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[英语学习]论文阅读中的重要概念及词汇解释

已有 2991 次阅读 2013-7-19 19:39 |个人分类:英语学习|系统分类:论文交流

词汇:

bin:to throw something away; container for waste

a litter bin; Shall I bin these old shoes?

grab: to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly

He grabbed his child's arm to stop her from running into the road.

distortion:to change something from its usual, original, natural, or intended meaning

My original statement has been completely distorted by the media

Assemble:  to come together in a single place or bring parts together in a single group:

We assembled in the meeting room after lunch.

At the staff meeting, the manager told the assembled company(= everyone there) that no one would lose their job.

Binocular: Binocular Vision

distinct: clearly noticeable; that certainly exists

There is a distinct smell of cigarette in here.  

manifest: to show something clearly, through signs or actions

The worker chose to manifest their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes.

coherence: the situation when the parts of something fit together in a natural or reasonable way

There is a coherence between the first and the second half of the movie.

plausible: seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed

a plausible explanation/excuse

interpretation: an explanation or opinion of what something means

The rules are vague and open to interpretation.

provisionally:for the present time but likely to change

a provisionally government

stretch goal:

 a high and difficult level of success that an employee must achieve if they are to be considered to be doing their job in a satisfactory way

Stretch targets should provide the benchmark under which a person's performance is deemed to be "poor"

additive: a substance that is added to food in order to improve its taste or appearance or to keep it fresh and stop it from decaying:

food additive

contravariant:

restrictive: limiting the freedom of someone or preventing something from growing:

He is self-employed because he finds working for other people too restrictive.

duable: If something is doable, it can be achieved or performed

If something is doable, it can be achieved or performed

stall: If an engine stalls, or if you stall it, it stops working suddenly and without you intending it to happen:

A car may stall due to the driver braking too suddenly.

lightweight: weighting a little or less than average

I need a lightweight jacket for the summer evenings.

encumber:to weigh someone or something down, or to make it difficult for someone to do something:

When you are walking 30 miles a day, the fewer encumbrances the better.

mitigate: to make something less harmful, unpleasant, or bad

It is unclear how to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island
 

句式:

it would be impractical to ...

take the form of ...

is equivalent to...

due to the presence of





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