高中英语2024届高考复习高级单词汇总（共50例）.doc
高考英语高级单词1.We become defensive when criticized, and apply negative stereotypes to others to boost our own esteem.一旦受到批评，我们就会为自己辩护，并将他人定格为消极的老套形象，以此增强自己的自尊心。2.Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance havent got the point.那些忠诚的音乐会听众回应说现场演出绝非是唱片所能替代的，可这些听众没有领会到问题的关键点。3.Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.蚂蚁让食肉昆虫远离蚜虫进食的地方；谷歌邮箱让滥发垃圾邮件的人远离我们的收件箱。4.At the same time, people continue to treat fire as an event that needs to be wholly controlled and unleashed only out of necessity.与此同时，人们继续把用火视为一种需要全面控制的事件，只有在必要之时才放出来使用。5.As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.在董事会迫于股东的压力严格审查继任计划的时候，那些没被选中的高管们也可能想离开。6.Everyone needs to find their extra their unique value , contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.人人都需要找到自己的额外价值让自己在任何所在职业领域中都脱颖而出的独特价值贡献。7.It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate/express our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.这也是为什么当我们试图用语言来描述音乐时，我们所能做的只能是说清楚对音乐的感受，而不能理解音乐本身。8.Scientists jumped to the rescue with some distinctly shaky evidence to the effect that insects would eat us up if birds failed to control them.科学家们立即拿出某些明显站不住脚的证据前水“救驾”，其大意是说如果鸟儿不能控制这些昆虫的数量的话，昆虫就会吃光一切。9.A moralist, satirist, and social reformer, Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.作为一位道德家、讽刺作家和社会改革家，狄更斯精心设计了复杂的情节和引人注目的人物，捕捉了英国社会的全貌。10.Half a century of town and country planning has enabled it to retain an enviable rural coherence, while still permitting low-density urban living.半个世纪的城乡规划使其（英国）得以保留令人羡慕的乡村和谐，同时仍允许低密度的城镇生活。11.Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.她认为，诚信己瓦解，因为我们集体按受的观念是，社会中唯一的“分选机制，应该是利润和市场。12.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.我们需要他们把美国想象为这样一个地方，在这里他们可以在一段时间内创造价值，而无需承诺永久居留于此。13.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.自愿兼职问题与奥巴马医改有关，因为其主要目的之一就是允许人们在就业之外获得保险。14.Firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drugs effect.一些公司正在研究基因是如何相互作用的，寻找可能用来确定病因或者预测药物疗效的相关性。15.Dead markets partly reflect the disability of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant/unwilling to buy all those supposed bargains.亳无活力的市场一定程度上反映了银行系统的瘫痪，由于担心账面损失，银行不会出售资产，但也不愿意收购那些所谓的廉价资产。16.He adds humbly that perhaps he was "superior to the common run of men in noticing things which easily escape attention, and in observing them carefully" .他谦虚地补充道，或许他“优于常人的地方在于能够注意到容易被忽视的东西，并对这些东西进行仔细观察”。17.Many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.许多顶尖的美国大学都希望他们的本科生接受对一些基本的、富含思想的经典作品的基础教学，这些思想是每个受教育人士都应该有的。18.Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly.买礼物或给慈善机构捐款往往会比给自己买东西更让人开心，有节制地消费奢侈品才会给人以最大的愉悦。19.These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.他们说，这些捐助者在各自所选择的领域都很成功，而且他们想用自己的财富让人们注意到那些在科学领域有所成就的人。20.Perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect/intelligence rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.这些禁令或许还隐约地暗示，人们应该注重如个性和才智等无形的品质，而不是通过节食来达到“零号身材”或“蜂腰体型”。21.The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where delicate wall and ceiling patten and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.海军部门于1879年搬进了东翼，在那里，精心制作的墙壁、天花板上的镂花涂装和镶嵌工艺地板装饰着部长办公室。22.The researchers mapped not only the city's vast and ornate ceremonial/delicate areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.研究人员不仅绘制了这座城市广阔且装饰华丽的庆典区，还绘制了数百个普通民众居住的简单公寓建筑群。23.It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience, but this effect is not a part of its original motive.可以说，衡量任何社会制度价值的标准是其在扩大和改进经验上的成效，但这种成效并不是其最初动机的一部分。24.Our mental health doesn't really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.我们的心理健康并不是真的消失不见了：就像云朵背后的太阳，它也许暂时被遮挡，但是它完全可以在瞬间重焕光芒。25.No boy who went to a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.每个进入文法学校学习的学生都知道，戏剧是一种文学形式，这种文学形式赋予希腊和罗马以荣光，并且可能也会为英国带来荣耀。26.The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.这个想法是这样：那些最忠诚的顾客依旧会购买他们喜欢的产品，他们会觉得这是在帮助维护他们所信任的产品的品质。27.But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP (Gross Domestic Product) figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.但是那些重新致力于改善福祉，而不仅仅是担心国内生产总值数据的决策者们，就能够避免可预见的厄运，甚至可能看到进步。28.Indeed, there is something a little absurd in the state getting involved in the planning of such a fundamentally "grassroots" concept as community sports associations.确实，让国家参与像社区体育协会这样从根本上带有“草根阶层”意味的规划是有些荒唐的。29.While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views were less fully intellectualized.尽管很少有工匠或农场主能留下可供分析的文学作品，更不用说他们的随从和佣人了，但很明显他们的观点并不十分理性。30.While comment, reaction and feedback from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rezly on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.尽管来自律师们的评论和反馈可能会提高新闻报道的质量，但新闻记者最好还是依靠自己对事件重要性的认识而做出自己的判断。31.Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests.社交媒体允许用户更密切、更迅速地体验新闻事件，同时也允许他们将新闻 作为自己价值观和兴趣的投射而重新分享。32.According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and the degree of being accepted in just a tenth of a second, simply based on the way you look.根据普林斯顿大学的研究,人们会在仅仅十分之一秒的时间内,仅根据你的外表去评判你的能力、可信度及你受人喜欢的程度。33.Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the inventions of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to diffusionist, then spread to other cultures.有些人认为,几乎每一项重要的文化成就都是由少数特别有天赋的民族所发明创造的,根据传播论者的看法,这些发明后来传播到了其他的文化中。34.The upside is the possibilities contained in knowing that everything is up to us; where before we were experts in the mass of limitations, now we become authorities of what is possible.积极的一面是，既然万事都取决于我们，那么就有无限可能。以前，我们能够熟练应对种种局限；现在，我们把握着未来的可能。35.If people, in the network, just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant, for example, the cascade(一连串的) of change won't spread very far or affect many people.例如,如果在这一社交网络中与最初的影响者存在两个层级的人们表现出抵制的话,那么这一连串的变化就不会传播很远或影响许多人。36.In a workplace that is fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work and how your work defines who you are.在一个根本不关心你的生活及其意义的职场中，办公室用语能帮助你理清自 己和工作的关系，以及工作对你的身份的定义。37.Interpersonal relationships are links, which means when you have a conversation with the very person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.人际关系是一种联系，这意味着当你和一个刚认识的人交谈时，一种联系就形成了，而在那之后的每一次交谈都会强化这一联系。38.Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of shelter or protection.研究人员测量了人们在工作和在家时的皮质醇，它是一种压力标志，并发现在家这个理应是庇护所的地方，人们的皮质醇水平更高。39.While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed unwillingness for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic fundamental of the country they helped to create.尽管华盛顿和杰斐逊私下都表达过对奴隶制的不满,但是他们也明白,奴隶制是他们帮助创建的这个国家的政治和经济基础的一部分。40.When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that its not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers-but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.当小孩子们学习计算机科学的时候,他们会发现它并不仅仅是一串令人困惑的、无穷无尽的字母和数字-它还是一种工具,这种工具能编写应用程序 创作艺术作品或测试假设。41.The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed.尽管工业革命在工作被机械化织布机取代的卢德派分子中进展并不顺利，但 它最终提高了生活水平，并创造了比被它摧毁的工作岗位更多的就业机会。42.That judgement produced an explosion in business-method patent(专利) files, initially by emerging internet companies trying to s take out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.那项裁决使得商业方法专利申请文件数量激增,起初只是一些新兴的网络公司试图抢占对某些特定类型的在线交易方法的独家专有权。43.Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers' unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.虽然有充分的证据表明，教师素质是最重要的可变因素，但是教师工会却反对开除差教师、提拔好教师。44.Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the chromosome inherited through men in a father's line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.然而,大多数血统检测只考虑单一的血统,要么只考虑来自父亲的男性遗传 的Y染色体,要么只考虑从母亲那里遗传的线粒体DNA。45.Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs.此外，尽管人类直立行走已达数百万年之久，但是我们的双脚和背部仍然在与两足行走的姿势作斗争，并且很难承受过长的四肢施加的持续压力。46.While the researchers assumed that the well-structured daily plans would be most effective when it came to accomplishing tasks, they were wrong: the detailed daily plans demotivated students.尽管研究人员认为，在执行任务时，详尽的每日目标是最为高效的，但他们错了，详细的每日计划使学生失去了动力。47.While fossil fuels-coal, oil, gasstill generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.48.Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV and register for online job search, starting hunting for work will they be qualified for allowance-and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.只有当失业者带着简历来到就业服务中心，注册在线求职，并开始寻找工作， 他们才有资格获得补助金，然后他们应该每周而不是每两周汇报一次求职情况。49.It is not that pink is bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly attaches girls' identity to appearance.50.Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification, for if all humans share common origins, it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more limited beginnings.5
