transcendentalist a．[哲]先验论者的，超越论者的
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist (n.) philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children：“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing．”[2004年阅读]
[译文]拉尔夫•瓦尔多•爱默生和其他一些先验主义哲学家认为学校教育和严格的书本学习限制了孩子们的天性，“我们被关在中小学和大学的朗诵室里十年或十五年，最后出来满肚子墨水，却啥都不懂。”
treasury n．财政部，国库
There is，as Robert Rubin，the treasury (n.) secretary，says，a“disjunction”between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics．[1998年阅读]
[译文]正如财政部长罗伯特•鲁宾所说的，商业界的大量趣闻暗示生产率大幅增长了，但这同官方的统计数字所显示的情况“不符”。
trigonometry n．三角学
Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics，especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states，were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry (n.)．[1996年阅读]
[译文]为什么要提小学教育?正是因为有了这些学校，我们的早期技工才普遍能读会写，并精通算术及部分几何和三角，这种情况在新英格兰和大西洋中部各州尤为可见。
trillion num．万亿
Inflation says that very early on，the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion (num．) fold in much less than a second，propelled by a sort of antigravity．[1998年翻译]
[译文]膨胀学说告诉我们，早在很久以前，宇宙的体积在不到一秒钟内被一种反引力驱动而发生了无数倍的膨胀。
triviality n．琐事
“Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities (n.)，”says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines．[1999年阅读]
[译文]康奈尔大学法学院一位参与起草新纲要的教授说，“重要的信息会淹没在细枝末节的汪洋之中”。
trucking n．①货车运输；②货车运输业
But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances，such as coal，chemicals，and grain，trucking (n．①) is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat．[2003年阅读]
[译文]但许多客户却抱怨说，对于依赖长途运输的大宗商品来说，如煤炭、化学制品和粮食，由于公路运输花费太大，这样铁路公司就会主宰他们。