2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（五十六）

　　decline

　　decrease, reduction,cut, drop

　　下降

　　The move stopped the pound's decline but failed to bring about a significant rally.

　　venetian

　　威尼斯城的

　　Dürer's work taught Venetian artists that landscape could be an independent element of a painting, rather than just a symbolic backdrop for religious subjects.

　　peninsula

　　island

　　半岛

　　As for whether they will touch upon the situation on the Korean Peninsula, we will know after their meetings.

　　procure

　　获得, 采办

　　No settlements were founded, experts believe that these brief raids were to procure supplies such as timber for other civilizations.

　　shipment

　　transportation

　　装运, 货物

　　The seller is not to take the responsibility for no delivery or shipment delay due to generally irresistible reason.

　　shipyard

　　factory

　　造船厂

　　A few years after college, an old family friend offered me an office job in Virginia with a salary and benefits, so I moved hundreds of miles away from my family to work for a shipyard.

　　florence

　　佛罗伦萨

　　So the scope of this project was more than the previous research in cities such as Florence and Rome, where only the presence and movements of tourists was mapped.

　　elicit

　　诱出

　　I elicit their understanding of what gave rise to the symptoms, their expected course, and their perceived seriousness.

　　resurgence

　　复兴, 再起

　　Then the crash, happened here and there. Only Israel got a double whammy of the Second Intifada and a resurgence of violence starting around the same time.

　　maritime

　　oceangraphy

　　海事的

　　This achievement rests above all on openness: openness of trade, openness of ideas, and openness of what I would call the ‘common areas’ — whether in the maritime, space, or cyber domains.

　　appeal

　　draw

　　呼吁

　　The right of individuals to appeal to a higher court is provided for in the constitution.

　　intermediary

　　媒介的, 中间人

　　Fourth, we have strengthened the service and coordinating functions of such intermediary organizations.

　　dominate

　　monopoly

　　控制

　　We are even more social than monkeys and apes and it is this ability to get on with each other that has helped us dominate the planet.

　　recruit

　　employment

　　招募

　　Every person you recruit to the Rebellion through your page will make your connection to the Force even stronger.

　　cargo

　　freight

　　货物

　　They say it could one day replace Nasa’s Space Shuttle to transport up to 12 tonnes of cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station.

　　demand

　　request

　　需求

　　Why do we have to define professionalism in terms of basic supply and demand?

　　compulsory

　　obligatory, mandatory

　　必须的, 强制的

　　voluntary;optional

　　Some subjects, such as mathematice, physics and English， are compulsory for the students in this department.

　　privilege

　　特权, 优惠

　　His loss will be felt deeply, not only by his family but also by his soldiers and others who, like me, had the privilege to serve with him, " he said.

　　stretch

　　伸展

　　You should be able to feel the stretch in your hip and down the IT band (in this case, along the right side of your right leg).

　　handle

　　deal with

　　处理

　　If you answered yes to one or more of the above, then you need to think about how you handle the matter of time in your application.

　　innovation

　　creation

　　创新

　　Large numbers of machine tools have been rushed out since the implementation of technological innovation.

　　reserve

　　book

　　预留

　　The workers of this nature reserve try to clean it by themselves but their efforts are not enough.

　　vessed

　　ship

　　船, 舰

　　capacity

　　容量

　　Imcapacity

　　If you go on living, you do so only through your capacity for objectification, your ability to free yourself, in writing, from the infinite strain.

　　outdated

　　old-fashioned

　　过时的, 落伍的

　　To what extent have they been able to identify all the outdated equipment out there – have companies managed to hide some of it from the government?

　　dung

　　紧紧抱住

　　Tom: No.Although 75% of its raw materials is elephant dung, it is light delicate fragrance instead of stink. This is due to its special fabrication technology.

　　display

　　show, exhibition

　　陈列, 展览

　　Her attention was engaged by the display of the new dress in the ship windows.

　　conventional

　　normal

　　传统的

　　So if you look at this part of the curve, this chart, everything to the right is in fact what you might see in a conventional fossil boil or natural gas plant.

　　establishment

　　建立

　　With test infrastructures, one symptom of high maintenance costs is the establishment of a "tools team" to maintain the infrastructure.

　　apparent

　　obvious

　　明显的

　　When the synthetic is contrasted with the natural one, the difference is very apparent.

　　replace

　　take over

　　代替, 取代

　　Irreplaceable

　　However, this will replace all of your work in this project, so backup anything you want to keep.

　　scarcity

　　lack

　　缺乏, 不足

　　This is indispensable in a region like the Near East, where the scarcity of water prohibits further agricultural expansion.

　　profitable

　　有利可图的

　　Unprofitable

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

　　council

　　委员会, 理事会

　　Not only me, me and most of the Iraqis, they are concerned about this council.

　　deliver

　　ship, bring

　　投递, 发表

　　No one will believe those promises because they know that later it will not be in your interest to deliver.

　　previously

　　before, prior to, earlier

　　之前

　　Document these assumptions and constraints so that when you go to update your plan throughout the project you can remember some of the "unusual" decisions you made previously.

　　mediterranean

　　地中海

　　If you’re on a cruise through the Mediterranean, you might only have one day in Athens.

　　distribution

　　分布, 分配

　　The principle of distribution in socialist society is “from each according to his ability”and “to each according to his work”.

　　decay

　　rot, spoil, decompose

　　衰败, 腐烂

　　These materials are known as "radioisotopes"—versions of an element that, because they have an abnormal number of neutrons, frequently decay and release radiation.

　　contemporary

　　modern

　　当代的, 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.

　　conservation

　　preservation

　　保守

　　But he argues that in the long term the focus must shift to conservation, efficiency, and more rational pricing so that city users pay their fair share.

　　emigrate

　　移居国外

　　Immigrate

　　Although I had had several opportunities to emigrate, I stayed in Albania throughout the darkest and most dangerous period.

　　navigation

　　导航, 航行

　　However, since it performs module switching by launching other modules and is an integral part of the navigation structure, we include it here as well.

　　noble

　　高尚的

　　In old days wealth and power centralized in the hands of a few noble families.

　　propel

　　push, drive

　　推进

　　This little spheroid sports thousands of tiny hairs around the outer edge of its body called cilia that propel it at lightning speeds through freshwater scum.

　　oar

　　船桨

　　Suchen never understood what had driven her to grasp the oar at the last moment.