【六人三步进阶小组】听力口语不分家，我们的目标是26+

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3.6
TPO11A:

TED:
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/7/3/O/M7B9LRU4P_M7BA28N3O.html 每粒花粉都有一个故事


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3.7

TPO

TED:
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/7/D/6/M77H2ECIB_M77OAD9D6.html 怎样化杂为简

Simplicity often lies on the other side of complexity  复杂的反面就是简单



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3.4
TPO：

TED：
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/7/I/5/M7E3RHP0V_M7E3RNCI5.html 恒星里面有什么

spectroscopist 光谱学家
nebulae 星云
galaxies 星系
SETI 搜索地外文明（机构）
profile 资料
isotope 同位素
engulf 吞没
eg：The little boat was engulfed by the waves.
emission lines 发射谱线---------absorption lines 吸收谱线
spectra 光谱
line-of-sight velocities of cosmic objects 宇宙天体的视向速度
thermonuclear reactions 热核反应
thermonuclear [,θə:məu'nju:kliə]
高热原子核反应的
infra-red 红外线
spectral lines 光谱线
minus 200 kelvin 零下200k
osmium 锇
solar flares 太阳耀斑
interstellar medium 星际介质
Doppler effect 多普勒效应
high resolution 高解析度
astroseismology 天文地震仪
tectonic and volcanic activity of planets 行星的构造运动和火山运动
straightforward 简单直观的
uranium 铀
thorium钍
potassium钾
in 100 parsec away from here 离我们距离320光年
tune radio telescope 调节射电望远镜
biomarker 生物标志物
nitrogen oxide 氮氧化物


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3.9
TPO：

TED：
http://v.163.com/movie/2010/11/3/R/M77RJDQQ2_M78B19E3R.html 为公海立法

take sb. on a voyage to sp. 带sb.启程前往sp.
Here be monsters. 怪物出没
wondrous ['wʌndrəs] 出色的; 完美的；令人惊奇的；惊人的；非常的
forefather 祖先
make me green with envy that…我十分羡慕…
IUCN 世界自然保护联盟（International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources）也即，国际自然与自然资源保护联合会[瑞士]
Madagascar seamounts 马达加斯加海岭
Madagascar [mædə'ɡæskə]马达加斯加岛(非洲岛国)
seamount 海山；海底山；海丘
the high seas 公海
a legal term 法律概念
in theory 理论上
It’s the global commons belonging to us all. 全球共有属于我们大家的。
cast light on some of the outdated myths 破除一些过时的
stake holders 利益相关者
pioneer a new perspective on 提出一个新的观点
high seas governance 公海治理
be rooted in 根植于…
basin-wide
海盆尺度；流域性
eg：a Pacific basin-wide
phenomenon 一种太平洋海盆尺度的现象
basin-wide
large floods 流域性大洪水
be framed in an arena of global norms 在国际准则框架内
arena表演场地, 竞技场；活动或斗争的场所或场面
eg：She entered the political arena at the age of 25.
她25岁进入政界。
norm标准, 规范；准则, 行为模式
eg：Of his age, the child is above the norm in arithmetic.
在他那个年龄, 这个孩子的算术能力是超过标准的。
Everyone should abide by our social norms.
我们每个人都应该遵守社会行为准则。
abide [ə'baid] 容忍, 忍受；等候；逗留, 居住
abide by 遵守
as seen from above 像之前看到的
scare sb. far more 更让sb.害怕
It belies the notion that… 说明…
carbon storage with heat storage，with oxygen 碳、热量、氧气
problems we have to confront 不得不面对的问题
garbage discharge 垃圾排放
dilution 稀释
That has proved to be no longer the case.已被证明不再适用。
on a local scale 局部地区
put into place 满足
for the good of one and all 为了个人或全体所有的利益
a sense of shared responsibility 共同的责任感
bind people together as a community 将人们团结在一起
conditional access 有条件准入
play by the rules 按规则行事
It is not all doom and gloom. 并非全是厄运和黑暗。
doom注定; 判定；厄运, 劫数
eg：Bad weather doomed the crops.
坏天气注定了庄稼要歉收。
The report on our economic situation is full of doom and gloom.
这份关于我们经济状况的报告充满了令人绝望和沮丧的调子。
dedicated individuals 乐于奉献的人
conservationist 环境保护主义者
a tragic trajectory 悲剧轨迹
seascape 海洋风光
deep-sea bottom trawling 深海底部的拖网捕捞
get norm in place 建立一些规范
create a regime 创设一种制度
regime [rei'ʒi:m] 政治制度, 政权, 政体；组织方法；管理体制；状态
prior assessment of 对…预先评估
be looking optimistically at…
乐观地看待…
Sylvia’s wish 西尔维娅的愿望
have rarely seen places beyond one’s our toes 几乎鼠目寸光
oceanic currents 洋流
spawning ground for eels 鳗鱼产卵之地
spawn
v. (鱼、蛙等)大量产(卵)；大量生产；n. (鱼、蛙等的)子, 卵
eel 鳝;鳗
eg: be (as) slippery as an eel 像鳗鱼一样狡猾；滑得像泥鳅
in juvenile stages 处于成长阶段
launch a global initiative for protection 开展全球化的保护倡议
within its national jurisdiction 在其国内管辖权的范围内
spearhead当…的先锋, 带头
eg：He is spearheading the peace movement.
他充当这次和平运动的先锋。
spearhead a movement
be put off limits to 超出…限度
pack ice 浮冰
phytoplankton
[,faitəu'plæŋktən]浮游生物
krill 磷虾
stand up boldly大胆站起来
singly and together 分别或共同
fisheries management 渔业管理
oceanographic
[,əuʃiənəu'ɡræfik]海洋学的；有关海洋学的
year-round 常年的
heritage sites 世界遗产
stay put in 一直处于…
scale-up 拓展；整合
culminating year 最后一年
culminating到绝顶的,终极的,最后的
culminating point最高点；顶点，极点
stay tuned for further information 继续等待进一步信息
team up with 与…工作合作
bring me to my main take-home message 带我回到主题
avert a tragedy of the commons 避免共同的悲剧
think broad scale 广泛思考
shine a spotlight on 聚焦于一个亮点在…
have a stake in 在…有利害关系
build capacity 设立权限
two-pronged 双管齐下的
pronged
[prɔŋd;prɔ:ŋd] 尖端分叉的


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3.10
TPO：

TED：
http://v.163.com/movie/2009/11/G/H/M7H17F4KE_M7H18AHGH.html 对最近气候趋势的警告
戈尔的演讲一直都是大爱啊~我们是环保主义者！

arctic ice cap北极冰帽
shrink （-shrunk-shrunk）收缩; 退缩；起皱
shrink by 40 percent 缩减了40%
understate the seriousness of this particular problem 未能完全说明这个问题的严重性
the beating heart 跳动的心脏
expand舒张-----contract收缩
The next slide I show you will be下面我要展示的是
a rapid fast forward of

…的急剧变化
the permanent ice 永冻冰
the annual ice 年度冰
spile out of the body输送到身体各部位
spile
vt.打桩,打小孔,插上插管n. 木栓,塞,插管,木桩
heat up 使…受热
volumes 流量
cross the tipping point 突破顶点
shallow lakes 浅湖
methane bubble up out of the water 沼气泡从水中探头
land-base 陆地上的
in negative ice balance 冰处于减少期
crop up on top some under-sea islands 突然发现几个低于海平面的岛屿
is hitting the reservoirs 对于蓄水池是一个打击
unprecedented [ʌn'presɪ,dentɪd]前所未有的, 无前例的
look at in the context of history 看看历史
a radical depletion of
…急剧减少
emitter [i'mitə]排放国；发射器
the last calendar year 去年
clean coal清洁煤炭
oxymoron 矛盾的
frosty寒冷的；盖有霜的；冷淡的,冷漠的
affordable付得起的, 不太昂贵的
affordable and adorable 可爱而实惠的
alliance for
…的联盟
a large sum of money 一大笔钱
bring out and complicate the truth about… 挖掘并阐释…的真相
Leave that up to us. 让我们来搞定吧
Let’s take a tour of…
state-of-the-art如同艺术一般的
take a good long look 好好看看吧
mesh with 应对…
mesh
v. （使）吻合；相配；匹配；适合；n. 网孔；筛孔；网状物
If you want to go quickly，go alone.
If you want to go far,
go together.



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3.11
TPO：

TED：
http://v.163.com/movie/2010/9/U/Q/M78DA7RUR_M78DJ17UQ.html 我们的自然睡眠周期

internal clocks 内部时钟
body clock 生物钟
horseshoe crab鲎
take a…off the beach从海滩上抓一只…
a sloped cage 倾斜的笼子
scramble up （the floor of the cage）----skitter down 退回
skitter掠过水面,沿水面拉动鱼钩钓鱼;使掠过水面；蹦跳
water is receding 退潮
lose the plot 失去判断能力
psychic 灵异的
paranormal 超自然的；超出科学可知范围的,不正常的, 奇异的
correspond with 与…相协调
in humans 就人类而言
bunker （士兵用的) 掩体, 地堡, 掩蔽壕；(高尔夫球场的)沙坑
rave about倾倒
eg：Go to webmaster conferences and rave
about how rich you are, and how your affiliates make millions doing nothing. 参加站长大会，吹嘘你多有钱，你的联属计划会员什么也不干就发财了。
The boy wants to join the army. This is enormous shock to his dad, who would have preferred to rant and rave
about his wanting to become a painter.

这个孩子要参军。此事使他的父亲极为震惊，他可能会大声叫嚷要儿子当画家。

atypical [ei'tipikəl] 非典型的
underrated force 被低估的力量
aboriginal (据文献记载)最早就存在的，最早就有的；(尤指人)从很早的时期就居住于某地的;土著的；土著居民的，具有土著人特征的；(A-)澳洲土著居民的
eg：They managed to wipe out the entire aboriginal population.
他们终于把那些土著人全部消灭了。
manic hunting 疯狂的狩猎
manic <医>躁狂的, 患躁狂病的

have meditative quiet 安静的沉思
a surge of prolactin 产生催乳素
a surge of joy
喜从天降
prolactin [prəu'l&aelig;ktin]催乳激素
…the likes of which a modern day never sees这样的情况在现在社会不会出现
cut to the modern day 转到现代社会
a jet lag飞行时差反应,时差感
shift work 倒班工作


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3.12

TPO13B:

TED:
Be you！I love this girl，wanna be sue，it is just me.

biker chick摩托飞车女
race cars 赛车
cowgirl 女牛仔
ocular albinism 眼白化病
freak out 紧张
Holy God！神圣的上帝啊！
buy some more time再多争取一些时间
Beyond my hands is a world of Vaseline. 在这双手后面是一片模糊的世界。
squinting 斜视
special needs school 特殊学校
a boy given a girl’s name 一个有着女孩名字的男孩
devastate ['devə,steɪt]毁坏;使荒芜；在感情上(精神上、财务上等)压垮
I got a thump in my chest 我感觉胸口受到重击
dogged determination 顽强的决心
breed into 注入（思想）
ram through life as only a Casey can do 我在我能做什么和不能做什么之间制作了一个面具
All that belief had fueled me so long所有的信仰让我坚持了很久
the sighted world视觉世界
For the love of God！ 看在上帝的份儿上！
the gents toilets 男士盥洗室------the ladies toilets 女士盥洗室
be choked up 无法开口
To stop fighting and do something different
lamppost街灯柱
visually impaired people 有视觉障碍的人
have a tendency to do 容易做…
snot鼻涕
self-pitying 自怨自艾的
be floored 晕过去
be crumpled 倒下
You don’t get more different than that不会有比这更不同的了
scoot疾走,迅速跑开；溜走
《Travels on My Elephant》 by Mark Shand
cataract eye operations 白内障眼科手术
chuck in my job 辞去我的工作
Disability is like the elephant in the room
reframe 重建
I never thought about nos anymore.我从未再想过别的
Be you！
Being absolutely true to yourself, is freedom.
from the bottom of your heart 发自内心

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3.13

TED:
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/7/I/E/M7B9L63OF_M7BA8NBIE.html 技术发展故事

a state of the Union address国情咨文
be consumed by 被…苦苦折磨；沉浸在…；被…啄食；被…消灭
eg：To be
consumed
by jealousy.被嫉妒心苦苦折磨着
Be
consumed
by past joys and obsessed with gratitude.
要沉浸在过去的快乐中，并满怀感激之情。
9 Zoroastrians in India leave out the bodies of the dead to be
consumed
by vultures. 印度的索罗亚斯德教会让秃鹰来啄食死人的尸体。
be
consumed or destroyed by fire. 被火消灭或摧毁。
It goes way back.追溯到过去.
hunter
gatherer 猎人

minimal〈正式〉最小的; 极少的
eg：The storm did only minimal damage.
early
man 早期人类
transmitter of cultural evolution and information 文化演变和信息的传承者
transmitter [tr&aelig;nz'mitə] 传送者, 传达者; 发射机, 发报机, 送话器
original affluent society 原始富足社会
affluent['&aelig;fluənt] 富裕的, 富足的
banker hours 工作小时（类似于银行家小时）
the highs and lows 收成不稳定
megafauna ['meɡə,fɔ:nə] 巨型(土壤)动物
megafauna animals巨型动物群
watershed分水岭; 分水线；转折点
eg：Our marriage was at a watershed. 我们的婚姻到了一个转折关头。
unleash把(感情、力量等)释放出来, 发泄
eg：The full force of his rage was unleashed against me.
gadget小机械, 小器具
eg：This gadget isn’t much good. 这小机械没什么用处。
technium 技术元素
cosmo ['kɔzməu]宇宙；〈美俚〉都市性,大都会特色
equivalent相等的, 相当的
eg：Changing her job like that is equivalent to giving her the sack. 那样调换她的工作等于是解雇她。
extropy 废除物
lifespan (人或动物的)寿命,预期生命期限；存在期;使用期;有效期
eg：the lifespan of a mouse老鼠的预期寿命
sentience ['senʃiəns] 感觉性,感觉能力,感觉,知觉
ubiquity [ju:'bikwəti] 到处存在,(同时的)普遍存在
evolvability 进化发展性
evolvable可展开的
dispute
v. 辩论; 争论；vt. 怀疑…的真实性或妥当性；n. 辩论, 争端, 争执
eg：John got into a dispute with Jack about the money. 约翰与杰克为了钱的事吵了起来。
rickshaw-wale 人力黄包车夫
rickshaw 人力车
precautionary 预警的
It leads nowhere 行不通
proactionary 先行动的
divert from 偏离于…
prioritize risk优化风险
prioritize [prai'ɔritaiz] 把…区分优先次序；按重要性排列；划分优先顺序；优先处理；优先化；重点发展
tungsten lightbulb 钨灯泡
tungsten ['tʌŋstən]
钨
spray喷；浪花, 飞沫，喷雾
impregnate灌注, 使饱和；使怀孕
eg：The purpose of the marinade is to impregnate foods with the flavour of the ingredients. 使用腌泡汁的目的是使配料的味道浸透到食物中去。
gravitate受重力作用；被吸引
gravitate to/toward(s) 被吸引到；受吸引而转向
eg：Most visitors to New York gravitate to Times Square. 大多数来纽约的游客都被吸引到时代广场。
We all gravitated towards the food. 我们全受食物吸引。
pay a price for付出代价
diametrically
opposed截然相反的
diametrically [,daiə'metrikəli]

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3.14

TED:
Together，may we journey well.
http://v.163.com/movie/2011/2/P/9/M77TUJKGQ_M77TV15P9.html 策划人类遗产

the shifting of the tides 潮起潮落
a stretch of beach 一段海滩
dismiss解雇; 撤职; 开除；使退去; 解散；自心中摒除, 不再考虑或谈论
eg：He dismissed me from the club.
他把我开除出俱乐部。
The pupils were dismissed from school.学生们放学了。
He dismissed the story as a rumour.
他把这个消息当做谣言而不予考虑。
He dismissed the idea as impossible.
他认为那个主意不可能而断然拒绝。
navigator航海家
a genealogy of stars 星系
genealogy [,dʒi:ni'&aelig;lədʒi]
系谱,家系,宗谱
chant[tʃɑ:nt]
吟颂, 咏唱；反复有节奏地喊叫(或唱等)
eg：The crowd chanted slogans.
人群有节奏地反复呼喊着口号。
destiny命运
the far corners of the world 天涯海角
call…into balance让…回归平衡
seeming strangers 貌似陌生人
ohana 奥哈纳：ohana
means family in an extended sense of the term, including blood-related, adoptive or intentional.家人
hold onto all my life让我谨记一生
terrify sb. 使sb.感到恐惧
mentor ['men,tɔ:]导师；(无经验之人的)有经验可信赖的顾问
eg：one’s spiritual mentor某人的精神导师
navigator priest 航海牧师
mariner['m&aelig;rənə]
海员;水手
the rising and setting of stars 星辰的起落
the flight patterns 飞行模式
underbelly['ʌndə,beli]
n.下腹部的,物体的下方,易受攻击的地带
with the keenest accuracy 非常精确的
keen锋利的；热衷的, 热心的, 渴望(做某事)；激烈的, 紧张的；良好的; 敏锐的, 敏捷的
eg：He is not very keen on jazz.
他对爵士音乐不太感兴趣。
The parents were keen that their daughter should become musician.
父母渴望他们的女儿成为音乐家。
My daughter is keen of hearing.
我的女儿听觉灵敏。
She has a keen mind.
她头脑机敏。
hull n.船体, 船身；vt. 去(谷物、豆等的)壳
eg：Rice is gathered, cleaned and hulled before being sold.
稻子先收割, 弄干净, 去壳, 才出售。
The outer surface of ship’s hull is very hard.
船体的外表面非常坚硬。
womb[wu:m]子宫
methodology方法
vessel 船
uncanny超人的;不寻常的；奇怪的;怪异的;可怕的；神奇的
eg：an uncanny ability to foresee the future预见未来的神奇本领
a cloud-covered night 一个乌云密布的夜晚
are riding out storms逃离风暴
bloated with data 数据爆炸的
be starved for wisdom 渴望智慧
We are connected 24/7.我们全天候的互联
at an all-time high 达到历史最高的程度
course correct 朝着正确的方向前行
shaman['ʃ&aelig;mən]巫师，萨满教的道士,僧人
worship 崇拜
jester 小丑；(昔日为统治者说笑逗乐的)弄臣
eg：the king’s jester国王的弄臣
intimately['ɪntɪmɪtlɪ]熟悉地;亲密地,亲切地；私下地,秘密地；谙熟地;详尽地
be hunted by…
。。。在心头萦绕
vast sums of knowledge 无数的知识
potent (药等)效力大的; 威力大的；强有力的; 有说服力的
eg：The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.
这药物对你的病疗效很大。
He was once a potent ruler.
他曾经是有权势的统治者。
testament 证据
vanish消失, 突然不见；不复存在, 绝迹
eg：With a wave of his hand, the magician made the rabbit vanish.
The smile vanished from her face.
Many types of animal have now vanished from the earth.
许多动物物种现已从地球上绝迹。
ablaze
adj./adv.着火;熊熊燃烧；明亮;灿烂；闪耀；发光；非常激动
eg：The whole building was soon ablaze after the attack.
在遭到袭击后,整幢大楼很快就烧起来了。

The main street was ablaze with lights in the evening.
晚上,那条主要街道灯火辉煌。
His face was ablaze with anger.
他满脸怒容。
Her distorted face was ablaze with rage.
在狂怒之下,她那张扭曲的脸涨得通红。
be grateful for（to）因某事感激某人
voyage航行，航海; 航天
eg：It is a prosperous voyage to the ship.
这是那艘船的一次成功的航行。
In closing. 最后
The whole notion of every man for himself is completely unsustainable.整个人人为己的观念是完全不能持久的。
Together，may we journey well.

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TED:
http://v.163.com/movie/2010/7/1/C/M78G4K3PQ_M78G4UI1C.html 选择的艺术

do dissertational research 从事学术研究；做博士毕业论文相关的研究
popped up when I least expected it在我毫无准备的情形下发生了
pop up
v. 突然出现
eg：You know they're coming : Those seemingly unanswerable questions that pop up during job interviews . 你知道他们要来了——工作面试中看起来最难回答的问题突然出现了。

Immediately following the decline in these animal populations, the first wildfires pop up on the landscape. 杰奎琳·吉尔：动物大量死亡后不久地球上开始出现森林大火。
It makes better sense to keep an adaptable body in service than to have a rigid body wait around for a mutation to pop up any time an adaptation is needed. 保持一个有适应能力的身体供役使，比起在任何需要发挥适应能力的时候，让呆板僵化的身体傻等着突变金币突然从天而降，显然前者更有意义。
In response, he gave me an even more courteous version of the same explanation.
他用更礼貌的语气对我又解释了一遍同样的意思。
take up the issue with sb. 把此事告诉某人
a lengthy discussion ensue开始一个很长的讨论
ensue [in'sju:] Vi.1依次跟着；随后而来，接踵而来；随起：As the days ensued, she recovered her strength.
随着时日的推移，她逐渐恢复了体力。
2接着发生，因而发生，因而产生，结果产生，结果是：When those two friends meet, a battle of wits ensues.
那两个朋友一旦相遇，一场智斗总是随之发生。
When the rains faltered in the 1980s, violence ensued.
在1980年代降雨不稳定时，暴力事件相继发生。
A terrible storm ensued, and the Trojan ships were driven out of their course towards the coast of Africa .
一场可怕的风暴随之而来，特洛伊人的船被刮离航道，向非洲海岸漂去。
In the carnage that ensued, 42 Americans were killed and hundreds wounded by an enemy ,Mr Junger 's account suggests, that they respected yet hardly understood .

在接下来的屠杀中，42名美军被敌人杀害、上百名美军受伤，荣格尔的报告中认为，美军关心但不理解自己的敌人。
A nine-month war ensued, killing many people and displacing millions of others, before Pakistani troops surrendered to Bangladeshi and Indian forces.
Shortly after the conference, Mr. Gray confronted Mr. Pavin, and a heated, finger-pointing argument ensued.
promptly敏捷地;迅速地;立即地；准时地,正好
eg：A call for 100 bottles of blood was answered promptly.
征求100瓶血液的呼吁很快得到了回应。
She appears promptly at eight each day.
她每天8点准时到。
saucer 茶托
procure myself a cup of sweat，green tea.给自己点一杯加糖绿茶
procure [prəu'kjuə]
Vt.1(努力)取得；(设法)获得；把…弄到手；得到：Can you procure some tickets for me?
你能替我弄到一些票吗? Try to procure us some specimens of the polluted water from the river. 请设法给我们从河里搞一些被污染了的河水标本来。Aid groups negotiate with drug makers procure vaccines for poor nations, but industry remains wary it will be haggled down to an unwelcome price. 援助团体则跟制药者协商，希望他们能够为贫穷国家制造疫苗，不过制药业者唯恐这样做将会把疫苗的价钱砍成众所不乐见的价格。

2介绍(娼妓)；为…作淫媒：He was accused of procuring women for his business associates.
他被指控为其生意合伙人招妓。
3导致；引起：His pride procured his downfall.
他的骄傲使他垮台了。
4实现，达到；完成：to procure an agreement
达成协议
vi.介绍娼妓，作淫媒，拉皮条：
arrested on charge of procuring
被控介绍妓女而被捕
based on sb’s preferences 处于个人喜好
a paying customer 顾客
to quote Burger King，is to “have it your way”用汉堡王的话来说，就是“吃出你自己的方式”。
Happiness is in your choices.
stick to one’s guns 固执己见地
six big piles of anagram puzzles 六张字谜
counterpart与对方地位相当的人, 与另一方作用相当的物
eg：The sales directress phoned her counterpart in the other firm.
销售部的女经理给另一家公司的销售部经理打了电话。
Deep-sea valleys are the counterparts of the mountain chains.
深海里的峡谷相当于陆地上的山脉。
yield striking differences 引起显著地不同
tug on one’s skirt 拉住某人的裙角
defer to 服从
key figures关键人物
amplify 放大
leave little room for interdependence 忽略了相互独立
an acknowledgement of individual fallibility 对个人过失的承认
catch me off guard让我大吃一惊
die-hard 顽固死硬的
be exposed to more options 面对更多选项
spot the difference 识别差异
impose constraints 增加限制
suffocation [,sʌfə'keiʃən]窒息；闷死
minutiae
[mai'nju:ʃii:]
微小的细节, 细枝末节；不重要的细节（minutia的复数）
eg：
If minutiae – such as the regulation of tax havens or bankers' pay– were to stand in the way of a deal, the verdict of history would be damning .
如果对细枝末节——例如对避税天堂或银行家薪酬的监管——的纠缠会阻碍协议，那么历史的裁决将是毁灭性的。
Other software for pattern recognition and document reconstruction exists, Schneider says, but none combines the kind of minutiae that will be used for this task .
史奈德说，现在虽然也有其他图形辨识和文件重组的软体，但它们都无法面面俱到地处理各项细节。
The paper deals minutiae of municipal water rates and sex scandals in the local school system —the sort of thing that rarely makes the home page of Yahoo! News.
这家报纸的报道包括市政供水比例和当地学校的性丑闻，而这些几乎是不可能出现在雅虎新闻的首页上的。

它不再是解放的象征，而成了令人窒息又毫无意义的琐事。

problematic 争议的
ventilator['ventl,eɪtə]
通风机;换气扇；气窗;气孔；通风设备;通风口；负责通风的人;公布事情的人
are clinically depressed 得焦虑症
workable 可行的
the shifting phantasmagoria 千遍万化的幻觉
It lays the world at one’s feet.它令人身置云端
disseminate
vt. 1播(种)，撒播(种子等)，散播：to disseminate seeds
播种
2(广为)传播(信仰、知识、思想、理论等)，散布，广泛传开(或铺开)：The company disseminated information about its new programmes.
公司传播有关其新计划的信息。
The doctors disseminated information about preventive medicine.
医生们传播有关预防医学的知识。
Plato's philosophy has been disseminated throughout the world.
柏拉图哲学已被广泛传遍全世界。
vi.广为传播，散布开来
They disseminate junk information by opening up new email accounts and then automatically delivering a flood of messages .
它们会开启新的电子邮件帐号，然后自动传送大量邮件，藉此散播垃圾讯息。
The centre of gravity in research has shifted to "buy -side" firms, like hedge funds , which do not generally disseminate their work .
研究的重心已经转移到处于“买方”地位的公司，如对冲基金，一般不散布它们的业务。
The presence of multinationals also helps to develop a country 'spool of skilled labour and , when they operate in joint ventures , to disseminate new technology and ideas .
跨国集团的竞争也对开发一国的技术劳力并且在组建的合资公司中传播新型技术和理念等方面具有促进作用。

incorporate 吸收
transformative act 改变力的艺术
revel in 陶醉于；沉迷于；纵情于
revel ['revəl]
作乐;狂欢；着迷；陶醉；得意
eg：I think he’s secretly revelling in all the attention.
我觉得他对于能够引起广泛的注意心里感到飘飘然。

She seems to revel in annoying her parents.
她似乎以惹父母生气为乐。
open ourselves to a wider array of
a paralyzing moral relativism道德相对主义滋生
Phantasmagoria
[,f&aelig;nt&aelig;zmə'ɡɔriə; -'ɡɔ:-]
n. 魔术幻灯；千变万化的幻景
The phantasmagoria of his brain vanished at sight of her.
一见到她他脑海里的种种幻影便全没有了。
Personal life is a phantasmagoria, we should at any time adjust and then can match physically.
个人的生活是千变万化的，我们应该随时调整才能符合实际。
Is the phantasmagoria of sound and noise and color really passing or is it all an illusion here in my brain?
声色变幻的风景真的在瞬间存在吗，还是一切只是我脑中的幻想？

albeit [ɔ:l'bi:ɪt即使
eg：Albeit difficult, the job is getting done.
尽管工作很困难，还是就要完成了。
Albeit fair,the girl was not sought after.
那姑娘虽然漂亮，但不是被爱慕的女子。
Clear albeit cold weather.


虽然天冷但仍很晴朗
in all its strangeness 不可思议之处
compelling beauty 迷人
get a very different vantage point 有一个非常不同的视角
vantage优势,有利地位
vantage point有利地点
glamorous 华丽的
have consensus on对…有共同点
the sudden availability of all these consumer products on the marketplace was a deluge
deluge
短语: After me the Deluge! 我死后哪怕洪水灭世!(或：身后之事与我何干!)[源出法王路易十五情妇蓬巴杜女侯爵及时行乐的名言]
n.1洪水
2暴雨，倾盆大雨，豪雨
3洪水般的汹涌，洪水般涌来的东西；大批(或大量、大肆)泛滥
Vt.1淹没，使泛滥：The spring thaw caused the river to deluge the region.
春天冰雪融化，使河水泛滥淹没了那地区。
2使充满；压倒，涌集(with):We were deluged with offers.
报价单纷至沓来。
They were deluged with applications.
申请书使他们应接不暇。
In each case, government websites were brought down by a deluge of traffic, apparently from Russia.
每次政府的网络都受到系统的威胁很明显这种威胁来自俄罗斯。
They were, after all, facing deluge of financial problems and a severe challenge in gaining approval from Congress.
毕竟，他们面对的是大量的金融问题，以及获得国会批准的严峻挑战。
After deluge, the recriminations began, along with the usual spurious guesstimates of the supposed multi-billion- pound losses to the economy.
在暴风雪之后，除了司空见惯的站不住脚的假定的数十亿英镑的经济损失瞎猜，各种指责开始了。

On the art of choosing：
1、
Make your own choices
2、
More options—Better choices
3、
You must never say no to choice
"It is poetry that is lost in translation."
"It is poetry that is gained in translation."