背1遍就想上考場(chǎng)大學(xué)英語考研單詞 602
[00:02]preach
[00:03]I have been transformed from a passionate advocate
[00:06]of the philosophy of "have it all" , preached by Linda
[00:10]Kelsey for the past seven years in the pages of She
[00:15]magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of
[00:19]everything.
[00:23]peach
[00:24]My grandmother, an Italian immigrant from Sicily, had
[00:28]the ability and a very green thumb to nurture any plant.
[00:33]One day she threw a peach pit into the yard and would
[00:36]you believe a peach tree grew.
[00:41]coarse
[00:43]"It is a very useful and informative piece of work, but
[00:47]we must remember it is really quite a coarse measure,"
[00:50]says Murray. "However, it is certainly statistically
[00:53]interesting enough to warrant a further, more thorough,
[00:57]investigation."
[00:59]sparse
[01:01]A walk-in diner may be told, despite the sparse crowd
[01:05]in attendance, that there is an hour's wait for a table, and
[01:08]that seats at the bar are "for reservations only" .
[01:13]Colonel
[01:15]What question caused an expression of utter bafflement
[01:19]to pass across Colonel Gaddafi's face during a live
[01:24]interview from his tent in the desert?
[01:27]colonial
[01:29]According to the standard history of American
[01:32]philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "so
[01:35]much important attached to intellectual pursuits" .
[01:40]calculate
[01:42]Another way of doing this kind of exercise is to
[01:44]calculate the net present value of the unfunded liabilities
[01:49]of the Social Security and Medicare systems.
