每天背單詞 第560期

recruitment

英 [r??kru?tm?nt] 美 [r??kru?tm?nt]

n. 招收，招聘；（自然種群）增長(zhǎng)；募集（反應(yīng)、現(xiàn)象）

例句：

In future, staff recruitment will fall within the remit of the division manager.
以后招募新員工將屬于部門經(jīng)理的職責(zé)。

You've been in graduate recruitment for five years.
你已經(jīng)從事畢業(yè)生招聘工作五年了。

Recruitment advertisements routinely call for 'team players'.
招聘廣告經(jīng)常會(huì)招聘“有團(tuán)隊(duì)精神的人”。

pearl

英 [p??l] 美 [p??rl]

n. 珍珠；珍珠色；杰出者；珍品

adj. 鑲珍珠的；珍珠狀的

vi. 采珍珠；成珍珠狀

vt. 使成珠狀；用珍珠裝飾；使呈珍珠色

例句：

A local jeweler says the pearl is worth at least $500.
一位本地珠寶商說(shuō)這顆珍珠至少值$500。

How can I pull the pearl from the burning oyster?
我怎樣做才能算是從燃燒的牡蠣中取出珍珠？

An enormously powerful fleet was concentrated at Pearl Harbour.
一支極其強(qiáng)大的艦隊(duì)集結(jié)在珍珠港。

unless

英 [?n?les] 美 [?n?les]

conj. 除非；若非

prep. 除……之外

例句：

Unless she loses some weight, she's had it.
除非她減掉一些體重，否則她就完蛋了。

That's the plan—unless anything untoward happens.
計(jì)劃就這么定了—除非出現(xiàn)異常情況。

Recovery can't be sustained unless more jobs are created.
除非有更多的工作機(jī)會(huì)被創(chuàng)造出來(lái)，否則復(fù)蘇無(wú)法保持下去。

awaken

英 [??we?k?n] 美 [??we?k?n]

vt. 喚醒；喚起；使…意識(shí)到

vi. 覺(jué)醒；醒來(lái)；意識(shí)到

例句：

The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in and an understanding of foreign cultures.
此次巡游旨在喚起我們對(duì)外國(guó)文化的興趣和理解。

He did not awaken.
他沒(méi)有醒來(lái)。

As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream.
當(dāng)你醒來(lái)的時(shí)候，找出這個(gè)夢(mèng)讓你不安的地方。

assertion

英 [??s???n] 美 [??s??r?n]

n. 斷言，聲明；主張，要求；堅(jiān)持；認(rèn)定

例句：

These institutions have made the assertion of ethnic identity possible.
這些機(jī)構(gòu)已使種族身份的堅(jiān)持成為可能。

Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated.
他們的研究提出了一個(gè)相當(dāng)驚人的主張：我們通常稱為天賦的特征被嚴(yán)重高估了。

To live in the United States today is to gain an appreciation for Dahrendorf's assertion that social change exists everywhere.
今天生活在美國(guó)，是對(duì)達(dá)倫多夫關(guān)于社會(huì)變革無(wú)處不在的主張的贊賞。

回顧

1. recruitment
2. pearl
3. unless
4. awaken
5. assertion