2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析(十八)
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中§ oxygen
§ 氧
§ All of these from the group one and two through the group five and six elements, but what about elements, what about molecules like hydrogen, or nitrogen, or maybe oxygen?
§ quartz
§ 石英、水晶
§ This story, though, raises the question of why there is but a single ejecta layer of iridium andshocked quartz in late Cretaceous rocks around the world.
§ distinguish
§ differentiate
§ 区分、辨别
§ If this were true, it should be equally easy to distinguish among individuals of any species, so long as you have the requisite perceptual abilities of that species.
§ shale
§ 页岩
§ In anticipation of a demand surge, the oil majors have started opening their wallets for expensive gas projects like gas liquefaction plants and pricey gas shale wells.
§ sandstone
§ 砂岩
§ Red maple leaves and gold on a cottonwood announce the arrival of fall in the pink sandstonecanyons of Zion National Park in Utah.
§ endure
§ 持续
§ Rather than being hoodwinked, I would endure anything.
§ extinction
§ 灭绝
§ But then, while no one wants to think of extinction, the word is far less of an abstraction in Hawaiithan in other places.
§ stratum
§ 岩层(单数)
§ Inspired by the Confucian tradition of meritocracy, Beijing practices, though not alwayssuccessfully, performance legitimacy across the whole political stratum.
§ emerge
§ appear, come out
§ 出现
§ Disappear
§ For centuries, astronomers have recorded when these dark blemishes on the solar surface emerge, only for them to fade away again after a few days, weeks or months.
§ sediment
§ 沉淀物
§ That there are not could be explained by the fact that the accumulation of sediment in mostrocks is so slow that the two layers are, in effect, superimposed.
§ temporal
§ 时间的
§ Although DB2 will automatically store historical versions of rows, you must create a history tableto contain the rows and associate it with the system-period temporal table.
§ sequence
§ order
§ 顺序
§ Because node structures go in only one direction, they know nothing about the sequence ofnodes that precede them.
§ faunal
§ animal
§ 动物的
§ Intermittent faunal connections do not necessarily require land bridges to connect isolate dareas only to be afterwards destroyed;