primeval a．原始的
What the researchers found was at once both amazing and expected：the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Cosmic Background Explorer satellite?Cobe?had discovered landmark evidence that the universe did in fact begin With the primeval (a.) explosion that has become known as the Big Bang (the theory that the universe originated in an explosion from a single mass of energy)．[1998年翻译]
[译文]研究人员所发现的宇宙云系既令人惊讶，又是人们所期待的，因为美国国家航空航天局的宇宙前景探索者Cobe号卫星已经发现了划时代的证据证明宇宙的确起源于最早的一次爆炸，即人们一直所称的“大爆炸”(此理论认为宇宙起源于一大团能量)。
profess v．表示，公开承认
This does not mean that ambition is at an end，that people no longer feel its stirrings and promptings，but only that, no longer openly honored，it is less openly professed (v.).[2000年阅读]
[译文]但这并不意味着雄心已经穷途末路，人们不再感觉到它对人们的激励了，只是人们不再公开地以它为荣，更不愿公开地承认了。
prompting n．促进，激励，提示
This does not mean that ambition is at an end．that people no longer feel its stirrings and promptings(n.)，but only that．no longer openly honored, it is less openly professed．[2000年阅读]
[译文]但这并不意味着雄心已经穷途末路，人们不再感觉到它对人们的激励了，只是人们不再公开地以它为荣，更不愿公开地承认了。
promptness n．敏捷，机敏
For personal growth，the author advocates all of the following except______.
[B]promptness (n.) in self-adaptation[1995年阅读]
[译文]对于个人成长，下面所有各项中作者不倡导______。
[B]自我迅速适应
provincialist n．地方居民，乡下人
A．Quebec’s resistance to a national agency is provincialist (n.) ideology．[2005年阅读]
[译文]A．魁北克省拒绝加入全国性代理机构是出于地方保护主义思想。
psychedelic a．起幻觉的，迷幻的；n．迷幻剂
These are the substances often called psychedelic (n.) (from the Greek word meaning “mind-manifestation”) because they seemed to radically alter one's state of consciousness．[1997年阅读]
[译文]这些物质常被称为迷幻剂(该醋源于希腊语，指“心灵显现”)，因为它们似乎能完全改变人的意识状态。
publicize v．宣扬
I have discovered，as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized (v.) resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress，that abandoning the doctrine of“juggling your life”，and making the alternative move into“downshifting”brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status．[2001年阅读]
[译文]我已经发现(由于压力过大，凯尔茜已多次公开宣称要辞去《她》杂志编辑的职务，在这之后她也许会有同样发现)放弃“忙忙碌碌”的生活哲学，转而过一种“放慢生活节奏”的生活所带来的回报，比经济成功和社会地位更有价值。