pushing a．有进取心的，急切的
what has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams，as easily and openly as once they could，lest they be thought pashing (a．)，acquisitive and vulgar．[2000年阅读]
[译文]现在的情况是人们不能像以前那样轻易地、公开地坦陈自己的梦想，惟恐别人认为自己爱出风头、贪婪、庸俗不堪。
pipeline n．管道，传递途径
rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism／evolution are in the publisher's pipelines(n.)．a few have already appeared．[1996年阅读]
[译文]有传言说，有20多本关于创世纪论与进化论之争的书即将出版，有几本已经面世了。
pointless a．无意义的
misled people tend to think that using an animal in research is_______．
[d]pointless (a.) and wasteful[2003年阅读]
[译文]被误导的人们往往认为：在研究中使用动物_______。
[d]没有意义、纯属浪费
populace n．平民
specialists (48：in) history and economics，have (49：shown) two things：that the period from 1650 to 1750 was (50：marked) by great poverty，and that industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace (n．)．[1998年完形]
[译文]历史和经济方面的专家们已经证明了两点：第一，极端贫困是1650年至1750年这段时期的标志；第二，工业化肯定没有使大多数民众的生活状况恶化。或许，正是工业化才真正改善了大多数平民的生活状况。
populist a．大众化的
from the beginning of our history，says hofstadter，our democratic and populist (n.) urges have driven us to reject anything that smells of elitism．[2004年阅读]
[译文]霍夫斯塔特说：自我们的历史之初，我们对民主化和大众化的渴望就驱使我们排斥任何带有精英优越论味道的东西。