【達(dá)人】新概念英語單詞:Lesson 17 A man-made disease 人為的疾病
Lesson 17 A man-made disease 人為的疾病
settlement [?setlm?nt] n. 新拓居地，解決，協(xié)議
【搭】in full settlement 償還全部債務(wù)
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A: Have all the problems settled?
B: Yes, all the problems have come to a settlement.
A：問題處理完了嗎？
B：是的，所有問題都已經(jīng)解決了。
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enterprising [?ent?praizi?] adj. 有事業(yè)心的
settler [?setl?] n. 移居者
promiscuous [pr??miskju?s] adj. 雜亂的
【派】promiscuously 雜亂地
【擴(kuò)】littery 雜亂的 messy 雜亂的
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A: Promiscuous eating habits is bad for your health.
B: I see. But sometimes the work left me no time to have a meal.
A：不規(guī)則的飲食習(xí)慣對(duì)你的健康很不利。
B：我知道，但是有時(shí)候工作起來根本沒時(shí)間吃飯。
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abandon [??b?nd?n] n. 放縱，縱情，放任
【例】Those who abandon themselves to despair can not succeed.
那些自暴自棄的人無法成功。
overrun [??uv?r?n] v. 蔓延，泛濫
【擴(kuò)】overswell 泛濫 deluge 使泛濫
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A: My house has been overrun by cockroaches.
B: Don't you want to do anything about it?
A：現(xiàn)在我的家中蟑螂猖獗。
B：你就不想做些什么嗎？
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devastation [?dev??stei??n] n. 破壞，劫掠
【擴(kuò)】destruction 破壞，毀滅 demolishment 破壞，毀壞
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A: The devastation of the ecological environment in some areas has worsened.
B: If they don't stop that behaviour, they will be punished by nature.
A：在某些地區(qū)，對(duì)生態(tài)環(huán)境的毀壞更嚴(yán)重了。
B：如果他們不停下來的話，會(huì)被大自然懲罰啊。
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burrow [?b?r?u] v. 挖，掘
【擴(kuò)】grub 挖掘 excavate 挖掘
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A: I had to burrow in the library for the books I needed.
B: Wait a moment. I'll go with you.
A：我只好在圖書館搜尋我所需要的書。
B：等一下，我跟你一起去。
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susceptible [s??sept?b?l] adj. 易受感染的
【搭】be susceptible of 能……的 be susceptible to 對(duì)……敏感的
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A: We are all susceptible to advertising.
B: So let's turn off the television.
A：我們都容易受廣告的影響。
B：那我們把電視給關(guān)了吧。
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virus [?vai?r?s] n. 病毒
myxomatosis [?miks?m??t?usis] n. 多發(fā)性粘液瘤
infect [in?fekt] v. 傳染
【派】infection 傳染
【搭】be infected with 染上
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A: Go away. I don't want to infect you with my cold.
B: Have you taken any medicine?
A：走開，我可不想把我的感冒傳染給你。
B：你吃感冒藥了嗎？
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epidemic [?epi?demik] n. 流行病
【搭】an influenza epidemic 流行性感冒
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A: The village was smitten by a kind of epidemic.
B: The villagers there must be very panicked.
A：那個(gè)村子被一種傳染病侵襲了。
B：那兒的村民肯定特別恐慌。
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mosquito [m??ski?t?u] n. 蚊蟲
carrier [?k?ri?] n. 帶菌者
exterminate [ik?st??mineit] v. 消滅
【派】extermination 消滅
【擴(kuò)】perish 消滅 extirpate 消滅，根除
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A: I must exterminate the mosquitoes before going to sleep, or I can't sleep well in the night.
B: But we don't have any insecticide now.
A：我睡覺前必須把這些蚊子消滅掉，否則晚上我就沒法睡好了。
B：但是我們已經(jīng)沒有殺蟲劑了。
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ironically [ai?r?nik?li] adv. 具有諷刺意味地
【例】Ironically, most people came to watch the match on the day it poured with rain.
老天爺好像成心捉弄人，很多人前來看比賽卻偏偏下起瓢潑大雨。
bequeath [bi?kwi?e] v. 把……傳給
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A: He bequeathed all of his property to his daughter.
B: He also has a son, right?
A：他把全部財(cái)產(chǎn)都遺贈(zèng)給了他女兒。
B：他還有個(gè)兒子對(duì)吧？
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pest [pest] n. 害蟲，有害動(dòng)物
pestilence [?pestil?ns] n. 瘟疫
confine [k?n?fain] n. 范圍
【派】confinement 限制
【擴(kuò)】scope 范圍 extent 范圍
【搭】between the confines of ……界限之間
domesticate [d??mestikeit] v. 馴養(yǎng)
【派】domesticated 馴養(yǎng)的，馴服的
【擴(kuò)】tame 馴養(yǎng)，使馴服
【例】Thousands of years ago people had learned how to domesticate animals.
幾千年以前人們就學(xué)會(huì)了飼養(yǎng)動(dòng)物。
