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A thesis submitted to
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in partial fulfillment
of the requirement
for the degree of
Master of Engineering
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个雅思词汇。
1.
Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent
is the American antelope, or
pronghorn.
1.
美洲羚羊，或称叉角羚，是该大陆典型的草原动物。
2. Of the millions who saw
Haley’s comet in 1986, how many people will live
long
enough to see it return in the
twenty-first century.
2. 1986
年看见哈雷慧星的千百万人当中，有多少人能够长寿到足以目睹它在二十一世纪
的回归
呢？
3. Anthropologists have
discovered that fear, happiness, sadness, and
surprise
are universally reflected in
facial expressions.
3.
人类学家们已
经发现，恐惧，快乐，悲伤和惊奇都会行之于色，这在全人类是共通的。
4. Because of its irritating effect on
humans, the use of phenol as a general
antiseptic has been largely
discontinued.
4.
由于苯酚对人体带有刺激性
作用，它基本上已不再被当作常用的防腐剂了。
5. In
group to remain in existence, a profit-making
organization must, in the
long run,
produce something consumers consider useful or
desirable.
5.
任何盈利组织若要生存，最终都必须生产出消费者可用或需要的产品。
6. The greater the population there
is in a locality; the greater the need there is
for water, transportation, and disposal
of refuse.
6.
一个地方的人口越多，其对水，交
通和垃圾处理的需求就会越大。
7. It is more
difficult to write simply, directly, and
effectively than to employ
flowery but
vague expressions that only obscure one’s
meanin
g.
7.
简明，直接，
有力的写作难于花哨，含混而意义模糊的表达。
8.
With modern offices becoming more mechanized,
designers are attempting
to personalize
them with warmer, less severe interiors.
8.
随着现代办公室的日益自动化，
设计师们正试图利用较
为温暖而不太严肃的内部装饰来使
其具有亲切感。
9. The difference between libel and
slander is that libel is printed while slander
is spoken.
9.
诽谤和流
言的区别在于前者是书面的，而后者是口头的。
10.
The knee is the joints where the thigh bone meets
the large bone of the
lower leg.
10.
膝盖是大腿骨和小腿胫的连接处。
11. Acids are chemical compounds that,
in water solution, have a sharp taste, a
corrosive action on metals, and the
ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes
red.
11.
酸是一种化合物，它
在溶于水时具有强烈的气味和对金属的腐蚀性，并且能够使某些蓝
色植物染料变红。
12. Billie Holiday’s
reputation as a great jazz
-blues singer
rests on her ability to
give emotional
depth to her songs.
12. Billie Holiday’s
作为一个爵士布鲁
斯乐杰出歌手的名声建立在能够赋予歌曲感情深度
的能力。
13. Essentially, a theory is an
abstract, symbolic representation of what is
conceived to be reality.
13.
理论在本质上是对认识了的现实的一种抽象和符号化的表达。
14. Long before children are able to
speak or understand a language, they
communicate through facial expressions
and by making noises.
14.
儿童在
能说或能听懂语言之前，很久就会通过面部表情和靠发出噪声来与人交流了。
15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops
now grow abundantly in areas where
once
nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live.
15.
受当代灌溉
(
技术设
施
)
之赐，农作物在原来只有仙人掌和荞属科植物才能生存的地
方旺
盛的生长。
16. The
development of mechanical timepieces spurred the
search for more
accurate sundials with
which to regulate them.
16.
机
械计时器的发展促使人们寻求更精确的日晷，以便校准机械计时器。
17. Anthropology is a science in that
anthropologists use a rigorous set of
methods and techniques to document
observations that can be checked by
others.
17.
人类学是一门
科学，因为人类学家采用一整套强有力的方法和技术来记录观测结果，而
这样记录下来的
观测结果是供他人核查的。
18. Fungi are
important in the process of decay, which returns
ingredients to the
soil, enhances soil
fertility, and decomposes animal debris.
18.
真菌在腐化过程中十分重要，而腐化过程将化学物质回馈于土壤，提高其肥力
，并分解
动物粪便。
19. When it is struck, a
tuning fork produces an almost pure tone,
retaining its
pitch over a long period
of time.
19.
音叉被敲击时，产生几乎纯质的音调
，其音量经久不衰。
20. Although
pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part
of the United
States, they are found as
far north as Ohio and Illinois.
20.
虽然美洲山河桃树最集中于美国的东南部但是在北至俄亥俄州及伊利诺州也能看见它
们。
21. Eliminating
problems by transferring the blame to others is
often called
scape-goating.
21.
用怪罪别人的办法来解决问题通常被称为寻找替罪羊。
22. The chief foods eaten in any
country depend largely on what grows best in
its climate and soil.
22.
一个国家的主要食物是什么，大体取决于什么作物在其天气和土壤条件下生长得最好。
23. Over a very large number of
trials, the probability of an event’s occurring is
equal to the probability that it will
not occur.
23.
在大量的实验中，某一事件发生
的几率等于它不发生的几率。
24. Most
substance contract when they freeze so that the
density of a
substance’s solid is
higher than the density of its liquid.
24.
大多数物质遇冷收缩，所以他们的密度在固态时高于液态
。
25. The mechanism by which
brain cells store memories is not clearly
understood.
25.
大脑
细胞储存记忆的机理并不为人明白。
26. By the
middle of the twentieth century, painters and
sculptors in the United
States had
begun to exert a great worldwide influence over
art.
26.
到了二十一世纪中
叶，美国画家和雕塑家开始在世界范围内对艺术产生重大影响。
27. In the
eastern part of New Jersey lies the city of
Elizabeth, a major shipping
and
manufacturing center.
27.
伊丽莎
白市，一个重要的航运和制造业中心，坐落于新泽西州的东部。
28. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first
woman medical doctor in the United States,
founded the New York Infirmary, an
institution that has always had a completely
female medical staff.
28.
Elizabeth Blackwell
，美国第一个女医生，创建了员工一直为女性
纽约诊所。
29. Alexander Graham
Bell once told his family that he would rather be
remembered as a teacher of the deaf
than as the inventor of the telephone.
29. Alexander Graham Bell
曾告诉
家人，他更愿意让后人记住他是聋子的老师，而非电
话的发明者。
30. Because its leaves remain green
long after being picked, rosemary became
associated with the idea of
remembrance.
30.
采摘下的迷迭香树叶常绿不
衰，因此人们把迷迭香树与怀念联系在一起。
31.
Although apparently rigid, bones exhibit a degree
of elasticity that enables
the skeleton
to withstand considerable impact.
31.
骨头看起来是脆硬的，但它也有一定的弹性，使得骨骼能够承受相当的打击。
32. That xenon could not FORM
chemical compounds was once believed by
scientists.
32.
科学
家曾相信：氙气是不能形成化合物的。
33.
Research into the dynamics of storms is directed
toward improving the
ability to predict
these events and thus to minimize damage and avoid
loss of
life.
33.
对风暴动力学的研究是为了提
高风暴预测从而减少损失，避免人员伤亡。
34. The elimination of
inflation would ensure that the amount of money
used in
repaying a loan would have the
same value as the amount of money
borrowed.
34.
消除通货膨胀应确保还贷的钱应与所贷款的价值相同。
35. Futurism, an early twentieth-
century movement in art, rejected all
traditions and attempted to glorify
contemporary life by emphasizing the
machine and motion.
35.
未来主义，二十世纪早期的一个艺术思潮。拒绝一切传统，试图通过强调机械和动态来
美化生活。
36. One of the
wildest and most inaccessible parts of the United
States is the
Everglades where wildlife
is abundant and largely protected.
36.
Everglades
是美国境内最为荒凉和人迹罕至的地区之一，此处有大量的野生动
植物而
且大多受
(
法律
)
保护。
37.
Lucretia Mott’s influence was so significant that
she has been credited by
some
authorities as the originator of feminism in the
United States.
37. Lucretia Mott’s
的影响巨大，所以一些权威部门认定她为美国女权运动的创始人。
38. The activities of the international
marketing researcher are frequently much
broader than those of the domestic
marketer.
38.
国际市场研究者的活动范围常常较
国内市场研究者广阔。
39. The
continental divide refers to an imaginary line in
the North American
Rockies that divides
the waters flowing into the Atlantic Ocean from
those
flowing into the Pacific.
39.
大陆分水岭是指北美洛矶山脉上的一道想象线，该线把大西洋流域和太平
洋流域区分开
来。
40. Studies of the gravity
field of the Earth indicate that its crust and
mantle
yield when unusual weight is
placed on them.
40.
对地球引力的研究表
明，在不寻常的负荷之下地壳和地幔会发生位移。
41.
The annual worth of Uta
h’s
manufacturing is greater than that of its mining
and farming combined.
41.
尤它州制造业的年产值大于其工业和农业的总和。
42. The wallflower is so called because
its weak stems often grow on walls and
along stony cliffs for support.
42.
墙花之所以叫墙花，是因为其脆弱的枝干经常要靠墙壁或顺石崖生长，以
便有所依附。
43. It is the
interaction between people, rather than the events
that occur in
their lives, that is the
main focus of social psychology.
43.
社会心理学的主要焦点是人与人之间的交往，而不是他们各自生活中的事件。
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44. No social crusade aroused
Elizabeth Williams’ enthusiasm more than the
expansion of educational facilities for
immigrants to the United States.
44.
给美国的新移民增加教育设施比任何社会运动都更多的激发了
Eliz
abeth
Williams
的
热情。
45. Quails typically have short rounded
wings that enable them to spring into
full flight instantly when disturbed in
their hiding places.
45.
典型的鹌
鹑都长有短而圆的翅膀，
凭此他们可以在受惊时一跃而起，
飞离
它们的躲藏地。
46. According to
anthropologists, the earliest ancestors of humans
that stood
upright resembled
chimpanzees facially, with sloping foreheads and
protruding
brows.
46.
根据人类学家的说法，直立行走的人的鼻祖面部轮廓与黑猩猩相似，额头后倾，眉毛突
< br>出。
47. Not until 1866 was
the fully successful transatlantic cable finally
laid.
47.
直到
1866
年第一条横跨大西洋的电缆才完全成功
的架通。
48. In his writing,
John Crowe Ransom describes what he considers the
spiritual
barrenness of society brought
about by science and technology.
48.
John Crowe Ransom
在他的著作中描述了他认为是由科学技术给社会带
来的精神贫
困。
49.
Children with parents whose guidance is firm,
consistent, and rational are
inclined
to possess high levels of self-confidence.
49.
父母的教导如果坚定，始终如一和理性，孩子就有可能充满自信。
50. The ancient Hopewell
people of North America probably cultivated corn
and
other crops, but hunting and
gathering were still of critical importance in
their
economy.
50.
北美远古的
Hopewell
人很可能种植了玉米和其他农作
物，
但打猎和采集对他们的经济
贸易仍是至关重要的。
51. Using many symbols makes it
possible to put a large amount of information
on a single map.
51.
< br>使用多种多样的符号可以在一张地图里放进大量的信息。
52. Anarchism is a term
describing a cluster of doctrines and attitudes
whose
principal uniting feature is the
belief that government is both harmful and
unnecessary.
52.
无
政府主义这个词描述的是一堆理论和态度，它们的主要共同点在于相信政府是有害
的，没
有必要的。
53. Probably no man
had more effect on the daily lives of most people
in the
Untied States than did Henry
Ford a pioneer in automobile production.
53.
恐怕没有谁对大多数美国人的日常生活影响能超过汽车生产的先驱亨利
.
福特。