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Telecmmunications WORD STUDY
Unit 4 Book Four
Section A The Telecommunications Revolution
Key Words and Their Collocations
1. telecommunications: n. the sending and receiving of messages over distance, esp. by telephone
— New competition in telecommunications is a useful start.
— a telecommunications satellite
tele: prefix, 远距离的,远的
telegram, telescope, television, telephone, telecommuter(远距离工作者)
2. utility: n. 1) a service used by the public, such as an electricity or gas supply or train service 2) the usefulness of sth. esp. in a practical way — Monopolies in industries like railways and various utilities need breaking up.
— Rescue teams worked desperately to restore utilities in the area shattered by the hurricane.
— The information is of the highest utility to a historian.
Word building: utensil; utilize
3. web : n. a fine net made by a spider from a sticky substance which it produces from its body; sth. as complicated as a net
— Why doesn‘t a spider get stuck in his own web?
Who can understand the web of life?
Collocation:a web of lies 一片谎言
a web of railway 铁路网
4. condense: v. 1) reduce (esp. sth. written) to a smaller or shortened form
2) (of a gas) become liquid or sometimes solid esp. by becoming cooler
— He managed to condense his letter of application to one page.
— I tried to condense the report into as few words as possible.
— When a gas or vapor condenses, it changes into liquid.
Word building: condenser; condensation
5. intensive : adj. involving a lot of activity, effort, or careful attention in a short period of time
Collocation: Labor-intensive capital-intensive
a one-week intensive course in English
— After a brief period of intensive training, I was allowed to make my first parachute jump.
Word building: intensively
cf: intense: adj. having a very strong effect or felt very strongly
intense heat/cold/competition/pain
Word building: n. intensity
v. intensify
— Police have now inten
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