§ ritual

　　§ ceremonial

　　§ 仪式的

　　§ Create a ritual to transition from one to the other in the morning so you’ll be prepared mentally to get to work.

　　§ ingenious

　　§ original, inventive

　　§ 精巧的, 有独创性的

　　§ So we continue to listen out for the signal from aliens through ever more ingenious methods. Butwe are transmitting too.

　　§ furnace

　　§ 熔炉

　　§ It was hot summer and at the edge of the desert it was like a furnace.

　　§ accompanied

　　§ convoyed, escorted

　　§ 伴随的, 陪伴的

　　§ I am still shocked to this day that people think what I do is special. But what was really specialwas my seven sisters accompanied me to Austin.

　　§ desiccation

　　§ dryness

　　§ 干燥

　　§ The fungi don’t survive the desiccation, so the longer the bdelloids stay dry, the better off theybe.

　　§ archaeologist

　　§ 考古学家

　　§ But I do not believe, as a field archaeologist, that we can use the scientific method to prove ordisprove [them].

　　§ conquer

　　§ overcome

　　§ 战胜, 征服

　　§ What do you think of my insecurities and what kinds of insecurities do you have in bed? Howcan I conquer mine?

　　§ opponent

　　§ rival

　　§ 对手

　　§ Proponent

　　§ But if my opponent wants to play dirty and talk about my personal life, I have no choice but tofight fire with fire and talk about some personal things we've found out about him.

　　§ implement

　　§ carry out, conduct

　　§ 实施, 执行

　　§ In all cases, you should implement and test all changes in your test environment before youconsider adding them to your production environment.

　　§ demographic

　　§ 人口统计的

　　§ If Africa wins a demographic dividend it will only be because it stops growing so fast.

　　§ explosion

　　§ 爆炸

　　§ After an experimental explosion, one of the experts exploded the gunpowder, an explosive.