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1.  natheless  = nevertheless :虽然如此， 可是...

2. nonetheless = yet  

3  internecine strife

4.  internecine battles = civil war     internecine struggle      internal strife.

5.there is certainly room aplenty for strife.

6.Climate change  could indeed cause woes aplenty. That is  all the more reason to be precise about them : 严谨对待它的原因~~~

7.   To be precise                To be more precise

8.This has helped to fuel China's prodigious growth.

这帮助成就了中国巨大的经济增长。

9.   prodigiousness      prodigious                prodigiously

10.. strife   =  interference    = argument  = conflict  = collision   

11. prodigious  = tremendous = wonderful  =  huge  = enormous   = massive

12.the green movement had a broadly shared and well worked-out strategy behind its backing of the policy.

13.  Broadly speaking

14. broadly   obviously    clearly   markedly   distinctly

15.  confident     confidently                           confidential             confidentially

16. riley  =   angry   = vexed  

17. rile up :激怒了~~

18.English, they are not the effusive people , even at the best of times. : 流露感情~~

19. effusive thanks         effusively    effusiveness

20.  rancorous    =    malicious  =    vicious     =      poisonous  .            Malicious software :恶意软件

21. 【   poisonous   fungi    】.            poison

22.    deadly riposte   :致命还击

23.   repository        reposit .        archival  repository  :档案库~

24 . peer review ：同行互审，  

25.Because this lecture is introductory, I'm not going to spend a great deal of time explicating the more difficult moments in his argument. 

因为这门课是导读课程，我不会花太多时间,详细解释他的理论中的难点。

26.had disliked its final form a great deal,   非常~~~

27.   onslaught   (n)     =  lay on  =  skite

28.                                                                lay one to  u :  给你一拳

29.    lay on with a trowel :用抹子 厚厚的涂抹~~：   【 竭力恭维！， 过分的夸奖】

30. lay on the gridiron  :  在公共场合（报刊， 橄榄球场， 烤架上 哈哈） 嘲笑 ， 挖苦攻击！

31. on the gridiron

32. lay off : 解雇 ， 休息                   lay off with sb: 与某人睡觉！

33.lay off  your lid:别摆架子！

34. lay on the oars :停下来 歇歇~~~~

35.To lay oneself open to believing that：开放心态接受~~

36. Lay  oneself  open to  ridicule : 使自己 成为 笑柄~                       ridiculous

 37. lay persons ：业余人士

38. lay stress on : 着重点放在......

39. A nuclear  holocaust can lay waste to the world

40. The enemy lay waste to the countryside  after the invasion :毁坏了村庄~~~

41. It was a holocaust of  roaches

42.   as such :   所以...   =   as well   =  in the same  way

43. So cannibalism  is morally objectionable  as such .       so then, even on the scenario of waiting until someone died , still  it would be objectionable?

      这么说来   食人  在道德上是   不能容忍的,          即便是   在  这种等某人死后 的情况下，依然是不能容忍吗？

   44.  heap  up         stack up     add                         heap  up wealth: 堆积财富

 45.Does  our product stack up against  the best product?   

46. 为什么 这是一个糟糕的决定，  论据多得很。   ：   The arguments about why this decision is a bad one stack up  relentlessly.

17. stack up the velvet ： 

18.  how does it feel ?         how  does:  

19.It's a step forward, certainly  ：   这 无疑 是个 进步

20. 中国政府目前做的 和别国政府 相比 又怎么样呢？  How does what China is  now doing stack up against other governments

21.And clearly far higher than a realistic estimate of what was actually spent.

22.   intuitive ：  so , why don;t i just give it  in a  very intuitive term :    一个非常 直观的...

23.but they didn't know how to do these calculations

24.  plausible     =   smooth-tongued   = rhetoric

25. And intuitively , it seems plausible to many people(似乎可信的） that.....                  intuitively：      直觉上讲

26. These are  all  plausible reasons but nobody  has  got  the   home run answer yet:  像是很有道理的原因， 但是 还没有人能 给出 最准确的   （最满意，最漂亮的） 答案！

27. Seven（我英文名）   is a real team player : 好的合作伙伴！（善于团队合作）

28.In all  honestly, i did  go a littlt out of bounds: 做的有点出格~~~

29.That’s way out of bounds ： 这个差太远了~

30.He dropped tha ball : 犯错了，  弄砸了！~~

31.We have a whole lot of things that are worth doing

  Obama has not been talking about scooping out people and helping them, 

  standing around holding shovels in the middle of some forest. 

   有很多值得去做的事情,奥巴马没有提及,直接帮助人们,摆脱困境

32. He has not leaving us  a whole lot of options :没留下太多选择余地

33.    I mean, at least her entire future isn't blown. 

        我是说，至少没彻底毁了她的前途。

  34.    I don't think That's making her feel a whole lot better right now. 

          

            我可不认为这会让她觉得好过些。

35. Accessing and manipulating【 huge amounts of 】data  can  give you a heads-up on trends in the numbers that you would never otherwise see

      利用很多数据可以让人较早发觉趋势；这些趋势如果光看事情，是发觉不到的。

36. heads-up!  抬头！ 当心~~~

37. heads-up   = resourceful

38.Oil surge， inflation jitters   send investors to sidelines。 

    油价高涨，      担心通货膨胀，    造成投资人退场观望。

39.I’m afraid that Wilson is going to stay on the sidelines   : 不会表态，（ 不会行动）~~~

40.We hit a home run： 全胜利， 漂亮一击！~ 

41.That would certainly be something, but still far short of the lobbying muscle on the other side.

42.The energy  sector splurged $419m on lobbying and employed 2,340 lobbyists, 

     while organisations in the environment sector spent a paltry $22m on lobbying and employed a mere 460 lobbyists. 

43.  paltry   <> substantial            paltry <> significant     

44. Forget the paltry crown of  laurel    placed atop  the heads of  great writers in the classical tradition

      忘记那些,伟大作家戴的没价值的传统桂冠。

45. Ten to one he will be late again :很有可能

46. suchlike   =  homogenous   =akin

47. On the economy ,Mr  Obama tickled  the middile- class voters 

  with a small-change package of  family-oriented  tax credits for child-care ,student loans and suchlike.

 

关于经济问题，奥巴马对儿童保育，学生贷款等 以家庭为中心的 税收优惠的细小调整让中产阶级有些动心。

48.   The competent person is rated as much more attractive, considerably more  attractive than the mediocre person~

       

 

      有能力的人被认为是 更有吸引力， 比普通的人更吸引人~~~

【49.】    consider  :    考虑， 把..当作    （V）                 

        consideration ： 考虑，关心  报酬   (n)       illegal consideration：违法代价    

 【50.】               considerate ：体贴的，考虑周到的（adj)          Yeah, they're very considerate that way：他们还真体贴！    = so considerate !

                       considerately: 体贴地， 考虑周到地（adv)

【 51.】    considerable ： 相当大的，值得考虑的(adj) .  

        considerably  :        相当地，  非常地  (adv)

 

52. We shall be able to   place considerable orders with you, if the quality of your goods is good and the prices  are moderate.

    如质优价廉， 可考虑 大量订购

53. If you can  guarantee regular supplies, we may place  considerable orders with you 

    如能保证长期供应， 会向你大量订购

54.The wanton acts, causing serious harm and adverse effects.  肆意妄为  造成严重危害 和 恶劣影响

55.He is almost universally acclaimed as  a  profoundly  important intellectual figure,

    he is also  the object of considerable dislike

    他 差不多 普遍地 被公认为  极度重要的 知识分子   ， 同时 也是 别人 厌恶的对象~~~

56.How to     triumph over      rivals      and     detractors 

57. triumph over = defeat  = overcome

58. all sorts of              Once you give in to it :接受它

59. disposed to  = inclined to = prone  = liable

60. disposed  = conditioned      disposed goods =  disposed  products  =处理品

61.The goods were eventually disposed of as a result of our repeated efforts.

62. All the places and characters in my novel are entirely fictitious~~~      

63. fake =  false = pseudo = phony  = spurious  = unreal =    personator..

64. personator    模仿 -----  impersonator         impersonate (V) = simulate =  pattern = imitate  

64.    stumour(伪钞）