2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（五十）

　　commercialized

　　商业化的

　　Some companies have commercialized a process that captures carbon dioxide and converts it to solid material, but those efforts rely on a chemical process to capture carbon dioxide.

　　annually

　　yearly

　　每年

　　Consider this : if you can save $500k, and you average 10% on your investment portfolio, you will gain $50k annually without doing anything other than having the money.

　　stimulate

　　rouse, excite

　　刺激, 鼓舞

　　Dampen

　　“We have to find a new way — or maybe it’s an old way — to stimulate enough demand for the economy to do what it’s supposed to do without speculative excess, ” Mr. Bernstein said.

　　consumer

　　customer

　　消费者

　　You know only what any consumer has to do to use the service and what any provider must do when implementing it.

　　livestock

　　家畜

　　Dry lands are particularly affected by these trends, as livestock are often the only source of livelihoods for the people living in these areas.

　　husbandry

　　饲养, 务农

　　If you have a skill, such as cooking, animal husbandry, massage, musical ability or basic carpentry, you can barter for free food and accommodation as you travel.

　　fodder

　　饲料

　　They provide us with the environmentally sound renewable resource of wood, fuel for energy and many non-wood products, including food, fodder, medicines, building materials and cosmetics.

　　flax

　　亚麻

　　He understood well the importance of international trade and the potential wealth to be gained from the export of flax, hemp, pitch, furs, hides and timber.

　　rape

　　掠夺, 强暴

　　The rape victim was found dumped in one of the side streets.

　　hop

　　跳跃

　　Save the $1, 000-plus you'd need to fly to Beijing or Seoul and hop on the No. 7 train to the last stop in Queens for a glimpse of this neighborhood galloping to catch up with 21st century Asia.

　　turnip

　　萝卜

　　All I had to do was bring the groceries, which meant a steak — which I thought could fill in for wildebeest or antelope — and a turnip, a mango, some peanuts and potatoes.

　　horticulture

　　园艺学

　　All volunteers first go through orientation sessions, which are followed with one of three more specific training tracks:horticulture, “Ambassadors, ” and animal care.

　　consumption

　　消费

　　Another benefit is that memory consumption is optimized, as objects are only loaded into memory when they are requested.

　　reclaim

　　开拓;扩展

　　These processes have no direct impact on the user experience, and the system can kill them at any time to reclaim memory for a foreground, visible, or service process.

　　rotation

　　spin,revolution

　　旋转, 循环

　　Examples of this type of transformation include such actions as translation, rotation, scaling, shearing, or any combination of these.

　　fertilization

　　施肥

　　If we had all the whales we used to have, they would remove the same amount of carbon in a year as 200 of the most efficient iron fertilization events.

　　graze

　　放牧

　　When I find them I pour a little olive oil into the entrance of the hole. Then I anoint the head and nose of each sheep with the same oil and allow them to graze.

　　ash

　　灰

　　He perceives the scent of old ash, examines with new care and clarity the husks of the buildings around him, and hears a particular sound that was not there before.

　　soap-boiler

　　煮皂工

　　artificial

　　false, fake, mock

　　人工的

　　natural, real

　　But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product.

　　justified

　　denfensible, reasonable

　　有正当理由的,合乎情理的

　　Unjustified

　　Some argue that torture is justified if our survival is threatened, but even apart from the elasticity of this justification, it is flawed because it depends on an equivocation.

　　draining

　　emptying

　　排水的

　　Filling

　　This is a recurring thought for me lately, but a powerful one that has resulted in action: Take notice of where your energy is spent and begin to allow yourself to identify what is draining you.

　　legendary

　　renowned

　　传奇的

　　Chinese inventions, knowledge, and culture were all shared with the world via the legendary "silk road" - known as the route to access wealth and prosperity.

　　stretch

　　extend

　　延伸

　　Yes, there will be a bit of discomfort when you stretch, but it should be a sensation that is spread out over an area of the body.

　　undertake

　　assume

　　承担

　　And if geoengineering to alter earth’s climate — for example, injecting sulfates into the high atmosphere — is to be an option, who would make the decision and undertake the operation?

　　hectare

　　公顷

　　This could be estimated at 1000 litres of hydrogen for 330 grams of chlorophyll per day whereas for example colza produces roughly only 1000 litres of oil per hectare . . .

　　windmill

　　风车

　　How about a night in a charming converted windmill on the island of Milos, watching the sunset over the sea, with a glass of retsina in hand and a plate of olives on the table?

　　pump

　　泵

　　‘We have to prove the commercial viability and the numbers may change when we scale up, but all the technology except the pump itself is already proven, ’ he said.

　　lease

　　租约, 租赁

　　Retail client with three profitable stores in China told me that it has put its expansion on hold because present retail lease rates would be so high on any new stores, they would not be profitable.

　　significantly

　　meaningfully, knowingly

　　值得注目地, 意味深长地

　　Insignificantly

　　This design increases the number of tables significantly over adding a database instance per customer or creating a column in each table to validate whether the customer is accessing the proper data.

　　profitable

　　有利润的

　　Unprofitable

　　Our cost of production allows us to be profitable everywhere, not only in Europe but also in China.

　　crisis

　　disaster, catastrophe

　　危机

　　At this point, such claims have no bearing on the mortgage or housing crisis; they have bearing only on the holders of these securities themselves.

　　astonishing

　　surprising, shocking

　　令人惊异的

　　The astonishing truth is that although we navigate the world through our five senses,each of us has one sense that we rely on more than the other four.

　　critical

　　significant, decisive, vital

　　决定性的

　　Insignificant

　　It is, therefore, necessary to predict the critical discharge for any bucket geometry. Suggestion is made in this paper to determine the critica…

　　exceptional

　　special

　　异常的, 例外的

　　Ordinary

　　She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness.

　　overtake

　　pass

　　赶上, 压倒

　　“We are heading for a crisis-driven choice,” he says.“We either allow collapse to overtake us or develop a new sustainable economic model.