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accustomed
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Even if they are willing to make the sacrifice in dollars, whether Americans will give up long accustomed personal liberties is another question.
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affluent
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Leeson and his wife Lisa never really seemed to fit into the affluent, neo-colonial life-style of Singapore or into the city’s multiethnic society.( TIME, Mar.13,1995,p.40)
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ambiguous
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Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush didn’t say “No” straight out.
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anonymous
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So he went on his own fact-finding mission, leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper submitted last month by three anonymous high-tech firms.
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appropriate adj. 适宜的 【反】inappropriate
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So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels may not be appropriate for younger women who have not yet entered menopause.
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at stake 危急存亡关头的，有可能丧失或受损的 【同】at risk
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At a news conference,(U.S. Undersecretary of Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the international community (NATO) was at stake.
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available adj. （物）可取得的，可买到的；（人有空）可见面的，可参加的
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Most of the (smart) cards available in Atlanta will be worth between $10 and $50 and will be usable instead of cash at as many as 5000 “points of purchase” throughout the city.
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bear adj. (股市)看跌的，熊市的
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Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don’t last.
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bilateral adj. 双边的
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He would halt bilateral contact with North Korea until Pyongyang resumed negotiations with South Korea.
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accustomed adj. 习惯于 【同】used【反】unaccustomed
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Even if they are willing to make the sacrifice in dollars, whether Americans will give up long accustomed personal liberties is another question.
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affluent adj. 富裕的 【同】prosperous, wealthy【反】poor
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Leeson and his wife Lisa never really seemed to fit into the affluent, neo-colonial life-style of Singapore or into the city’s multiethnic society.( TIME, Mar.13,1995,p.40)
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ambiguous adj. 模棱两可的，暧昧的 【同】vague【反】obvious, clear
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Truman got the Korean War because he was ambiguous, and Saddam took Kuwait because Bush didn’t say “No” straight out.
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anonymous adj. 匿名的，不知名的 【反】known, named
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So he went on his own fact-finding mission, leaning heavily on a 49-page white paper submitted last month by three anonymous high-tech firms.
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appropriate adj. 适宜的 【反】inappropriate
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So any protein that dissolves new blood vessels may not be appropriate for younger women who have not yet entered menopause.
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at stake 危急存亡关头的，有可能丧失或受损的 【同】at risk
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At a news conference,(U.S. Undersecretary of Defense) Perry declared that the credibility of the international community (NATO) was at stake.
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available adj. （物）可取得的，可买到的；（人有空）可见面的，可参加的
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Most of the (smart) cards available in Atlanta will be worth between $10 and $50 and will be usable instead of cash at as many as 5000 “points of purchase” throughout the city.
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bear adj. (股市)看跌的，熊市的
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Meanwhile, pundits who do make a bear stand don’t last.
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bilateral adj. 双边的
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He would halt bilateral contact with North Korea until Pyongyang resumed negotiations with South Korea.
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bland adj. 平淡无奇的
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As a result news coverage tends to be bland.
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blunt adj. 直言不讳的
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Clinton’s summation was startlingly blunt: “It is better to have reached no agreement (on Japan’s opening it domestic market) than to have reached an empty agreement.”
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bull adj. （股市）看涨的，多头的，牛市的
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The bull market will end-----but when is the question.
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burgeoning adj. 正快速发展的
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Genetic information is the raw material of the burgeoning biotechnology industry, which uses human DNA to build specialized proteins that may have some value as disease-fighting drugs.
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coherent adj. 前后连贯的，有条理的 【反】muddled, incoherent
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Curry… impressed Clinton with his ability to fashion a coherent policy message that synthesized the often conflicting interests of the party’s traditional and moderate wings.
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comprehensive adj. 包罗广泛的，全面的 【同】complete 【反】partial
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Grove delivered a sharp, comprehensive report. His bosses were impressed.
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compulsory adj. 义务的，强制的 【同】mandatory
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In 1919 while serving a compulsory stint in the military, Nurmi entered a 20-k march carrying a rifle, a cartridge belt and a knapsack filled with 5 kg of sand.
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conciliatory adj. 有和解之意的
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The executive director of the Christian Coalition told a prominent Jewish audience, in a conciliatory speech, that calling the U.S. a “Christian nation” is wrong…
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conscious adj. 意识到……的 【同】aware
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Times Books recently announced that it will publish a book of socially-conscious poetry by former President Jimmy Carter.
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conventional adj. 传统的，一般的，普通的 【同】traditional 【反】unconventional
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The voice-recognition technology will not be on conventional desktop computers only; it will be available in any sort of electronic information processing device.
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critical adj. 重大的，据关键地位的 【同】crucial
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“We have only the foggiest idea,” the independent daily Segodnya complained last week, “who is actually at the helm in this country, who is making the critical decisions.”
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crucial adj. 关键的，重大的 【同】critical
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Understanding social cues, creating works of art and spawning inventions are all crucial mental tasks that bear little relationship to how well a person can fill in a printed test form.
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cunning adj. 狡猾的，精明的 【同】crafty
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Perhaps the most cunning Disney trick is to take fairy tales in the public domain and reinvent them as corporate property. A billion-dollar example is Beauty and the Beast…
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dazzling adj. 令人目眩神移的【同】stunning
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With computers doubling in speed and power every couple of years and with genetic engineering’s dazzling feats growing more and more routine, the battered American faith in technologic progress has been growing stronger and giddier of late.
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dedicated adj. 专注的
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In Singapore, dedicated Net users are planning to maintain unfettered access by junping borders and dialing services in neighboring Malaysia.
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desperate adj. 迫切的
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Bereft of patrons, desperate to rescue his economy, Fidel Castro turns to an unusual solution:…
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determined adj. 坚定的
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Author Joe Kane came across a determined priest, a Spaniard who had spent years teaching a tribe of hunter gatherers, the Huaorani, how to survive outside their rainforest habitat.
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disabled adj. 残障的 【同】handicapped
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Seven years ago, Dole spoke about the need to “provide care and assistance for the hungry and the homeless and the disabled.” Nothing resembling that was heard last week.
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disastrous adj. 灾情惨重的 【同】terrible
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The Kobe quake was only slightly bigger than the Northridge tremor but more disastrous.
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distinct adj. 不易混淆的，独特的
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Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient organ.
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dominant adj. 主宰的，强势的 【同】pre-eminent
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Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution.
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doomed adj. ① 注定的，命定的
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He started at the top, of course, but the fact that he is staying there has frustrated the popular wisdom that an early front runner is doomed to fall.
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drastic adj. 剧烈的 【同】radical
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The New Deal welfare safety net installed in the 1930s and augmented in the Great Society programs of the 1960s has been hauled off for the kind of drastic restitching that France, Germany, Italy and Sweden have been laboring over for the past year or more.
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eccentric adj. 特立独行的，行为怪异的 【同】odd
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The eccentric, fact-based best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil sparks a rush to see where it all took place.
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elevated adj. 崇高的
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It turns out, however, that not every man who reached the pinnacle of American leadership was a gleaming example of self-awareness, empathy, impulse control and other qualities that mark an elevated EQ.
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elite adj. 精英的，最优秀的 n. 精英
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Ideally, the U.N. should have a small, elite, standing rapid-development force … trained and ready to go at once to a trouble spot that the Security Council has decided to become involved in.
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enduring adj. 持久的
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The plain, undecorated object, representing the enduring role art has played throughout China’s history, takes pride of place in the sumptuous Splendors of Imperial China, which opened last week at New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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explicit adj. 明白表示的，直言的
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But they won’t be able to filter the Internet. They’re explicit about that.
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exquisite adj. 精巧的
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The show also includes an exquisite Seurat seascape, some notable Cézannes and considerable painting by Courbet, Gauguin, Van Gogh and others.
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extravagant adj. 奢侈的，挥霍的
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Could this fate befall James Cameron, Hollywood’s most daring and extravagant auteur?
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fantastic adj. 极大的，难以置信的；（口语）极好的，了不起的
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Because of its fantastic capacity to see all possible combinations some distance into the future, the machine (Deep Blue), once it determines that its own position is safe, can take the kind of attacking chances no human would.
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ferocious adj. 凶猛的
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This puts Clinton in something of a no-win situation: he is unlikely to gain much credit if the bailout succeeds, but will catch ferocious flak if it fails.
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flamboyant adj. 显眼的，引人注目的；奢华的
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He is probably the least flamboyant of the Republican contenders.
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fledgling adj. 初出茅庐的，羽毛刚羽的
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Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs — physically robust, psychologically assertive — and ectomorphs—skinny, nervous, sky.
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fluid adj. 流动的，变化不定的 【同】changeable
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Information … is now too fluid to control. It flows in over airways, via satellites, through microwave relays to cellular phones, faxes, televisions, radios, beepers, modems.
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formidable adj. （敌人）但对付的。（工作）艰难的
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“Perot as kingmaker, ” he says tactfully, “is a more formidable proposition than Perot as candate.”
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fragile adj. （情势）脆弱的，禁不起外力冲击的 【同】unstable
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A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world … No matter how good your product, you are only 18 months away from failure.
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futile adj. 徒劳无功的，白费力气的 【同】pointless
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Indeed, for all the world’s governments, … attempts to control the global flow of electro-information are not only futile but counter productive as well.
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genuine adj. 1.真的，非伪造的；2.真诚的，非伪装的
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【同】1.real 2.sincere 【反】fake
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hefty adj. 重大的，猛烈的
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Chow Yun Fat is angling for Hollywood stardom; this time next year he could be in any of three hefty action films.
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hostile adj. 带敌意的 【同】antagonistic 【反】receptive
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Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cuba has no professional league to cream off its top talent, and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migrating to the U.S. major league.
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immense adj. 巨大的 【同】enormous
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His influence in the 1980s was so immense that Taiwanese distributors once asked a Hong Kong director if there was a role in a film for Chow Yun-fat, and if there wasn’t, they’d commit to a deal. to…答应，保证
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imminent adj. 迫近的，即将发生的
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The time will come when the U.S. will subside to become but one of many Great Powers. It is inevitable, but it is not imminent.
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inaugural adj. 就职的
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After the oath, he gave an inaugural address designed to reach out to all Americans, to rally the nation to work together for a great common future.
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indifferent adj. 完好如初的 【同】in one piece
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But psychologists, psychiatrists and other scientists are bitterly divided over the idea that the memory of repeated abuse can be completely wiped out and then recovered, virtually intact.
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lingering adj. 流连不去的
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What remains largely unspoken is the lingering hope that such a mission might experience, somewhere beneath the desolate Martian surface, a close encounter with organisms that are alive today.
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mean adj. 卑劣的
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This bill is mean. It is downright low-down. What does it profit a great nation to conquer the world, only to lose its soul?
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mutual adj. 相互的，共有的
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“That audience was amazing,” he says. “They were so sweet. They were bathing us in affection.” To prove the feeling is mutual, he heads back out into the spotlight.
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namely adv. 即，就是 【同】that is
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Namely, he fails to take into account Quittner’s Law, which says: It is impossible to pay less than $3000 for this year’s computer.
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obscure adj. 默默无闻的 【同】unknown
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He’d met Marc Andreessen, who as an undergraduate programmer had helped create the then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web.
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obsolete adj. 落伍的，过时的 【同】outdated
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Indeed, your average computer is virtually obsolete by the time it is skipped from the factory to the retail store.
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ominous adj. 不吉祥的，不详的 【同】meanacing
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Observers are not surprised that business is flourishing despite the ominous political situation.
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ostensibly adv. 表面上
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At 3:33 a.m., it touched down at Marseilles, ostensibly for a refueling stop.
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outspoken adj. 率直的，不客气的 【同】forthright
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When he (Magic Johnson) tried to make a comeback in the fall of ’92, the fears of some outspoken N.B.A. players forced him to call it off.
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pending adj. 审理中的，悬而未决的；即将发生的
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According the chairman, there are dozens of suits pending against the company.
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perpetual adj. 固执的，顽固的
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A small but persistent group of critics, many of them supported by the oil and coal industries, still don’t buy it.
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persuasive adj. 有说服力的
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Could it be that religious faith has some direct influence on physiology and health? Harvard’s Herbert Benson is probably the most persuasive proponent of this view.
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pervasive adj. 遍布的
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The local U.S. attorney, Eddie Jordan, has called corruption in the (police) department “pervasive, rampant and systemic.”
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phony adj. 伪造的
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A police raid on a Tokyo trading company netted 2000 pieces of counterfeit Nike merchandise, including phony Air Maxes.
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poignant adj. 尖刻的，切中要害的；辛酸感人的 【同】moving
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That’s sort of a poignant irony.
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preliminary adj. 初步的
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The American Society of Travel Agents said in a preliminary estimate that as many as 10000 of its 25000 members could be put out of business.
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previous adj. 先前的
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But it is known that Senator Kennedy gave a toast more poignant than the one the previous evening.
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primary adj. 最初的，原始的，主要的
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Sigmund Freud dismissed religious mysticism as “infantile helplessness” and “regression to primary narcissism.”
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profound adj. 1. 重大的，深刻的 2. （理念、作品、人）深奥的，思想渊博的
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【同】 1. great 2. deep 【反】shallow
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prominent adj. 著名的，杰出的 【同】well-known
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Abe Lincoln was a prominent railroad lawyer in 1860, but he campaigned for the White House as the simple Midwestern rail-splitter.
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promising adj. 前景看好的 【反】unpromising
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On the horizon are the remedies that may prove more promising.
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radical adj. 1. 彻底的； 2. 根本的，基本的；3. 基金的
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【同】fundamental 【反】conservative reactionary
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rebel adj. 背叛的 n. 叛军 v. 反叛
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Yeltsin ruled out direct peace talks with rebel leader Jokhar Dudayev.
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reckless adj. 鲁莽的，不顾后果的
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Sports equipment designed to make football safer encouraged more reckless moves and ended up making the sport more dangerous than unpadded, unhelmeted rugby.
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reminiscent (of) adj. 使人想起……的
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Last week 21 orphans and 13 Red Cross workers trying to guard them were murdered: in a scene reminiscent of Nazi Germany. the children were picked out of a group of 500 simply because they looked like Tutsi.
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renowned adj. 著名的
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With his boyish face and slender build, he (David Ho) could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three ---- or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist.
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rugged adj. 崎岖不平的，多岩石的；（人）体格粗壮的，个性坚毅的
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The man had previously completed (Army Ranger) training in rugged forest, desert and mountain terrains.
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savage adj. 野蛮的，残暴的 【同】vicious
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And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved.
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sensible adj. 合理的明智的
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“Sensible” is not the criterion for a placard. 标准
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sensitive adj. 敏感的，细腻的
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The following year, Woo’s A Better Tomorrow … introduced Chow Yun-fat as the sullen, brutal antihero and Cheung as his sensitive counterpart.
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shrewd adj. 重大的，影响深远的 【同】important 【反】insignificant
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The President’s ambition to stand taller in the world faces one significant U.S. made handicap: brutal cutbacks in funding American foreign policy.
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sluggish adj. 迟缓的，不景气的
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The Paris-based OECD predicted a sluggish rate of growth in 1994 for the G-7 leading industrialized countries.
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sophisticated adj.
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1. (技术、产品)尖端的，先进的；2. （人）老于世故的；3. （人）精通的、老练的
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staggering adj. 令人惊愕的 【同】astounding
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The Pope’s literary output is staggering. His letters, sermons and speeches fill nearly 150 volumes.
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strapped (for cash) adj. 身无分文的，阮囊羞涩的
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Because of reduced oil prices and Gulf War debt, Saudi Arabia is so strapped for cash that it barely met the deadline for its latest $375 million payment on its U.S. weapons contracts.
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subject (to) adj. 受……支配的，受……影响的
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Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in. Some were subject to endless bureaucratic wrangling.
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substantial adj. 大量的，重大的【同】significant 【反】insubstantial
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In 1994, when he was 23, he plowed his substantial savings into creating WARP, to develop and publish video games.
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subtle adj. 隐晦的，不明显的，难以捉摸的 【反】blatant obvious
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Even when it seems beyond the reach of any one government, electronic information can be controlled, in ways both subtle and obvious.
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sweeping adj. 全面的，大规模的，影响深远的 【同】far-reaching
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A House subcommittee…will vote next week on the Smoke-Free Environment Act, perhaps the most sweeping antismoking legislation Congress has ever seriously considered.
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tangible adj. 可触到的，有形的
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In fact, compared with more tangible assaults on the President’s character—namely Paula Jones’ pending sexual-harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into Whitewater—words in a book can barely hurt him.
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thriving adj. 兴盛的
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Most countries offer few opportunities for female soccer players, but Norway has a thriving women’s professional league, and the U.S. a burgeoning co-ed youth soccer movement.
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tremendous adj. 巨大的 【同】enormous
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Some 65 million years ago, a comet or asteroid at least five miles wide struck the earth and blasted out a tremendous crater.
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tricky adj. 棘手的 【同】awkward
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Getting in and out of the fast lanes is always tricky even today. It will be even trickier when you have to change lanes and hand off control to the computer at the same time.
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unanimous adj. 意见一致的
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The 1993 Supreme Court decision was not unanimous.
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unprecedented adj. 史无前例的
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In an unprecedented move, Zedillo chose a member of the opposition party as Attorney General.
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urgent adj. 紧急的 【同】pressing
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All this suggests that sumo, the institution, is in urgent need of its of its own purification.
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venerable adj. 受人尊敬的
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You could almost say this venerable institution with its great credibility and history has been infiltrated slowly by the type of people it was not intended to deal with.
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vigorous adj. 精力旺盛的，充满活力的 【同】dynamic
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It’s a signal as well that the U.S. economy may be starting to slacken after one of its most vigorous years in a decade.
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volatile adj. 善变的 【同】unstable
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When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them.
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voluntary adj. 志愿的，自愿的 【反】obligatory
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It has been 16 months since Australia’s Northern Territory became the first place in the world to legalize voluntary euthanasia.
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vulnerable adj. 易受伤的，脆弱的
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The long time lag between the weapons’ arrival and the Bosnians’ training would leave them extremely vulnerable to snap Serb offensives…
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