每日速度越障学习帖 - 精读+背词

SarahOrange

哇~我第一次发现这个帖子，LZ是在做单词记录吗？好认真啊~~~~加油加油！

-- by 会员 teddybearj4 (2012/7/23 12:00:45)

恩被支持的感觉真好！我要继续努力！

babybearmm

到此一游，给sarah打气~~

-- by 会员 铁板神猴 (2012/7/23 11:05:07)

这儿哪天能变成4A级景点就好啦~！

-- by 会员 SarahOrange (2012/7/23 22:46:24)

http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Preparation/thread-739174-1-1.html我的心经贴给这里做链接了哈，SarahOrange这工作真棒，加油~

babybearmm

刚加入了阅读小组，正想把单词整理一下呢，就看到了这个帖子，楼主真是认真，希望能一直坚持下去呢！

关于36楼的walkcake, 我觉得文章中用的意思是说“易于完成的事”。

的确，原意是“美国南部种植园中奴隶们的集体舞蹈”，而现代的意思发生了改变“The term "cakewalk" is often used to indicate something that is very easy or effortless. Wikipedia的解释说：尽管舞蹈本身并不是那么容易跳，但是总体而言也是有趣的，有娱乐性质的。所以这个词是用作”易于完成的事”。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk#Modern_times

cakewalk - an easy accomplishment; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk"

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cakewalk

-- by 会员 iamyingjie (2012/7/24 4:05:56)

Exactly!!

This task is a cakewalk.   =   This task is a piece of cake.

It's no cakewalk. = It's not an easy task.

SarahOrange

刚加入了阅读小组，正想把单词整理一下呢，就看到了这个帖子，楼主真是认真，希望能一直坚持下去呢！

关于36楼的walkcake, 我觉得文章中用的意思是说“易于完成的事”。

的确，原意是“美国南部种植园中奴隶们的集体舞蹈”，而现代的意思发生了改变“The term "cakewalk" is often used to indicate something that is very easy or effortless. Wikipedia的解释说：尽管舞蹈本身并不是那么容易跳，但是总体而言也是有趣的，有娱乐性质的。所以这个词是用作”易于完成的事”。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk#Modern_times

cakewalk - an easy accomplishment; "winning the tournament was a cakewalk for him"; "invading Iraq won't be a cakewalk"

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cakewalk

-- by 会员 iamyingjie (2012/7/24 4:05:56)

灰常感谢你的及时纠正~还附带了很清晰的逻辑推导过程我已经修改原来的注释~今后还望iamyingjie童鞋多多指点！

SarahOrange

到此一游，给sarah打气~~

-- by 会员 铁板神猴 (2012/7/23 11:05:07)

这儿哪天能变成4A级景点就好啦~！

-- by 会员 SarahOrange (2012/7/23 22:46:24)

http://forum.chasedream.com/GMAT_Preparation/thread-739174-1-1.html我的心经贴给这里做链接了哈，SarahOrange这工作真棒，加油~

-- by 会员 babybearmm (2012/7/24 6:33:33)

最近听闻baby的赫赫战功，都还来不及道声祝贺呢！
大牛baby，请受小生一拜~

SarahOrange

补：20120723 <第四期5-02文史哲> India needs fresh faces at the top of government if it is to run its economy better

headgear ['hed,ɡi?] n. 帽子
anoint [?'n??nt] vt. 给…涂油；用油擦；抹油使神圣化
be anointed as  被选定为
Cheer this weekend if Pranab Mukherjee (pictured above with headgear) is anointed as India’s new president.

preside over 主持、负责
wretched ['ret??d] adj.令人苦恼或难受的
As finance minister until recently, the veteran leader of the Congress party presided over a wretched deterioration in the country’s economic prospects.

ruling party执政党
legislator ['led??sle?t?] n. 立法者
Poll victories have become rare indeed for the increasingly unpopular ruling party. Yet an electoral college of nearly 5,000 national and state legislators was all but certain, on July 19th, to give Mr Mukherjee a five-year presidency that is largely ceremonial.

mercenary ['m??s?n(?)r?] adj.唯利是图的
populous ['p?pj?l?s] adj. 人口稠密的；人口多的
That was thanks, in part, to mercenary motives: leaders of two crucial, populous, swing states, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, fell behind Mr Mukherjee as the central government promised aid worth some $12 billion.

bland [blænd] adj. 乏味的；温和的；冷漠的
nonentity [n?'nent?t?] n.无足轻重的人
The result matters in at least two ways. The outgoing president, Pratibha Patil, was a bland nonentity.

parliament ['pɑ?l?m(?)nt] n. 议会
coalition [,k???'l??(?)n] n. 联合；结合，合并
tentacle ['tent?k(?)l] n. 触手
diminished [d?'m?n??t] adj. 减弱的；减退了的
A hung parliament is almost certain after the next general election in 2014, when the president may pick which party tries first to form a coalition. Those tentacles could prove handy for a diminished Congress.

ignominious [,?gn?'m?n??s] adj. 可耻的；下流的
The 76-year-old’s three-year spell as finance minister was ignominious. (“He has an economic mind from the 1970s,” grumbles an observer.)

vague [ve?g] adj. 模糊的
retrospective [retr?(?)'spekt?v] adj. 回顾的；怀旧的；可追溯的
dismay [d?s'me?] vt. 使沮丧；使惊慌
bungle ['b??g(?)l] vt.把…搞糟
subsidy ['s?bs?d?] n. 补贴；津贴；补助金
Plans for vague and retrospective taxes dismayed investors, foreign and local. Worse, he bungled urgent reforms, notably over opening foreign investment in the retailing industry, and failing to push through a goods and services tax and to cut costly subsidies.

cabinet minister n. 大臣；阁僚
A cabinet minister, Salman Kurshid, bravely admitted the obvious this month, calling the government directionless.

ascent [?'sent] n. 上升
reshuffle [ri?'??f(?)l] vt.. 改组；重作安排
With Mr Mukherjee’s ascent, a reshuffle will follow.

wallow in 沉湎于
predictability [pri,dikt?'biliti] n. 可预测性；可预言
Local firms wallow in cash, hungry for a chance to invest, but they need predictability about policy and decision-making.

infrastructure ['?nfr?str?kt??] n. 基础设施；公共建设
Foreign firms, evn in infrastructure and consumer goods, also hold back, unsure of the politics.

decisive [d?'sa?s?v] adj. 决定性的；果断的，坚定的
behemoth [b?'hi?m?θ; 'bi?h?,m??θ] n. 庞然大物
Yet expecting decisive change from Congress’s behemoth is probably a fantasy.

manoeuvring [m?'nu:v?ri?] n. 调遣；谋略；部署
It would take skilful manoeuvring to do that and also promote bold, liberalising reforms, such as cutting fuel subsidies.

sycophancy ['s?k?f?ns?] n.追随；
thumping ['θ?mp??] adj. 重击的；巨大的
More troubling, sycophancy to the Gandhi dynasty dictates that no young figure can outshine the bashful 42-year-old heir apparent, Rahul Gandhi, who had largely been absent from high-profile politics since a thumping defeat in important state polls in Uttar Pradesh in March.

SarahOrange

LS加油！共勉！欢迎大家一同来补充！

SarahOrange

补：20120724 <第四期5-03科技> What Countries Are Doing To Tackle Climate Change

wrangle ['ræ?g(?)l] v. 争论
While nations wrangle over a new global treaty on climate change, the question on many minds is: What happens next?

Kyoto Protocol 京都议定书
expire [?k'spa??; ek-] vi. 期满
Key portions of the Kyoto Protocol are set to expire at the end of 2012.

emitter [?'m?t?] n.排放者
initiative [?'n????t?v; -??-] n.积极性
But many of the world's major greenhouse gas emitters have already set national targets to reduce emissions, and they're forging their own initiatives to meet those goals.

curb [k??b] vt. 控制
deforestation [di:,f?ri'stei??n] n. 采伐森林
Some are focusing on curbing deforestation and boosting renewable energy sources.

cap-and-trade  n. 限额交易
mandatory ['mænd?t(?)r?] adj. 强制的
Several nations are experimenting with cap-and-trade plans: Regulators set mandatory limits on industrial emissions, but companies that exceed those "caps" can buy permits to emit from companies that have allowances to spare.

pledge [pled?] n. 保证，誓言
legally binding 有法律约束力；受法律约束
What is clear is that the pledges currently on the table aren't legally binding, and they fall far short of what would be required to stabilize the planet's atmosphere.

by and large大体上，总的来说
By and large, Australia has met those targets, mostly by reducing deforestation and land clearing.

dismantle [d?s'mænt(?)l] vt. 拆除；取消
That might make it harder to dismantle the market if conservatives win back control of Australia's government in 2013.

beef up vt. 加强（增援，充实）；
Brazil's National Climate Change Plan is focused on expanding renewable electric energy sources and beefing up the use of biofuels in the transportation industry.

eliminate [?'l?m?ne?t]  vt. 消除；排除
It's hoping to eliminate illegal deforestation and bring the net loss of forest coverage to zero by 2015.

allotted [?'l?tid] adj. 专款的；拨出的
Companies that emit less carbon than their allotted amount can sell their extra carbon credits to firms that exceed their emissions limit.

gigawatt ['g?g?w?t] n. 千兆瓦；十亿瓦特
India has set an ambitious goal of getting 20 gigawatts of solar power online by 2022.

suck up ['s?k?p] 吸收
Indonesia is home to vast swaths of tropical forests, which suck up atmospheric carbon.

moratorium [,m?r?'t??r??m] n. 暂停，中止
concession [k?n'se?(?)n] n. 让步；特许（权）
Under a deal with Norway that went into effect in May 2011, Indonesia agreed to implement a two-year moratorium on new concessions for clearing forests in exchange for $1 billion in support for its forest conservation efforts.

SarahOrange

补：20120725 <第四期5-04科技> Science at the Olympics: Team science

toil [t??l] vi. 辛苦工作
overshadow v. 遮阴
Yet those scientists toil in the background, understandably overshadowed by the sporting spectacle.

Paralympics [,pær?'limpiks] n.残奥会
In 2000, the Spanish basketball team in the Paralympics learning-difficulties category swept the board to win all of their games and take gold.

strip sb of sth 剥夺某人的
After the scandal was revealed by an undercover journalist, the team was stripped of its medals, and anyone with a learning disability was excluded from the next two Paralympic Games.

in the wake of随着…而来
fiasco [f?'æsk??] n. 惨败
solidify [s?'l?d?fa?] v. 团结；凝固
criteria [krai'ti?ri?] n. 标准，条件（criterion的复数）
eligibility [,elid??'bil?ti] n. 被选举资格
classification [,klæs?f?'ke??(?)n] n. 分类；类别，等级
impairment [?m'p?rm?nt] n. 损伤，损害In the wake of the Spanish fiasco, the International Paralympic Committee and Inas, the international federation for para-athletes with an intellectual disability, sponsored an international research group to solidify the criteria for 'eligibility' (existence of a disability), and 'classification' (impairment of ability to play the sport).

comprehensively [,kɑmpr?'h?ns?vli] adv. 包括地；包括一切地
documented ['d?kjum?ntid]  adj. 备有证明文件的
robust [r?(?)'b?st] adj. 强健的；健康的
fraud [fr??d] n. 欺骗
All this has to be comprehensively documented and reviewed by multiple researchers so that the system is robust against fraud.

hectic ['hekt?k] adj. 忙碌的
Burns is currently working a hectic schedule juggling her Paralympics work, her regular academic job and huge interest from the world's media.

sprint [spr?nt] n. 冲刺；短跑
In this summer's 100-metre sprint, Usain 'Lightning' Bolt will attempt to hold onto his title of 'world's fastest man' against a younger and currently fleeter Yohan Blake.

suburban [s?'b??b(?)n] adj. 郊区的
Yet one of the fiercest battles in the Olympic Games will play out in a giant, custom-built suburban laboratory in Harlow, 35 kilometres north of the Olympic village.

molecular [m?'lekj?l?] adj. [化学] 分子的；由分子组成的
arsenal ['ɑ:s?n?l] n. a large collection of things you can use to achieve a particular purpose
Sisyphean [,sisi'fi:?n] adj. 永远做不完的；徒劳的
performance-enhancing a. 提高成绩的
Here, anti-doping experts will apply the most sophisticated tools in their molecular arsenal in the seemingly Sisyphean pursuit of those athletes who take performance-enhancing drugs.

stimulant ['st?mj?l(?)nt] n. [药] 兴奋剂
steroid ['st??r??d; 'ster??d] n. 类固醇
The lab will screen for dozens of stimulants, steroids and other banned substances.

notoriously [n?u't?:ri?sli] adv. 众所周知地
Anti-doping science is notoriously — some say unnecessarily — secretive; Bartlett says that he cannot reveal what drug-detection techniques will be rolled out at the London games.

disclose [d?s'kl??z] vt. 公开；揭露
validate ['væl?de?t] vt. 证实，验证
All he will disclose is this: “We've got the most sophisticated equipment, we spent the past year or so developing and validating new techniques that will give us increased sensitivity in all of our areas.”

legitimate [l?'d??t?m?t] adj. 合法的；正当的
toxicology [,t?ks?'k?l?d??] n. [毒物] 毒物学
Legitimate drugs are one target for Bartlett, who worked previously in food sciences and toxicology.

pharmaceutical [,fɑ?m?'su?t?k(?)l; -'sju?-] adj. 制药（学）的
pipeline ['pa?pla?n] n. 管道；传递途径
Pharmaceutical companies such as Roche, Amgen and GlaxoSmithKline now routinely share information about drugs in their pipelines that could potentially be used by athletes.

tweak [twi?k] vt. 扭；用力拉；开足马力
crank out 粗制滥造
evade [?'ve?d] v. 逃避
Increasingly, dopers are turning to illegal labs in India, China and elsewhere that crank out drugs such as EPO that have been tweaked chemically to evade testing.

cautiously ['k?:??sli] adv. 慎重地，谨慎地
illicit [?'l?s?t] adj. 违法的；不正当的
Bartlett is cautiously optimistic. Many countries screen their athletes before departing for London, and some sports have begun to use 'biological passports' that chart characteristics of athletes' blood over time, looking for changes that might signal illicit performance enhancement, even when a substance such as EPO cannot be found.

fluid-dynamics流体动力学
British swimmers turned to fluid-dynamics researcher Stephen Turnock.

hydrodynamics [,ha?dr?(?)da?'næm?ks] n. [流] 流体力学
Turnock's speciality is hydrodynamics, particularly in ship design.

aerodynamic [,?roda?'næm?ks] adj. 空气动力学的
The lab previously worked with the British cycling team to devise more aerodynamic riding positions, which may have played at least a small part in the 14 medals that 'Team GB' cyclists brought home from Beijing.

instrumentation [,?nstr?men'te??(?)n] n. 使用仪器
It's a complex process to get the instrumentation right but that's a relatively simple bit of fluid dynamics because, typically, most of a position of the cyclist and the body is relatively fixed.

SarahOrange

补：20120726 <第四期5-05GMAT topic> NN’s debrief: Ketav's journey to 750...

Achilles heel致命要害；薄弱环节
convent ['k?nv(?)nt] n. 女修道院
Verbal on the other hand was my Achilles heel. Being convent educated I have a decent command over language.

reason out 推理出，推论出
Similarly, I could reason out arguments in wsj or even tech blogs like engadget.