17考研词汇5500恋练有词高频讲义new-unit

1、 Unit 6C. 单词应用identify v 确认2014 年阅读 Text 4In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maint

2、ain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education.”entitle v 给权利 ( 或资格 ) 2010 年翻译Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.undoubtedly adv 毫不怀疑地 2009 年阅读 Text 3The relat

3、ionship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike. Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies.physics n. 物理；物理学2014 年阅读 Text 3M

4、any, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet roducev 提出 2009 年阅读新题型American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.figure n 人物 2014 年阅读 Text 4Among the com

5、missions 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism.conduct v 引导 2008 年阅读新题型Your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, but do not permit it

6、to railroad you.conductive adj 传导性的；传导的；有传导力的2006年阅读新题型The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior.behaviorn 行为；举止 2012 年阅读 Text 1This is a subtle form of peer pressure: we unconsciously imitate the behavior we see every ellect

7、 n 智力 2008 年翻译Darwin was convinced that the loss of these tastes was not only a loss of happiness, but might possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral ellectualn 知识分子 2006 年翻译Is it true that the American intellectual is rejected and considered of no account

8、in his society?lack v 缺乏 2010 年翻译It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.available adj 可获得的 2011 年阅读 Text 1These recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often

9、much higher in artistic quality than todays live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listeners choosing.emergingadj 新出现的 ( 此处为emerge的形容词形式 ) 2012 年阅读 Text 1An emerging body of research shows that positive health habitsas well as negative onesspread through netwo

10、rks of friends via social communication.appear v 出现；显现 2012 年阅读 Text 3Not surprisingly, newly published discovery claims and credible discoveries that appear to be important and convincing will always be open to challenge and potential modification or refutation by future researchers.depression n 忧郁

11、症 2008 年阅读 Text 1“Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men,”According to Dr. Yehuda, chief psychiatrist at New Yorks Veterans Administration Hospital.consequence n 影响2013 年阅读 Text 3The potential evolution of todays techno

12、logy, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and its perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.contributev 有助于2011 年阅读 Text 4But its interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness

13、-enhancing parenthood arent in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.sortn 种类；类别 2009 年翻译These groups mainly rely

14、for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps the adults loyal to their group.secure adj 稳固的；稳定的 2007 年阅读 Text 3During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realities.threat n 威胁2013 年阅读 Text 3Look up Homo sapiens in the “Red List” of threatened species of the International Union for