2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（二十四）_第3页

　　§ fluctuation

　　§ oscillation

　　§ 波动, 震动

　　§ Was this fluctuation real, or was it merely a glitch in the equipment used to measure the decay,induced by the change of seasons, with the accompanying changes in temperature andhumidity?

　　§ initially

　　§ originally

　　§ 起初地

　　§ Some guests initially refused to attend, but the couple assured them there would not be anycasket or corpse.

　　§ hypothesis

　　§ assumption, supposition

　　§ 假设

　　§ Thus, you have effectively formulated an hypothesis about the efficacy of the process.

　　§ insufficient

　　§ inadequate, deficient

　　§ 不足的

　　§ Some people like to track everything, and we do imagine that it could be helpful to see longerperiods of poor or insufficient sleep than we realized we were experiencing.

　　§ conventional

　　§ traditional

　　§ 传统的

　　§ So if you look at this part of the curve, this chart, everything to the right is in fact what you mightsee in a conventional fossil boil or natural gas plant.

　　§ abruptly

　　§ rapidly, hastily

　　§ 突然地

　　§ Abruptly, she looked up at him, and he saw in her eyes that his determination and anxiety and readiness were flowing into her through the thing he held, and that they had become her own.

　　§ metallic

　　§ 金属的

　　§ Toward the veranda’s end is the home’s namesake, a metallic chimney that is established as adesign accent, not something to be hidden away or designed around.

　　§ preferentially

　　§ favorably

　　§ 优先地

　　§ "We try to find which parts of the brain preferentially talk to which other parts, " he says. "Wecan sort of map that out, and at the end it sort of spits out a number.

　　§ incorporate

　　§ include, integrate

　　§ 包含

　　§ Exclude

　　§ Languages tend to incorporate patterns and other common idioms, where they disappear aspart of the language abstraction itself.

　　§ meteorites

　　§ 陨石

　　§ These meteorites, comets, or other unknowns may have contained vital components with whichbudding life on Earth either assimilated or used as a catalyst to create itself.

　　§ microscopic

　　§ infinitesimal

　　§ 微观的

　　§ Gigantic

　　§ All the microscopic available states, that is, if I take an individual particle and I say where it can be, all those states have the same energy.

　　§ boundary

　　§ 界限

　　§ And when I am on the curve I am on the boundary of the surface, so there is a direction along the surface that is the curve and the other one is pointing into the surface.