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from TIME KEY WORDS 1000:

简易词
Chapter 1  a./ad. (1-110)

1. accustomed
Even if they are willing to make the sacrifice in dollars, whether Americans will give up long accustomed personal liberties is another question.

2. affluent
Leeson and his wife Lisa never really seemed to fit into the affluent, neo-colonial life-style of Singapore or into the city's multiethnic society.

3. ambiguous
Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush didn't say "No" straight out.

4. anonymous
So he went on his own fact-finding mission, leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper submitted last month by three anonymous high-tech firms.

5. appropriate
So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels may not be appropriate for younger women who have not yet entered menopause.
* dissolves 后面为什么没有 in?

6. at stake
At a new conference, ( U. S. Undersecretary of Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the international community (NATO) was at stake.

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有点晕

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楼主加油就好
A ZA A ZA FIGHTING

都给它搞定

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7. available
Most of the (smart) card available at Atlanta will be worth between $10 and $50 and will be usable instead of cash at as many as 5000 "point of purchase" throughout the city.

8. bear
Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don't last.

9. bilateral
He will halt bilateral contact with North Korea until Pyongyang resumed negotiations with South Korea.

10. bland
As a result news coverage tends to be bland.

11. blunt
Clinton's summation was startlingly blunt: "It is better to have reached no agreement (on Japan's opening its domestic market) than to have reached an empty agreement."

12. bull
The bull market will end ---- but when is the question.

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1, 带*是不懂或存疑的地方,谁能帮忙解答一下? 如no.5;
2, 请教英文中标点符号的标准打字规则: 如括号() 引号"" 跟其内的字词要不要空一格?
破折号打多少条横线? 跟其外的字要不要空一格?

妖妖咬咬版主,别只顾着挖卡卡,快来解答一下

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原帖由 doit 于 2006-1-21 20:13 发表
1, 带*是不懂或存疑的地方,谁能帮忙解答一下? 如no.5;
2, 请教英文中标点符号的标准打字规则: 如括号() 引号"" 跟其内的字词要不要空一格?
破折号打多少条横线? 跟其外的字要不要空一格?

妖妖咬咬 ...

dissolve可以作为vt.  看后面not enter menopause,这个词是溶解...的意思
破折号后不要空格,其他符号要空格吧  多少横线俺也不知道.davidjacky刚写了个帖子,MS在讲这个,可以去看看.

11挖卡卡灌了,呵呵

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谢谢酸奶. dissolve这里可能解为"软化",若是"溶解",我想后面该有in,不知道句意从生理学上是否说得通...

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查字典吧,俺其实是个草包:D
1 a : to cause to disperse or disappear : DESTROY  b : to separate into component parts : DISINTEGRATE  c : to bring to an end : TERMINATE *dissolve parliament*  d : ANNUL *dissolve an injunction*
2 a : to cause to pass into solution *dissolve sugar in water*  b : MELT, LIQUEFY  c : to cause to be emotionally moved  d : to cause to fade out in a dissolve
3 archaic   : DETACH, LOOSEN
4 : to clear up *dissolve a problem*

生理上说不说的通,偶就更不清楚了= =

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13. burgeoning
Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting drugs.

14. coherent
Curry ... impressed Clinton with his ability to fashion a coherent policy message that synthesized the often conflicting interests of the party's traditional and moderate wings.

15. comprehensive
Grove delivered a sharp, comprehensive report. His bosses were impressed.

16. compulsory
In 1919, while serving a compulsory stint in the military, Nurmi entered a 20-k march carrying a rifle, a cartridge belt and a knapsack filled with 5 kg sand.

17. conciliatory
The executive director of the Christian Coalition told a prominent Jewish audience, in a conciliatory speech, that calling the U. S. a "Christian nation" is wrong...

18. conscious
Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially-conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter.

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我试着重新翻译一下拉:
5. appropriate
So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels may not be appropriate for younger women who have not yet entered menopause.
因此, 任何导致软化新生血管的蛋白质对于还未停经的年轻妇女而言或许都是不适宜吸收的.

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19. conventional
The voice-recognition technology will not be on conventional desktop computers only; it will be available in any sort of electronic information processing device.

20. critical
"We have only the foggiest idea," the independent daily Segodnya complained last week, "who is actually at the helm in this country, who is making the critical decisions."

21. crucial
Understanding social cues, creating works of art and spawning inventions are all crucial mental tasks that bear little relationship to how well a person can fill in a printed form.

22. cunning
Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and Beast ...

23. dazzling
With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years, and with genetic engineering's dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technological progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late.

24. dedicated
In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to maintain unfettered access by jumping borders and dialing services in neighboring Malaysia.

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赞！
这些词写文章时经常用到 有时却到用时想不起来 :(

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25. desperate
Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution: ...

26. determined
Author Joe kane came across a determined priest, a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive outside their rainforest habitat.

27. disabled
Seven years ago, Dole spoke about the need to "provide care and assistance for the hungry and the homeless and the disabled." Nothing resembling that was heard last week.

28. disastrous
The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous.

29. distinct
Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient origin.

30. dominant
Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution.

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31. He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall.

At the beginning of May 1945 it was clear to even the most zealous of Hitler's followers that his "Thousand Year Reich" was doomed.

32. drastic
The New Deal welfare safety net installed in the 1930s and augmented in the Great Society programs of the 1960s has been hauled off for the kind of drastic restitching that France, Germany, Italy and Sweden have been laboring over for the past year or more.
设立于1930年代“新政”期间,并在1960年代“大社会”系列项目中得以扩张的社会福利安全网现时已被取下，以作大肆缝补----就像法国、德国、意大利和瑞典这些国家在过去的一年或更长中所大费周章从事的修补一样。

33. eccentric
The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil sparks a rush to see where it all took place.

34. elevated
It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark an elevated EQ.

35. elite
Ideally, the U. N. should have a small, elite, standing rapid-deployment force ... trained and ready to go at once to trouble spot that the Security Council has decided to become involved in..

36. enduring
The plain, undecorated object, representing the enduring role art has played throughout China's history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.

37. explicit
But they won't be able to filter the Internet. They're explicit about that.

38. exquisite
The show also includes an exquisite Seurat seascape, some notable Cezannes and considerable paintings by Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh and others.

39. extravagant
Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood's most daring and extravagant auteur?

40. fantastic
Because of its fantastic capacity to see all possible combinations some distance into the future, the machine (Deep Blue), once it determines that its own position is safe, can take the kind of attacking chances no human would.

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41. ferocious
This puts Clinton in something of a no-win situation: he is unlikely to gain much credit if the bailout succeeds, but will catch ferocious flak if it fails.

42. flamboyant
He is probably the least flamboyant of the Republican contenders.

43. fledgling
Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs ---- physically robust, psychologically assertive ---- and ectomorphs ---- skinny, nervous, shy.

44. fluid
Information ... is now too fluid to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, through microwave relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, modems.

45. formidable
"Perot as kingmaker," he says tactfully, "is a more formidable proposition than Perot as candidate."

46. fragile
A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world ... No matter how good your product, you are only 18 months away from failure.

47. futile
Indeed, for all the world's governments, ... attempts to control the global flow of electro-information are not only futile but counter productive as well.
*counter as ad.?
not only ... but ... as well

48. genuine
It is a challenge to portray a forsaken woman in a way that evokes genuine sympathy; but Steven manages.

49. hefty
Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; this time next year he could be in any of three hefty action films.

50. hostile
unlike most baseball-playing counties, Cuba has no professional league to cream off its top talent, and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migration to the U. S. major league.

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51. immense
His influence in the 1980s was so immense that Taiwanese distributors once asked a HongKong director if there was a role in a film for Chow Yun-fat, and if there wasn't, they requested that one be written in before they'd commit to a deal.

52. imminent
The time will come when U. S. will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable, but it is not imminent.
*but: ad. 仅仅

53. inaugural
After the oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach out to all Americans, to rally the nation to work together for a great common future.

54. indifferent
Chechen militiamen hiding around the corner are indifferent to the Russian's fate.

55. intact
But psychologists, psychiatrists and other scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that the memory of repeated abuse can be completely wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact.

56.lingering
What remains largely unspoken is the lingering hope that such a mission might experience, somewhere beneath the desolate Martian surface, a close encounter with organisms that are alive today.

57. mean
This bill is mean. It is downright low-down. What does it profit a great nation to conquer the world, only to lose its soul?

58. mutual
" The audience was amazing," he says. "They were so sweet  They were bathing is mutual, he heads back into the spotlight.

59. namely
Namely, he fails to take into account Quittner's Law, which says: It is impossible to pay less than $3,000 for this year's computer.

60. obscure
He's met Marc Addressed, who as an undergraduate programmer had helped create the then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web.