2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（十七）_第4页

　　§ spin

　　§ 纺(纱、线)

　　§ This blue planet, and near her, the white moon that holds us in her gravitational pull so that we spin at the speed of life.

　　§ multiply

　　§ 增加

　　§ We can also multiply out the expected defects per iteration by the number of remainingiterations and then by the average defect resolution effort.

　　§ turnpike

　　§ 收费公路

　　§ A consortium led by Abertis, a Spanish infrastructure company, pulled its $12.8 billion proposalto take over the running of Pennsylvania’s turnpike, the state’s main toll road.

　　§ weight

　　§ 重物

　　§ I have a trophy in my office proclaiming me to be “The Writer with No Future” because I couldproduce more rejection slips by weight than any other writer at an entire conference.

　　§ terrain

　　§ ground

　　§ 地形、地势

　　§ The satellite bounces laser light off the ground, allowing researchers to measure the terrain with extraordinary precision.

　　§ ingredient

　　§ 要素、组成部分

　　§ Forexample, if genetic engineering simply moves a gene for a common food ingredient fromone safe food crop to another, this does not expose consumers to new components in their foodsupply.

　　§ laden

　　§ 满载的

　　§ At the same time, they do feel some resonance with many of the things that bin Laden says, sothey feel some conflict about this," he said.

　　§ wagon

　　§ 货车

　　§ Suffering was terrible. An officer who led the wagon train said he learned more about thehorrors of war on that one trip than he had learned in all of his battles.

　　§ flangedwheel

　　§ 带凸缘的轮子

　　§ haul

　　§ pull

　　§ 拉

　　§ Push

　　§ “I came to realize that so much of Beijing was destroyed because no one was willing to paythese men for overtime” to haul away relics, he said, half-jokingly.

　　§ stationary

　　§ still

　　§ 固定的、静止的

　　§ Moving

　　§ To the stationary one on the platform, the light expanded also, but in addition Einstein saw themovement of the train caused one side to meet the wave earlier than the other side.

　　§ flickering

　　§ 闪烁的

　　§ When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.

　　§ virtual

　　§ 实际上

　　§ But the trouble is not virtual reality per se – it is the inability to move from one world to another.