2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（五十四）

　　physiological

　　physical

　　生理学的

　　private,individual

　　How do you respond to skeptics who say there must be some biological or physiological basis for that kind of experience, which you say in the book is medically inexplicable?

　　wakefulness

　　restlessness,sleeplessness

　　觉醒, 不眠

　　Sleeping longer than you need to will weaken your sleep system, as you reduce your prior wakefulness, exposure to sunlight, activity levels, and your body temperature at a low for too long.

　　respiratory

　　breathing

　　呼吸的

　　At these clinics, the health workers treat people for diseases such as diarrhoea, respiratory infections, anaemia and intestinal worms.

　　dramatic

　　striking, remarkable

　　引人注目的

　　Modest

　　That's where the problem lies, you have no time for yourself to enjoy anything because they are needy and dragging you into every dramatic situation in their life.

　　rib

　　肋骨

　　One bone was a piece of rib from a cow-sized mammal; the other, a leg bone fragment from a mammal the size of a goat.

　　contraction

　　shrinkage

　　收缩

　　Any reading below 50 signals contraction of the service sector, and July's reading was the tenth consecutive month of decline.

　　diaphragm

　　隔膜

　　"I have a theory that humour detected in the brain gets directly discharged through the movement of diaphragm," he said.

　　interact

　　cooperate

　　相互作用, 相互影响

　　It is important not to have any expectations, or we might simply interact with what we think is inside us, leading to further denial.

　　automatic

　　自动的

　　In this article, we have described the importance of automatic logoff and its relation with regulatory compliances.

　　metabolic

　　变化的, 新陈代谢的

　　We sleep more deeply when we are young, because we have a high metabolic rate that is greatly reduced during sleep, but also because there are people to protect us.

　　brain stem

　　脑干

　　Along with other reproductive hormones and neurotransmitters, these peptides organise the circuitry in the hypothalamus, the part of the brain stem involved in attachment to "mine".

　　subconsciously

　　下意识地

　　We tend to notice the times that something remarkable occurred, while subconsciously ignoring all the times that nothing remarkable happened.

　　regulate

　　control, normalize

　　调节, 规定

　　Sleep deprivation alters levels of the hormones that regulate food intake and body fat and increase hunger and appetite.

　　acid-base

　　酸碱

　　Measurements of the pH of the Coke before and after the experiments showed that its acidity did not change, ruling out the idea that a simple acid-base reaction drives the fountains.

　　ratio

　　proportion, percentage

　　比例

　　Number of virtual processors especially the number of CPU virtual processors should be in proper ratio with physical CPU in the system.

　　voluntary

　　intended

　　自发的

　　Involuntary

　　One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

　　capable

　　able

　　有能力的

　　Incapable

　　Although some deployment processes can run in certain environments, all processes should be capable of running in any target environment.

　　override

　　overrule

　　推翻

　　Follow

　　If necessary, you can also specify these qualifiers for each individual reference, in which case they would override any top level qualifier setting.

　　irregular

　　uneven, rough

　　不规则的

　　Regular

　　If so,how many chords are involved in this chord change and are they changing at a regular or irregular rate?

　　phrase

　　expression, saying

　　短语

　　As a convenience, I use the term "mechanism," as in the phrase "governance mechanism" to be all-inclusive of the components identified above.

　　overall

　　general, total

　　全体的

　　If your application requirements permit the use of the near cache, then you should use it, but otherwise, you need to move on to the next possibility for improving your overall performance.

　　exclusive

　　排外的

　　A journalist has tried to muscle in on my exclusive story.

　　responsive

　　receptive

　　响应的

　　It is important to understand that applications are only running when they are physically visible on the screen, so this is often the only way to keep the application responsive.

　　cessation

　　end, termination

　　中止, 中断

　　Start

　　Now I use the word steer, because if you simply demand a cessation of contact by your children with a set of undesirable peers, you will get nothing but resistance.

　　reduction

　　decrease

　　下降, 减少

　　Increase

　　We have found that iterative development is most effective when you combine it with a deliberate balance of early risk reduction and early value creation.

　　waxes and wanes

　　月圆月缺, 兴衰成败

　　While some people will simply turn to other methods, suicidal behavior is generally impulsive, and motivation waxes and wanes, Gould said.

　　mechanism

　　system

　　机制, 原理

　　So, whatever your mechanism or system for storing and managing requirements, we recommend that you at least have one.

　　obtain

　　get, gain

　　获得

　　"We have yet to obtain any assurances from Google that this data will only be used in appropriate ways, " Apple said.

　　persist

　　continue

　　坚持, 存留

　　The Iraqi people, he insists, will persist and overcome these attacks, and raise its [their] voice to show [and] proclaim that it [they] will not be silenced [by terrorism].

　　resistance

　　confrontation

　　阻力

　　If we all recognize that antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health that we face today, we have to do something about this.

　　airflow

　　气流

　　Although the new model better illustrates how spiders "fly," there is still room for refinement, and the team plans to observe spiders in turbulent airflow inside wind tunnels to improve the model.

　　muscular

　　肌肉的

　　To get the type of fitness results and body most people are looking for; athletic, muscular and toned, it helps to get your heart rate up while working out, but not only on a treadmill.

　　inhaling

　　吸入, 吸气

　　Exhaling

　　In the new study on mice, researchers found that inhaling nanotubes affected the function of T cells, a type of white blood cell that organises the immune system to fight infections.

　　suck

　　吸吮

　　I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

　　collapse

　　ruin, breakdown

　　崩溃

　　For example, we can’t afford to run a simulation model for an hour or two to find out what’s going to happen when an event occurs that could cause the grid to collapse in the next 20 or 30 seconds.

　　congestion