Today,stepladders (n.) carry labels several inches long that warn,among other things,that you might--surprised!--fall off.[1999年阅读]
[译文]现在,梯子上警告标签有几英寸长,除了警告你其他可能发生的意外情况外,还警告你可能会摔下来,简直是莫名其妙!
stimulant n.刺激物,兴奋剂
Stimulants (n.) initially speed up or activate the central nervous system,whereas depressants slow it down.[1997年阅读]
[译文]兴奋剂主要起到加速或激活中枢神经系统的作用,而镇静剂则相反:减缓它的活动。
stimulus n.刺激物,促进因素,刺激
A further stimulus (n.) to invention came from the “premium” system,which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it.[1996年阅读]
[译文]推动发明的另一激励因素来自“奖赏”制度,它产生于我们的专利制度之前,且多年来与后者一同实施。
stirring a.激动人心的,活跃的,忙碌的; n.激励
This does not mean that ambition is at an end,that people no longer feel its stirrings (n.) and promptings,but only that,no longer openly honored, it is less openly professed.[2000年阅读]
[译文]但这并不意味着雄心已经穷途末路,人们不再感觉到它对人们的激励了,只是人们不再公开地以它为荣,更不愿公开地承认了。
stockpile n.积蓄,库存;vt.储蓄,贮存
Adding to social changes today is an enormous stockpile (n.) of information.[1995年阅读]
[译文]除了当今的社会变化之外,还有信息量巨大的问题。
stomp n.跺脚; v.践踏,跺脚
A man in a white coat rushes to the head of the line,grabs his food and stomps (v.) over to a table by himself.[2002年阅读]
[译文]一个身穿白外套的人冲到队伍的最前面,抓起他的食物,大踏步地独自走到一张桌子边。
subtitle n.副标题,小标题
But it is less clear,to take the question of his subtitle (n.),why we should,like,care.[2005年阅读]
[译文]但考虑到其副标题所提的问题:为什么我们应该、喜欢或在意?答案还不够明白。
suspension n.悬浮,暂停,中止
He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear … that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension (n.).”[2002年阅读]
[译文]他说,行医资格理事会“必须明确表明--病人痛苦地死亡,可以推定,是由于医生处理不力造成的,应该因此吊销其从医资格”。
supervision n.监督,管理
This lack of parental supervision (n.) is thought to be an influence on juvenile crime rates.[2004年完形]
[译文]缺乏父母监督也被认为是影响少年犯罪率的一种因素。
supercluster n.超星系团
Cobe is designed to see just the biggest structures,but astronomers would like to see much smaller hot spots as well,the seeds of local objects like clusters and superclusters (n.) of galaxies.[1998年翻译]
[译文]Cobe卫星设计的目的就是观察这些最大的物体结构,但宇航员还是想看到更为微小的热点,即像星系中的星团和超星团这样一些局部物体的粒子。
supposedly ad.想象上,据推测,大概
Sir Isaac Newton supposedly (ad.)discovered gravity,through the fall of an apple.[1999年阅读]
[译文]艾萨克•牛顿爵士通过苹果落地发现了万有引力。
surveillance n.监视,监督
A boom in neighborhood surveillance (n.) cameras will,for example,cause problems in 2010,while the arrival of synthetic lifelike robots will mean people may not be able to distinguish between their human friends and the droids.[2001年翻译]
[译文]比如,住宅区附近监视器的猛增在2010年会引发问题;逼真的机器人将意味着人们可能无法区分人类朋友和仿真机器人。
tangible a.切实的,真实的
When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires,you have something tangible (a.) to sell.[1996年阅读]
[译文]当你为自己的能力和欲望仔细地筹划了一幅蓝图后,你就有确切的东西可以兜售了。
technicist n.技术员,技师
Also common in the natural sciences,the technicist (n.) fallacy mistakenly identifies the discipline as a whole with certain parts of its technical implementation. [1999年翻译]
[译文]在自然科学领域,这种现象也很普遍,技术谬误错误地将历史研究技术实施过程中的某些过程当成了历史研究的整体。
telecom (=telecommunication)n.电信
The mergers of telecom (n.) companies,such as WorldCom,hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress.[2001年阅读]
[译文]像世界通讯这样的通讯公司合并似乎没有给消费者带来更高的价格,或者降低技术进步的速度。
template/ templet n.模板,样板
There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers,which helps explain why the “standard templates (n.)” of the newsroom seem alien to many readers.[2001年阅读]
[译文]新闻记者和读者之间存在着社会和文化方面的脱节,这就是为什么新闻编辑室的“标准模式”与众多读者的意趣相差甚远的原因。
teller n.(银行)出纳员
Our banking is done at automated teller (n.) terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction.[2002年阅读]
[译文]自动柜员机处理着银行业务,完成业务后,它们还会机械地、有礼貌地感谢我们。
therapist n.临床医学家
Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from a therapist (n.).[2005年阅读]
[译文]长期受噩梦困忧的人应该去找专家看看。
thermostat n.自动调温器,温度调节装置
Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind's emotional thermostat (n.),regulating moods while the brain is “off-line.”[2005年阅读]
[译文]现在,研究人员怀疑,梦是大脑调节情感的一部分,当大脑“掉线”时,梦能调控情绪。
thrilling a.①毛骨悚然的;②颤动的
Why has inflation proved so mild? The most thrilling (a.①) explanation is,unfortunately,a little defective.[1997年阅读]
[译文]通货膨胀为何如此的和缓?可惜的是,这最令人震惊的解释有一点缺陷。
tort n.民事侵权行为
At the same time,the American Law Institute--a group of judges,lawyers,and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight--issued new guidelines for tort (n.) law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.[1999年阅读]
[译文]与此同时,美国法学会--该学会由一群举足轻重的法官、律师、学者所组成--签署了新的民事侵害法纲要,宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险,或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能造成的危险的清单。
transcendentalist a.[哲]先验论者的,超越论者的
Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalist (n.) philosophers thought schooling and rigorous book learning put unnatural restraints on children:“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for 10 or 15 years and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.”[2004年阅读]
[译文]拉尔夫•瓦尔多•爱默生和其他一些先验主义哲学家认为学校教育和严格的书本学习限制了孩子们的天性,“我们被关在中小学和大学的朗诵室里十年或十五年,最后出来满肚子墨水,却啥都不懂。”
treasury n.财政部,国库
There is,as Robert Rubin,the treasury (n.) secretary,says,a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.[1998年阅读]
[译文]正如财政部长罗伯特•鲁宾所说的,商业界的大量趣闻暗示生产率大幅增长了,但这同官方的统计数字所显示的情况“不符”。
trigonometry n.三角学
Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our early mechanics,especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states,were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects of geometry and trigonometry (n.).[1996年阅读]
[译文]为什么要提小学教育?正是因为有了这些学校,我们的早期技工才普遍能读会写,并精通算术及部分几何和三角,这种情况在新英格兰和大西洋中部各州尤为可见。
trillion num.万亿
Inflation says that very early on,the universe expanded in size by more than a trillion (num.) fold in much less than a second,propelled by a sort of antigravity.[1998年翻译]
[译文]膨胀学说告诉我们,早在很久以前,宇宙的体积在不到一秒钟内被一种反引力驱动而发生了无数倍的膨胀。
triviality n.琐事
“Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities (n.),”says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines.[1999年阅读]