2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（五十五）

　　geological

　　地质的

　　Within a few years, he would be accepted into scientific organizations like the Geological Society and the Royal Society.

　　feature

　　characteristic

　　外貌、特征

　　The business people on one of our projects really wanted this feature, so we implemented part of it on one of the screens for them.

　　volcano

　　火山

　　But the volcano erupted again and he even started arguing belligerently that we were not on the motorway at all, despite the blue signs.

　　solar system

　　太阳系

　　Although some of these nebulas appear like planets on the sky (hence their name), they actually surround stars far outside our Solar System.

　　extensive

　　大量的

　　His extensive experience in other parts of Asia helped him to overcome cultural barriers.

　　impact cratering

　　陨石坑

　　Mimas, one of the smaller round moons of Saturn, sports Herschel crater, one of the larger impact craters in the entire Solar System.

　　bulge

　　凸起

　　The film business is like a snake digesting a large meal: the production bulge caused by the surge of money in 2006 and 2007 will take a year or so to work its way through the system.

　　diameter

　　直径

　　But it would take a telescope with the effective diameter of the sun to actually take photographs of something the size of an elephant strolling on an exoplanet only 4.3 light-years away.

　　collision

　　碰撞

　　So, I am actually able to put this into scientific formulae and work out, when one billiard ball moves towards another, how in the past that collision would have happened?

　　plate

　　板块

　　If you want your friend to try something they should pick it up from your plate with their own chopsticks.

　　crust

　　地壳

　　Theoretical models predict that the crust is unstable in the hours leading up to a major earthquake, but detecting that instability in the real world has proven a challenge.

　　shield volcano

　　盾状火山

　　The volcanics in TRF are obviously different from shield-forming basaltic volcanics of the Tianchi volcano in characters of volcanic geology, petrology and volcanic chronology.

　　sloping

　　斜的

　　They lived on a sloping street where the houses press against one another, side by side, like children in a line holding hands.

　　molten rock

　　熔岩

　　Cradling one of the world's largest and least studied lava lakes—more than 700 feet across and possibly miles deep—Nyiragongo has twice sent molten rock racing toward residents of Goma.

　　distinctive

　　unique

　　独特的

　　Ordinary

　　Of course, the root and the main current of any culture must bear its own distinctive national features.

　　lava

　　岩浆

　　We flew over the lava flowing into the sea and the moment I saw it I knew I had to come back at night to capture the majesty of it.

　　reveal

　　expose

　　暴露

　　Not yet because that would reveal which ones we have seen and which we have not.

　　plain

　　平原

　　It is the coastal plain, and that provides, or that is the main highway out of Egypt or down to Egypt.

　　gravity

　　地心引力

　　From the expressions on their faces, I realized the gravity of the situation.

　　eventual

　　final

　　最终的

　　However, the Battle for Manila between Spain and the US turned out to be a farce, which sought to exclude the Filipinos from the eventual occupation of Manila.

　　respective

　　各自的

　　If there are any new capabilities, you can add them in this capability map and extend them as per the respectivebusiness requirements.

　　Venus

　　金星

　　“No one expected Venus to be the poisonous hell that it is, or Mars to have the river valleys that it does,” he said.

　　ongoing

　　current

　　正在进行的

　　Rootein – Unlike Habit Forge, this is an ongoing habit tracker. There is also a mobile version for you to track your habits on the go.

　　eruption

　　喷发

　　Our work was like that of geologists who compile the signs of an imminent earthquake or volcanic eruption.

　　estimate

　　assessment

　　估计

　　The approach does not produce a detailed estimate but it does provide an accurate enough guess to compare projects or to decide whether to start a project.

　　slope

　　斜坡

　　The slope began to ease off towards the edge of hill above.

　　intermittently

　　断断续续的

　　Pockets of thick fog get trapped along the ridgelines, magpies nest among the outcrops, and springsintermittently spray over the rocks.

　　prominent

　　noticeable

　　明显的

　　Of course, these individuals have been around since the beginning of human history and played a moreprominent role in some eras than in others.

　　cratering

　　成坑(天文)

　　Cratering will generally result from an underground burst, just as for a surface burst.

　　pitted

　　使留下疤痕、斑点

　　Boxing’s beginnings in America go back to slave days, when plantation owners pitted slaves against one another and wagered on the outcomes.

　　meteoroid

　　流星

　　Shortly before the uninhabited space station reached orbit in .May 1973,aeroaynamic pressure ripped off ameteoroid and heat shield.

　　dust

　　尘

　　His car stood in the garage for a long time, with thick dust.

　　considerably

　　greatly

　　非常

　　The incidence of this disease has dropped considerably in the past few years.

　　counterpart

　　对应物(人)

　　If there is a RUP work product but no counterpart in your software project management process, should you add this work product?

　　correspond

　　与...一致

　　Yet, the length of time does not correspond to an observed reality; it could be from five years to fifty years.

　　obliterate

　　毁坏

　　In the past three years, its market share gains have even been accelerating, making some people wonder whether the company will eventually obliterate what remains of its competition in search.

　　primarily