531.cultivate v. 培养、磨练
Nurmi, who had never gone beyond elementary schooling, cultivated his mind in adulthood and became a devoted fan of classical music, often attending concerts--- but always alone.
努尔米的学历只有小学，在成年之后，他自我陶冶心灵，成为古典音乐的乐迷，经常参加音乐会，但都是孤单一人。
532.defect v. 变节
He preferred to defect to the South (Korea) while on a U.S. trip during the summer and asked Mr. A if he would arrange an invitation from former President Jimmy Carter.
他比较倾向于趁夏天赴美访问时变节投奔韩国，并且问了A先生是否可居中安排由前总统卡特邀他访美。
533.defy v. 反抗
Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi vowed to defy a U.N. ban on flights to and from his country and threatened to quit the world organization altogether.
联合国下令禁止飞机出入利比亚，该国强人卡扎菲发誓要反抗，并扬言完全退出这个世界组织。
534.denounce v. 公开指责
The sound bites is to politics what the aphorism is to exposition: the art of saying much with little. Yet the high priests of the press denounce the sound bite, staple of the 30-second political ad, as a degradation of political discourse.
宣传妙语之于政治界，就如同格言之于说明文：是言简意赅的艺术。然而，这种30秒政治广告必备的要素却饱受着新闻界高层权威的抨击，说它降低了政治对话的格调。
535.deploy v. 部署
He wanted deploy--- in Europe, Asia and the U.S. --- an antiballistic-missile defense system of the Star Wars sort first proposed during the Reagan Administration.
他将在欧洲、亚洲和美国部署类似里根当政时首先提出的“星球大战”反弹道导弹防御系统。
536.depreciate v. 贬值，折旧
【反】appreciate
Recent studies have shown that by the time you’ve driven home your new 2.3-gigabyte hard drive, 32 megs of RAM, 180-megahertz StreamLined, tangerine-flake baby, it has depreciated 76%.
根据最近的研究显示，当你把你那台新买的，配置为2.3G硬盘，32兆内存，扫描频率180赫兹的流线型、带着橘色斑点的宝贝电脑载回家时，它已经贬值了76%。
注：tangerine n. 深橙色，红橙色；flake n. 雪片，点状花纹
tangerine flaked一词出自The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby一书，书名代表一辆汽车特别的颜色和车身的风格，整本书是介绍60年代的文化变化。tangerine flaked因而成为“很酷”的代名词。
537.derail v. 使出轨，破坏
【同】wreck
It (La Femme Nikita) became his first global hit, and after an attempt to revive The Fifth Element in 1993 was derailed, he scored another international smash with an unusual tale of hitman-meets-Lolita called The Professional, also known as Leon.
《女人尼基塔》成为他第一部全球卖座片。1993年，他企图让《第五元素》得见天日的尝试落空后，又以《职业杀手》（又名《莱昂》）在国际影坛大放异彩，描写杀手遇见小女孩的罕见故事。
注：score v. 获得（利益、成功）；hitman n. 职业杀手
538.derive v. 源自，获得
【同】stem
Some scientists are beginning to look seriously at just what benefits patients may derive from spirituality.
有些科学家开始认真研究病人从心灵学上能获得哪些益处。
539.deter v. 制止，妨碍
【同】discourage
A mini-Louvre Website exists on the Net, allowing visitors to call up a grainy version of works such as Monet’s Pont Neuf. Some in the real (as opposed to virtual) art world are concerned that on-screen viewing will deter actual museumgoing.
网络上有一处叫“迷你罗浮宫”的网站，让上网者可以调出颗粒状质感的作品，呈现在屏幕上，如莫内的《新桥》。在真实的艺术世界里（相对于虚拟世界），有人担心屏幕浏览将阻碍现实的博物馆的运营。
注：grainy adj.（照片等）粒子粗以致上面的线条或形状模糊不清
540.dictate v. 指挥
Indeed, the very shape and nature of working lives are being dictated by technology.
事实上，人类职业生活的外貌及本质都受到科技的支配与控制。