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托福阅读词汇解析(33)

2017-04-22 10:20:00来源:新东方在线整理

  § clockwise

  § 顺时针方向地

  § anticlockwise, counterclockwise

  § After 14 months of repairs, the giant machine was restarted on Friday evening and the firstbeam started circulating in a clockwise direction around the tunnel about 10pm.

  § flake

  § 小薄片

  § Then a large flake of silcrete almost 10 centimetres in diameter was found embedded in ash inan ancient fire pit.

  § sequence

  § order

  § 序列, 顺序

  § You have to read the book in a certain sequence, rather like a sentence itself, and the journey actually takes you somewhere.

  § crescent

  § 新月, 新月状物

  § As often as not, it has turned its back on the crescent that stretches from Morocco to Turkey, asa cradle of instability and terrorism.

  § cortex

  § 皮质, 树皮

  § Another surprising find: the prefrontal cortex, though at the front of the brain, might actuallyserve as its central information hub that distributes information throughout the brain.

  § knap

  § 打碎, 敲击

  § And what I do is, I select a hard stone hammer, in this case a quartzite pebble about the size ofa cricket ball, and I elect to hit it in one place - and this is where I start to knap.

  § pattern

  § 模式, 图案

  § The chameleon's skin replicates the pattern of its surroundings.

  § criteria

  § 标准, 条件(criterion 的复数)

  § If for some funny reason, the outcome does not meet the criteria of success, then we shouldalso not hesitate from accepting it as our fault.

  § pebble

  § 卵石

  § And what I do is, I select a hard stone hammer, in this case a quartzite pebble about the size ofa cricket ball, and I elect to hit it in one place - and this is where I start to knap.

  § Homo habilis

  § 能人

  § In this particular case, there are many uncertainties regarding the fossil record from that time,including when the human lineage first emerged and how Homo habilis fits in the picture.

  § identical

  § 同一的, 完全相同的

  § In this case, if you compare the identity of the returned objects, you will find that they are notidentical.

  § mammal

  § 哺乳动物

  § The vexing question is: Why? Bats are the only mammal with a better ability to hear changes in pitch than humans do.

  § preferential

  § 优先的

  § We will make you a compensation of 6% and give you some preferential terms later on.

  § cerebral

  § 大脑的

  § As such, Adinoff and his research team plan to continue their study of brain activity and cerebral blood flow changes associated with the addictive behavior.

  § hemisphere

  § 半球

  § The light is dying, for one thing, as Earth’s orbit around the sun and tilt on its axis combine to carry us in this hemisphere further away from receiving the sun’s rays most directly.

  § asymmetrical

  § 非对称的

  § Symmetrical

  § Previous research has found that people with asymmetrical faces and bodies can be more aggressive when provoked.

  § specimen

  § 样品, 样本

  § Once a specimen is collected in the field, the whole body is fixed in formalin, a mixture off ormaldehyde and water.

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