例句:Even very young children learn by imitation; by watching how others act when they see someone in
distress, these children acquire a repertoire of sensitive response.
即使非常幼小的孩童也能通过模仿来学习。他们观察别人对伤心着的反应,从中学习到很多情绪反应,并存在
记忆中。
adapt 适应 同义词:adjust
例句:John Woo believes the communists are too smart to kill a cash cow like the Hong Kong movie business
and that local moviemakers will adapt.
address 处理 反义词:ignore
例句:Scientists first raised alarms about climate change in the late 1980s, but the inernational community
has taken few concrete steps to address the problem .
科学家首先在1980年代末期提出对气候改变的警告,但是国际社会未采取什么具体行动处理这个问题。
affect 影响
例句:They insist that the issue (work-family dilemma) be seen as affecting both men and women.
他们坚持认为,(工作与家庭难以兼顾)这个问题应该被视为对男性与女性双方都有影响。
amount 等于
例句:That morning in Seattle, addressing hundreds of analysts and media, Gates hit a rare rhetorical
high, offering up what amounted to his new digital gospel.
那天早上在西雅图,盖茨对数百名分析家与媒体人士,以罕见的慷慨激昂措辞,发表了一篇声明,等于揭示
了他对于数字时代的新信条。
appeal 呼吁
例句:In a letter released after his death, Dent appealed to those who attacked his decision : "if you
disagree with voluntary euthanasia, then don't use it, but don't deny me the right to use it if and
when I want to."
在邓特死后所公开的一封信中,他呼吁那些攻击他所作决定的人:‘如果你不赞成自愿安乐死,那就不要采用它,
可是如果我想采用,以及决定什么时候采用,也请尊重我的权利。’ appreciate 喜欢
例句:Patients appreciate the service, and the physicians seem to enjoy providing it.
患者喜欢这项服务,医生似乎也乐意提供。
arouse 引起
例句:Any stranger who wanted to buy a large amount of ANFO (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil) would immediately
arouse suspicion
凡是想大批购买硝酸铵和燃料油的来路不明之士,都会立即令人生疑。
assemble 组合 同义词:gather
例句:Prosecutors sought to assemble a detailed chronology of the murder night with a parade of witnesses.
检察官陆续访谈了多名证人,以拼组出谋杀案当晚的详细过程。
assert 主张 同义词:declare
例句:Finally, since quantum physics asserts that matter and energy are interchangeable, we are not individual
beings at all but merely local expressions of an infinite, universal field of energy.
最后,既然量子物理主张物质和能量可以互换,那么我们根本不是独立的个体,只不过是宇宙间无限能量场的局部表现
而已。
assign 指派
例句:The new top officer of the Navy... promised to speed up plans to assign women to all surface vessels and
perhaps even allow them aboard submarines, the Navy's last all-male bastion.
这位新上任的海军高级官员承诺,加速推动派遣女兵登上各舰只服务的计划,甚至可能让女兵进驻潜水艇-- 这个抗拒女性
进入海军的最后据点。
associate 将...什么联想在一起
例句:Comets have long been associate with war, upheaval and disaster.
长久以来,人们总把彗星与战争、动乱和灾难联系在一起。
assure 保证 同义词:guarantee
例句:But even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top
standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry.
这是历尽艰苦奋战才得到的成功,即使如此,也不表示美国运通公司必能在营业额达5620亿美金的信用卡业务中
如愿重登龙头宝座。美国运通公司与1989年失去这项宝座。
ban 禁止 同义词:prohibit bar
例句:Beijing bans overseas exhibits of pre-Ming dynasty paintings and calligraphy because of the extreme
vulnerability of the ancient brocade silk and paper.
北京禁止明朝以前的书画出国展览,因为年代久远的锦缎、丝绸与纸张极为脆弱。
betray 背叛
例句:They take a soap-opera plot - betrothed teenager falls for a stranger, perfect mother is betrayed by
her neighbors, ex-prostitute tries to live an honorable life...
他们采用通俗肥皂剧的剧情:如已定亲的少年爱上了陌生人;贤妻良母遭邻居出卖;从良的妓女想过有尊严的生活...
boast 夸耀
例句:Boasts Mayor Bill Campbell: "During the Olympics Atlanta will be the safest city in this country,
certainly, and on the globe , probably."
市长坎贝尔夸口说:奥运会间,亚特兰大将是全国,甚至可能是全世界最安全的地方。
champion 提倡 同义词:advocate
例句:Psychiatrist Weiss is perhaps the most exotic champions reincarnation therapy.
心理医生布莱恩-韦斯可能是最特异的一位,他提倡轮回疗法。
characterize 有...特征 同义词:describe
例句:"I can't characterize my music as religious, although religious music is very close and dear to me,"
says Kancheil, a devout Orthodox Christian.
"我不能把自己的音乐视为宗教音乐,虽然宗教音乐我常接触,而且是我所挚爱。" 虔诚的东正教徒坎切利如是说。
claim 声称 同义词:maintain
例句:In fact, authorities claim that one-third of Taiwan's more than 1200 known "black societies" were
dissolved during the amnesty.
事实上,当局声称,台湾已知的1200多个黑社会帮派中,有1/3在这次特赫中解散。
collapse 崩溃
例句:As baby boomers save for retirement, colleges for the kids or a rainy day(say, when the U.S.Social
Security system collapse), their investment rates will soar.
婴儿潮时期出生的人口正在存钱以备养老、儿女的教育基金或是不时之需(例如一旦美国社会保险制度崩溃时),
所以他们的投资比例会大幅增加.
a rainy day 将来可能会有的苦日子
collie 碰撞 同义词:crash into
例句:Traveling at speeds of 130, 000 m.p.h. , mountainsize fragment of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 tore
huge holes in Jupiter's atmosphere throughout the week, giving astronomers a glimpse of the titanic
forces released when clestial object collide.
整整一星期,“苏梅克-列维9号” 彗星的众多碎片,以庞大如山的身躯、13万英里的时速,将木星的大气层冲出数个
大洞,让天文学家得以一窥星体相撞所释放出的巨大力量。
command 博得(尊敬)
例句:Along with enthusiasm, sumo commands a large measure of reverence.
除了狂热之外,相扑还博得民众普遍的尊敬。
compel 逼迫
例句:They tired to push me , a Russian general, to shoot my own people in the capital of my own state.
No such force exists that would compel me to do this .
身为俄国将领,他们要我在祖国的首都射杀同胞,但世上任何力量都不能逼迫我去做这样的事。
compromise 妥协
例句:If they think I am prepared to compromise, they're in fantasy land.
如果他们以为我打算妥协,那他们是在做梦。
concede 承认 同义词:admit acknowledge
例句:After three decades of spraying fire-ant territory with the killer compounds, however, the U.S.
government was forced to concede defeat.
然而,在火蚁分布地区用杀虫剂喷洒了年后,美国政府不得不承认失败。
condemn 谴责 同义词:denounce 反义词:praise endorse
例句:Washington has been urging Afafat to condemn the terrorism.
华盛顿当局一直在敦促阿拉法特谴责恐怖主义
conduct 经营 同义词:carry out
例句:The project, called the New Economic Equation, conducted focus groups around the U.S.with men and women
on all rungs of the socioeconomic ladder.
这个称为"新经济等式"的计划,针对美国国内一些特定群体来进行,研究这些来自各个社会经济阶层的男男女女。
confront 面对 同义词:face
例句:It's hard to love someone who we see as an enemy, someone who kills children for profit. But God says
we must love confront them with the truth of their sin.
要我们为眼中的敌人,以及为利而杀死孩童的人付出爱心,是不容易的事,但上帝说我们必须爱敌人,爱他们意味
着我们要使他们如实面对他自己的罪行。
conquer 征服
例句:Conquering the light-speed computer industry means leaping ahead one cognitive generation and landing
in the right place.
征服光速般突飞猛进的电脑业,意味着越入一个知识的世纪,并找准了自己的位置。
constitute 构成
例句;Among other things, such studies help doctors determine what constitutes a safe dose of a drug before
trying it out on people.
别的不提,这类实验至少帮医生了解一种新药的安全剂量是多少,然后才能试用在人身上。
contemplate 考虑 同义词:consider
例句:Congress is contemplating hearings on the advertising of alcoholic beverages.
国会正在考虑就含酒精饮料的广告举行听证会。
contend 竞争
例句:Of all infectious diseases humans will have to contend with as the world gets warmer, malaria may be the
worst.
随着世界变得愈来愈温暖,人类所必须对抗的所有传染性疾病当中,疟疾可能是最厉害的。
坚称
These attempts to undermine their country and its culture, the authors contend, "have made the Chinese people,
particularly the youth, sick and full of aversion."
这些作者坚称,那些企图破坏中国及其文化的举动,已让中国人,尤其是中国青年,心生厌恶,激起强烈的反感。
contribute 贡献
例句:French officials, who regularly complain about the American refusal to contribute ground troops, tired again
to persuade Washington to take part.
对于美国不愿派遣地面部队屡有怨言的法国官员,再次试图说服华盛顿当局出兵。
convert 转变
例句:Using a strategy Arthur calls "target, leverage, like and lock," Microsoft proceeded to convert DOS users and
to so on down the product line.
实行阿瑟所说的策略“设定目标,主导潮流,连结商品,锁定市场”微软公司陆续将DOS用户转换成Windows用户,将Windows用户变成Word
用户,按此方式将原用户转成该公司后续产品的用户。
convey 表达 同义词:communicate
例句:Its report, released early this month, conveys guarded optimism.
该小组在本月初所公布的报告,表达了审慎的乐观态度。
convince 说服 同义词:persuade
例句:If the CIA is not interested, that's their business. I am convinced that we should cotinue the research.
如果中央情报局不感兴趣,那是他们的事,我可是相信我们应该继续这方面的研究。
cope 妥善应付 同义词:manage contend
例句:Struggling to cope with last December's staggering $1.7 billion bankruptcy, officials in California's Orange County announced plans
to sell off area assets such as libraries, courts and a juvenile-detention facility.
去年12月加州奥兰治县因17亿美元的巨额负债而宣告破产,为应付此问题忙的焦头烂额的该县官员宣布,拟出售该县资产,包括数栋图书馆
数栋法院及一处少年拘留所。
counter 反驳
例句;The defense will call Nobel laureate Kary Mullis ... to testify that the (blood) samples used by the prosecution were too small
to ensure reliable results. But deputy district at torney Lisa Kahn is an expert on DNA testing, and will be expected to counter
such objections.
辩方将请来诺贝尔奖得主穆利斯,以证实检方所用的血迹采样数量太少,构不成足够的证据。但该地的副检察官坎恩是DNA测定专家,想必会对上述
异议提出反驳。
credit 褒奖
例句:DIA credited psychics with creating accurate pictures of Soviet submarine construction hidden from U.S.spy satellites.
国防部情报局褒奖灵媒可精确地画出连美国间谍卫星都查不出来的前苏联潜艇建造基地。
curb 限制,规范,克制 同义词:check restrain
例句:When a company gets to be big enough, it rither curbs its youthful ways or it invites the kind of scrutiny Microsoft is now getting.
一个公司发展到相当强盛的时候,要不就是收敛起锐气,要不就像现在的微软公司一样,引起普遍的注目。
demonstrate 显示 同义词;show
例句:The fossil demonstrates that brooding behavior evolved long before there were birds.
这化石显示,早在鸟类出现之前,孵蛋的行为就已经演化出来。
deprive 剥夺
例句:Those who have escaped the region claim the army has conducted a scorched --earth policy in an attempt to deprive [the ousted
President] Aristide's allies of their food and livelihood.
逃出海地的人士声称,海地军方已实施焦土政策,企图让[流亡总统]阿里斯蒂德的支持者断炊,无以为生。
detect 发现,检测到
例句:More important, over the past four years the scientists have not been able to detect even a trace of HIV in the child's system.
更重要的是,过去四年里科学家一直未从这孩子身上检测出任何艾滋病毒的迹象。
deteriorate 恶化 反义词:improve
例句:"The paranioa is so deep, " says Jay Printz, sheriff of Ravalli County, Mountana, anouther hotbed of militia activity. "I just hope
it doest't deteriorate into armed confrontations."
蒙大拿州拉瓦里县市另一个民兵活动猖獗的地方,该县警长普林兹说:被迫害妄想症已很严重,我只希望不会恶化为武装冲突。
devastate 彻底破坏 同义词:ravage wreck
例句:Damming rivers for hydropower plants has devastated river systems, submerged farmland and displaced thousands of people.
拦河筑坝,建立水力发电厂,破坏了河川生态体系,淹没农田,并使数千人被迫迁居他乡。
devote 致力于 同义词:dedicate
例句:In 1920, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and other now venerated American photographers formed a group devoted to convincing doubters
that photography was a worthy form of artistic expression.
1920年,阿尔弗雷德-施蒂格利兹、爱德华-施太肯和一些当今甚受敬重的美国摄影大师组织了一个团体,致力于让人们相信摄影是一种高尚的艺术表达方式。
diagnose 诊断
例句:Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991, Dent began his journey to death several weeks ago.
1991年邓特经诊断患有前列腺癌,数周前他开始了死亡之旅。
dismiss 轻视 同义词:discount
例句:Some educators dismiss as simplistic and overdone the notion that girls eagerly await such 'feminine' software as barbie CD-ROMS.
女孩子渴望像芭比这种女性化的软件光碟出现,有些教育界人士认为这种观念太单纯,而且太夸大,而不值一提。
displace 撤退,强迫搬迁
例句:Knight, however, does not believe empires last forever. Business cycles will displace front-runners, even Nike.
但耐特知道帝国并不是永恒的。景气循环会换掉领先者,即使是耐克。
distinguish 区别 同义词:tell apart differentiate
例句:Although this antibody treatment cannot distinguish between normal and misbehaving T cells, the gambit has proved successful.
虽然这种抗体疗法无法分辨T细胞的正常与否,但结果证明这一招相当成功。
document 用文件或文献记录
例句:There's no documented evidence it had any value to this intelligence community.
并无记录证明此计划对情报局机构有任何价值。
duplicate 复制
例句:The suspicion that there were subversives in the atomic weapons program was encouraged by the Soviet's ability to product their own
atom bomb four years after Oppenheimer's success at Los Alamos, then to duplicate the H-bomb a mere nine months after the first thermonuclear
explosion by the U.S.
奥本海默在洛斯阿拉莫斯[原子能研究中心] 成功研制出原子弹四年后,前苏联即自行制造出原子弹;然后在美国进行第一次热核爆炸仅九个月后,前苏联也
复制出氢弹。前苏联这种能力使人们更加怀疑,原子武器计划中是否潜伏有内奸。
echo 回响 同义词:resound reverberate
例句:If there is no tree, how will the soil hold the water? The question echoes across a subcontinent.
没有树,土地如何涵养水源?这个问题在整个印度次大陆激起反响。
eliminate 消除
例句:In just six months, Gates has refocused the work force onto Net-related projects, mercilessly eliminated a dozen others that were Holy Grails
a year ago, and geared up an Internet-content group that will speed tens of millions of the dollars this year.
仅仅六个月,盖茨已经把全员工作的重点转向与网络相关的计划,毫不留情地砍掉了12个一年前还是必保的目标,又成立一个国际互联网内容小组,这将会使
微软在今年耗费数千万美元。
embrace 接受
例句:In the end, Dole and Dominici are likely to embrace at least some tax cuts to go along with deep cuts in speeding.
最后,多尔和多明尼奇可能至少会接受某些减税案,以配合某些大幅削减支出的案子顺利通过。
endorse 宣传,支持
例句:By paying Jordan and other athletes millions to endorse his shoes, he chairman and chief executive of Nike has helped turn them into household
names and shaped sports to his liking.
耐克董事长兼总裁付给乔丹及其他运动员数百万美元,请他们替他的球鞋作宣传,从而让这些运动员成为家喻户晓的人物,并且依他的喜好塑造了各项运动。
engage 从事于
例句:Like so many promising HIV treatments Ho's strategy could fail . It could even back-fire if it is mistakenly touted as a kind of "morning after"
treatment that allows people to relax their guard and engage in risky sexual behavior.
与其他许多前景看好的艾滋病毒治疗方式一样,何大一的疗法也可能会失败,甚至还可能收到反效果-- 如果这种方式被人们错误地当成是一种“事后补救”的治疗
方法来宣传,导致人们放松警戒而从事危险的性行为的话。
enhance 增强
例句:In the largest study, almost 40% of those who took the placebo reported enhanced sexual function.
在一次最大规模的研究中,服用了并无药效的安慰剂的人中,有将近40%的人声称性能力有增加。
ensure 保证
例句:In a controversial new book called Blindside, journalist Eamonn Fingleton argues that these firms help ensure that Japan will overtake the U.S.
as the world's leading economy by the year 2000.
在Blindside这部颇具争议的新书中,记着埃蒙-芬格顿辩称,这些公司应有助于确保日本在2000年之前超越美国,成为世界首屈一指的经济大国。
evade 躲过
例句:Last December DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency ) officers working through private brokers bought parts of a Russian SA-10 air -defense missile
system from Belarus, a former Soviet republic. The system is being dissected to see how U.S. Air Force planes can evade radar.
去年12月,国防情报局官员通过私人搭客,自前苏联贝拉鲁斯共和国购得俄罗斯萨姆10防空导弹系统的零件。如今这系统正被仔细检查以探究美国军用飞机如何才能
躲过雷达。
exceed 超越
例句:Toy manufacturers pray for a product's sales to double after the launch fo TV ads and for demand to exceed supply temporarily...
玩具厂商期盼电视广告打出去之后,销售量能涨一倍,并且有一段时间能供不应求。
exhibit 显示 同义词:demonstrate show
例句:Infants as young as three months old exhibit empathy when they get upset at the sound of another baby crying
才过去3个月大的婴儿听到别的婴儿哭时,会感到难过,表示他们也有同情心。
expand 扩张
例句:For his part, Yeltsin fears pressure from aNATO that is likely to expand closer to Russia's western border.
对叶利钦来说,来自北大西洋公约组织的压力令他担心,因为该组织的扩张,可能会更逼近俄罗斯西部世界。
explode 爆炸性增长
例句:Gates in April 1994 called an off-site meeting of his top staff to talk about a technology that had been around for 20 years but had suddenly
exploded.
1994年4月,盖茨召集高级职员开了一场与会者散居各地的远距离会议,议论这项已有20年历史最近突然大放异彩的技术。
fascinate 使着迷
例句:Young, who is fascinated by technology, has started a company that makes devices for the disabled, as well as high-tech toys.
对科技深为着迷的杨格开了一家公司,除了生产高科技玩具,也制造残疾人用品。
file 提出(控诉)
例句:In response, the cult's leaders had its lawyers file suit.
该教派领袖让其律师提出起诉作为回应。
flourish 繁荣 同义词:thrive 反义词:decline
例句:Malaria, for example, has been flourishing in recent years owing to unusually hot weather.
比方说最近几年,由于异常的高温,使得疟疾非常流行。
forge 制造出
例句:In 1992 the board, looking to forge a new image for the company, eased him out as chairman despite his lobbying to stay on a few more years.
虽然他向董事会游说,希望能在现职多待几年,但是一心想为公司塑造新形象的董事会,还是在1992年暗中把他排挤出去,不再担任董事长。
frustrate 使挫折
例句:For the Republicans in the House, the past two months have been a frustrating lesson in the meaning of checks and blances.
对众议院的共和党而言,过去两个月在“权力制衡”上一直很不如意。
fuel 添加燃料,助长 同义词:feed
例句:The shocking 1995 rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl by U.S. servicemen fueled deepseated resentment felt by residents toward the continued presence
of 47,000 U.S. troops.
冲绳居民对4.7万名美军长期驻扎当地,夙怀不满,1995年令人震惊的12岁冲绳女童被美军强暴事件,使不满情绪更为高涨。
fund 资助
例句:S.Fred Singer, president of the industry funded Science and Environment Polocy Project, argues that Epstein and his colleagues fail to note the
postive health benefits of warmer nights and winters.
弗雷德-辛格是企业界资助的“科学与环境政策计划”的负责人,他辩解说,爱泼斯坦和他的同僚未能注意到较暖和的夜晚和暖冬所带来正面、有助健康的好处。
fuss 烦恼 同义词:flap
例句:Selling goods abroad has been such a vital part of he Asian miracle that the region fusses over export statistics the way other cultures follow
sports scores.
长久以来,商品出口一直是亚洲经济奇迹中极重要的部分,因此这地区的国家斤斤计较出口统计数字,就如同其他文化圈的国家密切注意运动成绩一样。
generate 发电 同义词:produce
例句:The energy of the flywheel is stored in this rapid rotation, which generates electricity on demand.
飞轮的能量就储存在快速的旋转中,需要的时候就可以产生电力。
halt 停止
例句:Workers finally abandoned their search for the last two missing bodies in the rubble of the Alfred P.Murrah Federal Building; soon the FBI two
will halt its search of the dangerously unstable structure.
工作人员终于放弃了在穆拉联邦大楼的瓦砾堆中,搜寻最后两具失踪遗体的工作;不久,联邦调查局也将停止对这栋岌岌可危的大楼的搜寻工作。
herald 作先锋,预告
例句:In 1985 Chen's Yellow Earth, in a sensational debut at the Hong Kong Film Festival, heralded the emergence of a pristine, passionate intelligence
in cinema from the People's Republic.
1985年陈凯歌的《黄土地》在香港电影节首映,造成轰动,预示一种纯朴、热情的中国电影诞生了。
host 主办
例句:CyberCash launches CyberCoins with a respectable roster of partners: some 30 Web hosting companies will offer CyberCash to their client sites,
and by year's end CyberCash expects about 100 Web sites to take them up on it.
网络现金公司发行网络硬币时,其合作厂商的名单相当可观;大约有30家提供网络服务的公司将提供网络现金服务给他们的客户,同时网络现金公司预期年底之前
会有约100个网站加入。
hug 拥抱 同义词:embrace
例句:Reading to a child while touching , hugging and holding him or her can be a wondeful antidote to the impersonal tendencies of the information age...
对小孩念故事的同时,摸摸他们,拥抱他们或把他们抱起来,可能是一剂神奇的解药,可以消弭当今资讯时代情感越来越淡的趋势。
identify 指认
例句:A single mother receiving state welfare who won't help identify the father of her child will lose at least 25% of her benefit.
领受州政府福利的未婚妈妈,若不帮助政府指认孩子的生父,福利金至少会被扣减25%。
ignore 忽视 同义词:disregard overlook
例句:No traditional toy company today can ignore computer technology.
如今没有一家传统型的玩具公司可以忽视电脑科技。
implement 实行 同义词:carry out
例句:U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright referred ominously to the importance of impersonal a half-forgotten 1995 auto trade agreement
美国国务卿奥尔布依赖提到执行已快被淡忘的1995年美日汽车贸易协定非常重要,话中透露出不详的信息。
impose 将义务。。加于
例句:Moving through the U.S.Congress right now is a telecommunications-reform bill that would impose fines of as much as $100,000 for indecency in
cyberspace
此刻美国国会正在审理一电讯改革法案,该法案对于在网络上传播下流内容者将处以高达10万美金的罚款。
infect 使感染
例句:Doctors at UCLA announced that a five-year-old boy, infected with HIV at birth, has been symptom- free ever since.
南加州大学的医生宣布,一名出生即染上艾滋病毒的5岁男孩,此后再也没有症状出现。
inspire 引发
例句:None of the year's mass responses could hold a candle in scope and complexity to the astonishing grief inspired by Princess Diana's car accident
death, of course.
当然,今年公众集体的反应,没有一件在涵盖范围和复杂程度上,能与黛安娜王妃因车祸身亡所引起的异常悲痛相比。
install 安装
例句:The fastest international link ever insatlled, this pipeline could be the first step toward laying a permanent network that will eventually hardwire
every nation in the world into the Internet.
这条通讯线路是目前所装设传输速度最快的国际线路,而这也可能是朝向铺设一个永久性网络,将全球各国都连上国际互联网的起步。
institute 设置
例句:Mindful of the burnout suffered by child prodigies ... , the W.T.A. has instituted new age restrictions: players 14 and under are barred from tour
events, and players 15 to 17 will be gently introducted to topflight compertition.
鉴于天才小球员被揠苗助长后带来的恶果,女子网球联盟已制定新的年龄限制:14岁及14岁以下的球员禁止参加巡回比赛,15岁到17岁的球员将循序渐进地参加球赛。
invade 侵略
例句:After the virus infects the cells of the respiratory system and begins replicating, neuraminidase cuts the newly formed copies free to invade other
cells.
呼吸系统内的细胞染上了病毒,而且病毒开始复制之后,神经氨酸酵素会将新生成的病毒切下以便侵犯其他细胞。
issue 发行 同义词:release
例句:On Now.21, Free as Bird will be issued as part of The Beatles Anthology Volume 1.
《自由飞翔》11月21日就要上市,收录在《甲壳虫精选第一集》中。
justify 证明....为合理
例句:According to a White House source, the Clinton Administration does't feel the changes in Cuba have been substantial enough to justify a diplomatic
rapprochement...
根据白宫一消息人士的说法,克林顿政府觉得古巴的改变还不够大,不足以让两国就此复交。
launch 发动,发售 同义词:start
例句:Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this presidential election.
在此次总统选举中,民主党也发动了一场游击战攻势,企图拉拢女性选民。
levy 课征
例句:Talabani claims Barzani is pocketing cash from customs fees the Kurds levy on the 10, 000 bbl. of diesel fuel Iraq secretly ships through Kurd
territory to Turkey every day.
塔拉巴尼宣称伊拉克每天把1万桶柴油经库尔德领土偷运至土耳其,而库尔德族人就此柴油所征的关税被巴尔扎尼中饱私囊。
lift 撤除,解除
例句:It is an article of faith in Havana that if only Washington would lift the 33-year-old trade embargo, a vast infusion of American cash would rescue
Cuba's economy.
只要华盛顿当局撤除对古巴33年之久的贸易禁运措施,大笔美国资金将涌入解救古巴经济,在哈瓦那,这已是大家都认同的事。
maintain 坚称 同义词:claim
例句;The key to success, Akimoto and other cable executives maintain, is to provide customers with local telephone service practically free of charge, a
come-on that has worked well for cable companies in Britain.
Akimoto和其他有线电视主管坚称,向顾客提供实用性的市内电话免费服务是成功的关键,英国有线电视公司用这种方式招揽顾客就非常成功。
merge 合并
例句:Viacom, Paramount's preferred suitor, announced an agreement to merge with videorental giant Blockbuster Entertainment.
Viacom公司是派拉蒙公司最中意的合并对象,却宣布已同意和录像带出租业巨人Block-buster娱乐公司合并。
muster 召集 同义词:summon gather
例句:But all he could muster on the House floor were 30 votes, mostly from congressional nobodies like himself.
但他在会议所能争取到的支持者只有30人,且大部分是和他一样的小角色。
navigate 航行于
例句;Once their link to the Net is established, viewers will, in theory, be able to navigate Websites with their trusty remotes as easily as they now
surf TV channels.
一旦与全球资讯网连线,理论上,这些观众用他们信赖的遥控器就能漫游各处网站,就好看电视换台一样容易。
negotiate 谈判
例句:Veterans can negotiate their own contractsas free agents, while young players must accept what their team pays them as long as in meets the
minimum salary.
老球员可以以自由经纪人的身份和球队谈成合约,年轻球员对于球队的薪水,只要符合最低水平,就只有接受的份。
observe 遵守 同义词:honor
例句:After obtaining the three signatures required - from his own doctor, a cancer specialist and a psychiatrist - and observing the nine - day
cooling-off period, Dent was free to choose the time of his own passing.
得到了3个必要的人--他的医生,一位癌症专家及一位精神医师--的签字后,在经过规定的9天冷静期,邓特就可以自由选择他自己的死亡时间。
outrage 使...愤慨
例句:Outraged cyberpurists responded by deluging Siegel and Canter with a steady stream of abuse as they fled from one electronic home to another
主张保持网络纯净的人勃然大怒,用愤怒的电子邮件回敬西格尔和坎特,让他们的信箱垃圾成灾。他们两人不断更换网址,可是辱骂的信件一直如影随形,摆脱不掉。
overhaul 翻修
例句:Gore has also shouldered thankless but meaty tasks that give him something to attend to besides foreign funerals:reinventing government, overhauling
telecommunications law, smoothing relations with Mosecow.
戈尔也接下一些没有掌声却很吃重的工作,让他在出国参加丧礼之外有事可做,如改造政府,修改通讯法规,改善对俄关系。
oversee 监督 同义词:supervise
例句:My emphasis now, say Anwar Ibrahim, the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister who is overseeing the financing for all the projects...
is on the financial services and foreign media.
负责监管所有计划的资金调度的副总理兼财政部长安瓦尔-易普拉辛说:我现在的重点放在金融服务业及外国传媒上。
overwhelm 压倒 同义词: overpower
例句:And then came the death of Princess Di, the response to which was at once overwhelming and bewildering.
然后发生了黛安娜王妃的身亡事件。公众对这个死讯的反应如同排山倒海,却也令人不解。
perceive 把...视为
例句:A major problem, say nutrition experts, is that most people perceive their diets as temporary restrictions imposed from outside.
营养学家说:主要问题是,大部分人都把节食看作是外力所施加的暂时性束缚。
plague 使..困扰
例句:Growing inventories have plagued retailers too since they stocked up in anticipation of a strong Christmas season.
存货增加也让零售商头痛不已,因为他们原本期待圣诞节前后会是个销售旺季,因而进了不少货。
ponder 思索 同义词:contemplate reflect upon
例句;During a break in filming Broken Arrow, ... Woo casts his eye over the hundreds of technicians and ponders the contrasts in movie-making between Asia
and America.
在拍《断箭》休息时,吴宇森看着上百名工作人员,思考着在亚洲与美国拍片的不同。
pose 造成
例句:The new legislation poses huge problems for some states, such as California.
这项新法给某些州造成很大的问题,例如加利福利亚。
preserve 保存 同义词:conserve maintain 反义词:destroy
例句:Today, a handful of dedicated naturalists are giving time, money and even the occasional home mortgage to help preserve a different kind of
horse-- the seahorse.
今天有一群一心奉献的自然主义者献上他们的时间与金钱,甚至于有时还得抵押房子去贷款,为的就是要保存另一种马---海马。
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assure 保证 同义词:guarantee
例句:But even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry.{:10_245:}
这是历尽艰苦奋战才得到的成功,即使如此,也不表示美国运通公司必能在营业额达5620亿美金的信用卡业务中如愿重登龙头宝座。美国运通公司与1989年失去这项宝座。
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