#3500_GRE词汇

The blare of the car horn alerted the members of the Story family who realised 17-year-old Ben's Toyota was no longer parked in the driveway of their home in Larkspur near Denver. （汽车喇叭的嘟嘟声惊动了Story一家，他们意识到17岁Ben的丰田车不再停在他们家的车道上了。 Story一家住在丹佛附近的拉克斯博(Larkspur)。）

The blare of the car horn alerted the members of the Story family who realized 17-year-old Ben's Toyota was no longer parked in the driveway of their home in Larkspur near Denver. （汽车喇叭的嘟嘟声惊动了Story一家，他们意识到17岁Ben的丰田车不再停在他们家的车道上了。 Story一家住在丹佛附近的拉克斯博(Larkspur)。）

Another blare of trumpets signaled that the limousine carrying Brezhnev had entered the Southwest Gate . （在又一阵军号声中，勃列日涅夫的小轿车进入西南门。）

Sheer exhaustion forced him to give up. （他疲惫不堪，只好放弃。）

Many runners were suffering from heat exhaustion (= when you become tired and ill because you are too hot ). （许多赛跑运动员都出现了热衰竭。）

the centre-right coalition government （政治上中间偏右的联合政府）

an emergency meeting of the three coalition parties （三个联盟政党召开的一次紧急会议）

Her ex-husband had always hoped for a reconciliation. （她的前夫一直想和她重归于好。）

The treaty has brought a new spirit of reconciliation on both sides. （条约使双方产生了新的和解精神。）

The leadership announced a programme of national reconciliation (= an attempt by all sides to end a war or trouble in a country ) . （领导层宣布了一个国内各方和解方案。）

Still, now we knew for sure where whales came from and that the hippopotamus theory wasn't complete science fiction. （虽然，我们现在已肯定知道鲸来自何处，但是我们也清楚了，河马之说还不够完整。）

Only two-and-a-half weeks old but already weighing in at 40kg (88lb) a baby hippopotamus swims alongside her mother, Kathi. （这只有两周半大却重达40公斤（88磅）的河马宝宝正游曳在妈妈凯瑟琳旁边。）

We were walking along the bank of the Niger river, searching for the tracks of a hippopotamus that was ravaging the corn on Karim's farm. （当时，我们正走在尼日尔的河岸上，寻找着毁坏克莱姆村农场农作物的罪魁祸手河马的踪迹。）

Scorn, bitterness, unprovoked malignity, gratuitous desire of ill, ridicule of whatever was good and holy, all awoke, to tempt, even while they frightened him. （轻蔑、狠毒、无缘无故的恶言秽行和歹意；对善良和神圣的事物妄加嘲弄，这一切全都绘唤醒起来，虽说把他吓得要命，却仍在诱惑着他。）

The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating `wicked' as he went. （这个小女巫那双美丽的眼睛里添上一种嘲弄的恶毒神气。 约瑟夫真的吓得直抖，赶紧跑出去，一边跑一边祷告，还嚷着“恶毒！”）

Through these comparisons we can not only test to see if our experimental data are accurate, but find the most effective and efficient way to model tsunami inundation and loading. （通过对比，我们不仅能看到是否我们的实验数据是准确的，而且发现最有效和最高效的方法是建立海啸洪水模型。）

The effects of higher seas can range from erosion to permanent inundation, and the severity of the damage depends in great measure on where the cities are, Weiss said by telephone on Wednesday. （海水上涨的影响可能从水侵蚀延伸到永久性的海水泛滥，造成破坏的严重性很大程度上取决于城市坐落的地方，维斯星期三在电话里说。）

a long plank of wood （一长条厚木板）

a bridge made of planks （用厚木板搭成的桥）

a concrete slab （水泥板）

paving slabs （铺路石板）

I refused the last but washed down the fruit and vegetables with clear, cold water from a hollowed gourd. （我没有动第三碗，只就着一只葫芦里干净的凉水，把水果和蔬菜风卷残云地吃了下去。）

"I keep these stocks as my security, my backup, " he says, looking down at the gourd casks filled with what I now realize are seeds. （“我保存这些存货作为我的保障，我的后备，”他一边说，一边低头觑着那些葫芦罐，我这才认出那里面装满的是种子。）

The practice of carving and lighting the gourd is a Celtic custom brought to America by Irish immigrants, who used the more-plentiful turnip back home. （在葫芦上刻鬼脸并作为灯笼的习俗最早来自于凯尔特民族，由爱尔兰移民传至美国，而美国人更常用芜菁。）

Certainly no one in the media would deny the attraction of living behind a deep moat, even if it is filled with sharks. （当然，在媒体业，没有人会否认围在深深的护城河里面过日子的吸引力，即使那河里满是鲨鱼在游来游去。）

The bridge lies like a trench in the fortress of the moat, which is shaped to blend in with the outlines of the landscape. （这座桥就像是坐落在护城河中的一条沟渠，这种造型是为了使它与周围的风景融合在一起。）

It's a shame our particular moat, the ashram of Pray, is so exhausting, because in the Love section Bardem proves himself a worthy castle. （很遗憾，我们急缺实际的护城河，祈祷的场所，因为在爱这部分里，巴登证明了自己就是一座有价值的城堡。）

When the farmer opened the tightly sealed amulet a dog jumped out and ran away, along with his successful crops. （当农民打开了紧紧密封的护身符，一只小狗狗跳出来，跑了，一并带走的还有他丰收的好运。）

Tetiaroa consists of 13 white sand islets encircled by a coral reef which, from above, appears to shimmer like a turquoise amulet. （罗阿岛由13个被珊瑚礁所环绕的白沙小岛组成，从空中俯瞰，像一个蓝绿色的护身符在闪烁。）

I was intrigued however to spot the amulet of peacock feathers his family had placed around his ankle, another traditional cure for snake bite, just in case. （然而我很好奇的是他家人在他的脚踝周围画上孔雀羽毛状的图案作为护身符，这是另外一个传统方法，用来以防万一的。）

So how do you train them to respond to TNT the way they respond to pollen? （那么你如何才能训练它们，使得它们对TNT炸药的反应与对花粉的反应一样呢？）

The problem occurs because plants need to transfer pollen by wind and insect to fertilization and reproduce. （发生这样的问题是因为植物需要通过风和昆虫传递花粉进行受精繁殖。）

"Almost all were incorrectly labeled based on their pollen and nectar contents, " he said. （他说，“根据花粉和花蜜含量，几乎所有的产品标签都有问题。”）

He was very skilled at pointing down the blocks of granite. （他善于把花岗岩石凿平。）

If you're working in steel or granite, redesigning or adding onto something is very expensive. （如果你用钢或花岗岩来工作，重新设计或增加一些东西是很贵的。）

Everything you see, from the cobblestones the characters walk on to the granite within the buildings, all those details help to bring you into that era. （影片里你所见之处，从角色走过的鹅卵石路到大楼的花岗石，所有的细节都能帮助将你置身于那个年代。” 克罗尔解释道。）

Change places and handy dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? （改变地方和随处可见的花花公子，哪个是正义，哪个是窃贼？）

This is Yeats rather later, still dressed, however, in his study as an aesthete and dandy. （这是叶芝在晚年时在书房里，打扮成美学家和花花公子的原因。）

For a dandy, whores soon cease to be what they are for most bores –a substitute for regular women. （对于一个花花公子来说，很快妓女就不再是俗人眼中的那个形象了：“固定配偶的替代品”。）

I saw that my garland of overnight was still hanging loose from your hair. （我看见，昨夜我为你编结的花环依然松松地垂在你的发上。）

A simple yellow garment and a garland of wild-flowers are all the ornaments they require. （一件朴素的黄衫，一个野花扎成的花环，就是他们所需要的全部装饰。）

In the others a series of dramatic situations were strung on a thread of melody; this was a garland of songs with just a thread of dramatic plot running through. （在头两个里，一系列戏剧性的场景，是串在一根歌曲的线上；而在这一个里，一花环的歌曲，只用一个戏剧情节的线头贯穿。）

Therefore, its floral language is flamboyance. （因此，它的花语就是-华丽。）

Dad was resplendent in dark blue pants and a white short-sleeved shirt, providing a quiet background for Mom’s flamboyance. We all piled into the car. （爸爸穿的身份华丽，一条深蓝色的裤子和白色的短袖衬衫，很好的映衬了妈妈的艳丽。）

They reeved the rope through the pulley. （他们把绳索穿过滑轮。）

One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley to this? （我们问：“为什么那口井没有吊桶和滑车了呢？”）

Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley. （只减慢了一点点速度，我还是继续快速上升，直到我的右手手指卷进滑轮两指节深才停下来。）

And go for a ride on a glider airplane, because who says planes need motors? （她会去坐滑翔机，因为没人说过飞机一定要有发动机吧？）

The huge, showy booster rockets fallen away, it was just a little glider or an aeroplane. （巨大显眼的助推火箭脱离后，它看上去只是架小型滑翔机或飞机。）

He said that if both engines of the plane had failed, the aircraft would become like a "glider". （他说，如果飞机的两个引擎都已经停转的话，飞机就像一架“滑翔机。”）

In Finland purists insist that only birch bark should be added. （在芬兰，纯化论者坚持说只能加白桦树皮。）

After a lovely stretch running right along the edge of Lake Baikal we moved away from birch and pine tree territory into lusher pastures. （在沿着贝加尔湖的一段美妙行程之后，我们离开了桦树和松树的地域，进入了令人迷醉的大草原。）

This also explains why some migrants from east Asia to northern Europe suddenly develop an allergic reaction to jackfruit once they have come into contact with birch pollen. （这也解释了为什么来自东亚的某些移民，到了北欧后，一旦接触到桦树花粉，会突然出现菠萝蜜过敏反应的现象。）

This drug should not be taken during pregnancy. （这种药妊娠期间不得服用。）

her third pregnancy （她的第三次怀孕）

teenage pregnancies （少女怀孕）

a pregnancy test （妊娠试验，验孕）

More to the point, her father would be apoplectic at the idea. （还有，孩子他爸可能会被女儿的这个主意引发中风的。）

Is it the sound of apoplectic readers typing irate e-mails about the subject of this column? （是怒火中烧的读者在敲键盘、写邮件投诉这个专栏话题吗？）

What are we when confronted with the interior vortex which swallows us into absurdity? （当面对内心的漩涡，把我们卷入荒谬的漩涡时，我们是什么呢？）

A religion is only a system of beliefs, and to say that all beliefs deserve equal respect or acceptance is to say that ideas have no moral weight, a patent absurdity. （宗教说到底只是一套信仰体系，如果说所有的信仰都该获得相同的尊重和认可，就等于说思想没有道德善恶之分，很显然这太过荒谬。）

And as such, he understood perhaps better than anyone the sheer absurdity, but absolute necessity, of attempting to derive meaning from the universe of knowledge. （作为图书馆员，他或许比任何人都了解，试图从知识的宇宙中产生意义，这件事是绝对荒谬的，但也是绝对必要的。）