2010考研英语历年真题来源报刊阅读:“英语”——全球教育语言
creep[kri:p] v.①爬,爬行;②(植物)蔓延
spread[spred] v./n.伸开,伸展;散布,传播
shift v.①替换,转移;②移动;n.①转换,转变;②(轮)班,(换)班
[真题例句] A scientific analysis shifts (v.①) both the responsibility and the achievement to the environment.[2002年翻译]
[例句精译] 科学分析把责任和成就归因于环境。
[真题例句] They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting (v.②) baseline”.[2006年阅读3]
[例句精译] 他们相信数据支持了目前海洋生物学家的一个观点,就是“移动的基准线”。
[真题例句] Another major shift (n.①) in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing.[1999年阅读2]
[例句精译] 网络商业模式的另一个重大变化体现在营销策略上。
fertile a.①肥沃的,富饶的;②能生育的
[真题例句] The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile (①) silt that floods left—all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.[1998年阅读1]
[例句精译] 以阿斯旺大坝为例,它阻止了尼罗河洪水泛滥,但也使埃及失去了洪水冲击过后留下的肥沃土壤,换回来的是一个巨大但有弊病的水库。现在这个水库积满了淤泥,几乎不能发电了。
[真题例句] Few people are as fertile (②) as in the past.[2000年阅读2]
[例句精译] 现在没有几个人像过去那样生育后代了。
accelerate v.加快,促进
[真题例句] (71) Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs.Others are reasonable consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent selfaccelerating.[1996年翻译]
[例句精译] (71)在这些原因中,有些完全是自然而然地来自社会需求。另一些则是由于科学在一定程度上自我加速而产生某些特定发展的必然结果。
transfer v.①转移,调动;②转车;③转业,转学;④转让,过户;n.转移,转变
[真题例句] NBAC members also indicated that they would appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer (n.).[1999年阅读4]
[例句精译] NBAC的成员明确表示,他们呼吁由私人提供资金的研究人员和机构不要试图通过人体细胞核转移去克隆人。
[真题例句] (73) During this transfer (n.), traditional historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.[1999年翻译]
[例句精译] (73)在这种转变中,历史学家研究历史时,那些解释新史料的新方法充实了传统的历史研究方法。