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　　1. She bore the desertionwith philosophicalindifference; her friends and relations were thoroughly well used to the factof her luggage arriving without her.

　　被火车抛下的她却是一脸冷静淡定;她的亲戚朋友早已习惯车站接她的时候，只见行李不见人。

　　philosophical -calmlyaccepting a difficult or unpleasant situation which cannot be changedadj. 哲学的;冷静的

　　2. Companies are eyeing the iron, silicon, and aluminium inlunar soil and asteroids, which could be used in 3D printers to make spareparts or machinery.

　　各大公司都在瞄着月球土壤和小行星土里的铁、硅、和铝，因为这些元素可以用作3D打印机的备用部件和器械。

　　eye v. 注视，审视

　　3. During the drive to theQuabarl mansion Lady Carlotta was impressively introduced to the nature of the charge that had been thrust upon her;

　　在开往卡巴里大宅的路上，强加给卡洛塔女士的责任对象被隆重的介绍了一番。

　　charge - responsibility n. 责任;

　　4. Passage 2 expresses reservationsaboutdevelopments discussed in Passage 1.

　　文章二对文章一讨论的发展持保留态度。

　　reservation - doubt n. 保留意见，疑惑( doubt )

　　5. But its consequences —bothhere on Earth and in space—meritcarefulconsideration

　　但是其结果——对地球和太空的影响——都值得我们深思。

　　merit v. 值得 n. 优点，美德

　　6. Yet in freely willingthis enterprise,in choosing this moment and no other when the south wind will carry me exactlynorthward at a velocity of eight knots, I have converted the machinery of my fateinto the servant of my will.

　　但是，我自愿加入(探险)事业，选择此刻而非其他时间，让南风带我一路向北，航速8节，我已不再受命运的驱使，而是随意愿的召唤。

　　enterprise n. 公司，企业;(艰巨重大的)规划，事业;进取心

　　7. It can occur in citiesthat are growing, those whose numbers are flat, and even in those undergoing amodest decline in size.

　　人口回流有时出现在人口上升的城市，人口稳定的城市，甚至是人口轻微下降的城市。

　　flat -a flat rate, amount of money etc is fixed and does not changeor have anything added to it adj. 稳定的，固定的 n. 公寓，一套房间

　　8. No man should approach tolook into its defects or corruptions but with due caution.

　　使得没有人能适当的看到它的瑕疵和腐败。

　　due -properand suitableadj.适当的

　　9. Combing through data from previous studies onpolychaetes, Sperling’s team examined 962 worm species from 68 locationsworldwide.

　　斯珀林的研究小组通过对过去多毛类动物的调查数据的梳理, 研究了全球68个地区的962种蠕虫。

　　comb - to search a place thoroughly v.仔细检查，梳理 n. 梳子

　　10. The young man hadnever for one second desertedMr.Peters. He was always there,tugging at Mr. Peters’elbow, making him do things that were not becoming in a man of forty-five.

　　年轻人从来没有一秒钟放弃过Mr.Peters，他总是在那里，拉着Mr.Peter的胳膊肘，任由他做着四十五岁男人不应该做的事情。

　　desert - to leave someone or something and no longer help or support them v. 抛弃，放弃

　　11. For rain-wateredlegume crops like beans or perennial crops like fruit trees, organic trailedconventional agriculture by just 5%.

　　对于豆类这样雨水浇灌的豆科作物，或者果树这样的多年生作物, 有机农业落后于传统农业仅5%。

　　trail - tobe losing in a game, competition, or election v. 落后于，跟踪追赶

　　12. The study of suchwaves will informthe development of key scientific models.

　　这种波的研究将影响关键科学模型的发展。

　　inform - toinfluence someone’s attitude or opinion v. 对…影响

　　13. We know that the humanbrain is highly plastic; neurons and synapseschange as circumstances change.

　　我们知道人脑是高度可塑的;神经元和突触随着环境改变而改变。

　　plastic - capable of adapting to varying conditions adj. 可塑的

　　14. But there was one telling difference between the brains of themental athletes and the control subjects.

　　但是在脑力运动员和对照组的脑部结构中有一个极为明显的差别。

　　telling - carrying great weight and producing a marked effect adj. 强有力的，显著的

　　15. The more years acabbie had been on the road, the more pronouncedthe effect.

　　司机的驾龄越长，这种影响就越显著。

　　pronounced -strongly marked adj. 显著的;表达明确的

　　16. Lady Carlotta promptlybetook her to the roadway, and put rather a differentcomplexion on the struggle.

　　卡洛塔疾步走向铁轨，然后改变了挣扎的状况。

　　put a different complexion on 使…改观，改变现状

　　17. Sir, as you know, yourlands stretch from here to the Indus, and on these lands are fully seventeentube wells, and to tendthese seventeen tube wells there is but one man, me, your servant.

　　先生，您也知道，您的土地广袤无边，从这儿一直延伸到印度河。这片土地上共有十七座管井，而维护这十七座管井的只有一个人――您的佣人我。

　　tend - to pay attention v.照料，照管

　　18. The old man, wellaccustomed to these sorts of speeches, though not usually this florid, filed away at his nails and waitedfor the breeze to stop.

　　老先生早已习惯了这类言辞，虽然之前那些并非都如此夸张。他继续锉着指甲，耐心地等他把话说完。

　　florid - florid language, music, or art has a lot of extra unnecessarydetails or decorationsadj.过分装饰的，过分修饰的

　　19. There were little hard data, however, on how often or whynull results were squelched.

　　然而，几乎没有确切的数据，去解释nullresult如何以及为何被压制(不发表)。

　　hard - hard facts/numbers information based on things that can bemeasured, rather than feelings or opinions adj. 坚固的;确凿的，可证实的;凛冽的

　　20. Mr. Lincoln likensthat bond of the Federal Constitution, joining Free and Slave States together, toa house divided against itself, and says that it is contrary to the law of God,and cannot stand.

　　林肯先生把使自由州和蓄奴州联合起来的联邦宪法的那种结合，比做一座裂开的房子，说它违反上帝的法则，是无法持久不变的。

　　stand v. 容忍;承受

　　21. And all this has beendone under a Constitution which Mr. Lincoln, in substance, says is in violation of the law ofGod.

　　所有这一切本质上都是在一部被林肯先生说成是，违反上帝的准则的宪法下实现的。

　　in substance = in essence 实际上;大体上;本质上

　　22. Employment in all job sectorsin the United States is projectedto grow by fourteen percent.

　　在美国所有就业部门的就业人数预计增长14%。

　　project v. 计划;预计;投影;伸出;抛射 n.项目;课题;方案

　　23. Librarians who havebeen displaced by budget cuts have many other possible avenues of employment.

　　由于预算削减被取代的图书馆员有许多其他可能的就业渠道。

　　avenue n. 途径

　　24. So the food was leagues beyond the abysmal fare travelerswere accustomed to receiving in transit.

　　因此这种食物要比旅客们在旅程中习惯买的那些质量差的事物要高好几个档次。

　　league -a class or category of a certain quality or type n.种类;

　　25. After a lengthy andcomplex restoration process, this powerful work is now a tourist

　　attraction, completewith a visitor center and a rooftop viewingplatform.

　　经过漫长而复杂的修复过程, 这一强大的工作现在是一个旅游胜地, 含有一个游客中心和一个天台观赏平台。

　　complete with 配上;包括

　　26. According to suchorganizations as the US Environmental Protection Agency, the minute amounts of residue falling within suchlimits have no negative impact on human health.

　　根据美国环境保护局等组织的数据, 在这些限制范围内的微量残留物对人类健康没有负面影响。

　　minute adj. 极小的，微小的

　　27. Such efforts haveyielded diminishing returns, as even the complete relaunch of DC Comics’superhero’s, line in 2011 has failed to arrest thesteep two-decade decline of comic book sales.

　　这些努力已经产生了递减的回报, 甚至在2011年的DC漫画超级英雄的全面重新启动, 也没有阻止漫画书销售的两年来的急剧下降。

　　arrest – to stop v. 逮捕;阻止;吸引(注意)

　　28. With world population topping seven billion, humanity is in needof some perspective.

　　世界人口突破70亿，人类此时正处于需要思考的阶段。

　　top v.胜过;超多

　　29. But innovation is a blanket term that can encompassverydifferent things.

　　但创新是一个总称，它可以包含非常不同的事情。

　　Blanket - affecting or including everything or everyone adj. 总括的，综合的 v. 厚层覆盖

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