2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（五十一）

　　aborigine

　　土著居民

　　The rock art, which ranges from 15, 000 years old to 50 years old, chronicles Aborigine life, including scenes depicting relationships with other cultures.

　　carve

　　engrave

　　雕刻

　　Your future is like that block of stone, your future has greatness inside it, but you have to carve the greatness out.

　　inhabitant

　　occupant

　　居住者

　　Dampen

　　The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

　　encounter

　　meet

　　相遇

　　This in itself was an encounter with the past, like retuning to a place that once was familiar but has changed its appearance.

　　infrequent

　　rare,uncommon

　　罕见的

　　Frequent

　　Despite the caves' perches, high above the river valley, the treasures inside are at risk from looters and souvenir collectors, as well as erosion, earthquakes, and infrequent but torrential rains.

　　speculative

　　hypothetical

　　推测的, 思索性的

　　Proven

　　“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.

　　interpretation

　　clarification

　　阐述, 理解

　　In a way that does bring us to our topic today because this topic, almost the last topic of the course, has to do with the preconditions of interpretation.

　　intensified

　　strengthened

　　加强的

　　Weakened

　　Completion of this work, and its expansion to other countries, are now crucial and should form the basis for intensified efforts to mobilize the necessary resources from domestic and donor sources.

　　abundance

　　plenty

　　大量, 丰富

　　Scarcity

　　So why should you believe that as we get older, men tend to feel lonelier with less confidants compared to women and their abundance of meaningful relationships?

　　systematic

　　methodical

　　系统的

　　Disorganized

　　We need a systematic training program. First, we should do some flexibility exercises, and then I will customize a training program for you.

　　discipline

　　regulation

　　准则

　　He maintains that the strategy research focus on these issues separates the field from the related fields since no other field or discipline treat them as mainstream issues.

　　stylistic

　　体裁上的, 格式上的

　　His habit of repetition, whether a stylistic tic or a side-effect of translation from the Japanese, has the effect of making everything Murakami says sound infinitely profound.

　　discern

　　perceive, notice

　　识别

　　Some of the traditional top-down heavily marketed hits I think will lose because it's so easy for people to discern whether they are really good or just marketed very well.

　　archaeological

　　考古学的

　　So there are two other models, then, models different from the immigration model, two other models for understanding the formation of Israel, that build on this archaeological evidence.

　　informant

　　被调查者

　　Twenty-one research questions emerged from the key informant interviews, many of which had received little or no attention in the reviewed literature.

　　revise

　　amend

　　修正, 修订

　　Encourage him to not give up on dreams that are important to him, but that if one plan doesn’t work, he has to revise the plan and try again.

　　reliable

　　dependable

　　可靠的

　　Undependable

　　If we required that reliable message delivery formats be added at the application level, it would make the use of these existing transports very inefficient in some cases.

　　incomprehensible

　　unconceibable

　　不可理解的

　　Understandable

　　It may feel like something totally incomprehensible to you, but it was a big deal in China, a huge step, because before that the prices were decided by the government.

　　span

　　跨度

　　Because you can put these probes anywhere to indicate the start and end of a operation, they can span multiple functions, or only a small fragment of a given function.

　　remarkable

　　extraordinary,notable

　　显著的

　　Ordinary

　　And, more remarkable, once you did, have you any idea how come this sentence breaks the rules but read it you still can?

　　antiquity

　　古物, 古代的遗物

　　In antiquity, their bulk also allowed them to become mobile fortresses, capable of carrying soldiers and archers on their backs.

　　stable

　　稳定的

　　These depend upon the layer below, and all applications that use them depend on them, so, ideally, they are pretty stable by the time that applications are built atop them.

　　distinction

　　difference

　　区分

　　Similarity

　　Learning to recognize and employ this distinction early on will aid you in the future, as we move into increasingly complex diagramming techniques.

　　underlie

　　位于……之下, 成为……的基础

　　One important principle should underlie the provision of these middleware capabilities: service and process developers should be insulated from the complexities of the middleware implementation.

　　indigenous

　　native

　　本土的, 土著的

　　Foreign

　　There are large number of skills in this country, which we cannot fill from, within the indigenous population, or the European Economic Area.

　　geometric

　　几何学的

　　You can extend the simple file format converter in this example to handle more file formats for geometric and geographic data.

　　figurative

　　metaphorical

　　比喻的

　　Bulls (of the figurative kind) contend that the economics of farming are enjoying a secular improvement as the climate changes, as people in emerging markets adopt more protein-based diets, and so on.

　　concentric

　　同轴的, 同中心的

　　And so then, within this concentric overlay vector other time programs; other dimensional realms can be frequencially accessed more easily.

　　iconography

　　肖像研究

　　This scroll, painted with Buddhist imagery and iconography, depicts scenes from the religion's teachings: a Light Maidenhovers at the top, while further below are episodes of cosmic judgment.

　　motif

　　theme, idea

　　主题;动机

　　But the biblical account as much as it borrows from that motif again Takes pains to distinguish and elevate the human.

　　extensive

　　general

　　广泛的, 大量的

　　Restricted

　　We do not perform extensive regression testing on the CCH, but the same fix is merged into the next maintenance release where we do perform that level of testing.

　　peck

　　啄

　　I go to give him a kiss – just a peck – and he veers off, jerking his head out of the way like a nervous racehorse, too late to alter my trajectory and pretend I was aiming for his cheek.

　　engrave

　　雕刻

　　Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.

　　geological

　　地质的, 地质学的

　　“What’s wonderful about looking at the past is the long lens of geological history,” said Whiteside. “There is evidence that food web collapse is starting to occur in some marine ecosystems.

　　varnish

　　亮光漆

　　The paint on your car, the varnish on your floor, even the nylon in your panty hose are all polymers—extremely long chains of molecules held together by strong chemical bonds.

　　glaze

　　釉

　　They believe this characterizes a technique of painting that uses a glaze, or very thin layer, to build up shadows in the face.

　　exposure

　　revelation

　　暴露

　　Although that exposure was small compared with their portfolios, it could have a big impact because they have so little equity as a cushion.

　　phase

　　stage

　　阶段

　　Most of the "actors" that appear at this level will be identified by at least one attribute; otherwise they are not interesting to the system in the analysis phase.

　　coin

　　invent, create

　　创造

　　But in essence, in our natural and fleshly condition, we are trapped on one side of the coin, and any good in our lives is only because the Lord has intervened.

　　profile

　　invent, create

　　轮廓, 外形

　　The products under discussion support this technique by providing a Package stereotype as part of its UML base profile.

　　occupy

　　fill

　　占据

　　Vacate

　　It is to amuse myself that I dwell on such subjects as the lack of external comforts: they never occupy my thoughts, except at the moment when I miss them.

　　naturalistic

　　自然主义的

　　As with intuition, research into , human psychology can offer more naturalistic explanations, but ultimately the cause and nature of the phenomenon itself remains a mystery.

　　obscure

　　incomprehensible, vague

　　模糊的

　　clear,obvious

　　If you treat the mediations or the associated transformations as a first class service, you eventually obscure the real purpose of the application.

　　encode

　　编码

　　To avoid the overhead associated with using a table, the application could encode the list of items in some string format and have the procedure decode the string to extract the items.

　　predetermined

　　prearranged,predestined

　　已决定的

　　The declarative capability that SVG inherits from SMIL lets you animate graphics (for example) either at predetermined times, or in response to certain events.