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1、 The words were powerful,but not as riveting as the three Polaroid photosthat Edwards later took at the West Los Angeles station hous e. 这些文字的叙述非常有力,但说到引人入胜,还不如爱德华后来在西洛杉矶车站所拍的 3 张宝丽莱照片. 增长快速的, runaway (a.增长快速的,势不可遏的 增长快速的 Since the runaway success of his book Ageless Body, Timeless Mind in 1993,he h

2、as written onebest seller after another,selling an as tonishing 6 million copies. 自从 1993 年以超时空身心一书一举成名,他接连写了好多本畅销书,销 售达惊人的 600 万册之多. saturated (a. 饱和的 Its new Microsoft Home division,for example,isan attempt to lever age itsposition in the market forbusiness desktops, which isbecomi ng saturated an

3、d move into the so-called SOHO (small office,home o ffice market. 例如,微软家庭部这个新部门的成立,就是企图利用微软在市场上的地位, 在逐渐饱和的商用台式电脑市场上攻城掠地,并进入所谓索霍 (小办公室, 家庭办公室 市场. Soho:纽约曼哈顿岛休斯顿大街以南一地区,以先锋派艺术,音乐,电影, 时装著名 savvy (a. 精通的 In Moscow and St.Petersburg,we call find only100 people here an d there who are Internet-savvy. 在莫斯科

4、和圣彼得堡,我们东找西找,大概只能找到 100 人熟悉国际互联网. 无接缝的,组合完美的, seamless (a. 无接缝的,组合完美的,浑然一体的 By creating a seamless global-economic zone, borderless andunregul atable,the Internet calls into question the very idea ofa nationst ate. 国际互联网创造出一个绵密无缝的全球经济区域,这个区域没有界限,无从 管制,从而使人们对民族国家这个词的定义心存疑惑. sinister (a. 邪恶的 Our state

5、smen used to revile Hitler,Mussolini-large and sinister e nemies,whowanted to take over the world. 我们的政治家曾经攻击希特勒,墨索里尼这些庞大邪恶的敌人都想统治 全世界. sleek (a. 时髦阔气的; 汽车,房子等 (人 时髦阔气的;(汽车,房子等 造形典雅豪华的 More than half a million people will reside in Putrajayaand surrou nding suburbs,and sleek commercialbuildings will

6、 accommodate 135,0 00 workers. 50 多万人将会居住在马来西亚普特拉吉亚及其郊区,典雅豪华的商业大 楼将容纳 13.5 万名工作人员. stark (a. (对比 分明的 对比 That courthouse seriousness,however,is in stark contrast to the p layful tone that Barksdale has setinside Netscape. 但是法院里的严肃气氛与巴克斯代尔在网景公司内部营造的轻松气氛,形成 鲜明对比. staunch (a. 坚定的 A staunch conservative

7、on monetary policy,Tiemeyernonetheless has supported European integration. 提特迈尔在货币政策上是坚定的保守派,却支持欧洲统一. steadfast steadfast (a. 坚定不移的 同firm An innocent personwill remain steadfastin denying guilt. 无辜者必然宁死不肯承认有罪. torrential (a. 猛烈的,汹涌的 猛烈的, The flow of money into mutual funds this year istorrential,and

8、 has already set an annual record. 今年流入共同基金的钱潮称得上是波涛汹涌,而且已经创下年度纪录. trailblazing trailblazing (a. 开路先锋的,大胆创新的 开路先锋的, Thanks to Morrison's trailblazing success,black womenare not only writing more; their books are being bought and read in droves. 由于莫里森成功的开疆拓土,黑人女性不仅更辛勤写作,她们的书籍销售量 与读者群也大幅增长. in dro

9、ves 成群结队地,大量地 ubiquitous (a. 无所不在的 The city's seemingly ubiquitous statues of communist-eraheroesha ve been disdainfully torn down.Gone too are the metronomic bootcli cli cks of the goose-stepping guard outside Lenin's tomb 市内原本似乎随处可见的共产主义时代的英雄雕像,已在人们的漫不经心中 拆掉,列宁墓地卫兵踢正步所发出的有节奏的皮靴撞击声,也已消失. di

10、sdainfully (adv. 轻蔑地;metronomic (a. 有节奏的,机械呆板的 深不可测的, unfathomable (a.深不可测的,难以理解的 同 incomprehensible 深不可测的 For most adults,the very idea of considering childrenas sexual obj ects is an unfathomable deviancy. 对多数的成年人而言,将儿童视为性的对象是匪夷所思的反常行为. unfettered (a. 不受拘束的 同 unconstrained We don't live under free,unfetteredcapitalism.Isn't that why we h ave antitrust laws? 我们并非生活在自由,不受束缚的资本主义体制下,我们制定反托拉斯法不 就是证明吗? unscrupulous (a. 无道德原则的,不择手段的 同 unprincipled 无道德原则的, Arguing that Gregorian chants cannot bearranged,EMI called the for mer monks"shameless and unscru