【李剑08考研英语相似易混单词】第31天（2）

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The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century. (NETEM 2001, Passage 1, paragraph 3)
总的结果是：业余人员更难在专业性地质学杂志上发表文章了，而论文评审制度的广泛使用使这个结果更为严重，这一评审制度先是在19世纪被国家级杂志采用，后来又在20世纪被一些地方地质学杂志采用。

1. Urban Japanese have long endured lengthy commutes (travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions, but as the old group and family values weaken, the discomfort is beginning to tell. (NETEM 2000, Passage 4, paragraph 4)
城市里的日本人长期忍受着漫长的上下班来回路程和拥挤不堪的居住条件，随着旧的群体家庭道德观的削弱，令人不舒服的结果开始显现出来。

2. Tears, be they of sorrow, anger, or joy, typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and embarrassed. (CET-6, 2003.9, Passage 3, paragraph 1)
无论是因为悲伤、愤怒或快乐流泪通常会使美国人不舒适，感到不安。

3. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. (NETEM 2003, Text 2, paragraph 1)
科学家应该对动物权利鼓吹者做出强有力的回应，因为他们的言论混淆了公众的视听，从而威胁到卫生知识和卫生服务的进步。

4. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. (NETEM 2002, Text 1, paragraph 4)
包括一些很随便的、看上去是即兴的话，你可以用轻松的、不做作的方式把它们说出来。

5. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of "ineffectual and forced medical procedures that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying" as the twin problems of end-of-life care. (NETEM 2002, Text 4, paragraph 6)
报告指出了医院临终关怀护理中存在的两个问题：对病痛处理不力和大胆使用"无效而强制性的医疗程序，这些程序可能会延长死亡期，甚至会让死亡期难堪"。

6. What was less visible then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. (NETEM 2001, Passage 2, paragraph 1)
然而，那时还不太明显的是一些抵制信息差异的、新的积极因素。

7. Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge of women in the workforce may portend a rejection of marriage. (CET-6, 2004.1, Passage 2, paragraph 1)
有些未来学家认为妇女劳动力剧增也许预兆着对婚姻的拒绝。

8. A firm might publish a privacy-protection policy, but who enforces it? (CET-6, 2004.6, Passage 3, paragraph 8)
一个公司可以发布一项保护隐私的政策，但是由谁来执行？

9. Before Hugo, many new houses built along South Carolina's shoreline were poorly constructed, and enforcement of building codes wasn't strict, according to architect Ray Huff, who created the cleverly-designed beach house. (CET-4, 2003.12, Passage 4, paragraph 3)
建筑师Ray Huff说，在Hugo到来之前，许多南加沿海岸线房子质量不佳，建筑标准没有严格执行，正是这位建筑师创造了这座设计精妙的海边屋子。

1. A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research. (NETEM 1998, Passage 3, paragraph 5)
1996年对新闻报道的调查表明，反科学的标签也贴在了许多其他群体上，从提倡消灭所有现存的天花病毒的官方人士到倡议削减基础研究基金的共和党人。

2. "Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done," wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language authority. (NETEM 1994, Passage 5, paragraph 3)
"创造性思维也许只不过意味着能够意识到按老办法办事没什么特别可取之处。"语言权威人士鲁道夫·弗莱契写到。

1. Scientists need to respond forcefully to animal rights advocates, whose arguments are confusing the public and thereby threatening advances in health knowledge and care. (NETEM 2003 passage 2, paragraph 1)
科学家应该对动物权利鼓吹者做出强有力的回应，因为他们的言论混淆了公众的视听，从而威胁到卫生知识和卫生服务的进步。

2. Kitcher is philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity and effectiveness of his arguments. (NETEM 1996, Passage 5, paragraph 3)
金切尔是位哲学家，这也许能部分说明他的立论为何明确而有说服力。

3. Or at least that's the argument put forward in the New Engmand Journal of Medicine. (CET-6, 2004.1, Passage 1, paragraph 2)
至少，《新英格兰医学杂志》就提出了这种说法。

4. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. (CET­­-4, 2004.6, Passage 3, paragraph 1)
手语提出了一种探究人脑怎样产生和理解语言的新方法，并对一个古老的科学争论（语言及其语法是与生俱来的，还是后天习得的）提出了新的见解。

And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns. (NETEM 1994, Passage 2, paragraph 2)
此外，他们还确定理想的顾客群进行促销活动。

1. But there are also thousands of asteroids whose orbits put them on a collision course with Earth. .(CET-4, 2000.1, Passage 1, paragraph 2)
但是也有数以千计的小行星处在跟地球相撞的轨道上。

2. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse or have an N.B.D. (CET-6, 2001.1, Passage 4, paragraph 4)
但是，一些人能泰然处之，能够超脱困境，不让抑郁和不快挥之不去；而另外一些人或精神崩溃或神经失常。(注：上下文中N.B.D.指Nervous Break Down)