§sink
§ 下沉
§ Float
§ I recommend, writing the following on a post it note, or card and putting it on the mirror nearyour bathroom sink.
§drainage
§ 排水, 排水系统
§ One of the big risks for any construction on peat bogs is that the disrupted drainage will causewhole hillsides of waterlogged or dried out peat to slide and eventually oxidise.
§dissolved
§ 溶解的, 溶化的
§ This dissolved organic matter was not, until recently, thought to be an important component of the total. But Dr Jiao noticed something odd about its distribution in the sea.
§evaporate
§ 蒸发
§ If you're willing to give it up, and let yourself evaporate into the breeze, it can take you across, and you can reach your destination," said the desert in its deep voice.
§crustal
§ 地壳的
§ The study authors propose another, more radical, explanation: The crustal rock they analyzed,called ferroan anorthosite, is not linked to magma dynamics at all.
§prevent..from...
§ keep...from...
§ 阻止
§ Often, one of the reasons we would want to use background threads is to prevent the submittingthread from blocking.
§underlying
§ 潜在的, 在下面的
§ While there is no specification for the underlying service, the basic notion is that you write bits ofcode and deploy them into the network.
§result from
§ attribute to
§ 归因于
§ The nested loop join method is used to join the remote query result from each warehouse andthe XML composite view result.
§reverse
§ 逆转
§ But globalization, with all its problems, will have to go on as a driving force. You cannot reverse it.
§remove
§ move out of
§ 移走, 移除
§ It is difficult to remove overnight all the grievances [problems] accumulated over the years.
§millennium
§ 千年
§ Are we going to make the right decisions for the next century or the next millennium? We have not adapted psychologically to the notion of long-term consequences.
§considerable
§ fairly large
§ 相当大的
§ But why Swedes should have more freedom in matters of sex than Americans but less economic freedom is a considerable puzzle, although I shall attempt an explanation.
§rigorous
§ severe, strict
§ 严厉的, 残酷的
§ The focus was on learning how to think critically, do research, communicate and improve writingskills, all in preparation for a rigorous high school curriculum.
§enforced
§ 实施的, 强制实行的
§ This kind of policy can be enforced at all levels in your system architecture and application business logic.