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target [?tɑ:ɡit] n.目标，对象，靶子；vt.以……为目标
【真题例句】 That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target (n.) species is about 50% of its original levels.[2006年阅读3]
【例句精译】 这十分重要，因为理论表明在目标鱼类单位数量是原始水平的大约50%的时候，才能保证渔场可收获的最大。
【真题例句】 In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools that allow companies to “push” information directly out to consumers, transmitting marketing messages directly to targeted (vt.) customers.[1999年阅读2] 【例句精译】 然而，在去年，软件公司开发出新的技术使得商家可以把产品信息推到消费者的计算机屏幕上。
spectacle [?spekt?kl] n.①[pl.]眼镜；②场面，景观；③奇观，壮观
【真题例句】 Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles (②), which now more than ever seem in ample supply:...[2000年阅读5]
【例句精译】 相反我们目睹了比以前任何时候都多的虚伪景观。
thumb [θ?m] n.拇指；v.（～ through）翻阅
【真题例句】 It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb (v.) through their phone directories.Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zo? Zysman.[2004年阅读2]
【例句精译】 人们早已知道在客户翻查电话簿时，名叫AAAA的出租汽车公司要比Zodiac出租汽车公司有很大的优越性。至于在生活方面Adam Abbott较之Zo? Zysman的优越性就不那么为人所知了。
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第二节 长难单词真题语境记忆
professionalization [pr??fe??n?la?ze???n] n.职业化，专业化
[真题例句] But specialisation was only one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication.Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity.[2001年阅读1]
[例句精译] 但是专业化仅是科学领域内一系列影响交流过程的有关现象之一。另一现象是科学活动的日益职业化。
industrialization [?n?d?str??la??ze???n] n.工业化，产业化
[真题例句] They admitted that in the long run industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the average man.[1998年完形]
[例句精译] 他们承认，从长远的观点来者，工业化极大地提高了普通人的生活水平。
interrelationship [??nt?r??le??n??p] n.相互关系，干扰
[真题例句] As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of cultural signals, assumptions, and conventions underlies all social interrelationships.[1997年阅读2]
[例句精译] 同任何发达国家一样，一系列复杂的文化特征，信念和习俗构成了美国所有社会交往的基础。
telecommunication [?telik??mjuni-?kei??n] n.电信，电信学
[真题例句] Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages.[1995年阅读3]
[例句精译] 电信技术的发展使人们可能通过电视、无线电传送信息，不久之后，通过电子邮件发送的大量信息，将对人们实施信息轰炸。
transcendentalist [?tr?nsen?dent?list] a./n.先验论者（的）
[真题例句] Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children:“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”[2004年阅读4]
[例句精译] 拉尔夫?瓦尔多?爱默生和其他一些先验主义哲学家则认为学校教育和僵化的书本学习会抑制孩子们的天性,“我们被关在中小学和大学的读书室里十年或十五年，最后出来满肚子墨水，却啥都不懂。”
controversialist [?k?ntr??v????list] n.争论者，好争论者
[真题例句] In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, see the triumph of 1960s counter-culture as responsible for the decline of formal English.[2005年阅读4]
[例句精译] 语言学家约翰·麦克沃特喜好争论，他的观点混杂着保守派与自由派的看法，在他的近作《做我们自己的事，语言和音乐的退化：我们干吗在乎?!》一书中，这位学者认为20世纪60年代反文化运动的胜利要对正式英语的退化负责。
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disproportionate [?d?spr??p????n?t] a. 不成比例的
[真题例句] By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations.[1995年阅读4] [例句精译] 学校里最糟糕的竞争形式就是不恰当的强调考试。
enthusiastically [in?θju?zi??stik?li] ad.热心地，狂热地
[真题例句]From the last paragraph the conclusion can be drawn that ambition should be maintained_____.[2000年阅读5] [B] openly and enthusiastically
[例句精译]从最后一段我们可总结出：应_____拥有雄心。 [B] 坦诚、热情的
environmentalist [?n?va?r?n?ment?l?st] n.环境保护论者，环境论者 [真题例句] The environmentalists, inevitably, respond to such critics.[1998年阅读3] [例句精译] 毫无疑问，环境主义者要对这些批评做出反应。 irresponsibility [?iri?sp?ns??biliti] n.无责任
[真题例句] This does not mean that adults must accept irresponsibility.[2003年完形] [例句精译] 这并不意味着成年人可以接受不负责任的行为。 pretechnological [pri?tekn??l?d?ik?l] a.前技术时代的
[真题例句] Few would dispute that the term applies to the Unabomber, whose manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to a pretechnological utopia.[1998年阅读3]
[例句精译] 将该词（反科学）用在仇视现代文明的恐怖主义者身上，也不会引起多大争议，它在1995年公开发表蔑视科学、渴望回到前技术时代理想社会的声明。
unpredictability [??npr??d?kt?bl] n.不可预测性
[真题例句] Unpredictability is part of the essential nature of research.[1999年阅读5] [例句精译] 不可预测性是科学研究不可缺少的一个重要特征。
anthropological [??nθr?p??l?d?ik?l] a.人类学的，人类学上的
[真题例句] Anthropological analyses rest heavily upon the concept of culture.[2003年翻译] [例句精译] 人类学分析主要依赖于文化概念。
appropriateness [??pr?upri?tnis] n.适应性
[真题例句]How well the predictions will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount , reliability , and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted.[1995年翻译]
[例句精译]这些预测在多大程度上被后来的表现所证实，这取决于所采用信息的数量、可靠性和适宜性以及解释这些信息的技能和才智。
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competitiveness [k?m?petitivnis] n.竞争
[真题例句]By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness.[2000年阅读1]
[例句精译] 到了80年代中期，面对其日益衰退的工业竞争力，美国人感到不知所措。
differentiation [?dif??ren?i?ei??n] n.区别
[真题例句] A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come together nationally in a different way.[2001年阅读1]
[例句精译] 类似的分化过程也导致专业地质学家聚集起来，形成一两个全国性的团体，而业余地质学家则要么留在地方性团体中，要么以不同方式组成全国性的团体。
dissatisfaction [?d?s?s?t?s?f?k?n] n.不满，不平，令人不满的事物
[真题例句] In addition, far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their counterparts in the 10 other countries surveyed.[2000年阅读4]
[例句精译] 此外，与被调查的其他10个国家的工人相比，对自身工作表示不满的日本工人多得多。
environmentally [en?vair?n?mentli] ad.周围地，环境地
[真题例句] If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it is crucial that those new plants be environmentally sound.[2005年阅读2]
[例句精译] 假如我们要保护我们的大气层，关键一点是：新建的电厂必须是环保安全型的。
experimentation [?k?sper?men?te??n] n.实验，试验
[真题例句]What does the author probably mean by “untaught mind” in the first paragraph?[1994年阅读5] [A] A person ignorant of the hard work involved in experimentation. [例句精译]第一段中作者使用“untaught mind”可能是指_____。 [A] 对实验中的辛劳工作一无所知的人
instantaneously [?inst?n?teinj?sli] ad.立即
[真题例句] But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd.[2002年阅读2]
[例句精译] 但是人的大脑能够扫描一个快速变化的场景，迅速排除98%的不相干的物体，立即聚焦于森林中婉蜒道路旁的一只猴子，或者人群中的一张可疑的脸。
intellectualism [?inti?lektju?l?izm] n.①智力活动；②才智主义，知性主义
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