Day11 單詞作業(yè)
1. palaeontology
▲ the study of fossils as a way of getting information about the history of life on Earth and the structure of rocks
2. fossil
▲ a bone, a shell or the shape of a plant or animal which has been preserved in rock for a very long period
▲ [informal] [humorous] an old person, especially one who will not accept new ideas
3. condense
▲ [T] to reduce something, such as a speech or piece of writing, in length
? ? I condensed ten pages of comments into/to two.
▲ [T] to make a liquid thicker by removing some of the water
▲ [I or T] to change or make something change from a gas to a liquid or solid state
? ? Water vapour in the air condenses into fog.
4. interstellar
▲ between the stars
? ??interstellar space
5. penetrate
▲ [ Ior T] to move into or through something
? ? Amazingly, the bullet did not penetrate his brain.
▲ [T] If your eyes penetrate somewhere dark, you manage to see through it
? ? Our eyes couldn't penetrate the dark/the gloom of the inner cave.
6. layer
▲ [N] a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, which is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of a substance
? ? the ozone layer
▲ [V] to arrange something in layers
? ? Layer the pasta with slices of tomato.
7. mound
▲ a large pile of earth, stones, etc. like a small hill
? ? a burial mound(= a place where people were buried in ancient times)
▲ a large pile of something
? ? a mound of potatoes/papers
▲ [BASEBALL] [US] the raised area in baseball from which the pitcher throws the ball
8. photosynthesis
▲ the process by which a plant uses the energy from the light of the sun to produce its own food
9. debut
▲ [N] when someone performs or presents something to the public for the first time
? ? She made her professional stage debut in Swan Lake.
▲ [V] to perform or be introduced to the public for the first time
? ? The programme debuted last year to great acclaim.
10. organism
▲ a single living plant, animal, virus, etc
? ? Amoebae and bacteria are single-celled organisms.
11. intriguing
▲ very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious
? ? an intriguing possibility/question
12. swathe
▲ [C] a long strip or large area especially of land
? ? Huge swathes of rainforest are being cleared for farming and mining.
13. basalt
▲ a type of black rock that comes from a volcano
14. lava
▲ hot liquid rock which comes out of the Earth through a volcano or the solid rock formed when it cools
? ? molten lava?熔巖
15. outcrop
▲ a large rock or group of rocks that sticks out of the ground
16. scrutiny
▲ the careful and detailed examination of something in order to get information about it
? ? The Government's record will be subjected to/come under (close)?scrutiny in the weeks before the election.
17. quartz
▲ a hard colourless mineral substance, used in making electronic equipment and accurate watches and clocks
18. vein
▲ [C] a tube that carries blood to the heart from the other parts of the body
▲ [C] the frame of a leaf or an insect's wing
19. nodule
▲ a small raised area or swelling
? ? There was a soft nodule on my vocal cord.
20. micron
▲ 0.000 001 of a metre（微米）
21. rosette
▲ a flower-shaped decorative object cut into wood or stone, or one made of ribbon(= narrow silk strips)worn as a sign that you support a particular team or political party or that you have won a race, etc
? ? The winning horse had a rosette fixed to its bridle.
22. hollow
▲ having a hole or empty space inside
? ? a hollow tube
▲ hollow cheeks/eyes
If someone has hollow cheeks or eyes, their cheeks curve in or their eyes look deep in their head because they are old, tired, or ill.
23. diameter
▲ (the length of) a straight line that reaches from one point on the edge of a round shape or object, through its centre, to a point on the opposite edge
? ? The diameter measures twice the radius.
24. haematite
▲ a common dark red or grey rock from which iron is obtained
25. gradient
▲ how steep a slope is
? ? a steep/gentle gradient
26. iron oxide
▲ 氧化鐵
27. filament
▲ a thin thread or fibre of natural or artificial material
? ? Tooth brushes should be replaced when the filaments become worn.
▲ a thin wire, especially one which lights up inside an electric light bulb
? ? a tungsten filament
28. anchor
▲ [I orT] to lower an anchor into the water in order to stop a boat from moving away
▲ [T]to make something or someone stays in one position by fastening them firmly
? ? We anchored ourselves to the rocks with a rope.
29. resemblance
▲ when two people or things look like each other or are similar in some other way
? ? There was a clear family resemblance between all the brothers.
30. cradle
▲ [BED] a small bed for a baby, especially one that swings from side to side
? ? The nurse rocked the cradle.
▲ [TELEPHONE] the object that you put a mobile phone, camera, PDA, etc. into in order to recharge(= put power into)its batteries or connect it to a computer
▲ UK(US scaffold)a frame which hangs on the side of a building, ship, etc. for people to work from
▲ the cradle of sth
the place where something started
? ? Fossil records indicate that Africa was the cradle of early human evolution.
▲from (the) cradle to (the) grave
for all of a person's life
? ? She lived in the same village from the cradle to the grave.
▲[saying]The hand that rocks the cradle (rules the world).
said to emphasise that women have a strong influence on events through their children
31. crenellated
▲ having battlements(= castle walls with regular spaces along the top)
32. tectonic
▲ relating to the structure of the surface of the Earth and the way it is formed, changed and moved by forces inside it
? ? the motion of Earth's tectonic plates(= sections of the planet's surface)
33. remnant
▲ a small piece or amount of something that is left from a larger original piece or amount
? ? the remnants of last night's meal
Day12 神句翻譯+思維導圖
1. The team contends that / these bear more than a passing resemblance to the networks of bacteria (that live in hydrothermal vents--towering, crenellated structures (that form in the deep ocean above the boundaries between tectonic plates, [where superheated mineral-laden water spurts up from beneath the seabed])).
團隊認為，它們擁有的不僅是與生活在熱泉噴口的細菌網(wǎng)絡的相似之處；這些熱泉噴口有著高聳的、鋸齒狀的結構，形成于深海中地殼邊界間，高熱的礦物質水從海床下面噴發(fā)之處。
該團隊認為,這些和生活在深海熱泉的細菌群落極為相似----深海熱泉指的是:深海中構造板塊交界邊緣上方高聳鋸齒型的部分,富含礦物質的水從海底噴涌而出。Bear more than a passing resemblance to: passing指的是過關，及格線，more than a passing resemblance指遠超及格線，非常相似。
這句句子結構相當復雜，從句套從句，還是提醒大家牢記就近原則，但是最后一個where打頭的從句，前面一個逗號與破折號之間的部分是修飾hydrothermal vents的插入語，所以where修飾的也是hydrothermal vents。大家可以再仔細體會一下。
2. Such a find is doubly intriguing because hydrothermal vents are seen as a plausible candidate for the cradle of life.
這樣的發(fā)現(xiàn)非常引人注目的，因為人們認為熱泉噴口是生命起源之地是有可能的。
人們認為深海熱泉很有可能是生命的搖籃，這就使得該發(fā)現(xiàn)顯得更有意思。
Plausible:有兩種意思，一個偏褒義，另一個偏貶義，此處指appearingworthy of belief：eg.?the?argument was both powerful and?plausible褒義
建議大家好好研究下plausible的用法，高頻詞。
3. Although the sorts of bacteria apparently found by Dr. Papineau and his colleagues are too complicated to reveal much about the very earliest organisms, the suggestion that hydrothermal vents have played host to life for so long is a strike in the theory’s favour.
盡管Papineau博士和同事發(fā)現(xiàn)的細菌顯然過于復雜，難以顯示最早的生物體，但熱泉噴口是生命起源之地的觀點是這一理論的一個支撐點。
盡管P教授和同事們發(fā)現(xiàn)的這類細菌太過復雜，無法更深入的揭示早期生命體的情況，但依然表明深海熱泉養(yǎng)育生命的歷史甚為悠久，這是支撐該理論的有力依據(jù)。
Too....to...太......以致不能......You are too young to drive.你太年輕，還不能開車。
ps: 這幾天太忙了quq，有時間再補上思維導圖！今天的翻譯也好難！哭/(ㄒoㄒ)/~~
Day13 總結回顧
……豈可修，論文還沒寫完！文章也沒有細讀，還有很多地方不甚理解。但看了篤師的注釋之后終于對那三個句子有了比較深的理解——應該說終于讀懂了……
anyway，又留下了一個小尾巴，明早早讀的時候再讀讀看——！
