2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（九）_第2页

　　§ slab

　　§ 平板

　　§ As I stood outside its brokenness that day nearly a year ago, chiding the sea, a solitary black high-heeled sandal of mine teetered on a broken slab of concrete.

　　§ excavate

　　§ 挖掘

　　§ Perhaps more than any other time in our recent history, we need a new kind of politics, one that can excavate and build upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans.

　　§ identify

　　§ 发现

　　§ Migrating those applications to GAE might be costly, because you not only need toidentify the issues and create workarounds, but also do quality assurance for the entire application all over again.

　　§ principal

　　§ major

　　§ 主要的

　　§ “One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible,” he said in an interview.

　　§ shelter

　　§ 遮蔽物

　　§ But as my sister-in-law happened to be in Brighton with her children I weathered the first shock of it under her shelter.

　　§ gallery

　　§ 走廊

　　§ Whether you just want to browse our huge image gallery or want to share your personal photos with others, this is the site for you!

　　§ inhabit

　　§ live, dwell

　　§ 居住

　　§ This clustering makes each of us more productive, which in turn makes the place weinhabit even more so—and our collective creativity and economic wealth grow accordingly.

　　§ backdrop

　　§ 背景

　　§ Zibach said. He initially conceived of a giant flame rock as the villain's backdropbecause his weapon of destruction shoots fire and metal.

　　§ trapping

　　§ 装饰

　　§ There was one from someone in Africa in the first round who was going to use the house as a means of baiting and trapping mosquitoes.

　　§ contemporary

　　§ 同时代的

　　§ The ivory Buddha carved by Shen Weizhong, a contemporary Chinese sculptor, is the world's smallest piece of sculpture, its size being just four-fifths that of a grain of rice.

　　§ depict

　　§ paint, portray

　　§ 描绘

　　§ You may not know this but women CAN get highly aroused even with just words, especially those that depict what you plan to do to them in bed.

　　§ spear

　　§ 矛

　　§ So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spearin his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

　　§ motivation

　　§ motive

　　§ 动机

　　§ Once the excitement, the motivation and the initial momentum subside (and they will), what will keep you doing what you need to do, to create the change you want to see in your world?

　　§ herd

　　§ 兽群

　　§ Like Plato, he saw the public as a great beast or a bewildered herd, floundering in the ‘chaos of local opinions’.

　　§ symbolic

　　§ 象征的

　　§ And if anywhere along your schedule you have the opportunity, as a symbolic gesture of support, to stop in to those stations, thank those firefighters, we would greatly appreciate that.