2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析(五十四)
来源 :中华考试网 2017-05-29
中physiological
physical
生理学的
private,individual
How do you respond to skeptics who say there must be some biological or physiological basis for that kind of experience, which you say in the book is medically inexplicable?
wakefulness
restlessness,sleeplessness
觉醒, 不眠
Sleeping longer than you need to will weaken your sleep system, as you reduce your prior wakefulness, exposure to sunlight, activity levels, and your body temperature at a low for too long.
respiratory
breathing
呼吸的
At these clinics, the health workers treat people for diseases such as diarrhoea, respiratory infections, anaemia and intestinal worms.
dramatic
striking, remarkable
引人注目的
Modest
That's where the problem lies, you have no time for yourself to enjoy anything because they are needy and dragging you into every dramatic situation in their life.
rib
肋骨
One bone was a piece of rib from a cow-sized mammal; the other, a leg bone fragment from a mammal the size of a goat.
contraction
shrinkage
收缩
Any reading below 50 signals contraction of the service sector, and July's reading was the tenth consecutive month of decline.
diaphragm
隔膜
"I have a theory that humour detected in the brain gets directly discharged through the movement of diaphragm," he said.
interact
cooperate
相互作用, 相互影响
It is important not to have any expectations, or we might simply interact with what we think is inside us, leading to further denial.
automatic
自动的
In this article, we have described the importance of automatic logoff and its relation with regulatory compliances.
metabolic
变化的, 新陈代谢的
We sleep more deeply when we are young, because we have a high metabolic rate that is greatly reduced during sleep, but also because there are people to protect us.
brain stem
脑干
Along with other reproductive hormones and neurotransmitters, these peptides organise the circuitry in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain stem involved in attachment to "mine".
subconsciously
下意识地
We tend to notice the times that something remarkable occurred, while subconsciously ignoring all the times that nothing remarkable happened.
regulate
control, normalize
调节, 规定
Sleep deprivation alters levels of the hormones that regulate food intake and body fat and increase hunger and appetite.
acid-base
酸碱
Measurements of the pH of the Coke before and after the experiments showed that its acidity did not change, ruling out the idea that a simple acid-base reaction drives the fountains.
ratio
proportion, percentage
比例
Number of virtual processors especially the number of CPU virtual processors should be in proper ratio with physical CPU in the system.
voluntary
intended
自发的
Involuntary
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.
capable
able
有能力的
Incapable
Although some deployment processes can run in certain environments, all processes should be capable of running in any target environment.
override
overrule
推翻
Follow
If necessary, you can also specify these qualifiers for each individual reference, in which case they would override any top level qualifier setting.
irregular
uneven, rough
不规则的
Regular
If so,how many chords are involved in this chord change and are they changing at a regular or irregular rate?
phrase
expression, saying
短语
As a convenience, I use the term "mechanism," as in the phrase "governance mechanism" to be all-inclusive of the components identified above.
overall
general, total
全体的
If your application requirements permit the use of the near cache, then you should use it, but otherwise, you need to move on to the next possibility for improving your overall performance.
exclusive
排外的
A journalist has tried to muscle in on my exclusive story.
responsive
receptive
响应的
It is important to understand that applications are only running when they are physically visible on the screen, so this is often the only way to keep the application responsive.
cessation
end, termination
中止, 中断
Start
Now I use the word steer, because if you simply demand a cessation of contact by your children with a set of undesirable peers, you will get nothing but resistance.
reduction
decrease
下降, 减少
Increase
We have found that iterative development is most effective when you combine it with a deliberate balance of early risk reduction and early value creation.
waxes and wanes
月圆月缺, 兴衰成败
While some people will simply turn to other methods, suicidal behavior is generally impulsive, and motivation waxes and wanes, Gould said.
mechanism
system
机制, 原理
So, whatever your mechanism or system for storing and managing requirements, we recommend that you at least have one.
obtain
get, gain
获得
"We have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways, " Apple said.
persist
continue
坚持, 存留
The Iraqi people, he insists, will persist and overcome these attacks, and raise its [their] voice to show [and] proclaim that it [they] will not be silenced [by terrorism].
resistance
confrontation
阻力
If we all recognize that antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health that we face today, we have to do something about this.
airflow
气流
Although the new model better illustrates how spiders "fly," there is still room for refinement, and the team plans to observe spiders in turbulent airflow inside wind tunnels to improve the model.
muscular
肌肉的
To get the type of fitness results and body most people are looking for; athletic, muscular and toned, it helps to get your heart rate up while working out, but not only on a treadmill.
inhaling
吸入, 吸气
Exhaling
In the new study on mice, researchers found that inhaling nanotubes affected the function of T cells, a type of white blood cell that organises the immune system to fight infections.
suck
吸吮
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.
collapse
ruin, breakdown
崩溃
For example, we can’t afford to run a simulation model for an hour or two to find out what’s going to happen when an event occurs that could cause the grid to collapse in the next 20 or 30 seconds.
congestion