631.shuttle v. 往返，穿梭
For three years, the West has sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Bosnia while sending in U.N. peacekeepers to shuttle around a war zone and provide humanitarian aid.
3年来，西方各国一方面通过外交途径寻找波斯尼亚战争的解决之道，一方面派遣联合国维和部队穿梭于交战区内提供人道援助。
632.snap v. 毫不留情面地说
During rehearsals, Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson snap at each other.
在彩排时，洛夫和吉他手埃里克·厄兰森互相数落对方，措辞非常尖锐。
633.snap up 争相抢购
They (moviegoers) snap up copies of Winston Groom’s 1986 novel, on which the film (Gump) was based…
《阿甘正传》的影迷争相抢购该电影的原著——温斯顿·格鲁姆写于1986年的小说。
634.spell v. 意味，招致
【同】signal
It has become commonplace, in this digital era, that electric communication will spell doom for authoritarian regimes.
在这个数字化的时代，电子通讯将为专制政权敲响丧钟，已是很通常的说法。
635.spur v. 刺激，激励
PC sales are likely to pick up too, spurring demand for Asian-made components like disk drivers and monitors.
个人电脑的销售状况也可能会好转，因而刺激对亚洲制造的元件，例如磁盘驱动器和显示器的需求。
注：to pick up （情势、健康、成绩等）好转
636.strand v. 使进退两难，使束手无策
The role is oddly similar to Schwarzenegger’s persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a superman at work but in the real world is stranded without a script.
这个角色与施瓦辛格在《最后魔鬼英雄》中所扮演的角色出奇地相似，在银幕上扮演超人，在真实世界里却是一筹莫展，不知所措。
注：persona n.（戏剧、小说里的）角色、人物；script n.（戏剧、电影等的）脚本
637.strangle v.（把人）勒死，抑制，阻挠
The members of the larger patriot movement are usually family men and women who feel strangled by the economy, abandoned by the government…
这个较大的爱国组织，其成员通常来自觉得被生计压得喘不过气，且被政府遗弃的有家庭的男女。
638.stride v. 大跨步
But Chiappe’s foot had been so badly burned he could baely hobble, let alone stride around looking for ancient dinosaur hones.
可是（古生物学家）恰普的脚严重灼伤，连跛着走都很吃力，更别说是跑来跑去寻找古代的恐龙骨头化石了。
639.stuff v. 充满，装满
【同】cram
Browsers brought order to the chaos of the World Wide Web, a corner of the Net stuffed with text, sounds and pictures.
浏览器使处在国际互联网一角充满着文字、声音与图片的“3W环球网”这个混乱的世界，变得井然有序。
640.stumble v. 摔倒，喻失败
In January she stumbled in her men’s fall collection, showing loose garments in prison stripes; Jewish groups protested that they looked like concentration-camp grab.
1月时，她（川久保玲）栽在秋季男装系列上。当时展示的是有囚服条纹的宽松衣服，犹太团体抗议说这些服装看起来像是集中营的衣服。