Lesson 7
The Age Of
Miracle Chips
Type of Writing
• Expository / Exposition
• Exposition means explanation,
explaining.
Type of Writing
• While narration and description appeal
primarily to the emotions and the
imagination, exposition appeals
primarily to the understanding. It aims
at making the reader understand
something.
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• 1. transform: to change completely in
form, appearance, or nature
• trans: across, beyond, on / to the other
side
• transformer warrior
• 2. quite:
• a. rather, fairly, pretty, very
• quite good / small, etc
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• b. completely, absolutely, perfectly (when
the adjective it modifies has no relative or
superlative degrees)
• I am quite ready to go.
• The dog is not quite dead.
• You are quite right.
• If you want to do it alone, that's quite all
right with me.
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• I don't quite know how to answer the
question.
• He has not quite finished his job.
• He is not quite the man he thought he
was
• c. (as an answer) agreed, certainly,
that's right.
• “It's a delicate problem.”
• “Quite.”
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• “It's a difficult situation.”
• “Quite so.”
• d. Placed in front of the article when it is
followed by a noun
• That's quite a good film.
• You are going quite the wrong way.
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• Fairly, quite, rather, pretty are
comparable.
• Not nice
• fairly nice
• quite nice
• rather/pretty nice
• very nice
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• Special Attention:
• a. only RATHER can go together with
comparative degrees and the word TOO.
• rather warmer
• She is rather too sure of herself
• *fairly warmer
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• b. QUITE and RATHER can be used in
front of an article and with verbs while
PRETTY and FAIRLY can not.
• quite a nice day / rather a pity
• a pretty nice day / a fairly strong man
• I don’t quite understand you.
• He is not quite a gentleman.
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• 3. stylize: to be in agreement to a
typical style
• the highly stylized form of acting in
Beijing Opera
• The chip looks like a rug of typical
Navaho style.
• 4. aerial: in, of, from or concerning
the air
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• 5. switching yard (also switch yard): area
where railway cars are rearranged
between lines to make up trains.
• 6. inert: chemically inactive，without
power to move or act
• inert gases
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• 7. fleck: a small mark or spot
• brown cloth with flecks of red
• a fleck of milk on the baby's chin
• 8. powers: general natural abilities
• 9. calculating capability: the ability of
processing complex mathematics
problems in large amounts
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• 10. hulking: massive and clumsy, heavy
and awkward
• Caliban of vacuum tubes
• his tyrant of a father
• her doll of a daughter
• a giant of a soldier
• a palace of a house
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• 11. tangle: to become a confused mass
of disordered and twisted threads
–Her hair got all tangled up in
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–His financial affairs are in
such a tangle.
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• 12. evolve: (cause to) develop naturally
and (usu) gradually
• He has evolved a new theory after many
years of research.
• Man has evolved from lower forms of life.
• The Theory of Evolution
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• 13. versatile: having many different kinds
of skill or ability, all-sided
• a versatile cook, writer
• a versatile drill, truck
• He is a versatile teacher, he teaches well
English, Chinese, Mathematics, .
Music, etc.
• He is a versatile husband--- a nice cook, a
dish washer, a washing machine and also a
vacuum cleaner.
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• 14. convenient: suited to one's needs
• Come whenever it is convenient to you.
• 16. acquire: to get for oneself, to gain or
come into possession of
• He acquired a knowledge of the language
by careful study.
• With the money he had won he was able
to acquire some property.
• Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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• miracle chip represents a
development in the technology of
mankind that…
• The miracle chip symbolizes a
breakthrough in the development of
human technology. In the past few years
this breakthrough has gained great force
and significance.
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• When we think of the force and
significance of the miracle chip, we
realize that in the development of
technology there are only two other
developments that can be compared with
it, namely the development of hand tools
and that of the steam engine.
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• 17. take over: to gain control over and
responsibility for sth. or sb.
• Who will take over now that the captain
has been dismissed?
• The new governor took over yesterday.
• He is taking over my job while I am on
holiday.
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• 18. immense: tremendous, gigantic,
enormous, titanic
• 19. range: extent, limits, scope
• to have a wide / narrow range of
interests
• The annual range of temperature here is
from –5℃ to 40℃
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• 20. assume: a. to take up, begin to govern
• The new admiral will assume command of
the Pacific Fleet.
• The prince began to assume power when
he was only 15.
• b. to take as true or a fact
• Scientists assume that there is no animal
life on the Mars.
• We assume that you understand the
situation.
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• The Industrial Revolution freed man
from hard physical labour in many fields
of work and thus greatly increased
productivity. Now the microcomputer is
taking up the tedious mental work
formerly done by the human brain. In
this sense, microcomputer is enhancing
man's mental capability.
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• 21. burden: heavy load
• His sick father has become a burden to him.
• 22. drudgery: hard, boring work
• the endless drudgery of housework
• 23. feat: clever esp. bodily / physical action,
showing strength, skill or courage
• acrobatic / cycling feats
• Man's first landing on the moon was a feat
of great daring.
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• 24. execution: the carrying out or
completion of an order or task
• execute: to carry out, perform, or do
completely
• The nurse executed the doctor's orders.
• This good idea was never put into
execution.
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• execution: lawful killing as a punishment
• The execution of the bandits took place
today.
• executive: person in a business
organization with administrative or
managerial powers
• CEO: Chief Executive Officer
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• 25. Venetian blinds: a window screen
made of a number of horizontal slats that
can be raised or lowered with one cord
• 26. snap: to move so as to cause a sharp
sound like something suddenly breaking,
• The stick will snap if you bend it too
hard.
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• snap open: to open quickly with a sound
like breaking sth.
• snap one's fingers: to make a noise by
moving the second finger quickly along
the thumb
• to take a snap shot
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• 27. thermostat: apparatus that can
regulate heat
• thermo-meter
• -electricity
• -nuclear
• thermos bottle
• clinic thermometer
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• 28. boost: increase, raise
• boost imports, production, etc.
• a boost in sales, exports, etc.
• give sb's confidence a boost
• 9. cozy: cosy, warm and comfortable
• F: Fahrenheit
• C: Celsius, Centigrade
• 30. blink: (eye) shut & open quickly
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• 31. selective rundown: a detailed report of
a set of events selected carefully
• selective: careful about what you choose
• He's very selective about the people he
spends time with.
• This brand of pesticide is a selective killer.
• 32. rundown of sth.: detailed report of a
set of events
• I want a complete run-down on the
present situation in Iraq.
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• 33. affect: to influence, to cause some
change in
• The amount of rain affects the growth of
crops.
• Smoking affects health.
• There was some gossip to the effect that she
might not be recruited, but that could not
affect confidence.
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• cf:
• effect: to cause, produce or have as a
result
• I will effect my purpose: no one shall
stop me.
• We hope to effect an improvement.
• A single glass of brandy may effect his
recovery.
• Both words have the same noun: Effect.
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• 34. snug: if you feel snug, you are very
warm and comfortable esp. when you
are protected from the cold weather
• sitting snug
• 5. abed:
• a: away, from, of, on, in, up
• aboard: on board
• adrift: afloat without control
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• 36. issue: send sth. out; make sth. known
• to issue orders, instructions, etc.
• The minister issued a statement to the
press.
• issue visas to foreign visitors
• issue warm clothing to the earthquake
survivors
• issue books, stamps, bank-notes, shares
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• 37. memo: memorandum, note or
record for future
• 38. saunter: walk in a unhurriedly way,
at a leisurely pace
• This word differs from wander in that it
stress carefree and leisure pace while
the latter lays emphasis in aimless and
absence of a fixed purpose or course
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• 39. read-out: the information removed
from a computer and displayed (here,
on the screen)
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• 40. commandeer: to place an order, to
seize sth. (esp. private property) for esp.
military use
• The policeman commandeered a taxi to
chase the robbers.
• During the battle, all the houses along
the river bank were commandeered.
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• 41. terminal: an apparatus by which a
user can give instructions to and get
information from a computer. Here a
controlling board
• 42. recipe: a set of instructions for
making sth. from various ingredients
• a recipe for moon cakes
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• 43. ingredient: sth. which is a component
part of any combination or mixture,
element
• Flour and fat are the most important
ingredients in baking.
• What ingredients went into the soup?
• Imagination and hard work are the
ingredients of success.
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• 44. serving: helping, the amount of food
for one person
• This recipe will be enough for four
servings.
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• 45. Byzantine art and architecture
include not only works done in the city
of Byzantium after it became the capital
of the Roman Empire (), but
also work done under Byzantine
influence, as in Italy, Syria, Greece,
Russia, and other Eastern countries.
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• 46. conjugation: the way verbs change
their forms in accordance with number,
person, mood, voice and tense
• verb conjugation: the different
inflectional (inflexional) forms of verbs,
such as do, does, did, done & etc.
• 47. groovy: (sl.) very good, pleasing,
deeply satisfying
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• 48. Herbert George Wells (1866-1946),
the son of a gardener and a lady’s maid,
He went to the Normal School of
Science in London and studied biology
under Professor Thomas Henry Huxley,
the principal exponent in England of
Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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• By 1895, he had published The Time
Machine, the Wonderful Visit and a
volume of short stories. These made
Wells the pioneer of science fiction in
the world.
• Among his works, besides the above
mentioned, The Invisible Man, The War
of the Worlds, The First Men in the
Moon and The War in the Air are
outstanding.
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• 49. matutinal: of, occurring in, the
morning
• 50. scenario: a written description of
the action to take place in a film, play,
etc.
• a description of a situation
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• 51. bar: to block
• to bar the way to the city
• barring: (colloq.) without, excepting, if
there is / are not
• The whole group was at the party,
barring John.
• We shall return at midnight, barring
accidents.
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• 52. proceed: go to a further or the next
stage; go on
• Work is proceeding slowly.
• Having said how much she liked it, she
then proceeded to criticize the way I
had done it.
• Please proceed with your report.
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• 53. thanks to: because of, owing to
• It was thanks to your stupidity that we
lost the game.
• Thanks to his efforts, ...
• Thanks to the doctor, I am well again.
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• 54. shoulder
• to shoulder responsibility
• to shoulder the burden of the family
• to shoulder a gun, a load, the basket...
• He shouldered his way through the
crowd.
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• 55. array: large number
• An array of things or people is a large
number of different things or people,
esp. when they are impressive or
attractive
• face a whole array of problems / new
responsibilities
• a distinguished array of world leaders
and statesmen
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• 56. consume: use (sth) up
• consume resources, time, etc.
• The car consumes a. lot of fuel.
• He soon consumed his fortune (ie spent
the money wastefully).
• The fire quickly consumed the wooden
hut.
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• consumer （ant. producer）
• consumer rights, protection, etc
• consumer goods
• consumer durables
• Consumerism is the campaign for the
protection of consumers’ interests.
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• 57. promise: say that sth. is certain, give
the cause for expecting
• Winter is already here, and promises to
be a most severe one.
• The new measures of reform promises
to accelerate the development of
production.
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• 58. ease: to take away pain or worry, to
make more comfortable
• The aspirin eased his headache.
• They are trying to find a way to ease the
conflict.
• The meeting might ease the tense
situation in north Korea.
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• 59. enhance: to increase (good things
such as value, power, or beauty); to
highten
• to enhance one’s political consciousness
• The moonlight enhanced the beauty of
the scene.
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• With this microelectronic revolution, it
becomes certain that life will be more
comfortable, that the quality of life will
be improved, and that life will be much
simpler.
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• 60. routine: conventional, regular
• routine medical examination
• 61. chore: burden, daily necessary job,
esp. in a house or on a farm
• Each morning she would get up, do the
chores, then go next door for a talk with
her neighbour.
• It's a chore to do the shopping
everyday!
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• 62. efficient: a. (of man) able to work
well; capable b. (of tools or systems, etc)
producing a satisfactory result without
wasting time or energy
• an efficient secretary, administrator, etc
• He's efficient at his job.
• Email is a quick and efficient way of
contacting people.
• efficiency
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• 63. enrich: to make rich, to improve by
adding sth.
• The discovery of the gold mine will
enrich the district.
• 64. dreary: dull, uninteresting, tedious,
depressing, cheerless
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• 65. capricious: tending to change
abruptly and without apparent reason
• A spoiled child is often capricious.
• We can't go camping while the weather
is so capricious.
• The capricious woman bought and
exchanged three dresses in a week.
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• 66. inspiriting: to fill with spirit, to put
spirit, life, courage into
• The great man, by his writings,
inspirited the people to resistance.
• The morning tea is to inspirit them for
the dance.
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• 67. tutorial: a class conducted by a tutor
for one or a small number of students
• tutor: a teacher who gives private
instruction to a single pupil or a very
small class and who sometimes lives with
the family of his pupil
• v: to act as a tutor
• tuition: the charge made for this, esp. at
a college or private school
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• 68. astray: off the right path or way
• The misleading sign led me astray.
• Too much time on the internet may lead
young people astray.
• go astray: to go into the wrong place
• Have you seen my book? It seems to have
gone astray.
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• 69. virtually: almost, very nearly
• This word is very close in meaning to
practically, and actually.
• With the boss out sick, the secretary is
virtually in charge.
• The king was so much under the
influence of his wife that she was the
virtual ruler of the country.
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• 70. transaction: activities that are carried
out which ordinarily involve the
exchange of money, such as purchasing
• credit transaction: buying goods or
services and paying for them later
• cash transaction: to buy things with cash
• He transacts most of his business by
phone.
• The transaction of the deal took several
days.
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• 71. the microelectronic village:
• This expression is adapted from "global
village" which refers to the world we now
live on. Thanks to the fast development of
transportation and communication, the
world is becoming smaller. People are no
longer isolated from each other like before.
Thus with these miracle chips, the world
will become so small that it is virtually a
small community, or a village.
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• 73. eventually: happening at last as
a result
• Eventually we all must die.
• He worked so hard that eventually
he made himself ill.
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• 74. The computer will be as much a
part of the home as….
• The household computer will be a
part of the home as much as the
kitchen sink.
• He is as much an important a
member of our team as the captain.
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• 75. stack: to arrange things in a tidy
pile
• ~ sth (up): make sth into a stack or
stacks; pile sth up
• Please stack your chairs before you
leave.
• stack (up) the dishes on the draining-
board
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• 76. appliance: a tool or instrument for a
particular purpose, esp. an electrical
machine that is used in the house
• domestic appliance: washing machine,
dish washer, vacuum cleaner, etc.
• 77. device: thing made or adapted for a
special purpose
• a device for measuring pressure
• a labour-saving device
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• 78. elicit: (fml) to get or cause to come out
(facts, a response, etc) from sb,
sometimes with difficulty
• to elicit a reply
• At last we've elicited the truth from him.
• He elicited the truth at last, by
questioning all the boys in school.
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• 79. ubiquitous: appearing, happening
everywhere
• Is there no escape from the ubiquitous
cigarette smoke in restaurants?
• 80. similarly: also; likewise
• She was late and I similarly was
delayed.
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• 81. clutter: things lying about untidily
• How can you work with so much clutter
on your desk?
• His room is always in a clutter.
• Don't clutter up my desk. I've just tidied
it.
• His head is cluttered (up) with useless
facts.
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• 82. pad:
• a number of sheets of writing-paper or
drawing-paper fastened together at one
edge
• a writing pad
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• 83. file: any of various types of drawer,
shelf, holder, cover, box, etc, usu with a
wire or metal rod for keeping loose
papers together and in order, for
reference purposes
• I need another file for my letters.
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• 84. instrumentation: Here: a selection of
instruments for this particular purpose
of household computers is already
available, in existence.
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• 85. average: result of adding several
amounts together and dividing the total
by the number of amounts
• The average of 4, 5 and 9 is 6.
• standard or level regarded as usual
• These marks are well above/below
average.
• The average temperature in Oxford last
month was 18C.
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• 86. dehumanize:
• de: a prefix meaning to do the opposite
of, to reduce
• decelerate deform
decode defrost
decontrol degrade
decrease devalue
deforest to dethrone a king
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• humanize:
a. make (sth) human
• animal characters humanized in
cartoons
• b. make (sb) humane
• have a humanizing influence on a
barbaric system
• humanism
• humanist
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• 87. homogeneity: uniformity
• homo:homosexual, homophone
• The assembly line make products in
extremely large quantities, all in the
same shape, structure, composition, and
quality. In a society where the ideology
of individualism prevails, people, esp.
the upper-middle class, dislike the
uniform results of assembly line mass
production.
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• 88. custom: regular purchases from a
tradesman, shop, etc
• We would like to have your custom (ie.
We would like you to buy our goods).
• We've lost a lot of custom since our prices
went up. (ie. Fewer goods have been
bought from us.)
• I shall withdraw my custom (ie stop
buying goods) from that shop.
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• c. custom-made: made according to
the buyer’s specific requirements
• custom-designed / built / made:
designed, built or made as the
buyer specifies
• a custom-built car
• custom-made clothes, shoes, etc
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• 89. restrict: put a limit on sb/sth
• Fog restricted visibility.
• Speed is restricted to 30 mph in down
town area.
• families restricted to (having) one child
• restrict oneself to one meal a day
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• 90. precious: of great value (and
beauty)
• the precious metals, ie. gold, silver and
platinum
• precious gems/stones, ie. diamonds,
rubies, emeralds, etc
• ~ (to sb): highly valued; dearly loved
• Each life is precious.
• She is very precious to him.
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• 91. tend: to often do a particular thing or
be likely to do a particular thing
• I tend to go to bed earlier during the
winter.
• Women tend to live longer than men.
• cf: intend: to want and plan to do sth.
• Unfortunately the meeting took longer
than we intended.
• How long do you intend to stay in Paris?
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• 92. candid: directly truthful, even when
telling the truth is uncomfortable or
unwelcome, frank, open
• 93. symptom: an outward sign of inner
change,
• Fever is a symptom of illness.
• All these symptoms point to cancer, I am
afraid.
• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome
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• 94. regimen: a fixed plan of diet, sleep,
exercise etc. in order to improve one's
health
• to follow a strict regimen
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• 95. preliminary: coming before,
preparatory
• After a few preliminary remarks, he went
on to ….
• preliminary negotiations
• (sport) a preliminary contest, round, etc,
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• 96. harass: to make sb. worried by
causing trouble, esp. on repeated
occasions
• Our soldiers harassed the retreating
enemy.
• Female workers tend to be harassed by
male workers, esp. by their superiors,
thus comes the term "sexual
harassment".
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• 97. intimidate: to make sb. fearful
enough to do what he wants
• The robber intimidated the shopkeeper
with threats that they would kill him.
• The gang tried to intimidate the bank
manager.
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• 98. prescribe: order the use of (esp. a
medicine)
• She prescribed some pills to help me to
sleep.
• Do not exceed the prescribed dose. (not to
overuse)
• The law prescribes heavy penalties for
smuggling.
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• prescription: doctor's written instruction
for the composition and use of a medicine
• The doctor gave me a prescription for
pain-killers.
• His prescription for economic recovery
was not well received.
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• cf:
Recipe is the more general term of the
two. It can apply not only to a formula
or set of instructions for making or
doing sth. but to a method or procedure
for attaining some end.
Give me your recipe for cookies.
According to the recipe, you put 4 eggs
and half pound of butter in the cake.
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• Recipes are used in making steel, and
each ingredient is measured carefully.
• In application to medicinal formulas
recipe may suggest an old fashioned
remedy. In cookery recipe is the usual
and standard term for a set of directions
for preparing a dish.
• Prescription is more of a medical term.
• The doctor gave him three prescriptions.
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• 99. dosage: amount of medicine to be
taken at a time or over a period
• Do not exceed the recommended dosage.
• cf:
dose: amount of medicine to be taken at
one time
• Notice the difference between the two
definitions. When meaning the one-time-
amount, they are the same. But dosage
can also denote the amount used over a
period.
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• 100. antique: a piece of furniture,
jewellery, etc. that is old and therefore
becoming rare and valuable.
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• 101. make the car, as we know it, a...
antique
• The traditional Chinese family with
several generations, as we know it, will
be a thing of the past.
• The Secretary of State, James Baker,
announced that "the Soviet Union, as we
know it, no longer exists".
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• 102. tension: a feeling that you are
nervous, worried, and not relaxed
• Her own tension was not lessened.
• There are growing tensions between the
two countries.
• Massage helps relieve the tension in one’s
muscles.
• racial / political / social tension
• high-tension cables 高压电缆
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• 103. option: sth. offered for choice
• You have the option of leaving or staying.
• None of the options is satisfactory.
• The court sentenced the convicted to one
month's imprisonment with the option of
a fine of $30，000.
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• 104. ultimate: last or final, that cannot be
surpassed, greatest
• The ultimate luxury of the trip was flying
in a Concorde.
• Ultimately, all the colonies will become
independent.
• All matter ultimately consists of atoms.
• ultimatum
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• 105. accommodate: to provide room for,
to supply with sth.
• The car accommodates six people quite
comfortably.
• This hotel can accommodate 600 guests.
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• 106. panic: sudden uncontrollable quickly-
spreading fear or terror
• The fire caused a panic in the cinema.
• In case of fire, don't panic.
• The thunder panicked the horses.
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• 107. avert: avoid, prevent from
happening
• Accidents can be averted by careful
driving.
cf:
• You can avert or avoid sth. from
happening
• I avoided punishment by running away.
• I averted punishment from being
effective.
• Accidents can be averted / avoided...
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• You can avoid a person. but not * to
avert a person.
• I avoided him as much as possible.
• Avoid can be followed by v-ing
• They all avoided mentioning that name.
• ﹡They all averted mentioning that
name.
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• If you avert your eyes, gaze, etc. from
someone or something, you turn your
eyes away from them.
• She averted her eyes from the figure in
front of her.
• She glanced down into her lap to avoid
his stare.
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• 108. collision: colliding
• a (head-on) collision between two cars
• The liner was in collision (ie collided) with
an oil-tanker.
• 109. accrue: (fml) to become bigger or
more by addition
• The interest on my bank account accrued
over the years.
• Interest will accrue if you keep your
money in a savings account.
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• 109. available: able to be got
• There were no tickets available for
Friday's performance.
• The dress is available in all sizes.
• Is the doctor available?
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• 111. project: cause (light, shadow, etc)
to fall on a surface
• project a slide/ the film on a screen
• project spotlights on a performer
• an apparatus to project missiles into
space
• a cinema / slide projector
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• 112. far: to a certain extent
• Read as far as you can in ten minutes.
• I don’t know how far I should believe him.
• 113. recess: a pause for rest, a period of
free time between classes at school
• At recess the boys would fight.
• Parliament is in recess now.
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• 114. hassle: to annoy persistently,
harass
• He's always hassling me about money.
• 115. competent: having the ability or
skill to compete
• 116. revivify: to give new life to, to refill
with enthusiasm
• revitalize
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• 117. soporific: causing or tending to
sleep, drowsy, sleepy
• soporific drug / speech
• 118. dangle: to hold sth. so that it swings
loosely, to offer an attraction
• dangle a chain of keys
• He dangles a trip to Paris in front of her
to get her to work for him.
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• 119. ken: the limits of knowledge
• beyond / outside / not within one's ken
• What happens after death is beyond our
ken.
• The workings of the Stock Exchange
are beyond most people's ken.
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• The students are soporific, tending to
sleep because the ordinary courses are
boring. But the computer will refill
them with enthusiasm by providing
intellectual stimulations in ways that
are beyond the limits of the teachers'
ability.
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• 120. (still / just) around / round the
corner: very near but not at hand, not
available
The fortune teller told Jane that there
was an adventure for her just around
the corner.
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• 121. application: act of putting a theory,
discovery, etc to practical use
• a new invention that will have a variety
of applications in industry
• 122. benign: gentle, favourable, not
dangerous
• malignant tumour and benign tumour
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• 123. order: (目) (biology) group of related
animals or plants below a class(纲) and
above a family(科)
• the order of primates灵长目
• The rose and the bean families belong to
the same order.
• Here: arrangement of groups, classes, etc
in society (in relation to one another)
• The social order of ants is very interesting.
• the lower orders 下层社会
