2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（八）_第3页

　　§ minimal

　　§ 最低的

　　§ Maximal

　　§ There will be some changes to the specification before UML 2 is completely adopted, but these changes should be minimal.

　　§ amount to

　　§ add up to

　　§ 总计, 合计

　　§ But Europe and America’s exports to China have remained broadly flat over the past year and amount to less than 7% of the total, even though shrinking exports to other countries flatter the figure.

　　§ project

　　§ predict, expect

　　§ 计划, 预计

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

　　§ acreage

　　§ area

　　§ 面积

　　§ We need to protect arable land, especially basic farmland, stabilize the acreagesown to grain, and expand overall grain production capacity.

　　§ inevitable

　　§ unavoidable

　　§ 不可避免的

　　§ avoidable

　　§ The kind of logic that says, "This was all inevitable," is impossible with that data in your hands.

　　§ conserve

　　§ preserve

　　§ 储存, 保存

　　§ Some automobile makers and customizers can fit your tank with a kind of foam used in race cars to protect fuel tanks and conserve fuel.

　　§ philosophy

　　§ 理念

　　§ We do not view them from the same station, as we do a picture, or a poem, or a system of philosophy, and are, therefore, apt to be very differently affected by them.

　　§ concentrate

　　§ focus

　　§ 集中

　　§ A better approach would be to concentrate efforts on creating demand for green products and services by setting a carbon price, he says.

　　§ incentive

　　§ motivation

　　§ 动机

　　§ Content providers, however, have every incentive to control access to it because they rely on the goodwill of their audience.

　　§ grandiose

　　§ massive

　　§ 宏伟的

　　§ The lack of such leaders may also be the hallmark of a largely post-ideological era in which far less need is felt for unifying doctrines or the grandiose figures who provide them.

　　§ scheme

　　§ 计划

　　§ Finding his own scheme met with no support, the Mayor faced round and supported the ideas of his Councillors.

　　§ canal

　　§ 运河

　　§ But it might postpone some of the dizzier schemes, such as one to build a freight line across mountainous northern Colombia to rival the Panama canal.