2017年托福考试听力听力场景词汇（十六）

　　beneath

　　prep. 在……下面

　　breakthroughn.

　　突破, 重大进展

　　The breakthrough permits direct detection of each nucleotide, allowing an entire gene to be sequenced in about an hour.

　　came across

　　偶然遇到

　　I was out with my friend to go see another area that was flooded when wecame across this and both of us screamed with delight.

　　come up with

　　提出

　　conservation

　　n. 保护

　　But he argues that in the long term the focus must shift to conservation, efficiency, and more rational pricing so that city users pay their fair share.

　　customary

　　adj. 习惯的, 惯例的

　　Cafés and coffee houses are an Austrian tradition, and it is customary to take an afternoon break for a strong cup of coffee.

　　deciphern.

　　辨认

　　It may take decades after the initial indications of alien life for scientists to gather enough evidence to be certain or to decipher a signal of artificial origin.

　　decipherv.

　　辨认

　　In some cases, people can decipher the information being represented but need a machine to use it properly.

　　diagram

　　n. 图表

　　A business worker would not be shown in an activity diagram for a business use case itself, but it would be shown as part of the business use case realization.

　　Display

　　v. 显示出来

　　donate

　　v. 捐献

　　durable

　　adj. 耐用的

　　President Bush stressed once again that while he would like to see the violence end, any cease-fire must be durable and respected by all.

　　erase

　　v. 擦除

　　We can't erase these bad experiences whether they are accidents, failures or mistakes, but we can certainly learn from them.

　　expose

　　v. 暴露

　　Instead, it will expose us more frequently and in more variations to the differences that surround us.

　　Extent

　　n. 程度

　　iron

　　n. 铁

　　monk

　　n. 修道士，僧侣

　　It all boils down to respect. A monk cannot disrespect the layperson by refusing their food. And so, he must eat the food, whatever it happens to be.

　　original

　　adj. 最初的，最先的

　　But that formula forces us to return to the original Socratic question about the harmony of the soul and the city.

　　parchment

　　n. 羊皮纸

　　For our values are not simply words written into parchment – they are a creed that calls us together, and that has carried us through the darkest of storms as one nation, one people.

　　physicistn.

　　物理学家

　　portion

　　n. 部分

　　predominant

　　adj. 主要的，占主导地位的

　　preserve

　　v. 保存

　　But they say they can go only so far, so fast without compromising tastes consumers have come to relish or salt’s ability to preserve food.

　　Prior

　　adj. 在…之前

　　But I look out at this audience filled with not only many friends and colleagues, but people who have served in prior administrations.

　　realizev.

　　意识到

　　reappear

　　v. 再次出现

　　scholarn.

　　学者

　　scribe

　　n.( 印刷术发明之前的) 抄写员

　　script

　　n. 笔迹

　　Our only requirements for each script will be one database connect, one database access, and an output to the screen of the retrieved row.

　　Selective

　　adj. 认真选择的

　　Biologists can infer the reason for these selective forces from the kinds of genes that are tagged by the genome scans.

　　stretch

　　v. 伸展

　　tension

　　n. 拉紧，收紧

　　She was in her element. When she sensed tension between us, she ran from one to the other to assure us that we were good and she loved us.

　　typically

　　adv. 典型地

　　wipe out

　　彻底擦除

　　Nor is it sufficient for you to wipe out the ruling family, since the nobles who make themselves heads of new insurrections still remain.