#8900_TOEFL词汇

Insults only served to inflame the feud. （侮辱只是起到了加剧长期不和的作用。）

The proclamation may be part of a larger feud within the government, and perhaps in the business world as well, over parceling out regulation of the booming industry. （在这个正在急速壮大的产业中制定规则的宣言可能成为政府内部更大的争执的一部分，商业世界可能也是如此。）

They discover that they have some differences, but also that they share many things — including an utter lack of interest in keeping up the feud. （他们发现有了许多不同的地方，同时也有许多相同之处——包括完全没有兴趣继续保持不和。）

You might think of this new medium as books we watch, or tele­vision we read. （你可以将这种全新的媒体想象成自己所看的书，也可以将它们想象成电视。）

Communication, including broadband web access, video conferencing and tele-presence allows us to talk with people remotely almost without any problems. （通过宽带网络、视频会议和远程展示，使得我们可以几乎毫无障碍地与远程人员进行交流。）

The different ways men 'sit on their rock' include reading a newspaper or magazine, playing squash, fishing, tennis, golf, fixing something or watching tele- vision. （男人“坐在他们石头上”的方式各不相同，有的看报纸或杂志、有的打壁球或钓鱼、有的打打网球或高尔夫、有的修东西或看电视。）

My grandmother taught me how to knit. （我祖母教过我编织。）

She’s knitting a sweater. （她在织毛衣。）

If the suit is buttoned, where should be the stickpin? （西装系着扣时，领带夹应在衬衫的哪两粒钮扣之间？）

If the suit is unbuttoned, where should be the stickpin? （西装敞着穿时，领带夹应在衬衫的哪两粒钮扣之间？）

a cane chair （藤椅）

cane furniture （藤制家具）

I heard a burst of distant gunfire . （我听到远处一阵炮响。）

Two men were shot in an exchange of gunfire with the police. （两名男子在与警方的交火中被击中。）

‘That’s not true,’ she protested in a shrill voice. （“不是这样的。”她尖声抗议道。）

a shrill whistle （一声刺耳的哨子声）

Fran uttered a shrill scream. （弗兰发出一声尖叫。）

The bugle sounded as the troops advanced. （军号吹响前进的号令。）

Around 4 a.m. , I heard a bugle in the valley below. We were about to be attacked. But I could not call in fire because we had no idea where friendly or enemy troops were. （凌晨4点左右，我听到了下面山谷传来号角声， 敌人很快就要攻击我们了， 但我无法呼唤炮火，因为我们不知道敌军和友军的具体位置。）

I had been seeing myself on stage, with a war bugle blowing and bullets whizzing by and here I was, a soldier crouching in his trench and ready for a bayonet charge, to take my fate by its throat. （我曾觉得自己是这样的，当军号响起，子弹就在耳旁飞过，而我就在那里，一个士兵蜷伏在战壕中并准备用刺刀冲锋，来掌握我的命运之喉。）

You can helicopter to the island. （你可以乘坐直升机去那个岛。）

The helicopter is staying over our heads. （那架直升机就在我们头顶的上方。）

They were succoured from the fire by the rescue helicopter. （他们被援救的直升机从大火中解救了出来。）

dishonest traders （奸商）

People on welfare are wrongly seen as lazy or dishonest. （靠福利救济的人被误以为懒惰或不老实。）

the royal palace （王宫）

the royal family （王室）

The flat, free-swimming, ciliated larva of a coelenterate. （自由游动的被囊动物；有时作为一个目。）

This system found in some animals, and most of the coelenterate porous , they are Camp fixation living or planktonic life, from either side of the body to stimulate feelings or obtain food. （这种体制见于部分多孔动物和多数腔肠动物，它们营固着生活或浮游生活，能够从身体的任何一面感受刺激或取得食物。）

And all of us will pay an even steeper price if we allow this crisis to continue to deepen, a crisis which is unraveling homeownership, the middle class, and the American Dream itself. （如果我们允许这个危机继续恶化下去，我们所有的人将会付出更大的代价。 这个危机正在瓦解美国人对房屋的拥有权、中产阶级以及美国梦本身。）

First, a bit of background: I worked in the Bush White House and wrote speeches - cited in the Times piece - where the president extolled the virtues of homeownership. （作为背景，我先说明一下，我在布什领导下的白宫工作，撰写讲话稿，有时候《时代》会引用一下，当总统赞美房产政策的时候。）

That’s utter nonsense! （真是一派胡言！）

This company treats its employees with utter contempt. （这家公司对其员工不屑一顾。）

I watched in complete and utter horror as he pulled out a gun. （我惊恐万分地看着他拔出枪来。）

fifteen years of utter confusion （15年的大混乱）

In other words, you need to succinctly state what your application does. （换句话说，您需要简洁地描述应用程序完成的工作。）

That was partly because, even if his message bore no relation to his actions, it expressed precisely and succinctly what he should have been doing. （这一部分是因为，即使他的讯息和行为之间找不到任何联系，但他清晰、简洁地传达了本该做的事情。）

the immortality of the soul （灵魂的不灭）

It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul . （仿佛那双灰眼睛能看到她的灵魂深处。）

the souls of the dead （亡灵）

The prospect of flying filled me with dread . （想到要乘飞机我充满了恐惧。）

She lives in dread of (= is continuously very afraid of ) the disease returning. （她整天担心着会旧病复发。）

A micrometer is one thousandth of one millimeter. （一微米是一毫米的千分之一。）

These high-energy gamma rays, detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT), have wavelengths one-thousandth the size of an atomic nucleus. （这些“费米大天区望远镜（LAT）”所侦测到的高能伽马射线的波长仅相当于原子核大小的千分之一。）

As if that were not enough of an impact, sunscreens increasingly contain nanoparticles, smaller than one one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair. （就像是怕以前作用还不够似的，现在防晒霜遮阳剂包含的纳米粒子越来越多，比人类头发直径的千分之一还小。）

an irrational fear of flying （对飞行非理性的恐惧）

He’s becoming increasingly irrational. （他变得越来越不可理喻了。）

In marriage, a man promises to cherish his wife. （在婚姻中，男人承诺要爱护妻子。）

his most cherished possession （他最珍爱的物品）

"We went into a market and established a kiosk in that market out of a butcher's shop," Kalanda says. （卡兰达说，“由于一家肉店，我们进入这个市场，在那个市场我们建立了一个公用电话亭”）

We found that only about 5% of the time did people bother to tell the kiosk that they took an accessory. （我们发现，只有在近5%的情况下，人们肯在数字亭中留下自己领取配件的信息。）

He operated a small tea shop there, a portable metal kiosk from which he served low-ranking bureaucrats who worked in the surrounding government offices. （如今他在这里开设了一家小茶亭——那是个轻便的金属亭子，为附近政府机构的低级别官员提供服务。）

We have the example of Aceh, Indonesia, to guide us. （我们可用印尼亚齐省这一范例指导我们的工作。）

In Indonesia she finds yet another piece of herself: the balance between the pleasures of eating and praying. （在印度尼西亚，她又找到了另一份自我：在吃的乐趣与祈祷的乐趣之间的平衡。）

It is an increasing presence in Thailand and Indonesia. （在泰国和印尼，它是一个日益增长的存在。）

Thailand, Brazil and India each have a carrier, while the US has eleven. （泰国，巴西，和印度，每个国家都有航母，而美国有十一艘。）

In Thailand? （在泰国吗？）

I was born in Thailand. （我可是在泰国出生的。）

This year, we used the purplish tuber in taro and pumpkin tofu puffs. （这年，我们用紫色块茎中的芋头，南瓜豆腐泡。）

Staining of a thin sliver of each block can highlight the main bodies of nerve cells (top, purplish image) with the darker areas indicating high cell density near the brain’s surface. （对每一块的细微纹路进行着色能突显出神经细胞的主体部分（上面略带紫色的图）。 图中的偏暗区域代表了大脑表明的高细胞密度区域。）

The original paddy art was formed by using two varieties of rice plants, one with dark purplish stalks and the other bright green. （最初的稻田艺术利用了两个品种的植物茎干，一种是深紫色，另一种是亮绿色。）

the venerable guitarist Pat Martino （德高望重的吉他演奏家帕特·马蒂诺）

a venerable tradition （备受尊崇的传统）

This kind of plasticity may play a vital role in evolution as well as during the lifetime of individuals. （这种可塑性不仅贯穿生命个体的一生，也许对进化也产生了至关重要的作用。）

Whether we choose to do this or not is a matter of broader social and ethical debate over our growing ability to fiddle with the plasticity of the brain. （我们选择这样做还是不这样做，是个更广泛的社会的和伦理的论辩，这一论辩涉及到我们日益增长的、改变大脑可塑性的能力。）

My bedroom carpet is green. （我卧室里的地毯是绿色的。）

All the rooms had fitted carpets (= carpets cut to fit the shape of the rooms ) . （所有的房间都铺了全室地毯。）