31. hardly → scarcely幾乎不
【例句】
The city had scarcely changed in 20 years. (Longman)
這個城市在二十年間幾乎沒變化。
32. help n. → aid, assistance 幫助,支持
help v. → assist 幫助
【精析】
assist (sb) with/in sth, help sb with sth 幫助某人做某事;with sb's aid/help 在某人的幫助下
【詞句】
These measures were designed to assist people with disabilities.(MacMillan) 這些措施旨在幫助殘疾人。
He succeeded with the aid of a completely new method he discovered.(Collins) 在他所發(fā)現(xiàn)的一個全新的方法的幫助下,他成功了。
33. importance → significance 重要性
①I'm not downplaying the significance of that area to the people of this country. (economist.com) 我沒有低估那塊區(qū)域?qū)τ谶@個國家的重要性。
②Christmas is a holiday of great significance to Americans. (economist.com)
圣誕節(jié)對于美國來說是有重大意義的節(jié)日。
34. important → significant 重要的;critical, crucial, vital 至關(guān)重要的
be important for/to → be critical/crucial/vital to 對于…至關(guān)重要
be important à count, matter
【例句】
①For most of the second half of the 20th century, governments played a crucial role in funding and directing pure research and early-stage development. (economist.com)
對于20世紀(jì)下半葉中的大部分時間來說,政府在資助和指導(dǎo)純理論研究和早期開發(fā)方面扮演著至關(guān)重要的角色。
②The top five skills hiring managers say will be most critical to their businesses.(cnn.com)
招聘經(jīng)理說這五種技巧將對他們的業(yè)務(wù)至關(guān)重要。
③Your contribution is crucial to the success of our company.(cnn.com)
你的貢獻(xiàn)對我們公司的成功至關(guān)重要。
④Their participation is vital to ensuring that assistance addresses the diverse needs within the community.(cnn.com)
他們的參與對于保證援助能解決社區(qū)內(nèi)各種各樣需求至關(guān)重要。
⑤First impressions really do count.(Longman)
第一印象真得很重要。
⑥People need to realize that education matters.(MacMillan)
人們有必要意識到教育很重要。
35. money → capital 資金
【例句】
The drought of foreign capital is beginning to wreck many economies in central and eastern Europe. (economist.com)
外資的流失開始破壞中歐和東歐的許多經(jīng)濟(jì)體。
36. more and more + noun → an increasing number of + noun 越來越多的某物
【例句】
①M(fèi)ore and more supercomputers are being built outside America.(econimist.com)
越來越多的超級計算機(jī)正在美國之外被建造。
②As they attempt to cut costs, an increasing number of firms are outsourcing more of their production.(economist.com)
隨著他們試圖削減費(fèi)用,越來越多的公司把他們更多的生產(chǎn)外包出去。
③UK house prices have become unaffordable to an increasing number of the population.(economist.com)
英國的房價變得讓越來越多的人不可承受。
37. more and more → increasingly 越來越…
【例句】
①I think that the world is more and more uncertain.(economist.com)
我認(rèn)為世界將變得越來越不確定。
②Success in business increasingly depends on chance encounters.(economist.com)
在商界的成功越來越依靠機(jī)遇了。
③Scientists are increasingly worried about the amount of debris orbiting the Earth.(economist.com)
科學(xué)家越來越擔(dān)心圍繞著地球飛行的殘骸量。
④Americans are increasingly choosing to live among like-minded neighbours.(economist.com) 越來越多的美國人正選擇住在志同道合的鄰居中間。
38. most (of) → the majority of 大多數(shù),大部分
【例句】
①Despite receiving billions of dollars of aid, most of its 35m people remain poor.(economist.com) 盡管接受了數(shù)十億的援助,其3500萬民眾中的大部分仍然貧困。
②In most countries, the majority of wealth is concentrated in a fairly small number of hands.(economist.com)
在大部分國家,大部分財富集中于相當(dāng)一小部分人手中。
③Technology has not simplified the lives of the majority of the people on the planet, including.(economist.com)
科技沒有使地球上大部分人的生活變得簡單。
39. method → approach 方法,手段
①China and India are finding two somewhat different approaches to getting rid of poverty, yet they have similarities.(economist.com)
中國和印度找到兩種略有不同的方法擺脫貧困,盡管它們有相似之處。
②You should not hesitate to break away from conventional approaches.(cnn.com)
你應(yīng)該毫不猶豫地拋棄傳統(tǒng)方法。
40. often adv. → frequently經(jīng)常地,頻繁地
【例句】
Limestone was frequently used as a building material. (Longman)
石灰石常被用作建筑材料。
41. old → aged, elderly 年邁的,年老的
the aged/old/elderly → old people 老年人
【例句】
The charity concert is designed to help the aged.
這場慈善音樂會旨在幫助老年人。
42. only adj. → sole 唯一的
only adv. → solely 僅僅地
【例句】
①Griffiths is the sole survivor of the crash.(Longman)
格里菲斯是這場墜機(jī)事故中唯一的幸存者。
②We simply cannot rely solely on the market to fix our problems.(bbc.co.uk)
我們不能僅僅依靠市場來解決我們的問題。
43. in my opinion → in my view, from my perspective/point of view / standpoint / viewpoint 在我看來,我的觀點(diǎn)是
【例句】
①In my view, all these protesters are quite arrogant and plainly ignorant.(economist.com)
在我看來,所有這些抗議者十分傲慢并且完全無知。
②From my perspective, tax cuts to 95 percent of working families is not wasteful.(cnn.com)
以我看來,對95%的工薪階層的減稅并非浪費(fèi)。
44. ordinary adj. → average 普通的
【例句】
①It is estimated that the average American still pollutes between five and six times more than the average Chinese person.(bbc.co.uk)
據(jù)估計普通美國人的污染量仍然相當(dāng)于五六個中國人。
②Statistics have shown that the average students from religious schools do better academically than their counterparts of state school.(bbc.co.uk)
統(tǒng)計顯示來自宗教學(xué)校的普通學(xué)生在學(xué)業(yè)上比國立學(xué)校的同級別學(xué)生表現(xiàn)更出色。
45. pain → anguish, agony 身體或精神上的痛苦
【例句】
①He battled mental and physical anguish.(bbc.co.uk)
他忍受著精神上和身體上的痛苦。
②They can no longer tolerate the mental or physical anguish of a terminal illness.(bbc.co.uk) 他們再也不能忍受一種絕癥帶來的精神或肉體上的痛苦。
③He had been in the hospital for several weeks and was in mental agony.(bbc.co.uk)
他在醫(yī)院里住了數(shù)周,并且也處于精神痛苦之中。
46. prepare, get ready → gear up 準(zhǔn)備
【用法】
prepare for sth = get ready for sth 準(zhǔn)備某事;
gear up for sth = prepare to do sth = gear up to do sth 準(zhǔn)備做某事
be prepared to do sth = be ready to do sth = be geared up to sth 準(zhǔn)備好做某事
【例句】
①He gears up for a meeting with a presidential candidate.(bbc.co.uk)
他準(zhǔn)備和一位總統(tǒng)候選人會面。
②Nokia needs to gear up to provide services, not hardware.(economist.com)
諾基亞需要準(zhǔn)備提供的是服務(wù),而不是硬件。
③The international community are geared up to help Haiti.(bbc.co.uk)
國際社會準(zhǔn)備幫助海地。
47. poor adj. → impoverished 非常貧窮的; poverty-stricken 貧窮的; cash-strapped 拮據(jù)的,缺少資金的;economically disadvantaged 在經(jīng)濟(jì)上處于不利地位的,即相對貧窮的
【例句】
①It is indeed good news that China is every where in Africa opening businesses and creating employment for the impoverished people.(economist.com)
這真是好消息:中國在非洲各地做貿(mào)易并為一貧如洗的人們創(chuàng)造就業(yè)機(jī)會。
②Elsewhere in India, the Muslim minority is economically disadvantaged.(economist.com)
在印度其他地方,穆斯林相對貧困。
48. rich, wealthy adj. → affluent 富裕的
【例句】
①Death rates in Scotland are falling faster in more affluent areas than in poorer places, a study says.(bbc.co.uk)
一項研究表明,在蘇格蘭富裕地區(qū)的死亡率相較于貧窮地區(qū)下降地更快。
②The cash-strapped Caribbean island now wants to attract a more affluent, bigger-spending class of tourists.(bbc.co.uk)
這個沒錢的加勒比島正想吸引一個更加富裕、消費(fèi)更多的游客階層。
49. result from → stem from 源于,因…而出現(xiàn)
【例句】
①The country's floods partly stemmed from over-use of forests by industry.(bbc.co.uk)
該國的洪水部分原因是工業(yè)過度消耗森林。
②The violent protests stemmed from disputed elections in 2000, which the opposition says were rigged.(bbc.co.uk)
這場暴力抗議源于有爭議的2000年的選舉,反對派稱其是作弊的。
50. be sad → be grieved 悲傷
【例句】
①I feel deeply grieved.(bcc.co.uk)
我感到深深地悲傷。
②At present we are grieved and tomorrow looks uncertain.(bbc.co.uk)
現(xiàn)在我很悲傷,明天開起來是不確定的。
51. be similar to → resemble 相似,像
【例句】
①Right now America's banking system resembles a pyramid.(economist.com)
現(xiàn)在美國的銀行體系像個金字塔。
②Today's financial crisis resembles the one that happened three-quarters of a century ago.(economist.com)
目前的金融危機(jī)像發(fā)生在四分之三世紀(jì)之前的那場金融危機(jī)。
52. spend → expend, invest 在某方面花費(fèi)時間、精力或資金等
【精析】
invest除了表示投資外,還可表示“在某方面花費(fèi)時間、精力或資金等”,請看其在朗文字典中的解釋:to use a lot of time, effort etc or spend money in order to make something succeed,其用法為 invest (sth) in sth。
expend也有相同的意思,用法為expend sth in/on (doing) sth。
【例句】
①The city has invested millions of dollars in the museum.(Longman)
這個城市投入幾百萬到博物館上。
②You have to be willing to invest a lot of time in taking care of elderly parents.(Macmillan)
你必須愿意投入大量時間照顧年邁的父母。
③She's invested a lot of emotional energy in that business.(Oxford)
她為那事費(fèi)了很大的心血。
④Manufacturers have expended a lot of time and effort trying to improve computer security.(Longman)
工程師花費(fèi)了大量的時間和精力去努力增加計算機(jī)安全。
53. stop v. → cease 停止
①It is unrealistic to expect that forest degradation will cease.(economist.com)
期待森林退化將停止是不切實(shí)際的。
②Playing fair would cease to have any value.(economist.com)
公平競爭將不再有任何價值。
③Markets and the public cease to believe that prices will remain stable.(economist.com)
市場和公眾將不再相信價格將仍然保持穩(wěn)定。
54. thank sb: ->be grateful to sb, feel/express/show gratitude to sb 感激某人,感謝某人,向某人致謝
【例句】
①You should be grateful to him who gives you this opportunity.(economist.com)
你應(yīng)該感謝他,因為他給了你這個機(jī)會。
②The world must express its gratitude to Sri Lanka.(economist.com)
世界必須向斯里蘭卡致謝
55. think → argue 認(rèn)為
【例句】
He argued that business schools could and should play a terrific role in raising the standard of management.(hbr.org)
他認(rèn)為商業(yè)學(xué)校能夠而且應(yīng)該在提高管理水準(zhǔn)中扮演重大角色。
56. though → despite the fact that 盡管
【例句】
She's taking her children on holiday, despite the fact that school starts tomorrow.(Oxford)
她正帶著她的孩子去度假,盡管學(xué)校明天開學(xué)。
57. be used to: -> be accustomed to 適應(yīng),習(xí)慣
【例句】
We were accustomed to studying in the library.
我們習(xí)慣了再圖書館里學(xué)習(xí)。
58. very adv.: -> extremely, exceedingly 非常地,極度地
【例句】
①This decision is extremely unwise.(bbc.co.uk)
這個決定非常不明智。
②He is exceedingly lean.(cnn.com)
他非常瘦。
59. all over the world → on the earth/planet, across / all over / around / round / throughout + the earth / globe / planet / world, globally 全世界范圍內(nèi),全球
【例句】
①What methods and models do scientists use to track the changes in temperature all over the earth? (cnn.com)
科學(xué)家用什么方法和模型來跟蹤全球范圍內(nèi)的氣溫變化呢?
②Traditional medicines continue to thrive globally. (cnn.com)
傳統(tǒng)醫(yī)藥繼續(xù)在全球范圍內(nèi)興盛。
③Obama is an inspiration to the youths all over the globe.(cnn.com)
奧巴馬是對全世界青年的一個激勵。
60. want to do sth: aspire to do sth 渴望做某事
【例句】
The consulting firm aspires to hire top talents from a diverse set of backgrounds around the world. (cnn.com)
這家咨詢公司渴望雇到全世界有各種不同背景的頂尖人才。
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