument, because other nations will not see the US action in this light. 这是个天真的论点，因为别的国家不会从这样的角度看待美国的行为。 Consider me naive, but I believe the majority of companies actually like their customers and users and want to provide them with a valuable service. 恕我天真，但是我相信大多数的公司确实喜爱他们的顾客和使用者，并且希望给他们顾客提供良好的服务。 Some US politicians have suggested that it ends the “too big to fail” problem but that is naive. 一些美国的政治家们表示这结束了“太大而不能倒”的问题，但是这是幼稚的。 —————————————— narrative 叙述 narrative n. 叙述；故事；讲述 adj. 叙事的，叙述的；叙事体的 Second, a group narrative: who are we? 第二，一群人的故事：我们是谁？ She wants to fable up this narrative into a fiction. 她想把这个故事改编成小说。 Later in his narrative he wrote these sentences “I tell myself I can handle it .Compared to what others have been through I’m fortunate”. 后来卡拉汉在他的叙述中写到“我告诉自己一定可以挺过去的，跟别人的遭遇相比，我已经算是幸运的了”。 —————————————— nasty 令人讨厌的 nasty adj. 下流的；肮脏的；脾气不好的；险恶的 n. 令人不快的事物 性的吸引力 However, we have to ask the nasty questions ourselves or other people will do it. 尽管如此，我还是要问这个我们自己或其他人会问的讨厌问题。 I do it manually because that’s how you find the nasty logical security problems. 我手工做这些，因为这你才能找到讨厌的合乎逻辑的安全问题。 If you put a comma where that semicolon is, you will have committed a "comma splice," which is a very nasty grammar error indeed. 如果你在这个应该放分号的地方用了逗号，你便犯了“逗号粘连”的错误，这实在是一个非常讨厌的语法错误。 —————————————— necessitate 需要 necessitate vt. 使成为必需，需要；迫使 Does it necessitate a more convoluted build process? 是否需要更加复杂的构建过程？ While some individual businesses might determine certain goods necessitate mass production, other forms of the cultural industry are more highly selective. 而一些商业行为决定了特定产品需要批量生产，另一些文化产业的形态具有更高的个性化。 My opinion is that this is an issue that will have to be addressed by the UML persistence modeling profile and may even necessitate a change in this modeling rule. 我的意见是，这是一个必须由 UML持久性建模概要解决的问题，甚至可能在这个建模规则中也需要更改。 —————————————— negligible 可以忽略不计 negligible adj. 微不足道的，可以忽略的 The effect was previously thought to be negligible, but researchers now say the shift will be large enough that it should be taken into account when interpreting how the Earth wobbles. 其影响在过去被认为是微不足道的，但现在研究人员表示，这一变化将大到足以让人们在解释地球摇晃的原因时必须把它考虑进去。 The cost and complexity for each deployment become negligible. 每个部署的成本和复杂性变得微不足道。 Just because you have never heard of her, that does not mean she is negligible. 就因为你从来没听说过这个人，但这并不意味着她微不足道。 —————————————— negotiate 谈判 negotiate vt. 谈判，商议；转让；越过 vi. 谈判，交涉 We tried to negotiate with them, but they refused. 我们试图与他们谈判, 但被他们拒绝。 We can't negotiate until each side is willing to give up some points. 直到各方愿意在某些要点上作让步，我们才能谈判。 They refused to negotiate unless three preliminary requirements were met. 如果三项先决条件得不到满足， 他们就拒绝谈判。 —————————————— nickel 镍 nickel n. 镍；镍币；五分镍币 vt. 镀镍于 n. (Nickel)人名；(德、英)尼克尔 In fact, half of the increased global demand for nickel goes to China. 事实上，全球镍需求增加，半数是因为中国消费量的增加。 They take an atom of lead, accelerate it and have it collide with an atom of nickel. 他们选取一个铅原子，将其加速,让它与镍的原子碰撞。 "You don't need to carry 50 pounds of nickel, " one battery company man told me. 有个电池公司的人告诉我，“你根本不需要非用50磅的镍去做电池。” —————————————— nightmare 噩梦 nightmare n. 恶梦；梦魇般的经历 adj. 可怕的；噩梦似的 I had a nightmare last night. 我昨夜做了一个恶梦。 He is troubled by [with] nightmare. 他为噩梦所折磨。 And it can be all those things, but it can also be a bit of a nightmare if you do everything wrong. 它可以是所有的那些好事情，但是如果你做错了什么的话，它也可以是一小段恶梦。 —————————————— nominal 名义上的 nominal adj. 名义上的；有名无实的；[会计] 票面上的 n. [语] 名词性词 For one, producers can raise prices without actually increasing the nominal prices of the goods they sell. 首先，生产者可以在没有实际增加货物名义价格的情况下提升销售价格。 One way out of the imbroglio, suggests a Japanese diplomat, might be for the government to ask prosecutors to impose a nominal fine on the captain and release him. 一位日本外交官称，走出尴尬局面的一种方法可能是日本政府要求检察官让该船长上交名义上的罚款，然后释放他。 In the long run, they said, monetary policy could only affect nominal incomes, not real incomes. 他们认为，长期来看，货币政策只能影响名义收入，而非真正的收入。 —————————————— nominate 提名 nominate vt. 推荐；提名；任命；指定 However, you can nominate an execution group for the handling of content-based filtering requests. 不过，您可以指定一个执行组来处理基于内容的过滤请求。 First, you can nominate your own object of today: something that represents human ingenuity and the challenges facing humanity in 2010. 第一，你可以提名一个当代的物品：2010年的物品中能够代表人类智慧和人类面临的挑战的。 Then, nominate one lead project manager and one lead architect from each application area to represent that area at the project level. 在任何应用领域，任命一个项目经理和一个构架师都代表着该领域在项目上的水平。 —————————————— nonetheless 尽管如此 nonetheless adv. 尽管如此，但是 Nonetheless, I want my rights, even without the media. 尽管如此，我要我的权利，甚至没有媒体。 OK, but nonetheless, I want to stress we have both a value, yeah, and a type. 好，但是尽管如此，我想要强调我们有了一个值，和一种类型。 Nonetheless, it has added enormous processing capacity because of the effectiveness of its new hardware and software. 尽管如此，由于新的软件和硬件的效率问题它增加了巨大的处理能力。 —————————————— norm 规范 norm n. 标准，规范 Those who believe that transparency has inherent value, or that it should be the norm, may initially have difficulties with this approach. 那些相信透明有着内在价值或认为其应该成为规范的人，对于这个方法一开始可能都会有困难。 Is uniqueness an asset or liability? Can you accept others when they behave differently from what you consider to be the norm? Do you love your own uniqueness? 与众不同到底是种优点还是种羁绊？你能接受那些在你看来与你的行为准则相左的人吗？你喜欢你自己的独特之处吗？ While in real life you hardly talk to strangers, here you get it as a social norm. 在现实生活中你几乎很少和陌生人说话，而这种事在这里成为一种社交规范。 —————————————— notable 值得注意的 notable adj. 值得注意的，显著的；著名的 n. 名人，显要人物 It's difficult to level down the notable difference between the two. 很难消除两者之间的显著差别。 The book stands out as one of the notable landmarks in the progress of modern science. 这部著作是现代科学发展史上著名的里程碑之一。 If there are any notable inconsistencies or discrepancies, think through how you are going to explain the situation. 如果有任何显著的不相符或让人起疑的情况，要想好该如何去解释这个情况。 —————————————— notation 符号 notation n. 符号；乐谱；注释；记号法 It represents notation declarations. 它表示符号声明。 We made sure the customer fully understood the diagramming notation and the contents of each diagram, since their review and approval was critical. 我们确认客户已经完全理解了图形化的符号和每个图的内容，因为他们的检查和批准是关键的。 This example uses the rectangle notation because it has more room for the roles. 该例使用矩形符号，因为对于角色它拥有更多的空间。 —————————————— notify 通知 notify vt. 通告，通知；公布 Actually I meant to notify you beforehand. 实际上我是想事先通知你的。 Please notify them of the change of the office's address. 请把办公地址的更改通知他们。 It should notify an administrator in case of a system error. 在系统出错的情况下，它应该能够通知管理员。 —————————————— notion 概念 notion n. 概念；见解；打算 I will examine this notion below. 我将在下面分析此概念。 These days, even hotels are flogging the notion that anything is better if you cyberize it. 眼下，就连各旅馆也在大力宣传这样的观念：任何东西一经网络化将更具优势。 We reviewed the notion that these were prescriptive and deterministic. Any computer code that you wanna use for the safety analysis you have to have NRC approval. 我们回顾了这些规定的和确定性的,概念，任何的计算机准则,你们要在必须得到NRC的同意的,安全分析中使用的。 —————————————— notorious 臭名昭著的 notorious adj. 声名狼藉的，臭名昭著的 The most notorious examples of this are in agriculture. 这方面，最为臭名昭著的例子来自农业。 The lawyer has defended some of the most notorious criminals. 这名法官已为一些最臭名昭著的罪犯当过辩护律师。 And related to this, he developed the notorious theory of penis envy. 与此有关的是，他提出了,臭名昭著的阴茎嫉妒论。 —————————————— notwithstanding 尽管 notwithstanding adv. 尽管，仍然 prep. 尽管，虽然 conj. 虽然 He still went home, notwithstanding the midnight. 尽管已近午夜，他还是回家去了。 Notwithstanding, we should learn to readily forgive others. 尽管如此，我们应学会欣然地原谅他人。 The religious leaders who counseled me, visited me at the White House, or called to pray with me reminded me that, notwithstanding the condemnations I had received from some quarters, God is love. 那些给过我建议、来白宫看望我或是打电话来要同我一起祷告的宗教领袖们提醒我说，尽管我遭到了许多方面的谴责，但上帝的心是仁爱的。 —————————————— nourish 滋养 nourish vt. 滋养；怀有；使健壮 South American women use the fruit to nourish their skin and hair. 南美洲的妇女都用这种水果来滋养她们的皮肤和头发。 I believe that the breathtaking ideas of science can nourish not only the mind but also the soul. 我相信科学的惊人力量不仅能够武装我们的头脑，还可以滋养我们的心灵。 Often your environment does not recognize the real you and therefore cannot acknowledge and nourish you. 你的环境常常不能认可真正的你，因而就不能报答和滋养你。 —————————————— novelty 新奇的事物 novelty n. 新奇；新奇的事物；新颖小巧而廉价的物品 I guess like a lot of Americans, I underestimate my own appetite for novelty and the gambles that come with the new. 我想我与许多美国人一样，低估了自己对新奇事物的欲望和伴随着新事物而来的风险博弈。 We're still in transition and the transition will take many years, but I believe fundraising with social media tools will not just be a niche source of income or novelty. 我们仍处在转型过程中，而这一转型将历时数年，但我相信使用社会媒体工作募款不仅仅是一个细分的或新颖性的收入来源。 The most important of those is still a gun, but in the world of “Noodle Shop” this is a novelty rather than standard equipment. 这些道具中最重要的莫过于枪了，但是在“面馆”的世界中，枪还只是新奇物品，离标准装备依然相去甚远。 —————————————— numerical 数值 numerical adj. 数值的；数字的；用数字表示的（等于numeric） Well, the recent numerical value is 49.9%. It sounds much, but is there simply one tree that was planted by you? 最近的数字是49.9%，听起来很多，可是在千千万万的树木中有没有一株是你贡献的呢？ We know today that economic development depends on a number of factors; some of them are not measurable in numerical terms. 今天我们知道，经济发展取决于各种因素的结合，其中有些因素不一定能用数字来衡量。 Those unique numerical labels allow computers and other devices to communicate among the vast network of servers that make up the Internet. 这些独一无二的数字标签让电脑和其他的设备在有服务器组成的巨大的网络中相互交流。 —————————————— nutrition 营养 nutrition n. 营养，营养学；营养品 It is all part of the big picture in nutrition. 他们可以是营养的大图画中的一部分。 There is so much conflicting advice about diet and nutrition. 有如此多的相互矛盾的意见是关于饮食和营养。 Some experts have suggested offering a course on food and nutrition in schools to inject health consciousness into children. 一些专家建议学校通过提供一些关于食物和营养的课程来提高孩子的健康意识。 —————————————— oath 誓言 oath n. 誓言，誓约；诅咒，咒骂 You cannot call back your oath. 你不能收回你的誓言。 You are being swerved from your oath. 你现在的行为背离了你的誓言。 He ground out an oath. 他咬牙切齿地诅咒。 —————————————— obedient 听话 obedient adj. 顺从的，服从的；孝顺的 The seeds that fell in good soil stand for those who hear the message and retain it in a good and obedient heart, and they persist until they bear fruit. 这些散落在优良土地上的种子代表着那些能够听见上帝的启示并将其保存于善良顺从的心中，并且将其存留至结出果实的人。 Continue to ask yourself hard questions about the nature of work. By asking tough questions you might be “unprofessional,” but you won't be an obedient thinker. 请继续扪心自问，关于工作的本质意义问题。通过对这些根本问题的反思，你可能会变成“非专业人士”，但你不会是一个听话的思想家。 All things are obedient to money. 一切事物都服从于金钱。 —————————————— obligation 义务 obligation n. 义务；职责；债务 Don't try to duck out of the obligation. 别想逃避那项义务。 I say it is criminal, and we each have an obligation to stop it. 但是我认为这是犯罪行为，我们每一个人都有义务制止它。 Do what you can to find it, instead of running your batteries on obligation. 不要让你的电池在责任下耗去，而是去做你能做的去找到它。 —————————————— obscene 淫秽 obscene adj. 淫秽的；猥亵的；可憎的 The obscene part of the film should be censored. 影片中的淫秽部分应予删除。 This is because some people found the term “black hole” obscene when translated into French or Russian, for example. 因为有些人发现当把“黑洞”这个词汇翻译成法语或俄语时，有淫秽的含义。 She lay with the covers off her, and the stump looked obscene to him. 她躺在那里，身上什么都没盖，她的断腿看上去几乎有些猥亵。 —————————————— obscure 晦涩难懂的 obscure adj. 昏暗的，朦胧的；晦涩的，不清楚的；隐蔽的；不著名的，无名的 vt. 使…模糊不清，掩盖；隐藏；使难理解 n. 某种模糊的或不清楚的东西 The meaning is still obscure to me. 我对这意义还很模糊。 Last night, an obscure project peered upon my mind. 昨晚，一个计划在我脑中模糊出现。 That amounts to clarifying the premise: "If God does not exist, I am god, " which still remains rather obscure. 这等于说是澄清了一个仍然相当晦涩的前提假设：“如果上帝不存在，我就是神。” —————————————— odor 气味 odor n. 气味；名声 n. (Odor)人名；(匈)欧多尔 I smelled the odor of money. 我闻到了一股铜臭气。 Pewter has an odor. 锡器有一股臭气。 This bat is noted for its weird “hairdo”, and for the strange odor males use to attract females during courtship. 这种蝙蝠以其怪异的“发型”以及求偶期雄性为了吸引雌性所使用的奇怪气味而著称。 —————————————— offence 犯罪 offence n. 犯罪；违反；过错；攻击 He was punished for an offence. 他因犯罪而受罚。 His case should be subsumed under the title of criminal offence. 他的案子应归入刑事犯罪。 Your pardon, once again, good sir, if my speech give the shadow of offence. 如果我的话有丝毫冒犯的话，我的好先生，就再次请你原谅。 —————————————— offensive 进攻 offensive adj. 攻击的；冒犯的；无礼的；讨厌的 n. 攻势；攻击 Offensive is the best defence. 进攻是最好的防御。 The enemy launched a fresh offensive. 敌人重新发起进攻。 You need to hold an intelligent conversation and not use profanity or offensive language. 你需要保持一种聪慧的交谈，不要使用亵渎的、冒犯的语言。 —————————————— offset 抵消 offset n. 抵消，补偿；平版印刷；支管 vt. 抵消；弥补；用平版印刷术印刷 vi. 装支管 “By investing in it, we can count it as an offset,” she said. 她说：“通过对其投资，我们可以把它视为一项补偿。” For each chunk, the figure indicates the offset value of the chunk (in GB). 对于每个块，该图标出块的偏移量值（单位为 GB）。 The application must know the order and type of each field since it must calculate its offset in the record. 应用程序必须知道每个字段的次序和类型，因为它必须计算该字段在记录中的偏移量。 —————————————— offspring 后代 offspring n. 后代，子孙；产物 Jack is her only offspring. 杰克是她唯一的后代。 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 凡你所看见的一切地，我都要赐给你和你的后裔，直到永远。 We are the offspring of one of Her many kingdoms. 我们是她众多王国中某一个的后裔。 —————————————— opaque 不透明的 opaque adj. 不透明的；不传热的；迟钝的 n. 不透明物 vt. 使不透明；使不反光 You can do that, but I find the syntax kind of opaque. 您可以这样做，但是我发现语法有些不透明。 Unlike the other two, this is not an opaque type; its structure is documented. 与另外两个数据类型不同，这是一个透明的类型；其结构在文档中有介绍。 As a systems or server-side programmer, perhaps you think of PDF as just another opaque content type. 作为系统或服务器端程序员，您可能仅仅把 PDF 看成另一种不透明的内容类型。 —————————————— oppress 压迫 oppress vt. 压迫，压抑；使……烦恼；使……感到沉重 Moreover I have seen how the Egyptians oppress them. 我也看见埃及人怎样欺压他们。 Just as no self-appointed group has the right to oppress others, so no majority, even in a democracy, should take away the basic rights and freedoms of a minority group or individual. 正如没有任何一个自我任命的群体有权压迫其他人一样，多数派，即便是在民主制度下，也不应剥夺少数群体或个人的基本权利和自由。 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. 使我脱离那欺压我的恶人，就是围困我，要害我命的仇敌。 —————————————— optimism 乐观 optimism n. 乐观；乐观主义 They ended the discussion on a note of optimism. 他们在乐观的调子中结束了讨论。 There was a glow on his face, wrinkled by a life time of suffering, that inspired one with a feeling of unshakable optimism. 他那饱经风霜的多皱的脸上发着光彩， 使人产生一种乐观的感觉。 And if you want it with someone, I wonder how you might go about it and what courage and optimism will help you to move in that direction. 如果你想和某人一起拥有它，我好奇你会怎样进行，又是怎样的勇气和乐观能帮你在这个方向上走下去。 —————————————— optimum 最优 optimum adj. 最适宜的 n. 最佳效果；最适宜条件 If we treat good diet as a cornerstone of optimum nutrition and do regular exercise, we will have much bigger chance to do and enjoy something else. 如果我们处理好饮食的一个基础就是最佳营养和做适量运动，我们将有更大的机会和享受做别的事情。 These fields provide a big picture for monitoring production load and analyzing pool usage so you can define the optimum value for your maximum pool size. 这些字段为监视生产负载和分析池使用情况提供了一个总体概貌，有助于您为最大池大小定义一个最佳值。 If the backend resource is not providing adequate levels of performance, then neither is the application accessing the backend resource performing at optimum levels. 如果后端资源没有提供足够级别的性能，那么访问后端资源的应用程序也不在最佳的级别运行。 —————————————— option 选项 option n. [计] 选项；选择权；买卖的特权 Once you have some lists you can go back to your tasks by choosing the Tasks option. 一旦你有了这些列表，你就能通过选择任务选项返回到你的任务。 Next, we have the hypocrisy option. 其次，我们可以选择伪善。 However, some settings may have only one option. 但是, 某些设置可能有一个选项。 —————————————— orient 东方 orient vt. 使适应；确定方向；使朝东 n. 东方；东方诸国 adj. 东方的 vi. 向东 n. (Orient)人名；(西)奥连特；(法)奥里安 San Francisco is generally known as the U.S.“gateway to the Orient”. 旧金山是美国 “通向东方的大门”。 Population control is not just an innovation from the Orient, however; it also has an impressive pedigree among the sages of the West. 但是人口控制并不只是一项来自东方的伟大发明；西方的“伟人”们对此的贡献亦有斑斑史迹。 Orient Securities would own 67% of the venture. 东方证券将持有合资企业67%的股份。 —————————————— oriental 东方 oriental adj. 东方的；东方人的 n. 东方人 What we can learn from Oriental countries is a higher level of service. 我们能从东方国家学习到的是更加高等级的服务。 Is it possible to level out the difference between Oriental and European ideas as regards matrimony? 有可能消除东方与欧洲在婚姻观上的差别吗? The grass was as soft and thick and fine as an immense green Oriental rug. 上面的青草非常柔软，浓厚，纯粹，真像一块东方的绿色大地毯。 —————————————— orientation 取向 orientation n. 方向；定向；适应；情况介绍；向东方 And I need to choose my orientation. 我需要选择一个正方向。 The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation. 迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。 If so, this would add to a growing list of physiological and biological markers of sexual orientation. 如果是这样，这可能会给生理和生物学上的性取向标记增加一长串名单。 —————————————— originate 产生 originate vt. 引起；创作 vi. 发源；发生；起航 But where did the innovation originate? 但是这些创新来源于哪里呢？ In this way, all the properties of the artificial market originate directly from the interactions among agents. 在这种方式下，人造市场的所有特性都直接源自于经纪间的相互作用。 An estimated 30 percent of new infectious diseases originate in bacteria, viruses, parasites, chemicals and toxins introduced along food production chains, he told an experts' meeting. 他在一次专家座谈会上称，估计约有30%的新型传染病源于混入了食物链中的细菌、病毒、寄生虫、化学制剂及毒素等。 —————————————— ornament 点缀 ornament n. 装饰；[建][服装] 装饰物；教堂用品 vt. 装饰，修饰 MY fetters, you made music in my heart. I played with you all day long and made you my ornament. 我的镣铐，你在我的心底谱写乐曲；我终日拨弄你，使你成了我增加光彩的装饰物。 To get down to it, you have to cut away what is not true, what is inflated, beside the point, excess, ornament. 更直接点，你们要去掉不真实的，除了这点还有膨胀的，过量的和装饰的。 In their study of the Christmas ornaments, Doucette and his colleagues found that just one gingerbread man ornament raised the DCA levels in a house to unsafe levels. 在他们的化学研究中，多赛特和他的合作伙伴发现仅仅一个姜饼人装饰物就可以使室内DCA浓度升高至危险的水平。 —————————————— orthodox 正统的 orthodox adj. 正统的；传统的；惯常的；东正教的 n. 正统的人；正统的事物 And all of these are things that an Orthodox Christian can and should appreciate. 所有的这些都是一个东正教基督徒可以并且应该肯定的。 If reason should lead you to orthodox conclusions, well and good; you are still a Rationalist. 如果理性可以引领你到达传统的结论，那很好，你仍然是一个理性主义者。 It is not the faith of any orthodox creed or religion but the faith that we are called to do the good, or at least the good in so far as we can best determine it, and then to let it go. 它并非传统的教条亦非宗教，它是一种信仰，我们称之为去做善的事情，或至少到目前为止我们所能完全确定的善的事情，然后就让它继续下去。 —————————————— outbreak 爆发 outbreak n. （战争的）爆发；（疾病的）发作 vi. 爆发 The cholera outbreak has been contained. 霍乱的爆发已被遏制住。 Such events may forecast an outbreak of war. 这些事件可能预示着战争的爆发。 However, even in the early days of the outbreak, not everyone with swine flu will have visited their GP. 然而，即使是在爆发早期，也做不到每一个猪流感病人都能拜访他们的家庭医生。 —————————————— oval 椭圆形 oval adj. 椭圆的；卵形的 n. 椭圆形；卵形 n. (Oval)人名；(法)奥瓦尔 They call it the Oval Office. 他们管它叫椭圆办公室。 The leaf is oval in shape. 叶呈椭圆形。 I skipped over zero as we counted, but she confidently picked up the number and declared it an oval. 当我们数数时，我跳过了零，但我女儿很自信地说出了零，并且说零是一个椭圆。 —————————————— overflow 溢出 overflow vi. 溢出；泛滥；充溢 n. 充满，洋溢；泛滥；超值；溢值 vt. 使溢出；使泛滥；使充溢 We must harness the rivers which overflow annually. 我们必须治理那些每年泛滥的河流。 This space is also used for overflow: if there are more parameters than registers available for use, then they need to go in the stack space. 这个空间也用来在溢出情况中使用：如果参数个数多于可用寄存器的数目，那么它们就需要进入堆栈空间中。 The overflow buffer is used to satisfy peak memory requirements for any heap in the instance shared memory region whenever a heap exceeds its configured size. 每当某个堆超出了其配置的大小时，便可以使用溢出缓冲区来满足实例共享内存区内任何堆的峰值需求。 —————————————— overlap 重叠 overlap n. 重叠；重复 vi. 部分重叠；部分的同时发生 vt. 与…重叠；与…同时发生 But they do not always overlap. 但它们并不总是重叠的。 While you cannot plan for every disaster, many of the recovery procedures overlap. 虽然您无法为每个灾难做计划，但是许多恢复过程是重叠的。 "Because we have so much to do and only so much time, wherever we have overlap, I will, " she said. “因为我们有这么多的事要做但只有这么少的时间，无论何时需要我重复那些内容，我都会去做。” 她说。 —————————————— overt 公开的 overt adj. 明显的；公然的；蓄意的 Currently the only drugs available for the syndrome treat the overt symptoms, such as anxiety and aggression. 目前只有一种药物可以治疗综合症的明显征兆，如焦虑感和侵略性。 In a speech this month a senior Chinese official emphasised the role abroad of China’s “private” firms, which typically have less overt state direction. 在本月的一场演说中，一位中国的高层官员强调中国的“私企”在外国的角色，他们通常有比较不明显的政府倾向。 A crowd experiment run by physicist Leonard Mlodinow showed how easy it is to manipulate a people’s answers to simple questions without doing anything overt. 物理学家雷奥纳多·罗迪诺做了一项群众实验，表明操纵人们对简单问题的答案如此容易，甚至不需要用很明显的动作。 —————————————— overthrow 推翻 overthrow n. 推翻；倾覆；瓦解 vt. 推翻；打倒；倾覆 They conspired to overthrow the government. 他们密谋推翻政府。 They are plotting to overthrow the government. 他们蓄谋推翻政府。 I was startled at the news that 129 persons were killed last Sunday in the attempt by rebel air force officers to overthrow the government in the capital. 上星期日在该国首都，由空军官员发动叛乱，在企图推翻政府的战斗中，有129人被打死，听到这一消息我感到十分震惊。 —————————————— overwhelm 压倒 overwhelm vt. 淹没；压倒；受打击；覆盖；压垮 But the various pros and cons should not blindly overwhelm one another. 但是，众多的利弊得失不应盲目的一个压倒另一个。 We try not to think about it because it would overwhelm us to an extent that we would just vegetate. 我们尽量不去想它，因为在某种我们能够想像到的程度上他会压倒我们。 For example, in a situation in which several bystanders need to band together to overwhelm a perpetrator, they will be more likely to act collectively than to act alone. 例如, 就有这样一种情况， 在只有几个旁观者需要联合起来才能压倒一个罪犯的情况下, 他们就可能会更多地采取集体行动。 —————————————— oxide 氧化 oxide n. [化学] 氧化物 And he predicts the density of the oxide of the yet undiscovered element. 他预测这个还未被发现的元素的,氧化物的密度。 There was another example, and that was the famous case of the alleged contract between Iraq and Niger for the import of yellowcake, uranium oxide. 存在这样一个例子，就是那个著名的被宣称的伊拉克和尼泊尔间的冲突，因为“黄饼”-铀氧化物-的进口。 One of them combines lithium manganese oxide with other ions, and operates at about three to five volts with a charge capacity of 200 milliamp hours per gram. 平面能源正在研发三种不同的电池化学配方。 其中之一是把锂锰氧化物与其他离子化合，充电电压三到五伏，容量200毫安时每克。 —————————————— pamphlet 小册子 pamphlet n. 小册子 His excellent pamphlet can be downloaded for free, here. 他那本出色的小册子，可以在这里免费下载。 These materials have been digested into a handy pamphlet. 这些材料已被汇编成便于使用的小册子。 He says that I have misrepresented his views in my pamphlet. 他说我在小册子中歪曲了他的观点。 —————————————— panic 恐慌 panic n. 恐慌，惊慌；大恐慌 adj. 恐慌的；没有理由的 vt. 使恐慌 vi. 十分惊慌 n. (Panic)人名；(罗)帕尼克 Her face distorted in panic. 她的脸因恐慌而变相了。 The panic-stricken fled in all directions. 惊慌的人群向四面八方逃去。 They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic. 由于我纯粹因惊慌而做的事，他们认为我很有勇气。 —————————————— paradise 天堂 paradise n. 天堂 至福境地 The bird of Paradise is fabled to have no feet. 相传天堂的鸟没有脚。 On that rainy night, I dreamed to fly to my paradise. 在那个落雨之夜，我梦想着飞向我的天堂。 Paradise is there, behind that door, in the next room; but I have lost the key. 天堂就在那边，在那扇门后，在隔壁的房里；但是我把钥匙丢了。 —————————————— paradox 悖论 paradox n. 悖论，反论；似非而是的论点；自相矛盾的人或事 Or is this a paradox of faith? 又或者,这是个信仰的悖论吗？ Above all, it was an age of paradox and power. 总之，它是一个充满矛盾和力量的时代。 This presents a paradox. 这产生一个悖论。 —————————————— paralyze 麻痹 paralyze vt. 使麻痹；使瘫痪 You can bet that would truly paralyze the flow of credit: Does anyone believe Washington can manage banks? 你可以打赌，这会使流动的信贷真正限于瘫痪：真有人相信华盛顿可以经营银行吗？ After a swimming accident threatened to paralyze the 28-year-old a decade ago, the Brazilian midfielder fought to become the biggest international success since Pele. 十年前游泳时一场意外差点使现年28岁的卡卡瘫痪，如今这位巴西籍的中场球员已然继贝利之后成为当今足坛最耀眼的球星。 For example, injecting botox into muscle groups near the eyes will temporarily paralyze those muscles, keeping them from scrunching up. 例如，注射肉毒杆菌毒素到眼睛附近的肌肉组织，会暂时性的麻痹那些肌肉，使它们不皱起。 —————————————— parameter 参数 parameter n. 参数；系数；参量 If you have a different environment parameter to hook into, then this is where you should insert the changes. 如果您要检索一个不同的环境参数，那么这就是您应该插入改变之处的地方。 This parameter is not required as the default is indexes only, which is all we are interested in this case study. 该参数可以不要，因为默认设置就是只考虑索引，这也是我们在这个案例研究中惟一感兴趣的。 These types correspond to each parameter at the source (inputs) and target (outputs) that you chose for the mapping. 这些类型对应于您为该映射选择的源（输入）和目标（输出）的每个参数。 —————————————— participant 参与者 participant adj. 参与的；有关系的 n. 参与者；关系者 Participant 1 (male): I say he should not be allowed to play. 参与者1（男性）：我说不应该允许他打篮球。 Service participant implementations may use these capabilities, but they do not need to be addressed in the model. 服务参与者执行可能会用到这些功能，但是它们不需要在模型中被处理。 Participant 2 (female): He should not be allowed to play for the semester, at least. 参与者2（女性）：至少这个学期不应该允许他打篮球了。 —————————————— partition 分区 partition n. 划分，分开；[数] 分割；隔墙；隔离物 vt. [数] 分割；分隔；区分 We have shown you how to partition one table. 我们已经展示了如何划分一个表。 Each agent you define will exist in every partition. 您定义的每个代理将存在于每个分区中。 It ensures that partitions do not access the memory of another partition. 它可以确保该分区不会对另一个分区的内存进行访问。 —————————————— pastime 消遣 pastime n. 娱乐，消遣 Chimps do yawn, and they, like us, respond in kind when shown a computerised avatar indulging in the pastime. 黑猩猩也打哈欠，它们和我们一样，也像看到沉迷于娱乐中的电脑化身时的反应。 It may seem like a pastime for only a certain kind of person, but in all actuality, anyone and everyone can and should travel. 它对某种人来说也许是一种消遣，但事实上，任何人和每个人都可以并应当去旅行。 Watching films, especially comedy, is my favorite pastime although (or, but) I don’t like films with a lot of violence or horror films. 我最喜欢的消遣是看电影，尤其是喜剧片。 但我不喜欢看带有很有暴力和恐怖情节的电影。 —————————————— pasture 牧场 pasture n. 草地；牧场；牧草 vt. 放牧；吃草 n. (Pasture)人名；(英)帕斯彻；(法)帕斯蒂尔 The farmer laid the big field up for pasture. 农场主把这块大田留作牧场。 Regularly at daybreak they drive their herds to the pasture. 每天天一亮他们就把牲畜赶到草场上去。 Besides the mammoths, some other animals pasture in this valley as well. 除了猛犸象，还有一些其他动物在山谷牧场里。 —————————————— patent 专利 patent vt. 授予专利；取得…的专利权 adj. 专利的；新奇的；显然的 n. 专利权；执照；专利品 How long does it take to patent an invention? 取得一项发明的专利用多长时间? Apple may claim a patent on its mousetrap, but can it claim to control all methods for catching mice? 苹果可以为它的捕鼠器申请专利，可是难道它能声称控制所有的抓老鼠方法吗？ So what to make of this? We checked in with a couple of patent experts to make more sense of the ruling. 那么，如何理解这一点？我们联系了一些专利方面的专家以便对该判决有更好的理解。 —————————————— pathetic 可怜的 pathetic adj. 可怜的，悲哀的；感伤的；乏味的 What do you mean "pathetic"? 你说“可怜”是什么意思？ I can think of a thousand way to end your miserable pathetic life, but why bother? 我可以想象用一千种方法来结束你可怜可悲的生命，但我干吗费事儿？ "I suppose every filmmaker has the naive, even pathetic dream that his film could be the one that finally stops a war, " said Maoz. 我猜每个电影导演都有这样一个幼稚的、可怜的梦想，梦想自己的电影可以最终制止一场战争。 —————————————— patriotic 爱国 patriotic adj. 爱国的 He led them in launching a patriotic movement. 他领导他们开展了一场爱国运动。 We must carry on the patriotic public health campaign with a great fanfare, reduce disease and improve health conditions. 要大张旗鼓地开展爱国卫生运动， 减少疾病， 提高健康水平。 Chinese leaders have been especially keen to play to patriotic sentiment at this time of year and to avoid backing down to foreign pressure, especially from the Japanese. 中国的领导人们一直特别热衷于在这个时间演绎爱国情操，他们会避免让步于来自国外的压力，尤其是来自日本的。 —————————————— patrol 巡逻 patrol n. 巡逻；巡逻队；侦察队 vt. 巡逻；巡查 vi. 巡逻；巡查 The highway patrol flagged us away from the accident. 高速公路上的巡逻警察示意我们避开事故地区。 They go out on patrol, and they get shot at or attacked almost every day. 他们外出巡逻，几乎每天都会遭遇枪击或者受到进攻。 During the riots last year, the nighttime patrol force was beefed up with volunteers. 去年骚乱期间志愿者增加了夜间巡逻力量。 —————————————— pave 铺平道路 pave vt. 铺设；安排；作铺设之用 n. (Pave)人名；(西、塞)帕韦 I believe this treaty will pave the way to peace in Europe. 我相信这个条约将为欧洲的和平铺平道路。 That would pave the way for Obama to announce the US targets soon after. 这将为奥巴马不久后宣布美国的减排目标铺平了道路。 Some have argued that not only was the definition changed, but that it was done to pave the way for declaring a pandemic. 一些人认为不仅仅是定义发生了改变,而且这种改变为宣布流感大流行铺平了道路。 —————————————— pearl 珍珠 pearl n. 珍珠；珍珠色；杰出者；珍品 adj. 镶珍珠的；珍珠状的 vi. 采珍珠；成珍珠状 vt. 使成珠状；用珍珠装饰；使呈珍珠色 Pearl Harbour Incident （1941， 12，7） 珍珠港事件 How can I pull the pearl from the burning oyster? 我怎样做才能算是从燃烧的牡蛎中取出珍珠？ Real pearl is forming in there but it cannot be used in jewelry. 真正的珍珠是在其中形成的，但不能用它来制作珠宝。 —————————————— pedal 踏板 pedal vi. 踩踏板；骑车 n. 踏板；脚蹬子 vt. 骑（自行车）；踩……的踏板 adj. 脚的；脚踏的 Portable pedal machines could be used in every office to improve the health of workers, according to scientists in the US. 日前，美国科学家提倡，为改善办公室人员的身体健康，办公室可以引入轻便型脚踏机器。 Each had his heart rate, power output, pedal cadence, enjoyment of the music and feelings of how hard the riding felt monitored throughout each session. 每个人的心率、消耗的能量、脚踏的节奏、享受音乐的程度和骑行的费力程度，在每个阶段都得到了很好地监控。 I suddenly pressed the brake pedal hard and we were both thrown forward. 我突然用力踩紧刹车踏板，结果我俩的身体都向前冲去。 —————————————— pedestrian 行人 pedestrian adj. 徒步的；缺乏想像力的 n. 行人；步行者 The speeding car barely missed the pedestrian. 疾驰的汽车差点撞上那个行人。 With 36 meters or 12 levels above the road surface, this bridge became the highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. 超过路面36米高的12级台阶，使亨德生波浪桥成为了新加坡最高的步行桥。 In Paris, France, years ago, a new type of pedestrian appeared. 多年以前，在法国巴黎，出现了一种新式的步行方式。 —————————————— peel 皮 peel v. 剥，剥落；削 n. 皮 n. (Peel)人名；(英)皮尔 Please peel an apple for me. 请给我削个苹果。 Peel and dice the carrots. 把胡萝卜削皮并切成丁。 He nibbled away the apple peel, then ate the flesh. 他先慢慢地咬去苹果皮，然后再吃果肉。 —————————————— peer 同行 peer n. 贵族；同等的人；同龄人 vi. 凝视，盯着看；窥视 vt. 封为贵族；与…同等 n. (Peer)人名；(英、巴基)皮尔 The queen created him a peer. 女王封他为贵族。 She does the same with techniques, like how to use peer reviews for validating requirements. 在技术上她同样也这么做，像如何利用同行的评论来确定需求。 My theory is that if one is doing it, all do it until the first one has the courage to break off; it’s peer pressure. 我的理论是，如果有人开始做这类节目，其他人也都会做下去，知道当中有人鼓起勇气放弃：这是同行压力。 —————————————— penalty 点球 penalty n. 罚款，罚金；处罚 He saved us from the penalty of sin. 他救我们脱离了罪的刑罚。 Some of the players claims a penalty but the referee told them to play on. 有些队员认为应当判罚，但裁判让他们继续比赛。 Half of those surveyed say that the penalty should be as severe as that for drunk driving. 被调查的人中又有一半认为应像对待醉酒驾车一样进行严厉惩罚。 —————————————— pendulum 摆 pendulum n. 钟摆；摇锤；摇摆不定的事态 I want you to realize that these results for a pendulum have their restrictions. 我想让你们意识到,这些钟摆的结果,有一定的限制。 Maybe they give in, and the pendulum swings back into sweetness. 也许他们会屈服，然后钟摆会摆回原来的甜蜜。 But now the pendulum seems to be swinging the other way. 但现在钟摆似乎转到另一方向去了。 —————————————— pension 养老金 pension n. 退休金，抚恤金；津贴；膳宿费 vt. 发给养老金或抚恤金 The firm granted him a pension. 公司赐予他年金。 Since then he has been drawing a pension. 从那时起他一直领退休金。 Our old-age pension will be uprated next month. 下个月将提高我们的养老金标准。 —————————————— perception 感知 perception n. 知觉；[生理] 感觉；看法；洞察力；获取 This matters, because China will be influenced by its perception of US policies and capabilities. 这很重要，因为中国对美国政策与能力的认知将对其产生影响。 Since the past is the past, and we can’t go back and change it ,is it possible to change our reality and our perception of the world? 过去的已经过去，我们不能回溯时间去改变它，那么，我们还可不可以做到，改变我们生活的现实或者我们对世界的看法吗？ There is no such perception, when we think we have insight into the way the physical things behave, at bottom there is this assumption of uniformity which is based on no insight whatever. 当我们认为，已经洞悉了物质行为规律的时候，其实并没有那种感知的存在,无论怎样，从本质上来说假设的一致性也没有以洞察力为根基。 —————————————— perfection 完美 perfection n. 完善；完美 And she did so with grace and perfection! 而她做的非常优雅和完美！ Absolute perfection in a dictionary is rare. 绝对完美的词典是罕见的。 It was little by little that the watch reached its present-day perfection. 表渐渐地达到了现在这样完美的程度。 —————————————— perfume 香水 perfume n. 香水；香味 vt. 洒香水于…；使…带香味 vi. 散发香气 Who's wearing that spicy perfume? 是谁身上有那么浓的香味? Those lotuses perfume the whole park. 荷花使整个公园变得很香。 He sashayed to the gate of the shop after stealing two bottles of perfume in his pockets. 他把两瓶香水放进口袋里之后，大摇大摆地向商店门口走去。 —————————————— periodic 周期 periodic adj. 周期的；定期的 This periodic use of snapshots can be especially useful in detecting trends. 在探测趋势时，这种定期使用快照的方法特别有用。 Its causes range from selective logging and burning, to periodic harvesting of firewood. 它的原因包括从选择性砍伐和焚烧到定期采伐木柴。 If you happen to find this approach successful, please let us know so that we can plan periodic updates for future columns. 如果您碰巧发现这种方法很成功，请告诉我们，以便我们能够为今后的专栏计划定期的更新。 —————————————— periodical 期刊 periodical adj. [数] 周期的；定期的 n. 期刊；杂志 She refereed for a periodical a few years ago. 几年前她为一期刊担任编审。 The quarterly magazine is a periodical published every three months. 季刊是每3个月出版一次的期刊。 As the flagship periodical of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Bulletin draws on WHO experts as editorial advisers, reviewers and authors as well as on external collaborators. 作为世界卫生组织（世卫组织）的主要期刊，《简报》利用世卫组织专家与外部合作者担任编辑顾问、评审人和作者。 —————————————— perish 灭亡 perish vt. 使麻木；毁坏 vi. 死亡；毁灭；腐烂；枯萎 But estimates of their ages depend on theories of how stars live and perish. 不过，估计它们的年龄取决于恒星如何生存与死亡的理论。 We fight against the idea of allowing even the most weak and sickly human perish and do everything we can to keep human beings alive. 对于那种即使是仅允许最体弱多病的的人灭亡的想法，我们是极力反对的，并且尽我们一切努力使人们活着。 "Publish or perish" is the traditional saying. “发表或毁灭”是传统的说法。 —————————————— permeate 渗透 permeate vt. 渗透，透过；弥漫 vi. 弥漫；透入；散布 Water will easily permeate a cotton dress. 水很容易渗透棉布衣服。 In a world where the benefits of space permeate almost every facet of our lives, irresponsible acts in space can have damaging consequences for all of us. 当今世界，利用太空的益处已渗透到我们生活中的几乎每一方面，不负责任的太空活动可能对全人类造成有害的后果。 The software teams have great talent and a clear road map, and Jobs' attention to detail and passion for perfection permeate Apple's culture from top to bottom. 软件团队拥有广大的人才队伍和清晰的路线图，和乔布斯对细节的关注及对完美的热情追求这种自上而下的苹果文化渗透。 —————————————— permissible 允许的 permissible adj. 可允许的；获得准许的 And yet that is permissible. 然而，这是允许的。 Adults must learn not to cry in situations in which it is permissible for child to cry. 成年人都必须知道，凡在允许小孩子哭的情况下，成年人都不应该哭。 Tell me, Monsieur Thenardier, is what we have done permissible? 我们干的这种事，德纳第先生，你说说，是允许的吗？ —————————————— perpetual 永恒的 perpetual adj. 永久的；不断的；四季开花的；无期限的 This is my perpetual loyalty to my faith. 这是我对自己信仰永恒的忠诚。 That means perpetual debt for as long as the system exists. 那意味着只要系统存在，就有永恒的债务。 To be empty of thought, of goals, of ambition, of perpetual motion or entertainment. 没有想法，没有目标，没有野心，也没有不断的运动或者娱乐。 —————————————— perplex 使复杂化 perplex vt. 使困惑，使为难；使复杂化 But don’t perplex the issue; it isn’t so complicated. 但不要使问题复杂化了。 它没有那么复杂。 But these potentially anonymous weapons continue to perplex and confound our thinking about the future of war and terrorism. 但是，这些潜在的不为人知的武器继续困扰着我们，并影响着我们对于未来战争和恐怖主义的看法。 I used to draw a comparison between him and Hindley Earnshaw, and perplex myself to explain satisfactorily why their conduct was so opposite in similar circumstances. 我总是拿他和辛德雷·恩萧相比，我想来想去也难以满意地解释出为什么他们在相似的情况下，行为却如此相反。 —————————————— persistent 持续的 persistent adj. 固执的，坚持的；持久稳固的 Why is autocracy so persistent in this part of the world? 为什么在世界的这个地方独裁如此持续存在？ If you really can’t find any, at least the experience teaches you to be persistent in any situation. 如果你实在学不到什么东西，至少这种体验可以教给你在任何情况下都要坚持。 So do not make the messages persistent if the business need does not exist. 因此，如果不存在这种业务需求，就不要将消息变成持久消息。 —————————————— pest 害虫 pest n. 害虫；有害之物；讨厌的人 n. (Pest)人名；(德、捷)佩斯特 The destiny of the pest in chestnut is not known before reaching the destination. 栗子中害虫的命运在到达目的地之前是未知的。 "The major pest was controlled and so the farmers stopped spraying insecticides, " he told SciDev.Net. “主要的害虫被控制了，因此农民停止了喷洒杀虫剂，”他告诉本网站说。 All projects offer more than emergency assistance, helping countries also to develop pest management strategies to prevent further outbreaks in the medium and long term. 所有项目不仅提供紧急援助，还帮助各国制定病虫害治理战略，以防止中长期内进一步爆发森林病虫害。 —————————————— petition 请愿书 petition n. 请愿；请愿书；祈求；[法] 诉状 vi. 请愿；请求 vt. 请愿；请求；恳求 These names will all be added to the petition. 这些名字都将被添加到请愿书中。 What options do you have to wage an effective petition effort? 你有什么选择来进行一场有效率的请愿努力呢? Also, please fill out the petition below and tell us how you intend to masturbate for peace. 并且，请填写下边的请愿，告诉我们你如何打算为和平而自我性爱。 —————————————— petty 小 petty adj. 琐碎的；小气的；小规模的 n. (Petty)人名；(英、法)佩蒂 You will know what he cares about and you will know what he considers insignificant, petty, or distracting. 你就会知道他所关心的，和那些他看为不重要的、琐碎的和烦扰的事物。 The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. 时日在无穷的展望中延展着，于是我们干着琐碎的事情，几乎意识不到我们对生活的倦怠态度。 The accountant said that we could use petty cash to buy paper but not to buy a new printer. 会计说我们可以用零用现金去买纸，但是不能用它买一个新的打印机。 —————————————— physiological 生理 physiological adj. 生理学的，生理的 If so, this would add to a growing list of physiological and biological markers of sexual orientation. 如果是这样，这可能会给生理和生物学上的性取向标记增加一长串名单。 Their study clearly illustrates the importance of how you interpret your physiological states, which themselves form an important component of your emotions. 他们的研究明确地阐述了你如何干预你的生理情况，这些源自你情绪中的一个重要部分。 How do you respond to skeptics who say there must be some biological or physiological basis for that kind of experience, which you say in the book is medically inexplicable? 对那些无神论者关于濒死体验应该有些生物学的或生理学的基础的说法你如何回应，你在书中说这种体验是医学上无法解释的？ —————————————— plague 瘟疫 plague n. 瘟疫；灾祸；麻烦；讨厌的人 vt. 折磨；使苦恼；使得灾祸 A terrible plague hit the whole Europe. 一场可怕的瘟疫袭击了整个欧洲。 The population was decimated by a plague. 人口中的大部分被一场瘟疫所毁。 Half of the population was wiped out by the plague. 一半的人口在瘟疫中丧生。 —————————————— plaster 石膏 plaster n. 石膏；灰泥；膏药 vt. 减轻；粘贴；涂以灰泥；敷以膏药；使平服 n. (Plaster)人名；(英、德)普拉斯特 They chinked the holes in the walls with plaster. 他们用灰泥堵塞住墙上的洞。 The peeling plaster must be raked out before painting the wall. 在涂饰墙壁之前必须先将剥落的灰泥刮掉。 The plaster on the wall of this house had peeled off through years of neglect. 这房子长年累月没修缮， 墙上的灰泥都剥落了。 —————————————— plateau 高原 plateau n. 高原 n. [地名] [肯尼亚、美国] 普拉托 n. （活动或进程中的）稳定阶段，停滞时期 adj. 高原印第安人的 Spirit found the plateau to be surrounded by deposits of opal. 勇气号发现高原上有许多蛋白石的沉积物。 As the river drops from the plateau， it forms great waterfalls. 河水从高原上下落时， 形成了巨大的瀑布。 Similarly there is more precipitation in the Tibetan plateau, probably because of climate change. 类似地，青藏高原的降水量也增加了，或许是由于气候变化。 —————————————— plausible 似是而非的 plausible adj. 貌似可信的，花言巧语的；貌似真实的，貌似有理的 Debate remains as to why this happened, but the most plausible explanation is that when modern humans began to live in larger groups, our hair filled with more and more ticks and lice. 关于为什么人类的毛发消失，还有很大的争议，但是目前最可信的解释就是当现代人开始在大集体中生活，我们的毛发会滋生大量的虱子。 There is a plausible theory of what it might be, and a reasonable chance of testing that theory to see if it is right. 我们有一个关于暗物质特性的似是而非的理论，也有合理的机会去检测理论的准确性。 Distortions like this are only possible, or plausible, or worth risking, in an environment where the reader is actively deprived of information. 在读者被主动地剥夺了信息的情况下，像这样的歪曲仅是可能的，或貌似真实的，也或许是值得冒险的。 —————————————— plea 请求 plea n. 恳求，请求；辩解，辩护；借口，托辞 I conjure you to hear my plea. 我恳求你听取我的请求。 No plea can be set up on the ground of ignorance. 以无知为理由而提出的抗辩是不能成立的。 He entered a plea of “not guilty” to the charges filed against him. 他针对对他的指控提出“无罪”的抗辩。 —————————————— plea 请求 plea n. 恳求，请求；辩解，辩护；借口，托辞 I conjure you to hear my plea. 我恳求你听取我的请求。 No plea can be set up on the ground of ignorance. 以无知为理由而提出的抗辩是不能成立的。 He entered a plea of “not guilty” to the charges filed against him. 他针对对他的指控提出“无罪”的抗辩。 —————————————— plead 辩护 plead vt. 借口；为...辩护；托称 vi. 恳求；辩护 The defendant was given a copy fo information before he was called upon to plead. 被告在被传唤进行辩护之前收到一份警方起诉书副本。 How can I surrender, God? I plead. How can I let go of everything good in my life? 主啊，我怎么能向你投降呢？我恳求你，放过我吧。我怎么能放弃生活中这些美好的东西呢？ Players howl, shrug, punch the air, raise their palms and sometimes chase referees 90 feet to plead their case. 球员们或嗥叫、或耸肩、或空击、或扬掌，有时为了恳求申诉甚至追出裁判90英尺之远。 —————————————— pledge 承诺 pledge n. 保证，誓言；抵押；抵押品，典当物 vt. 保证，许诺；用……抵押；举杯祝……健康 n. (Pledge)人名；(英)普莱奇 I have left the watch as pledge for borrowed money. 我留下这块手表作为借款的抵押物。 He would keep his pledge to the utmost of his power. 他将极力信守他的誓言。 At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. 在这一时刻，在这次选举中，我们必须再一次保证，向未来挺进。 —————————————— poke 戳 poke vi. 刺，捅；戳；伸出；刺探；闲荡 vt. 刺，捅；戳；拨开 n. 戳；刺；袋子；懒汉 Be careful not to poke someone in the eye with your umbrella. 注意别把伞戳着别人的眼睛。 I poke her in the stomach and she curls up like a hedgehog, giggling. 我用手戳她的胃，她就像只刺猬那样卷起来，咯咯咯的傻笑。 She startled one of the masked performers with a poke to the head because she was "curious" what it would feel like. 她对一个头上刺着锥子的蒙面怪物感到很是惊讶，因为她很“好奇”那名演员到底是怎么打扮成那副模样的。 —————————————— polar 极地 polar adj. 极地的；两极的；正好相反的 n. 极面；极线 n. (Polar)人名；(德、西)波拉尔 Well, what is the equation of this circle in polar coordinates? 那么，这个圆方程在极坐标系下相当于什么呢？ This image shows part of a polar crater that still holds on to some summer ice, as well as beautiful sand dunes sculpted by the wind. 这张照片展示了某个极地陨坑，陨坑中还保存着一些夏季冰的痕迹，在风的作用下形成了一些美丽的沙丘。 Yet, while not wanting to begrudge the polar bear his ice, we should be at least somewhat concerned at this recent shift in thinking. 然而，虽然我们并不想希望北极熊失去它的冰，我们至少应该对近期的这些意识上的转变有一点担心。 —————————————— poll 民意调查 poll n. 投票；民意测验；投票数；投票所 vt. 投票；剪短；对…进行民意测验；获得选票 vi. 投票 adj. 无角的；剪过毛的；修过枝的 n. (Poll)人名；(德、匈、罗、英)波尔 Who else do they poll for? 它还为谁做民意调查？ In an informal poll of my friends and colleagues, I discovered that no one remembered the mascot of the 1988 games. 我在自己的朋友和同事中做了个非正式的调查，发现没有一个人记得1988年奥运会的吉祥物。 From the online poll, at the time of writing, only 32% of users had managed to upgrade, or do a clean install, without any problems. 从网上投票，截止到写这篇文章的时候，只有32%的用户在执行版本升级或者全新安装中，没有出现问题。 —————————————— ponder 思考 ponder vt. 仔细考虑；衡量 vi. 考虑；沉思 n. (Ponder)人名；(英)庞德 We can ponder over the ways and means for raising funds before the construction work starts. 我们可以在建筑工程开工之前详细考虑各种筹款集资的措施。 Because if you never ponder on those negative thoughts and never say those negative words, they can never manifest into your world. 因为如果你从不消极地思考，就永远不会说消极的话，它们就永远不会出现在你的世界里。 In one of the tests, half of the participants were asked to ponder on the information they were given and then decide which among similar products to buy. 在一个试验中，一半的参与者被要求对他们所得到的信息进行仔细考虑，然后在那些相似的产品中做出购买决定。 —————————————— pope 教皇 pope n. 教皇，罗马教皇；权威，大师 He was the first pope to visit the White House. 他是访问白宫的第一位教皇。 Then we flew on to Denver, where we welcomed Pope John Paul II to the United States. 接着我们又飞往丹佛，在那里迎接访问美国的教皇约翰.保罗二世。 Their Pope can just stick his head out anytime he wants and watch all of us down here? 他们的教皇随时只要把脑袋伸出来就可以看到下面我们所有人？ —————————————— porch 玄关 porch n. 门廊；走廊 They glassed in the open porch. 他们将门廊用玻璃围住。 She runs to her porch. 她跑到她家的门廊。 The porch is supported by six immense pillars. 门廊由六根大柱子支撑着。 —————————————— pore 孔隙 pore vi. 细想；凝视；熟读 n. 气孔；小孔 vt. 使注视 n. (Pore)人名；(西、芬、加纳、法)波雷 Every beautiful thing has a natural pride in its own beauty, and today the world is allowing its pride to seep from every pore. 每一个美丽的事物都会为其自身的美丽而自发地感到骄傲，今天世界让它的骄傲从每个毛孔渗出。 We now have obtained the first molecular structure of an ion channel, providing us with a three-dimensional understanding of the ion channel pore. 现在我们获得了第一个离子通道的分子结构，提供了对三维结构离子通道孔的了解。 They try to do so in 2011, but competing versions of reality seep in—and out—through every electronic pore. 2011年，他们企图故技重施，但现实的巨大改变浸透了每一个电子毛孔。 —————————————— portray 描述 portray vt. 描绘；扮演 What was it like to see someone portray you? 看到有人扮演你是怎样的感觉？ A wide shot might best portray one desert, while a close-up of one plant struggling to survive on the side of a dune might best represent another. 描绘沙漠的全景时运用广角镜头是最合适的，而对沙丘一侧顽强生存的植物的特写则表现出另一种物质。 Though they were written a century or more ago, these words portray very accurately the situation or challenge in which we all find ourselves in these days. 虽然这段话是在一个世纪前写下的，这些话语却非常准确地描绘了我们在这些日子里所处的环境和面对的挑战。 —————————————— pose 构成 pose vt. 造成，形成；摆姿势；装模作样；提出…讨论 vi. 摆姿势；佯装；矫揉造作 n. 姿势，姿态；装模作样 Are you willing to pose for me ? 你愿意摆姿势让我为你拍照吗？ This passion pose gives you the best of both worlds! 这种激情的姿势能给你最好的两人世界！ He says the levels do not pose any immediate danger to human health. 他还表示，这一水平并不对人体健康构成立即的威胁。 —————————————— poster 海报 poster n. 海报，广告；招贴 n. (Poster)人名；(英)波斯特 This poster sells the virtues of travel and trips on the Thames. 这份海报则是在宣传泰晤士河河畔旅行的优点。 My favorite poster is the one I made for my class. I took photos of all my classmates and talked to some of them for the first time. 我最喜欢的海报是我为班级制作的那张。当时我给所有同学拍了照片，还第一次和其中一些同学说了话。 But once you’ve watched the film, looking at the poster is like prolonging the film experience, because there’s so much fossilised in it. 然而一旦当你看完了电影，再来看这些海报就好象是一次观影体验的延伸，因为有那么多的内涵精华凝聚封印在其中。 —————————————— postulate 假设 postulate vt. 假定；要求；视…为理所当然 n. 基本条件；假定 As I postulate above, Release Engineering needs support from above to enable them to carry out the mandate to enforce consistency. 正如我前面所假定的那样，版本工程学需要获得上述支持从而执行命令来强迫执行一致性。 By definition, the universe encompasses all of space and time as we know it, so it is beyond the realm of the Big Bang model to postulate what the universe is expanding into. 据定义，宇宙包含我们所知的所有空间和时间，所以要求用大爆炸模型解释我们视界之外的宇宙超出了这个模型的限定范围。 It seems that they would look for any explanation rather than postulate a new particle. 他们似乎更愿意寻找任何可能的解释也不愿去假定存在这种新粒子。 —————————————— practicable 可行的 practicable adj. 可用的；行得通的；可实行的 Please weigh the above points and see if they are practicable. 以上几点意见是否可行， 请酌定。 We must work out a practicable plan for resuscitating our country. 我们必须制定一项切实可行的计划以使我们的国家复兴起来。 They will likewise aid and encourage all other practicable measures, which will lighten for peace-loving peoples the crushing burden of armaments. 同样，他们会协助和鼓励一切其它可行的措施，来减轻爱好和平的人民在军备上的沉重负担。 —————————————— prayer 祈祷 prayer n. 祈祷，祷告；恳求；祈祷文 He upraised his hands in prayer. 他在祈祷时高举双手。 Lord, hear my prayer. 主啊，请听听我的祈祷吧。 The bell of the church struck to call the worshippers to prayer. 教堂的钟声敲响，让信徒们作祈祷。 —————————————— preach 传 preach vt. 说教；讲道；鼓吹；传道；反复灌输 vi. 说教；讲道；鼓吹；宣扬 n. 说教 Where is the democracy and liberalism they preach to the world? 他们向世界鼓吹的民主和自由在哪里呢？ But do NOT nag, scold, threaten or preach, because these do not work! 但记得不要唠叨，责骂，威胁或者说教，因为这些根本不管用！ Regina was able to preach in some synagogues because many of the other Rabbis had left Germany because of the Nazis. 雷吉纳能在犹太教堂里宣讲是因为许多其他的拉比因为纳粹的原因都已经离开德国。 —————————————— precede 之前 precede vt. 领先，在…之前；优于，高于 vi. 领先，在前面 Because nodes know nothing about the nodes that precede them, each node is itself the start of a list. 由于节点完全不了解它们之前的节点，所以每个节点本身都是一个列表的开始。 Because node structures go in only one direction, they know nothing about the sequence of nodes that precede them. 由于节点结构只指向一个方向，所以它们完全不了解它们之前的节点的顺序。 And if it is true, as Nietzsche claims, that a philosopher, to deserve our respect, must preach by example, you can appreciate the importance of that reply, for it will precede the definitive act. 如果真如尼采所说，一个值得我们尊敬的哲学家布道，必须举例证明之，那么您必会领悟答案的重要所在，因为它先于决定性的行动。 —————————————— precipitate 沉淀 precipitate n. [化学] 沉淀物 vt. 使沉淀；促成；猛抛；使陷入 vi. [化学] 沉淀；猛地落下；冷凝成为雨或雪等 adj. 突如其来的；猛地落下的；急促的 The one thing that could precipitate a sudden Chinese move out of dollars is serious economic and financial mismanagement in the United States. 唯一一个可以促成中国逃离美元的原因可能是在美国投资金融管理不当和当地严重的经济问题。 Lloyd George suspected that the French were trying to precipitate the disintegration of Germany by sponsoring a break-away Rhineland state (as indeed they were). 劳埃德·乔治怀疑法国人正在通过资助莱茵州的分裂（法国人确实这样做了），试图促成德国的解体。 To recover the metallic gold, we now need to precipitate the gold that's in solution. 要想获得固态的金，我们现在就需要让溶液中的金沉淀。 —————————————— preclude 排除 preclude vt. 排除；妨碍；阻止 And although a modified waterfall approach does not preclude the use of feedback, it does not facilitate, accommodate, or encourage it. 虽然一个改进的瀑布型开发方法并不排除反馈的使用，但是它并没有促进、支持和鼓励反馈的使用。 The covenant with Yahweh will also, we shall see soon, preclude alliances with other human competitors. 接下来我们也会看到，与耶和华缔结的契约，同样阻止了和敌人的结盟。 Indeed, if you could preclude hardware failures and Mother Nature, a UNIX system might run perpetually. 实际上，如果可以排除硬件故障和自然力，UNIX 有可能永远运行下去。 —————————————— predecessor 前任 predecessor n. 前任，前辈 But this new era must not repeat or prolong the mistakes of its predecessor. 但是这个新纪元必须不能重复或延长其前任的错误。 They blame him for the rotten economy when really, in his view, they should blame his predecessor. 他们因为经济疲软而抱怨他，而在奥巴马看来，这都是他的前任种下的恶果。 This specification is not as far along in the IETF standards process as its predecessor, but the technology itself is quite mature and widely deployed. 此规范在 IETF 标准化过程中没有它的前辈走的远，但是技术本身已是相当成熟，并被广泛部署。 —————————————— predominant 主要 predominant adj. 主要的；卓越的；支配的；有力的；有影响的 Imagine for a minute a world in which this was the predominant way of living. 用一分钟来想象一个世界，在这个世界中这是主要的生活方式。 This is a reasonable choice if a department is the predominant granularity at which our application accesses and processes the data. 如果部门是应用程序访问和处理数据所依赖的主要粒度，那么这是合理的选择。 When the United States took over from Britain as the predominant world power 100 years ago, the transition was like one between brothers — or cousins, at least. 当美国在100年前替代英国，成为占有支配地位的世界强国的时候，这种转变像是在兄弟之间，至少是表兄弟之间的换位。 —————————————— pregnant 怀孕了 pregnant adj. 怀孕的；富有意义的 Do pregnant women really yearn for sour pickles? 是怀孕的妇女都馋酸泡菜吗? Helen aborted when she was three months pregnant. 海伦怀孕三个月时流产了。 Pregnant women should avoid all strenuous activities, but sewing is not one of them. 怀孕的女人应该避免所有繁重的活动，但是针线活不属于这种。 —————————————— premature 不成熟的 premature adj. 早产的；不成熟的；比预期早的 n. 早产儿；过早发生的事物 It is yet premature to predict the possible outcome of the dialogue. 预言这次对话可能有什么结果， 现在还为时过早。 We think this kind of variability must have something to do with premature ageing. 我们认为，这种发病年龄的差异一定与过早老化有关。 Second, it helps you avoid the pitfalls of premature optimization in your migration. 其次，它可以帮助您避免迁移过程中的过早优化陷阱。 —————————————— premise 前提 premise vt. 引出，预先提出；作为…的前提 n. 前提；上述各项；房屋连地基 vi. 作出前提 There is only one premise. 这只是一个前提。 If that premise is true then that conclusion is false. 如果那个前提是真的，那么结论就是假的。 But we leave them out in the identification of the premise and conclusion. 但是我们去掉了它们,在识别前提和论点的时候。 —————————————— premium 溢价 premium n. 额外费用；奖金；保险费;(商)溢价 adj. 高价的；优质的 He declined to say what level of premium would be acceptable. 但他拒绝表示何种水平的溢价才是可以接受的. I also have to wonder about what Yahoo gets out of the deal — other than a premium for its depressed stock. 另外，我也很怀疑雅虎到底可以从这笔交易中得到什么，除了对目前低迷股价的一部分溢价以外。 One possible explanation for this pattern is that the equity premium has eroded. 可能解释这个现象的一个说法是，股票溢价已不复存在。 —————————————— prescription 处方 prescription n. 药方；指示；惯例 adj. 凭处方方可购买的 The druggist dispensed a prescription. 药剂师照药方配了药。 Is there any special prescription with it? 有没有特别的药方来治疗它？ The prescription was being pounded down in the mortar. 处方所开的药正在钵中磨研。 —————————————— presentation 演讲 presentation n. 展示；描述，陈述；介绍；赠送 Alright, instead of one of you doing the presentation I said that I would do so. 好，我本来说这节课,要让你们中的一个做陈述，但今天不做了。 Do a presentation on topics of general interest every once in a while, discuss issues with others, and socialize. 要参与。 每隔一段时间就针对大家所关注的题目做一个展示，与其它人讨论，交流。 For instance, the first presentation might be of four cards, each with a number on one side and a colour on the other. 举个例子，第一轮展示可能是四张卡片，每一张的一面都有一个数字相对应的背面有一种颜色。 —————————————— preside 主持 preside vi. 主持，担任会议主席 vt. 管理 If the French president could preside over a significant declaration about the future of European integration on French soil, Mitterrand would advocate within the EC for German unification. 如果法国总统能够在法国土地上主持宣布这项关系欧洲整合未来的重大决定，那么密特朗就会在欧共体支持德国的统一。 Mr. Hadi will preside over a military council to prepare an overall restructuring of the armed forces, ensuring that no faction has the monopoly over the strategic state institution. 哈迪将主持一个军事委员会来为武装部队的全面重组做准备，以确保没有哪个派别垄断这个战略性的国家机关。 And surveys of American judges who preside over trials indicate their overwhelming and enthusiastic support for the jury system. 对主持庭审的美国法官的调查也表明他们中的绝大多数人大力支持陪审团制度。 —————————————— prestige 声望 prestige n. 威望，声望；声誉 n. (Prestige)人名；(英)普雷斯蒂奇 The high prestige of the premier is radicated in the hearts of the people. 总理的崇高威信在人民的心中树立起来。 His prestige has been raised greatly since he was promoted to the president of the university. 自从他升为大学校长以后，他的声望大大提高。 If you had problems with the state, you were looked on with a certain suspicion, but that very fact gave you greater prestige in certain circles. 如果你与这个国家有了麻烦，你就会被某种怀疑的面孔盯上，但也正是如此，在某个圈子中赢得更大的声望。 —————————————— presumably 大概 presumably adv. 大概；推测起来；可假定 Well, presumably. 好了，想必。 She too was not awake, and presumably unaware of others’ presence with her. 她也处于昏迷状态中,大概不知道有人和她在一起。 The book provides many examples of this kind, some a bit too anecdotal for my taste, but presumably they are on the whole backed by statistically significant data. 书中提供了很多这样的例子，有一些在我看来有点道听途说，但推测起来它们整体上是受有统计意义的数据支撑的。 —————————————— presume 假定 presume vt. 假定；推测；擅自；意味着 vi. 相信；擅自行为 I presume that none of you have that belief. 我假定你们中没有人有那个信念。 But if that outshines the populist power of a Geert Wilders, I myself would not presume to say. 但要说只盖过了一个威尔德斯的民粹力量，那连我自己都不会相信。 I suggest one needs to appeal to artistic intentions (or what we presume to be the artist intentions) to some extent in weeding out which interpretation of a work of art is too far-fetched. 我认为，我们应该在某种程度上诉诸艺术家的意图（或者我们假定的艺术家的意图）以排除那些太过牵强的解读。 —————————————— pretext 借口 pretext n. 借口；托辞 vt. 以…为借口 You never know when an annoying person borrows this on the pretext of needing a pen and never return it. 你永远不知道什么时候会有一个烦人的家伙以需要钢笔为借口借走这支钢笔而永远不再归还。 No man of vice can be condemned unless he ceases to look upon vice as a pretext and turns it into a goal. 我们不能去责难一个邪恶的人，除非他不再将邪恶看作借口而是将其变为最终目标。 He believes that one of his colleagues paid a paramilitary group to force him "out of my job, my research group and my country, under the pretext that I am a member of a guerrilla group". 他相信他的一位同事买通了一个准军事组织强迫他“辞职、离开研究组、离开我的祖国，借口是我参与了一个游击队组织”。 —————————————— prevalent 普遍的 prevalent adj. 流行的；普遍的，广传的 There is a prevalent "us vs. them" mentality in almost all of these environments. 在几乎所有这种环境中，都普遍存在“我们对他们”的心态。 And I think there is too little written on how to integrate them together even though it is a very prevalent practice. Especially in the large HPC labs and universities. 尽管将两者集成在一起是非常普遍的实践（尤其是在一些大型的 HPC 实验室和大学里），但是我发现很少有文章对此进行介绍。 The behaviors we consider to be the most evil are also the most prevalent, and in some cases the most unique, to humans and chimps. 我们认为最邪恶的行径同时也是最普遍的，在某些情形下对于人类和黑猩猩来说，也是最独特的。 —————————————— prey 猎物 prey vi. 捕食；掠夺；折磨 n. 捕食；牺牲者；被捕食的动物 n. (Prey)人名；(英、法)普雷；(德)普赖 The lion bounded on the prey. 那头狮子向猎物猛扑过去。 Yet the prey can maintain their numbers by growing fast, reproducing fast and eating not just the next victim below them in the food web but also algae. 另外这些猎物可能通过快速生长、快速繁殖和不仅吃它们下级食物链上的生物而且吃海藻，来维持它们的数量。 Some of us start out slow, but acceleration can yield some surprising results when it comes to predators and prey, or basically anyone involved in a chase. 我们当中一些人一开始时可能很慢，但当涉及到捕猎者和猎物之间或任何一场追逐中，加速度可以让人出乎意料。 —————————————— priest 牧师 priest n. 牧师；神父；教士 vt. 使成为神职人员；任命…为祭司 n. (Priest)人名；(英、德)普里斯特 He anointed the new high priest. 他在授予圣职仪式上给新的高级牧师涂圣油使他神圣化。 The weary priest droned a prayer. 疲惫不堪的牧师喃喃地念祷词。 He is the high priest of Israel and he teaches me about the Lord. 伊莱是以色列的高级教士，是他教会了我与上帝有关的一切。 —————————————— priority 优先级 priority n. 优先；优先权；[数] 优先次序；优先考虑的事 If your career is at the top of your priority list then you might decide against having kids. 如果你的事业在优先名单上的最前面，同时你就可能决定了要反对让孩子们。 Now that you know how to change the priority of processes, how do you do this with threads? 您已经了解了如何更改进程的优先级，那么对于线程又该如何操作呢？ At a time of this economic crisis, our priority should be very clear about what we need to do. 在发生这种经济危机的时候，我们的首要任务应当是非常清楚地表明我们要做什么。 —————————————— privacy 隐私 privacy n. 隐私；秘密；隐居；隐居处 Instead, we should start worrying about who will be the next victim of these privacy violations. 相反，我们应该开始担心谁将是下一个隐私被侵犯的受害者。 It starts with information on what the user can do if he or she feels you have violated this privacy policy. 开头的信息说明：如果用户认为您违背了隐私策略，他或她可以做什么。 Privacy is the right of all. 隐私权就是所有的权利。 —————————————— probe 探针 probe n. 探针；调查 vi. 调查；探测 vt. 探查；用探针探测 n. (Probe)人名；(法)普罗布 The company will cooperate with any government probe in the matter as well. 该公司还将全力配合任何政府部门对该事件的调查。 For example, if you wanted to add some code that monitored what method was being called, its parameters, and how an internal computation or algorithm is working, then you can define a custom probe. 例如，如果你想增加一些代码来监视什么方法被调用，它的参数以及它内部的算法和计算是怎样工作的，那么你就可以自己定制一个探针。 The following tables demonstrate the type of information each probe displays in ERC. 下列表格说明了在 ERC 中每个探测显示的信息类型。 —————————————— proceeding 进行 proceeding n. 进行；程序；诉讼；事项 v. 开始；继续做；行进（proceed的ing形式） Work is proceeding slowly. 工作正在慢慢地继续进行着。 This forces the JVM to stop and wait for a debugger to be attached before proceeding. 这样可以强迫 JVM 停止，等到附加了调试程序后再继续进行其操作。 We would be well advised to study this emerging category of organizations before proceeding. 我们希望在真正实施前可以对这种新型的架构进行仔细研究. —————————————— proclaim 宣告 proclaim vt. 宣告，公布；声明；表明；赞扬 Its mistake is not to lie, but to proclaim that it will lie, for its very honesty undermines the value of its deceit. 政府的错误不在于撒谎，而在于提前就声明它将会撒谎，因为，政府的诚实正在削减其欺骗的价值。 Even as we proclaim our love for peace and our hatred of war, there are still convulsions in our world that endanger us all. 尽管我们宣告自己热爱和平、憎恨战争，但我们的世界仍存在危及我们所有人的动荡。 The Iraqi people, he insists, will persist and overcome these attacks, and raise its [their] voice to show [and] proclaim that it [they] will not be silenced [by terrorism]. 他坚称，伊拉克人民将坚持战斗，必将战胜这些袭击，并将奋起呐喊，展示并宣告他们不会因为受到恐怖主义的威胁而保持沉默。 —————————————— productive 富有成效的 productive adj. 能生产的；生产的，生产性的；多产的；富有成效的 Education must be combined with productive labour. 教育必须与生产劳动相结合。 As their boss, what can you do to ensure that they are as productive as possible? 作为他们的老板，你能够做些什么来确保他们尽量富有成效？ By this, we mean how is your team going to use the tools in a way that can best make you productive? 说到这一点，我们的意思是您的团队将怎样用一种可以最大限度提高生产力的方法来使用这些工具？ —————————————— productivity 生产力 productivity n. 生产力；生产率；生产能力 Productivity has risen greatly. 生产效率大大提高。 The first has to do with productivity. 首先，这一变化与生产力有关。 Scientific inventions such as these have raised labour productivity by a big margin. 诸如此类的科学发明， 都大大提高了劳动生产率。 —————————————— proficiency 熟练 proficiency n. 精通，熟练 I brought her proficiency up to the required level. 我把她的熟练程度提高到所规定的水平。 With study and practice, almost anyone can do it with some level of proficiency, but most people don't learn how to think critically or analytically—nor are they even aware of its value. 通过学习和实践，几乎任何人都能以不同的熟练程度来掌握它，但是大多数人都不会去学习如何进行批判性或分析性思维，或者说，他们根本意识不到其价值。 How do you think of your proficiency in written and spoken English? 你认为你的书面英语和口语熟练程度如何？ —————————————— profile 配置文件 profile n. 侧面；轮廓；外形；剖面；简况 vt. 描…的轮廓；扼要描述 vi. 给出轮廓 You can then export this profile so that other users can simply import the profile. 您可以输出这个轮廓，这样其他用户仅仅只需要输入这个轮廓即可。 I like to profile people in what they are doing and how they can help others. 我喜欢以人们正在做的事儿和他们帮助别人的方式来描述他人。 Profile class and enumerations are not supported in this release; therefore, they do not show up in the wizard. 配置文件类和列举在这个释放中是不被支持的；因此，它们不会显示在这个向导中。 —————————————— profitable 盈利 profitable adj. 有利可图的；赚钱的；有益的 But these losses do not cancel the earnings of profitable firms. 但这些损失不应该影响其他盈利公司的利润。 Our cost of production allows us to be profitable everywhere, not only in Europe but also in China. 我们的生产成本保证了我们在任何地方都可以盈利，不仅是在欧洲，在中国也如此。 And this is profitable growth. 这是一个有益的增长。 —————————————— profound 深刻的 profound adj. 深厚的；意义深远的；渊博的 This remark has profound implications. 这句话含义深刻。 Not all of your thoughts are profound. 你的思想不见得都很深刻。 And what is belief? It is a profound belief related to what you want to achieve. 那么什么是信念呢?它是一种和你想完成的事情有关的意义深远的信仰。 —————————————— prolong 延长 prolong vt. 延长；拖延 We know what to do to prevent infections and save or prolong lives. 我们知道该怎么去做，来预防感染并且拯救或者延长生命。 But this new era must not repeat or prolong the mistakes of its predecessor. 但是这个新纪元必须不能重复或延长其前任的错误。 What factors shorten, prolong or amplify the effect of deception? 什么因素会缩短、延长或扩张欺骗的结果？ —————————————— promising 有前途的 promising adj. 有希望的，有前途的 v. 许诺，答应（promise的现在分词形式） We're trying to bring along several promising young football player. 我们正设法培养出几个有前途的年轻足球运动员。 The leader was just double-talking, full of generalities and promising nothing. 这个领导人正在大讲空话，全是笼统的泛泛而谈，什么也没许诺。 For the first time, the Arab world stood with Israel in condemning terror and promising to work against it. 这是阿拉伯世界和以色列第一次站在一起谴责恐怖行为，承诺联手反对它。 —————————————— prone 倾向 prone adj. 俯卧的；有…倾向的，易于…的 n. (Prone)人名；(意、法)普罗内 One of the greatest threats to international health security arises from outbreaks of emerging and epidemic-prone diseases. 国际卫生安全的最大威胁之一源于新出现疾病和有流行倾向疾病的暴发。 The region lacks laboratory capacity for confirmation of epidemic-prone diseases and stockpiling of emergency medicines and equipment. 该地区缺乏确认易流行疾病的实验室能力和一定库存的应急药品和设备。 A study published in Journal of Consumer Research found that men who watched dirty videos were more prone to seek immediate gratification when it came to making choices about money, soda, and candy. 一个在消费者研究杂志发表的研究文章指出，那些看了黄色录像的男人们在关于金钱、汽水和糖果中做选择时会更有寻找立刻满足的倾向。 —————————————— propaganda 宣传 propaganda n. 宣传；传道总会 They muted the propaganda campaign later. 后来，他们降低了宣传运动的调子。 Director of the Propaganda Department of a Provincial Party Committee; 省委宣传部部长 As with almost all propaganda techniques, the subject should attempt to find more information on the topic. 就像面对所有宣传手段一样，接受者应该试图收集关于话题的更多信息。 —————————————— propagate 传播 propagate vt. 传播；传送；繁殖；宣传 vi. 繁殖；增殖 Most plants propagate by seed. 大多数植物靠种子繁殖。 Rabbits propagate [breed] rapidly. 兔子繁殖迅速。 Animal and vegetable pests propagate with extreme rapidity. 动植物病害传播极快。 —————————————— propel 推动 propel vt. 推进；驱使；激励；驱策 And scientists believe that making stone tools helped propel that evolution. 而科学家认为，制造石器帮助推进这种进化。 Once in space, ion engines steadily propel a spacecraft until it travels faster than it would have using a chemical rocket. 一旦进入太空，离子发动机将稳步推进航天器，最终达到的速度会比使用普通火箭的更高。 This little spheroid sports thousands of tiny hairs around the outer edge of its body called cilia that propel it at lightning speeds through freshwater scum. 这个小小的球状体的身体外壳上有着上千条细小的发丝，叫做纤毛，推进它以闪电般的速度穿行于淡水泡沫中。 —————————————— prophet 先知 prophet n. 先知；预言者；提倡者 The pity is that you are not a prophet. 可惜你不能未卜先知。 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. 连先知带祭司都是亵渎的，就是在我殿中我也看见他们的恶。 这是耶和华说的。 A few years ago I purchase a copy of the book An Encounter With A Prophet. The author advanced similar ideas about forgiveness. 很多年前，我购买了一本名为《与先知的偶遇》这本书，那个作者提出了类似的关于宽恕的观点。 —————————————— proposition 建议 proposition 建议，提议，提案，主张；介绍，推荐，提名；提出，提供；命题；句，分句 Si j"étais à ta place, je refuserais cette proposition. 如果我处在你的位置上，我会拒绝这个提议。 Cette proposition, soutenue par le Mexique, hôte de la conférence, doit également favoriser la protection des forêts tropicales et les partage des technologies propres comme le solaire ou l'éolien. 这项建议被会议主席国墨西哥代表提出，同时也要致力于保护热带地区的森林资源和分享一些洁净能源技术例如太阳能和风能。 Les délégués ont accepté cette proposition à contrecoeur. 代表们委曲通过这项提议。 —————————————— prose 散文 prose n. 散文；单调 adj. 散文的；平凡的；乏味的 vi. 写散文；乏味地讲话 vt. 把…写成散文 Please turn this piece of prose into verse. 请把这段散文改写成诗歌。 A feeling of melancholy runs through his prose. 在他的散文中贯穿着一种忧郁的情绪。 Each article has a title and some prose, and you create a new article simply by creating a reference to it from the body of an existing page. 每一篇文章都有一个标题和一些散文，通过从现有页面的正文创建一个指向新文章的引用，您即可创建一篇新的文章。 —————————————— prospective 未来的 prospective adj. 未来的；预期的 n. 预期；展望 Prospective employers like to see what you have written. 未来的老板愿意看你所写过的东西。 Some are well placed to benefit from a prospective squeeze on space. 一些开发商已经准备好从预期的拥挤空间中受益。 We receive prospective results in the experiment. 我们在实验中得到了预期的结果。 —————————————— prototype 原型 prototype n. 原型；标准，模范 Metal-wheeled chariots are the prototype of the tanks of modern warfare. 金属轮战车是现代战争中坦克的原型。 But how do you come up with the architecture for this evolutionary prototype? 但是你将如何为这个进化的原型提出系统的架构呢？ But it may be an alternative when you have to finish a prototype in limited time. 但是，当您需要在有限的时间内完成一个原型时，这也许是一种选择。 —————————————— provocative 挑衅 provocative adj. 刺激的，挑拨的；气人的 n. 刺激物，挑拨物；兴奋剂 His provocative words only fuelled the argument further. 他的挑衅性讲话只能使争论进一步激化。 “Any effort, of course, must start with North Korea ceasing all provocative and belligerent behavior,” she said. 她说：“任何努力当然都必须从北韩停止一切挑衅和好战行为开始。” Your question was not merely provocative . 你的问题不仅仅是挑衅性的。 —————————————— provoke 引发 provoke vt. 驱使；激怒；煽动；惹起 I said [did] nothing to provoke him. 我可没惹他呀! They have only to provoke an enemy into an attack. 他们只要惹怒敌人， 使其发动进攻即可。 They were huddled together near a fire. They looked at me with dull eyes, then looked away, as if afraid to provoke me. 当时他们卷缩在一个火堆旁，用木纳的眼光看着我，然后又很快把目光移开，似乎害怕惹恼我。 —————————————— proximity 接近 proximity n. 接近，[数]邻近；接近；接近度，距离；亲近 Should they be “embedded” with development groups, so that their desks are in close physical proximity to those of programmers? 应该将他们 “嵌入” 开发小组中，以便他们的办公桌靠近程序员的办公桌吗？ If you live near an event space or major urban center, you can collect parking fees from attendees willing to pay for proximity. 如果你住在一个活动场地附近或者城市的主要中心，你可以从参加者那里得到靠近你车道的停车费。 We then heavily factored in cost of living and—to a lesser extent—sunny days, home price projections, and proximity to hospitals, golf courses, and other amenities. 此外，我们纳入了主要的生活费用因素——在较小的范围内——晴天、房价预测以及邻近医院、高尔夫球场和其它便利设施。 —————————————— publicity 宣传 publicity n. 宣传，宣扬；公开；广告；注意 He consciously stood off her in the publicity. 他有意在公开场合避开她。 My story had attracted publicity, so there were radio and television interviews. 我的遭遇引起了舆论界的注意， 广播、电视记者接踵而来。 Those opposing action on climate change understand this well and frequently use images of electric light at night in their publicity as a metaphor for excitement, civilisation, and progress. 那些反对环保行动的人深知这一点，经常在他们的宣传中使用夜晚电灯的形象，作为兴奋、文明和进步的隐喻。 —————————————— purify 净化 purify vt. 净化；使纯净 vi. 净化；变纯净 With Truthful Communication, I purify my speech. 我用真心交流净化我的言语。 With Stillness, Simplicity and Contentment, I purify my body. 我用平静、简单和满足净化我的行为。 Potting up green plants in the house will purify the air inside. 在房内盆栽绿色植物可以净化室内空气。 —————————————— purity 纯度 purity n. [化学] 纯度；纯洁；纯净；纯粹 n. (Purity)人名；(肯)普丽蒂 He has some photos which held over his purity before he became a killer. 他手中有几张在他成为杀手之前的仍是纯洁少年的照片。 He attacks your purity with lust, and he attacks your serenity with worry. 他攻击欲望你的纯度，他用焦虑攻击你的宁平静。 Growing up in a Christian home, steeped in "true love waits, " at one time in my life I hardly could grasp what a test of purity would look like. 在一个基督教家庭里长大，沉浸在“真爱要等待”的教育中。 在我的生命中，有一段时间，我很难想象纯净测验会是什么样子的。 —————————————— pursuit 追求 pursuit n. 追赶，追求；职业，工作 After a pursuit lasting all day we finally caught up with them. 经过一整天的追赶， 我们终于赶上了他们。 Everyone pursues happiness, but in the pursuit of your own happiness, you must not harm others, or harm the country. 每个人都在追求幸福，但你不能为了追求自己的幸福而坑害了别人，甚至坑害了国家。 What other obstacles have you come across in the pursuit of compassion? 当你在追求同情心时，你要跨越哪些障碍？ —————————————— qualification 资格 qualification n. 资格；条件；限制；赋予资格 They had every qualification for success. 他们具备获得成功的各种条件。 There are a few different scenarios for how database vendors deal with the qualification of their objects. 关于数据库供应商如何处理他们的对象的资格问题，有几个不同的场景。 The principle of equal voting enables all the voters to elect and be elected with the same qualification and right. It allows no difference in the weight and efficiency of the ballot. 平等选举的原则使得所有选民都可以在相同的条件及权利的基础上享有选举权和被选举权，所有选票的权重以及有效性 不应该有任何差别。 —————————————— qualitative 定性 qualitative adj. 定性的；质的，性质上的 Regardless of whether a KPI is qualitative or quantitative in nature, all KPIs need to say something useful about the running of the business. 不管 KPI 本质上是定性的还是定量的，所有的 KPI 都需要能够展现出一些有关业务运转的有用信息。 It is equally likely that much of this work is carried out based on qualitative, even intuitive approaches that will not serve an organization that faces very complex problems. 同样可能的是许多这样的工作是基于定性的甚至直觉的方法（这些方法将不会为那些面临非常复杂问题的企业服务）执行的。 At the end of each of the three study years, we performed quantitative evaluations of intervention coverage and provider costs, as well as qualitative assessments of the CDI process. 在为期三年研究中，我们在每年末都开展了干预措施覆盖范围和供应商成本的定量评估，还针对CDI过程开展定性评估。 —————————————— quantify 量化 quantify vt. 量化；为…定量；确定数量 vi. 量化；定量 How would you quantify it? 你会如何量化呢？ I would not like to try to quantify those. 我就不会试图去量化这些东西。 And how do you quantify their current degree of maturity? 而您如何量化它们当前的成熟程度？ —————————————— quantitative 定量 quantitative adj. 定量的；量的，数量的 And, he needed to get quantitative. 他需要得到定量的因素。 While I do not present any quantitative data on speed, the chart is arranged in order of speed, from fastest to slowest. 在速度方面，虽然我没有定量的数据，但这张表是按照速度顺序来安排的，从最快到最慢。 For this reason, we have included our track record and the other quantitative data in this submission as an additional annex so that you can assess it on a comparable basis. 由于这个原因，我们已在这次提交材料的附录中包括了我们的跟踪误差以及其它定量数据，这样，你就能在一个比较的基础上进行评估。 —————————————— quart 夸脱 quart n. 夸脱（容量单位）；一夸脱的容器 It will hold another quart. (它)还可以在装一夸脱。 The quarrelsome general quarreled about a quarter quart of oil in the headquarters. 好争吵的将军在司令部为四分之一夸脱油而争吵. As a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had ever seen. 他给我们带来了一条大鱼还有一夸脱海蛎子，我从来没见过那么大的海蛎子。 —————————————— quarterly 季度 quarterly adj. 季度的，按季度的；一年四次的 adv. 按季度，[农] 一季一次地；纵横四分地 n. 季刊 n. (Quarterly)人名；(英)夸特利 The report breaks out quarterly profits and losses. 这份报告按季节把利润和亏损分类。 That is what our colleagues at Congressional Quarterly have done in this interactive graphic, which is so good that we decided to link to it rather than create our own version. 我们的同行在《国会季刊》互动式图表里做了这些，这个互动式图表太好了，我们决定直接链接，而不用创建我们自己的版本。 Quarterly reports come and go, but Greece will never repay these debts. 季度报告来来去去，而希腊是不会偿还这些债务的。 —————————————— quartz 石英 quartz n. 石英 To this class of substance belong mica, porcelain, quartz, glass, wood, etc. 属于这类物质的有云母、瓷器、石英、玻璃、木材等等。 A quartz wristwatch, by comparison, is sensitive to about a millionth of a degree, or 10-6 degrees. 相比而言，一个石英手表敏感度大概是一度的百万分之一，或是10-6度。 When these surfaces came into contact with the magnetite, an oxygen atom could be transferred from quartz to magnetite, forming a new mineral, hematite. 当这些表面和磁铁矿一接触，氧原子就能从石英砂转移到磁铁矿，形成了一种新的矿物，赤铁矿。 —————————————— queer 酷儿 queer adj. 奇怪的；同性恋的；不舒服的；心智不平衡的 vt. 搞糟；使陷于不利地位 n. 同性恋者；怪人；伪造的货币 Did you hear those queer noises? 你可听到了哪些奇怪的声响? Silly mistakes and queer clothes often arouse ridicule. 荒谬的错误和古怪的服装常会引起人们的讪笑。 Sometimes I felt like I was the one who was queer, who was supposed to go through the process of publicly admitting it. 有时我甚至觉得我好像是那个该出柜的同性恋，一个应该努力试图获得公众承认的人。 —————————————— quench 淬火 quench vt. 熄灭，[机] 淬火；解渴；结束；冷浸 vi. 熄灭；平息 Check out these three videos and quench your thirst for techno-destruction. 看看这三个视频，平息一下你那摧毁科技的渴望吧。 Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel. 当日，跟随大卫的人向大卫起誓说，以后你不可再与我们一同出战，恐怕熄灭以色列的灯。 Get rid of the mirages, the bits of work that give you some value, but don’t quench your thirst. 走出自己的幻觉，不要再做那些只能给你带来一些价值的工作了，但是不要熄灭你的成功欲望。 —————————————— quest 追求 quest n. 追求；寻找 vi. 追求；寻找 vt. 探索 n. (Quest)人名；(德)奎斯特 What is your quest? 您寻求的是什么？ But it is indeed because he loves them with the same passion and each time with his whole self that he must repeat his gift and his profound quest. 然而，他的确是怀有同样的激情，每次全身心地爱她们，正是因为如此，他必须重复着他的天赋和那种深邃的感情追求。 Make it part of your quest for better health. 让它成为你对健康追求的一部分吧。 —————————————— questionnaire 问卷调查 questionnaire n. 问卷；调查表 I have posted that questionnaire for you to copy and complete. 我已经发布的问卷供您复制和填答。 My only suggestion would be to include a CD with the template charts and questionnaire for ease of roll-out. 我唯一的建议就是希望能够再有一张CD，其中包含模板图表和征求意见的问卷。 After the meal I had them answer a questionnaire about the meal and about their general knowledge of vegetarianism. 饭后我让他们填了关于这顿素餐和对素食主义的大致认识的调查问卷。 —————————————— quiver 箭袋 quiver n. 颤抖；箭袋；震动 vi. 颤抖；振动 vt. 使…颤动；抖动 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. 他们的箭袋是敞开的坟墓。 他们都是勇士。 Adam and Eve as the divine groom and bride is one Biblical arrow in the quiver of same-sex union opponents. 作为神圣的新郎和新娘，在同性婚姻对手们的颤抖中，亚当和夏娃是一支《圣经》之箭。 Billions penetrate every square centimetre of the Earth’s surface every second without so much as a quiver. This makes them rather hard to detect. 在每秒钟时间里，会有数十亿中微子穿过每平方厘米地球表面，而不会引起任何震动，这令它们很难被发现。 —————————————— racket 球拍 racket n. 球拍；吵闹，喧闹 vt. 过着花天酒地的生活 vi. 过着花天酒地的生活 Can I try you new badminton racket? 我可以试用你的羽毛球拍吗？ My hands blistered from holding the racket. 我的手因握球拍而起了水疱。 Any sport featuring a ball, racket or flying object poses a potential risk of eye injury. 任何的球类活动中，球拍或者飞行的物体都会增加眼睛受伤的可能。 —————————————— radiant 辐射 radiant adj. 辐射的；容光焕发的；光芒四射的 n. 光点；发光的物体 With Mindfulness clear and radiant, I purify my mind. 我用清晰的光芒四射的智慧净化我的思想。 One of the best ways to make your face look more radiant is to boost your smile with an instant teeth whitener. 让你的脸看起来更光芒四射的最佳方法之一是，使用速效牙齿增白剂，给你的笑容添彩。 Or the moments when our two children were born and her face became radiant as she emerged from the unreachable realm of labor into exultation. 像是当我们的两个孩子出生时．她从旁人无法触及的分娩痛楚的情形中露出的欢喜时容光焕发的那一刻。 —————————————— radiate 辐射 radiate vt. 辐射；传播；流露；发射；广播 vi. 辐射；流露；发光；从中心向各方伸展 adj. 辐射状的，有射线的 Fill your mind with the truths of God and radiate the sunshine of His love—this is youth. 使你的心中充满上帝的真理，传播他的欢乐之源：爱——这才是保持年青的方式。 The hemisphere of the asteroid facing away from the sun will radiate the stored solar heat into space, so infrared photons will be emitted. 这离开阳光照射的半球的表面将会把存储的太阳热能辐射到太空，因而散发出红外光子。 Because it makes its home in an extreme environment, the desert hare is biologically designed to radiate excess heat through its lanky limbs and oversized ears. 因为生长在极端环境中，沙漠兔子形成了独特的生物学构造，通过瘦长的四肢和超大的耳朵辐射多余的热量。 —————————————— radical 激进的 radical adj. 激进的；根本的；彻底的 n. 基础；激进分子；[物化] 原子团；[数] 根数 The government is putting through some radical social reforms. 政府正在实行某些彻底的社会改革。 What then, is the interest of such an analysis, from a radical left point of view? 那么，这种关于利益论的分析，是从一个激进的左倾的观点推导出来的吗？ He pushes his ideas to their most radical conclusions. 他将自己的概念,推向最彻底的结论。 —————————————— rage 愤怒 rage n. 愤怒；狂暴，肆虐；情绪激动 vi. 大怒，发怒；流行，风行 n. (Rage)人名；(丹)拉厄 The poem was all the rage then. 这首诗在当时十分流行。 His words roused a great rage inside her. 他的话引起了她心中极大的愤怒。 An uncustomary access of rage shook my body. 一阵突然爆发的罕有愤怒使我全身发抖。 —————————————— raid 突袭 raid n. 袭击；突袭；搜捕；抢劫 vi. 对…进行突然袭击 vt. 袭击，突袭 n. (Raid)人名；(阿拉伯)拉伊德 They were going to raid Warsaw the next day. 他们将于次日袭击华沙。 The air-raid alarm went on drilling away from the gate. 从大门不停地传来刺耳的空袭警报。 Proletarian, be aware of the raid to the USSR planned by the carrion crows! 无产者们，要看到由吃腐肉的乌鸦计划的突袭苏联行动！ —————————————— rally 集会 rally vi. 团结；重整；恢复；（网球等）连续对打 vt. 团结；集合；恢复健康、力量等 n. 集会；回复；公路赛车会 n. (Rally)人名；(罗)拉利 The rally began in an uproar. 大会在一片喧腾声中开始了。 He presided at the rally. 他主持了这个集会。 We must rally the broad masses of the people round the Party. 我们必须将广大人民群众团结在党的周围。 —————————————— random 随机 random adj. [数] 随机的；任意的；胡乱的 n. 随意 adv. 胡乱地 As for the random part, I kiss my wife whenever she sneezes. 在随机部分，我会在我妻子每次打喷嚏的时候吻她。 But what happens when the order of the index column is random? 但是如果索引列的顺序是随机的，将会发生什么呢？ Replace some part of the file with random data. 用随机数据替换该文件的某些部分。 —————————————— rating 评级 rating n. 等级；等级评定；额定功率 v. 对…评价（rate的ing形式） n. (Rating)人名；(德)拉廷 For some teachers, half of their rating is based on how well their students do. 对一些教师来说，一半的评级是基于他们的学生表现。 Within this dialog, you can change the severity rating of the selected rule, along with any other parameters that it defines. 在这个对话框内部，您能够改变被选中规则的严重性等级，以及其他任何参数。 For sales, the sales region and sales representative are the relevant pieces of information, but for financing, information about revenue and credit rating is important. 对于销售，相关的信息部分是销售区域和销售代表，但是对于融资，关于收入和信用评级的信息非常重要。 —————————————— readily 容易 readily adv. 容易地；乐意地；无困难地 Without them, humanity might not have so readily spread across the globe. 没有他们，人类可能就不会这么容易地遍及整个地球。 She made the proposal, and I readily consented (to it). 她提出了这个建议，我欣然同意。 Notwithstanding, we should learn to readily forgive others. 尽管如此，我们应学会欣然地原谅他人。 —————————————— realistic 现实的 realistic adj. 现实的；现实主义的；逼真的；实在论的 But I have to be realistic. 但我必须面对现实。 They will have to be realistic with their demands. 他们将必须现实地对待自己的需求。 We must be realistic in our self-estimation, neither being conceited nor belittling ourselves. 我们对自己的估计应该实事求是， 不要自高自大， 也不要妄自菲薄。 —————————————— reap 收获 reap vt. 收获，获得；收割 vi. 收割，收获 n. (Reap)人名；(英)里普 The peasants leaned down to reap wheat. 农民们俯身收割小麦。 We do not yet reap rewards equal to those of men. 当然,我们获得的酬劳还难以与男人们相媲美。 You work hard after you learn how to work smart and as a result, reap the best benefits of both worlds. 在你知道怎样精明的工作以后再去努力工作，你就会在这两个世界里获得最大利益。 —————————————— rebellion 叛乱 rebellion n. 叛乱；反抗；谋反；不服从 At last the rebellion was crushed down. 叛乱最终被镇压下去。 They sowed rebellion broadcast in our army. 他们在我们的部队中煽动叛乱。 The armed rebellion was quelled only in a few days. 几天之内武装叛乱就被镇压下去了。 —————————————— recession 经济衰退 recession n. 衰退；不景气；后退；凹处 There is sign that the recession has bottomed out. 有迹象表明萧条已达最低点。 In this recession, we seek the bogey. 我们在这次衰退中寻找着魔鬼。 Start by pruning your watch list to learn how to use the clues that this crisis and recession have provided. 从整理你的观察名单开始，学会利用这次危机和衰退提供的线索对名单进行精简。 —————————————— recipe 配方 recipe n. 食谱；[临床] 处方；秘诀；烹饪法 I have yet to think of a recipe that is not in their database. 我还没有想到一个食谱是不在他们的数据库里的。 Every week try something new, whether it is a new recipe, a new hair style, a new workout or a new route to work. 每周尝试一些新的东西，不论是一个新的食谱，一个新的发型，一种新的锻炼或者一种新的工作方式。 In the kitchen, the recipe provides a list of ingredients and some instructions on how to mix those ingredients together. 在烹饪法中，菜谱提供原料的列表，并就如何将这些原料混合到一起提供一些说明。 —————————————— recipient 收件人 recipient n. 容器，接受者；容纳者 adj. 容易接受的，感受性强的 If you know when that is, tell your recipient. 如果你知道这个期限，告诉你的接收者。 The entry above will always have the request associated with the initiator reference and the response associated with the recipient reference. 上面的条目将始终具有与发起者引用相关联的请求和与接收者引用相关联的响应。 The data supplied with each request operation sent to a business state machine must carry enough information to identify which state machine instance should be the recipient of the data. 与发送给业务状态机的每个请求操作一起提供的数据必须提供足够的信息，以确定哪个状态机实例应当是该数据的接收者。 —————————————— reciprocal 互惠 reciprocal adj. 互惠的；相互的；倒数的，彼此相反的 n. [数] 倒数；互相起作用的事物 That's why we talk about reciprocal love. 这就是为什么我们讨论相互的爱。 Originally, I speculated that this effect was reciprocal: Women who got what they wanted were more likely to indulge their partners' wishes. 起初，我推测这个作用是互惠的：女性得到了她们想要的就可能去满足在她们伴侣的要求。 Confucius for example advocates the cultivation of reciprocal perspectives. 例如，孔子提倡,相互主义概念的培养。 —————————————— recite 背诵 recite vt. 背诵；叙述；列举 vi. 背诵；叙述 He is going to recite a poem. 他将要朗诵一首诗。 The little boy refused to recite at the evening party. 这个小男孩拒不在晚会上朗诵。 Will I ever really need to recite the dates of prominent historical events? 我将来真的需要背那些重要的历史事件的发生日期么？ —————————————— reckless 不计后果的 reckless adj. 鲁莽的，不顾后果的；粗心大意的 n. (Reckless)人名；(英)雷克利斯 Her attitude was reckless. 她的态度是轻率的。 He apologized for their reckless behavior. 他对他们的鲁莽行为道了歉。 But the banks inside the Circle of Death were more reckless than most. 但是死亡之圈的银行家却比大多数人更加鲁莽。 —————————————— reckon 估计 reckon vt. 测算，估计；认为；计算 vi. 估计；计算；猜想，料想 Did you reckon in the cost of the taxi? 你把坐计程车的费用计算在内了吗? We reckon him to be the best goalkeeper in the world. 我们认为他是世界上最好的足球守门员。 On no account should they reckon examination as the only means of stimulating pupils to pursue knowledge. 他们无论如何也不能把考试认为是激励学生学习知识的惟一手段。 —————————————— reclaim 回收 reclaim vt. 开拓；回收再利用；改造某人，使某人悔改 vi. 抗议，喊叫 n. 改造，感化；再生胶 You can reclaim unwanted file systems or disk space to save resources. 可以回收空闲的文件系统或磁盘空间以节省资源。 The time during which the application is halted is referred to as pause time because application progress is paused for the GC to reclaim free space. 应用程序暂停的持续时间被称作暂停时间，因为这段时间暂停了应用程序进程使 GC 可以回收自由空间。 These processes have no direct impact on the user experience, and the system can kill them at any time to reclaim memory for a foreground, visible, or service process. 这些进程对用户体验没有直接的影响，系统可能在任意时间终止它们，以回收内存供前台进程、可见进程及服务进程使用。 —————————————— reconcile 调和 reconcile vt. 使一致；使和解；调停，调解；使顺从 All efforts to reconcile her with her husband were in vain. 使她与她丈夫和解的一切努力都白费了。 Since we couldn't reconcile our difference,we decided to get a divorce. 既然我们无法调和彼此的分歧，因此我们决定离婚。 The teacher in charge of our class had to reconcile disputes among the students. 我们的班主任必须调解学生中的纠纷。 —————————————— recreation 娱乐 recreation n. 娱乐；消遣；休养 Give a portion of each day to recreation. 每天抽一部分时间用于娱乐。 But you should have better recreation than TV. 但是你应该有比看电视还要好的消遣。 More than half of all forests are used for wood and non-wood production in combination with other functions such as soil and water protection, biodiversity conservation and recreation. 超过所有森林面积的一半被用于木材生产和与诸如土壤和水源保护，生物多样性保护和休闲等功能结合在一起的非木材生产。 —————————————— recruit 招募 recruit n. 招聘；新兵；新成员 vt. 补充；聘用；征募；使…恢复健康 vi. 复原；征募新兵；得到补充；恢复健康 How do you recruit an army? 你如何征募一个部队？ The country's first act would be to recruit for the navy. 国家的第一个行动是为海军征募新兵。 Our football fan club began to recruit new members last week. 我们的足球球迷俱乐部上周开始招收新会员。 —————————————— rectangular 矩形 rectangular adj. 矩形的；成直角的 Each elemental unit has a simple layout consisting of a rectangular box and a triangular roof. 每个元素单元都有一个包括矩形框架和三角形屋顶的简单布局。 This time the modules are rectangular but they also can be in a shape of a trapezium and letter L. 这个模块是矩形的但是它们也可以是不规则四边形或像字母L一样。 He takes off the Tom Cruise shades, and she sees the eyes of a goat—bright amber; rectangular pupils, dilating in the dusky evening. 他脱掉汤姆•克鲁斯式墨镜，这时她看到了一双山羊眼睛：明亮的琥珀眼球，矩形瞳孔，在昏暗的夜晚睁得大大的。 —————————————— rectify 纠正 rectify vt. 改正；精馏；整流 You should rectify your error before it is too late. 你应当及时改正你的错误。 The local government was taking emergency measures to rectify the state of chaos. 地方政府正在采取紧急措施整顿这种混乱局面。 Diodes are electronic devices which rectify alternating current to direct current. 二极管是将交流电整流成直流电的电子装置。 —————————————— recur 复发 recur vi. 复发；重现；采用；再来；循环；递归 Once the drugs are stopped, however, symptoms typically recur. 但是一旦停止用药，症状就会复发。 Episodes of mania and depression typically recur across the life span. 阶段性的躁狂和抑郁通常在一生中反复发作。 Researchers from the University of Oxford announced on Thursday that they have developed the first genetic test for predicting the likelihood that a patient's colon cancer will recur. 牛津大学的研究人员周四声称他们已经开发出第一种基因检测疗法，可以用来预测结肠癌患者复发的概率。 —————————————— recycle 回收 recycle vt. 使再循环；使…重新利用 vi. 重复利用 n. 再生；再循环；重复利用 They recycle empty tins so as to use the metal. 他们回收空罐头盒以利用其金属。 My only other vice is drinking beer, but I recycle the cans. 我的另外一个坏处是喝啤酒，但是我回收啤酒罐。 Generally speaking, every time you drink a can of beer and you recycle it, some part of that can will be back up in a shop within the next 60 days. 一般说来，每喝掉一罐啤酒，然后对这个铝合金啤酒罐进行回收，那么不到60天，这个罐子中的一部分材料就会再度回到商店里。 —————————————— redundant 冗余 redundant adj. 多余的，过剩的；被解雇的，失业的；冗长的，累赘的 This word is redundant, it can be left out. 这个字是多余的， 可以去掉。 But that is what the two men sitting in this office are saying: they are making me redundant. 但这正是坐在这间办公室的两个男人所说的话：他们认为我是多余的。 The check is actually redundant in this example, because the constructor for the default socket implementation performs the same check. 在这个示例中，检查实际上是多余的，因为缺省套接字实现的构造函数也执行相同的检查。 —————————————— refrain 不 refrain vi. 节制，克制；避免；制止 n. 叠句，副歌；重复 The first letter of a phrase or song refrain. 避免用一个词组或一首歌名的首字母。 Weeks later, in one of Barnett's final meetings with Google and Yahoo lawyers, he made it clear he had little patience for Google's "trust us" refrain. 几周后，在巴尼特与谷歌和雅虎的律师一次最后的会谈中，他明确表示，他几乎没有耐心再听谷歌唱“信任我们”叠句。 Or perhaps it's a pulsating refrain from Aerosmith's classic rock song “Love in an Elevator,” reminding you of well, you get the idea. 又或许是来自于史密斯飞船的摇滚歌曲“在电梯中相爱”，带着极其兴奋的副歌同时提醒你，你应该想起来了。 —————————————— refreshment 点心 refreshment n. 点心；起提神作用的东西；精力恢复 There is a refreshment kitchenette and barbecue. 有一个小的点心厨房和烧烤设备。 There is a widespread recognition of the need for refreshment of the mind and the heart. 人们广泛地认同我们的精神和心灵是需要更新恢复的。 What tastes good to people, as well as what is tasteful to offer as refreshment to guests, can be very different from one culture to another. 人们认为好吃的东西或者款待客人的美味点心，随着文化的不同而可能非常不一样。 —————————————— refugee 难民 refugee n. 难民，避难者；流亡者，逃亡者 I am refugee! 因为我是难民！ The account of her experiences as a refugee moved us to tears. 她的难民经历的描述感动得我们热泪盈眶。 It has rained for a week straight, the week in which you stumbled a refugee into my camp. 雨连续下了一个星期。就在这个星期里，你成为避难者，无意间进入了我的领地。 —————————————— refute 反驳 refute vt. 反驳，驳斥；驳倒 We can easily refute his argument. 我们可以很容易地驳倒他的论点。 You can point out ,if you are man, a majority of poets and scientists are male; you could refute, if you are woman, most criminals are male as well . 如果你是男子，你可以指出，大多数诗人和科学家都是男性；如果你是女子，你可以反驳说大多数罪犯也都是男人。 Future housing data will confirm or refute whether the housing market's pain is starting to fade. 未来的住房行业数据将加强或者驳斥房屋市场的疼痛是否会开始逐渐消失。 —————————————— regime 政权 regime n. 政权，政体；社会制度；管理体制 The dictator banned all newspapers and books that criticized his regime. 独裁者取缔批评他政权的报刊书籍。 They said this is what happens when a regime has no legitimacy in the eyes of the people. 他们说当一些人认为现有的体制不存在合法性的情况下，抢劫就这样发生了。 They do not necessarily want to overthrow their regime, but to express the depths of their frustration with its inadequacy. 他们并不一定是要推翻这个政体，只是在表达他们对其无能失望到了何种程度。 —————————————— reign 统治 reign vi. 统治；支配；盛行；君临 n. 统治；统治时期；支配 It is the place where all is at peace, where joy and unconditional love reign, where there is no hatred, anger or fear. 它就是此处，只有全然的平和，全然的喜悦和无条件之爱的支配，这里没有任何的憎恨，愤怒或者恐惧。 And once people started paying for their health care themselves, you’d see more attention paid to bad behavior and more political pressure for the government to reign in costs. 而且一旦人们开始给他们自己买健康保险，你会把注意力更多的投入在坏的行为和政府更多的政治压力上，以此来支配成本。 What flowers grew in the reign of Charles the First? 查理一世在位的时候人们种些什么花呢? —————————————— rejoice 喜乐 rejoice vi. 高兴；庆祝 vt. 使高兴 We are victorious, wherefore let us rejoice. 我们胜利了，因此我们尽情欢乐。 And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons. 你我将带着喜悦共度每一个季节。 Is the passing of time causing you and me to despair or rejoice? 是时间的流逝导致你和我去绝望或欣喜吗？ —————————————— relay 继电器 relay vi. 转播；接替 n. [电] 继电器；接替，接替人员；驿马 vt. 转播；使接替；分程传递 The broadcasting station will relay the news of the President's death. 广播电台将转播总统逝世的消息。 The church was crowded, so electrical machinery was used to relay the service out to the people. 教堂里挤满了人， 所以就用电机设备把礼拜仪式向外面的人转播。 In this type of network, devices not only communicate with each other, but they also act as relay points for other nodes in the network. 在这种网络之下，每个设备不仅跟其它设备联系，它还可以在整个网络中扮演中继点的角色。 —————————————— reliance 依赖 reliance n. 信赖；信心；受信赖的人或物 This can reduce their reliance on global agencies and help tackle the trade in medicines of poor quality, whether they are fake or substandard. 这可能减少它们对于全球机构的依赖，并帮助解决质量不良的药物的贸易，不论它们是假药还是劣药。 The plan could lessen the reliance on the mammoth pumps that not only remove storm water but also lower the natural water table of the area. 设计还可减轻该地区对众多庞大水泵的依赖，因水泵不仅可以抽掉暴风雨水，却也降低了本地区的地下水位。 The report strongly recommends a reduced reliance on direct payments, but it does not call for an immediate end to user fees in all settings. 报告强烈建议减少对直接付款的依赖，但并没有要求不分青红皂白一律立即停止使用者付费做法。 —————————————— remainder 剩余部分 remainder n. [数] 余数，残余；剩余物；其余的人 adj. 剩余的；吃剩的 vt. 廉价出售；削价出售 vi. 廉价出售；削价出售 Take 4 from 9 and the remainder is 5. 9减4，余数为5。 I spent the remainder of the afternoon in play. 我把这一下午其余的时间用在游戏上了。 They measured and lofted the remainder of the crop. 他们把剩下的庄稼过了秤并贮藏在阁楼顶层。 —————————————— remnant 遗迹 remnant n. 剩余 adj. 剩余的 n. (Remnant)人名；(英)雷姆南特 I will sell this remnant to you, at cost. 我愿将此剩货照成本卖给你。 The Ainu settlers in Hokkaido are the last remnant of a prehistoric race. 北海道的阿伊努人是史前某个种族的最后残存者。 It is the remnant of a supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. 早在1054年，中国和阿拉伯天文学家就有关于它是超新星残余的记载。 —————————————— renaissance 文艺复兴时期的 renaissance n. 文艺复兴（欧洲14至17世纪） This was the time of the early Renaissance and the beginning of the age of exploration in Europe. 郑和开拓了一条新路。这时，也是欧洲早期文艺复兴和探索时代的开始。 Ours can be a time of a new renaissance of values, of justice, of freedom from want and from fear. 我们的时代可以成为一个从匮乏和恐惧走向价值、公正、自由的新的复兴时代。 This is a renaissance. 这是一场复兴。 —————————————— repay 偿还 repay vi. 偿还；报答；报复 vt. 回报；报复；付还 She engaged herself to repay her debt within two months. 她答应在两个月内偿还她的债务。 I owe you a debt of gratitude which I shall never be able to repay. 我永远报答不尽你的恩情。 "We will borrow but repay," he said. 我们将借钱,但会偿还." 他说. —————————————— repel 排斥 repel vt. 击退；抵制；使厌恶；使不愉快 Two like electric charges repel each other. 同性的电荷互相排斥。 Trying to push two atoms closer when they want to repel is like holding magnets together when they're oriented the wrong way. 想要把两个本来排斥的原子推的更近是不行的，这就像把两块磁石沿着错误的方向靠近一样。 This would have brought the largely lawless areas near Afghanistan into mainstream society or helped them see it as in their interest to repel militants. 本来这些会有助于阿富汗附近基本上无法无天的地区融入主流社会，或者帮助他们发现抵制武装分子是符合他们的利益的。 —————————————— repertoire 曲目 repertoire n. 全部节目；计算机指令系统；（美）某人或机器的全部技能 "It's nice to have this validation of just how much the sexual repertoire is changing," he said. “很高兴确认到底有多少性爱剧目在改变，”他说。 Composers took advantage of its technical capabilities, and they created an amazing repertoire that really blossomed in the 19th century. 作曲家们充分利用了它的技术能力，他们创造了一个在19世纪真正繁荣的惊人曲目。 So long as it involves another stimulating item to add to your repertoire, just about any sexual height can be attained, providing that it does not become habitual. 只要它在你的剧目中增加其它刺激的项目，在任何的性高度上可以得到的但绝不能是是习惯性的东西。 —————————————— replacement 更换 replacement n. 更换；复位；代替者；补充兵员 Replacement of sugar in your diet can be difficult. 在你的饮食中更换糖肯定是困难的。 What if you want to include the literal matched pattern in the replacement text? 如果您希望在替换文本中包括字面匹配的模式，该怎么办呢？ This replacement will have to be done in the future or we will be subject to shortage of power like California. has experienced. 这个替换过程在将来是一定会实现，否则我们将像加利福尼亚州所经历的那样受限制于能源短缺。 —————————————— representation 表示 representation n. 代表；表现；表示法；陈述 It gives me back a representation. 它会返回给我一种表示。 It should be used only as a tool, assisting in messaging and data representation by applications. 它应该只作为工具使用，帮助应用程序进行消息传递和数据表示。 I end with a summary of the results, and I suggest some other factors that make one representation easier to use than another. 并对结果进行总结来结束本文，而且提出了促使一种表示比另一种更容易使用的一些其它因素。 —————————————— reproach 责备 reproach n. 责备；耻辱 vt. 责备；申斥 I have nothing either to hope or fear, and nothing to reproach him with. 我既没有什么奢望，也没有什么担心，更没有什么要责备他的地方。 She had parted from her husband over a similar affair and sat there like a reproach and a warning. 她也因相似的偷情事件离开了她的丈夫的，脸上挂着责备和警示的表情坐在那里。 His reply sounded to her like a reproach. 他的回答在她听来像是责备。 —————————————— republican 共和党人 republican adj. 共和国的；共和政体的；共和主义的；拥护共和政体的 n. 共和主义者 I hated to give up Dick Morris, but by then he had become so involved with Republican candidates and officeholders that he was compromised in the eyes of virtually all Democrats. 虽然我不愿意弃用迪克.莫里斯，但在那时，他已经与共和党的候选人和官员过从太密，因此，他在几乎所有民主党人眼里有妥协的嫌疑。 The Republican burden is their record of denial, evasion, and neglect. 共和党的负担是他们否认、逃避和疏忽的履历。 You do not have to be a republican to agree that this needs to be discussed. 你不必为了同意这也需要讨论的事而成为一个共和党。 —————————————— resemblance 相似之处 resemblance n. 相似；相似之处；相似物；肖像 People often use the phrase “like father, like son” to refer to family resemblance. 人们经常用“像父亲，像儿子”来说家庭成员间长相的相似性。 Because of its resemblance to the immortal King Kong, he thinks it may have more resonance. 因为他和不朽的金刚相似，马奇认为它将会引起巨大的反响。 So I went, and what I discovered was that what I had imagined archeology to be bore little resemblance to the actual experience. 所以我去了，而且我发现我之前想象的考古学与实际的经验基本没有什么相似之处。 —————————————— resent 怨恨 resent vt. 怨恨；愤恨；厌恶 Is there an area in your marriage where you are being tempted to resent your mate? 在你的婚姻当中是否有块区域时常令你陷入对配偶的怨恨？ They resent that women control the satisfaction of their desires and that women are fickle. 他们怨恨的是女人控制了对他们欲望的满足以及女人的多变。 If they are negative, or untested, they might resent you keeping it to yourself, adding unnecessary worry about any risk of infection they might have been in. 如果对方是阴性的或者还没有检测，他们也许会怨恨你保守这个秘密，使他们陷于潜在的感染风险而担惊受怕。 —————————————— reservation 预订 reservation n. 预约，预订；保留 We have your reservation. 我们给您预订了。 Without reservation. 毫无保留。 They contemplate trouble in obtaining hotel reservation. 他们估计在预订旅馆房间方面恐怕有问题。 —————————————— reside 驻留 reside vi. 住，居住；属于 Of where I would reside! 其间便有我居住的地方。 Where do you reside now? 你现在住在哪里？ He lives with his parents, while the wife continues to reside in her precariously perched, upright half. 他和他父母居住，而他的妻子则不安全地继续栖息在房子的右半部分。 —————————————— residential 住宅 residential adj. 住宅的；与居住有关的 It is the model of the American city that dominates, with its office blocks, residential complexes and shopping centres. 这是美国城市模式，美国城市的模式就是以住宅群和购物中心为主体的模式。 Today the U.S. government, directly or indirectly, underwrites nine of every 10 new residential mortgages, nearly twice the percentage before the crisis. 如今，每10笔新增住宅抵押贷款中，美国政府就直接或间接承销了九笔，是危机前比例的近两倍。 This study correlates the amount of fire damage in major residential fires to their distance from the nearest fire station. 这个研究将主要住宅区火灾损失的金额与它们到最近消防站的距离关联起来。 —————————————— resonance 共振 resonance n. [力] 共振；共鸣；反响 So we have a resonance escape probability which is measured in this term. 所以我们有一个共鸣逃跑可能性,那是由这个术语来测量的。 Since natural systems have evolved not only to cope with noise but to exploit it, as neurons do with stochastic resonance, could it be that nature has also learned to compute with noise? 既然自然系统进化出了不光能应对，还能利用噪音的系统，比如神经元利用随机共振，有没有可能自然也发现了使用噪音进行计算的发放？ You have the fast region and then a resonance region and this is a standard plot. 你有了快速的区域，还有共鸣区域,这是一个标准图。 —————————————— resultant 合成 resultant n. 合力；结果；[化学] 生成物 adj. 结果的；合成的 It is the resultant from those two. 它是这两者相互结合的结果。 RDA allows differences in models to be identified and these differences accepted or rejected, merging accepted changes into a resultant model. RDA 可以识别模型中的差异，接受或拒绝这些差异，将接受的更改并入到一个结果模型中。 You can build an XML query visually by selecting sample resultant nodes from a tree representation of a schema or XML document and dragging the nodes onto a return grid. 您可以通过从一个模式或 XML 文档的树型表示中选择示例结果节点，并将这些节点拖放到一个返回网格中，从而可视化地构造一个 XML 查询。 —————————————— retail 零售 retail vt. 零售；转述 vi. 零售 n. 零售 adv. 以零售方式 adj. 零售的 n. (Retail)人名；(法)勒塔伊 These shoes retail at(or for) 80 dollars a pair. 这种鞋零售价为每双80美元。 He does wholesale business, while his brother is engaged in retail business. 他经营批发生意， 他弟弟则经营零售生意。 The government agreed to peg down the retail price of certain basic food stuffs. 政府已同意限制某些基本食物的零售价格。 —————————————— retention 保留 retention n. 保留；扣留，滞留；记忆力；闭尿 In customer retention situations, the firm knows when the relationship is over. 在客户保留情况下，公司知道关系什么时候结束。 Data security, retention, and management will be part of your standards discussion as well as programming conventions. 数据安全性、保留和管理将是与标准有关的讨论以及编程约定的一部分。 If you scope variables appropriately and reduce the use of instance variables, you can reduce this kind of object retention. 如果您适当地限制了变量的范围并且减少实例变量的使用， 则可以减少此类对象保留。 —————————————— retort 反驳 retort n. 反驳，顶嘴；曲颈瓶 vt. 反驳，反击 vi. 反驳，回嘴 Dating executives retort that although the industry is not perfect, many of the criticisms levelled at it are unfair. 约会网站的董事们反驳，虽然这一产业不完美，但许多针对它的批评是不公正的。 The night before, he had imagined the reaction of the girl and her female allies to his message, and had composed an eloquent retort to throw at these petty-minded women. 昨天晚上，他曾经想象女孩和她的支持者们对他的留言会有怎样的反映，还为反驳这些心地狭窄的女人构思出雄辩的腹稿。 The pessimists retort that recent discoveries are still not enough. 悲观论者反驳认为新近的发现量仍不够。 —————————————— retrieve 检索 retrieve vt. [计] 检索；恢复；重新得到 vi. 找回猎物 n. [计] 检索；恢复，取回 She tried hard to retrieve her luxurious life. 她极力设法恢复她的奢华生活。 You simply create a queue, then drop and retrieve messages on it. 您仅需创建一个队列，然后在其上删除和检索消息。 As with the original form, however, there’s a performance issue if you have to perform nine lookups to retrieve each of the nine virtualized fields. 然而与最初的表单一样，如果必须执行九个查找来检索那九个虚拟字段中的每一个字段，这样就会存在性能问题。 —————————————— retrospect 回顾 retrospect n. 回顾，追溯 vi. 回顾，追溯；回想 vt. 回顾；追忆 In reading his memoirs, In retrospect, I discovered one of the reasons why. 回想一下，从阅读他的回忆录中，我发现了其中的原因之一。 I do think what I’ve discovered is that a journey can add depth and dimension to a life and even, in retrospect, represent it. 我认为我发现的道理是，一次旅行可以增加你生命的深度和广度，甚至在你回顾一生的时候可以侃侃而谈。 It describes financial bubbles in the 1600s to 1800s, most of which look ridiculous in retrospect but were very serious at the time. 它描述了1600年代到1800年代的经济泡沫，其中多数在回顾之下显得荒诞无稽，在当时却煞有介事。 —————————————— revelation 启示 revelation n. 启示；揭露；出乎意料的事；被揭露的真相 The revelation of his past lead to his resignation. 对他过去的揭露导致了他的辞职。 Here was my revelation. Suddenly I realized I was one of them. 我的启示就是：突然间我意识到自己也是他们的一分子。 So how do you decide? Well, you can give by reason or by revelation. 你要怎么决定呢？其实你可以理性地去给予，或者根据启示去给予。 —————————————— revenge 复仇 revenge n. 报复；复仇 vt. 报复；替…报仇；洗雪 vi. 报仇；雪耻 She will revenge her dead sisters. 她将为死去的姊妹们报仇。 He secretly entertained thoughts of revenge. 他暗中怀有报复的想法。 He is cogitating upon some means of revenge. 他正在策划着报复的手段。 —————————————— revive 恢复 revive vi. 复兴；复活；苏醒；恢复精神 vt. 使复兴；使苏醒；回想起；重演，重播 We have no assurance it will create jobs or revive the economy. 我们不能保证它将创造就业机会或者重振经济。 But to start the next wave of opportunities, we need to revive the kind of wanton cross-pollination that got us this far. 但是我们需要复活那种把我们带到这里的异花授粉的放荡，来开始下一波机会。 It finally hit her that someone was using a time machine, to go back in time, and revive someone who was already dead. 终于，她想明白了，一定是有人利用了什么时间机器回到过去，让什么已经死掉的人复活了。 —————————————— revolve 旋转 revolve vi. 旋转；循环出现；反复考虑 vt. 使…旋转；使…循环；反复考虑 n. 旋转；循环；旋转舞台 How many hours does it take this planet to revolve? 这颗星球旋转一周需要多少个小时？ We must revolve the problem before giving an answer. 我们必须在回答之前把问题仔细考虑一下。 And even being around larger pals can put you at risk of gaining weight yourself, as socializing with them is likely to revolve more around eating or watching TV and less about exercising. 甚至仅仅呆在胖友身边也会让人发胖，因为和他们打交道的时候往往围绕吃饭、看电视之类的活动，运动则少之又少。 —————————————— rig 钻井平台 rig n. 装备；钻探设备；服装；[船] 帆装 vt. 操纵；装配；装扮；装上索具 By and large it is their own leaders who have chosen to prevent, rig or disregard elections, for fear that if Arabs had a say most would vote to throw the rascals out. 总的来说，选择阻止、操纵或者是无视选举的人正是他们的领导人自己，因为他们害怕一旦阿拉伯人有了话语权，大部分人会投票把这些流氓领袖赶下台。 But it took a team of engineers to rig it up. 但是这需要一个工程师团队来操纵它。 The oil slick resulted from an accident at the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. 这片浮油是由于处于墨西哥湾的“深海地平线”钻井平台的一次事故造成的。 —————————————— rigorous 严格的 rigorous adj. 严格的，严厉的；严密的；严酷的 Our teacher is so rigorous that he seldom lets up on us. 我们的老师很严格，他很少放松对我们的要求。 Migration is just a part of that lifecycle process, and therefore should involve rigorous testing at each stage of the project. 迁移仅仅只是生命周期过程中的一部分，因此严格的测试应该包括在项目的各个阶段当中。 The focus was on learning how to think critically, do research, communicate and improve writing skills, all in preparation for a rigorous high school curriculum. 注意力在于学习如何批判性地思考，做调查研究，沟通和提高写作技巧，所有都是为严密的高校课程做准备。 —————————————— rim rim rim n. 边，边缘；轮辋；圆圈 vi. 作…的边，装边于 vt. 作…的边，装边于 n. (Rim)人名；(俄)里姆 So the Pacific Rim has helped shape my view of the world. 因此，太平洋周边地区影响了我的世界观的形成。 Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. 至于类如无线信号、电池电量等状态信息则被显示在其中一块屏幕的边沿。 "There could still be some reorientation, and we should still look out for fractures, but this rim effect would be very important, " Melosh said. “仍然会有一些重定位过程，我们也仍然会发现裂纹，但这种边沿效应也是非常重要的。” 迈罗氏说。 —————————————— riot 防暴 riot n. 暴乱；放纵；蔓延 vi. 骚乱；放荡 vt. 浪费，挥霍 n. (Riot)人名；(法)里奥；(西)里奥特 Their scuffle was stopped by the riot police. 他们的殴斗被防暴警察制止了。 The government succeeded in quenching the riot. 政府成功平息了暴乱。 The disturbance was repressed at last by the riot police. 骚乱最终被防暴警察镇压下来。 —————————————— rip 把 rip vt. 撕；锯 vi. 裂开，被撕裂 n. 裂口，裂缝 n. (Rip)人名；(塞)里普 Then she gingerly secured the loose paint flakes around the rip with a liquid adhesive. 然后她小心翼翼地将裂口周围松动的油漆薄片用液体粘合剂固定起来。 In my latest photo set, for example, I dress up in pigtails and a polka-dotted dress and play with a doll. And then I rip the doll to shreds and try to stuff myself instead. 比如，在我最新的照片集中 我梳起了小辫子，穿上有带圆点的衣服，在玩一个布娃娃，然后我把这个布娃娃撕成了碎片并试图塞进我嘴里。 The wrong words can rip people apart and make them wonder if they ever had anything in common at all, the right ones can draw people closer and make them wonder how they ever lived apart. 错误的措辞可以撕裂一个人，让他们开始纳闷：彼此是否曾经志趣相投。 正确的词语能够把人和人之间的距离拉得更紧密，使他们怀疑他们是否曾经分离过。 —————————————— ripple 涟漪 ripple n. 波纹；涟漪；[物] 涟波 vi. 起潺潺声 vt. 在…上形成波痕 n. (Ripple)人名；(英)里普尔 If this happens on a large scale, as it did in the 1930s, the ripple effect for the economy as a whole can be devastating. 如果这种情况大规模发生，就像1930年代那样，那么由此引发的涟漪效应对于整个经济来说是毁灭性的。 The ripple effects of these transitions will reach beyond the borders of their nations. 而权力过渡的涟漪效应，将会穿越边界，波及这些国家之外的地方。 Experts warn balancing the entire grid in real time is massively more complicated than occasionally reducing peak demand, and question whether ripple control could do the job. 专家们警告说，实时补偿整个电网比偶尔降低高峰需求要复杂得多，他们质疑脉动控制能否担当起这项工作。 —————————————— ritual 仪式 ritual n. 仪式；惯例；礼制 adj. 仪式的；例行的；礼节性的 There they are engaged in an entirely different ritual. 在那里他们执行一套完全不同的仪式。 Tape it to a mirror and make it part of your morning ritual. 用胶带将它粘在镜子上，让它成为你的早晨惯例的一部分。 Ritual, superstition, religion—whether we’re aware of it or not, all these factors contribute to what we think about when we buy. 仪式、迷信、宗教——无论我们对此是否有意识，所有这些因素都会影响我们在购买时的想法。 —————————————— robust 健壮的 robust adj. 强健的；健康的；粗野的；粗鲁的 However, it should not be a choice between robust architecture and performance. 然而，这不应是在稳健体系结构与性能之间进行选择。 In the next article, you'll learn how to overcome these problems and start building a more robust environment for your application. 在下一篇文章中，您将了解如何克服这些问题并开始为您的应用程序构建一个更健壮的环境。 For this technique to be robust, the tasks you perform must be bounded so you can predict and calibrate the amount of scoped memory required. 要使此技术更为健壮，您执行的任务必须是限定的，那样您才能够预测并校准所需的作用域内存数量。 —————————————— romance 浪漫 romance n. 传奇；浪漫史；风流韵事；冒险故事 vi. 虚构；渲染；写传奇 n. (Romance)人名；(西)罗曼塞 There is an air of romance about the old inn. 这家老客栈颇有些浪漫气氛。 The romance of the sea beckoned the young sailors. 航海的浪漫故事吸引着年轻水手们。 The author belongs among the romance writers more than among the novelists. 这位作者应归传奇作家，而不应划入小说家之列。 —————————————— rot 腐烂 rot n. 腐烂；腐败；腐坏 vi. 腐烂；腐败；堕落 vt. 使腐烂；使腐朽；使堕落 int. （表示厌恶、蔑视、烦恼等）胡说；糟了 n. (Rot)人名；(法、德、俄、塞、捷、瑞典)罗特 Much rain will make the fruit rot. 这么多雨会使水果腐烂。 His body will rot. 他的尸体将腐烂。 The lower branches of the peach tree began to rot off. 桃树下部的树枝由于腐朽而开始往下掉。 —————————————— royalty 皇室 royalty n. 皇室；版税；王权；专利税 Purple is prevalent in nature in everything from eggplants to amethysts, and humans have adopted it as a symbol of royalty. 紫色赋予了大自然中的一切，从茄子到紫水晶，并且人类已经采用它作为皇室的象征。 This is significant, because it marked a time in ancient history when the lower classes could enjoy some of the perks afforded to royalty. 这一点很重要，因为它标志着古代史上的一个时间，从此下层人物也可以享受某些赋予皇室的福祉。 The most brilliant visual game played by monarchists since the Restoration in 1660 is, however, the belittling of the image of royalty by its own supporters. 然而，从1660年复辟之后，君主主义者玩的最漂亮的视觉游戏是却被自己的支持者贬低皇室形象。 —————————————— rupture 破裂 rupture n. 破裂；决裂；疝气 vi. 破裂；发疝气 vt. 使破裂；断绝；发生疝 As you can see here swelling and rupture of cladding, that you have to look at. 如你们在这看到的，这是覆盖层的膨胀和断裂，你们必须要观察的。 In the event of a large rupture, the system would vent directly to the atmosphere. 万一发生了大的破裂，这个系统就直接把放射性、物质排向大气。 Surgery is often the best treatment option to repair an Achilles tendon rupture. 外科手术常常是修复阿基里斯腱断裂的最佳治疗选择。 —————————————— safeguard 维护 safeguard n. [安全] 保护；保卫；保护措施 vt. [安全] 保护，护卫 Safeguard your passwords and change them frequently. 经常保护和更改你的密码。 But I doubt whether any of this will be enough to safeguard our freedom. 即使如此，我还是怀疑这一切就真的足以保障我们的自由。 It reinforces the resolve of its neighbors to intensify their cooperation to safeguard peace and stability in the region against all provocations. 这种行为增强了其邻国为维护地区和平与稳定及防范一切挑衅行为进行合作的决心。 —————————————— saint 圣 saint n. 圣人；圣徒；道德崇高的人 adj. 神圣的 vt. 成为圣徒 Not all could saint. 并非所有人都能像圣徒那样生活。 He would have been a saint, but within a decade we shall have him. 他本可以成为一名圣徒，但是，不出十年我们就可以得到他了。 The saint on earth! 这位人间的圣者！ —————————————— sanction 制裁 sanction n. 制裁，处罚；认可；支持 vt. 制裁，处罚；批准；鼓励 The church would not sanction his second marriage. 教会不会认可他的第二次婚姻。 In the service of the empress, this inept chauffeur faced no legal sanction for the mishap. 由于服侍太后，这位无能的司机在这场车祸中没有受到任何法律的制裁。 The new restrictions “do not exhaust our opportunities to sanction Iran, ” she said. 她说，新的限制措施“并未用尽我们制裁伊朗的机会”。 —————————————— saturate 饱和 saturate vt. 浸透，使湿透；使饱和，使充满 adj. 浸透的，饱和的；深颜色的 These saturate the thyroid with safe iodine and stop it taking up the radioactive kind. 这些正常的碘会让甲状腺碘元素饱和从而不再 吸收那些放射性的碘元素。 If you use these procedures as a channel intermediary, the ability of the process to saturate its output channel is of crucial importance. 如果您使用这些程序作为通道中介，则能使输出通道饱和的处理能力至关重要。 Heavy rains can saturate hillsides, leading to devastating mudslides. 大雨会浸透山坡，会导致毁灭性的泥石流。 —————————————— sauce 酱汁 sauce n. 酱油；沙司；调味汁 vt. 使增加趣味；给…调味 n. (Sauce)人名；(西)绍塞；(法)索斯 We eat them with sauce. 我们就着酱汁吃。 I remember sitting on my bedroom floor eating cake and pudding sauce with my ex. 我记得我有一次和前男友坐在卧室的地板上吃蛋糕和布丁酱。 He loved it, I loved it, and so we finished off the rest of my sauce in that fashion. Very sensual. 他喜欢这样，我也喜欢，所以，剩下的布丁酱我们就以这种方式吃完的，非常性感。 —————————————— savage 野蛮人 savage adj. 野蛮的；残酷的；狂怒的；荒凉的 n. 未开化的；粗鲁的人；残暴成性的人 vt. 乱咬；粗暴的对待 n. (Savage)人名；(西)萨瓦赫；(英、德)萨维奇 Sir Thomas Picton's portrait hangs in a court room in Wales, sword in hand, as if menacing defendants or reminding them how lucky they are to live in times when the law is less savage than in his day. 托马斯·皮克顿爵士的肖像悬挂于威尔士一家法庭之中，利剑在手，好像在威胁着被告，或是在提醒被告，他们活在法律比起他的时代没有那么残酷的当下是多么幸运。 One of the biggest, Savage Kingdom, in Florida, was closed by the Department of Agriculture in 2006. 最大的老虎农场之一，佛罗里达州的野人王国已经于2006年被农业部关闭。 Iraq has not yet turned the page, either on the last blood-soaked decade or the years of deprivation under a savage dictatorship that preceded it. 那就是，无论就过去的血雨腥风的十年，还是在萨达姆残酷独裁统治时期而言，伊拉克远没有开启一个新篇章。 —————————————— scandal 丑闻 scandal n. 丑闻；流言蜚语；诽谤；公愤 He could not but cough up his political scandal. 他迫不得已只好吐露出他的政治丑闻。 The president wondered who had leaked out the scandal. 总统想知道谁将丑闻泄露出去了。 The political scandal tarnished the reputation of the president. 这起政治丑闻败坏了总统的名誉。 —————————————— scar 疤痕 scar vt. 伤害；给留下伤痕 vi. 结疤；痊愈 n. 创伤；伤痕 His right arm carries a scar. 他的右臂上留有一个伤疤。 Her face is disfigured with the scar. 她的面孔被伤疤破了相。 The scar mars his face. 这个疤痕有损于他的容貌。 —————————————— scared 害怕 scared adj. 害怕的 v. 使害怕（scare的过去分词） You scared me greatly. 你吓死我了。 I was so scared that I nearly wet myself. 我真害怕，差点儿尿裤子。 Never take me to a horror film again. I was scared out of my wits. 以后再也不要带我去看恐怖电影， 我简直被吓得魂不附体。 —————————————— scent 气味 scent n. 气味；嗅觉；痕迹；察觉能力 vt. 闻到；发觉；使充满…的气味；循着遗臭追踪 vi. 发出…的气味；有…的迹象；嗅着气味追赶 n. (Scent)人名；(英)森特 My dog snuffed the scent of games. 我的狗闻到了猎物的味道。 I can't bear this scent. 这气味我受不了。 If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. 倘若有人一面闻一朵花，一面说他不懂它，那对他的回答是：这里不需要理解，它仅仅是香气而已。 —————————————— sceptical 持怀疑态度 sceptical adj. 怀疑的；怀疑论的；习惯怀疑的 "There are valid and truly sceptical questions that need asking of climate science but they don't fit the narrative that parts of the media have constructed so they don't get aired," he says. 她指出，“有些合理的、真实的怀疑论问题需要气候学家来回答，但是他们并没对此作出合适的解释。 所以媒体就自己编造，这是他们没有继续宣扬的原因”。 I am extremely sceptical myself and personally think that Spain will win. But the odds of Holland v Spain were rather long in the beginning. 我自己是非常怀疑的，我觉得西班牙能赢，但是在开始荷兰和西班牙会师决赛这个可能性确实太小，他们都没拿过冠军。 But he added he was sceptical this would lead to an increase in actual sales anytime soon, and he expected house prices to continue to fall for some considerable time to come. 但是他补充道，他怀疑这些会在很短时间内带来实际销售量的增加，而且他预计在未来一段时间内房价将会继续下跌。 —————————————— scorn 嘲笑 scorn n. 轻蔑；嘲笑；藐视的对象 vt. 轻蔑；藐视；不屑做 vi. 表示轻蔑；表示鄙视 He is a target for scorn. 他是嘲笑的目标。 'All of these statements are false [and] have subjected the Plaintiff to humiliation, scorn and ridicule throughout the world, ' the lawsuit says. 起诉书说，所有这些说法都是不实的，使原告在全世界受到了羞辱、嘲笑和奚落。 From the moment it emerges, it is subjected to rigorous tests, opposition, scorn and prejudice. 自其出现开始，它就要面对严格的考验、反对、藐视以及偏见。 —————————————— scrap 废 scrap n. 碎片；残余物；打架；少量 vt. 废弃；使解体；拆毁 adj. 废弃的；零碎的 vi. 吵架 A man comes round regularly collecting scrap. 有个男人定时来收废品。 This concept appears in manufacturing where they count both scrap and inventory. 此概念会出现在制造业，在其中会计算废料和存货。 However, scrap and rework are not limited to code; they also result from design changes and can be monitored in the design model. 然而，废弃和返工不仅限于代码；他们也会从设计的变更所导致，并且能够在设计模型中被监视。 —————————————— script 脚本 script n. 脚本；手迹；书写用的字母 vt. 把…改编为剧本 vi. 写电影脚本 And what about the script? 那剧本怎么样呢？ I have two issues with this script. 对于这个脚本，我有两个问题。 She smacked the script on the floor. 她把脚本啪的一声扔到了地板上。 —————————————— scrutiny 审查 scrutiny n. 详细审查；监视；细看；选票复查 The most serious penalty of all surely demands equal if not greater scrutiny. 如果不需要审查，所有最严重的惩罚当然要求一定要公平。 When each cast is held to this level of scrutiny, you may find yourself factoring out many of these casts by adding methods to the relevant subclasses. 当对每个类型强制转换进行这种级别的详细审查时，您可能会发现通过向相关的子类添加方法，您将许多这些类型强制转换分解了。 They must also be able to protect the fruits of their news gathering from scrutiny by government or private entities in order to maintain their editorial independence. 记者也只有在可以保护自己新闻采编的成果不受政府或私人实体审查的情况下，才能保持编辑的独立性。 —————————————— sculpture 雕塑 sculpture n. 雕塑；雕刻；刻蚀 vt. 雕塑；雕刻；刻蚀 vi. 从事雕刻 He wanted to sculpture when he grew up. 他长大后想从事雕塑工作。 She has built these scraps of metal into a sculpture. 她把这些金属下脚料制成一尊雕刻品。 The ivory Buddha carved by Shen Weizhong, a contemporary Chinese sculptor, is the world's smallest piece of sculpture, its size being just four-fifths that of a grain of rice. 中国当代雕刻工艺师沈为众雕刻的象牙佛像是世界上最小的雕刻。 这个象牙佛像只有一粒米的五分之四大。 —————————————— seam 缝 seam n. 缝；接缝 vt. 缝合；接合；使留下伤痕 vi. 裂开；产生裂缝 This seam of coal reposes on a layer of clay. 这个煤层处于一层黏土岩之上。 The moon has a tall ridge running along its equator, like a walnut's seam. 土卫八有高的山脊沿着其赤道，像胡桃木的接缝一样。 Lee brings out a small vintage teddy bear (seen above) and starts to sew the back seam closed. 李先生说着拿出了一个小泰迪熊（见上图），在熊的背上缝起针来。 —————————————— sector 部门 sector n. 部门；扇形，扇区；象限仪；函数尺 vt. 把…分成扇形 But, it is the public sector research that will have to be proven, or die from lack of impact. 但是，现在是公共部门研究需要被证明，否则它将会因为缺乏影响力而消亡。 We focus on the media and communications sector as our knowledge for these areas is our strength. 我们的重点在媒体及通信领域，因为对于这些领域的认识是我们的强项。 Moreover, control of these risk factors lies beyond the direct responsibility of the health sector. 此外，控制这些风险因素不仅仅是卫生部门负有的直接责任。 —————————————— seemingly 看似 seemingly adv. 看来似乎；表面上看来 But, how can we quantify and measure these seemingly intangible elements? 但是，我们如何量化和衡量这些看似无形的元素呢？ When you control your reaction to the seemingly uncontrollable problem of life, then in fact you do control the problem's effect on you. 对于人生中看似无法控制的难题，当你能够控制自己的应对，那么你就事实上控制了难题对你的影响。 And if my seemingly unintentional actions could have conditioned my niece in such a way, what are the little things you’re doing every day that are unconsciously forming your beliefs and perceptions? 如果是我那貌似无心的举动在某一程度上影响了小侄女，那么你每天都做着的正无意识地形成你的信仰和观念的小事又是什么呢？ —————————————— segment 段 segment vi. 分割 n. 段；部分 vt. 分割 This segment is shared by all processes on the system. 这个段由系统上的所有进程共享。 Each segment contains rows from only one table defined in the table space. 每个段只能包含该表空间中定义的一个表中的行。 He set out to kill it by finding "the one best way" to do any job, and a system for telling managers how to find that way for every segment of their operations. 他开始通过寻找做任何工作的“唯一最佳方法”，以及告诉管理人员如何为他们操作的每一环节找到最佳方法的系统，来消除低效。 —————————————— segregate 隔离 segregate vt. 使隔离；使分离；在…实行种族隔离 But we must now ensure that we break the barriers which segregate people with disabilities and force them to the margins of society. 但我们现在必须确保打破屏障，打破那些将残疾人分隔开来并且迫使他们走向社会边缘的屏障。 We must do more to break the barriers which segregate people with disabilities, in many cases forcing them to the margins of society. 我们必须在打破隔离残疾人群的障碍做出更多。 在许多场合中，这些障碍将他们逼到了社会的边缘。 Workarounds attempt to segregate the process of retrieving data, via delegate objects, from the subsequent process of accessing that data. 工作区尝试通过委托对象使数据检索过程与后续的数据访问过程相 隔离。 —————————————— seminar 研讨会 seminar n. 讨论会，研讨班 I suggest we telescope the seminar into an hour. 我建议将研讨会缩短为一个小时。 I had enrolled in the seminar out of sheer curiosity. 我加入这研讨会纯粹出于好奇心的作祟。 At another seminar, she talked to the person next to her. 下一次研讨会上她开始和旁边的人说话。 —————————————— senator 参议员 senator n. 参议员；（古罗马的）元老院议员；评议员，理事 n. (Senator)人名；(瑞典、斯威)塞纳托尔 The senator declaimed against the opposition. 这名参议员猛烈抨击反对派。 The senator disinfected his speech of the outdated information. 参议员去除演讲稿中的过时资料。 Her husband is a lobbyist, and familiar with almost every senator. 她的丈夫是位说客， 几乎跟每位参议员都熟。 —————————————— sensation 感觉 sensation n. 感觉；轰动；感动 The new book has created a great sensation. 这本新书引起了巨大轰动。 They were an instant sensation on the Internet. 在网上，他们是立即引起了轰动。 Working with one's head causes a sensation of hunger quite as much as muscular work. 脑力劳动与体力劳动引起的饥饿感觉是完全一样的。 —————————————— sentiment 情绪 sentiment n. 感情，情绪；情操；观点；多愁善感 He has illustrated this sentiment thoroughly in a drama. 他在一出戏剧里充分地表现了这种感情。 They were busy canvassing and drumming up sentiment against the new government. 他们当时正忙于游说，挑起对新政府的不满情绪。 Petty-bourgeois sentiment should be done away with. 要抛弃小资产阶级的伤感情调。 —————————————— sexual 性 sexual adj. 性的；性别的；有性的 The sexual scandal will detract from the president's fame. 性丑闻将影响总统的名声。 The relationship may be sexual, but it does not have to be. 这段关系有可能涉及到性，但也不一定要如此。 The president turned aside all questions on the sexual scandal. 总统对所有关于性丑闻的问题都避而不答。 —————————————— shabby 破旧的 shabby adj. 破旧的；卑鄙的；吝啬的；低劣的 I will go back to my peaceful house although it is humble and shabby. 我要回去我的房子，尽管它简陋，尽管它破旧，至少那里自由自在。 He hesitated and told me he was brought up in a shabby and dirty town. 他吞吞吐吐地告诉我，他是在一个破旧肮脏的小镇上长大的。 Many of the ill are placed in shabby institutions, while others are left in the care of family members. 很多精神病患者被安置在破旧不堪的福利机构中，而另一些患者则由家人照顾。 —————————————— shaft 轴 shaft n. 拍杆；[机] 轴；箭杆；杆状物 vt. 利用；在……上装杆 The lathe turns off a shaft in just one minute. 车床仅在一分钟内就可车出一根轴。 Miners must drop metal tokens bearing their identification numbers into a wooden box decorated with the colors of the Hungarian flag before gathering in a wooden elevator to take them into the shaft. 在集中于木制的电梯进入传动轴之前，矿工们必须将包含他们身份证号码的金属令牌投到一个装饰着匈牙利国旗的木箱子里。 The aircraft’s shaft-driven lift fan propulsion system produced more vertical thrust than needed to meet performance requirements. 经测试，飞机的轴驱动升力风扇推进系统可产生超过性能需求的垂直推力比。 —————————————— shatter 粉碎 shatter vt. 粉碎；打碎；破坏；破掉；使散开 vi. 粉碎；损坏；落叶 n. 碎片；乱七八糟的状态 Whitaker knows, and let that, so Nature counsels, comfort you, instead of enraging you; and if you can't be comforted, if you must shatter this hour of peace, think of the mark on the wall. 惠特克是知道的。 大自然忠告你说，不要为此感到恼怒，而要从中得到安慰；假如你无法得到安慰，假如你一定要破坏这一小时的平静，那就去想想墙上的斑点吧。 What’s great about expectations is that when you can shatter them, you create impact. 期望很好的一方面是当你粉碎这个期望的时候，你会引起反响。 If a singer hits a pitch that matches the frequency of one glass, the glass might absorb so much acoustic energy that it will shatter; the other glasses remain unaffected. 如果一个歌手唱到一定的音高，那么与之频率相对应的酒杯就会共振，有时杯子吸收了太多的能量而碎掉，但是其他的杯子却安然无恙。 —————————————— sheer 纯粹的 sheer adj. 绝对的；透明的；峻峭的；纯粹的 adv. 完全；陡峭地 vi. 偏航 vt. 使偏航；使急转向 n. 偏航；透明薄织物 I had enrolled in the seminar out of sheer curiosity. 我加入这研讨会纯粹出于好奇心的作祟。 It would be downright [sheer] madness to do such a thing. 做这种事纯粹是发疯。 They ascribed courage to me for something I did out of sheer panic. 由于我纯粹因惊慌而做的事，他们认为我很有勇气。 —————————————— shipment 装运 shipment n. 装货；装载的货物 The machine has been knocked down ready for shipment. 机器已拆好准备装船。 The total shipment will be invoiced to you at 10% below export list prices. 全部货物将按低于出口商品价格的10%开发票给你。 We should be obliged if you could arrange for the immediate shipment of this order. 如果贵方能马上安排发送这笔我方所订货物的话，我方会非常感激的。 —————————————— shrewd 精明的 shrewd adj. 精明的；狡猾的；机灵的 n. 精明（的人）；机灵（的人） "No shrewd user" of a biological weapon "is going to give you that opportunity," he warned. “没有一个精明的生物武器使用者会给你那个机会，”他警告说。 And like any shrewd borrower, Milton promises that the credit extended will prove an excellent investment. 就像那些精明的借贷人，弥尔顿保证这将是一个,收益很好的投资。 A minority of shrewd billionaires have succeeded in prospering despite the tumultuous conditions. 有少数精明的亿万富翁得以在动荡的环境中获取成功。 —————————————— shrug 耸耸肩 shrug vt. 耸肩，耸肩表示 n. 耸肩 vi. 耸肩 When someone asks me this I just shrug and smile. 当有人问我这个问题时，我就是耸耸肩，笑下。 I shrug. 我耸耸肩。 A shrug, a sigh, or any of a number of expressive sounds as well as speech can follow it. 耸肩、叹气或者其他任何具有表达意味的声音都可以作为引语跟随其后。 —————————————— shutter 快门 shutter n. 快门；百叶窗；关闭物；遮板 vt. 为…装百叶窗；以百叶窗遮闭 Next, they came to a bar that had a wooden shutter. 接下来他们来到一个有木百叶窗的酒吧。 I leave the shutter open and just sit in awe of it all. 我让快门一直打开，坐在一边，对大自然的一切充满敬畏。 So you have these two parameters, shutter speed and aperture size, both of which do essentially the same thing: control how much light gets in. 现在你已经了解了这两个参数——快门速度和光圈大小，他们从本质上来说有同一个功能：控制进入相机的光线总量。 —————————————— shuttle 航天飞机 shuttle n. 航天飞机；穿梭；梭子；穿梭班机、公共汽车等 vt. 使穿梭般来回移动；短程穿梭般运送 vi. 穿梭往返 They stand guard with weapons as the human survivors of the battle are marched onto the shuttle. 他们站在一起用武器护卫着战后的人类幸存者鱼贯进入航天飞机。 The Shuttle galley was redesigned in 1991 to reduce the weight and volume and to update the electronics. 航天飞机上的厨房于1991年重新设计，以减少重量、体积和更新电子设备。 Simultaneously, a mysterious piece of debris flew high into the air near the shuttle, apparently from the flame trench. 同时，一个未知的碎片在太空梭附近飞向天空，显然这个碎片是来自下方的火焰的。 —————————————— signify 表示 signify vt. 表示；意味；预示 vi. 有重要性；要紧；冒充内行 So what might the criticism signify? 所以这些批评可能意味着什么？ You won't signify in such a thing,he's the specialist. 在这种专业上你别假充内行了，他才是专家。 The Thenardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify neither assent nor refusal. 德纳第妈妈一惊，那是一种既不表示同意，也不表示拒绝的动作。 —————————————— silicon 硅 silicon n. [化学] 硅；硅元素 For processing silicon. 对于硅处理。 But the brittleness of silicon limits its uses. 但是，硅的脆性也限制了其应用范围。 The company pioneered the use of the silicon chip. 这家公司首先使用硅片。 —————————————— simulate 模拟 simulate vt. 模仿；假装；冒充 adj. 模仿的；假装的 If you attempt to simulate this process with 10 total tokens for each input, the simulation appears to work. 如果尝试对每个输入总共使用 10 个令牌来模拟此流程，模拟似乎可以工作。 This test application should simulate some part of the functionality of the APIs and applications to handle the raised interrupts. 这个测试应用程序应该模拟部分 API 和应用程序的功能来处理所触发的中断。 A significant advantage of models is that you can use them to simulate system behavior. 模型的一个重要的优势是，您可以使用它们来模拟系统行为。 —————————————— simultaneous 同时 simultaneous adj. 同时的；联立的；同时发生的 n. 同时译员 This event was almost simultaneous with that one. 这件事几乎是与那件事同时发生的。 The conference hall is provided with facilities for simultaneous interpretation in five languages. 这个会议大厅配有五种语言的同声传译设备。 By setting the maximum number of simultaneous tasks, you can visually see the work backing up for your tasks. 通过设置最大同时任务数量，您能够可视化地看到您的任务所积压的工作。 —————————————— sin 罪 sin n. 罪恶；罪孽；过失 vi. 犯罪；犯过失 vt. 犯罪 n. (Sin)人名；(罗)西恩；(匈)欣；(柬、阿拉伯)辛；(缅)信 We forgave him his sin. 我们宽恕他的罪行。 What will you do to atone for this sin? 你将做什么来赎这罪呢? Catholics go to confession to be purged of sin. 天主教徒通过告解以获得赦罪。 —————————————— situated 位于 situated adj. 位于…的；处于…境遇的 v. 使位于；使处于（situate的过去分词） Various reactors in this country are situated near geologic faults, in coastal areas reachable by tsunamis or in areas potentially vulnerable to flooding. 美国有许多反应堆位于地质断层附近，海啸能够到达的沿海地区或是易受到洪水侵袭的区域。 The museum is situated on the upper floor because the ground is being excavated right now because some remains of the soldiers, who died in 1942 defending Sevastopol, are said to be there. 博物馆位于楼上，因为现在地下被挖掘了，据说是因为有一些在1942年塞瓦斯托波尔保卫战中牺牲的战士的遗骸在下面。 The containers are situated around big flea market, street vendors rent them and store the goods inside. 这些集装箱位于一个大型跳蚤市场附近，街上的小贩租下集装箱用来储存货物。 —————————————— skeleton 骨架 skeleton n. 骨架，骨骼；纲要；骨瘦如柴的人 adj. 骨骼的；骨瘦如柴的；概略的 The skeleton showed no sign of disease or injury. 其骨架显示没有任何疾病或是外伤。 In this case, we have a few options for what kind of application skeleton to create. 在这里，可以通过几个选项指定要创建的应用程序骨架的类型。 If these structures were not defined then the use of a stub (or skeleton) would require one of two scenarios. 如果这些结构不加以定义的话，存根（或骨架）的使用将需要一个或两个方案。 —————————————— skeptical 持怀疑态度 skeptical adj. 怀疑的；怀疑论的，不可知论的 So how do we strengthen our skeptical skills? 那么，我们如何加强自身的怀疑技能呢？ Not all theory that we read in this course is skeptical. 我们在这门课中提及的理论不全是怀疑性的。 Its members tend to be enthusiastic about the Web and enthusiastic about civic participation; they are skeptical of the Internet as a panacea for politics. 其成员倾向于对网络和公民的参与都充满热情；他们对于把互联网作为解决政治问题的灵丹妙药表示怀疑。 —————————————— skip 跳过 skip vi. 跳跃；跳绳；遗漏；跳读 vt. 跳过；遗漏 n. 跳跃；跳读 n. (Skip)人名；(英)斯基普 What do you do to skip the store? 你会怎么做来忽略那些商店呢? Skip it. 跳过它。 The parents want their child to skip to the second grade. 这家父母希望他们孩子能跳级到二年级。 —————————————— slack 松弛 slack adj. 松弛的；疏忽的；不流畅的 vi. 松懈；减弱 n. 煤末；峡谷 vt. 放松；使缓慢 adv. 马虎地；缓慢地 n. (Slack)人名；(英)斯莱克 Don't slack off in your studies. 学习上不可懈怠。 Ask them to be more careful. Don't let them get slack. 你要他们仔细点， 不要马马虎虎。 The devil wants you to think your part does not matter, so you will slack off. 魔鬼想你认为你那个部分是无关重要的，那么你就会松懈下来了。 —————————————— slap 耳光 slap vt. 拍击；侮辱；掌击；掴…的耳光 n. 掴；侮辱；掌击；拍打声 vi. 掴；拍击 adv. 直接地；猛然地；恰好 It felt like a slap in the face. 这感觉像是在脸上的一耳光。 She fetched him a terrific slap in the face. 她狠狠地打了他一记耳光。 If you are dating a man whose beauty regime makes yours look like a slap in the face with a damp towel, then competing with him means buying better products than he does. 如果和你约会的男子的美容产品比你的要好得多，这让你觉得是公开的侮辱。 那么，与他竞争就意味着去购买比他买的还好的美容品。 —————————————— slaughter 屠杀 slaughter vt. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；使惨败 n. 屠宰，屠杀；杀戮；消灭 n. (Slaughter)人名；(英)斯劳特 And as President, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action. 作为总统，我拒绝等待在看到屠杀和集体坟场的场面时才采取行动。 I'm so grateful that you gave me the inspiration and tools to end my participation in the slaughter (and I'm spreading the word). 我很感激你给我的灵感和方法，以结束我参与屠杀（我现在也在传播这个讯息）。 Ah yes, the knotty business of slaughter. 啊，屠宰中棘手的问题来了。 —————————————— slim 苗条的 slim adj. 苗条的；修长的；微小的；差的 vt. 使…体重减轻；使…苗条 vi. 减轻体重；变细 n. (Slim)人名；(阿拉伯)萨利姆；(英、西)斯利姆 I remember her as a slim young girl. 我把她作为一个苗条的少女记得她。 She is tall and slim. 她身量修长。 The slim Muslim reached his climax when he found the axis of the galaxy. 苗条的穆斯林在发现银河的轴线时达到了(人生的)顶点. —————————————— slogan 口号 slogan n. 标语；呐喊声 Do I start with some slogan for myself? 我应该为自己的开始喊一些口号吗？ There you can see the slogan written up on the wall. 在那儿你会看到这条标语写在墙上。 That was their slogan. 这是他们的口号。 —————————————— slot 槽 slot n. 位置；狭槽；水沟；硬币投币口 vt. 跟踪；开槽于 n. (Slot)人名；(英、荷)斯洛特 Each array slot in data is associated with a transfer object that tells the clipboard what type of data is in data. 数据中的每个数组槽都与一个传送对象关联，传送对象告诉剪贴板数据是什么数据类型。 Today they have to earn their slot in the chain, and that success will be closely watched by the rest of the industry. 在今天，他们必须赢得他们在这个链条中的位置，而且成功之后也还得提防行业中的觊觎者。 Plug your root file system disk into the first slot of its adapter. 将根文件系统磁盘插入到适配器的第一个插槽中。 —————————————— slum 贫民窟 slum vi. （为猎奇或救济等）去贫民窟 n. 贫民窟；陋巷；脏乱的地方 The slum must be inside you. 贫民窟一定是在你内心. But, she added, even after she had a classroom, she had no idea what might come of her effort to teach kids from the slum. 但她补充说，即使她有了教室后，她并不知道她对贫民窟的孩子施教会得出什么样的结果。 We advocate that slum-dwellers are citizens, and should be properly integrated into city planning. 我们认为，贫民区居民是公民，应该被正当地纳入城市规划。 —————————————— smash 粉碎 smash vt. 粉碎；使破产；溃裂 n. 破碎；扣球；冲突；大败 vi. 粉碎；打碎 adj. 了不起的；非常轰动的；出色的 We will smash any aggression. 我们将粉碎任何侵略。 Smash a clove of garlic and take in the pungent fragrance. 将一瓣大蒜打碎，可以闻到辛辣的芳香味。 The Word of God can smash any stronghold, it can break any chain, and it can uncover any lie. 神的话可以打碎任何营垒，可以砍断任何锁链,可以暴露任何谎言。 —————————————— smuggle 走私 smuggle vt. 走私；偷运 vi. 走私，私运；偷带 Bolivia has arrested three other police officers suspected of helping him smuggle cocaine to the US. 玻利维亚还逮捕了其他三名涉嫌帮助他向美国走私可卡因的警察。 With no neighbouring countries and rigid customs controls at ports and airports, it will be difficult for anyone to smuggle in contraband cigarettes. 没有邻国，加之在海港和空港实行严格的海关监管，不管是谁，走私禁运品香烟都将是非常困难的事。 Ogden says the Justice Department will also investigate and prosecute those who smuggle guns and cash into Mexico. 他说，司法部还将调查和起诉那些向墨西哥走私枪支和现金的人。 —————————————— snack 零食 snack n. 小吃，快餐；一份，部分 vi. 吃快餐，吃点心 So how to we snack? 我们怎么计划零食？ So steam it, eat it raw as a snack, or add it to soups and salads. 所以最好是蒸熟，或像零食一样生吃，也可以加到汤里或是沙拉中。 Beginning with breakfast, list every food, drink, and snack you consume in the left column. 从早饭开始，在左面一栏列出你吃的每一样食物、饮料和零食。 —————————————— snap 提前 snap vt. 突然折断，拉断；猛咬；啪地关上 vi. 咬；厉声说；咯嗒一声关上 n. 猛咬；劈啪声；突然折断 adj. 突然的 The jaws of another snap inches from his leg, and he chops into it with the machete. 其他的斑溪猛咬向他，嘴巴离他的腿就几英寸，他慌忙用刀抵挡。 What if you decided to paint a picture or snap a photograph every single day for the next month? 要是你从下个月开始，每天画一幅画，或者按动快门拍下一些精彩的瞬间，又怎么样？ You should be able to do acute and chronic administration either via injection or via the drinking fluid, mice and rats LOVE them some sweetened milk and they’d slurp up milky coffee in a snap. 你们会通过注射剂或饮用液体做一次激烈的长期的管理，老鼠和鼠类喜欢一些甜牛奶并且它们会突然出声地喝掉牛奶咖啡。 —————————————— snatch 抓举 snatch n. 抢夺；抓举；小量 vt. 夺得；抽空做；及时救助 vi. 抢走；很快接受 Freeze onto that bag or someone in the crowd may snatch it. 把手提包抓紧，否则在人群中可能有人把它抢去。 Their aggression is although cute in a way that at most they will try to snatch a sandwich from you at a picnic. 他们的攻击性，尽管在方式上比较可爱，更多的时候他们会去尝试抢夺你野游的三明治。 Snatch is a 2000 crime film written and directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and featuring an ensemble cast. 《偷拐抢骗》是一部有英国导演盖.里奇编剧和导演的犯罪电影，并得到一个最佳整体表演奖。 —————————————— soar 高飞 soar vi. 高飞；高耸；往上飞舞 n. 高飞；高涨 n. (Soar)人名；(英、葡)索尔 The eagle can soar without flapping their wings. 老鹰无需振翼就能翱翔。 Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. 就让我在那天空中飞翔，在它孤寂的浩瀚中。 You soar a mile above the ocean, then slowly circle for 20 minutes as the pilot guides you to a leisurely landing on the beach, whereupon gravity takes over again. 你们会在海洋上高飞一英里，然后慢慢盘旋20分钟，飞行员指导你从容地降落到海滩上，这时候地心引力再次起作用了。 —————————————— sober 清醒的 sober adj. 冷静的，清醒的；未醉的 vt. 使严肃；使醒酒，使清醒 n. (Sober)人名；(英)索伯 These bloody lessons would sober most people down. 这些血的教训总会令大多数人清醒了吧。 The lessons learned at the cost of blood helped to sober us. 血的教训使我们的头脑清醒了。 For us there is no reality nor for you either you sober locks. 对我们而言，不存在现实，对你,或者对你清醒的锁。 —————————————— sociology 社会学 sociology n. 社会学；群体生态学 Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. 从语言学、社会学的人类行为原理里解脱吧。 Basic courses in sociology and psychology as well as other humanities courses give students plenty of opportunity to explore their own emotions. 社会学和心理学的基础，以及其他人文学科的课程，赋予学生大量的机会去探索其个人情感。 And I spent part of my second grade year in Sweden, where my father was on sabbatical as a professor of sociology. 因为我父亲休假的缘故，我的小学二年级有一段时间是在瑞典上的，那个时候他是一名社会学教授。 —————————————— software 软件 software n. 软件 The company deals in both hardware and software. 这家公司既经营硬件，又经营软件。 The computer comes bundled with software and diskettes. 电脑与软件和软磁盘被一起提供来的。 The distributors will probably bump up the price of the software when the next version is released. 当下一个软件版本公开发行时销售商可能将提高软件的价格。 —————————————— solidarity 团结 solidarity n. 团结，团结一致 The solidarity among China's various nationalities is as firm as a rock. 中国各族人民之间的团结坚如磐石。 The great friendship and militant solidarity between the peoples of our two countries are unbreakable. 我们两国人民的伟大友谊与战斗团结是坚不可摧的。 These achievements show the power of determination and global solidarity, but they also remind us of the challenges. 这些成就显示了决心和全球团结的力量，但它们还提醒我们关注种种挑战。 —————————————— solitary 孤独的 solitary adj. 孤独的；独居的 n. 独居者；隐士 It was extreme because it was in your head, that most solitary of places. 它之所以极端，因为它就在世上最孤独的地方——你的头脑里。 The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary. 在这期间，苔丝唯一的活动是在天色黄昏以后；她走出屋外，来到树林里，那时候她似乎才不感到孤独。 Is all happiness solitary? 快乐都是孤独的么？ —————————————— solo 独奏 solo n. 独奏；独唱；独奏曲 adj. 独奏的；独唱的；单独的 vt. 单人攀登；单独驾 vi. 单独表演；放单飞 adv. 单独地 We should therefore expect more accurate estimates of time and difficulty by a pair programming team than from a solo programming team. 这样我们应该期望，比起单独的编程团队，通过结对编程可以对时间和难度进行更准确的估计。 Or in another case, a performer will not always have a solo and the chance to be in the spotlight. 例如，演奏者并不总是有独奏的机会，或者有在聚灯光下成为众所瞩目展现自己的机会。 This will not worry the members of F4, however, who are all flying solo and doing well in their respective careers, after last performing together two years ago. 当然F4的成员们不必为此发愁。 两年前他们在最后一次集体亮相后，便宣布单飞，目前在各自的领域也都做得风生水起。 —————————————— sovereign 主权 sovereign adj. 至高无上的；有主权的；拥有最高统治权的；不折不扣的；极好的 n. 君主；独立国；最高统治者 n. (Sovereign)人名；(英)索夫林 In England, the sovereign reigns but does not rule. 在英国，君主是国家元首，但不治理国事。 Independence and sovereign equality among states is a fundamental principle of international law. 国家的独立和主权平等， 是国际法上的一项根本原则。 Sovereign risk must be accounted for as part of cost of equity. 主权风险必须作为权益成本的一部分加以考虑。 —————————————— spacious 宽敞的 spacious adj. 宽敞的，广阔的；无边无际的 The room is spacious and bright. 这屋子很宽敞，而且光线充足。 There were three spacious bedrooms in his cottage. 在他的别墅内有三间宽敞的卧室。 What if I offer to clean the spacious apartments that my friends in finance have moved into? 如果我供应一套宽敞的公寓给我那些有钱的朋友们让他们住进来怎么样？ —————————————— sparkle 闪耀 sparkle n. 闪耀；火花；活力 vt. 使闪耀；使发光 vi. 闪耀；发泡；活跃 The stars sparkle in the dark sky. 夜晚的天空上星星闪闪发光。 He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. 他要一切都处在一种恬静的心醉神迷之中里；而我要一切在灿烂的欢欣中闪耀飞舞。 The dew made everything on the ground sparkle, and reaffirmed his belief that this was truly God's country. 露水使得地面上的万物都闪闪发光，这也让他再次坚定了自己的信念：这真的是上帝的领土。 —————————————— spatial 空间 spatial adj. 空间的；存在于空间的；受空间条件限制的 So, what do we know about spatial distribution? 关于空间分布，我们了解哪些东西？ That new function operates on all the spatial data types. 这个新函数可以操作所有空间数据类型。 And there is no evidence of a correlation between acquiring spatial skills and an interest in mathematics or science. 而且也没有关于获得空间技能与对数学或科学的兴趣之间的关联性的证据。 —————————————— speciality 专业 speciality n. 专业，专长；特性 His speciality was psychology -- one important branch on the great tree of knowledge. 他的专业是心理学，这是知识之树上的一个重要分枝。 This is the kind of original speciality that shows the Maastricht art fair at its best. 马斯特里赫特艺术博览会展示的正是这种原始特性。 And the second part of the book is devoted to India’s speciality: ideas that have prevailed in theory, but not in practice, leaving reformers with nothing more to say, but plenty still to do. 本书第二部份著重探讨印度的专长：理论充满创意，却都没有实行，让改革家已经无话好说，却还有一大堆需要去做。 —————————————— species 物种 species n. [生物] 物种；种类 adj. 物种上的 Darwin stated that the species originate by descent. 达尔文阐明了物种的起源。 That genus of plants differentiates into three species. 那个属种的植物衍生出三个变种。 Many species are in peril of extinction because of our destruction of their natural habitat. 许多物种由于我们破坏了它们的自然环境， 现在正面临灭绝的危险。 —————————————— specifically 具体地说 specifically adv. 特别地；明确地 You do not have to specifically program these features into your application. 您无需将这些特性特别地编程到您的应用程序中去。 These myths go above and beyond walking under ladders and opening umbrellas inside (although those are adhered to as well!); these are specifically for those working in the arts. 这些神话超越了在梯子下行走或者从里面打开伞（尽快那些是有根据的）;这些事专门对那些艺术工作而言的。 And this is really interesting to think about because you can imagine in our body we have concentrations of all types of ions, and specifically, some seem very, very similar to each other. 这是非常令人感兴趣的,因为大家可以想象一下，在我们的体内我们有,一定浓度的任何类型的离子，而且特别地，其中有一些非常非常地相似。 —————————————— specification 规范 specification n. 规格；说明书；详述 Unfortunately the specification does not say what those other means should be. 遗憾的是，该规范并没有指明这些其它方法是什么。 You can increase model precision through the specification and assemblage of model constraints. 您可以通过模型约束的规范和集合来增加模型的精确度。 It allows us to separate the specification of the object (how you interact with it) from the implementation. 它允许我们从实现中剥离对象的规范（如何与它交互）。 —————————————— spectacle 场面 spectacle n. 景象；场面；奇观；壮观；公开展示；表相，假相 n.（复）眼镜 A curious spectacle was witnessed. 目击了这一奇异的景象。 In Ramachandran’s account, then, we are treated to the spectacle of different parts of the brain — perhaps even different selves — arguing with one another. 在拉玛钱德朗的描述中，我们会欣赏到，大脑的不同部分——也许甚至是几个不同的“自我”在相互争辩的场面。 It was really an absurd spectacle. 这真是一个荒唐的场面。 —————————————— spectacular 壮观的 spectacular adj. 壮观的，惊人的；公开展示的 Both are valid observations! But for a first batch, these apps do look rather spectacular. 这都是事实，但是作为第一批应用程序，它们看起来还蛮壮观的。 You wander off to one side, into the nave, and suddenly you come across this spectacular altar, or a beautiful painting that was totally unexpected. 你走到一头，进入中殿，突然你看到了壮观的祭坛，或者一幅绝美的画卷，类似这样的完全意想不到的东西。 They were wrong. And they were wrong in a spectacular fashion. “他们错了，而且以一种惊人的方式犯下错误”。 —————————————— spectator 观众 spectator n. 观众；旁观者 The role of a work is to communicate its message to the spectator. 一部艺术作品的作用在于把它的含义传达给观众。 I had been a spectator, and then suddenly a participant, a player, and member of the jury. 我是个旁观者，这时却突然成了一个参与者，一个参加者，陪审团的成员。 When we watch a person running about looking for something in a field, the wise man can set a puzzle for all the spectator to solve: what has that person lost? 当我们看见一个人在一片田野里跑来跑去在寻找东西时，智者可以弄出一个难题给一切旁观者去解答：那个人失掉了什么东西呢？ —————————————— spectrum 光谱 spectrum n. 光谱；频谱；范围；余象 Where do you stand on this spectrum? 在这个范围里面，你站在哪边？ This can be terrible news for those at both ends of the age spectrum. 对于那些在年龄谱两端的人来说，这可是可怕的消息。 At one end of the spectrum is the ability to release an application based on its project plan. 在这个范围的一端是在它的项目计划的基础上，发布一个应用软件的能力。 —————————————— speculate 推测 speculate vi. 推测；投机；思索 vt. 推断 I can only speculate whether it will make any impact on mobile phones. 关于它是否会给手机带来深刻的影响，我只能靠推测。 You can prototype and speculate all you want, but that’s at best indirect influence on what the rest of a company is doing. 你可以对你所想要的创建原型和推测，但是那最多也只能是对于公司其他人所做工作产生间接地影响。 We don't have to speculate because the President tells us himself in his autobiography, Dreams from My Father. 不必猜测，因为这位总统在自传中已经告诉了我们——《来自父亲的梦想》。 —————————————— spiral 螺旋 spiral n. 螺旋；旋涡；螺旋形之物 adj. 螺旋形的；盘旋的 vt. 使成螺旋形；使作螺旋形上升 vi. 盘旋；成螺旋形；螺旋形上升（过去式spiraled/spiralled，过去分词spiraled/spiralled，现在分词spiraling/spiralling，第三人称单数spirals，副词spirally） He recruited some of the workers to start making spiral bulbs for TCP. 他招募了那家工厂的一些工人，开始为TCP生产螺旋形灯泡。 In this case, the orbit of the rotating asteroid will very slowly spiral in toward the sun. 在这样的情况下，旋转小行星的运行轨道将非常缓慢地向朝着太阳的方向盘旋。 So then, anchor in the heart of One, then simply feel yourself as if you are drifting down the sacred spiral, staying within, into the Fifth. 锚定在合一的心，然后简单的感觉你自己，感觉你就像飘落的神圣螺旋，保持在内在，进入第五维度。 —————————————— splash 飞溅 splash vt. 溅，泼；用...使液体飞溅 n. 飞溅的水；污点；卖弄 vi. 溅湿；溅开 Don't splash my shoes. 别溅到我的鞋上。 This finding is similar to observations in Thailand, where a seawall at Patong Beach caused a splash-up of the tsunami wave and buildings behind it only suffered modest structural damages. 这个发现和在泰国观察到的是相似的，在那一个在巴东海滩的防波堤引起了一个海啸波的溅起，并且其后的建筑物只受到了适度的结构破坏。 Now copy the splash into the window we work in. 现在，将喷溅图片拖入我们工作的窗口。 —————————————— spokesman 发言人 spokesman n. 发言人；代言人 The spokesman wrong-footed them with this question. 发言人谈到这个问题使他们乱了阵脚。 They drew lots to decide who should be their spokesman. 他们抽签决定谁是他们的发言人。 The spokesman finally disclosed the facts to the press. 发言人最终向新闻界公开了事实真相。 —————————————— sponge 海绵 sponge vt. 抹掉；用海绵擦拭；讨得 vi. 采集海绵；过寄生生活；海绵般地吸收 n. 海绵；海绵状物 A sponge absorbs water. 海绵吸水。 Sponge yourself down, and then take a shower. 先用海绵擦洗一下，再冲淋浴。 He poured water on it, Then he squeezed the sponge. 他倒水在上面然后压榨那块海绵。 —————————————— spontaneous 自发的 spontaneous adj. 自发的；自然的；无意识的 That tells us whether the change is spontaneous. 这可以告诉我们变化是否是自发的。 Yellow is an unstable and spontaneous color, so avoid using yellow if you want to suggest stability and safety. 黄色是不稳定且自发的颜色，所以如果你想暗示稳定性和安全性，应避免使用黄色。 Nevertheless, this knowledge applies without any doubt to one of the most important spontaneous market processes that every economist should be highly familiar with. 然而，这一知识被毋庸置疑的应用到一个最重要的，并为每个经济学家所熟知的自发市场过程中。 —————————————— spouse 配偶 spouse n. 配偶 vt. 和…结婚 n. (Spouse)人名；(英)斯波斯 You and your spouse do not have to agree on politics. 你和你的配偶不必在政治上保持一致。 Then, make sure that you and your spouse share these goals with each other. 尽可能具体地说，就是确保你和你的配偶彼此共享这些目标。 Spend one half of your time with your 4 friends and the other half with your spouse? 难道你要花一半的时间陪你的4个朋友，剩下的一半陪你的配偶吗？ —————————————— spy 间谍 spy vt. 侦察；发现；暗中监视 vi. 侦察；当间谍 n. 间谍；密探 They have tracked down the spy. 他们已经追捕到那个间谍。 She delated him to the police for a spy. 她向警方告发他是一个间谍。 It was the spy's suspicious manner that first put us on to him. 最初引起我们对这个间谍警惕的是他的可疑的举止。 —————————————— stabilize 稳定 stabilize vt. 使稳固，使安定 vi. 稳定，安定 Stabilize your feet. 稳定你的脚。 The gyroscope in tank is used to stabilize the aim system of the gun. 坦克中的陀螺仪用于稳定火炮的瞄准系统。 When the contents of an individual subsystem stabilize, you can then divide the subsystem. 当个人子系统的内容稳定之后，您就可以分解子系统了。 —————————————— stagger 错开 stagger vt. 蹒跚；使交错；使犹豫 vi. 蹒跚；犹豫 n. 蹒跚；交错安排 adj. 交错的；错开的 They planned to stagger our rehearsing hours. 他们打算错开我们的排演时间。 However, if you stagger and overlap multiple evolutions, then you can effectively manipulate the phases. 然而，如果您交错并重叠多个演进，那么您可以有效地操纵这些阶段。 Some customers choose to upgrade or renew their entire infrastructure at once, while others prefer to stagger upgrades. 有些客户可能选择立即升级或更新其整个基础结构，而有些可能选择交错升级。 —————————————— staircase 楼梯 staircase n. 楼梯 The gallery is terminated by a staircase. 走廊尽头是楼梯。 Some students may not remember which staircase to go down. 一些学生也许不记得从哪个楼梯下楼。 Upon reaching the bottom of this very special staircase, I found myself in what my Regression Therapist called the Hall of Wisdom. This hall had many doors and openings. 当到达这个非常特别的楼梯底部的时候，我发现自己在我的回归治疗师所称的“智慧大礼堂”里，这个礼堂有很多门及开。 —————————————— stall 摊位 stall n. 货摊；畜栏；托辞 vi. 停止，停转；拖延 vt. 拖延；使停转；使陷于泥中 n. (Stall)人名；(瑞典)斯塔尔 My friend who has a food stall in the caravanserai is no exception and grins at me with an entire set of glinting gold. 我的一位朋友也不例外，他在商队旅馆里有一食品摊位，正朝我咧嘴微笑，露出一排金色的牙齿。 Economists have long speculated that weak growth of this sort is like an aircraft's “stall speed”, below which it risks falling out of the sky. 经济学家们推测，这种类型的弱势增长就好像飞机的“失速速度”，一旦低于这个临界点，那么就有可能从空中坠落。 When this happens enough times, the thread pool will eventually be empty, and the system will stall because no threads are available to process tasks. 当这种情况发生的次数足够多时，线程池最终就为空，而且系统将停止，因为没有可用的线程来处理任务。 —————————————— startle 惊吓 startle vt. 使吓一跳；使惊奇 vi. 惊吓；惊跳；惊奇 n. 惊愕；惊恐 The deer startle easily. 鹿很容易受到惊吓。 Sometimes a sudden shift in color can be used to startle potential predators or threaten intruders. 有时候，色彩的快速变换可以用来惊吓掠食者或威胁入侵者。 The researchers found that people given propranolol had a much lower emotional response — measured by a startle reflex — to the images. 通过惊吓反射测量，研究者发现，服用了治疗心脏病的药品的人们对这些图片的情绪反应低很多。 —————————————— stationary 静止的 stationary adj. 固定的；静止的；定居的；常备军的 n. 不动的人；驻军 A burst of light is seen by two observers: one stationary on a platform, the other moving in a train. 两个观察员看到了一束光的爆发：他们一个静止在平台上，还有一个在火车上移动。 Mike Davis needed a way to use his laptop in his truck and have a nice stationary platform to put it on. 迈克·戴维斯需要在他的卡车里使用他的笔记本，并且要有一个既好看又固定的平台来摆放它。 To the stationary one on the platform, the light expanded also, but in addition Einstein saw the movement of the train caused one side to meet the wave earlier than the other side. 对于静止在平台上的观察员而言，光也扩大了，但除此以外，爱因斯坦看到了由于火车运动而形成了火车的一边比另一边要早接收到光波。 —————————————— statistics 统计数据 statistics n. 统计；统计学；[统计] 统计资料 The statistics must be lying. 统计数字一定有假。 The statistics do not add up. 统计的数字加不起来。 Statistics suggest that the population of this country will be double in ten years' time. 统计显示，这个国家人口在10年内将增加一倍。 —————————————— stereo 立体声 stereo n. 立体声；立体声系统；铅版；立体照片 adj. 立体的；立体声的；立体感觉的 His stereo is earthed. 他的立体声收录机接地了。 Obviously, there’s not much sense of stereo-channel separation unless you have a very skinny head. 很明显，除非你有一个皮包骨的脑袋，通道分离的立体声没有太大的意义。 If you put this image into a stereo viewer, you can pick out the 3D atomic structure; for anything more complex than this, we need a different way to visualize what is going on. 如果您将这个图像放到立体图像查看器中，您可以分辨出 3D 原子结构；对于更加复杂的结构，我们需要采用不同的方式来可视化它们。 —————————————— stereotype 刻板印象 stereotype vt. 使用铅版；套用老套，使一成不变 n. 陈腔滥调，老套；铅版 They surveyed 399 students of both sexes in an intro physics class about whether they agreed with the stereotype that men are generally better at physics. 他们在物理概论课上抽取了399名男女学生进行调查，看他们是否认同“男生比女生更精通物理”这个刻板思想。 We're all familiar with the stereotype that men want sex wherever and whenever they can get it. 我们家庭还在进行着一成不变的性爱：就是男人随时随地得到他们想要的。 You can then add the measures for the goals as attributes of the corresponding classes, and stereotype them as . 然后，您就能够为这些目标添加方法，作为相应的类属性，并且将它们模板化为 。 —————————————— stern 斯特恩 stern n. 船尾；末端 adj. 严厉的；坚定的 n. (Stern)人名；(英、以、法、瑞典、西)斯特恩；(德、波、匈)施特恩 It is placed in the stern of a boat. 它被放在船尾。 The stern mother has gained the upper hand of the family. 这位严厉的母亲掌管了全家。 Father looked stern at us for a while, then we went to go and watch him hunt. 父亲用严厉的眼神看了我们一会儿，然后我们就外出看父亲打猎去了。 —————————————— stimulus 刺激 stimulus n. 刺激；激励；刺激物 Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts. 把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。 The answer is that yes, I believe that stimulus can have major benefits in our current situation — but these benefits have to be weighed against the costs. 我的答复是，没错，我相信在当前的形势下，刺激可以产生大的效益——但是这种效益必须与付出的成本加以比较与权衡。 This depends not on the stimuli but on the combination of stimulus and response. 它并不取决于刺激源，而是取决于刺激源和回应的组合。 —————————————— stitch 针 stitch n. 针脚，线迹；一针 vt. 缝，缝合 vi. 缝，缝合 A hole was torn in your jacket. Let me stitch up the torn jacket for you. 你的上衣撕了个口子，我给你缝缝吧。 Embroidery calls for great care. There must not be even a single sloppy stitch. 刺绣要求很高， 一针也不能马虎。 She has also studied everything from how to stitch her own wounds to how to cope with sleep deprivation and how to put out fires on board her 11.5-metre twin-mast ketch. 她还学习了相关知识，从如何缝合伤口，到如何应付睡眠不足的状况，再到如何扑灭高11.5米的双桅杆帆船上的火情，可谓应有尽有。 —————————————— straightforward 直截了当的 straightforward adj. 简单的；坦率的；明确的；径直的 adv. 直截了当地；坦率地 But how can you make this more straightforward? 但是如何能够使此过程变得更简单？ As you can see from this overview, developing an effective transaction strategy is not always a straightforward task. 从这篇概述中可以看到，开发一个有效的事务策略并非总是一项简单的任务。 Both work through a straightforward discipline in writing the requirements involving only the basic features of the products. 这两种方法都通过一种简单的原则来描写这些需求，只包括产品的基本特性。 —————————————— strategic 战略 strategic adj. 战略上的，战略的 The general laid down a few strategic targets on the map. 将军在地图上标明了几个战略目标。 They are pushing hard to improve their strategic nuclear capabilities. 他们正全力以赴增强他们的战略核力量。 Despite their intentions and being in a strategic position, they often stop the progress being called for. 尽管他们的意图和存在是战略的关键位置，但是他们经常停止这一进程。 —————————————— streamline 简化 streamline vt. 把…做成流线型；使现代化；组织；使合理化；使简单化 n. 流线；流线型 adj. 流线型的 Can you streamline this kind of airship? 你能把这种飞艇设计成流线型吗? Even when we streamline our test cases to only those that "should pass," we can fall into this trap. 即使当我们将我们的测试用例流线处理为那些只“应该通过”的内容时，我们也可能落入该圈套。 One example of this is a big sales application in which each geographical region maintains only its own data to streamline performance. 大型销售应用程序就是这样的一个例子，其中每个地理区域仅维护本区域的数据以便简化性能。 —————————————— stride 步 stride n. 大步；步幅；进展 vt. 跨过；大踏步走过；跨坐在… vi. 跨；跨过；大步行走 Instead of flying off the handle every time something bad happens, you could take it all in stride. 在糟糕的事情发生后，不必每一次都停下来处理它，你可以大步前进将其抛在脑后。 Locomotion really is priced by the step, so increased stride length has tremendous economical advantages. 移动能力是由步长决定的，因此增加步幅有着巨大的经济优势。 Shorten your stride. 缩短你的跨步。 —————————————— striking 引人注目的 striking adj. 显著的，突出的，惊人的；打击的；罢工的 v. 打（strike的ing形式） The clock was striking twelve. 时钟正打12点。 So if the postmen are striking then we will have no letters. 所以如果邮递员罢工，那么我们就没有信了。 A very, for me, extremely striking example of this question occurred in this very class. 对我来说，一个关于这个问题的，极其显著的例子发生过在这门课上。 —————————————— strive 努力 strive vi. 努力；奋斗；抗争 We must strive and fend. 我们必须努力奋斗。 You must understand that and strive for balance in your life. 你必须懂得这一点并在生活中努力保持平衡。 For all of these dimensions you should strive for increasing your endurance and your strength. 对于这些不同的范畴你需要努力提高你的耐力和体力。 —————————————— stubborn 顽固的 stubborn adj. 顽固的；顽强的；难处理的 The stubborn student finally began to buckle under. 那个倔强的学生最后开始屈从了。 If we want truly open government, we still have to do the hard work of addressing basic and stubborn inequalities. 如果我们真的想让政府公开化，我们仍然要为那顽固的不平和基础的选择努力。 Even in the towns she met with stubborn resistance. 甚至在城镇，她也遇到了顽固的抵抗。 —————————————— studio 工作室 studio n. 工作室；[广播][电视] 演播室；画室；电影制片厂 The actor has signed with a film studio. 这位演员已与电影制片厂草签了（受雇）合约。 I think my small studio has not helped in this respect. 我认为我的小工作室在这方面不能有所帮助。 At that time “The Modern Times” directed by Chaplin was being remade in their film studio. 那时卓别林导演的《摩登时代》正在他们的电影制片厂重新摄制。 —————————————— stumble 跌倒 stumble vi. 踌躇，蹒跚；失足；犯错 vt. 使…困惑；使…绊倒 n. 绊倒；蹒跚而行 Some feared she would stumble. 有人担心她会犯错。 This isn't a topic that we stumble on today as a result of some belated sophistication we have achieved. 但我们今天不会在这个问题上花很多时间,因为我们已经在过时的观点上踌躇太久。 She whirled, one arm reaching for something near her side that wasn't there, and it made her stumble. 她突然转动身子，一只胳膊伸向身边，似乎想抓住什么，但没抓到，这让她绊了一跤。 —————————————— sturdy 坚固的 sturdy adj. 坚定的；强健的；健全的 n. 羊晕倒病 n. (Sturdy)人名；(英)斯特迪 Get yourself a sturdy file box and a set of file folders, and set up a folder for each class. 准备一个坚固的文件盒以及一些文件夹，为所学的每一门课都建立一个文件夹。 Indeed, with no other form of transportation on Iona, I count on my sturdy legs and a bit of discipline to get me from one place to another. 事实上，在爱奥那岛上没有其他的交通工具，我依靠强健的腿和一点自律从一个地方走到另外的一个地方。 One yearns for a full-blooded, sturdy, and capable personality; these are all so many shadows, flitting about, out of touch with the world. 他们渴望地道的、健全的和有行为能力的人格；这些都是众多飞来飞去的阴影，与这个世界没有关联。 —————————————— subjective 主观的 subjective adj. 主观的；个人的；自觉的 Try to avoid being subjective and one-sided when looking at problems. 看问题要避免主观片面。 You should not rest your argument upon subjective and groundless conclusions. 你不能以主观臆断作为你的论据。 We should not put subjective reasons on a par with objective reasons in our analysis. 不能把客观原因与主观原因平列起来分析。 —————————————— subordinate 下属 subordinate n. 下属，下级；部属，属下 adj. 从属的；次要的 vt. 使……居下位；使……服从 Order the subordinate (troops) to act immediately! 命令所属（部队）立即行动! All the other issues were subordinate to this one. 相对这个问题，其他问题都是次要的。 In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中, 中尉是上尉的下级。 —————————————— subscribe 订阅 subscribe vi. 订阅；捐款；认购；赞成；签署 vt. 签署；赞成；捐助 I want to subscribe for some novels. 我想预订几本小说。 You can subscribe here for your newspapers. 你可以在这儿订阅你要的那几份报纸。 If all these instances subscribe to the same topic, it can cause serious problems. 如果所有这些实例都订阅到相同的主题，则可导致严重的问题。 —————————————— subsidiary 子公司 subsidiary adj. 附属的；辅助的 n. 子公司；辅助者 The projects, which will be operated by subsidiary Exelon Generation Co., could power nearly 184, 000 homes, according to Energy Department figures. 这些项目将由艾斯能发电有限公司经营的子公司，近184,000家能电力，根据能源部的数字。 Employees of the subsidiary would have military experience and top security clearances. 该子公司的员工要具备军事经验，并拥有最高安全许可。 Some viewers in Japan and the United States already can surf the Web via their TV sets, and Microsoft subsidiary Web TV plans the same for Britain. 一些日本和美国的电视观众已经可以通过他们的电视来上网冲浪，微软的子公司环球网电视计划在英国同样实行这一举措。 —————————————— subsidy 补贴 subsidy n. 补贴；津贴；补助金 But the subsidy would not discourage their consumption. 但是，这些补贴不能阻碍消费。 The great advantage of a subsidy, indeed, from the standpoint of the public, is that it makes this fact so clear. 站在公众角度而言，补贴的最大好就是它使得财富专业的这样一个事实变得如此清晰。 If Copenhagen does not reach agreement on it we will do it next year, either via a subsidy, levy or tax. 如果在哥本哈根没有达成协议，我们明年就会自己来，不管是用补贴还是征税的方法。 —————————————— subtle 微妙的 subtle adj. 微妙的；精细的；敏感的；狡猾的；稀薄的 There are some subtle differences between them, which makes one more appropriate for certain types of problems than others. 二者之间有一些细微的差别，这使得它们在解决某些类型的问题时各有所长。 This change is rather subtle, but it has some important implications. 这个变化十分微妙，但是它却有些重要的含义。 Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. 我们所做的很多改变是很微妙的，以至于很少有人注意到它们。 —————————————— successor 的继任者 successor n. 继承者；后续的事物 Son and successor of David. 大卫的儿子和继承者。 The King designated Hussein as his successor. 国王选定侯赛因为他的接班人。 His successor inherited a lot of problems from him. 他的继任者从他手中接过不少问题。 —————————————— sue 苏 sue vt. 控告；请求 vi. 控告；提出请求 n. (Sue)人名；(日)末(名)；(法)休；(英)休(女子教名Susan、Susanna的昵称) I can sue you for slander. 我可以控告你进行诬陷。 She dared me to sue her. 她问我敢不敢去控告她。 Jim and Sue were partnered for the dance. 吉姆和休在跳舞场上是很好的舞伴。 —————————————— suffice 足够了 suffice vt. 使满足；足够…用；合格 vi. 足够；有能力 Here a single example will suffice. 这里只举一个例子就够了。 However for the majority of low-medium throughput scenarios, it should suffice. 然而对于中低吞吐量的大多数情况，这个算法应该足够用了。 The concepts in this section should suffice for strategic planning of an upgrade. 这一节的概念对于准备升级的策略来说应该足够了。 —————————————— suicide 自杀 suicide n. 自杀；自杀行为；自杀者 adj. 自杀的 vt. 自杀 vi. 自杀 He cheated the law by suicide. 他以自杀逃避法律的制裁。 The possibility of suicide was ruled out. 自杀的可能性已被排除。 He attempted to end his trouble by suicide. 他想以自杀来了却他的心病。 —————————————— suitcase 手提箱 suitcase n. [轻] 手提箱；衣箱 He jammed his clothes into a black suitcase. 他把衣服塞进了一只黑手提箱。 She checked her suitcase in at the service desk. 她在服务台把手提箱寄存起来。 Do you think I can jam all these clothes in this suitcase? 你觉得我能把所有这些衣服塞进这个手提箱吗? —————————————— summit 峰会 summit n. 顶点；最高级会议；最高阶层 adj. 最高级的；政府首脑的 What have these four games to do with the G20 summit? 这四个游戏什么地方与本次G20峰会有关？ But are these the summit of our values, of our aspirations of society? 但这些是我们的价值观、我们对社会的抱负的顶点吗？ We have to hustle the preparations for a summit meeting between the USA and China. 我们得赶快做好中美两国间最高级会晤的准备工作。 —————————————— summon 召唤 summon vt. 召唤；召集；鼓起；振作 He said he would summon officials to testify in parliament. 他说将召集有关官员在国会上证实此事。 Parliament has powers to introduce and pass legislation, summon and impeach ministers or the president. 议会拥有提出和通过法律、召集弹劾内阁成员或总统的权力。 They also get irritated and impatient with the timidity of the men who take an age to summon the nerve to ask them out. 她们也会对那些花了很长时间的才鼓起勇气向她们的表白的男人的胆怯而生气和失去耐心。 —————————————— superb 一流的 superb adj. 极好的；华丽的；宏伟的 n. (Superb)人名；(罗)苏佩尔布 People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 Fast reflexes and superb athletic ability won him what his other talents probably might not have: recognition in the world of white Australia. 他赢得了他的其他才能可能得不到的快速回应和高超的竞技能力：在澳大利亚白色人种世界里得到认可。 This is a superb concept. It should certainly be done. 这是一种极好的概念，当然应该实施。 —————————————— superiority 优势 superiority n. 优越，优势；优越性 She was prepossessed with the notion of her own superiority. 她满脑子充满着优越感。 Ultimately, our aim should not be to assert the superiority of the physical world over the virtual, but to make them work together. 最终，我们的目标不应是证明实体世界相对于虚拟世界的优越性，而是让它们和谐共存。 Well, in the quest for data storage superiority, a group of scientists from the University of Southampton say they've found forever and they, too, would like to share it with you. 然而，在研究优越性的数据存储过程中，一组来自于 南安普敦大学的科学家们表示他们已经找到了永久，同样，他们也愿意和你一起分享。 —————————————— supersonic 超音速 supersonic adj. 超音速的；超声波的 n. 超音速；超声波 The asteroid blew up with the energy of the largest hydrogen bombs ever detonated on Earth, vaporizing the desert and unleashing deadly supersonic winds for many miles. 小行星爆炸释放的能量相当于地球上有史以来最大的氢弹爆炸的能量总和，使沙漠蒸发，并在许多英里内引起了致命的超音速风。 Supersonic flights are allowed only over water—and are thus limited to connecting wealthy cities separated by an ocean—because sonic booms can damage things and annoy people on the ground. 超音速的飞机只允许在水上飞行，这样就只限于往返于被海洋隔开的富裕的国家——因为声震可以毁坏东西和给在地面上的人产生噪声。 A companion research effort looked at concepts for a new generation of supersonic transport aircraft capable of meeting NASA's noise, emissions and fuel efficiency goals for 2030. 一项合作研究成果着眼于新一代超音速运输飞行器的概念，以满足NASA为2030世代设定的噪音、排放和燃油效率目标。 —————————————— supervise 监督 supervise vt. 监督，管理；指导 vi. 监督，管理；指导 But how do you supervise this? 但你怎样监督呢？ She wants to supervise the cosmetics shop. 她想自己管理那间化妆品店。 We must supervise and speed up the fulfilment of assigned tasks. 已经布置了的工作， 应当认真督促检查。 —————————————— supplementary 补充 supplementary adj. 补充的；追加的 n. 补充者；增补物 Every need usually maps to a couple of features, and then features map to use cases and supplementary requirements. 每一个需求通常映射到几个特性，然后这几个特性映射到用例和补充需求。 Factored into these design decisions are considerations for supplementary requirements and distribution represented by the localities. 分解成这些设计决策是出于对补充需求和由位置所表示的分布的考虑。 The requirements (functional and non-functional) that do not fit appropriately within the use cases should be documented in the Supplementary Specifications. 不适合放在用例中的需求（功能性和非功能性）应当在补充规约中进行文档化。 —————————————— suppress 抑制 suppress vt. 抑制；镇压；废止 They suppress the ingenuity of our people and businesses. 它们抑制我们的人民和企业的创造力。 This will suppress almost all diagnostics produced by the script. 这将抑制脚本生成的几乎所有诊断消息。 But he must suppress his feelings beneath his calm surface. 但他必须抑制平静的外表下面的感情。 —————————————— surge 飙升 surge n. 汹涌；大浪，波涛；汹涌澎湃；巨涌 v. 汹涌；起大浪，蜂拥而来 The crowds surge out of the sports stadium. 观众从运动场涌出。 But for some people merely imagining this scene creates an adrenaline surge. 但是对于某些人但是想象这一幕就会肾上腺素激增。 In anticipation of a demand surge, the oil majors have started opening their wallets for expensive gas projects like gas liquefaction plants and pricey gas shale wells. 由于预期需求将激增,石油业巨头已开始斥资投入昂贵的天然气项目,比如天然气液化厂和昂贵的天然气页岩井. —————————————— surgeon 外科医生 surgeon n. 外科医生 n. (Surgeon)人名；(法)叙尔容 As a surgeon， Philip was exceptionally gifted. 作为外科医生， 菲利普才华出众。 The plastic surgeon undercut the skin of her cheek. 整容外科医生将她的脸皮下部切开。 As far as I can recollect, his father was a surgeon at that time. 就我所记得的，他的父亲那时是个外科医生。 —————————————— surpass 超越 surpass vt. 超越；胜过，优于；非…所能办到或理解 What have ye done to surpass man? 你们曾经做出什么努力来超越人呢？ God wants you to go beyond the normal and surpass what is required of you. 上帝想让你超出正常人，超越你被要求的那个样子。 There the people-made pollutants increasingly surpass the ability of air and water to dilute the contaminants to safe levels. 在那里，人为的污染物质日益超越了空气和水将污染物分解稀释到安全水平的能力。 —————————————— surplus 盈余 surplus n. 剩余；[贸易] 顺差；盈余；过剩 adj. 剩余的；过剩的 Brazil has a big surplus of coffee. 巴西有很多剩余咖啡。 Western countries often dumped surplus goods into Third World countries. 西方国家常向第三世界国家倾销剩余货物。 The doctrine of surplus value is the cornerstone of Marx's economic theory. 剩余价值学说是马克思经济理论的基石。 —————————————— survival 生存 survival n. 幸存，残存；幸存者，残存物 What was its survival value? 其生存价值是什么？ Therefore, the integrity, legitimacy, survival and effectiveness of this Organization depend on you all. 因此，联合国的完整性、合法性、生存和效力取决于整个大会。 It turns out that the shoulder altered the course of human evolution by giving us survival skills we never could have imagined without it. 其实，正是肩部改变了人类的进化过程，如果没有它，我们可能无法想象出，我们能有现在这样的生存技能。 —————————————— susceptible 易受影响 susceptible adj. 易受影响的；易感动的；容许…的 n. 易得病的人 But what we don't know is why they become susceptible to this host of pathogens, viruses and fungus. 但是我们没有弄明白的是为什么蜜蜂们会对这些病原菌，病毒和真菌这么敏感。 I have been following news reports on women who appear to be more susceptible to aggressive acts, although jealousy and hate occurs for either gender. 尽管嫉妒和仇恨的产生没有性别的区分，但是我追踪报道的对象是那些对袭击事件比较敏感的女性是。 After all, if the government will never allow you to fail due to the problems the public would face, then you cannot be treated like other firms, since you are not susceptible to failure. 毕竟，政府如果因为公众可能会面对的问题，而绝对无法让你倒闭，那样你就无法被像其他公司一样对待了，此时你对破产不怎么敏感。 —————————————— suspension 悬架 suspension n. 悬浮；暂停；停职 A spokesman declined to explain the terms of the suspension. 一位发言人拒绝说明停职的详细情况。 Center of mass is way here below the suspension point. 重心大概是在这里,低于悬挂点的地方。 Zambia says it is rejecting what it called the unconstitutional change of government and called for Madagascar's suspension in the African Union and Southern African Development Community, SADC. 赞比亚表示不接受这次不符合宪法的政府更迭，并呼吁非洲联盟和南部非洲发展共同体暂停马达加斯加的成员国资格。 —————————————— suspicious 可疑的 suspicious adj. 可疑的；怀疑的；多疑的 The fire is of suspicious origin. 这场火灾起因可疑。 It was the spy's suspicious manner that first put us on to him. 最初引起我们对这个间谍警惕的是他的可疑的举止。 The policeman rubbed down the country bumpkin,but found nothing suspicious. 警察把那个乡下佬浑身上下搜查了一遍，但未发现可疑之处。 —————————————— swamp 沼泽 swamp n. 沼泽；湿地 vt. 使陷于沼泽；使沉没；使陷入困境 vi. 下沉；陷入沼泽；陷入困境；不知所措（过去式swamped，过去分词swamped，现在分词swamping，第三人称单数swamps，名词swampiness，形容词swampy） The fort flanked on a swamp. 堡垒侧面靠着沼泽。 The soldiers became bogged in the swamp. 士兵们陷在沼泽中。 To make calculations manageable even by computers, most of the models suppose either that the oceans are a shallow, motionless swamp or that they don't exist at all. 为了使这些计算甚至可以用普通的计算机来处理, 大多数模型要么假设海洋是既浅又静止的沼泽, 要么假设它们根本不存在。 —————————————— symmetry 对称 symmetry n. 对称（性）；整齐，匀称 This addition may interfere with the symmetry of the building. 增建部分可能会有损这座建筑物的对称。 Everyone seems to like symmetry, but not everyone likes it as much. 似乎每个人都喜欢对称，但喜欢的程度不一样。 In writing you find symmetry at every level, from the phrases in a sentence to the plot of a novel. 在文字作品中你能在各个层次发现对称，从一句话里的短语到小说的情节。 —————————————— symphony 交响乐团 symphony n. 交响乐；谐声，和声 He helped to accouche choral symphony. 他曾帮助创作合唱交响曲。 Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is a glorious piece of music. 贝多芬的第九交响曲是壮丽的音乐篇章。 The London Symphony Orchestra broadcasts every Sunday on London Station. 伦敦交响乐团每星期日都在伦敦电台演出节目。 —————————————— symposium 研讨会 symposium n. 讨论会，座谈会；专题论文集；酒宴，宴会 The general view of the symposium was that science communication should be driven by events and demand. 这次研讨会总的观点是科学传播应该是由具体事件和需求来决定。 At the symposium, he submitted a paper which he had written for some other occasion on the concept of caring about. 在那个研讨会上，他交了一篇,论文，是为其它一些场合写的,是关于关心这个概念。 Some other speakers at the symposium pointed out that the communicators should themselves be powerful enough to decide whether to involve the public in the process. 研讨会的其他一些演讲人指出传播者应该使自身有足够的能力去判定是否应该让大众参与到这个过程中来。 —————————————— symptom 症状 symptom n. [临床] 症状；征兆 Any other symptom? 有别的症状吗？ So, you must have to observe for the first symptom. 所以，你必须观察这些说谎的第一征兆。 With so many products on the shelves, you can no longer buy just by brand or symptom. 面对货架上的那么多的药，你可以不再只是根据牌子或症状来买药了 。 —————————————— synthesis 合成 synthesis n. 综合，[化学] 合成；综合体 As the fish moves, feeds, and excretes waste, it plays a key role in the cycle of carbon synthesis and degradation. 随着这种鱼的运动、进食和排泄废物，它在碳合成和降解循环过程中扮演了一个关键的角色。 He talked about how to produce medicine by synthesis. 他谈到如何用合成法来制造药品。 You should be capable of acquiring and applying knowledge at varying levels of abstraction simultaneously as well as creating new concepts through synthesis and invention. 您应该有能力同时在不同的抽象级别上获得并应用知识，以及通过综合和创造来创建新的概念。 —————————————— tablet 平板电脑 tablet n. 碑；药片；写字板；小块；平板电脑 vt. 用碑牌纪念；将(备忘录等)写在板上；将…制成小片或小块 Dissolve the tablet in warm water. 把药片放进温水中溶化。 While this is no confirmation of the unicorn-like tablet, it is some of the strongest evidence we’ve seen yet. 在还没有确信这款独角兽般神秘的平板电脑，这是我们目前看到的最有力的证据了。 I would have eagerly traded it all for one tablet PC or e-reader. 我会渴望把所有这些东西换成一个平板电脑或者电子阅读器。 —————————————— tackle 解决 tackle n. 滑车；装备；用具；扭倒 vt. 处理；抓住；固定；与…交涉 vi. 扭倒；拦截抢球 What methods do you use to tackle them? 你用了什么方法来对付它们？ That depends on how you tackle the problem. 那取决于你如何处理这个问题。 If you have things to do or a brilliant idea on your mind to tackle later, make a note and, if need be, a plan. 如果你有必须要完成的事，或者是你的心有很多的想法要处理，如果需要写成一个计划的话就做笔记吧。 —————————————— tactics 战术 tactics n. 策略；战术；用兵学 Tactics differs from strategy. 战术有别于战略。 We still talk about teams, players and tactics every day. 我们依然会每天讨论球队、球员还有战术。 If that requires the use of bare-knuckle tactics, so be it. 即使这需要使出“不戴拳套”的格斗战术，也在所不惜。 —————————————— tangle 纠结 tangle n. 纠纷；混乱状态 vt. 使纠缠；处于混乱状态 vi. 缠结；乱作一团 The threads tangle easily. 这线容易缠结。 The resulting black-aluminum modules are assembled using the logic of language and form a web-like tangle that can be reassembled in an infinite number of ways. 里奇的构想所产生的各种黑色铝制模块是运用语言逻辑和缠结网络形式组装起来的，这些模块可以以无限的方式重新组合。 So I started on the outside, to the back, hoping to avoid the tangle of swimmers at the start. 所以在室外的游泳开始后，我跟在最后，希望可以避开一开始大家混乱出发的场面。 —————————————— tar 焦油 tar n. 焦油；柏油；水手 vt. 涂以焦油；玷污 n. (Tar)人名；(东南亚国家华语)大；(罗、塞、匈、阿拉伯)塔尔 Did the tar settle on the road? 路上的柏油干硬了吗? These comprise asphalt, tar and waxes. 其中包括沥青，焦油和蜡。 It can be anything: spoiled milk from the back of your fridge right down to tar and feathers. 它可以是任何玩意儿：从你冰箱后面那些变质的牛奶到沥青和羽毛。 —————————————— tariff 关税 tariff n. 关税表；收费表 vt. 定税率；征收关税 Tariff increases comprise only about a third of these actions and a half for developing countries. 关税提高仅占这些措施的三分之一左右，对于发展中国家占一半。 But this trade deal isn't simply about who pays what tariff at our borders. 然而，这项贸易协定并非只涉及谁在我们的边界支付多少关税的问题。 In the modern era, thanks to a half century of tariff-reducing global trade negotiations, protection is far less extreme. But it is no less political. 半个世纪以来，经过旨在降低关税的全球贸易谈判，当代保护主义远不如过去那样极端化，但其政治性并没有减弱。 —————————————— tease 取笑 tease vt. 取笑；戏弄；梳理；欺负；强求；使起毛 n. 戏弄；爱纠缠的小孩；挑逗者；卖弄风骚的女孩 vi. 取笑 I'm learning to tease wool. 我在学习梳理羊毛。 Don't tease my child. 别逗弄我的孩子! By training a spectrograph on this light, scientists can tease out the composition of the planet's atmosphere. 通过将光谱仪对准这些光线，科学家们将可以梳理出这颗行星的大气层成分。 —————————————— temperament 气质 temperament n. 气质，性情，性格；急躁 He has an artistic temperament. 他有艺术家的气质。 For people who earn that much or more, individual temperament and life circumstances have much more sway over their lightness of heart than money. 对于赚到这个数目或更多的人来说，个性气质和生活情况对心情畅快的影响比金钱的影响要大得多。 They were pleased by the temperament of their turkeys, some of which they keep near their house along the Pacific coast. 他们对火鸡们的性情很满意，其中一些火鸡还被安置在了他们太平洋海岸的房子附近。 —————————————— tempo 节奏 tempo n. 速度，发展速度；拍子 n. (Tempo)人名；(意)滕波 The tempo of the city itself is exhilarating . 而纽约这个城市的节奏也是令人兴奋的。 They started stronger than we did but we needed to be patient, intelligent and I think in the second half we increased the tempo of our passing and controlled the game. 比赛早期他们更强势，但是我们所要做的就是耐心等待与冷静思考。 下半场比赛我们加快了传球速度因而控制了比赛。 Gradually accelerate to your marathon goal pace, or even your tempo-run pace. 渐渐地增加到你的马拉松速度，甚至到你的节奏长跑速度。 —————————————— tenant 租户 tenant n. 承租人；房客；佃户；居住者 vt. 租借（常用于被动语态） n. (Tenant)人名；(法)特南 Can you help me find a new tenant for my flat? 你能帮我找到一个新房客因为我的公寓吗? In this model, there are some configuration elements that are unique to each tenant. 在这个模型中，有一些配置元素对于每个租户是独特的。 Any tenant can publish assets to this public community, as well as view or import assets from this community. 任何租户可以向这个公共社区发布资产，以及从该社区查看或导入资产。 —————————————— tentative 试探性的 tentative adj. 试验性的，暂定的；踌躇的 n. 假设，试验 Our separation was tough on us all and tentative from the start. 分居对我们所有人来说难以忍受，因此从一开始是尝试性的。 The government tended to have a tentative negotiation with those terrorists. 政府趋向于同那些恐怖分子进行试探性的谈判。 While tentative, this science is telling us that each of us is a package composed of Mommy's genes, Daddy's genes and the bacterial genes that have moved in and stayed. 试验的同时，这种科学也在告诉我们我们每一个人都是由母亲的基因、父亲的基因和进入或停留在体内的细菌的基因组成的基因包。 —————————————— terminate 终止 terminate vt. 使终止；使结束；解雇 vi. 结束，终止；结果 adj. 结束的 In this example, we want it to terminate. 在本例中，我们希望终止脚本。 At this point, the client and server terminate their connections. 此时，客户机和服务器将终止它们的连接。 If the work item does not exist, the trigger should fail and terminate. 如果工作项并不存在的话，那么触发器就会失败并终止。 —————————————— terrace 阳台 terrace n. 平台；梯田；阳台 vt. 使成梯田，使成阶地；使有平台屋顶 vi. 成阶地；成梯田；筑成坛 adj. （女服）叠层式的 n. (Terrace)人名；(英)特勒斯 Both a staircase and a lift connect the two floors with an enclosed terrace on the roof. 通过一道楼梯和一台电梯连接两层楼和封闭的屋顶平台。 Mirrored walls, skylights and large plated windows overlooking the garden and terrace fill this modern space with light. 镜墙、天窗和大型的金属镀窗俯瞰花园和阳台，让这个现代空间充满光线。 She asked us to respect the old campsites that occupy nearly every river terrace, as well as the many pictographs, including child-size red handprints, that adorn the canyon walls. 她要求我们尊重那些占据了几乎每个沿岸阶地的古老扎营地，以及许多石壁画，包括像点缀了峡谷石墙的孩子大小的红手印。 —————————————— terrain 外地 terrain 土地，地面，地方，地带；地势，地形；土壤；阵地；场地，场所，体质； 地层 Yuanyuguangtai nos associés à trouver un terrain vaste, de coopérer de bonne foi. 我们愿与广大的商界同仁广泛寻找共同点、真诚合作。 Par son aspect, la Truffe est plutôt arrondie, mais peut être irrégulière en raison du terrain. 松露的外形是园的，但因其生长在地下的原因，常浮现不规矩的外形。 Alors que les Français ont changé leurs habitudes et vont au cinéma pendant l'été, Hollywood occupe le terrain avec huit blockbusters. Comédie, dessin animé, action, fantastique. 法国人一改他们的习惯，在暑期走进电影院。好莱坞以八颗重磅炸弹占据了法国的电影市场。内容覆盖了喜剧片、动画片、动作片、科幻片等。 —————————————— terrific 很棒的 terrific adj. 极好的；极其的，非常的；可怕的 We have terrific leaders, great benefits, and a great spirit on the deck plates. 我们有着极好的领导、很好的福利以及甲板上的伟大精神。 There are some terrific programs out there, but they’re still too far and few between. 现在有了一些了不起的方案，但方案之间仍然还是相隔遥远且较少。 That's depressing stuff, but we're not all doom and gloom around here, and some areas in the country have terrific Internet. 那真是令人沮丧的事，但我们并没有就此郁闷和消沉，因为另有一些地区具备极好的网络条件。 —————————————— terrify 吓到 terrify vt. 恐吓；使恐怖；使害怕 It is frequently a conscious strategy employed on a large scale by armed groups to humiliate opponents, terrify individuals and destroy societies. 它是武装集团常常有意大规模使用的策略，以羞辱对手、恐吓个人，摧毁社区。 The valley of Elah is where the Philistines sent out their Goliath to terrify the Israelites, and where young David felled the giant with his trusty slingshot. 以拉谷地是古腓力斯国派出他们的英雄歌力亚恐吓以色列人的地方，在这里，年轻的大卫王用自己可靠的弹弓击倒了巨人歌力亚。 While the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, might be God’s sworn defender, he wasn’t above using the swords of heretics to swell his army and terrify his enemies. 神圣罗马帝国的君王查理五世曾发誓要当上帝守护者，而今，却要用异教徒的刀剑去壮大自己的军队，恐吓敌军。 —————————————— testify 作证 testify vt. 证明，证实；作证 vi. 作证；证明 His friends will testify for him. 他的朋友们将为他作证。 Thank you for this opportunity to testify before you this morning. 感谢今天上午给我这个机会在你们面前来作证。 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 因为我还有五个弟兄。 他可以对他们作见证，免得他们也来到这痛苦的地方。 —————————————— testimony 证词 testimony n. [法] 证词，证言；证据 The witness disaffirmed her former testimony. 证人推翻了她原来的证词。 The testimony of witnesses vindicated the defendant. 证人们的证词证明了被告的无辜。 His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness. 他的证词和前一位的互相矛盾。 —————————————— texture 纹理 texture n. 质地；纹理；结构；本质，实质 This cloth has a silky texture. 这种布具有丝的质地。 What is the texture of your experience? 这次经历的实质是什么？ Gather some leaves which have an interesting texture and shape. 采集一些带有有趣的纹理和形状的叶子。 —————————————— thanksgiving 感恩节 thanksgiving n. 感恩 That we all have Thanksgiving dinner together? 我们会一起用感恩节晚餐吗？ I gather all my thanksgiving and delight into my walking. 我将我所有的感恩和愉悦注入到走路中。 My roots will be on the table with Thanksgiving. 我的根将会在感恩节餐桌上得到体现。 —————————————— theft 盗窃 theft n. 盗窃；偷；赃物 He was on trial for theft. 他因盗窃罪受到审判。 Of these three, theft is the most obvious because the act itself is malicious. 在这三种之中，盗窃是最明显的，因为其行为本身就是恶意的。 In fact, in this case, the same person could be both a victim and a witness in a particular theft. 事实上，在本例中，同一个人在一个具体的盗窃案例中可以同时作为受害人和目击者。 —————————————— theme 主题 theme n. 主题；主旋律；题目 adj. 以奇想主题布置的 The theme carried through all his writing. 这个主题贯彻在他所有的作品中。 This article marries theme and style well. 这篇文章的主题和风格结合得很好。 The preacher amplified on the theme of brotherly love. 牧师进一步阐述了兄弟般情谊这个主题。 —————————————— therapy 治疗 therapy n. 治疗，疗法 Apply the power of prayer therapy in your life. 在你的生活中运用祈祷治疗这种能力。 Some patients in therapy want to learn to find satisfaction in what they do. 有些治疗中的病人想学习在他们所做的事情中找到乐趣。 You can do [some of that] in therapy but it's so powerful when you do it in a relationship. 你可以在治疗中去进行（这样的改变），但是当你在一段关系中这样做时，它很强大。 —————————————— thereafter 之后 thereafter adv. 其后；从那时以后 Thereafter, any user who enters the view will see everything as it should be. 此后，进入该视图的任何用户都能看到视图本应该显示的状态。 We sipped dry sherry on his porch until sunrise, and shortly thereafter he moved in to my small Florida home. 我们在他家的门廊上啜饮着干雪利酒，直到太阳升起。 此后不久，他搬进了我在佛罗里达的小家。 The results were good: a decision to meet again in Egypt in two weeks and every two weeks thereafter to negotiate an agreement on all the core issues. 谈判取得的结果不错：决定在两周内在埃及再次会晤，此后每两周就对所有核心问题进行协商达成一项协议。 —————————————— thermal 热 thermal adj. 热的；热量的；保热的 n. 上升的热气流 They planed to go to a thermal spring the next day for a break. 他们计划着第二天去一个热的温泉休息休息。 This would be a two group analysis where you have a thermal and a fast spectrum. 这个会是一个双群的分析,那样，你就有一个热能和快速的光谱。 If it does, a network of detectors could give us a more detailed picture of the thermal structure of the mantle. 如果是这样，一个探测器网络可以给我们提供关于热地幔结构的更详细的图片。 —————————————— thesis 论文 thesis n. 论文；论点 What do you think of the thesis? 你认为这篇论文怎样? Do some critical thinking and write your thesis statement down in one sentence. 做一些批判性的思考，并用一句话陈述出你的论点。 It is what you profess. Well, the thesis is also, another way to think of it, an answer to a question. 它就是你要表达的东西，这个论文也是，另一种思考它的方式，关于一个问题的答案。 —————————————— thirst 渴 thirst n. 渴望；口渴；热望 vi. 渴望；口渴 When everything is over, the thirst for life is gone. 一切都过去之后，对于生活的渴求也消散了。 Our God in His gracious thirst will drink us all, the dewdrop and the tear. 我们的上帝在他慈悲的干渴里，会把我们——露珠和眼泪——都喝下去。 Who drinks the poison may go astray; and they may have the unbearable hunger and thirst, or the strong curiosity. 谁喝了毒药可能走入歧途，他们可能有难以忍受的饥饿和干渴，或强烈的好奇心。 —————————————— thorn 刺 thorn n. 刺；[植] 荆棘 n. (Thorn)人名；(柬)通；(英)索恩；(法、德、丹、瑞典)托恩 She screamed out when she pricked her finger on a thorn. 她的手上扎了一根刺，她马上尖叫起来。 I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn. 我曾为我的玫瑰感谢你过一千次，却没有为我的刺感谢你过一次。 All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. 我们的一切只是噪音和钩刺，荆棘和喧嚣，我们谈论每一位祖先。 —————————————— threshold 阈值 threshold n. 入口；门槛；开始；极限；临界值 She caught her foot on the threshold and stumbled. 她的一只脚被门槛绊住而跌倒了。 “We have crossed an important threshold, ” he said. “我们获得了一个重要的开始，”他说。 Last night I was on the threshold of hell. 昨天夜里我是在地狱的门槛上。 —————————————— thrill 兴奋 thrill n. 激动；震颤；紧张 vt. 使…颤动；使…紧张；使…感到兴奋或激动 vi. 颤抖；感到兴奋；感到紧张 Hester looked at him with the thrill of another joy. 海丝特望着他，心头又是一阵喜悦的震颤。 It is quite a thrill to see a real movie star in the flesh. 看见电影明星本人是一件令人十分兴奋的事。 The emphasis is on the thrill of the moment, the buzz of rescuing the princess in the game. 重点在于游戏中拯救出公主时响起嗡鸣器声音那一时刻所带来的快感。 —————————————— tick 蜱虫 tick vt. 标记号于；滴答地记录 n. 滴答声；扁虱；记号；赊欠 vi. 发出滴答声；标以记号 n. (Tick)人名；(匈、芬)蒂克 Your job is to tick the names of those present at the meeting. 你的工作是在出席会议的人员的名字前面作记号。 The tickler pricked a tick on the nickname Nickel. 挠痒者在绰号“镍币”上刺了个勾号。 He put a tick by her name on the list. 在名单上他在她的名字旁打了一个勾号。 —————————————— tile 瓷砖 tile n. 瓷砖，瓦片 vt. 铺以瓦；铺以瓷砖 n. (Tile)人名；(俄、塞、萨摩)蒂勒 But he points out that most roofs, whether tile or asphalt-shingle, have a life span of 20 to 25 years. 但他指出，无论是屋瓦还是基于沥青材料的盖屋板，多数的屋顶的生命周期都约为20-25年。 Today, when I slipped on the wet tile floor a boy in a wheelchair caught me before I slammed my head on the ground. 今天，我跌倒在湿滑的瓷砖地上，在我的头快撞上地面的时候，一个坐轮椅的男孩一把抓住了我。 He feels the floor of the post office move beneath him, and he tries to turn his eyes from her, to ground his gaze in something solid: postbox, ceiling tile, window. 他感到邮局的地板在脚下移动，他试图把视线从她身上挪开，让他的注视停留在某种结实可靠的东西上：邮箱、天花板上的瓷砖、窗户。 —————————————— tilt 倾斜 tilt vi. 倾斜；翘起；以言词或文字抨击 vt. 使倾斜；使翘起 n. 倾斜 n. (Tilt)人名；(英)蒂尔特 The light is dying, for one thing, as Earth’s orbit around the sun and tilt on its axis combine to carry us in this hemisphere further away from receiving the sun’s rays most directly. 光线也在是失去活力，首先，由于地球绕着太阳的轨道，由于地球倾斜的轴线与我们所处的北半球相结合，最直接从太阳所接收到的光线，就愈为遥远。 To generate lift, a bird has merely to tilt its wings, adjusting the flow of air below and above them. 鸟儿们只要倾斜翅膀，对从身体上方和下方通过的气流稍作调整，就能产生抬升力。 Once underwater, you can use the 'look around' button to tilt the view and see the extent of this great undersea canyon. 一旦深入海里面，你就能够用‘四处看看’按钮来倾斜视觉和看到扩展到海地的峡谷。 —————————————— timber 木材 timber n. 木材；木料 n. (Timber)人名；(瑞典)廷贝尔 The sun checks timber. 太阳会晒裂木材。 They have tailed the timber in the wall. 他们已经将木料的一端嵌进墙里。 This is the cableway which the lumberjacks use to haul out their timber. 这就是林业工人用以运送木材的空中索道。 —————————————— timely 及时的 timely adj. 及时的；适时的 adv. 及时地；早 The pain worked off because he received timely treatment. 由于得到及时治疗，他的疼痛逐渐消失了。 So I think we are very timely with our new proposal that meets exactly the new requirements of the public. 所以我认为，我们现在提出新的计划是非常及时的，我们恰恰呼应了公众的新的要求。 Risk, by itself, will not threaten the success of a project if it is recognized and addressed in a timely fashion. 如果风险自身被公认为一种适时的方式的话，那么它将不会对项目的成功构成威胁。 —————————————— timid 胆小 timid adj. 胆小的；羞怯的 I’m not afraid of timid alligators, but hungry Burmese pythons give me the willies. 我并不害怕胆小的鳄鱼，但是饥饿的缅甸蟒蛇使我心惊肉跳。 For as timid and unsure of himself that Yao looks on the offensive end, it’s on defense where he is truly lacking, no more than an open-door that invites penetration. 由于姚明在进攻端对自己的状态不确定和看上去有点怯懦，使得他在防守端也会迷失一样，不再像敞开大门一样让对手轻松渗透进来。 Prior to the quake, Japan was a timid nation worrying about its eventual decline. 在地震前，日本是一个忧虑于它的最终衰退的胆小的民族。 —————————————— token 令牌 token n. 表征；代币；记号 adj. 象征的；表意的；作为对某事的保证的 vt. 象征；代表 When the task is complete, the number decreases as the token flows out and on to the next step. 当任务完成时，随着令牌流出并继续到达下一个步骤，活动任务实例数量减少。 She later proclaimed that all who pass under the plant would have no harm come to them, only a kiss, a token of love. 她后来宣布说所有从槲寄生下经过的人将不会受到伤害，而会得到一个象征爱情的吻。 After normalization of attributes, you can count on every token in an attribute being separated from its neighbors by whitespace. 在属性规范化后，可以依靠的属性中的每个记号是通过空白来与其邻居区分开来。 —————————————— tolerant 宽容 tolerant adj. 宽容的；容忍的；有耐药力的 Why are we tolerant of some crimes? 人们为什么会容忍某些罪行呢？ A tolerant person usually has breadth of mind. 有宽容精神的人通常胸襟开阔。 I tend to be tolerant of most vices in life, and also in investing. 我倾向于容忍生活中的大部分不道德行为，在投资方面也是如此。 —————————————— toss 扔 toss n. 投掷；摇荡；投掷的距离；掷币赌胜负 vt. 投掷；使…不安；突然抬起；使…上下摇动；与…掷币打赌 vi. 辗转；被乱扔；颠簸；掷钱币决定某事 n. (Toss)人名；(瑞典)托斯 I'll toss you for who pays the bill. 我和你掷钱币决定谁来付账。 I'll toss you for who does the cleaning. 我和你掷硬币决定谁来做打扫。 Australia won the toss and put England in to bat. 澳大利亚队掷币获胜，要求英格兰队首先击球。 —————————————— tow 拖 tow n. 拖；麻的粗纤维；拖曳所用之绳 vt. 拖；牵引；曳 vi. 被拖带；拖行 n. (Tow)人名；(东南亚国家华语)道 The glider uncoupled from the tow plane. 滑翔机与拖行机分开。 Such a dream took a step forward recently when a French team simulated how to tow an iceberg from the Arctic to countries that need fresh drinking water. 近来人们离这个梦想更近了一步，一个法国小组模拟了如何将冰山拖到需要清洁饮用水的国家。 A female cop surveys a field near a highway, her firearm in tow. 一位女警视察一处高速公路旁的田野时拖着她的枪。 —————————————— tract 束 tract n. 束；大片土地，地带；小册子 n. (Tract)人名；(英)特拉克特 It has been Marx’s misfortune that what he wrote as a tract for the times has been taken (by his supporters) as eternal truth or (by his critics) as an attempt thereat. 这是马克思的不幸，他为那个时代而写的小册子被（他的支持者们）当作是永久的真理或被（他的批评者们）当作一种有企图的威胁恐吓。 Fossils can only tell us so much about the shape of the vocal tract because much of it is soft tissue. 因为发音系统大部分是软组织，无缘变成化石，现存的化石也只能告诉我们一点呼吸道的形状。 These neurons are part of a bundle of spinal neurons called the spinothalamic tract, or STT. 这些神经细胞是束状脊髓神经的一部分，称为脊髓丘脑系统，或STT。 —————————————— tragic 悲剧 tragic adj. 悲剧的；悲痛的，不幸的 The tragic news distressed us all. 悲惨的消息使我们大家很悲伤。 And this turn of events is, as I said, tragic. 正如我前面所说的，事件的这种转变是悲惨的。 The tragic event is sharply etched into my memory. 那起悲惨的事件深深地铭刻在我的记忆中。 —————————————— trait 特征 trait n. 特性，特点；品质；少许 n. (Trait)人名；(法)特雷 How often do you show this trait? 你多久会展现出这种特质一次？ That was her trait. 那是她的特点。 For every trait, you can interpret it in a positive and a negative manner. 对于每一个特点，你都能用积极和消极的态度来解释它。 —————————————— transaction 事务 transaction n. 交易；事务；办理；会报，学报 Then we rollback this transaction. 然后我们回滚这个事务。 They derived a benefit from that transaction. 他们从那笔交易中获利。 For each of these types of resources, either the container or the provider helps to enlist the resource into the transaction. 对于这些类型资源中的每一种，容器或提供者都会帮我们把资源征调到事务中。 —————————————— transcend 超越 transcend vt. 胜过，超越 To free your mind you have to transcend the judge and the victim. 要使心灵得到解脱，必须超越法官和受害人。 What brings us together is that we have common interests which transcend those differences. 使我们走到一起的，是我们有超越这些分歧的共同利益。 As such, the emphasis tends to be on new approaches which transcend and outperform older methods of teaching and learning. 同样地，他们强调的重点趋向于一些新方法，这些新方法超越了那些教与学的旧方法。 —————————————— transient 瞬态 transient adj. 短暂的；路过的 n. 瞬变现象；过往旅客；候鸟 Their happiness was transient, for the war broke out soon after they got married. 他们的幸福是短暂的，因为他们婚后不久就爆发了战争。 It is transient in the sense that it exists only during the running of the process. 它仅在流程运行的过程中存在，从这个角度来讲，它是瞬态 的。 Consumer pleasures are transient. They engulf us for a short period and then they fade, like a drug. 消费快乐是短暂的，像麻醉剂一样，短时间内会吞没了我们，然后就很快消失了。 —————————————— transit 交通 transit n. 运输；经过 vt. 运送 vi. 经过 Transit systems regardless of size and capacity should have a plan for all possible disasters. 不管交通系统的规模和实力如何，都应该有一个应对所有可能灾害的计划。 Over on Maritime Community there was an article about Ship Spares In Transit and what the term means. 在海洋界，有一个条约是关于运输中的船用备件以及此条款的定义。 Whether your intentions are altruistic or selfish (or both), you owe it to yourself to explore the public transit options available to you in your city. 无论您的意图是利他还是利己（或者两者都有），您都应该利用那些您所在城市可用的公共交通选项。 —————————————— transition 过渡 transition n. 过渡；转变；[分子生物] 转换；变调 How and when do you hope to make the transition? 什么时候你希望以什么样的方式过渡？ Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and manhood. 青春期是儿童和成人阶段的过渡时期。 And the procedure should be consistent with defect status transition. 这些程序应该与缺陷状态的转换保持一致。 —————————————— transplant 移植 transplant vt. 移植；迁移；使移居 n. 移植；移植器官；被移植物；移居者 vi. 移植；迁移；移居 Poppies do not transplant well. 罂粟经不起移植。 Some plants do not transplant well. 有些植物不宜移植。 The doctors will transplant a human heart into the patient. 医生们将把一颗人的心脏移植到这个病人身上。 —————————————— traverse 遍历 traverse n. 穿过；横贯；横木 vt. 穿过；反对；详细研究；在…来回移动 vi. 横越；旋转；来回移动 adj. 横贯的 n. (Traverse)人名；(英)特拉弗斯；(法)特拉韦尔斯 Several railroads traverse the district. 有几条铁路线横贯这个地区。 Thus, it does not traverse the complete source code, unless you specify that action. 因此，它不会反对完成源代码，除非您明确规定这个行为。 They don't like dense forest either, so they traverse these high, open shoulders between the river and the woods, where they can see and run. 它们也不喜欢密集的树林，因此它们穿过河流和树林间这些高耸而开阔的山肩，在这里它们能够看得见，跑得快。 —————————————— trench 沟 trench n. 沟，沟渠；战壕；堑壕 vt. 掘沟 vi. 挖战壕；侵害 n. (Trench)人名；(英、西)特伦奇 The trench was bricked over. 壕沟被用砖覆盖起来了。 The race is on for the next human return to the deepest point in the ocean: the subduction zone of the Pacific's Mariana Trench. 有个比赛正在为选出下一个即将回到大海最深处的人上演：太平洋的马里亚纳海沟的潜没区域。 All places at the pacific trench, (the pacific ring of fire) should be evacuated now, because there will be earthquakes and volcanic explosions. 太平洋海沟的所有地方（太平洋火环带）应该立刻疏散，因为将有地震和火山爆发。 —————————————— tribe 部落 tribe n. 部落；族；宗族；一伙 n. (Tribe)人名；(英)特赖布 Your tribe members are those people who accept you just as you are, and who want the very best for you. 你的部落成员是那些因为是你而接受你的人，他们想要的是一个最真实最完美的你。 Couch surfers tend to see themselves as part of a tribe; unlike two people hooking up at a bar, they meet under an altruistic premise. 沙发冲浪者视自己为一个部落的成员。 不像在酒吧里面邂逅的两个人，他们在利他主义的前提下相遇。 Among tribal people all knowledge inherited by tradition is shared by all; it is taught to every member of the tribe so that in this respect everybody is equally equipped for life. 在部落中，通过传统继承的知识为所有人共享，并传授给部落中的每一个成员。 从这个意义上讲，人人受到的有关生活本领的教育是相等的。 —————————————— tribute 致敬 tribute n. 礼物；[税收] 贡物；颂词；（尤指对死者的）致敬，悼念，吊唁礼物 If you have not served, this is a great place to offer your thanks by uploading a tribute video. 若您还未服役，您可以通过上传致敬视频来表达谢意，这可是一个很棒的平台。 His goal celebration consists of pointing to the sky, a tribute to his mum Pat, who died in 2008. 他的进球庆祝动作由指向天空组成，这是为了向在2008年逝世的母亲表示致敬。 The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. 他是左手便利的。 以色列人托他送礼物给摩押王伊矶伦。 —————————————— trifle 蛋糕 trifle n. 琐事；蛋糕；少量 vi. 开玩笑；闲混；嘲弄 vt. 浪费；虚度 Don't lose your temper over such a trifle. 不要为这点小事发脾气。 He got himself all worked up over a trifle. 他为了一点小事而非常激动。 I failed to finish the assignment but I did experience life through a trifle which seemed easy but difficult to do well. 我没有完成这次作业，但我的确通过一件看似简单、却难做好的小事体验到了生活。 —————————————— trigger 触发 trigger vt. 引发，引起；触发 vi. 松开扳柄 n. 扳机；[电子] 触发器；制滑机 n. (Trigger)人名；(英)特里杰 To fire the gun, just pull the trigger. 开枪只需扣一下扳机就可以了。 This mentalist yearn easily trigger a large-scale consumption campaign. 这种心态容易引发一场大规模消费高潮。 With these functions, we can find out everything about the trigger or its context. 通过这些函数，我们可以查明关于触发器及其上下文的所有信息。 —————————————— triple 三倍 triple adj. 三倍的；三方的 n. 三倍数；三个一组 vi. 增至三倍 vt. 使成三倍 In some places, primary turnout was triple that of the last presidential election. 在某些地区，初选投票人数甚至是上届总统选举的三倍。 "If you go out to an Italian restaurant and you have triple cheese-meat-sausage lasagna but then you have a little olive oil on your bread, you're not doing much for your heart, " Rosenbloom says. “如果你在一家意大利餐馆里先享用了一份三重奶酪加肉的香肠烤宽面条，然后在你的面包上加一点橄榄油，这样对你的心脏并不会有什么好处。” 罗说。 After escaping from whaling boats 150 years ago, it quickly evolved to triple in size, and switched from herbivory to eating flesh. 自150年前从捕鲸船跑出来以后，这种家鼠很快就进化到原大小的三倍，由食草变成食肉。 —————————————— trivial 微不足道的 trivial adj. 不重要的，琐碎的；琐细的 Trivial formalities have been done away with. 繁琐礼节都取消了。 It's useless to fire away with such trivial details. 喋喋不休地谈这些琐碎细节是无用的。 Be patient. Don't lose your temper over trivial matters. 忍着点， 别为了一点小事发火。 —————————————— tuck 塔克 tuck vt. 卷起；挤进；用某物舒适地裹住；使有褶裥；收拢；大口吃；使隐藏 n. 食物；船尾突出部；缝摺；抱膝式跳水；活力；鼓声 vi. 缝褶裥；缩拢；舒服地裹在里面；大口吃 n. (Tuck)人名；(东南亚国家华语)德；(英)塔克 You can also tuck disposable heat packets into your mittens. 你也可以在手套里塞上一些一次性的热袋。 Stretch the top of your head toward the ceiling, and tuck your chin in slightly. 头向上抬起，头顶与天花板保持平行，并将下颌稍稍向内收拢。 Dehydrated fruits such as raisins, dates and dried cranberries keep well in plastic bags. Tuck a bag of raisins in your purse or bag for an easy snack. 脱水水果，如葡萄干干燥小红莓能在塑料袋保持良好品质.把一包葡萄干放在你的钱包或行李包里面作为轻松点心. —————————————— tug 拖轮 tug n. 拖船；拖曳；苦干 vi. 用力拉；竞争；努力做 vt. 用力拉；较量；用拖船拖 The ship steamed athwart the tug. 船朝着那条拖船横向驶去。 Finally, scientists measure the star's wobble due to the planet's gravitational tug, known as the radial velocity. 最后，科学家们测量恒星的摆动，由于地球的引力拖船，由于径向速度而闻名。 During translation, source and target language play a game of tug of war, creating an unceasing tension that may enrich our work-or not, depending on how well we can handle it. 在从事翻译的过程中，源语言和目标语言常常像是在玩儿“拔河”游戏，生成一种持续的“拉力”，也许会充实我们的工作——也许相反，这取决于我们如何能很好地把握它。 —————————————— tuition 学费 tuition n. 学费；讲授 I have no income and I have to pay my tuition. 我没有收入，还得付学费。 我是穷人里面最穷的。 But before you can even pay the tuition, you have to get in. 然而即使你能付得起学费，你必须要先入园才行。 So an applicant from China or another country could have an edge if he or she can pay full tuition. 因此，来自中国或是其它国家的申请将因能够支付全额学费而有一定的优势。 —————————————— tumble 下跌 tumble vi. 摔倒；倒塌；滚动；打滚；仓惶地行动 vt. 使摔倒；使滚翻；弄乱 n. 跌倒；翻筋斗；跌跤 [ 过去式tumbled 过去分词tumbled 现在分词tumbling ] Both of the wrestlers tried to tumble the adversary with all their strength. 双方摔跤运动员都使出了全身气力想把对手摔倒。 I shove forward one more time and, incredibly, the slab comes loose, and I tumble forward over it, caught in my own momentum. 我再一次向前猛推，难以置信的是，石碑松了，我向前跌倒在它上面，我自己的冲力使我摔倒。 At closing time, he saw a fellow tumble out of the bar, trip on the curb, and try his keys in five different cars before he found his. 酒吧打烊了，他看见一个家伙跌跌撞撞的跑出来，一下摔在路边，随后又用钥匙试着开了五辆车的门才找到他自己的车。 —————————————— turbulent 动荡不安的 turbulent adj. 骚乱的，混乱的；狂暴的；吵闹的；激流的，湍流的 The ship breasted the turbulent seas. 船顶着汹涌的海浪前进。(或：船破浪前进。) The present international situation remains tense and turbulent. 当前的国际局势依然紧张动荡。 In these turbulent times, there is only one answer: unity of purpose. 在这动荡的时刻，答案只有一个：统一目标。 —————————————— turnover 营业额 turnover n. 翻覆；[贸易] 营业额；流通量；半圆卷饼；失误 adj. 翻过来的；可翻转的 The store greatly reduced the prices to make a quick turnover. 这家商店实行大减价以迅速周转资金。 Please indicate your annual turnover, as this gives a sense of scale to the potential partnership you might form with the UN. 请注明您企业的年营业额，因为这会为您与联合国构建潜在的合作关系给出规模上的理解。 Velocity refers to speed, turnover, or movement. 周转率指速度、营业额，或者运动。 —————————————— tutor 导师 tutor vt. 辅导；约束 n. 导师；家庭教师；助教 vi. 当家庭教师；（美）在家庭教师指导下学习 What do you think of your tutor? 你觉得你的家庭教师怎么样？ Most parents have no time to tutor their children. 大部分家长没有时间辅导孩子。 How they did on the exam: Passed, with an assist from an unidentified tutor. 他们考得怎么样：“从一个不明身份的家教那里通过了考试。” —————————————— ultraviolet 紫外线 ultraviolet adj. 紫外的；紫外线的 n. 紫外线辐射，紫外光 When those species were viewed through ultraviolet detectors, the males had markedly different feathers than the females. 当通过紫外探测器来看这些物种时，雄性有与雌性明显不同的羽毛。 Scientists believe the sunburns are due to increasing levels of ultraviolet radiation resulting from the thinning ozone layer. 科学家们相信灼伤是因为臭氧层变薄，致使紫外线辐射等级增加而引起的。 The system is equipped with an ultraviolet lamp and a halogen lamp that produces near-infrared light. 该系统还配备了一个紫外线灯和一个能够生成近红外光的卤素灯。 —————————————— unanimous 一致 unanimous adj. 全体一致的；意见一致的；无异议的 But what do the other department managers think? Do we have unanimous agreement with this offer? 但是其它部门主管怎么想?对于这个提议.大家都一致同意吗? The view was unanimous and adamant: we must finish the job. 大家的观点是一致和坚定的：我们必须完成任务。 If jurors cannot reach a unanimous verdict on their first vote, they must hear the views of the presiding judge, after which they may decide by simple majority. 如果陪审员们在第一次投票时无法达成全体一致，他们必须听取主任法官的意见，这之后他们可以通过简单多数作出决定。 —————————————— underestimate 低估 underestimate vt. 低估；看轻 n. 低估 One should not underestimate the investment this model requires. 不要低估这种方式需要投入的成本。 If it helps, most of the time we underestimate the time we need. 如果它奏效了，大多数的时间我们低估了我们需要的时间。 We must never underestimate the power of these achievements. 我们决不能低估这些成就的影响。 —————————————— underlying 潜在的 underlying adj. 潜在的；根本的；在下面的；优先的 v. 放在…的下面；为…的基础；优先于（underlie的ing形式） He theorized that the underlying cause of the war was slavery. 他从理论上阐明这次战争的根本原因在于奴隶制度。 It provides an option to show the underlying command at the end of each wizard. 它提供的一个选项可以在每个向导结束时显示底层的命令。 That is to say: what is the underlying determination of identity and consciousness? 也就是说：，什么才是不同身份和意识,潜在的决定因素？ —————————————— undermine 破坏 undermine vt. 破坏，渐渐破坏；挖掘地基 His enemies are spreading rumours to undermine his authority. 他的敌人在散布谣言来暗中破坏他的威信。 That’s why I won’t accept any attempts to undermine the independence of this agency. 这就是为什么我不会容忍任何破坏这一机构的独立性的企图。 In fact, the huge inheritance does not do him any good, but tends to undermine his vigor and passion for life. 实际上，这么大笔的遗产对他不仅没有什么好处，反而会损害他的活力和对生活的激情。 —————————————— unemployment 失业 unemployment n. 失业；失业率；失业人数 She was burbling on her unemployment. 她絮絮不休她的失业问题。 We are battling against inflation and unemployment. 我们正与通货膨胀和失业做斗争。 His whole life is a fight against poverty and unemployment. 他的一生是与贫苦和失业斗争的一生。 —————————————— unfold 展开 unfold vt. 打开；呈现 vi. 展开；显露 He cannot glimpse his part in the great story that is about to unfold. 他无法瞥见自己在那段还未展开的史诗中所扮演的角色。 I would rather withhold than uphold you unfold the gold foil on the threshold. 我宁愿扣留而不支持你展开黄金箔在门槛上。 If you simply sit back and let life unfold without a clear focus, the results may not be to your liking. 如果你什么都不做也没有明确的目标，仅仅让生活自己展开，那你得到的结果也许并非是你所喜欢的。 —————————————— unify 统一 unify vt. 统一；使相同，使一致 Service Data Objects (SDOs) are designed to simplify and unify the way in which applications handle data. 设计服务数据对象（SDO）就是为了简化和统一应用程序处理数据的方式。 There was no excuse for what I did, but trying to come to grips with why I did it gave me at least a chance to finally unify my parallel lives. 我的过错是没有借口的，但我要试着好好想清楚我为何要这么做。 这至少能够提供一个机会，让我最终把我的平行生活统一成一条直线。 Because with 32 countries now participating in low-carbon trading schemes around the world, we will one day need a single commodity price for carbon to unify these diverse national efforts. 因在全球范围内已有32国家参与了低碳交易计划，为统一这些不同国家的努力我们将在某一天需要一个单一的碳商品价格。 —————————————— update 更新 update vt. 更新；校正，修正；使现代化 n. 更新；现代化 Do you have the update yet? 你是否已经有了这项更新呢？ In this case, it would store its decisions, and then update the array of nodes after its last decision. 在这种情况下，它将存储它的判定，然后在最后一个判定做出后更新数组的节点。 We use the update site in this example. 在本例中，我们将使用更新站点。 —————————————— upgrade 升级 upgrade vt. 使升级；提升；改良品种 n. 升级；上升；上坡 adv. 往上 adj. 向上的 You have to upgrade your computer. 你的计算机需要升级. You simply upgrade one disk then boot off it, and when you need to go back to the other version, simply boot off that disk instead. 只需升级一个磁盘，然后从它引导；当需要返回到另一个版本时，只需从另一个磁盘引导。 Do I really need this upgrade? 我真的需要这样的提升吗？ —————————————— uphold 维护 uphold vt. 支撑；鼓励；赞成；举起 It is one that, as President, I consider a moral obligation to uphold. 这是一项，作为总统，我认为是我要维护的神圣职责。 Germany will continue to firmly uphold the one-China policy and such a policy will never be changed under any circumstances. 德国将继续坚定不移地坚持一个中国政策。 无论出现什么情况，这一政策都不会改变。 We uphold our most cherished values not only because doing so is right, but because it strengthens our country and keeps us safe. 我们维护我们最珍视的价值观，不仅仅因为这样做是正确的，还因为它令我们的国家变的强大，令我们变的安全。 —————————————— validity 有效性 validity n. [计] 有效性；正确；正确性 So that satisfies the definition of validity. 所以这满足了有效性的定义。 Does this argument satisfy the definition of validity or does it not? 这个论点满足有效性的定义吗？,还是不满足？ While each of these might have some validity, in many cases the same general comments may also apply to many of the other projects you work on. 尽管其中每个问题可能具有某些正确性，但是在许多情况下，一般性评论还可能适用于您从事的其他项目。 —————————————— valve 阀 valve n. 阀；[解剖] 瓣膜；真空管；活门 vt. 装阀于；以活门调节 n. (Valve)人名；(俄、芬)瓦尔韦 We bled off the carradiator by opening a valve. 我们开阀从汽车的散热器中排气。 He quickly shut the valve, but one of his hand was hurt by a spine carelessly. 他快速地关闭了阀门，但他的一只手不小心被一个尖锐突起物划伤了。 So when the atria contract, the valves sandwiched between the atria and the ventricles open, and the blood in each atrium flows through its respective valve down into a ventricle. 所以当你的心房收缩时，夹在心房和心室之间的阀门就打开了，然后每个心房里的血液通过各自的阀门流向心室。 —————————————— vegetation 植被 vegetation n. 植被；植物，草木；呆板单调的生活 Some parts of the country are almost bare of vegetation. 该国有些地方几乎是草木不生。 The belt of vegetation that crosses Africa below the Sahara is very dark because most of the sunlight is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis. 在撒哈拉沙漠下方，横贯非洲中部的植被带颜色非常深，因为植物由于光合作用吸收了大多数太阳光。 The lake is now extinct, but our ancestors would have depended on the water and vegetation that grew around it. 湖泊现在灭绝了，但是我们的祖先可能曾经依赖于湖水和湖周围生长的植被。 —————————————— veil 面纱 veil n. 面纱；面罩；遮蔽物；托词 vt. 遮蔽；掩饰；以面纱遮掩；用帷幕分隔 vi. 蒙上面纱；出现轻度灰雾 n. (Veil)人名；(法)韦伊；(德)法伊尔 Both her veil and wreath are white. 她的面纱和花环都是白色的。 The veil she was wearing obscured her features. 她罩的面纱遮掩了她的面容。 Through science, he says, we can glimpse some basic structures of the reality beneath the veil, but much of it remains an infinite, eternal mystery. 他说，通过科学，我们可以瞥见实在在面纱下的某些基本结构，但它的大部分将保持无限和永久的神秘。 —————————————— vein 静脉 vein n. 血管；叶脉；[地质] 岩脉；纹理；翅脉；性情 vt. 使成脉络；象脉络般分布于 n. (Vein)人名；(英)维因；(塞)魏因 The doctor injects glucose into the patient's vein. 医生把葡萄糖注射入病人的静脉。 Look at these pictures: the children only cry because they can’t find another vein for an injection. 看这些图片：孩子们只能痛哭，因为他们已经不能找到身体上其他的静脉让他们注射毒品。 I occasionally doze off, only to be awakened by the agonizing pain of another collapsed vein and infiltrating fluids. 我时不时地会打一会瞌睡，但每次都被静脉萎缩和输液的液体漏出引起难忍的痛苦弄醒。 —————————————— vent 发泄 vent n. （感情的）发泄；出口；通风孔 vt. 发泄感情；放出…；给…开孔 vi. 放出；（通过排泄等）减轻压力 n. (Vent)人名；(德)芬特；(英、捷、芬)文特 We need to vent our feelings. 我们需要发泄我们的情感。 I understand why you need to vent. 我很理解问什么你需要发泄。 She longed to be alone that she might give full vent to her sorrow and despair. 她渴望独处， 以便充分发泄悲痛和失望的心情。 —————————————— ventilate 通风 ventilate vt. 使通风；给…装通风设备；宣布 Ventilate as much as possible to completely air out the room or spill zone with outside air. 尽可能地通风，以彻底用室外空气置换房间或泄漏区域的空气。 Safety officials said it would take at least 96 hours to ventilate the mine of deadly methane gas to make it safe for search crews to enter. 安全官员们说，要给弥漫着甲烷这种致命气体的矿井通风至少96小时，救援人员才能安全下井搜救。 For newly-decorated houses, residents should let them ventilate for several months before moving in. 对于新装修的房屋，居民应该放置几个月，让室内通风，然后再入住。 —————————————— verbal 口头 verbal adj. 口头的；言语的；动词的；照字面的 n. 动词的非谓语形式 Choose one thing each from your first list, and make a verbal agreement to continue to do it. 从你们的第一张表里选择一件事，达成口头的协定继续这样做下去。 Ask for your purpose in this state of stillness without expecting a verbal answer from your mind. 在这种宁静的状态下询问你的目标，不要指望从你大脑里得到一个口头的答案。 Then, choose one thing each from your second list, and make a verbal agreement to each other to improve or change it. 然后从你们的第二张表里选择一件事，达成口头的协定去改进或者改变它。 —————————————— verdict 判决 verdict n. 结论；裁定 The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. 陪审团宣布了被告无罪的裁决。 Two of the judges disagreed with the verdict. 两位法官对此裁决有异议。 She popped off about the injustice of the verdict. 她怒气冲冲地说判决的不公平。 —————————————— verge 边缘 verge vi. 濒临，接近；处在边缘 n. 边缘 n. (Verge)人名；(英)弗奇；(西)贝尔赫 Albania was on the verge of turning into another Cuba or North Korea. 阿尔巴尼亚处于转变成另一个古巴或北朝鲜的边缘。 This long-drawn-out war brought their country's finance to the verge of bankruptcy. 这场旷日持久的战争使他们国家财政濒于破产的边缘。 Many of us feel that we ask ourselves these questions because we’re on the verge of regressing back into the shadows of mediocracy. 很多人都会不由自主的向自己问这些问题，因为此时的我们正处在倒退回到平庸的影子的边缘。 —————————————— versatile 多才多艺的 versatile adj. 多才多艺的；通用的，万能的；多面手的 He is a nimble and versatile wit. 他是一个机敏而又多才多艺的才子。 The more versatile the tool, the less you can predict how people will use it. 这个工具越多才多艺，你越难以预计人们可以用它来做些什么。 In this article, you learned how to create a very versatile OBEX client application. 在这篇文章中，学习了如何创建通用的 OBEX 客户机应用程序。 —————————————— verse 节 verse n. 诗，诗篇；韵文；诗节 vi. 作诗 vt. 使熟练，使精通 n. (Verse)人名；(德)费尔泽 He is good at verse. 他善于作诗。 Please turn this piece of prose into verse. 请把这段散文改写成诗歌。 Peter gives two explicit answers in verse 38 to what they need—what we need. 彼得给出了两个在38至诗他们需要什么，我们需要明确的答案。 —————————————— versus 与 versus prep. 对；与...相对；对抗 Today's football match is France versus Brazil. 今天的足球赛是法国队对巴西队。 Second,interest in people versus things and abstract rule systems. 第二，对人、事物和抽象规律系统的兴趣。 What functionality should go in this release versus the next patch release, given our window of opportunity? 在已知机会的大小的情况下，对比下一个修补版本，在此版本中应该加入什么功能？ —————————————— veto 否决 veto n. 否决权 vt. 否决；禁止 vi. 否决；禁止 The president used the power of veto. 总统行使了他的否决权。 The chairman has the right to veto any of the board's proposals. 董事长有权否决董事会的任何建议。 I had a decision to make. I could sign the bill into law and have a good road program paid for in an unfair way, or veto it and have no road program at all. 我面临着一个选择：我可以在提案上签字，将其变为法律，通过不公平的方式来为修建道路这个有益的计划搞到资金；我也可以否决它，完全放弃修建道路的计划。 —————————————— vicinity 附近 vicinity n. 邻近，附近；近处 The new black hole, which weighs as much as billions of suns, begins devouring everything in its vicinity. 这个新的黑洞，是太阳质量的几十亿倍，并且开始吞噬附近所有的一切。 The belt, which extends from a few hundred to about 2000 kilometers above Earth, "constitutes the most abundant source of antiprotons in Earth's vicinity," Bruno says. “这条带在地球以上几百公里到大约2000公里处延伸着，构成了地球附近最为丰富的反质子储存库，”布鲁诺说。 If a tuning fork is struck and another tuning fork of the same pitch is in the vicinity, the second one will ring in concert with the first. 如果一个音叉被敲击，同样音高的另一个音叉在附近，第二个音叉将会与第一个音叉和谐地形成回响。 —————————————— vicious 恶性 vicious adj. 恶毒的；恶意的；堕落的；有错误的；品性不端的；剧烈的 n. (Vicious)人名；(英)维舍斯 And so the vicious cycle begins. 就这样，恶性循环又开始了。 The world was stunned by the vicious defamation. 这种恶意诽谤令世界震惊。 These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. 这些恶毒的行为把我们所有人都放到了核心处，因为那其实是对人权的攻击。 —————————————— violate 违反 violate vt. 违反；侵犯，妨碍；亵渎 So how we do violate our own moral code? 那么，我们又是怎样违背自己的道德准则的呢？ Any attempt to insert records into a child table that violate this rule will result in an error. 任何操作想要违背此规则将数据插入一个子表中，将会导致产生一个错误。 Think of cases that violate them when reviewing the spec. 当审查规格时考虑一下违反它们的情况。 —————————————— virgin 维珍 virgin adj. 处女的；纯洁的；未经利用的，处于原始状态的 n. 处女 Which made me a virgin with no end in sight — a daunting predicament. 这样我还是一个处女，但视野没有尽头——一个退缩的困境。 No wonder so many men—in this country and around the world—are obsessed with finding a virgin. 难怪在这个国家以及世界各地有那么多男人都那么着迷于找到一个处女。 As if that wasn't enough, the biggest reason to stay a virgin was because sex is sacred —it creates life, and therefore is an act that unites us with God. 好像那样还不充分，保持处女的最大的原因是因为性是神圣的——它产生生命，所以那是一个把我们与上帝联合在一起的行为。 —————————————— virtual 虚拟 virtual adj. [计] 虚拟的；实质上的，事实上的（但未在名义上或正式获承认） That displays any virtual machine instances you have. 这显示您拥有的任何虚拟机实例。 Two other concepts you should be familiar with are virtual Ethernet and shared Ethernet. 您应该熟悉的另外两个概念是虚拟以太网和共享以太网。 And in virtual reality, the outside world and all its inhabitant effectively ceases to exist. 在虚拟现实中，外部世界和及其所有居民有效的停止了存在。 —————————————— virus 病毒 virus n. [病毒] 病毒；恶毒；毒害 n. (Virus)人名；(西)比鲁斯 All of the software would be napoohed by such a virus. 这种病毒能毁坏整个软件。 The virus has infected the operating system of his computer. 病毒已使他的计算机操作系统受到传染。 We said you could still do that without the virus. 我们说，没有病毒你也可以做这些。 —————————————— visualize 可视化 visualize vt. 形象，形象化；想像，设想 vi. 显现 I cannot visualize what he looked like. 我想像不出他是什么样子。 You can visualize all of your code and look for references, or you can do a Find, looking for text in your code. 您可以将您所有的代码都可视化，并且寻找引用，或者您可以做一个查询，寻找代码中的文本。 Either way, the leader must be able to visualize where he wants to be, where he wants his company to be, or where he wants his family to be. 无论是哪一种，一个领导者必须要设想好他的目标，他想在公司里达到什么位置，或者他想在他的家庭里有什么地位。 —————————————— vocal 直言不讳的 vocal adj. 歌唱的；声音的，有声的 adj. 直言不讳的 n. 声乐作品；元音 n. Vocal)人名；(西)博卡尔 Those dogs were debarked by removal of the true vocal cords. 那些狗被切除了声带。 He built these two warbling toasters, gave them both a vocal range and the ability to adapt, then put them in a room together for two weeks. 他造了这两个鸣啭啁啾的烤面包机，给了它们一个声带范围和适应能力，然后把它们放在同一个房间里两个星期。 Each call has an animal's unique vocal stamp on it. 每一声叫唤都带有一个动物独特的声音印章。 —————————————— vocational 职业 vocational adj. 职业的，行业的 They should not, as the levels of education offered by different vocational schools are unequal. 他们不应如此，因为不同职业学校提供的教育水平是不等的。 We now have students who do vocational qualifications at a skills centre in a more hands-on way. 目前我们有从事职业资格的学生在技能中心以更加亲身实践体验方式学习。 I am from a vocational school. 我是从职业学校出来的。 —————————————— void 无效 void adj. 空的；无效的；无人的 n. 空虚；空间；空隙 vt. 使无效；排放 n. (Void)人名；(俄)沃伊德 The will was adjudged void. 那份遗嘱被宣告无效。 There was an aching void in his heart. 他心中有悲痛的空虚感. We can do this because of the void response for both the requestor and provider. 我们可以这样做是因为请求者和提供者中的响应都是无效的。 —————————————— volunteer 志愿者 volunteer n. 志愿者；志愿兵 adj. 志愿的 vi. 自愿 vt. 自愿 And for this I need one volunteer. 为此，我需要一个志愿者。 I volunteer because I have the time. 我参加志愿者是因为我有时间。 But if you like, I can arrange a visit from a canine volunteer. 但是如果你愿意的话，我可以安排一位“狗义工”来看你。 —————————————— vulgar 粗俗的 vulgar adj. 粗俗的；通俗的；本土的 n. 平民，百姓 The speaker played to the gallery by indulging in vulgar jokes. 为了哗众取宠， 那位演讲者大讲特讲粗俗的笑话。 Beneath his tissue-thin veneer of good manners,he was a very vulgar man. 剥去他那彬彬有礼的薄层外表，他其实是个很庸俗的人。 Nobody ever suggested that he was corrupt, or ambitious in any vulgar way, or that anything he did was actuated by fear or malice. 没有任何人用任何粗俗的方式提到过他腐败或者有野心，或者他做的任何事是由恐惧或者敌意促成的。 —————————————— vulnerable 脆弱的 vulnerable adj. 易受攻击的，易受…的攻击；易受伤害的；有弱点的 What causes me to feel this vulnerable and guarded? 是什么让我觉得如此脆弱和谨慎？ Not only network is vulnerable, any piece of software is. 不仅网络是脆弱的，任何一个软件都是脆弱的。 In fact, it may be one of the few places where they can make themselves feel entirely vulnerable to another human being. 实际上，这也是为数不多的一个地方，能让他们在面对另一个人时，完全展露出自己脆弱的一面。 —————————————— wallet 钱包 wallet n. 钱包，皮夹 n. (Wallet)人名；(英)沃利特；(法)瓦莱 Someone ripped off my wallet. 有人偷了我的钱夹子。 He tucked his wallet into a pocket. 他把钱包塞进一个口袋里。 He picked up a wallet in the street and gave it to a policeman. 他在街上拾到一个钱包，把它交给了警察。 —————————————— ward 病房 ward n. 病房；保卫；监视 vt. 避开；保卫；守护 n. (Ward)人名；(英)沃德；(德、芬、瑞典、葡)瓦尔德 He tiptoed out of the ward. 他蹑着脚走出病房。 The problem is likely to be the way Ward chooses to describe that catastrophe. 这个问题很可能就是沃德选择用来描述这场灾难的方式。 According to hospital records, no patients in the ward where she worked showed signs of influenza-like illness while hospitalized. 根据医院记录，在她工作的病房里，没有患者在住院期间显示象流感一样的疾病体征。 —————————————— warehouse 仓库 warehouse n. 仓库；货栈；大商店 vt. 储入仓库；以他人名义购进（股票） The large warehouse backs on to the river. 这大货栈背朝江河。 I stored up the old furniture in the warehouse. 我把旧家具存放在了仓库里。 Bales of cotton were piled up in the warehouse. 大捆大捆的棉花堆积在仓库里。 —————————————— warfare 战争 warfare n. 战争；冲突 Metal-wheeled chariots are the prototype of the tanks of modern warfare. 金属轮战车是现代战争中坦克的原型。 Even among the various tribes of the First Nations there was warfare and invasion long before any Europeans showed up in the Americas. 即使在那些第一民族的各个部落里，在欧洲人在美国出现的很早之前就已经有了战争和侵略。 In "Class Warfare, " he proposes a range of ways to fix the education system. 在《课堂战争》一书中，他提出了完善教育体系的一系列方法。 —————————————— warrant 保证 warrant n. 根据；证明；正当理由；委任状 vt. 保证；担保；批准；辩解 Therefore, it is important to note that individual situations may warrant including additional characters in the list of special characters. 因此，要注意可能保证把额外字符包括到特殊字符列表中的个别情况，这一点很重要。 At Dean Miller's suggestion, I have allowed her to give the current student organizers the opportunity to propose a program for next semester that might warrant continuation of this event on campus. 根据米勒学监的建议，我允许她给学生机会，让他们给下学期的活动提出一个方案，保证这个活动得以在校园内继续开展。 Their findings support restrictions on lighting up within a few feet of other people. But they don't warrant more than that. 他们的观测结果支持了对在他人几尺之外吸烟的限制，但是除此之外，它们并不能证明更多。 —————————————— watertight 水密 watertight adj. 水密的；不漏水的；无懈可击的 The impact buckled the Titanic's hull and sent sea water pouring into six of its supposedly watertight compartments. 撞击使得泰坦尼克号的船体发生弯曲，海水随之涌进了六个本该不进水的水密舱室。 It aims to preserve "the Mediterranean diet" and "the watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks" among many other traditions. 该保护名录旨在保护文化，包括：地中海饮食、中国帆船的水密舱壁技术。 Though the Katmai had watertight doors, they were not in good condition, and the crew often left them open at sea. 尽管卡特迈号上设置了水密门，但维护状况都较差，出航的时候船员们就让水密门一直敞开着。 —————————————— watt 瓦特 watt n. 瓦特 n. (Watt)人名；(英、葡)瓦特 The number of lumens a bulb produces for each watt it consumes. 一个灯管消耗每单位瓦特所产生的流明数。 The Bank will evoke the memory of the inventor James Watt and his Birmingham business partner, Matthew Boulton on the new note. 英格兰银行将在新版钞票上唤起对发明家詹姆斯·瓦特和他的伯明翰商业伙伴马修·博尔顿的回忆。 During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450-watt turbine up the mast. 白天，“肉豆蔻”可以通过舵手室里的太阳能电池板，收集太阳能，和桅杆上一个450瓦特的涡轮机。 —————————————— weary 疲惫的 weary adj. 疲倦的；厌烦的；令人厌烦的 vi. 疲倦；厌烦 vt. 使疲倦；使厌烦 The weary priest droned a prayer. 疲惫不堪的牧师喃喃地念祷词。 He haggled home and felt very weary. 他蹒跚地走回家，感到十分疲乏。 Young people weary of countless restrictions and fetters. 年轻人对各种清规戒律感到厌烦。 —————————————— web 网络 web n. 网；卷筒纸；蹼；织物；圈套 vt. 用网缠住；使中圈套 vi. 形成网 A spider can spin a web. 蜘蛛会结网。 I found this on the web. 这是我在网上找到的。 She entrapped herself in the web of her own lies. 她陷入了自己编造的谎话罗网。 —————————————— wedge 楔 wedge vt. 楔入；挤进；楔住 vi. 楔入；挤进 n. 楔子；楔形物；导致分裂的东西 n. (Wedge)人名；(英)韦奇 Please wedge this cabinet to keep it from tipping. 请在橱底楔入楔子以防它倾斜。 Then, you can look at the amount of area inside this triangular wedge. 然后你可以看到在这三角形楔形物里的面积。 Prized vintages from the 19th century have sold for thousands of dollars a wedge. 正如19世纪珍贵的葡萄酒现在可以卖到数千美元一楔。 —————————————— whereas 而 whereas conj. 然而；鉴于；反之 Whereas the following incidents have occurred. 鉴于下列事实已经发生，… Whereas, right now we only have access to this memory. 然而，现在我们只能使用这个内存。 He had never done anything for them, whereas they had done everything for him. 他从未为他们做过任何事，反之他们却为他做了所有事。 —————————————— whereby 即 whereby adv. 凭借；通过…；借以；与…一致 Every attribute in the data set should be normalized, whereby each value is divided by the difference between the high value and the low value in the data set for that attribute. 数据集内的每个属性都应该是规格化的，因此，每个值均除以该属性在数据集内的最高值与最低值间的差值。 This imbalance, whereby foreigners sell their goods to America in exchange for its assets, was one potential cause of the country's financial crisis. 凭借外国人出售商品给美国人用来交换美国的资产，这种失衡是引起国家金融危机的一个潜在因素。 He was instrumental in designing the federal system of government whereby the states would share power with a central authority. 他参与设计了联邦政府体制，各州后来根据这一体制在中央政府的领导下平分权力。 —————————————— whirl 旋转 whirl n. 旋转，回旋；昏乱；一连串的事；短暂的旅行 vi. 旋转，回旋；急走；头晕眼花 vt. 使旋转；卷走，飞快地带走 To free electrons, something has to make them whirl fast enough to break away from their nuclei. 为了释放电子，必须使电子高速旋转而足以摆脱原子核的束缚。 Sometimes a waltz is being played, and against the green background the black profiles whirl obstinately like those cut-out silhouettes that are attached to a phonograph's turntable. 有时，当华尔兹演奏之际，绿色背景上的黑色侧影固执地旋转着，就像是附在唱机唱盘上的人像侧影一遍。 In any case, I learn not to separate these creatures bursting with violent energy from the sky where their desires whirl. 总之，我明白了，不应拆散这些有着狂暴精力的生物，他们爆发出的精力源于天空，他们的欲念亦回旋于九霄之上。 —————————————— withhold 保留 withhold vt. 保留，不给；隐瞒；抑制 vi. 忍住；克制 Only in the administration's second year did it withhold some aid. 奥巴马政府执政第二年才保留了一部分的支援。 They must be prepared to justify any exemption and to withhold only the exempt portion of any record while releasing the balance. 它们必须准备对任何例外作出解释，并且只得保留符合例外的内容，而将其余部分公开。 The emails made front-page news for several weeks and prompted a torrent of allegations about the conduct of some climate scientists and their attempts to withhold data. 这些电子邮件在几个星期里成为了头版新闻，而且带来了关于一些气候科学家的行为以及他们保留数据的尝试的大量指控。 —————————————— wrench 扳手 wrench n. 扳手，扳钳；扭伤；痛苦；歪曲；猛扭 vt. 扭伤；猛扭；曲解；折磨 vi. 扭伤；猛扭；猛绞 n. (Wrench)人名；(英)伦奇 Could you reproduce the wrench? 你能复制这个扳手吗？ I had to run around to several shops to get that wrench. 我跑了好几家商店， 才找到那种扳手。 As you go, apply slightly more pressure with the wrench until you have all the pins lifted up. 过程中，要不断略微增加在扳手上的力量直到你将所有的针脚都挑起来。 —————————————— wretched 可怜的 wretched adj. 可怜的；卑鄙的；令人苦恼或难受的 Wretched flocks of maids labour so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body. 可怜的成群女佣在一块儿劳作，那么奸妇可能穿过她那薄薄的裙子看到，因此她的丈夫再也不比任何外人或陌生人更熟悉他妻子的身体。 Fine, so we’ve all been there: You’re walking down the street, minding your own business, when out of nowhere, a beautiful dog emerges and wreaks like the most wretched thing on the planet. 好，假设我们现在是这样的情况：你正沿着一条街走，想着自己的事。 突然，一只长得不错的狗不知道从哪里走了出来，并且像最卑鄙的东西一样报复世界。 Yet within China economic growth was pathetic and living conditions were wretched. 然而在中国，经济增长是乏力的，生活条件是悲惨的。 —————————————— wrinkle 皱纹 wrinkle n. 皱纹 vi. 起皱 vt. 使起皱纹 His brow has acquired its first wrinkle. 他的额头已出现第一条皱纹。 Imagine a tub of frozen yoghurt, not a single line or wrinkle. 想象一下一桶没有一条线或皱纹的冻酸奶吧。 When skin is dry, says Narins, every wrinkle is accentuated, making you look older. 如果皮肤是干性的，她说，每个皱纹都会很显眼，让你显得更老。 —————————————— yacht 游艇 yacht vi. 乘游艇，驾游艇 n. 游艇，快艇；轻舟 n. (Yacht)人名；(英)约特 He starred the yacht racing for his country. 他为他的祖国在帆船运动中曾创造过光辉。 But he owns a flashy yacht and bought a Pacific island a few years ago. 但是他拥有一艘炫目的游艇并在几年前买了一个太平洋小岛。 The crisis hit the wallets of almost all classes of yacht buyers, among them investment bankers and those who made their fortunes from high commodity prices. 此次危机几乎让各层次的游艇买家钱包受损，其中包括投资银行家，以及那些靠大宗商品价格高企发财的人。 —————————————— yell 大喊 yell vi. 大叫，叫喊 n. 喊声，叫声 vt. 喊叫着说 Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. 一定让孩子的名字以元音结尾，这样当你喊叫时，这样的名字会助你一臂之力。 After that, when I'd come to school, they would throw a hail of pebbles and yell things like, Here comes Jehovah! 在那以后，我到学校时，石头子像冰雹似地向我打来，他们还叫喊'耶和华来了!' 之类的话。 Yell, scream, fight and run from any potential abductor. 大喊、尖叫、搏斗和逃离可能的拐骗者。 —————————————— yoke 轭 yoke n. 轭；束缚；牛轭 vt. 结合；给…上轭 vi. 结合；匹配 n. (Yoke)人名；(日)与家(姓) So we can harness them to the yoke? 因此 我们可以给他们装上枷锁？ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 因为我的轭是容易的，我的担子是轻省的。 As a farmer, you should learn how to yoke the oxen together. 作为农民，你应该学会怎样把一对牛用轭连起来。 —————————————— youngster 年轻人 youngster n. 年轻人；少年 Gender and family income did not explain the relationship between BMI and financial help, nor did whether or not a youngster engaged in risky behavior. 性别和家庭收入不能解释BMI和财务帮助的关系，也不能解释一个年轻人是否热衷于冒险行为。 Roberto Mancini has recently been full of praise for the youngster, and recent comments he made in the Italian press would suggest he is one of the biggest admirers of the England star. 罗伯托.曼奇尼近期对这个年轻人大加赞赏，而且他在意大利新闻发布会上刚做出的评价暗示卡罗尔将会成为英格兰明显最大钦佩者之一。 Jiang said he was proud to back the youngster. 江逢灿说他对能支持这个年轻人感到自豪。 —————————————— zinc 锌 zinc vt. 镀锌于…；涂锌于…；用锌处理 n. 锌 Copper and zinc are fused to make brass. 铜与锌熔合后形成黄铜。 Zinc displaces the hydrogen of dilute acids. 锌置换了稀酸中的氢。 Some microbes like nothing better than to be nestled in a toxic sludge of heavy metals like zinc, arsenic and cadmium. 对于一些微生物而言，没有什么比生活在充满了锌、砷和镉之类的重金属的有毒淤泥中更加惬意的。 ——————————————