2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析（四十四）

　　§ Headword

　　§ Synonym

　　§ 汉译

　　§ Antonym

　　§ density

　　§ thickness

　　§ 密度

　　§ The increasing population density will even further congeal traffic.

　　§ vegetation

　　§ plant

　　§ 植物

　　§ The belt of vegetation that crosses Africa below the Sahara is very dark because most of the sunlight is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis.

　　§ pattern

　　§ design

　　§ 图案

　　§ The chameleon's skin replicates the pattern of its surroundings.

　　§ relatively

　　§ comparatively

　　§ 相对地

　　§ For advertisers, an aircraft can be an effective medium, because it allows them to inform the public about their products at the right time in a relatively uncluttered medium

　　§ indistinct

　　§ unclear

　　§ 不清楚的

　　§ Their cries reached me weakened and indistinct and, leaning my forehead against the cool glass, I looked over at the dark house where she lived.

　　§ conspicuous

　　§ 显眼的

　　§ But moths survive by being camouflaged, and [ladybugs] survive by being conspicuous and telling birds not to eat them.

　　§ detect

　　§ find

　　§ 察觉

　　§ Conceal

　　§ I concede that they may be hard to detect in the beginning, but like a concave bowl, with everything gathered together in the middle that you can only understand when you come out.

　　§ predator

　　§ marauder

　　§ 掠夺者

　　§ But just like Dutch in Predator before the final battle, you have to be able to answer only one question about your target before you start: where they are

　　§ visible

　　§ 可见的

　　§ Invisible

　　§ Because this application is a system application, it is not normallyvisible, but it is there.

　　§ amphibian

　　§ 两栖动物

　　§ "Almost all of them were abandoned somewhere in the city, " said Wu Weichun, the director of the zoo's amphibian department, to the Shanghai Dailynewspaper.

　　§ reptile

　　§ 爬行动物

　　§ This small reptile, which measures just 10 centimeters long, can swim through the sand dunes at up to 15 centimeters per second.

　　§ camouflage

　　§ conceal

　　§ 伪装

　　§ Some species weave designs into their webs, creating zigzag patterns that can either attract prey, like bees, in bright sunlight, orcamouflage the net in the shade.

　　§ chameleon

　　§ 变色龙

　　§ But the little chameleon has a threatened conservation status, after being subject to illegal harvesting for the pet trade and loss of habitat.

　　§ carnival

　　§ 狂欢节

　　§ We learn shortly afterwards that they have taken this descent to the Piraeus to view a festival, a kind ofcarnival.

　　§ aggression

　　§ 进攻

　　§ We will never accomodate ourselves to acts ofaggression and intervention out of consideration for our relations with the power in question.

　　§ readiness

　　§ 预备, 准备就绪

　　§ In the next and final article in this series, we will look at measurements in the Transition phase, which primarily focus on the release readiness of the solution.

　　§ favorable

　　§ propitious

　　§ 有利的

　　§ Optimism is looking at a more favorable side of events and simply anticipating the best possible outcome in any situation.

　　§ limelight

　　§ 众人注目的中心

　　§ Despite less than gaudy stats, a Super Bowl victory would catapult Sanchez into Madison Avenue limelight.

　　§ spectacular

　　§ remarkable

　　§ 壮观的

　　§ You wander off to one side, into the nave, and suddenly you come across this spectacular altar, or a beautiful painting that was totally unexpected.

　　§ plumage

　　§ feather

　　§ 羽毛, 翅膀

　　§ The impressive and colourful plumage used by male peacocks and birds of paradise, for example, is thought to demonstrate the quality of their genes and therefore their suitability as a mate.

　　§ penetrate

　　§ permeate

　　§ 渗透

　　§ Because water is the softest substance in the world, but yet it canpenetrate the hardest rock or anything -- granite, you name it.

　　§ canopy

　　§ covering

　　§ 遮篷

　　§ Not surprisingly, groups of birds that nest in the canopy of trees declined significantly, while species that nest in cavities or near the ground were affected far less.

　　§ wavelength

　　§ 波长

　　§ “All the events we are depicting are so small they are below the wavelength of light,” he said.

　　§ predominate

　　§ 占主导

　　§ The love songs that predominate, as they usually do with Oberst, are long on social context.

　　§ yellowish

　　§ 微黄色的

　　§ Walking through this mix of red windows, white arches andyellowish walls is a strange feeling.

　　§ contrast

　　§ comparison

　　§ 对比

　　§ To be not only sharp, but to reveal enough information there so that you can have contrast; to be able to distinguish backgrounds from foregrounds from objects was crucial.

　　§ scrubland

　　§ 灌木丛林地

　　§ Surviving on the scant rain that falls on the high desert, the surrounding natural scrubland uses far less water. Thescrubland, shown in the upper left corner of the image, is tan and pale blue.

　　§ courtship

　　§ 交配期

　　§ In courtship or dating behavior you see a lot of neck touching at first, as couples are learning about each other.

　　§ aggressive

　　§ 进攻性的

　　§ If you take this strategy, track the cost of development closely and compare it to those who take moreaggressive mitigation strategies.

　　§ pendulous

　　§ drooping

　　§ 下垂的

　　§ The birds bent the tree branches from which they hung,pendulous ornaments, their amber eyes like glass beads.

　　§ apparatus

　　§ organ

　　§ 器官

　　§ In one sense, a man is a convenient apparatus for delivering sperm. The male genes have arranged it that way.

　　§ repel

　　§ defend

　　§ 抵制

　　§ This would have brought the largely lawless areas near Afghanistan into mainstream society or helped them see it as in their interest torepel militants.

　　§ spectrum

　　§ 范围

　　§ At one end of the spectrum is the ability to release an application based on its project plan.

　　§ illuminate

　　§ 照明

　　§ Let's once again do some mind traveling and see if we can get close enough to this question to either discard it as irrelevant, or to know it personally in a way that may illuminate the issue.

　　§ Rhinoceros

　　§ 犀牛

　　§ In this island is also found the rhinoceros, an animal less than the elephant, but larger than the buffalo.

　　§ hornbill

　　§ 犀鸟

　　§ I could barely see the hornbill at first, and they could just tell from hundreds of meters away, that high up on a tree, was a silhouette next to some leaves (which was a hornbill).

　　§ unmistakable

　　§ definite

　　§ 错不了的

　　§ Mistakable

　　§ It's fun to get out there and see which trees have turned, feel the crunch of leaves underfoot, and take in thatunmistakable scent of fall in the air.

　　§ gibbon

　　§ 长臂猿

　　§ The Christian Coalition should adopt as their mascot the white-handed gibbon, with his perfect nuclear family of one loyal gibbette and several gibblets.

　　§ densely

　　§ thickly

　　§ 密集地

　　§ The most densely developed areas appear white and gray, while suburban areas appear grayish green—a mixture of houses, streets, and lawns.

　　§ comparison

　　§ 比较

　　§ Dissimilarity

　　§ We comparison-shopped supermarkets in London and Paris and found that most products were still a bargain.

　　§ impediment

　　§ 障碍

　　§ Moreover, we do not carry the legacies of the past several years in our banks' or public sector balance sheets that are such an impediment in other places.

　　§ obstruct

　　§ impede

　　§ 阻隔

　　§ Today, we pay tribute to the brave individuals who, despite all risks, tear down barriers that obstruct democracy and justice for all.

　　§ riflebird

　　§ 风鸟

　　§ N any of various birds of paradise of the genera Ptiloris andCraspedophora, such as C. magnifica (magnificent riflebird)

　　§ exploit

　　§ utilise

　　§ 利用

　　§ The temptation to exploit consumers usually prevails unless it is curbed.

　　§ simultaneously

　　§ concurrently

　　§ 同时地

　　§ If they have multiple test cases that will be run on the same platforms, they can select multiple configurationssimultaneously and apply the configurations to several of them in batch mode.

　　§ ritualized

　　§ 仪式化

　　§ All are “sustained in office” by the regular and nowritualized vote of confidence at the semiannual General Conference, which is open to all Mormons and to outside observers as well.