20121006 <第四期8-14经管> With a little help from a billion friends
plunge [pl?nd?] vi. 陷入 sceptical ['skeptik?l] adj. 怀疑的 dump the stock 抛售股票 SINCE its stockmarket flotation in America earlier this year, Facebook has seen its share price plunge as sceptical investors have dumped its stock.
pantheon [pæn'θi:?n] n. 名流群 Mark Zuckerberg, the firm’s boss, crowed that this puts it in the same pantheon as firms such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, which also have vast, global audiences.
arena [?'ri:n?] n. 舞台 One is how it intends to earn more money from advertising in the mobile arena.
beef up 增强 The company revealed that it now has some 600m mobile users, which is another impressive number, and its acquisition this year of Instagram, a picture-sharing service for smartphones, has beefed up its capabilities in the fast-growing mobile market.
backlash ['bæklæ?] n.反弹 Another important question is whether the company can find new ways to share even more data about users’ online lives with advertisers without prompting a massive backlash over privacy issues.
scrutiny ['skru:tini] n. 详细审查；监视 Facebook is already under intense scrutiny from regulators in America and Europe over things such as its use of facial recognition software.
20121007 <第四期8-13经管> Can You Take Your Strengths Too Far?
gravitate to 倾向 For the past decade, leaders have been encouraged to focus on developing their strengths rather than always gravitating to working on a weakness.
dissent [di'sent] n. 异议 on the grounds that conj. 由于（根据） It's tempting for those of us strongly committed to developing leadership strengths to ignore such dissent on the grounds that any new practice will attract critics.
subordinate [s?'b?:din?t, -neit, s?'b?:dineit] n. 下属 How should a hard-driving executive respond when given high scores for his ability to drive for results but low scores on building strong relationships with peers and subordinates?
flaw [fl?:] n. 缺点 We've called these "fatal flaws," and we certainly advise people to fix them first.
inappropriately [,in?'pr?upri:itli] adv. 不适当地 to excess 过度；过分 People can and do behave inappropriately — and they do things to excess.
unbridled [?n'bra?d(?)ld] adj. 放肆的 candor ['kænd?] n. 坦白；直率 In his blog, Schwartz describes how he learned that his own unbridled candor was hurtful and unproductive.
take charge 掌管 diminish [di'mini?] vi. 减少 They observed that if a leader overuses the "forceful" strength by being exceedingly directive — always taking charge, making every decision, and constantly pushing people — the leader's effectiveness diminishes.
tall tale n. 夸张的故事 Today we tell a traditional American story called a "tall tale."
railroad ['reilr?ud] n. 铁路；铁路公司 An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.
drill [dril] n.钻孔机 spike [spaik] n. 长钉 These laborers had the job of cutting holes in rock. They did this by hitting thick steel drills, or spikes.
banjo ['bænd??u] n. 班卓琴；五弦琴 He had a beautiful deep voice, and played an instrument called a banjo.
Chesapeake ['t?es?pi:k] n. 切萨皮克（美国城市） Ohio [?u'hai?u] n. 俄亥俄州（美国一个州） John Henry went to work as a steel-driver for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, or C-and-O.
dismiss the claim 驳回声称 The supervisor of the workers dismissed the salesman's claims.
disputed the statement 争辩 The salesman disputed the statements.
20121010 <第四期8-17科技> Reprogrammed Cells Earn Nobel Honor
physiology [,fizi'?l?d?i] n. 生理学 The discovery that cellular development is not a one-way street has earned this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
embryo ['embri?u] n. [动]胚胎；[植]胚芽 John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka have won the prize for their discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to resemble the versatile cells of a very early embryo.
pluripotent [plu?'rip?t?nt] adj. 多能（性）的 tissues n.组织 These so-called pluripotent cells have the ability to become any of the body's tissues.
mechanism ['mek?niz?m] n. 机制；原理 breakthrough ['breikθru:] n. 突破；突破性进展 neuroscientist [,nju?r?u'sai?ntist] n. 神经系统科学家 I think everyone who works on developmental biology and on the understanding of disease mechanisms will applaud these excellent and clear choices for the Nobel prizes. "Countless labs' work build on the breakthroughs they have pioneered," says John Hardy, a neuroscientist the University College London.
maturation [,mætju'rei??n] n. 成熟 For many years developmental biologists thought that the cellular maturation process was irreversible.
tadpole ['tædp?ul] n. 蝌蚪 intestine [in'testin] n. 肠 He replaced the nucleus of a frog egg with a nucleus taken from a cell in a tadpole's intestine.
transplantation n. 移植 Other researchers built on Gurdon's findings, most famously the team that cloned Dolly the sheep using a similar feat of nuclear transplantation.
orthopedic [?:θ?u'pi:dik] adj. 整形外科的（等于orthopaedic） Yamanaka, who originally trained as an orthopedic surgeon, welcomed the Nobel honor with a note of caution about how quickly it might yield medical benefits.
20121011 <第四期8-18经管> Music Classes in Childhood May Lead to Changes in the Brain
electrode [i'lektr?ud] n. 电极 Professor Kraus began by gently placing electrodes onto the heads of the volunteers.
pitch [pit?] n. 音高This helps us determine the "pitch". In music, that helps us decide if one sound, or musical note, is higher or lower than another. So, for a musician...
magnitude ['mæɡnitju:d] n.量级 voltage ['v?ultid?] n. 电压 "The responses to this fundamental frequency that carries pitch information was simply larger in magnitude...the voltages...the electrical activity was larger in response to these pitch elements."
analogy [?'næl?d?i] n. 类比 I like to give the analogy that you are not going to get physically fit by watching spectator sports."
cut back 削减 Even in difficult economic times, she urges school teachers and the administrators who control the money, not to cut back on musical training.
inherently [in'hi?r?ntli] adv. 内在地；固有地 confer [k?n'f?:] vt. 授予；给予 domain [d?u'mein] n. 领域 "Music, beyond being inherently a wonderful activity in and of itself, seems to confer benefits that extend outside the music domain, and extend into areas that are very, very important for human communication."
The discovery that cellular development is not a one-way street has earned this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
有人能解释下这句话的意思分析下这句话的语法吗 好迷惑
-- by 会员 mengliren (2012/11/5 8:00:52)
其实这句话“退去华丽的外表”是这样的： The discovery (that cellular development is not a one-way street) has earned (this year's) Nobel Prize (in physiology or medicine).
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