Day1

1.Everyone needs to find their extra-their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

value contribution 價值貢獻

contribution value 出資價值；投資價值

stand out 脫穎而出的

employ

employer

employee

2.It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words，all we can do is articulate our reactions to it，and not grasp music itself.

articulate 表達能力強的

grasp 抓?。焕斫?；領悟

3.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.

productive 富有成效的

productivity 生產力

commit offence/ sin/ crime/ suicide 犯罪

commit oneself to/ on (doing) sth 承諾；保證

commit money to this project 投入；同devote

commit my heart to you 交由

4.He adds humbly that perhaps he was “superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention，and in observing them carefully.”

humble 謙虛；使謙虛

common run 普通

5.Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself，and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.

out of my charity 出于我的慈悲心

pleasurable 讓人開心的

luxuries 奢侈品；奢侈的

sparing 節(jié)儉的；細嚼慢咽的

apply lotion 拍涂乳液

6.Perhaps faintly，they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

faint 微弱的；不清楚的；昏倒

hint 暗示

intangible 無形的

tangible asset/ property 有形資產

intelligent 智慧；才華

diet 節(jié)食；日常飲食

wasp 黃蜂

waist 腰

wrist 手腕

7.Our mental health doesn't really go anywhere；like the sun behind a cloud，it can be temporarily hidden from view，but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.

physical health 身體健康

permanently

hide hid hidden

capable = be able to

restore 恢復

for an instant 一瞬間

8.The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor，the idea goes，and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

sustainable development 可持續(xù)發(fā)展

9.While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories，it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.

comment 評論

enhance = improve

stories 新聞報道

journal journalist journalism

notion 觀念；信念；概念concept

10.According to research from Princeton University，people assess your competence，trustworthiness，and likeability in just a tenth of a second，solely based on the way you look.

assess 評估

compete competent

trustworthy 值得信任的

likeability 受喜歡程度

solely 僅僅

the way you look 你看起來的樣子

Day2

1.Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the inventions of a few，especially gifted peoples that，according to diffusionists，then spread to other cultures.

attribute…to… 把…歸因于…

virtually 實際上；實質上

virtual reality

sense of achievement

diffuse 傳播；發(fā)散；分散的

spread of coronavirus

2.In a workplace that's fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning，office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.

figure 數字；圖形；計算

definition

3.While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery，they also understand that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they help to create.

distaste = intense dislike

slave slavery

4.That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings，initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive right specific types of online transactions.

rule 規(guī)則；統(tǒng)治；裁決

explosion 爆炸；激增

patent 專利；明顯的；顯著的

filing 存檔；歸檔

initial 首要的；首字母

emerge 出現；興起；暴露

emerging 新興的

stake out 立樁標出；監(jiān)視

stake holder 股份持有者

exclusive 獨有的；排外的

5.Moreover，even though humans have been upright for millions of years，our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs.

upright 直立的；誠實的

struggle 奮斗；努力

pedal 腳踏板

withstand 承受；抵住

strain 拉緊；壓力

impose 強加；強制

limbs 四肢

6.While the researchers assumed that the well-structure daily plans would be most effective when it came to the execution of tasks，they were wrong：the detailed daily plans demotivated students.

assume 假設；假定

well-structure 詳盡；詳細

effective 有效的

chief executive officer

7.Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV，register for online job search，and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

Curriculum Vitae

eligible 有資格的；合適的

fortnightly 兩周一次的

8.If you are working on a word processor，you can take advantage of its capacity to make additions and deletions as well as move entire paragraphs by making just a few simple keyboard commands.

process 過程；加工；處理

capacity 能力；容量；含量

addition 加法；附加

in addition = moreover = furthermore

entire 整個的

9.The policy follows similar efforts from other journals，after widespread concern that basic mistake in data analysis are contributing to the irreproducibility of many published research findings.

irreproducibility 不可再生

10.They should exhibit strong interest and respect for whatever currently interests their fledgling adult（as naive or ill conceived as it may seem）while becoming a partner in exploring options for the future.

fledgling 羽翼未豐的

ill conceived 欠考慮的

Day3

1.In other words，at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head，frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing，one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

frustrate 挫??；阻擾

vanish 消失，消亡

2.This type of integrity requires well-enforced laws in government transparency，such as records of official meetings，rules on lobbying，and information about each elected leader's source of wealth.

integrity 誠實；完整性

academic integrity

territorial integrity

transparency 透明度

transparent 透明的；易懂的

lobby 大廳；游說

3.In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information：should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioral ads？

quarrel 爭吵

illustrate 圖解；圖示

fine-grained 精細的

4.California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling，particularly one that upsets the old assumptions that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

justify 驗證；證明

refrain 抑制；避免

possession 財產

5.If the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives，it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.

complex

imply

6.The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radically higher productivity and，as a result，radically higher standards of living.

consistent 一貫的；一致的

7.The potential evolution of today's technology，and its social consequences，is dazzlingly complicated，and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

dazzling 光彩奪目的

envisage 想象

previse 預知

8.Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century，perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

far-reaching 廣泛的；深遠的

exorable 可被說服的；可被打動的

inexorable 不可阻擋的

scope 范圍；幅度；鏡

coverage 新聞報道

9.Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap over reactions，if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react，we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick，hard-wired responses.

prone 易于

snap 突如其來

hard-wired 本能的

10.Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response，causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions.

somehow 不知為什么；以某種方式

trigger 扳機；觸發(fā)；引發(fā)

Day4

1.We become defensive when criticised，and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.

defend liberty

critics

criticism

boost immune system

boost economic development

self-esteem

2.Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

devote to doing sth

substitution of name 冒名頂替

miss the point

3.Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed；Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

predator 捕食者

aphid 蚜蟲

spammer 發(fā)送垃圾郵件的人

4.At the same time，people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.

whole

wholly

leash 韁繩

5.As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure，executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.

scrutinize 仔細審查

succession 繼承；一系列；接連

executive 決策的；行政的

6.Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.

rescue 營救；救援

distinct 不同的；清楚地；明顯的

shaky 動搖的；搖晃的；虛弱的

7.A moralist，satirist，and social reformer，Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

moral

morality

satirize 諷刺；疾風

craft 手藝；技巧；飛行器

plot 陰謀；情節(jié)

strike 擊打；罷工

striking 顯著的；引人注目的

panorama mode 全景模式

8.Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence，while still permitting low-density urban living.

retain 保持；維持

envy 羨慕；嫉妒

cohesive 統(tǒng)一的；團結的

coherence 一致性；連貫性

coherent 有條理的；清楚易懂的

9.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obama care because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.

volunteer

10.Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

bachelor

ground 基礎的

canon 準則；標準；真跡

Dream of the Red Chamber is central book in the canon of Chinese literature.

possess 擁有；支配

process 過程

Day5

1.These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields，they say，and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.

benefit

wealthy

draw 吸引；引起注意

2.The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879，where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling， and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.

elaborate 精心制作；詳盡闡述

3.There searchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial areas，but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

ornate 華麗的；絢麗的

ceremony

complexes 復合體；建筑群

4.It may be said that measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience，but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

institution 機構；制度

5.No boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

ignore

glorious

honorable

6.But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

weather forecast

doomed to failure

7.Indeed，there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally “grassroots” concept as community sports associations.

ridiculous

community service

8.While few craftsmen or farmers，let alone dependents and servants，left literary compositions to be analyzed，it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.

craftsmanship 工匠精神

let alone 更不用說；何況

civil servant

compose 構成

composite 混合的；復合的

9.Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.

intimate relationship

projection 投影；預測

projector 投影儀

10.If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant，for example，the cascade of change won't propagate very far affect many people.

resist 抵制；抵抗

drug resist 抗藥性

corrosion resist 防腐

cascade 傾瀉；串聯(lián)

propagate 增值；擴散

Day6

1.Last year，the Transportation Security Administration（TSA）found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapon—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

security 證券

sneak 溜走

2.Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant's sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

descendant 后裔；子孫

bargain 交易；便宜貨；討價還價

3.Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms' political influence，rather than their CSR stand，that accounted for the leniency：Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

rule out 排除

stand 立場

make a stand against racism.

account for 說明；導致；占比

leniency 仁慈

appeal to the judge for leniency

presidential campaign

4.The company，a major energy supplier in New England，provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the strict nuclear regulation.

renege 違背

abide by 遵守

justify 辯護

justified 合理的；正當的

5.Infants are wired to look at parents' faces to try to understand their world，and if those faces are blank and unresponsive—as they often are when absorbed in a device—it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

Infant 嬰兒

wired 緊張的；聯(lián)網的

blank 空白的；不感興趣的；沒表情的

6.Further arrangements—and there may be many—between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinized to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

arrangement 安排；籌劃；協(xié)議

scrutiny 審閱；監(jiān)督

7.It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists：one that discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals，and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere，such as policy briefs.

discipline 訓練；紀律；學科

oriented 導向

brief 短暫的；摘要

8.Steelworkers，airline employees，and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interestrates，stock market fluctuation，and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money.

fluctuation 波動

harsh 殘酷的；粗糙的；嚴厲的

9.His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

therefore 因此

content 目錄；內容；滿意

capture 捕捉

10.There is pressure for change from within the profession，but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

oppose 反對

quarantine 檢疫期

isolation

Day7

1.Yet，when one looks at photographs of the garden created by the homeless，it strikes one that，for all their diversity of style，these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges，beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

striking 震驚

for all 盡管；同despite

urgent 緊急的

2.At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth，it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

inherit 繼承

inheritance 遺產

bizarre 奇異的；古怪的

aristocratic 貴族的

democracy 民主

3.Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are，where we come from and where are going.

assemble 組合；組裝

astronaut

astronomer

4.Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods—paintings，sculpture and architecture—and superfluous experiences—music，literature，religion and philosophy.

turn around 反過來；轉身

superfluous 過剩的；多余的；額外的

religious 宗教的

5.As a discovery claim works its way through the community，the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual's discovery claim into the community's credible discovery.

confront 面對；使面臨；對峙

competition 競爭；比賽

6.But in her new book Join the Club，Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure，in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the world.

contend 競爭；聲稱；主張

To cure sometimes，to relieve often，to comfort always.

dynamic 精力充沛的；活躍的

7.Fundamentally，the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product，first-class mail，and a regulatory structure that denies management the flexibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.

squeeze 擠壓；困境

temporary

8.Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids，but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world：obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

miserable 悲慘的；令人痛苦的

9.To encourage innovation and competition，the report calls for increased investment in research，the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century，increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

coherent 連貫的；一致的

curriculum 課程

10.Moreover，average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retain；wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often；and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

margin 邊緣；差額

marginal effect

wholesale 批發(fā)

fragment 碎片；片段

feasible 可行的

debt-consolidation 債務合并

Day10

1.“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work，too—providing you dip in often enough，so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business，before dropping back down.

dip 蘸

default 違約；默認的；默認值

drop back down 回落

2.Today，widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often cause students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.

conjunction 結合；聯(lián)結

gap year間隔年

3.After all，four decades of evidence has now shown that corporation in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.

corporation 同company

corporate 公司的

evade 同avoid

hire 雇傭；租賃

promote 促進；促銷

4.The internet—and pressure from funding agencies，who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government-funded research by restricting access to it—is making access to scientific results a reality.

commercial 商業(yè)的；商業(yè)廣告

public service advertisement 公益廣告

access 入口；通道；機會；進入；使用

5.The force of geographic conditions peculiar to America，the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another，and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw，new continent caused significant changes.

peculiar 同strange

sheer 完全的；陡峭的

raw meat 生肉

raw data 原始數據

raw emotion 情感豪放

continent 大陸；洲

6.Under the plan，for example，the agency said it would not prosecute landowner or businesses that unintentionally kill，harm，or disturb the bird，as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

prosecute 起訴；控告

intentional 有意的；策劃的

signature 簽名；簽字

prairie 草原

restore 恢復