life beyond earth 词汇.pptVIP

plausible Such talk, however plausible, is actually specious and groundless. 这些话，讲起来好像有道理，实际上是毫无根据、似是而非的空谈。 He cast about in his mind for some plausible excuse for not turning up at the meeting. 他心里在算盘，想找一个什么说得过去的理由来解释他为什么没有到会。 hunch I have a hunch that something is going to happen. 不知道为什么，我总感觉要出什么事似的 Such an uncertainty may prevent you from acting on your hunch. 这个不明确因素可能阻挠你凭直觉行动。 infuse Vt.灌输，加入（一种特性） ~ new blood 注入新鲜血液 ~ new life into sb./sth.赋予人、物以新的生命 Vt.vi. 沏（茶），泡（草药） ~ tea/herbs ~ sb. with courage 鼓起某人的勇气 harbor 隐匿；窝藏；包庇：harboring criminals is an offense in law. 心怀，怀有：to harbor evil thoughts. He harbors a wish to be a world championship. yield 生出，出产；产生：the apple tree yields plenty of apples. ~capacity 生产能力 交出，投降：not yield a step. They yield the fortress to the enemy. purport N. ~ (of sth.) general meaning or intention (of sth.) 主要意义; 大意; 意图 E.g. I find it difficult to understand the ~ of his speech. V. be meant to seem (to be); claim or pretend 意思似乎是; 声称; 伪称 E.g. in contrast, a shadow director does not claim or ~ to act as a director. Indeed, he claims not to be a director. 相比之下，影子董事不但不表明自己是董事，他甚至否认自己是董事。 tarnish V. 玷污，败坏 His bad behavior has tarnished the good name of the school. N. 污点，瑕疵，无光泽 Moisture leads to the tarnish of the silverware. 湿气使得银器毫无光泽 dissent 持异议 n. v. When I asked for agreement there was no dissent. I think nobody will dissent from the government’s policy. * Life beyond earth [P1]Qualitatively: 从性质上讲 [P2]Notoriously: 非常 [P2]Replicate: 复制 [P4]Tantalizing: arousing desire or expectation for sth. unattainable or mockingly out of reach, intriguing but elusive. [P4]Millennium: 千周年, 一个一千年; 千年纪念, 千周年纪念 [P4]Extraterrestrial: adj. of or from outside the earth and its atmosphere.地球 和大气层外的; 来自天外的 [P4]Hubble Space Telescope: 哈勃太空望远镜 [P5]Scenario: imagined sequence of future events（对可能出现情况的）描述、推测 [P5]Galaxy: any of the large systems of stars in outer space 星系 [P5]Sk(c)eptic: 怀疑者 [P5]UCLA: University of Califor