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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心单词 进阶词 名词 1018-1027(mp3)

1018.novice (n.) 初学者,新手

[反] old hand

While some nations immediately supported the idea,others completely missed the point of Malamud's vision:to make the fair a public-works project that focuses on what the Internet can offer expert or novice.(TIME,Mar.11,1996,p. 35)
有些国家二话没说就表态支持,有些国家却完全没有抓到马拉默德的着眼点:就是要使这个博览会成为一个公共工程,此工程重点在国际互联网能为专家或新手提供什么服务。

1019.omniscience (n.) 全知

(Deep)Blue's omniscience will make it omnipotent. It can play-fight-with the abandon of an immortal.(TIME,Feb.26,1996, P.42)
电脑“深蓝”的无所不知将使它无所不能,它可凭借其永不消失的豪情而恣意嬉戏,尽情作战。

注:abandon (n.) 放纵,无拘无束

1020.outlay (n.) 费用,支出

But those hoping for new or even replenished foreign-aid outlays should not hold their breath;there will be little money to throw at problems.(TIME,Nov. 18,1996,p. 33)
但是如果你希望有新的对外援助经费,甚或只是补足差额,你也不应该期望过高,因为没什么钱可用以解决这些问题。????

注:to hold one's breath(因焦急或兴奋地等待而)屏息

1021.paranoid (n.) 被迫害妄想狂者,偏执狂者

Andy Grove,the Intel CEO,…has distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence:“Only the paranoid survive.”(TIME,Sept.16,1996,p. 41)
英特尔总裁葛罗夫把高科技界竞争的真缔浓缩成一句话:“只有偏执狂才能生存。”

注:distill (v.) 蒸馏,提炼

1022.pariah (n.) 被社会唾弃者

[同] outcast

For decades South Africa was an international sports pariah.(TIME,Aug. 19,199,p. 51)
数十年来南非一直是国际体坛的弃儿。

1023.pestilence (n.) 瘟疫

[同] plague

Soon the bikini was causing international incidents.France's Mediterranean neighbors reacted as if some pestilence were spreading.Italy and Spain forbade bikinis on their beaches.(TIME,July 1,1996,p. 54)
没多久,比基尼惹出一些国际事件来。法国的地中海邻国的反应仿佛它是瘟疫。意大利和西班牙都禁止境内的海滩出现比基尼。

1024.pilgrimage (n.) 朝圣之旅,长途旅程

They(Religions)tell us that something is waiting for us on the other side,that death may be a pilgrimage and not a destination,that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life.(TIME,Aug. 8,1994,p. 68)
各种宗教告诉我们,某物在彼岸等着我们;死亡代表的是一条长途旅程的开始,而非终结;来世是一场温馨的苏醒,脱离充满烦恼的如梦现世。?

注:fretful (a.)苦恼的

1025.ploy (n.) 策略,手法

It was a familiar ploy for Sun's Joy,who helped foster the growth of the Internet itself in the early 1980s by shipping free Internet Protocol software with every Sun computer. (TIME,June 22,1996,p. 44)
这个策略对太阳公司的乔伊来说一点也不陌生,他曾在80年代初期,在每部太阳公司出产的电脑当中,载入免费的国际互联网所需的通讯协议软件,借此促进国际互联网的增长。

1026.precursor (n.) 先驱,前辈;预兆,前兆???

[同] forerunner

Under the tutelage of Dan Leno,London’s most beloved comedian and a precursor of Charlie Chaplin,Lizzie became a star…(TIME,May 29,1995,p.52)?? 丹·莱诺是伦敦最受喜爱的喜剧演员,也是卓别林的前辈,利齐就是在丹·莱诺调教下,成为熠熠明星。

1027.prowess (n.) 好本事,英勇

Japanese corporations were quick to seize the chance of putting their technological prowess on show.(TIME,Mar. 11,1996,P.35)
日本企业抢先抓住机会,将他们的科技本领拿出来展示一番。