2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析(十三)
来源 :中华考试网 2017-05-06
中§ fodder
§ 草料
§ They provide us with the environmentally sound renewable resource of wood, fuel for energy and many non-wood products, including food, fodder, medicines, building materials and cosmetics.
§ fluctuate
§ 波动
§ Stable
§ The problem with this method is that methane and nitrous oxide emissions fluctuatestrongly in time and space.
§ markedly
§ noticeably
§ 显著地
§ Bankers say that they have got tougher but they have still tightened lending standards less markedly than their counterparts in the euro area as a whole.
§ bemoan
§ 惋惜
§ For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
§ succulent
§ 多汁的
§ A survey of oyster habitats around the world has found that the succulent mollusks are disappearing fast and 85 percent of their reefs have been lost due to disease and over-harvesting.
§ elk
§ 麋鹿
§ I covered the elk with a tarp and sat down near it, wrapping myself in blankets.
§ expedition
§ 探险队
§ But whiteness is enigmatic – and because a cruise is so far from being an overlandexpedition, you feel an urge to get off the boat and walk on the big slab of ice.
§ starvation
§ hunger
§ 饥饿
§ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
§ headquarter
§ 总部
§ One day in the afternoon, in the garden of the famous Giant Elephant GroupHeadquarter Building located in Manhattan, New York, a gray-haired old man was concentrating on trimming low shrubs.
§ botanical
§ 植物学的
§ After a few years, the structure is ready for a “botanical certificate of fitness” in which a structural engineer inspects their handiwork for safety.
§ fort
§ 要塞
§ There were soldiers on these ships. But they could not reach the fort to help Major Anderson.
§ picturesquely
§ 错落有致地
§ The interpretation indicates that deviation can foreground the central idea of the poem and mirror the poet's mind picturesquely and appropriately.
§ dot
§ 散布于, 遍于
§ Basically, whenever the last argument of a method is an array of objects, or a parameter declaration with a triple dot, you can pass multiple parameters to this method.