考研英语每日单词 (76)
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英语
defeat [dɪˈfiːt]
vt.
击败,战胜;[法]宣告无效,作废
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Of course, the use
of the Internet isn’t the only way to defeat
poverty. And the
Internet is not the only tool
we have. But it has enormous potential.
当然,使用互
联网不是惟一战胜贫困的方法。互联网也不是我们所拥有的惟一工
具,但它却有巨大的潜力。(2001
年英语阅读理解 Part A Text 2)
n. 失败;战胜; [法]废除
But on the more important matter of the
Constitution, the decision was an 8-0 defeat
for the Administration’s effort to upset the
balance of power between the federal
government and the states.
但是在更重要的宪法问题上,投票
结果却是8比0。这个结果宣告联邦政府在打
破联邦政府和各州政府之间的权力平衡方面做出的努力彻底
失败了。(2013年英
语一阅读理解 Part A Text 4)
rigorous [ˈrɪɡərəs]
adj.
严格的;严密的;缜密的;枯燥的
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other
Transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling
and rigorous book learning put unnatural
restraints on children.
拉尔夫•沃尔多•爱默生和其他超验主义哲学家认
为学校教育和严格的书本学习
给学生施加了违背自然规律的限制。(2004年英语阅读理解 Part
A Text 4)
resident [ˈrezɪdənt]
adj. 定居的,常驻的
He has been resident in
Brazil for a long time.
他已在巴西居住了很长时间。
n. 居民;(旅馆的)住宿者;住院医师
Then residents in
these communities were phoned at random and asked
the same
questions.
然后,随机给这些社区的居民打电话,问他们同样的问题。(2001年英语阅读理
解
Text 3)
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英语
tackle [ˈtækl]
vt. 处理,对付,与……交涉
Issues arising from automation need to be
tackled.
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自动化面对的问题也需要解决。(2018年英语一阅读理解Part A Text
1第22题C
选项)
intense [ɪnˈtens]
adj. 强烈的;紧张的,激烈的
Even though the day-to-
day experience of raising kids can be soul-
crushingly hard,
Senior writes that “the very
things that in the moment dampen our moods can
later be
sources of intense gratification and
delight.”
尽管在孩子成长期间,父母们心力交瘁,但西尼尔认为:正是这些在当时让人劳<
br>心费神之事,反而成了记忆中的魂宝,日后每每想起,令人甚感幸福!(2011年
英语一阅读理
解 Part A Text 4)
approach [əˈprəʊtʃ]
n. 方法;途径;接近
In physics, one approach takes
this impulse for unification to its extreme, and
seeks a
theory of everything – a single
generative equation for all we see.
物理学中,有一种方
法将这种寻求大同理论的冲动发挥到了极致,追求一种包含
一切的理论——一个涵盖我们所看到句子的一
切的生成性公式。(2012年英语一翻
译第46题)
vt. 接近;着手处理
Thinking of time as a resource to be maximized
means you approach it
instrumentally, judging
any given moment as well spent only in so far as
it advances
progress toward some goal.
把时间
看作一种要最大限度利用的资源意味着你将它作为工具:认为每一刻都应
该充分利用起来以使其向着某一
既定目标迈进。(2016年英语二阅读理解 Part A
Text 3)
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英语
instrument
[ˈɪnstrəmənt]
n. 仪器;乐器;手段,工具
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Hot spots, anchored in the deeper layers of
the earth, provide the measuring
instruments
needed to resolve the question.
位于地球更深层的热点提供了解决该问题所需要的测量仪器。(1998年英语阅
读理解
Text 5)
detect [dɪˈtekt]
vt.
查明,发现;洞察;侦察
He points out that he always
experienced much difficulty in expressing himself
clearly and concisely, but he believes that
this very difficulty may have had the
compensating advantage of forcing him to think
long and intently about every
sentence, and
thus enabling him to detect errors in reasoning
and in his own
observations.
他指出,他总是很难清楚而
简明地表达自己,但他认为,这一困难反而可能有好
处,迫使他对每一句话进行长时间、认真的思考,从
而使他能够在推理和观察中
发现错误。(2008年英语翻译)
express
[ɪkˈspres]
vt. 表达,表示
Seymour made the
change, went into his backyard, and expressed his
displeasure by
committing suicide.
西摩尔做出了改变,走进了后院,并用自杀的方式表达了不满。(2017年英语一
阅读理解
Part B)
What we need to do is to find a
way to acknowledge and express what we feel
appropriately and then-again, like children-
move on.
我们所需要做的就是找到一个合适的方式恰当地直面自己的情绪并表达出来。然后,向孩子一样,往前走。(2016年英语二阅读理解 Part B)
constant [ˈkɒnstənt]
adj. 不断的;连续的
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英语
companionship.
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You may have a
circle of friends who provide constant good humor,
help and
你可能会有这样一帮朋友,他们会不断地给你好心情、帮助和陪伴。(2015年英
语二阅读理解 Part B)
sphere [sfɪr]
n.
球,球体;领域,界
While still catching-up to men in
some spheres of modern life, women appear to be
way ahead in at least one undesirable
category.
在现代生活中女性就算是在某些领域可以追赶上男性,但至少在一个方面是领先<
br>的,尽管是她们不太想要的。(2008年英语一阅读理解 Part A Text 1)
mobile [ˈməʊbaɪl]
adj. 非固定的,移动式的;流动的
Radesky has studied the use of mobile phones
and tablets at mealtimes by giving
mother-
child pairs a food-testing exercise.
拉德斯基给母亲和
孩子进行食物测试,研究在进餐时手机和平板电脑的使用情
况。(2017年英语二阅读理解 Part
A Text 2)
quality ['kwɒləti]
n.
质量,品质;特性;才能
There recordings are cheap,
available everywhere, and very often much higher
in
artistic quality than today’s live
performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at
a time and place of the listener’s choosing.
那里的唱片便宜,到处都可以买到,而且在艺术质量上比今天的现场演出要高得
多;此外,听众
可以自行选择“消费”它们的时间和地点。(2011年英语一阅读
理解 Part A Text
1)
lest [lest]
conj. 唯恐,生怕;免得,以免
What has happened is that people cannot
confess fully to their dreams, as easily and
openly as once they could, lest they be
thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.
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英语
推脱责任、贪得无厌和庸俗。(2000年英语阅读理解 Text 5)
legislation [ˌledʒɪsˈleɪʃn]
n. 法律,法规
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现在的情况是,人们不能像以前那样轻易地公开承认自己的梦想,以免被认为是
The
Europe Union is now considering legislation to
compel corporate boards to
maintain a certain
proportion of women — up to 60 percent.
欧盟现在正在
考虑通过立法来强制公司董事会维持一定的女性比例,这一比例会
高达60%。(2013年英语二阅读
理解 Part A Text 4)
unanimous [juˈnænɪməs]
adj. 全体一致的;一致同意的,无异议的
In a rare
unanimous ruling, the US Supreme Court has
overturned the corruption
conviction of a
former Virginia governor, Robert McDonnell.
在
罕见一致的裁决中,美国最高法院推翻了前弗吉尼亚州州长罗伯特·麦克唐奈
的(Robert
McDonnell)的贪腐指控。(2017年英语一阅读理解Part A Text 4)
emit [iˈmɪt]
vt. 发出;发射;颁布
While
producing large quantities of
CO
2
,
these computers emit a great deal of heat, so
the centres need to be well air-conditioned,
which use even more energy.
这些计算机在排放大量二氧化碳的同时也
产生大量的能量。因此,这些数据中心
需要良好的空调降温,这同时又会消耗大量的能量。(2011年
英语二翻译)
coincidence [kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns]
n. 巧合;同时发生;符合
Koehn pointed out that this
new era of corporate vocabulary is very
“team”-oriented—and not by coincidence.
克恩指出,新时期的办公通用语以“团队”为导向,这并非巧合。(2015年英
语二阅读理解
Part A Text 3)
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英语
volume [ˈvɒlju:m]
n.
体积;容量;音量;量,总量;(书的)卷,册
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Beethoven’s
habit of increasing the volume with an extreme
intensity and then
abruptly following it with
a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by
composers
before him.
贝多芬习惯用紧促有力的演奏提高音量,然后
曲风一转,紧接一段轻柔舒缓的音
乐,而在他之前很少有作曲家这么做。(2014年英语一翻译第48
题)
The sheer volume of available choice is
enough to send shoppers into a state of
information overload.
仅仅是众多的选择就足以让顾客的大脑对信息不堪重负。(2016年英语二翻译)
Just three weeks before the Court’s ruling on
physician-assisted suicide, the National
Academy of Science (NAS) released a two-volume
report, Approaching Death:
Improving Care at
the End of Life.
就在最高法院对医助自杀做出裁决的三周前,全国科学学会公布了
一份两卷的报
告《临近死亡:改善临终护理》。(2002年英语阅读理解 Part A Text
4)
guilt [ɡɪlt]
n. 有罪;犯罪行为;内疚,知罪
You may feel guilt over your past, but you are
poisoning the present with the things
and
circumstances you cannot change.
你可能会对过去感到内疚,但
是你正在用无法改变的事物和环境损害当下。(2015
年英语二阅读理解 Part B)
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