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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 19:52:18     标题: 新闻记单词(续帖)

因为先前的帖被放进精华区,发不了新帖了,所以另开一帖,请斑竹不要介意。
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:03:32     标题: progenitor[历史词汇]

n.
祖先, 起源

Ovol1 regulates the growth arrest of embryonic epidermal progenitor cells and represses c-myc transcription


Transcriptional control plays a key role in regulating epidermal proliferation and differentiation. Although ample information has been obtained on how epidermal homeostasis is controlled in adult skin, less is known about the control of proliferation/differentiation of epidermal stem/progenitor cells in the developing embryo.Ovol1, encoding a zinc finger protein homologous to Drosophila melanogaster Ovo, is expressed in embryonic epidermal progenitor cells that are transiting from proliferation to terminal differentiation.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:10:50     标题: retroactive[历史词汇]

adj.
反动的, 追溯的, 有追溯力的, 从以往某天开始生效



School Board Approves Contract After Brief Teacher Strike


District Has 1,100 Students At Four Schools




ROGUE RIVER, Ore. -- The Rogue River school board has unanimously approved a two-year contract that was reached with 61 teachers at four schools after a brief strike.
The contract provides for a 1 percent increase in each of two years, retroactive for about 10 months. Some teachers will get step increases based on years of service and advanced training.
      
Teachers walked out April 12, but the strike soon ended after a tentative agreement was reached.

There are more than 1,100 students among the four schools.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:18:25     标题: ablution[宗教词汇]

n. (对人手、器皿等的)洗礼




Malaysia mulls prayer guidelines for Muslim astronauts+

(Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)KUALA LUMPUR, April 25_(Kyodo) _ How do Muslim astronauts pray five times a day in space when a "day" in orbit is only 90 minutes? How does one determine where Mecca is in a constantly moving space station?


Then there is also the question of how to perform ablution, a ritual cleansing of the body, with water-rationing in space.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:25:09     标题: agnostic[宗教词汇]

adj.
不可知论的;不表明意见的,不明朗的:


Hogan On CC’s Lab Work: We’re Agnostic About Delivery, Passionate About Content


The Format Lab, has launched a new service that will make 75 new channels available to rival radio broadcasters for use in areas including station web sites and HD Radio multicasts. Clear Channel Radio President/CEO John Hogan believes competing broadcasters will be interested in the content because the number of new HD side channels will create a huge new need for content.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:30:27     标题: apocryphal[宗教词汇]

adj.
伪经的,假冒的;【圣经】 次经的:次经的或有关次经的

Apocryphal Books part of Holy Trinity Sunday Series program

By MARY ANN ROBERTSON
The classification and subject matter of the Apocrypha Books was discussed March 19 at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:36:43     标题: asceticism[宗教词汇]

n.
禁欲主义, 苦行

NATURE IN SHORT / Nature meets the city in the wilds of Todoroki Ravine
When I invite my friends to go for a walk through the Todoroki Ravine, they usually conjure up images of a long day spent clambering over slippery rocks high up in the mountains.

The Todoroki Ravine, however, is located in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo. Called Todoroki Keikoku in Japanese, this "ravine" is really only about 20 meters deep and a little more than a kilometer long. Still, it's an incredible chunk of natural landscape for such an urban setting.




On the opposite side of the ravine stands Mitakeyama Kofun, a scallop-shaped mound about 42 meters in diameter and seven meters high, thought to have been built in the early-to-mid fifth century. Inside the burial chamber was found an unusual bronze mirror, with seven little bells attached around the edge. Today the mound is completely forested over, but a path leads up to the top, where stands a small shrine dedicated to fabulous Zao-Gongen--the wild spirit of Yoshino Mountains in Nara Prefecture and the patron saint of Shugendo, Japan's unique brand of mountain asceticism.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:38:07     标题: apotheosis[宗教词汇]

n.
尊为神, 神化, 颂扬, 崇拜, 典范
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-4-25 20:39:16     标题: bigot[宗教词汇]

n.
盲目信仰者, 顽固者
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 19:05:33     标题: abdicate

v.
退位, 放弃(职位,权力等)
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 19:20:49     标题: aberration

n.
失常


Groh's flawed 'plan'
Published July 30 2006
Al Groh miscalculated - several times. He compounded the errors by speaking carelessly and copping an attitude(cop an attitude:Adopt an aggressive or antagonistic bearing.) But before University of Virginia football faithful and/or faculty flame-throwers storm the McCue Center, some context and perspective are in order.

The aberration, we hope, is Virginia's eight. Not that Groh is willing to call this an aberration.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 19:24:48     标题: abet

vt.
教唆, 煽动, 帮助, 支持


Abet financial scam, go to jail • EFCC warns cybercafe operators
By Sun News Publishing
Wednesday, July 26, 2006 National Index



Anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Tuesday further tightened its noose on corruption, warning Internet cybercafe operators that they risked 20 years imprisonment if they abetted financial scams.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 19:29:06     标题: abject

adj.
卑鄙的, 可怜的

Mel Gibson issues abject apology over his arrest

Sun, July 30, 2006

By AP
LOS ANGELES --

Mel Gibson issued a lengthy statement yesterday apologizing for his drunk driving arrest and saying he has battled alcoholism throughout his life.

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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 19:35:45     标题: abnegation

n.(名词)
Self-denial.
自我克制,自我控制

These walls thy sphere
Jonathan Beckman
Sunday July 23, 2006
The Observer



My Lives
by Edmund White (Bloomsbury £8.99, pp356)


This book has none of the picaresque ambling of a memoir, and it is equally perverse to call it an autobiography. Edmund White has such a powerful sense of self-abnegation that only through his relationships with others can he electrify his own life. This is the story of how family, friends, lovers and shrinks have modelled a personality of exquisite sensibility. White's detachment is unnerving, not because it is aloof, but because of his ability to navigate through his surging emotions without any of the self-deception that accompanies shame. At its centre, its fluttering heart (and, as this is White, its throbbing cock), stands his account of his sadomasochistic relationship with the man he calls 'my master'. Like the whole book, it is written with breathtaking skill; not one flawed sentence nor one misdiagnosed feeling.
作者: pewcg8    时间: 2006-7-30 19:46:54

顶,这个我喜欢,再加个精!
Pitt不错.
作者: chenda8201    时间: 2006-7-30 19:52:40

good~!
在原汁原味的文章中学词汇是很好的~
我最近在看各种美国刊物,其中一些上的文章出现大量的GRE词汇,也有在想是否作些整理出来贴在寄托这里,看来楼主走向前面了~呵呵
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:13:22     标题: abrogate

vt.
废除, 取消

AFA-CWA Optimistic Despite Court's Decision to Abrogate Northwest Flight Attendants Contract
Thursday June 29, 6:00 pm ET


WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal bankruptcy judge today granted Northwest Airlines the right to abrogate the contract of their over 9,300 flight attendants. However, the court instituted a 14-day stay on the decision so that both parties can continue to negotiate. If no agreement is reached, the company can impose only those terms and conditions listed in the tentative agreement that failed last month. In addition, the court stated that "all concerned would be well-served if the flight attendants and the Debtors could resolve their disputes through continued negotiation ... the Court is therefore requiring the parties to make one last effort to reach a ratifiable agreement."
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:19:42     标题: absolve

v.tr.(及物动词)
ab.solved, ab.solv.ing, ab.solves
(1)To pronounce clear of guilt or blame.
赦免:宣布无罪或不应受谴责
(2)To relieve of a requirement or an obligation.
解除责任,解除义务
(3)To grant a remission of sin to.
赦罪:给予…减免罪行
(4)To pardon or remit (a sin).
赦免,宽恕:赦免或饶恕(一罪行)

Spanish Reporter: No Hezbollah in Qana - UK, Egypt, Syria and Jordan Condemn Attack
Reported by Marie Therese - July 30, 2006 - comments
All morning the FOX & Friends trio has been doing its level best to absolve Israel of all responsibility for the 50+ deaths that occurred in the town of Qana in southern Lebanon. In typical FOX fashion, every time Greg Palkot files a report from Tyre(Tyre提尔(古代腓尼基Phoenicia 的有名港口, 现属黎巴嫩)), he offers up so many possibilities that one cannot assign blame. About 15 minutes ago, Palkot did, however, say that there seem to be no men of fighting age in the town.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:23:29     标题: abstinence

n.
节制, 节欲, 戒酒


Had a few spells of abstinence...Been to AA a number of times.. been on SR a few times.. both of whom have helped me a lot

Ive got anxiety/depression issues and seeing a therapist to try and sort that out.
Drinking made me confident, but always a vicous cycle as the day after a binge I would be anxious about things I may or may not have done when out of it. Blackouts everytime I drunk.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:29:42     标题: accessory

n.
附件, 零件, 附加物, 从犯, 同谋者
adj.
附属的, 补充的, 同谋的, 副的

iBrella: Rain or Shine iPod Accessory
Posted Jul 30, 2006 at 12:39AM by Alaric S.

Listed in: Apple, Gadgets
Tags: iBrella


Introducing the iBrella - a special umbrella controls your iPod by physical interaction. According to it's inventor opening and closing the iBrella starts and pause the iPod. To select songs randomly all you have to do is shake the iBrella wildly in the air. To pump up the volume twirl the iBrella to the right. Twirl it to the left  to bring the volume down Want to switch to different control modes, start stabbing an imaginary monster with the iBrella and presto change-o. If only the iBrella could fly...
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:32:07     标题: acclivity

n.
[地]向上的斜坡
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:49:31     标题: accouter

vt.
供以服装, 供以军用品, 装备


The fisherman was accountered with the best that the sporting goods store could supply.

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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 21:54:49     标题: acetic

adj.
[化]醋的, 乙酸的

Simple method saves women’s lives from cancer
By Sade Oguntola

IT was a pleasant experience for women drawn from all works of life to witness the flagging off a collaboration meant to safe women from cervical cancer at Sagamu. The women in their thousands with the full support of both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centre for Research on Reproductive based in Olabisi Onabanjo Teaching Hospital (OOUTH),Sagamu were opportune to learn of a cheap, simple way to ensure that none dies from cervical cancer by doing a visual inspection of their cevix (mouth of the womb) with acetic acid ,commonly called vinegar.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 22:01:40     标题: acrid

adj.
辛辣的, (言语或语调)刻薄的

Cyanide tastes acrid, says suicide note

A suicide note left behind by a goldsmith says the deadly cyanide tastes acrid and burns the tongue?

Perhaps this is the first-ever real-life account of a person tasting cyanide. No one who had got the real state ever lived to tell the tale.

Here too the victim is gone but he had caught a few fleeting moments before his first accidental taste and final gulp when he penned his findings.

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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 22:12:45     标题: actuarial

adj.
保险精算师的, 保险精算的

What your trustees should know  
July 29, 2006

By Charlene Clayton


For many of us, the money in our company pension fund is all the savings we have at retirement. Yet few of us have the foggiest idea how our fund works – let alone how it’s performing. We’re only too happy to leave it to our trustees. We give you 10 key questions that you should ask the trustees of your fund.

5. Is my fund in a healthy financial state?
To ensure that your retirement fund investments are safeguarded, you need information about the financial state of your fund, Albert says.

Typically, such information can be obtained from the annual financial statements, as well as the auditor’s report and the actuarial valuation, which must be done every three years.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 22:18:48     标题: addle

vt.
使腐坏, 使糊涂
adj.
腐坏的

Ethics? It can addle the brain

Ruth Sheehan, Staff Writer
One of my friends has a theory that, with young children and a full-time job, she simply cannot fit more into her brain.

It's full. If she adds something new, something else falls out.

I like to use that explanation for my own moments of short-term memory loss.

Did lawmakers forget that secrecy breeds suspicion -- not to mention more shenanigans? Maybe their brains are simply too full.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 22:24:00     标题: adventitious

adj.
偶然的, 外来的


Gene flow from GE to conventional maize using real-time PCR


Worldwide commercialization and increasing acreage of genetically engineered organisms (GEO) have propitiated the approval of labeling regulations in several countries to protect the consumers' right to information.

It is important to take into consideration the extent of pollen dissemination from transgenic to conventional crops under field conditions to properly establish containment strategies to minimize the adventitious presence of transgenes in conventional or organic crops. Of particular concern is maize, of which there are an increasing number of GE varieties cultivated worldwide

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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-7-30 22:24:51     标题: adjuration

n.
恳请, 请愿
作者: paul_zhang007    时间: 2006-7-30 23:23:33

狂顶不已~~~
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:29:38     标题: adverse

adj.
不利的, 敌对的, 相反的

Jiuxu antibiotic sends woman into coma
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-08-09 15:39

A Hangzhou woman fell into a coma for 30 hours after injected with an antibiotic produced by Zhejiang Jiuxu Pharmaceutical Co, Oriental Morning Post reported today.

The woman, surnamed Chen, went to a clinic because of a toothache on July 31. The doctor prescribed a clindamycin phosphate injection to Chen, but several minutes after Chen received the injection, she went into shock and fell into a coma.

The drug hasn't been found to bring any adverse reactions to other patients in Hangzhou and is still in use.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:38:57     标题: advert

vi.
注意, 留意
n.
广告

Google fights back over advert fraud allegations

Google on Tuesday went on the offensive against a group of critics that has played a central role in stirring up controversy around alleged fraud in its advertising system.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:43:53     标题: aegis

n.
[希神]羊皮盾, 保护, 庇护, 支持
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:47:13     标题: aerie

n.
猛禽的窝, 高处的房子或城堡
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:53:16     标题: affidavit

n.
<美>[律]宣誓书, (经陈诉者宣誓在法律上可采作证据的)书面陈述

Police: Store owner died quickly from wounds

By ROGER AMSDEN
Union Leader Correspondent
4 hours, 56 minutes ago


Franklin – A Manchester businessman who was shot to death in front of the Twin Rivers Market last month died before police reached him, according to a police affidavit
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 16:56:58     标题: affiliation

n.
加入;参加;联系, 从属关系


Coyotes announce one-year affiliation with Roadrunners








GLENDALE, Ariz. The Phoenix Coyotes reached a one-year affiliation agreement today with the E-C-H-L's Phoenix Roadrunners for the 2006-2007 season.

Coyotes general manager Mike Barnett says they're looking forward to working with the Roadrunners.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:05:21     标题: aggrandize

vt.
增加, 夸大

Murdock on a health kick

The Dole Food and Castle & Cooke owner is pouring a fortune into health-related ventures
By Rhonda L. Rundle
Wall Street Journal

ASSOCIATED PRESS / SEPTEMBER 2005
Billionaire David H. Murdock, center, has become so concerned about health -- his own and others' -- that he changed his diet and is investing millions of dollars in health-related projects. Above, Murdock greeted people in September 2005 after talking about his plan for the new North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, N.C., a 350-acre biotechnology research complex that he says will advance scientific knowledge about the role of food and nutrition in human health.


"I don't hide the fact that we want to make a little bit of money, but it will go right back into the campus," explained Murdock. "What I'm doing isn't to make publicity or aggrandize myself. I thought maybe at my age I would have the fun of spending the money the way I want to spend it," he said.

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作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:09:56     标题: agitate

v.
搅动, 摇动, 煽动, 激动

Mubarak says certain powers trying to agitate conflict in Mideast
         


Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said that certain powers were trying to agitate a conflict in the Middle East to serve their interests, the official MENA news agency reported Friday.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:12:03     标题: agog

adj.
兴奋的, 热切的
adv.
热切地, 渴望

Agog over organicsAugust 01, 2006 12:00am


WORLDWIDE demand for organic food is booming and Australian producers can snare a bigger slice of the market, according to a government report.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:13:54     标题: alacrity

n.
敏捷, 活泼, 爽快

Excitement in the air for first day of school

PORT CHARLOTTE -- The school supplies are bought, the backpack is ready, and this week's 6:30 a.m. practice runs have all been successful. Michelle Gaudette is excited for her 5-year-old son's very first day of school -- but the "emotions haven't hit yet."

Brandon showed off his Spider-Man folder and placed his new pencils into a carrying case Tuesday. The alacrity and excitement about starting school filled the house as he talked about his new classroom and school.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:16:35     标题: allusion

n.
提及, 暗示

Master of allusion
Imants Tillers has clung to postmodernism when other artists have moved on. It may be why his paintings - despite their themes of dislocation and loss - remain unconvincing, writes Sebastian Smee
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:19:31     标题: aloft

adv.
在高处, 在上

Aloft Hotels to be the First Hotel Brand to Open its Doors in Virtual Reality
8/8/2006

NEW YORK - This September, aloft, A Vision Of W Hotels, will become the world's first hotel brand to place a 3-D computer generated replica inside a virtual world when it debuts an aloft hotel inside the popular online game Second Life. A virtual environment in which players create digital alter egos and exchange virtual currency for digitally rendered goods and services, the Second Life metaverse is currently inhabited by more than 350,000 people worldwide.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:21:11     标题: altercation

n.
争论, 口角


Man dies following downtown altercation

The Herald-Dispatch


HUNTINGTON -- A 19-year-old Huntington man died after an altercation early Sunday morning in downtown Huntington.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:23:40     标题: ambrosia

n.
神的食物, 特别美味的食物
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:27:52     标题: amenable

adj.
应服从的, 有服从义务的, 有责任的
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-9 17:29:14     标题: ambulatory

adj.
(1)Of, relating to, or adapted for walking.
走动的:走动的,与走动有关的,适于走动的
(2)Capable of walking; not bedridden:
能够走动的;不需卧床的:
作者: xmbjowl    时间: 2006-8-9 20:00:21

哇,好强~还有图片帮助记忆...
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:06:57     标题: amenities

n.
令人愉快之事物

Danford subdivision offers upscale living, high-end amenities
Proximity main reason to locate in neighborhood
By STACY SMITH SEGOVIA
The Leaf-Chronicle


Danford, an upscale neighborhood in Sango, has been in the works for four years. Nineteen of its 22 one-acre lots have been sold. Three houses are completed, currently occupied by David Welch and family, Dr. Scott Blackman and family, and Evans Harvill and family.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:10:49     标题: amiss

adj.
有毛病的, 出差错的
adv.
错误的

Copper pay deal still amiss

Santiago - Striking workers at the world's largest copper mine, Chile's Escondida, said on Saturday that negotiators trying to end a week-long strike had not yet discussed the hard numbers needed for a salary deal.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:15:24     标题: amity

n.
友好, 亲善关系



Update on Deadly Amity Township Crash
Story posted on  2006-08-16 18:52:00   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We now know the name of the person killed in that accident in Amity Township that we first told you about last night.


Police say 25-year-old Joshua MacNeil of Douglass Township, Montgomery County lost control of his pick-up truck on Route 662 just before 4:00.

The truck hit a fence and a utility pole, and ended up wrapping around a tree.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:18:00     标题: amok

adj.
杀人狂
adv.
狂乱地, 杀气腾腾地



Amok tries to attack wife with parang
15 August, 2006
Papar: A 29-year-old local ran amok and tried to attack his wife with a parang at Kg Laut Kinarut, near here, Sunday.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:21:26     标题: analgesic

adj.
止痛的, 不痛的
n.
[医]止痛剂

Watching Cartoons Eases Children's Pain
Kids' TV helps distract youngsters from minor medical procedures, study shows

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo and the Power Rangers might have a place in the doctor's office, a new study finds.

Researchers in Italy found that cartoons helped distract kids from the pain of minor medical procedures.


"We found that watching TV has an analgesic power, even greater than active distraction obtained by mothers' efforts," said lead author Dr. Carlo Bellieni, from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Le Scatte Clinic of the University of Siena.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:23:31     标题: ancestry

n.
祖先(集合称), 家系, 血统

Online tool for tracing matrilineal ancestry

G. Mahadevan



THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sooryakiran Bioinformatics, a company functioning in the Industry Incubation Centre (IIC) of the University of Kerala, has designed a software that can be used, among other things, to trace a person's matrilineal ancestry using the technique of mitochondrial DNA sequencing.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:29:49     标题: anemia

n.
贫血, 贫血症
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:32:50     标题: animadversion

n.
批评, 非难
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:35:15     标题: animosity

n.
仇恨, 憎恶

S. Korean movies play on animosity

SEOUL -- Recent antagonisms between South Korea and its most important allies -- the United States and Japan -- play out in the summer 's two highest-profile movies here.
    The popularity of the films may reflect public attitudes after Seoul's reluctance to join Tokyo and Washington in taking a hard line toward Pyongyang over its nuclear program and missile tests.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:39:45     标题: annex

n.
附件
vt.
并吞, 附加

Time to Think About Annex and Transfer

Drastic times, drastic solutions. I feel now is the perfect time for Israel to annex Gaza and the West Bank, and expel all Arabs. All Israelis must have the security of knowing that those in Gaza will no longer have the leisure of running into Israel and bombing or kidnapping hostages. The same type of pamphleting campaign, which warns of Israeli retaliations, should carry a new message. If Arabs insist on continued campaigns of terrorism and warfare against any Israeli territory - anywhere - then ten percent of Gaza will be taken back by Israel. Be specific - which village, which well, which mosque, which street to which street - and then do it the next time they test Israeli resolve.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:41:23     标题: anodyne

n.
止痛剂, 镇痛剂
adj.
止痛的
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:45:13     标题: anoint

vt.
涂以油或软膏, 施以涂油礼;选定,指定;


Dvorak: Microsoft Should Dump Vista, Anoint a 'Code Pope'
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
By John C. Dvorak

Microsoft needs to back up and re-fork its OS development from Windows 2000 Professional or even Windows NT 4.0.

Then it needs to find a "pope" who can understand the code base. Let me explain.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:54:57     标题: antediluvian

adj.
(《圣经》中所说的)大洪水前的, 上古的, 古风的
n.
大洪水以前的人, 很老的人, 老古董


Fiction-filled computer code mystery peppered with 'ancient' puzzles

Consider it Carnegie Mellon University's version of "The DaVinci Code" or "Indiana Jones" flicks, but with computer codes and puzzles replacing villains and rolling boulders.

CMU's heralded Computer Science Department was chosen this year to create a contest for the ninth annual programming contest of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming to be held Sept. 18-20 in Portland, Ore.

  
Martha Rial, Post-Gazette
Keepers of the code: From left, Chris Casinghino, Tom Murphy VII, Daniel Spoonhower, professor Robert Harper and Daniel Licata stop in Dr. Harper's office at Carnegie Mellon University.
Click photo for larger image.



Each year, the contest attracts computer scientists worldwide to compete for supreme bragging rights -- and a token cash prize -- in writing computer programs, solving computer problems and making their trusty computers operate more efficiently than their competitors'.

But this year, CMU created a contest that raised the bar, or should one say "cursor," along with some eyebrows. It's no surprise considering that U.S. News & World Report this year ranked CMU's doctoral program in computer science and its programming languages group as the nation's best.

A team of three doctoral students and one undergraduate computer scientist worked six months to produce a movie-like plot involving a fictional ancient codex and Rosetta stone.

Participants then had 72 hours, from noon July 21 to noon July 24, to use scant clues to solve the codex to activate a fictional ancient computer, which in turn was used to help solve eight puzzles. Many teams worked around the clock for three days to try solving the puzzles.



But by the reactions CMU received, most computer scientists reveled in the challenge and praised CMU's talent and programming gumption.

"The ICFP contest is always a great event, but this year's version really stood out," said Tom Duff, a pioneering developer at Pixar Animation Studios. "Most years the contest revolves around a really complex, quirky, optimization puzzle, but this year we got a double handful of moderately complex puzzles, which makes a better contest.

"The presentation was stunning and hilarious," he said. "It was like a scavenger hunt in a virtual 'Lost World' populated by antediluvian computer scientists."
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:57:07     标题: antiseptic

adj.
防腐的, 杀菌的, 消过毒的
n.
防腐剂, 杀菌剂
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-17 23:59:07     标题: apathy

n.
缺乏感情或兴趣, 冷漠

EC official bemoans female apathy in district assembly elections

-GNA- | Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2006



Miss. Laurencia Kpatakpa (Volta Regional Director of the Electoral Commission -EC) has expressed concern about the public's disinterest in the impending district Assembly elections in the region.
She has called on government to use its wide reach and public education agencies to raise awareness across the country.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency, Miss. Kpatakpa said government intervention was necessary to hype the elections in light of the fact that patronage of district assembly elections in Ghana had always been low.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-18 00:00:58     标题: ape

v.tr.(及物动词)
盲目模仿:盲目模仿但经常带有荒唐结果参见 imitate
adj.Informal (形容词)【非正式用语】
无法无天的:完全无约束的,尤其是狂热的:
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-18 00:02:46     标题: aphasia

n.
失语症

Living with Aphasia


Aphasia can happen suddenly when a stroke or head injury damages the left side of the brain, the part responsible for language. Or it can come on slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor.

Not only does it affect the way you talk, but how you understand words. Still, you need to figure out a way to communicate with the rest of the world.
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-18 00:06:11     标题: apostate

n.
变节者, 背教者, 脱党者
adj.
变节的, 背教的, 脱党的
作者: myown5891    时间: 2006-8-18 00:08:11     标题: apothecary

n.
药剂师, 药师
作者: khil    时间: 2006-8-18 07:49:30

好,真不错啊




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