- peer
- Sperhigh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible,because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers,rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age(实际年龄) and multiplying by 100.
- chronological chronic--长期的. chronic disease vs. acute disease.
- devide ... by... multiply by....
- divide A into B ...
- Serveral massive leakages of customers and employee data this year... have left managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerability.
- 否定副词: barely hardly rarely = not
- intricate : 精良的,复杂的.. delicate:精致脆弱的,娇贵. delicacy.
- vlunerability:vulnerable... 单词拉长,为了让发音变得平衡,重音往后挪
- issue
- The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a "Fun Card",which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user's gambling activities.
- tissue
- Growth ,which rarely continues beyond the age of 20,demands calories and nutrients--notably,protein--to feed expanding tissues.
- notable:有名的
- meet: your words meet my anticipation.
- muttrient:nutrition.
- disclaim:
- He disclaimed the possession of any great quickness of apprehension or wit,such as distinguished Huxley.
- apprehension:理解能力
- wit: 聪明的. quick-witted. wi-跟聪明有关:witch wizard.
- distinguished:up. outstanding.
- acclaim
- at any rate(无论如何), this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers,regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.
- be ignorant of . be blind to. regradless of ... be neglectful of.... neg-负极... negative energe.
- patent:
- Over the past decade,thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods.
- grant = fund .research grant.... v. 给予.
- take sth. for granted. = take for granted sth....
- you always take my love for granted.
- court.
- On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday--a modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.
- modest: mod med mid. 中间.
- hardline
- In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Cott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.
- rally == ally alliance.
- decline
- Look up Homo sapiens(智人) in the "Red List" of threatened species of the International Union for the Conservation of Nuture, and you will read:"Listed as Least(少) Concern as(因为) the species is very widely distributed, adaptable, currently increasing, and there are no major threats resulting in an overall population decline."
- concern: down, concerning.中性词... akin to....
- apdaptable: adapt be adept at... 熟悉 adopt 收养,采纳. adopt orphan.
- mastery
- outline
- be flexible,your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, but do not permit it to railroad you. If a relevant and important idea occurs to you now,work it into the draft.
- railroad:轨道
- lineage:
- Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited throgh men in a father's line or mitochondiral DNA,which is passed down only from mothers.
- ancestor:祖先. anc-老.
- either... or...
- inherit heir-继承
- mitochondrial: melt mito 溶解 mitosis-有丝分裂 n. mitochondria.
- 抑郁症: hypochondria. pypo-向下 chonic-长期
- overvalue
- It was banks that were on the wrong planet,with accounts that overvalued assets.
- Interview
- Shortlists for job interviews,election ballot papers,lists of conference speakers and attendees:all tend to be drawn up alphabetically,and their recipients lose interest as they plough throgh them.
- ee:被动 employee. -or -er 主动方. refugee. 难民. motherucker motherfuckee.
- plough 耕地
- perspective
- This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad.
- fad= mad= mania 狂热 frenzy狂躁 -ia 重大疾病. fury 狂怒
- spec-眼睛看 prospect- 前景
- pessimistic 悲观的
- collective 集体的,共同的.
- But it takes collective sc rutiny and acceptance(接受) to transform a discovery claim into a mature(成熟的) discovey.
- takes A to B
- scrutiny : screw,螺丝 审查. scrupulous 一丝不苟的 screw up.
- economic
- we have to suspect(质疑,嫌疑犯) that coninuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don't force it.
- financial
- A smart phone may contain an arrestee's reading history ,financial history, medical history and comprehensive(理解,全面的,综合的) records of recent correspondence(通信)
- slave
- considerable 相当大的.
- Up to the age thirty or beyond it poetry of many kinds gave him great pleasure.formerly,too,pictures had given him considerable,and music very great,delight.
- formal:正式的 formerly:以前地
- delight: de= di=dis = away. delightful.
- considering
- No shock there,considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean;yet(然而) to hear Sandra and Britney teel it,raising a kid on their "own"(read:with round-clock help) is a piece of cake
