英语单词记忆笔记

Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitiments, <br>or it simply didn't foresee what would happen next.

It's painful to read these roundabout accounts today.

Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the <br>telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs.

What might account for this strange phenomenon?

由于，因为

考虑

不考虑

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes <br>as disposable—meant to last only a wash or two, although they don't <br>advertise that—and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

But despite some claims to the contrary, laughing propbably has little <br>influence on physical fitness. Laughter dose produce short-term changes<br>in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, boosting heart rate <br>and oxygen consumpation. But because hard laughter is difficult to <br>sustain, a good laugh is unlikely to have manageable benenfits (as)the <br>way, say, waling or jogging does.

And they aren't likely to get any taller. "In the general population today, at this <br>genetic, environmental level, we've pretty much as far as we  can go," says <br>anthrophologist William of Wright State University.

paper 毕业论文

thesis  论题

Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for <br>the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now <br>known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. 

As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for <br>researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years.

Home prices are holding steady in most regions.

退缩；阻止；抑制

等一等；停一停；别挂电话；坚持

伸出；递出；保密；坚持；不屈服；维持；

举起；支持；耽搁；抢劫

The Federal Circuit's action<u><font color="#f15a23"> comes in the wake of</font></u><font color="#c41230"> </font>a series of recent decisions <br>by the Superme Court that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent <br>holders.

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressuer, executives <br>who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.

Such hijacked media are the opppsite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes <br>hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activities who make negative allegations <br>about a brand or product.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, <br>enterpreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that <br>could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, <br>paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carriers.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the <br>most important variable, teachers's unions have fought against getting rid of <br>bad ones and promoting good ones.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change <br>in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly <br>out of account.

verify=testify

Little reward accompanies duplication and confirmation what is already known <br>and believed.

But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequentyly follows an <br>ambiguous and comlicated route.

实践中；实际上；事实上

There is the so-called big deal, where intitutional subsribers pay for access <br>to a collection of online journnal titles through site-licensing agreements.

In the last decade or so, advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels <br>such as Zara, H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate <br>demand more precisely.

As education improved humanity's productivity potential, they could in turn <br>afford more education.

At the state level theif influence can be even more fearsome.

Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern<br>only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air trabel, information <br>protection is now high on the boss's agenda in businesses of every variety.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on <br>labor and the enviromment-including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection <br>line-Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

This seems a justification for neglect of those in need, and a rationalization of exploitation, <br>of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a docter degree into <br>a prerequisite for a successful academic career.

The program keeps track of your progress and provides detailed feedback on you <br>performance and improvement.

This trend, which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and <br>travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

Three povisions of Arizona's plan were overturned because they____.<br>a. deprived the federal police of Constitutional powers<br>b. disturbed the power balance between diffrent states.<br>c. overstepped the authority of federal immigation law<br>d contradicted both the federal and state policies

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscureing the depth and breadth <br>of the chalenge that Congress asked ti to illuminate.

The current state of affairs may have been encouraged –though not justified-by <br>the lack of legal penalty(in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. (状态)

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed <br>to seek permission from state regulators to opreate past 2012.（州）

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued <br>assets. Today they argue that market prices overstate lossed, because they largely <br>reflect the temporary illliquidity of markets, not  the likely extent of bad debts.

v 夸大

Claire C.Gordan, senior anthropologist at the Army Research Center in <br>Nick, Mass., ensure that 90 percent of the uniforms and workstations fit <br>recruits without alteration. She says that , unlike those for baseball, <br>the length of military uniforms has not changed for some time.

Political Medusas make us stare like statue.

n 等级

n 清单<br>v 表明；展示（display, show）<br>adj 显而易见的（obvious, conspicuous） <br>

fess = speak

Superhigh scores like vos Savants are no longer possible, because scroing is <br>now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers.

房产; 不动产real+ estate

所有权，也指房产

The wear-and-tear that comes from these longer relationships can be <br>quite devastating,

The administration was in essence assertion that because it didn't want to <br>carry out Congress's immigration wished, no state should be allowed to do<br> so either.

That's one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication <br>dedicated to the near nature.

 A lot of students take up law as their profession due to the attraction<br> of financial rewards.

pursuit n 追求

pursue v 追求

That may change fast: lost of proposed data-security legislation is now <br>doing the rounds in Washington,D.C.

Clearly, intelligence encompassed more than a score on a test. Just what <br>does it mean to be smart?

And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson <br>detemined, was  a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice <br>entails more than simply repeating as task. Rather, it involves setting specific<br>goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique <br>as on outcome.

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious. <br>They tend to keep a tighter hold on their purse and consider eating at home <br> (as) a realistic alternative.

n 章程

v 构成

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for <br>live performance are missing the point.

依赖...生活；依赖

well-off 超级富有；好得不得了

区别：<br>live表示活着一般用作定语<br>alive用作表语

If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servant.

Researc on animal intelligence also makes me wonder what experiment <br>animals would perform on humans if they had the chance.

outlook n 观点<br>outlook of value 价值观

Steelworks, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry <br>are joining million of families who must worry about interest rate, <br>stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive <br>their retirement money.

A few premiers are suspicious of any federal-provincial deal-making.

n 联盟

n 联盟

n 联盟 v 结盟

America's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark <br>assets to levels which buyers find attraction.

The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got <br>what you paid for.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretion of <br>history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of <br>study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas--<br>such as free market and self-reliance-as falling out the boundaries<br> of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.

Paid and owned media are controlled by marketers promoting <br>their own products.For earned media, such marketers act as <br>the initiator for user's responses.But in some cases, one marketer's <br>owned media become another marketer's paid media-for instance, <br>when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Website.

stainless steel 不锈钢

n 噩兆；象征偏消极

Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian Colonialism, <br>many of the leaders of Independence shared the ideals of <br>representative government.

They should know how to deal with setbacks, stresses and feelings of inadequacy.

Because representative government presupposes an informed citizenry, <br>the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and <br>government, particularly American history and American government; <br>and encourages the use of new digital technologies.

Superhigh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible, because scoring <br>now based on statistical population distribution amomg age peers, rather than<br> simply dividing the mental by the chronological age and multiply by 100.

Several massive leakage of customer and employee data this year have left<br> managers hurriedly peering into their intricate IT system and bussiness<br> proccesses in search of potential vulnerabilities.

对...提出所有权要求

At any reate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-going <br>number of domestic and international consumers, regradless of how long <br>the current customer pattern will take hold.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not <br>perish from the earth

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted <br>for what are called bussiness methods.

On a five to three vote, the Superme Court knocked out much of Arizona's <br>immigration law Monday-a modest polic victory for the Obama Administration.

Be flexible. Your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, <br>but do not permit it to railroad you. If a relevant and important idea occurs to <br>you now, work it into the draft.

Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a CV, register for online job search, and <br>start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit-and then they should report <br>weekly rather than fortnightly.

鉴于；考虑到；由于

=in terms of

take sth in view = take sth into account

在能看见的范围内；在考虑之中

在容易看见的地方；在展出

This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects <br>seem more likely to be a passing fad.

But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform <br>a discovery claim into a mature discovery.

财政悬崖

国际货币基金组织<br>International Monetary Fund

In a society that so persistently celebrate procreation,<u> is it any woder tha</u>t <br>admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you to <br>support kitten-killing?

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, <br>Senior suggests we need to redefine hapiness: instead of thinking of it as <br>something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider<br> being happy (as) a past-tense condition.

把... 看做

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid<br>without a partner to lean on, yet to hear Sandra and Brtiney tell it, <br>rasing a kid on their “own”(read: with round-the-clock help)is <br>a piece of cake.

be subjected to v =<br>be subject to adj

At the very least, the court should make itself subject to the code <br>of conduct that applies to the rest of the federal judiciary.

误导；蒙骗；牵着某人的鼻子走

导致；使话题转向

arrogant adj 霸道的；无理的<br>= haughty<br>= longhead<br>= crabbed

带头；领导

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Only Ukit, sensing its chance, has sides with those pleading for <br>a more considered approach to using green land.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates <br>to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated <br>person should possess.