#300_专八真题高频词

The threat was only a bluff. （这种威胁不过是吓唬人而已。）

Whatever you say, you must do it. This isn’t a game of bluff . （不管你说什么，你一定得去做，这可不是在唬人。）

an outright victory （彻底的胜利）

an outright ban on the sale of tobacco （全面禁止销售烟草）

Then it’s really no more than a means of transportation, it too loses its luster. （然后它就仅仅是一个名符其实的交通工具，失去了它的光彩。）

College graduates may be losing some of their luster for reasons beyond technology and trade. （大学毕业生也许会因为技术和贸易之外的原因失去一些光彩。）

No one knows for sure when the tide started to turn, or the exact moment when American gold started its slow but seemingly irreversible loss of luster. （无人确切知晓这波潮汐的消退始于何时，也没有人精确的得知美金的光泽从何时起开始缓慢，但不可逆转的褪色。）

It may be tempting for some to decry incentives as nothing but a poisonous fruit of Con-Lib responsibility thinking. （对一些人谴责激励机制只是作为“新政治”责任思考的毒果这样的结论本身是很冒险的。）

I know ‘tis the season to decry all things materialistic, but just as we’re inspired by people we are also inspired by things. （我想这是谴责所有事情物质化的时候了，然而正如我们被人所激励一样，我们也受事物的激励。）

All of that is grist for the mill for the Russian media, which is popular in the east of the country and uses every opportunity to decry "fascism" in Ukraine. （所有这些都像谷物被放进研磨机中一样，被俄国媒体粉碎，后者在这个国家的东部地区广受欢迎，并利用一切机会谴责乌克兰国内的“法西斯主义”。）

If your goal is frugality, then consider what things are not necessary, the long-term impact of the choice you make and whether you can afford it. （如果你的目标是俭省，那么就考虑什么东西是没必要的，你做出选择后的长期影响以及你是否可以担负得起。）

I’m doing so to show you that if there’s not a little frugality in you already, there easily could be. Why? （我这么做只是为了告诉你们如果到这一刻为止你还未曾尝试过节俭一点的话，那么你是很容易做到的，为什么？）

So there you have it, a few ways in which we have brought frugality into our lives. （就是这么多了，一些方法让我们把节俭带入了我们的生活。）

arable farming （耕作农业）

arable land (= land that is suitable for growing crops ) （可耕地）

Who cares about onomatopoeia? （谁在意拟声呢？）

In fact, the word Okobo is an onomatopoeia, that is it represents the sound of walking in them. （实际上，欧扣波这个词是个拟声词，象征穿着它走路时发出的声音。）

Emergency services seem impotent in the face of such a disaster. （面对这种灾难，应急服务机构似乎无能为力。）

impotent rage （于事无补的狂怒）

It reminds one of sibling rivalry. （它让我们想起敌对的兄弟。）

Concerns about rivalry with HP and IBM may be overdone, he said. （他表示,对于与惠普与IBM竞争的忧虑可能过度了.）

several cases of child abuse （数宗虐待儿童案）

An independent committee will look into alleged human rights abuses. （一个独立委员会将对涉嫌践踏人权的行为进行调查。）

The firework went off in a cascade of colour. （烟火散开像一片五彩缤纷的瀑布。）

It should not have a cascade of menus or waterfall of words in which the user will get lost. （它不应该有层叠的菜单或瀑布式单词，这样会让用户感到迷惑。）

She looked back on those days with affection . （她深情地回顾那些日子。）

Their father never showed them much affection . （他们的父亲对他们从来没有表现出多少慈爱。）

The church was held in great affection (= loved and cared about a lot ) by the local residents. （教会深受当地民众爱戴。）

She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge. （她想坐驳船游览法国的运河。）

...a holiday cruising around the Caribbean. （…环游加勒比海的度假航行。）

Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception . （南安普敦队的球迷对球队的前任教练很不友善。）

Carr wouldn’t meet Feng’s stare, which was openly hostile . （卡尔不愿意面对冯公然敌视的目光。）

his hostile attitude （他敌对的态度）

We had to stoop to pass through the low entrance. （我们得弯腰通过那低矮的入口。）

Dave stooped down to tie his shoes. （戴夫俯身系鞋带。）

a caring, compassionate man （有同情心并关爱他人的人）

I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds . （我出于同情让他回家了。）

One measure of a civilized and compassionate society is how well it treats its prison population. （衡量一个文明和有同情心的社会的尺度之一，就是看它如何对待囚犯。）

We crept carefully along the narrow ledge. （我们小心翼翼地沿着狭窄的岩架爬行。）

He leapt onto a ledge of rock. （他跳到一个岩架上。）

In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding. （在寒冷的曙光中，城堡看上去了无生气，令人生畏。）

the stark beauty of New Mexico （新墨西哥州的荒凉之美）

They grabbed each other’s hands in simultaneous panic. （他们俩同时惊慌起来，相互抓住对方的手。）

Up to twenty users can have simultaneous access to the system. （最多可有20名用户同时登该系统。）

The speeches will be broadcast live, with simultaneous translation (= immediate translation, as the person is speaking ) into English. （这些演讲将作现场直播，并配有英语同声传译。）

It turned out to be a prophetic piece of journalism. （事实证明那则新闻作出了正确的预言。）

Lundgren’s warnings proved prophetic . （事实证明伦德格伦的警告是有先见之明的。）

Mayer, for example, notes that women have more opportunities in Silicon Valley because there’s no entrenched hierarchy there. （例如，迈尔解释说，在硅谷女人拥有更多的机会，因为那里没有根深蒂固的官僚结构。）

He praised her ability to fight corruption and “entrenched bureaucracy,” and cited her working-class roots and her ability to understand the problems of working people. （他赞扬了佩林打击腐败和"根深蒂固的官僚主义"的能力，并提到她植根于工薪阶层并能够了解其面临的问题。）

The street lights were blurred by the fog. （街灯在迷雾的笼罩下十分昏暗。）

Many of the details in the picture are blurred. （照片中的许多细节部分都模糊了。）

To say the movie was bad is an understatement. （说这部电影不好还算是客气的。）

‘It wasn’t very easy to find the house.’ ‘That’s got to be the understatement of the year!’ （“这房子不是很好找。” “那可是说得太轻了！”）

I never felt stiff after training until I was in my thirties. （三十岁之前，我训练后从不会感到身体发僵。）

The next morning I was as stiff as a board (= very stiff ) . （第二天早上，我感到浑身僵直。）

a large, placid baby （一个胖胖的、安静的婴儿）

She sat still, placid and waiting. （她安安静静坐着等候。）

That chair doesn’t look very sturdy. （那把椅子看上去不太结实。）

sturdy comfortable shoes （结实而舒适的鞋子）

a combustion chamber （燃烧室）

The heart has four chambers. （心脏有四个腔。）

The medium of fresco makes great demands on a painter's techinical skill. （壁画这种绘画形式对画家的技巧有很高要求。）

We show this in a scene in the Sistine Chapel [in Rome] where we create a big crack in the fresco of God and Adam. （我们将这个观点放到了发生在罗马西斯廷教堂的一幕里——一幅绘有上帝与亚当的壁画发生严重断裂。）

Today, much of it is occupied by government offices and only vestiges of its beauty endure – admittedly including Gozzoli's fresco of the journey of the Magi. （如今政府办公室占据了它很多的建筑，而梅迪奇·里卡尔第宫也仅保留一丝当年的痕迹--这其中包括戈佐利所绘的壁画《三圣贤之旅》。）