2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（十七）

　　§ Headword

　　§ Synonym

　　§ 汉译

　　§ Antonym

　　§ dramatic

　　§ great

　　§ 巨大的

　　§ Write a dramatic scene between two people in which each has a secret and neither of them reveals the secret to the other OR TO THE READER.

　　§ Industrial Revolution

　　§ 工业革命

　　§ This was before the industrial revolution and so without all that spinning there would have been no fabric.

　　§ harness

　　§ use

　　§ 利用

　　§ So long as we scatter it, thought force is of little use to us, but as soon as we are prepared to take the trouble necessary to harness it, all knowledge is ours.

　　§ muscle

　　§ 肌肉

　　§ Firstly because running is a single-plane activity – it only uses the body in one direction anduses a limited number of muscle groups at a time.

　　§ operate on

　　§ 对…产生作用

　　§ Your first thought might be to add the method to one of your own classes as an instancemethod, but the method may not really operate on any of your own objects.

　　§ windmill

　　§ 风车

　　§ How about a night in a charming converted windmill on the island of Milos, watching the sunset over the sea, with a glass of retsina in hand and a plate of olives on the table?

　　§ continuous

　　§ constant, continual

　　§ 连续的

　　§ Broken

　　§ Continuous integration does not mean you integrate every second, but it does mean you shouldintegrate early and often.

　　§ waterpower

　　§ 水利、水能

　　§ The classical waterpower computing method and Computing Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method areadopted to study the fluid load of pipeline firstly.

　　§ abounded

　　§ sufficient, adequate

　　§ 充足的

　　§ Scarce

　　§ Cynical opponents of Christianity abounded where claims were made that many eyewitnesseswere available to consult concerning the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

　　§ grainmill

　　§ 碾谷场

　　§ textilemill

　　§ 纺织厂

　　§ desirable

　　§ 可取的

　　§ This is certainly not desirable, but if it meant a stronger agreement that addressed theseriousness of the problem, it may not be that bad.

　　§ reliable

　　§ dependable

　　§ 可靠的

　　§ If we required that reliable message delivery formats be added at the application level, it wouldmake the use of these existing transports very inefficient in some cases.

　　§ disappear

　　§ vanish

　　§ 消失

　　§ Appear

　　§ However, these patterns do not disappear just because you move into another relationship.

　　§ drought

　　§ 干旱、旱灾

　　§ "Twenty years ago, after the drought, our situation here was quite desperate, but now we livemuch better, " he said. "Before, most families had only one granary each.

　　§ machinery

　　§ 机械

　　§ Sedatives will affect your judgment and reflexes for the rest of the day, so you should not driveor operate machinery until the next day.

　　§ movable

　　§ 可移动的

　　§ Immovable

　　§ Early experiments with movable wings and high mountings led to some spectacular accidents,and for the 1970 season regulations were introduced to limit the size and location of wings.