2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（四）_第2页

　　§ mammal

　　§ 哺乳动物

　　§ The spiny anteater, an egg-laying mammal native to Australia and New Guinea, has a penis withfour heads, but only two fit into the female at once.

　　§ sea otter

　　§ 海濑

　　§ America's westward expansion went hard on the California sea otter, which seemed to vanish in the first half of the 19th century, an unlucky victim of the fur trade.

　　§ intermediate

　　§ 中间的, 中级的

　　§ If you must use descendant selectors, prefer child selectors, which at least only requireevaluation of one additional node, not all the intermediate nodes up to an ancestor.

　　§ transitional

　　§ 过渡期的

　　§ Yet some analysts say the transitional government has performed well since assuming control ofthe country and has the potential to build a stable democracy.

　　§ embed

　　§ 使... 嵌入

　　§ You can use it as part of your production system, embed and distribute it in your applications, orsimply use it for development purposes.

　　§ skull

　　§ 头盖骨

　　§ Charles died when something flew in one side of his skull and out the other and evidently therewas speculation as to whether he was shot by the enemy or due to some plot within his own ranks.

　　§ ancestor

　　§ forerunner

　　§ 祖先

　　§ If you must use descendant selectors, prefer child selectors, which at least only require evaluation of one additional node, not all the intermediate nodes up to an ancestor.

　　§ precious

　　§ valuable

　　§ 珍贵的

　　§ One could apply it to any resource including time. Time in fact may be our most precious resource of all, now more than ever.

　　§ enlarged

　　§ 放大的

　　§ Some of these properties appear to be evident in this iceberg, though the channel may havesince been widened and enlarged by the subsequent tidal and surface melting and erosion.

　　§ detect

　　§ notice

　　§ 察觉, 发现

　　§ I concede that they may be hard to detect in the beginning, but like a concave bowl, witheverything gathered together in the middle that you can only understand when you come out.

　　§ adaptation

　　§ 适应

　　§ These findings also challenge the idea that religion is an adaptation.

　　§ feature

　　§ 以...为特色

　　§ And while the lines that appear to be leading to (or from) the feature may suggest some sort ofmovement, it's also possible they have nothing to do with the object.

　　§ vestigial

　　§ 退化的

　　§ Because these structures can be traced back through the ancestors, they essentially serve as amarker of evolution; no organism can have a vestigial organ that hasn’t been found in itsforefathers.

　　§ pinniped

　　§ 鳍足类的

　　§ As the killer whales moved in, the plucky pinniped leapt on to the vast ribbed belly of a humpback, and nestled in the animal's armpit.