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词汇讲解:
1. donor n. 捐赠者,赠与者
例句:Blood donors give blood for use in hospitals.
献血者献血供医院使用。
2. target vt. 把…作为目标
例句:The company has targeted a profit for the year.
公司已经规定了今年的利润指标。
3. far-reaching adj. 深远的;广泛的
例句:The research has far-reaching implications for medicine as a whole.
这项研究对整个医学界都有着深远的影响。
4. potential n. 潜力, 潜势, 可能性
例句:This new invention has an enormous sales potential.
这项新发明有巨大的销售潜力。
5. sweep n. 大面积搜索; 巡行; 扫荡
例句:The rescue services did the last sweep to try and find the missing boy.
救援队展开最后一次大面积搜索, 设法找到失踪的男孩。
6. chase vt. 追寻;寻找
例句:The police tried to chase the dead man's brother up but they had no idea where he lived.
警方试图找到死者的兄弟,但是他们不知道他住在何处。
7. surrounding adj. 周围的;附近的
例句:Foxes started coming in from the surrounding countryside.
狐狸开始从附近的乡下跑进来。
8. abandon vt. 离弃, 丢弃;遗弃, 抛弃;放弃
例句:The car badly damaged, so they abandoned it.
那辆车坏得太厉害了, 所以他们丢弃了它。
9. situate vt. 使位于, 使处于…地位(位置)
例句:They are trying to decide where to situate the hospital.
他们正设法确定医院的修建地点。
10. catastrophe n. 灾祸, 灾难,大祸,横祸
例句:The flood was a major catastrophe.
洪水是一场大灾难。
11. leak vt. 使泄露
例句:He leaked the news of the ambassador's visit.
他把大使来访的消息泄露出去了。
12. skip vt. 略过; 跳过; 漏过
例句:When I read the novel I skipped these dry passages of description.
我读这本小说的时候跳过了这几段毫无趣味的描写。