resolve
Such a loss of dignity and descent into childish behavior on the part of the adults deeply shocks the adolescents, and makes them resolve that in future they will not talk to their parents about the places or people they visit.
阐述一个事实和引起的结果
Atomic power is associated in the public mind with the destructive force of atom bombs and partly for this reason, though it is claimed that there is no danger to be associated with atom power stations, they are being sited away from populous centres.
incur
An enterprise has to incur certain costs and expenses in order to stay in business.
to the extent that
The administrative overhead of a business is low to the extent that everyone in the business can be trusted to behave in a way that best promotes the interests of the firm.
拟人
As technology gradually swallows up all forms of work, industrial and agricultural, the rurual areas are going to shrink, just as they have shrunk in Britain, and the vast majority of their people will move into the city.
说明一个两面矛盾的事物
The car also has a curious ambivalence: it creates and then it destroys mobility.
plight
But the plight of the world compels his unwilling attention, and when he sees the human stupidity and greed are about to plunge Europe into chaos and destroy the most glorious civilization which the world has known..
形容概率小
Such extreme cases must probably be taken with a grain of salt, but they do underline the general principle that the relationship between elephant and mahout is the key to successful training.
提出一个困难
But here we come up against the most difficult of all obstacles to contact with other people on other planets.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Reading Excerption (II)
point out: 表达某人观点
Marine Studio biologists have pointed out that, however intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphines with any motive of life-saving.
(no matter) whether
Whether it be bird, fish or beast, the porpoicse is intrigued with anything that is alive.
eventually/consequently
Eventually, the turtle has been butted all the way down to the floor of the tank.
转移理由，承上启下
If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?
分析原因
This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors. First... The second factor...
从经验获得
Experience teaches me that whatever a fellow guest may have of power to instruct or amuse when he is sitting in a chair, or standing on a hearth rug, quickly leaves him when he takes one out for a walk.
表明为什么
How it came about that snakes manufactured poison is a mystery.
尽管如此
Be that as it may, the nervee poison does its business with man fa more quickly than the blood poison.
join hands
And although no period or place in America history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
形容速度的变化
The trickle became a stream; the stream has now become a torrent.
常见事实
As is often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used equally for good or evil.
两个方面的介绍
In the constrary school the duck is supreme.
nor
It tires not nor does it boast of its power.
从现象到原因
Each civilization is born, it culminates and it decays. There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.
说明一个理由
One allegation often made is that noise produces mental illness.
混淆因果关系
The the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.
讽刺
This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefather fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicines remains the same as theirs.
make demands on sb
The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demand on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste, and that is what all patients demand of their doctors---to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.
accord to
The Vctorians, realizing that the greatest happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage, endeavored to pretend that all their marriages were happy.
settle
In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy; but the scientific dust has long since settled and today we can see even his famous clash with the Inquisition in something like its proper perspective.
Marine Studio biologists have pointed out that, however intelligent they may be, it is probably a mistake to credit dolphines with any motive of life-saving.
(no matter) whether
Whether it be bird, fish or beast, the porpoicse is intrigued with anything that is alive.
eventually/consequently
Eventually, the turtle has been butted all the way down to the floor of the tank.
转移理由，承上启下
If it is not a question of resting the body, then perhaps it is the brain that needs resting?
分析原因
This might be a plausible hypothesis were it not for two factors. First... The second factor...
从经验获得
Experience teaches me that whatever a fellow guest may have of power to instruct or amuse when he is sitting in a chair, or standing on a hearth rug, quickly leaves him when he takes one out for a walk.
表明为什么
How it came about that snakes manufactured poison is a mystery.
尽管如此
Be that as it may, the nervee poison does its business with man fa more quickly than the blood poison.
join hands
And although no period or place in America history has been more absurdly romanticized, myth and reality did join hands in at least one arena, the conflict between the individual and encroaching civilization.
形容速度的变化
The trickle became a stream; the stream has now become a torrent.
常见事实
As is often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weapon which can be used equally for good or evil.
两个方面的介绍
In the constrary school the duck is supreme.
nor
It tires not nor does it boast of its power.
从现象到原因
Each civilization is born, it culminates and it decays. There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.
说明一个理由
One allegation often made is that noise produces mental illness.
混淆因果关系
The the snag in this sort of anecdote is of course that one cannot distinguish cause and effect.
讽刺
This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefather fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicines remains the same as theirs.
make demands on sb
The great advantage of taking medicine is that it makes no demand on the taker beyond that of putting up for a moment with a disgusting taste, and that is what all patients demand of their doctors---to be cured at no inconvenience to themselves.
accord to
The Vctorians, realizing that the greatest happiness accorded to man is that provided by a happy marriage, endeavored to pretend that all their marriages were happy.
settle
In his own lifetime Galileo was the centre of violent controversy; but the scientific dust has long since settled and today we can see even his famous clash with the Inquisition in something like its proper perspective.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Reading Excerption (I)
read of
We can read of things that happend 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learnt to write.
fortunately
Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds.
顶真
Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race.
虚拟语气
They would devour all our crops and kill all our flocks and heads, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.
moreover/still more
We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.
nor
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even related to them.
形容轻易就能看出来
One can almost tell the difference at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.
be engaged in/on one's behalf
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf?
夸张
It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill.
shudder at/go out of one's way
It is true that during their explorations, they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.
boast
Often a valley boasted no inn at all.
invariably: 解释一系列现象中相同的部分
Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable.
concern
One case concerns an eleven-year-old school girl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with...
bring to the notice of sb.
Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives.
stranger still: 更加...
During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto, she was able to describe the figures and colors printed on it.
one
One thinks one know him very well.
exert a fascination upon
He has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and romantics alike.
haunt sb's imagination/hardly more: 说明一个性质，用另一个做比较
The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
take leave to do
If there is one---which I take leave to doubt---then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
承认基本事实
Let's get down to the fundamentals and agree that the yound are after all human beings---people justlike their elders.
for one thing: 解释前文
I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity.
人的特点
air of freedom/dreary commitment/mean ambitions/love of comfort/social climber/devotion to material things
否定论点
I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sports creates goodwill between the nations...
不愿意做什么事情
they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.
尽力做某事
You play to win and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
work oneself into sth/at any rate
... of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, seriously believe---at any rate for short periods---that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.
解释一个理论
To get a full appreciation of what this means, we must first turn to some recent human inventions.
于是 xxx 诞生了
So was born the echo-sounding apparatus, now in general use in ships.
steer clear of
by receiving the echoes, they could locate and steer clear of obstacles---or locate flying insects on which they feed.
隐喻
The tidy committee men regard them with horror, knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them.
隐喻
Notice how the cold, colorless men, without ideas and with no other passion but a craving for success, get on in this industry, capturing one plum after another and taking the juice and taste out of them.
阐述一个观点
Needless to say, the disgraceful censorship code is an important factor in predetermining the content of these pictures.
另外阐明一点
In addition to the impressiveness of the settings, there is a use of the camera which at times seems magical.
总结的一段话
Wherever the fault may lie, the fact remains that it is the theatre at Oxford and not at Cambridge which is on the verge of extinction, and the only fruit of the combination of industry and the rarefied atmosphere of learning is the dust in the street and a pathetic sense of being lost which hangs over some of the colleges.
指明自己的，但是可能带有普遍性的事情
The best way to overcome it---so at least it seems to me---is to make your interests gradually more wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
draw a cheque in favor of sb.
When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favor of another person.
继续解释某个理由，产生的后果
The bank must recognize its customer's signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the modern practice, adopted by some other banks, of printing the customer's name on his cheques.
另一种表达尽管... 但是... 的方法
The fact that we are not sure what ``intelligence'' is, nor what is passed on, does not prevent us from finding it a very useful working concept, and placing a certain amount of reliance on tests which ``measure'' it.
阐明两个因素
Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific research in industry. One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out, the other the lack of freedom of individual research worker.
表明问题发生，引导解释问题
The problem set for society is not the virtues of the type so much as its adequacy for its function, and here grave difficulties arise.
We can read of things that happend 5,000 years ago in the Near East, where people first learnt to write.
fortunately
Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds.
顶真
Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race.
虚拟语气
They would devour all our crops and kill all our flocks and heads, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals.
moreover/still more
We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.
nor
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even related to them.
形容轻易就能看出来
One can almost tell the difference at a glance for a spider always has eight legs and an insect never more than six.
be engaged in/on one's behalf
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf?
夸张
It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill.
shudder at/go out of one's way
It is true that during their explorations, they often faced difficulties and dangers of the most perilous nature, equipped in a manner which would make a modern climber shudder at the thought, but they did not go out of their way to court such excitement.
boast
Often a valley boasted no inn at all.
invariably: 解释一系列现象中相同的部分
Invariably the background was the same: dirt and poverty, and very uncomfortable.
concern
One case concerns an eleven-year-old school girl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with...
bring to the notice of sb.
Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives.
stranger still: 更加...
During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto, she was able to describe the figures and colors printed on it.
one
One thinks one know him very well.
exert a fascination upon
He has always exerted a strong fascination upon scientists and romantics alike.
haunt sb's imagination/hardly more: 说明一个性质，用另一个做比较
The Abominable Snowman who haunts the imagination of climbers in the Himalayas is hardly more elusive.
take leave to do
If there is one---which I take leave to doubt---then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
承认基本事实
Let's get down to the fundamentals and agree that the yound are after all human beings---people justlike their elders.
for one thing: 解释前文
I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity.
人的特点
air of freedom/dreary commitment/mean ambitions/love of comfort/social climber/devotion to material things
否定论点
I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sports creates goodwill between the nations...
不愿意做什么事情
they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield.
尽力做某事
You play to win and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.
work oneself into sth/at any rate
... of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, seriously believe---at any rate for short periods---that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.
解释一个理论
To get a full appreciation of what this means, we must first turn to some recent human inventions.
于是 xxx 诞生了
So was born the echo-sounding apparatus, now in general use in ships.
steer clear of
by receiving the echoes, they could locate and steer clear of obstacles---or locate flying insects on which they feed.
隐喻
The tidy committee men regard them with horror, knowing that no pigeonholes can be found for them.
隐喻
Notice how the cold, colorless men, without ideas and with no other passion but a craving for success, get on in this industry, capturing one plum after another and taking the juice and taste out of them.
阐述一个观点
Needless to say, the disgraceful censorship code is an important factor in predetermining the content of these pictures.
另外阐明一点
In addition to the impressiveness of the settings, there is a use of the camera which at times seems magical.
总结的一段话
Wherever the fault may lie, the fact remains that it is the theatre at Oxford and not at Cambridge which is on the verge of extinction, and the only fruit of the combination of industry and the rarefied atmosphere of learning is the dust in the street and a pathetic sense of being lost which hangs over some of the colleges.
指明自己的，但是可能带有普遍性的事情
The best way to overcome it---so at least it seems to me---is to make your interests gradually more wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
draw a cheque in favor of sb.
When anyone opens a current account at a bank, he is lending the bank money, repayment of which he may demand at any time, either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favor of another person.
继续解释某个理由，产生的后果
The bank must recognize its customer's signature. For this reason there is no risk to the customer in the modern practice, adopted by some other banks, of printing the customer's name on his cheques.
另一种表达尽管... 但是... 的方法
The fact that we are not sure what ``intelligence'' is, nor what is passed on, does not prevent us from finding it a very useful working concept, and placing a certain amount of reliance on tests which ``measure'' it.
阐明两个因素
Two factors weigh heavily against the effectiveness of scientific research in industry. One is the general atmosphere of secrecy in which it is carried out, the other the lack of freedom of individual research worker.
表明问题发生，引导解释问题
The problem set for society is not the virtues of the type so much as its adequacy for its function, and here grave difficulties arise.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Cluster in Speaking Section and Writing Section in ibT
Quality of People
ideal marriage partner
co-worker
supervisor
neighbor
roommate
son/daughter
parent
General Solutions
understanding
compatibility
mutual respect
reliability
(dis)Advantage of Building Something
movie center
super-market
high school
General Solutions
noisy
occupation of public space
high cost
facilitate daily life
attract more residents
Investment of Government
highways, roads v.s. public transportation
computer technology v.s. basic needs
outer space v.s. basic needs on earth
General Solutions
better image of the city
better service to more residents
waste of money of tax payers
only satisfaction of interests/curiosity/vanity of minority
Celebrities
what question to ask
famous athlete or entertainer
go back in time to meet a famous person (somewhere?)
a statue/monument
General Solutions
Zidane
Confucius
Turing
Philosophy of Life
attitude towards life
uncertainty in life
goals in life
Customs
one that a foreigner would adopt
dancing
Place
hometown
city you want to visit most
foreign country you want to visit
General Solution
friend
climate
tourism
long-term stay
cultural barrier because of migration
(dis)Advantage of Automobiles
long-distance travel
flexibility
pollution of exhaust
noise
traffic jams
parking (expensive)
Movie
styles
why you like it
characteristics
General Solution
Brave Heart
Internet changes people's lives
Music
relaxing
euphonic
spiritual encourage
create an atmosphere
Important
animal
plant
General Solution
bamboo & panda
ideal marriage partner
co-worker
supervisor
neighbor
roommate
son/daughter
parent
General Solutions
understanding
compatibility
mutual respect
reliability
(dis)Advantage of Building Something
movie center
super-market
high school
General Solutions
noisy
occupation of public space
high cost
facilitate daily life
attract more residents
Investment of Government
highways, roads v.s. public transportation
computer technology v.s. basic needs
outer space v.s. basic needs on earth
General Solutions
better image of the city
better service to more residents
waste of money of tax payers
only satisfaction of interests/curiosity/vanity of minority
Celebrities
what question to ask
famous athlete or entertainer
go back in time to meet a famous person (somewhere?)
a statue/monument
General Solutions
Zidane
Confucius
Turing
Philosophy of Life
attitude towards life
uncertainty in life
goals in life
Customs
one that a foreigner would adopt
dancing
Place
hometown
city you want to visit most
foreign country you want to visit
General Solution
friend
climate
tourism
long-term stay
cultural barrier because of migration
(dis)Advantage of Automobiles
long-distance travel
flexibility
pollution of exhaust
noise
traffic jams
parking (expensive)
Movie
styles
why you like it
characteristics
General Solution
Brave Heart
Internet changes people's lives
Music
relaxing
euphonic
spiritual encourage
create an atmosphere
Important
animal
plant
General Solution
bamboo & panda
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