word简单

This word “Caravanserais” is a [combination] of the Persian words “Karvan”, which means a group of travellers or a caravan, and “saray”, a palace or enclosed building.

“Caravanserais”这个词是波斯语单词“Karvan”和“saray”的组合，前者意为一群旅行者或商队，后者意为宫殿或封闭的建筑。

Through carefully selected words and phrases, poems can be dramatic, funny, beautiful, moving and inspiring.

通过精心挑选的字词，诗歌可以富有戏剧性、诙谐有趣、优美动人、感人肺腑、催人奋进。

This can also help with understanding them too, because the rhythm and sounds of the words become clearer.

这也有助于理解诗歌，因为词语的节奏和声音会变得更加清晰。

These were some of the words that Nature readers used to describe their experience of art-science collaborations in a series of articles on partnerships between artists and researchers.

在一系列关于艺术家与研究人员合作的文章中，《自然》杂志的读者用这些词来描述他们参与艺术与科学合作的经历。

The word “assuage” (Line 8, Para.2) is closest in meaning to ____.

单词“assuage”（第2段第8行）的意思最接近于____。

The word "transgressions" (Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“transgressions”（第5段）的意思最接近于____

The word “plummeting” (Para.2) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“plummeting”（第2段）的意思最接近于____

You wanted to say something — the first word — but it just won’t come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.

你想说点什么——说出第一个词——但它就是说不出口，感觉像是卡在了什么地方。

I truly believe that once you get that first word out everything else will just flow.

我真心相信，一旦你说出了第一个词，其他的一切就会自然而然地顺畅起来。

The word “expedited” (Para. 5) is closest in meaning to ____

“expedited”一词（第5段）的意思最接近____

On the other hand, Tronick himself is concerned that the worries about kids’ use of screens are born out of an “oppressive ideology that demands that parents should always be interacting” with their children: “It’s based on a somewhat fantasised, very white, very upper-middle-class ideology that says if you’re failing to expose your child to 30,000 words you are neglecting them.”

另一方面，特罗尼克本人担心，对孩子使用屏幕的忧虑源于一种“要求父母应该始终与孩子互动的压迫性观念”：“这种观念有点脱离现实，非常白人化，非常中上阶层化，它认为如果你没能让孩子接触到三万个单词，你就是在忽视他们。”

teach their kids at least 30,000 words a year.

每年至少教孩子三万个单词。

The word “acclimation” (Para.3) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“acclimation”（第3段）的意思最接近于____

The word “coax” (Para.6) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“coax”（第6段）的意思最接近____

The words that have mattered are efficiency, flexibility, shareholder value, business-friendly, wealth generation, sales, impact and, in newspapers, circulation.

重要的字眼是效率、灵活性、股东价值、有利于商业、创造财富、销售额、影响力，在报业则是发行量。

Words degraded to the margin have been justice, fairness, tolerance, proportionality and accountability.

被贬低到边缘的字眼则是正义、公平、宽容、相称性和问责。

Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.

显然，你会借助自己对英语语法的隐性知识，努力去理解——也就是识别单个词语的意义并弄清它们之间的关系。

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page — including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns — debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

正是因为来自不同历史时期、不同地方、有着不同社会经历的读者，会对纸面上同样的文字产生不同但又相互重叠的解读——包括那些涉及人类根本关切的文本——关于文本的争论才能在有关信仰和价值观的社会讨论中发挥重要作用。

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the context. On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.

如果你不熟悉某些单词或习语，你会利用上下文中的线索猜测其含义。你假定它们以后会变得有关联，于是在心里记下语篇中的实体以及它们之间可能存在的联系。

The word “moola” (Line 4, Para.4) most probably means ____

单词“moola”（第四段第4行）最可能的意思是____

(46) It is also the reason why when we try to describe music with words, all we can do is articulate our reactions to it, and not grasp music itself.

(46) 这也是为什么当我们试图用语言描述音乐时，我们所能做的只是表达我们对音乐的感受，而无法把握音乐本身。

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word.

从最广泛的意义上说，贝多芬是一个极具政治性的人。

The word “viscerally” (Line 2, Para.5) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“viscerally”（第5段第2行）的意思最接近____

The word “indictment” (Para. 2) is closest in meaning to ____

单词“indictment”（第2段）的意思最接近于____

(50) It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of the word garden, though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions.

（50）正是这种或隐或显对自然的指涉，使得用“花园”一词来描述这些人造构筑物完全合乎情理，尽管是在一种“宽泛”的意义上使用这个词。

That whispered message, half invitation and half forcing, is what most of us think of when we hear the words peer pressure.

这句低声耳语半是邀请、半是强迫，是我们大多数人听到“同伴压力”一词时首先想到的。

Applications like tumblr.com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.

像tumblr.com这样的应用允许用户以富有创意的方式组合图片、文字和其他媒体并加以分享，它们有可能通过逗乐、娱乐和启迪他人来增加黏性。

(49) The second, by Joshua Greenberg, takes a more empirical approach to universality, identifying traits (particularly in word order) shared by many languages, which are considered to represent biases that result from cognitive constraints.

(49) 第二次尝试由约书亚·格林伯格作出，他采用了一种更注重实证的方法来研究普遍性，找出了许多语言所共有的特征（特别是在词序方面），这些特征被认为代表了由认知限制所导致的倾向。

(50) Chomsky's grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it, whereas Greenbergian universality predicts strong co-dependencies between particular types of word-order relations.

(50) 乔姆斯基的语法理论应该显示出不受语系谱系或其演变路径影响的语言变化模式，而格林伯格的普遍性理论则预言特定类型的词序关系之间存在很强的相互依存性。

The word “poached” (Paragraph 4) most probably means ____

单词“poached”（第4段）最可能的意思是____

In other words, they all share a view that the international tax system has failed to keep up with the current economy.

换句话说，它们都认为国际税收体系没能跟上当前的经济发展。

Guilt, in other words, can help hold a cooperative species together.

换句话说，内疚有助于把一个合作型的物种凝聚在一起。

In other words, the choice to share news on social media may be the heart of the issue.

换句话说，在社交媒体上分享新闻的选择可能才是问题的核心。

In other words, don’t read online comments.

换句话说，别去看网上的评论。

In other words, at a time when the working class has turned the country on its political head, frustrated that the opportunity that once defined America is vanishing, one obvious solution is staring us in the face.

换句话说，在工人阶级因曾经代表美国的机遇正在消失而沮丧、并在政治上把这个国家搅得天翻地覆之际，一个显而易见的解决办法就摆在我们面前。

In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.

换句话说，如果你要做印刷产品，就为那些已经对它着迷的人去做。

But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.

但令人难堪的丑闻以及共和派左翼在近期欧洲议会选举中的受欢迎程度，迫使他收回前言、退位让贤。

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

《葬礼进行曲》不是《英雄交响曲》的最后一个乐章，而是第二乐章，这并非偶然，这样苦难就不会成为最终的定论。

In other words, we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.

换句话说，我们需要研究机器如何能增强人类劳动而不是取代人类劳动。

in a word

总之

But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

但如果安特吉公司当初信守承诺，这场争论就无关紧要了。