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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心单词 普通词 名词 737-746(mp3)

737.loophole (n.) (法律)漏洞

There may be consumer-price shifts once tax shelters and loopholes vanish.(Apr. 17,1995,p. 26)
一旦合法避税手段和法律漏洞消失,消费品物价就可能变动。

注:tax shelter 合法的减免所得税手段,如设立慈善事业基金

738.lure (n.)吸引力,诱饵

Some people wonder what lure the words Chow Yun-fat could have on a movie marquee in Dallas or Denver.(TIME,May 6,1996,p.63)
有些人怀疑,“周润发”这三个字若摆在达拉斯或丹佛市的电影院广告板上,能有多少吸引力。

注:marquee(n.)(戏院门口的)顶篷,放广告板处

739.lyrics (n.) 歌词

At one point in the meeting,Tucker rose from the audience and delivered a 17-minute attack on violent and misogynistic lyrics in songs recorded by Time-Warner performers.(June 12,1995,P.37)
会议中,塔克从观众席中站起,针对时代华纳公司旗下的歌手录制的歌曲中,涉及暴力与厌恶女人的歌词,发表了长达17分钟的抨击演讲。

注:misogynistic (a.)厌恶女人的

740.maneuver(n.)(用以度过难关、解决问题的)技巧,手法

Many feel Kennedy’s commitment was a desperate political maneuver to lift himself out of the calamity of the Bay of Pigs…(TIME,July 25,1994,P.58)
许多人觉得肯尼迪之所以做出承诺,是一种慌不择路的政治手法,为的就是让他脱离猪湾惨剧的阴影。

注:commitment (n.)承诺.保证;desperate (a.)孤注一掷的,拼死一搏的;
calamity (n.)灾难,不幸

741.mania (n.) 狂热,热中(忠)

Gates confessed that the Internet mania…had taken him by surprise.Millions of people were communicating via computers using software standards and application programs that Microsoft had no hand in developing.(TIME,June 5,1995,P.46)
盖茨坦承,国际互联网激起的热潮确曾令他大吃一惊,数百万人正使用微软公司未着力开发的软件标准和应用程序,通过电脑互通讯息。

注:hand (n.)插手,参与

742.manipulation (n.) (用以操纵比赛的)不正当手法

Onaruto acknowledged that a series of such manipulations allowed him to propel a wrestler named Kitanofuji to the title of grand champion in 1970. (TIME,Sept.30,1996,P.30)
大鸣户承认通过一连串这样的不正当手法,他得以在1970年将一名叫北富士的选手送上了“横纲”的宝座。

743.mayhem (n.) 失控,脱序,暴力横行

[同]chaos

Natural Born Killers isn’t an attempt to profit from murder and mayhem,says Oliver Stone.(TIME,June 12,1995,p. 32)
《闪灵杀手》这部戏无意利用谋杀和暴力情节来赚钱,奥立佛·斯通如是说。

744.melodrama(n.)通俗剧

Half his other movies show him chain-smoking;he keeps three cigarettes going at once in his most recent melodrama,Peace Hotel.(TIME,May 6,1996,p. 62)
在一半的电影里他都是烟不离手,甚至在他最近的娱乐电影《和平饭店》中,还一次同时抽3根烟。

注:chain-smoke (v.)一根接一根抽烟

745.memoir(n.)回忆录

Warren Zimmermann,the last U.S.ambassador to Yugoslavia,who published his memoirs,Origins of a Catastrophe,last week,wrote that the Serb leader was "responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Bosnians…”(TIME,Sept. 23,1996,p. 35)
美国前任驻南斯拉夫大使沃伦·齐默尔曼上周出版了回忆录《灾难的源起》,里面写到这位塞尔维亚领袖“造成数以万计的波斯尼亚人丧生”。

注:catastrophe (n.) 惨剧,不幸

746.moderation (n.) 适度,节制

[同]restraint

But as Clinton has soared in the polls by emphasizing moderation,Gore's standing with the President,says a senior presidential adviser,”is unparalleled.” (TIME,June 17,1996.P.30)
但当克林顿强调温和政策而使得民意支持率升高后,根据一位克林顿资深顾问的说法,戈尔在总统心目中的地位是“无人能比的”。