nba新闻Unit 6 The Pace of Life
Text A Old Father Time Becomes a Terror
Language study
1. (L. 2) on the go/run: (infml) very active or busy
As a working mother, she was (kept) on the go all day.
2. cope: deal successfully (with sb/ sth difficult)
She is not a competent driver and can't cope with driving in heavy traffic. 她不是个能干的司机，在交通拥挤时就开不好车。
It must be difficult to cope with three small children and a job.
Three staff simply can’t cope with such a heavy work load.
3. t about: begin (a task); start (doing sth) (t about sth/doing sth)
唯美英文句子We should t about solving the problem at once. 着手解决问题
The school authorities must t about finding solutions to the campus curity problems.
4. (L. 4) untangle: to remove the knots from an untidy mass of string, wire, etc. and parate the different threads 解开绳结；理清
沪江日语I spent ages untan gling the knots in Rosie’s hair.
It took years to untangle the legal complexities of the ca.
5. quantities/ a large quantity of: large amounts/ a large amount of
Police found a large/ small quantity of drugs in is posssion. 他拥有
Between us we consumed a vast quantity of food.
He ate a small quantity of rice. 他吃了少量的米饭。
1.multiply: increa the amount, number, or degree of; add a number to itlf a particular
number of times乘；激增
adnsWhen animals have more food, they generally multiply faster. 动物如果吃得多，通常繁殖也快。
3 multiplied by 5 is 15. 三乘五等于十五。
Efficiency would be -lied veral times. 效率将提高好几倍。
Multiplying large numbers in one’s head has become a lost art since the arrival of calculator.
With the introduction of this new tourism policy, tourists to Hong Kong are multiplying.
Cf. increa enlarge augment multiply都含“增加”、“增大”的意思。
increa系常用词，指“形状、大小、数量、程度等的增大”。如：
increa one's weight [power, debt]增加体重[权力、债务]。
enlarge主要指“大小、体积、范围、能力的增大”。如：enlarge a hou扩建房屋。augment系正式用语，指“通过加添数量使增大”。如：augment one's income增加收入。multiply主要指“增加数量”、“通过繁殖来增加”。如：
Efficiency will be multiplied veral times.效率将增加几倍。
2.fraction: small part, bit, amount or proportion (of sth)
continue是什么意思
翻译 公司She spends only a fraction of her earnings.她只花了所赚的钱的一小部分。
Only a fraction of my friends have video recorder.我的朋友中只一小部分人有录像机。Mother's careful with her money, and spends only a fraction of her earnings. 母亲用钱很审慎，只花自己收入很小的一部分。
The black miners in South Africa ud o earn only a fraction of the wages paid to white miners doing equivalent job.
8. . (L. 35) proliferate: vi. FORMAL to increa greatly and suddenly in number
Small business have proliferated in the last ten years.
proliferation noun [U] the proliferation of nuclear weapons
9. (L. 36) handful: (1) an amount of something that can be held in one hand
He scooped up a handful of soil and examined it carefully.
(2) a very few, esp. when compared to a larger group
A handful of professional athletes make millions, but most do not do so well.
10.amount to: be equal to; add up to
Their traveling expens amount to ven hundred dollars.他们的旅费共达700 美元。
In fact, your ambiguous words amount to a refusal. 你说的那些模棱两可的话等于是拒绝。His debts amount to over $3000.他的欠债总数已达三千多美元。proactive
In 1959, the combined value of U. S. imports and exports amounted to less than 9 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (国内生产总值).
11.frontier: (usu. pl) the extreme limit of an area of knowledge or a particular activity; the
border between two countries（学科/ 探索活动的）前沿；边界；边境
The frontiers of medical knowledge are being pushed farther outwards as time goes on. 医学知识的新领域正随着时间向前推进。
It was a movie about the hardships of frontier life in the northwest.
Some of the frontier between Germany and Poland follows the cour of the river Oder (奥得河[中欧]).
Nepal has frontiers with both India and China.
There have been reports of an accident which occurred on the frontier.
12.stress(on): pressure or worry resulting from mental or physical distress, difficult
circumstances, etc
In fact, stress isn't a bad thing it is often suppod to be.事实上，压力并不像人们所认为的那样是一件坏事。
Population growth and pollution place enormous stress on the world’s supply of usable water. Worry over his job and his wife's health put him under a great stress.忧虑自己的工作及妻子的健康问题使他陷于过分的紧张中。
vt. put stress, pressure, or strain on
The English curriculum should stress both composition and reading. 英语课程对作文和阅读应同样重视。
I must stress that we haven't much time. 我必须强调我们没有多少时间了。
13.oblige: to plea or help someone, especially by doing something they have
asked you to do (oblige( sb )with sth/ by doing sth)施恩惠于：帮忙
Plea oblige me by closing the door. 请帮我把门关上。
Could you oblige me with (=give me) a pen and a piece of paper, plea?
Could you oblige me with ten yuan? 借十元钱给我好吗?
We only went to the party to oblige some old friends who especially asked us to be there.
We needed a guide and he was only too happy to oblige.
obliging adj.APPROVING willing or eager to help
He found an obliging doctor who gave him the drugs he needed.
14.abundance (of): quantity that is more than enough; plenty
The tree yields a n abundance of fruit.这树结果甚多。
There was an abundance of wine at the wedding.
Carpets are available in abundance.可供地毯货源充足。
He wished to have money in abundance.他希望富有。
To avoid confusion, the twins never wore the same clothes.
There ems to be some confusion over who is actually giving the talk.
In the confusion, I lost my shoes and wasn’t able to stop and pick it up.
Cf. confusion disorder disarray chaos都含“混乱”的意思。
confusion 指“不加区别地混在一起，很难区分”，如：
The hall was a confusion of laughters. 大厅里笑声乱成一团。
disorder指“秩序或东西安排得混乱”，如：The room was in disorder. 屋子一片混乱。disarray强调“队列、安排或衣冠不整而造成的混乱”，如：
The soldiers were in disarray after the battle. 战斗结束后士兵们一片混乱。
chaos指“完全无秩序或明显不整齐”，如：
The enemies were in a state of chaos. 敌人陷入混乱之中。
16. periphery noun [C usually singular] (1) the outer edge of an area
Hous have been built on the periphery of the factory site.
The ring road runs around the periphery of the city centre.
(2) the less important part of a group or activity
Many women feel they are being kept on the periphery of the armed forces.
17. (L. 53) peripheral: adj. (1) describes something that is not as important as something el The book contains a great deal of peripheral detail.
(2) happening at the edge of something
A figure came into my peripheral vision.
18.forecast: tell in advance; predict
The recent statement of the president forecast a change in the situation. 总统最近的一次讲话预示着形势将有所变化。
They forecast a large drop in unemployment over the next two years./ Unemployment was forecast to drop over the next two years.
Snow has been forecast for tonight.
19. perception: noun[U] (1)an awareness of things through the physical ns, especially sight: Drugs can alter your perception of reality.知觉；感觉
Psychologists have been studying perception in rats in an attempt to discover more about human mental process connected with sight. 为进一步揭示人类于视觉相联系的心理过程，心理学家一直在研究老鼠的感知。
(2)som eone's ability to notice and understand things that are not obvious to other people领悟力
She has extraordinary powers of perception for one so young.
(3) a belief or opinion, often held by m any people and bad on appearances想法；看法
We have to change the public's perception that money is being wasted.
The photos will affect people’s perceptions of war.看法
perceptive：adj. very good at noticing and understanding things that m any people do not notice：感觉灵敏的
Her books are full of perceptive insights into the human condition.
20.nurture: care for and educate (a child); encourage the growth of sth; nourish养育/教养；培育She nurtured the child as if he had been her own. 她把那孩子当作自己的来养育。
As a record company director, his job is to nurture young talent. 培养
The local government has taken measures to nurture the state-run factories.
She wants to stay at home and nurture her children.
nurture noun[U] the way in which children are treated as they are growing, especially as compared with the characteristics they are born with （与先天因素相比的）后天培养
Which do you believe has the strongest influence on how children develop - nature or nurture?
21.appliance: instrument or device for a specific purpo
The shop lls a large range of surgical appliances.
The company has operations in many different business ctors, including houhold appliances, aircraft engines, and financial rvices.
22. （L. 81）appal (-ll-), US USUALLY appall vt. to make someone have strong feelings of shock or of disapproval 使惊骇；使吓坏
I was appalled at/by the lack of staff in the hospital.
The state of the kitchen appalled her.
回复询盘appalling: causing dismay; frightful使惊恐的，使惊愕的；可怕的：
appalling working conditions; appalling violence可怕的工作条件；骇人的暴行
23.provoke: cau sth to occur or arou (a feeling, etc)
The prospect of incread prices has already provoked confrontation.
Test results have provoked worries that the reactor could overheat.引起人们对反应堆过热的担
忧
It is the combination of styles which provokes surpri.
24. streamline: vt. (1) to im prove the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization such as a business or government, often by m aking the way activities are performed simpler
The government recently announced details of its plan to streamline the taxation system. 精简税制计划
The cost-cutting measures include streamlining administrative procedures in the company.
Her proposals will control the costs of health care and streamline the bureaucracy that contributes to tho costs.并精简产生这些费用的官僚机构
(2) to shape som ething so that it can m ove as effectively and quickly as possible through a liquid or gas
They plan to streamline the cars to increa their fuel efficiency. 使汽车成流线型以提高燃油效率
The bodies of dolphins (海豚) are more streamlined than tho of porpois (鼠海豚).
25. (L. 102) spring up: suddenly appear or begin to exist
Thousands of new business have sprung up in the past few years.
New, open markets have sprung up on the outskirts (边缘) of the city.
26. (L. 106) futile: futile adj. (of actions) having no effect or achieving nothing; unsuccessful Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile becau troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.
It's quite futile try ing to reason with him - he just won't listen.
All my attempts to cheer her up proved futile.
futility noun [U]
"What's his latest book about?" "Oh, the usual --- the transience (无常) of love and the futility of life."
27.divert: turn sb/ sth aside from a cour, direction, etc. into another
mannaHow can we divert her thoughts from her sad loss? 我们怎样才能使他不再想到她可悲的损失? vt. (1)to cau som ething or som eone to change direction:
Traffic will be diverted through the side streets while the main road is resurfaced (整修路面).
A ditch diverted water from the stream into the fields.一条沟渠把水从河里引向田间。
The government is planning to divert the river to supply water to the town.政府正计划改变河道为那座
城镇供水。
Traffic was diverted around the scene of the accident. 疏导交通绕过出事现场。
Our flight had to be diverted to Stansted becau of the storm.
(2)to u som ething for a different purpo
Should more funds/money/resources be diverted from roads into railways?
(3)to take som eone's attention away from something
The war has diverted attention(away)from the country's economic problems.
diversion noun[C] som ething that takes your attention away from som ething el
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