2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（十四）

　　§ Headword

　　§ Synonym

　　§ 汉译

　　§ Antonym

　　§ petroleum

　　§ fossil oil

　　§ 石油

　　§ So the next time your child tells you that they are on the fence about that law degree, petroleum engineering, anyone?

　　§ crude oil

　　§ 原油

　　§ Brent crude oil, one of the main benchmarks, climbed by more than $3 a barrel from its price before the Opec decision to more than $119.

　　§ marine sediment

　　§ 海洋沉积物

　　§ The development of mathematical modeling for suspended sediment transport in the late 20th century has provided a powerful tool for marine sediment dynamics.

　　§ microscopic

　　§ tiny

　　§ 微小的

　　§ All the microscopic available states, that is, if I take an individual particle and I say where it can be, all those states have the same energy.

　　§ organism

　　§ 微生物

　　§ Because these structures can be traced back through the ancestors, they essentially serve as a marker of evolution; no organism can have a vestigial organ that hasn’t been found in its forefathers.

　　§ accumulate

　　§ gather

　　§ 积累

　　§ Scatter

　　§ It is the business of the scientist to accumulate knowledge about the universe and all that is in it, and to find, if he is able, common factors which underlie and account for the facts that he knows.

　　§ marine mud

　　§ 海泥

　　§ The elongation rates of the specimens in marine mud with SRB under different potentials are lower than those in marine mud without SRB.

　　§ partially

　　§ 部分地

　　§ I know we think that food corporations think more about themselves than they do about others when they decide to put partially hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup in our foods.

　　§ decompose

　　§ decay

　　§ 分解, 腐烂

　　§ Classes can be composed of classes which themselves have parts, allowing you to hierarchically decompose a system to any arbitrary level.

　　§ dissolved

　　§ 溶解的

　　§ This dissolved organic matter was not, until recently, thought to be an important component of the total. But Dr Jiao noticed something odd about its distribution in the sea.

　　§ decay

　　§ dissolve

　　§ 腐烂

　　§ These materials are known as "radioisotopes"—versions of an element that, because they have an abnormal number of neutrons, frequently decay and release radiation.

　　§ convert…to

　　§ transform…into

　　§ 转变为

　　§ All the servant regions are now bound to existing work queues, and no servant region can immediately convert to the new service class work queue.

　　§ droplet

　　§ small drop of liquid

　　§ 小滴

　　§ Getting the material to that stage will take more years of research and testing, though, since the scientists are currently making droplet-sized quantities of it in the lab.

　　§ squeeze

　　§ extract

　　§ 压榨, 挤压

　　§ If one really cares for you, he is able to squeeze time for you. No excuses, no lies, no undeliverable promises.

　　§ layer

　　§ 层

　　§ However, in this particular case, there is only one layer to my onion, so both options will do the same thing.

　　§ dense

　　§ 密度大的

　　§ Thin

　　§ They don't like dense forest either, so they traverse these high, open shoulders between the river and the woods, where they can see and run.

　　§ water-saturated

　　§ 饱水的

　　§ Diffraction for the spectra is corrected and the Q values of organic glass and water-saturated rock samples are measured.

　　§ underlie

　　§ 构成基础

　　§ One important principle should underlie the provision of these middleware capabilities: service and process developers should be insulated from the complexities of the middleware implementation.

　　§ well

　　§ 井

　　§ The armchair blends well with the colour of the carpet.

　　§ drill

　　§ 钻(孔)

　　§ If they knew how difficult it was to drill through the hard rock, they would lose heart.