unit1 sentences
- state
- truth of matter. matter = 重要 love matters. n. 事件.
- The current state of affairs may have been encouraged---though not justified-- by the lack of legal penalty(in America,but not Europe) for data leakage.
- death penalty
- justified- just adj. 正确的. justice.
- causal relation 因果关系
- side track sacrifice.
- statistical
- Superhigh scores like vos Savant's are no longer possible,because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers.
- statement
- A string of accidents,including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an unserground pipe system leakage,raised serious question about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management especially after the company made misleading statements about he pipe.
- a string of a + n. of/ n.s of = 一系列 a chunk of . a set of = some /many 阅读中大量出现,不重要.
- overstate
- It was banks that were on the wrong planet ,with accounts that vastly overvalued assets. Today they argue that makret prices overstate losses,beause they largely relfect the temporary illiquidity of markets,not the likely extent of bad debts.
- temporary staff vs. stuff
- extent to some extent. 程度
- status
- However,the justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to verify the legal status of people who come in contact with law enforcement.
- verify = inspect assert=affirm 断定
- with: 与... 有关联.. be/keep in line with.
- assert
- the administration was in essence asserting that because it didn't want to carry out Congress' immigration wishes,no state should be allowed to do so either.
- in essence 本质上
- carry out 实施
- migrant immigrant emigrant. e=ex= out
- publication
- That's one reason why we have launched Arc,a new publication dedicated to the near future.
- launch = take off
- dedicated 全身心 dedicate oneself to = devote oneself to .
- Republican
- In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hard-line Republican gevernor.
- rallied rally= 聚集
- hard-line:强硬
- flaw
- Pushed by science,or what claims to be science,society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities.
- reclassify ... as ...
- akin to kin -kinship kindred
- meaningless
- But somewhere from the 19th century onward, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless,phony or , worst of all ,boring,as we went from Wordsworth's daffodils to Baudelaire's flowers of evil.
- phony /sham / fake flower
- deffodil 水仙花
- meaninfully
- And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfull,Ericsson determined,was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task. Rather,it involves setting specific goals,obtaining immediate feedback and concentraing as much on technique as on outcome.
- deliberate v. 深思熟虑 adj. 故意的.
- entails
- live
- these recording are cheap,available everywhere,and very often much higher in artistic quality than today's live performances;moreover,they can be "consumed " at a time and place of the listener's choosing.
- live off.
- And there are the townsfolk who largely live off the tourists who come ,not to see the plays,but to look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage Shakespeare's birthplace and the other sights.
- cottage:小别墅
- federal
- In Arizona, v. United States, the majority overtuned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.
- overturn 反转 turnover-营业额,失误
- contested
- provide 提供 provision 条款
- contraversial 有争议的
- mark
- Aimerica's new plan to buy up toxic assets will not work unless banks mark assets to levels which buyers find attractive.
- buy up. eat up . up =尽
- levels n. 水准
- marked
- There is a marked difference between the education which every one gets from living with others , and the deliberate educating of the young.
- systematically
- Detabases used by some companies don't rely on data collected systematically but rather lump together information from different research projects.
- stress
- Because repersentative government presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and government,particularly Aemrican history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital techonolgies.
- representaive ;代表性的
- presuppose 提前假设
- literacy:文化
- stressed-out
- In several of the studies , when stessed-out femal rats had their ovaries(the femal reproductive organs) removed, their chemical responses became qual to those the males.
