2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（二十）

2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（二十）

　　§ Headword

　　§ Synonym

　　§ 汉译

　　§ Antonym

　　§ geologist

　　§ 地质学家

　　§ A senior Pakistani geologist says, however, that the trend could be due to large-scale irrigationschemes that began in the area at around the same time as the West's Industrial Revolution.

　　§ objective

　　§ unprejudiced

　　§ 客观的

　　§ Subjective

　　§ If he could accomplish this objective by freeing all, some, or none of the slaves, that was whathe would do.

　　§ investigate

　　§ examine, probe,delve into

　　§ 调查

　　§ We will investigate the differences between the various transaction attributes, and when youmight want to use each, in Part 3 of this series.

　　§ invertebrate

　　§ 无脊椎动物

　　§ Vertebrate

　　§ The site of the proposed airport is incredibly important for native invertebrate animals … StHelena has about 400 species that occur nowhere else in the world.

　　§ abruptly

　　§ suddenly hastily

　　§ 突然地

　　§ Politely

　　§ Abruptly, she looked up at him, and he saw in her eyes that his determination and anxiety and readiness were flowing into her through the thing he held, and that they had become her own.

　　§ organism

　　§ 微生物

　　§ 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.

　　§ migrate

　　§ travel, journey

　　§ 迁徙

　　§ Planets between an Earth mass to Uranus mass migrate so fast that they should be engulfed bythe central star.

　　§ extinction

　　§ death, extermination

　　§ 灭绝

　　§ Survival

　　§ But then, while no one wants to think of extinction, the word is far less of an abstraction in Hawaiithan in other places.

　　§ detect

　　§ identify, discover

　　§ 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.

　　§ instruments

　　§ devices, gadgets, apparatuses, piece of equipment

　　§ 设备

　　§ And when you look at how accurate these spectrographs are, these measurements are reallypushing these instruments to the limits of their accuracy.

　　§ penetrate

　　§ go through

　　§ 渗透

　　§ Because water is the softest substance in the world, but yet it can penetrate the hardest rock or anything -- granite, you name it.

　　§ drilling

　　§ training, instructing

　　§ 训练

　　§ Standard Oil and other companies that it owned performed every level of production -- from drilling to refining to transporting and selling.

　　§ dome

　　§ 圆屋顶

　　§ It has 5 halls with historical documents, 5 halls on the first floor and another one right under the dome of the building.

　　§ proceed

　　§ carry on, advance

　　§ 进行

　　§ This technique encourages users to actually try out the service and proceed directly with usingthe service after registration.