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旋元祐Time时代杂志核心单词 进阶词 名词 1008-1017(mp3)

1008.hook-up (n.) 连线装置

MCI and the Japanese telephone company KDD donated an estimated$20 million to the cost of the 45-megabit-per-second data hook-up.(TIME,Mar. 11,1996,p. 35)
MCI公司和日本电话公司KDD捐赠了约2000万美元来建设这条每秒可传45兆位资料的连线装置。

1009.iconoclast (n.) 反抗或破除传统者

Yet this unbending iconoclast lived a life of such relentless personal rectitude and brought such unmatched excellence to his many Olympic races that he won far more of our experts’ votes as the greatest Olympian than any other athlete.(TIME,June 24,1996,p.66)
但是这个个性不屈不挠、打破传统的人,终其一生过着严谨的清廉生活,且在多项奥运比赛项目中创造出无与伦比的成绩,所以获得我们专家最多选票,荣膺“最伟大的奥运选手”。

注:unbending (a.)坚定的,不屈不挠的;relentless (a.)不屈不挠的;rectitude (n.) 操行端正,正直

1010.indignity (n.) 屈辱

[同] humiliation

This son of a Georgia sharecropper endured unspeakable indignities and taunts to become baseball's first black player.(TIME,Apr. 28,1997,p. 100)
这个佐治亚州佃农的儿子,忍受了无法言喻的屈辱和嘲讽,才成为第一位黑人棒球选手。

注:taunt (n.) 嘲笑,奚落

1011.insurgent (n.) 叛军

[同] rebel

Politicians had no credibility with slap-together committees of insurgents.(TIME,Mar. 24,1997,p. 29)????? 政治人物在乌合之众的叛军委员会之前毫无可信度。

注:to slap together草草拼凑,slap-together是其形容词义

1012.interlocutor (n.) 对话者

Without America,Great Britain and France cannot sustain the political balance in Western Europe;Germany would be tempted by nationalism;Russia would lack a global interlocutor. (TIME,Mar. 14,1994,p. 73)
没有美国,英、法无法维持西欧的政治均势,德国将为民族主义所诱而步入歧途,俄罗斯将缺少一位全球级的对话伙伴。

1013.juggernaut (n.) 可怕、不可抗拒的力量

Many Americans see Japan's economic juggernaut as a continuation of war by other means.(TIME,Dec. 2,1991,p. 70)
许多美国人认为日本可怕的经济力量是以另一种形式延续的战争。

1014.lever (n. )手段,方法

The U.S. has abandoned the trade weapon as a lever to improve human rights in China.(TIME,June 13,1994,p. 13)??? 美国已不再以贸易武器作为改善中国人权的手段。

1015.minimalism (n.) 简约主义

One could even argue that Klein's elegant take on minimalism has came to define the look of the late 20th century in the U.S.(TIME,June 17,1996,p.18)
我们甚至可以说,克莱因对简约主义的优雅尝试,已经主宰20世纪晚期美国人的穿着。

注:take (n.) (俚语)尝试,努力

1016.nausea (n.) 恶心,反胃

The FDA has approved the first-ever vaccine for hepatitis A,which afflicts up to 150,000 Americans annually with fever,aches,nausea and vomiting.(TIME,Mar.6,1995,P .25)
美国食品和药物管理局已批准了有史以来第一个甲肝疫苗,美国每年有15万人染上肝炎,伴随发烧、疼痛、反胃、呕吐的症状。

1017.nostalgia (n.) 乡愁,怀旧之情

Popular for its satirical tone,All My Children tried to capitalize on viewer nostalgia last January,when it celebrated its 25th anniversary.The show spent a week reviewing in flashback its quarter century on the air.(TIME,May 29,1995, P.73)
因讽刺风格而备受欢迎的电视节目《我的孩子》,今年1月欢度25周年,并试图利用观众的怀旧情绪替节目造声势。该节目花了一星期播放过去25年中的回顾片段。

注:review (v.) 回顾;flashback (n.) (小说、戏剧等)倒叙