feature [?fi?t??r]

n. 特征；特色；特寫（或?qū)ｎ}）

v. 起重要作用；以...為特色；由...主演；特寫

However, only in recent years has it become a feature of undergraduates programs in Canadian universities.

翻譯：然而，只是在最近這些年，它才成為加拿大大學(xué)在校生課程的一個特色。

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As a News Feature article in Nature?discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years.

解析：這個例子在Unit 03解析article時講過。

翻譯；正如《自然》雜志新聞特寫欄目的一篇文章所討論的那樣，近年來，為研究人員設(shè)立的一系列報酬豐厚的獎項已經(jīng)加入了諾貝爾獎的行列。

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involve [?n?vɑ?lv] v. 使...卷入；牽涉；涉及；包含；使陷入；使參與

形近詞：involvement, revolve, evolve, invalid

In Cambodia, the choice of a spouse is a complex one for the young male. It may involve not only his parents and his friends, as well as?those of the young woman, but also a matchmaker.

[A] by way of

[B] on behalf of

[C] as well as

[D] with regard to

解析：Cambodia柬埔寨；matchmaker媒人，介紹人。

翻譯：

在柬埔寨，對配偶的選擇對年輕男性來說是一件復(fù)雜的事，它不僅涉及到男方的父母和朋友，也涉及到女方的那些人（指父母和朋友），還涉及到一個媒人。

[A] 經(jīng)由；作為

[B] 為了...的利益；代表

[C] 也；又

[D] 關(guān)于；就

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involvement [?n?vɑ?lvm?nt] n. 參與；介入；卷入；（投入的）感情；（傾注的）熱情；曖昧關(guān)系；戀愛關(guān)系

The guild-like ownership structure is considered “restrictive” partly because it ______ .

[A] bans outsiders’?involvement in the profession

[B] keeps lawyers from holding law-firm shares

[C] aggravates the ethical situation in the trade

[D] prevents lawyers from gaining due profits

解析：guild（行業(yè)）協(xié)會，公會；guild-like行會式；restrictive限制性的，約束的；keep from表示阻止；aggravate及物動詞，激怒，加劇，惡化，惹惱；ethical道德的，倫理的；trade除了貿(mào)易，還有行業(yè)的意思，結(jié)合上下文的guild，這里很明顯翻譯成行業(yè)更合適；due除了由于之外，還有應(yīng)有的意思。?

翻譯：行會式所有權(quán)結(jié)構(gòu)被認為是“限制性的”，部分是因為它______。

[A] 禁止業(yè)外人士涉足這一行業(yè)

[B] 阻止律師持有律所股份

[C] 惡化了行業(yè)的道德狀況

[D] 阻止律師獲得應(yīng)有的權(quán)益

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revolve [r??vɑ?lv]

v. 使...旋轉(zhuǎn)；使...循環(huán)；反復(fù)考慮；圍繞

n. 旋轉(zhuǎn)；循環(huán)；旋轉(zhuǎn)舞臺

What counts as meaningful uploading? My definition revolves around the concept of “stickiness”——creations and experiences to which others adhere.

解析：stick粘貼，stickiness粘性，想必很多人都聽說過用戶粘性這個詞；adhere遵守，附著，黏附；definition除了定義，還有解釋的意思。

翻譯：什么樣算是有意義的上傳呢？我的釋義圍繞著“粘性”的概念——吸引其它人的創(chuàng)造和經(jīng)歷。

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evolve [i?vɑ?lv] v. 發(fā)展；進化；使逐步形成；推斷出

The idea evolved from the drawing I discovered in the attic.

解析：attic頂樓，閣樓；

翻譯：這個想法是從一幅我在閣樓里發(fā)現(xiàn)的畫中形成的。

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invalid

[?n?v?l?d] adj. 無效的；站不住腳的

[??nv?l?d] n. 病人；傷殘者?

注意invalid形容詞和名詞的讀法不同。

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

解析：regulatory監(jiān)管的，具有監(jiān)管權(quán)的；

翻譯：現(xiàn)在該公司突然宣稱2002年的協(xié)議是無效的因為2006年的立法，并且只有聯(lián)邦政府對核事項有管轄權(quán)。

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engage [?n?ɡe?d?] v. （使）參與；（使）從事；使參加（談話）

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

解析：motor汽車，Toyota Motor豐田汽車公司；alleviate及物動詞，減輕，緩解，緩和；well-orchestrated精心策劃的；response campaign回應(yīng)行動；directly是adv副詞，修飾的是engage。

翻譯：舉例子來說，豐田公司，通過一個相對快的和精心策劃的社交媒體回應(yīng)行動來減緩今年早期它的召回危機帶來的一些傷害，它的回應(yīng)行動包括在諸如推特和社會新聞網(wǎng)站Digg上的網(wǎng)站上與消費者直接交流的努力。

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occupy [?ɑ?kjupa?] v. 占據(jù)；使從事

How much memory does the program occupy?

這個程序占用多少內(nèi)存？

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segment [?seɡm(xù)?nt] n. 部分；段；片；節(jié)?

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent. Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

解析：wholesale可作名詞或動詞批發(fā)，也可作形容詞批發(fā)的，句子中wholesale demand批發(fā)的需求；loom作名詞是織布機，作動詞是逼近，顯現(xiàn)的意思。

翻譯：發(fā)展正在促進歐洲食品服務(wù)部分4~5%的批發(fā)需求增長，對比1~2%的零售需求增長。同時，由于衰退正在極大的逼近，人們正變得焦慮不安。

注：這是2010年的考研真題，2010年的考研時間是2010年1月，2007年美國爆發(fā)次貸危機，危機迅速在2008年席卷了整個世界。??

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section [?sek?n] n. 部分；節(jié)

That section of the road is still closed.

公路的那部分仍然是封閉的。

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fraction [?fr?k?n] n. 一小部分；些微?

In the internet age, at least in theory, this fraction can be much reduced.

翻譯：在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)時代，至少從理論上說，這部分可以被大大減少。

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access [??kses]

n. 接近；進入的方法；入口；通道；進入（權(quán)）

v. 讀取（計算機）信息

形近詞：accessible

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The only access to the farmhouse is across the fields.

去那農(nóng)舍的唯一途徑是穿越田地。

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You’ve illegally accessed and misused confidential security files.

你已經(jīng)非法訪問并盜用了機密安全文件。

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accessible [?k?ses?bl] adj. 易到達的；易進入的；易使用的；易得到的

According to the text, which of the following is true of recordings?

[A] They are often inferior to live concerts in quality.

[B] They are easily accessible to the general public.

[C] They help improve the quality of music.

[D] They have only covered masterpieces.

翻譯：

根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容，下列哪一項有關(guān)音樂錄音的說法是正確的？

[A] 它們在質(zhì)量上通常比現(xiàn)場音樂會差

[B] 它們?nèi)菀诪榇蟊娝@得

[C] 它們有助于提高音樂的品質(zhì)

[D] 它們只涵蓋了杰出的音樂作品

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access road: （進出某處的）通道

Research on traffic network reliability and access road algorithm

交通網(wǎng)絡(luò)可靠性和通路算法研究

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cover [?k?v?r]

n. 蓋子；套子；（書的）封面

v. 遮蓋；覆蓋；包含；足以支付；行走（一段路程）；占（一片面積） ???

形近詞：coverage, recovery, discover

It’s no surprise the Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My children, I Hate My Life”, is arousing like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

解析：provocative挑釁的，煽動的，激起爭端的；child rear孩子養(yǎng)育；less than少于，不到；suggestion除了建議，還有討論的意思。

翻譯：Jennifer Senior的見解獨到不奇怪，激進的雜志封面故事《我愛我的孩子，我恨我的生活》，正在引起養(yǎng)育孩子不是完全的美滿，讓生活更豐富的經(jīng)歷的討論。

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coverage [?k?v?r?d?] n. 覆蓋；覆蓋范圍；新聞報道

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.

解析：far-reaching影響深遠的；inexorable不可阻擋的，無法改變的；由于句子中討論的是newspaper，所以coverage翻譯成新聞報道。

翻譯：在過去四分之一世紀(jì)中英語報紙發(fā)生的所有變化中，也許最影響深遠已經(jīng)發(fā)生在藝術(shù)報道中視野和嚴(yán)肅性的不可阻擋的下降。 ??

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?recovery [r??k?v?ri] n. 恢復(fù)；復(fù)原；痊愈；重獲

“Setting the proper investment level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one ”，he says.

解析：redundancy冗余，常用于數(shù)據(jù)備份的表達；

翻譯：“為安全，備份和恢復(fù)設(shè)置合適的投資標(biāo)志是一個管理問題，而不是技術(shù)問題”，他說。

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As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

解析：take hold除了抓住，還有恢復(fù)控制的意思；deputy副的，代理的；

翻譯：當(dāng)復(fù)蘇的第一絲跡象開始恢復(fù)控制，副總裁可能會更愿意在沒有下一家的情況下跳出（原公司）。

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discover [d??sk?v?r] v. 發(fā)現(xiàn)；發(fā)覺

Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.

解析：archaeology考古學(xué)；archaeological考古學(xué)的；

翻譯：大部分考古學(xué)遺址已經(jīng)通過認真的搜尋被定位，但也有很多其它的遺址是偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)的。

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cloak [klo?k]

n. 斗篷；披風(fēng)；覆蓋物；遮蓋物

v. 籠罩；覆蓋；遮掩

Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuse, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company”.

解析：vague模糊的，含糊的；

翻譯：不是用常用的含糊的理由來掩飾他的退出，他直接出現(xiàn)并且說他正離開“為了追求我經(jīng)營一家公司的目標(biāo)”。??

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reveal [r??vi?l] v. 展現(xiàn)；顯示；揭示；揭露；告訴；泄露?

Allen’s contribution was to take an assumption we all share——that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts——and reveal its erroneous nature.

解析：share分享，共享的意思；nature除了自然，還有天性和本質(zhì)的意思。

翻譯：艾倫的貢獻在于他研究了我們都認同的這一假說（我們不是機器人，所以能夠控制自己的思想），并揭示了其錯誤的本質(zhì)。?

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uncover [?n?k?v?r] v. 揭露；發(fā)現(xiàn)

Auditors said they had uncovered evidence of fraud.

審計員說他們已經(jīng)發(fā)現(xiàn)了欺詐的證據(jù)。

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unveil [??n?ve?l] v. 公之于眾；揭露?

Marxist?theory?of?property?unveils?the?essence?of?capitalist?production?relations.

馬克思主義的財產(chǎn)理論揭示了資本家生產(chǎn)關(guān)系的本質(zhì)。

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display [d??sple?] v. 陳列；顯示

The AAAS displays great enthusiasm for liberal education.

翻譯：美國人文與科學(xué)院（AAAS）對人文教育表現(xiàn)出了極大的熱情。

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disclose [d?s?klo?z] v. 公開；揭露

The report discloses that human error was to blame for the accident.?

報告披露，這次事故是人為的過錯。

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analysis [??n?l?s?s] n. 分析；分解

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

解析：inherently固有的，內(nèi)在的，生來就有的意思。

翻譯：標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化測試的當(dāng)前重點強調(diào)了分析和過程，意味著我們中的少數(shù)本能的使用我們的創(chuàng)新和寫作的思維模式。

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anatomy [??n?t?mi] n. 解剖；剖析

human anatomy人體解剖

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probe [pro?b] n. 探查；調(diào)查

a police probe into the financial affairs of the company

對公司金融事務(wù)的警方調(diào)查?