#4900_TOEFL词汇

a vibrant, cosmopolitan city （一个充满活力的国际性都市）

a lively hotel with a cosmopolitan atmosphere （一家有着国际化氛围的、热闹的宾馆）

Why does the phone always ring when I’m in the shower? （为什么电话铃总是在我洗澡的时候响？）

I’d like to use the shower if that’s all right. （如果可以的话，我想用一下这里的淋浴。）

The bathroom has a separate shower cubicle (= a shower in a separate part of the room ) . （卫生间里有一个独立的淋浴间。）

Sobbing with rage, Carol was taken to the hospital. （卡罗尔气得呜呜哭，被送往医院。）

Richens was 17 when he flew into a rage and stabbed another teenager. （里琴斯17岁那年一怒之下捅了一名少年。）

a public execution （当众处死）

The two men face execution (= They will be killed as a punishment ). （两名男子面临处决。）

Torture and summary execution (= execution without a trial or any legal process ) are common. （严刑拷打和不经审判就地处决相当普遍。）

He was granted a stay of execution (= delay in carrying out an execution ). （他被准予缓期处决。）

He does wholesale business, while his brother is engaged in retail business. （他经营批发生意， 他弟弟则经营零售生意。）

When we buy goods from overseas, we generate some jobs in retail and wholesale. （当我们从海外购买物资，这在零售和批发制造了一些工作机会。）

At a wholesale vegetable market in Beijing, one manager says his costs have soared, as the products need to be transported in cool containers during the hot summer weather. （北京一个蔬菜批发市场，一名经理说他的成本已经猛增，因为夏天天气太热，这些产品都要装在冷却箱里进行运输。）

The tragedy happened as they were returning home from a night out. （悲剧发生在他们夜里外出归来的路上。）

Tragedy struck the family when their two-year-old son was killed in an accident. （悲剧降临到这个家庭，他们两岁的儿子在一次事故中丧生。）

How do you spell ‘juice’? （juice 怎么拼？）

Pupils should know how to spell commonly used words. （小学生应该知道常用词的拼法。）

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）

His leg was crushed in the accident. （他的腿在事故中被压断。）

Two people were crushed to death in the rush to escape. （两个人在逃生过程中被踩死。）

a business that wants to please its customers （希望让顾客满意的一家公司）

She did everything she could to please him. （她千方百计讨好他。）

Most children are eager to please . （大多数孩子都渴望取悦别人。）

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。）

You can achieve greater flexibility, adaptability, and independence when each layer is only loosely coupled to the layer above and below. （当每个层仅松散耦合到其上和其下的层时，您可以实现更强的灵活性、适应性和独立性。）

We hope that positive social mechanisms that are conducive to human adaptability will play an ever more effective role in meeting the challenges of the future. （我们寄希望于积极的社会机制，以期有助于人类更加适应自然，对未来的挑战扮演一个更加积极有效的角色。）

Then they chose one gram for weighing water in a cubic centimetre. （然后他们将一立方厘米的水的重量定为一克。）

Theanalysis module can process up to one gram of flowing sample per minute. （这种分析模块可以在每分钟内处理一克流体的样本。）

One of them combines lithium manganese oxide with other ions, and operates at about three to five volts with a charge capacity of 200 milliamp hours per gram. （平面能源正在研发三种不同的电池化学配方。 其中之一是把锂锰氧化物与其他离子化合，充电电压三到五伏，容量200毫安时每克。）

Although he failed as a prospector, he succeeded as a journalist. （他作为采矿者遭遇失败，但作为记者大获成功。）

The man, of Asian descent, wearing the clothes of a low-level prospector, seemed to be quite intrigued by what was going on inside. （一个亚洲血统的男人，穿着初级勘探者的制服站在窗外，似乎对这里面的情况很感兴趣。）

In old-fashioned schools, much learning was by rote . （在旧式学校里，很多学习都是靠死记硬背。）

the rote learning of facts （对资料的死记硬背）

A new battleship was launched from a shipyard. （一艘新战舰从船坞下水。）

The new battleship shall be armed with 16-inch guns. （新战舰将以16英寸口径的大炮武装起来。）

I know there are those who don’t believe we can do all these things. I understand the skepticism. （我知道有些人不相信我们可以完成所有这些事情，我理解他们所持的怀疑态度。）

Therefore, I do not think we should go in for complete skepticism, but for a doctrine of degrees of probability. （因而我绝不认为我们应当赞成彻底的怀疑主义，而是赞成可能性程度的学说。）

I understand that skepticism, which is why this recovery plan must and will include unprecedented measures that will allow the American people to hold my Administration accountable for these results. （我理解这些怀疑，这也是为什么复苏计划一定要包括这些前所未有的措施，即将会允许美国人民要我的政府对这些计划的结果负责。）

Do you have some hints for me, how to become a good economist? （如何成为一名好的经济学家，你有什么给我的提示吗？）

You know, Gordon, I should not like you. You are Scottish, we have nothing in common and you are an economist. （你知道吗，戈登，我不应该喜欢你，你是苏格兰人，又是个经济学家，我们没有任何共同的地方。）

So you would not break the third commandment. （那么你就不会违反第三条戒律。）

A friend of mine applied this commandment in his own life, with great success. （我的一位朋友在自己的生活中应用了这个戒律，而且大获成功。）

For this dish, fresh herbs and garlic are preferable. （做这道菜，用新鲜香草和大蒜更好。）

In warm weather, clothes made of natural fabrics are infinitely preferable (= much better ) . （天气暖和的时候，穿天然织物的衣服要舒适得多。）

a rugged coastline （崎岖不平的海岸线）

the rugged beauty of the Highlands （苏格兰高地崎岖起伏的美景）

This landslide deposit pretty much rules out the idea that the deposits farther upstream are glacial outwash. （这个滑坡沉积物大可以排除远离上游的沉积物是冰川沉积的想法。）

Sometimes the animal multitudes are horizontal, as on Salisbury Plain, a glacial outwash delta densely colonized by king penguins, fur and elephant seals, and kelp gulls. （有些地方动物种群是水平分布的，比如在索尔兹伯里平原，这块冰碛沉积三角洲密集分布着王企鹅、软毛海豹、象海豹和黑背海鸥。）

Hmm. At the time our colleague suggested that maybe these were delta deposits or possibly glacial outwash (although we don’t know the extent of past glaciations in the park). （嗯，当时我们同事建议这些可能是三角洲沉淀或者可能是冰川沉积时（尽管我们不知道这个公园里冰期的程度）。）

The old stonework was crumbling away. （古老的石筑部分逐渐崩塌。）

crumbling colonial buildings （逐渐坍塌的殖民时期建筑）

Frantz Josef Land is a basaltic plateau split into many islands and covered with ice. （法兰仕约瑟夫地的群岛是由一个玄武岩高原分裂而成的，终年覆盖着冰雪。）

In this image streaks of dark basaltic sand have been carried frombelow the ice layer to form fan-shaped deposits on top of the seasonalice. （在这幅图像中黑色玄武岩沙带被从冰层下面显露出来，在季节性冰盖的顶部形成扇形堆积。）

Researchers have found the deposits contain opaline silica and iron sulfates, which you would expect to find if acidic water once flowed over basaltic materials in low temperatures. （研究人员发现，这些沉积物中含有乳白石英和铁硫酸盐，而这些东西只出现在低温状态下被酸性水侵蚀的玄武岩地区。）

Should the carbon dioxide mix with water underground and form carbonic acid, they say, it could leach poisonous materials from rock deep underground that could then seep out. （他们说，一旦二氧化碳与地下水融合极易形成碳酸，而这会把地下岩石中的有毒物质分解出来，从而污染我们的水资源。）

A new mathematical analysis solves a longstanding cave-formation puzzle: how a trickle of water laced with carbonic acid manages to quickly dissolve rock to create massive conduits. （一个全新的数学分析方法解决了一个长期存在的洞穴形成难题：含有碳酸的一股细流如何快速溶解石头从而产生了大量的通道。）

A lengthy period of training is required. （需要很长一段时间的培训。）

An accident is causing some lengthy delays. （一起事故造成长时间的延误。）

What is the endowment of Yale? （耶鲁的捐赠基金是什么？）

Although, through these three presidents, I understand that the quality of Yale graduates is not so even. （但是透过这三位总统我也明白了，耶鲁大学的毕业生的水准也并不很平均。）

Ray Fair, my colleague at Yale, for one, warns that any trend up or down may suddenly be reversed if there is an economic “regime change” — a shift big enough to make people change their thinking. （我在耶鲁大学的同事雷．费尔警告说，任何向上或向下的趋势可能会突然发生逆转，如果是经济的“政权更替”一个足够大的改变可使人们改变他们的想法。）

Members of the group stand atop the stump of a giant redwood tree. （研究项目组的成员长在一块巨大的红杉树桩之上。）

So far her team has mapped out how climate change might alter the habitats of a dozen species, from the Canadian lynx to the California redwood. （到目前为止她的队伍已经绘制出天气怎样的变化会改变一些物种的习性，从加拿大的山猫到加利福尼亚的红杉。）

With great seriousness he pondered upon the problem. （他极其严肃地仔细考虑问题。）

Only the chairman's strong control was able to impart some sense of seriousness to the meeting. （只有主席强有力的掌握会场的能力才能使会议具有某种严肃感。）

Heterosexuals should not be treated preferentially when the state carries out that role. （当国家执行这个作用的时候不应该优先对待异性恋者。）

Then back in Spain, they trained a strain of Pseudomonas bacteria to preferentially nibble salt blooms. （回到西班牙后，他们便培养了一种可以优先吞食盐层的假单胞菌。）

"We try to find which parts of the brain preferentially talk to which other parts, " he says. "We can sort of map that out, and at the end it sort of spits out a number. （“我们希望弄明白大脑中哪些部分优先和哪些部分通信”他说“我们可以从某种程度上将其映射出来，并最终以数字的方式反映出来，这就是“脑龄””。）

So the next time you see a chunk of seaweed ... notice the beauty of it, yes. （所以下次你碰见一大片海藻时，要毫不犹豫的欣赏它的美。）

The crabs come closer to shore at this time of year, Child said, where they feed on the seaweed. （这些螃蟹每年这个时间，要来到这里海岸的边上，恰尔特说，它们以吃海藻为生。）

In many places, like Japan, people get iodine from seafood, seaweed, vegetables grown in iodine-rich soil or animals that eat grass grown in that soil. （像日本等许多地方，人们通过食用海鲜、海藻得到碘，还可以从生长在高碘土壤里的蔬菜或食草动物那里得到碘。）

Within 30 minutes, I was marching up a dry streambed, above the trees, on a ridge matted with magenta shrubs and dotted by boulders. （差不多30分钟的时候，我走在一个干枯的河床，上面长着树，在凸起的地方遍布着红色的灌木丛和星星点点的石头。）

The profile of the new streambed shall be designed and constructed to maintain the flow at the retained stream sections in dry season. （新河床水平的设计及建造，须确保被保留河段的水流，在旱季得以维持。）

Once the aquifer disconnect from the stream, the inverted saturated zone of the rectangular streambed show a hemicycle, and that of rectangular streambed show a vertical rhombus. （当河流与地下水脱节后，矩形河床的悬挂饱水带呈半圆形，三角形河床的悬挂饱水带呈直立菱形。）

There have been hints that he may take up coaching. （他暗示过可能会出任教练。）

‘Look, I can’t tell you.’ ‘Oh, come on, give me a hint .’ （“听着，我不能告诉你。”“得了，给我一点暗示吧。”）

I made it clear I wasn’t interested in him, but he didn’t take the hint . （我清楚地表明我对他不感兴趣，但他不明白我的意思。）

The style of the website, must have successional , cannot too too bouncing. （网站的风格，一定要有连续性，不能太过于跳跃。）

This abounded the life interest of cook and have dinner already, maintained again both successional, save intermediate link. （这既丰富了烹调和用餐的生活情趣，又保持了两者的连续性，节省中间环节。）

Here we will discuss how to can be limited fund can obtain the protection with the biggest successional data below investment. （在这里我们将讨论如何能够在有限的资金投入下能够获得最大的数据连续性的保护。）

Rising sea levels, increasing salinization of water tables, and heat stress in association with air pollution are just some of the consequences of great concern in this part of the world. （海平面不断上升，潜水层日益盐化，以及与空气污染有关的热应力只是这个区域极令人担忧的一部分后果。）

This period , the marsh reeds mainly transform into farmland, natural vegetation and salinization land. （这时期芦苇沼泽主要转换为耕地、天然植被和盐渍化土地。）

The evidence against the two men was inconclusive. （针对这两个人的不利证据并不令人信服。）

A coalition government was formed after inconclusive elections. （选举没有结果，于是成立了一个联合政府。）

Titus 2 instructs older women to mentor younger women, and teach them to care for their husbands and children and homemaking responsibilities. （泰特斯 2让年长的女人去教导年轻女子，让她们照看好自己的丈夫、孩子和家庭。）

I shouldn’t say she had the homemaking instinct . （我应该说她没有持家的天性。）

Young girls were typically taught homemaking skills. （女孩子一般接受家务技能教育。）