托福阅读词汇解析(7)

　　§ minimum

　　§ 最小的

　　§ Maximum

　　§ Employers frequently pay workers below the minimum wage, and some employers do not pay their workers at all.

　　§ comparable

　　§ similar

　　§ 同样的

　　§ Different

　　§ If you have a comparable production server in place, measuring its actual load patterns over a period of time can go a long way towards getting accurate concurrency rates and is highly recommended.

　　§ component

　　§ part

　　§ 成分

　　§ But some research suggests that denial might have a conscious component — on some level, you might choose to be in denial.

　　§ skeleton

　　§ frame

　　§ 框架, 结构

　　§ If these structures were not defined then the use of a stub (or skeleton) would require one of two scenarios.

　　§ interior

　　§ internal

　　§ 内部的

　　§ exterior, external

　　§ To some degree, all of us have learned or developed techniques to make the external environment conform to our mental (interior) environment.

　　§ vital

　　§ important

　　§ 重要的

　　§ However, it is also vital that the infrastructure supports the substitution of one service implementation by another with no effect to the clients of that service.

　　§ plumb

　　§ 铺设水管

　　§ But although we build robots in this manner—equipping them with sensors and computers to plumb the metric properties of their environments—evolution has taken a more complex route.

　　§ adobe

　　§ brick

　　§ 土砖

　　§ Heavy, brittle walls of traditional adobe—cheap, sun-dried brick—cracked instantly when the ground started bucking. Subsequent shakes brought roofs thundering down.

　　§ permanence

　　§ 持久力

　　§ When new or difficult material is presented, almost all listeners are faced with a challenge because human speech lacks the stability and permanence of the printed word.

　　§ availability

　　§ 实用性

　　§ There are ways to move it, but you must create your volumes in the same availabilityzone as your server.

　　§ arduous

　　§ 费力的

　　§ Although we have today without the face of lost territory, subject to war without smoke, but The task before us arduous same.

　　§ ruin

　　§ 废墟

　　§ But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.

　　§ beam

　　§ 横梁

　　§ Think of consciousness as a spotlight, with the subconscious controlling when to turn it on and where to direct the beam.

　　§ arch

　　§ 拱门

　　§ Looking from a distance like a gigantic arch, it is a continuous loop, a kind of square doughnut.

　　§ curved

　　§ bending

　　§ 弯曲的

　　§ The feat is not just a parlour trick - it could help people visualise how light travels in the curved fabric of space.

　　§ segment

　　§ part

　　§ 部分

　　§ He set out to kill it by finding "the one best way" to do any job, and a system for telling managers how to find that way for every segment of their operations.

　　§ chiefly

　　§ 主要地

　　§ Chiefly, testing yourself repeatedly before an exam teaches the brain to retrieve and apply knowledge from memory.

　　§ drain

　　§ 下水道

　　§ The boat drifted helplessly along the drain until some people saw him.

　　§ semicircular

　　§ 半圆的

　　§ Prostheses that would replace the function of the semicircular canals and thus restore balance are under development.

　　§ span

　　§ 跨越

　　§ Because you can put these probes anywhere to indicate the start and end of a operation, they can span multiple functions, or only a small fragment of a given function.

　　§ horizontal

　　§ 水平的

　　§ Vertical

　　§ It’s defined by which horizontal or vertical slice of the world you connect yourself with.

　　§ divert

　　§ transfer

　　§ 转移

　　§ Otherwise it will divert resources where they’re needed.

　　§ bear

　　§ 负荷

　　§ These art works bear witness to the creativeness of the Chinese people.

　　§ breakthrough

　　§ 突破

　　§ The breakthrough permits direct detection of each nucleotide, allowing an entire gene to be sequenced in about an hour.

　　§ characterize

　　§ feature

　　§ 以……为特征

　　§ In the spirit of frankness which I hope will characterize our talks this week, let us recognize at the outset these points: We have at times in the past been enemies.

　　§ depletion

　　§ reduce

　　§ 消耗

　　§ Increase

　　§ This decreases the device thickness and depletion voltage and consequently reduces material quality requirements and cost of the detector material.

　　§ aquifer

　　§ 蓄水层

　　§ "Pumping from the Pleistocene aquifer has certainly had an adverse effect in terms of drawing down arsenic at significantly high concentrations over about 100 years," says Burgess.

　　§ rancher

　　§ 农场主

　　§ It was built by Juana Briones, a pioneering woman who was a rancher, traditional healer and entrepreneur.

　　§ semiarid

　　§ 半干旱的

　　§ The infection is not transmitted person to person and is caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis, which is found in soil in certain semiarid areas of North and South America.

　　§ intensity

　　§ 强度, 密度

　　§ Now at any point in the day starting at 5 in the morning, there can be that same level of intensity and pressure to get something out.

　　§ wheat

　　§ 小麦

　　§ But the prices of wheat, corn and soyabean are all high, so any big shift towards one crop will come at the expense of the others.