#8400_TOEFL词汇

To the layman (= laymen in general ) all these plants look pretty similar. （对外行的人来说，这些植物看起来都很相似。）

If you don’t understand what the doctor says, ask to have it explained in layman’s terms (= in simple language ). （如果你听不懂医生的话，就请他用通俗易懂的语言来解释一下。）

This novel is a legend of a struggler and explorer. （这小说是一个奋斗者和探索者的传奇。）

I suppose every struggler in loneliness can see to it as a doctrine, as well as me. （我觉得孤独的奋斗者都可以把它当成箴言，就像我这样的人。）

It had rained for four consecutive days. （雨接连下了四天。）

Can they win the title for the third consecutive season? （他们能连续第三个赛季赢得冠军称号吗？）

What about the other parts of the cuticle? （有关的角质层的其他部分呢？）

What about the other parts of the cuticle? What should you be looking for? （有关的角质层的其他部分呢？你应该关注什么？）

When the trap door shuts, the plant excretes mucilage next to a special cuticle around the door, creating a watertight seal. （当陷阱阀门关闭的时候，植物在阀门周围的特殊角质层上分泌粘液，形成不透水密封垫。）

the waxy blossoms of the water lily （睡莲那如蜡一般的花朵）

young men with waxy faces （面如白蜡的青年男子）

The pigment in the upper layer of skin (epidermis) that gives your skin its normal color is called melanin. （在浅层皮肤（表皮）中有种色素能让你的皮肤保持其正常的颜色，称为黑色素。）

Skin color is due to melanin, a pigment produced in the epidermis to protect us from the sun's potentially cancer-causing ultraviolet (UV) rays. （这是一种产生于表皮的色素，能够保护我们免受来自紫外线的侵袭。 紫外线正是来自太阳的潜在致癌物。）

The broken limb must be immobilized immediately. （断肢必须立即加以固定。）

She was immobilized with a broken leg. （她的腿断了，不能行走。）

The small fines for this type of crime do not act as much of a deterrent . （对于这种罪行，小额罚金起不到多大的威慑作用。）

the deterrent effect of prison sentences （监禁的威慑作用）

He coloured the picture with crayon. （他用蜡笔给画上色。）

They send letters — one time in crayon — detailing their rights and how I am violating some maritime treaty from the 1700s. （他们寄信，有一次甚至是蜡笔写的，详细的描述了他们的权利和我如何违反了某些1700年代的海上条约。）

Homo sapiens are one of the most notable exceptions, leading some scientists to think fatherhood is an important part of what makes us human. （现代人是最值得注意的一个例外，致使一些科学家认为父道在培养孩子富有人情味方面起着重要作用。）

The human brain began much more activity in neural circuitry in the first year of life, which may have helped early homo sapiens survive in the process of natural selection, the study said. （这份研究报告说，现代人的大脑在出生后第一年内开始发展较多的神经系统，这可能帮助早期的现代人度过物竞天择的淘汰过程。）

But only Homo sapiens has turned lying into an art. （但只有智人将撒谎的艺术发挥到了极致。）

Bombastic boasts—"We are positioned to become the preeminent provider of XYZ"—do not constitute a position. （言过其实的自夸——“我们定位于成为XYZ的卓越供应商”——并不能构建其地位。）

And there is every reason to think America will once again regain its preeminent role as an American powerhouse. （我们也完全有理由相信，美国将再次赢得美利坚强国的卓越地位。）

However, if you want to wear a print, choose a print that's low in contrast and monochromatic in color. （然而，假如你实在想穿喷绘衣服，那就选择一件单色、低对比度的。）

This hologram, if later illuminated with the same wavelength of laser light, reproduced a 3D (but monochromatic) image of the object. （这幅全息图，如果用（与拍摄时）相同波长的激光照明，会再现出物体的3D图象（不过是单色的）。）

an astute politician （机敏的政治家）

astute investments （精明的投资）

the needs of slow learners （学习迟缓者的需要）

attractive grammar books for adult learners （针对成年学生的精美语法书）

This new perspective -- that a certain unremitting flux is the norm -- has illuminated past data for reinterpretation. （这个新观点——即某种不停的流动是常态——阐明了用于重新解释的历史数据。）

The Solar Tree is just a streetlamp but actually some of the small things which can have a big impact on our life are all open for reinterpretation. （‘太阳树’仅仅是种街灯，但是事实上能给我们的生活带来大影响的小事物，从来都可以被重新阐释。）

While they pay respect to the environment by utilizing passive energy, they are also a new architectural reinterpretation of the traditional tower expressed in a solemn manner unique to the school. （它们不但利用被动式能源来保护环境，还以校园内独有的严肃态度在建筑上对传统塔楼进行了重新诠释。）

Participation in the program would be voluntary and participants could prepay the government loan at any time. （参加这以项目是自愿的，参与者可以在任何时间将贷款预付给政府。）

This time, thanks to the card, I had managed to prove knowledge of where I was going and was spared the hassle of having to pick and prepay for a state-operated hotel at the airport. （多亏了这张卡片，这一次，我在机场清楚了自己该往哪儿走，省下了挑选、预付国有宾馆的麻烦。）

In their previous hosting service they had to prepay for a month at a time （在之前的托管服务上，我们必须要预付一个月的费用。）

He plays golf on Sundays. （他星期天都去打高尔夫球。）

a round of golf （一场高尔夫球赛）

New York’s yellow cabs （纽约的黄色出租车）

Ralph tried to hail a cab (= wave to get a cab to stop for you ) . （拉尔夫招手想叫一辆出租车。）

We never went back. Instead, we moved to a house near Cincinnati, far from the river. （我们再也没有回去，而是举家迁往离河很远的辛辛那提附近的另一幢房子。）

In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. （1830年，距离今天的大城市辛辛那提几英里远的地方，有一片几乎没有遭受过破坏的大森林。）

In 2005, Charlie received his doctorate in Adult Sexuality Education from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. （在2005年，查理获得了俄亥俄州辛辛那提联合大学的成人性教育学的博士学位。）

a £50 bet （50英镑的赌注）

Bookmakers are already taking bets on the outcome. （马票商已经开始接受对比赛结果的下注了。）

A cameraman was killed when his vehicle came under mortar fire . （一名摄影师因所乘坐的汽车遭到迫击炮袭击而丧生。）

a mortar attack （迫击炮轰击）

The northwestern tableland area has a continental plateau climate with long and chilly winter and cool humid summer. （西北高原地区是大陆高原气候，有漫长而寒冷的冬季，凉爽而湿润的夏季。）

Few of tropical Africa's rivers are navigable from the ocean, dropping as they do from interior tableland to coastal plains by a series of falls and rapids. （酷热的非洲，几乎没有适于航海的河流，这些河流从内陆高原到海岸平原一路穿瀑布、过险滩，倾流而下。）

My father expected perfection from all of us. （父亲期望我们都尽善尽美。）

the search for technical perfection （对技术的精益求精）

Rakae Jamil, a musicologist with the Sanjan Nagar Institute of Philosophy and Arts in Lahore, says there is no doubt that Michael Jackson influenced the pop scene in Pakistan. （拉齐.贾米尔是拉合尔的桑贾恩.纳加尔哲学和艺术研究所的音乐理论家。 他说，迈克尔.杰克逊影响了巴基斯坦的流行歌坛，这点是毫无疑问的。）

But the joke would be lost on some: the Canadian-American musicologist Colin McPhee, who spent several years on Bali in the 1930s, recalls a young boy who showed great talent for dancing. （但是在一些语言中就失去了它的幽默效果：加拿大裔美国的音乐学家，柯林.麦柯菲曾于20世纪30年代在巴里度过几年的时光，提到了在那里一位对舞蹈有极高天分的少年。）

Authority as a critic and as a musicologist was fully recognized. （权威评论家和音乐学家的充分承认。）

He found that running long distances was not his forte . （他发现长跑并不是他的强项。）

As a writer, her forte is comedy. （作为作家，她的专长是写喜剧。）

The abbey was a maze of multistory wings, each added in a differing century, the architecture conspiring to create a jumbled complex that now housed four hundred brothers. （修道院的结构是迷宫似的多层侧翼，每个侧翼都在不同的世纪里被添上，那建筑拼成一混乱的复合体，里面现在住着四百多个圣殿武士。）

One-story homes that are "tied together" -- with the roof bolted to the walls and the walls to the foundation -- tend to survive earthquakes and windstorms better than multistory homes that aren't. （单层的楼房就像“绑在一起”--屋顶，墙和地基连成一体，它抗击地震和风暴的能力比多层的楼房要高得多。）

Instead of eating hunched pleasurably over a book, I look out of the window and chew every mouthful thoroughly, aware of every single oat and nut and dried bit of apple as it goes down. （送孩子们去学校后，我不再放松地边吃早饭边看书，而是盯着窗外，仔细地嚼着嘴里的食物：每一粒燕麦、每一颗坚果、每一片苹果干。）

For example, you may not think a bagel tastes salty, but a typical 4-inch (10-centimeter) oat-bran bagel has about 532 mg of sodium, and even a slice of whole-wheat bread contains 132 mg of sodium. （例如百吉饼或许尝起来不咸，但一块普普通通的4英寸（10厘米）大的燕麦百吉饼却含将近532毫克的钠，而且即便一小块全麦面包也有132毫克钠。）