考研英语核心400词

96. volition 意志力

Volition is a compelling perception, and without it, duty and responsibility are meaningless. 意志力是一种强迫性的感知，如果没有意志力，那么职责和责任将变得没有意义。

97. civilization 文明

But with the growth of modern civilization the role of the father is being increasingly taken over by the state.

随着现代文明的增长，国家正在越来越多地取代父亲的角色。

98. dilemma 进退两难

His dilemma about the job led to a lack of sales.

他的这一困境导致他销售业绩不佳。

99. predicament 困境

Both humanistic disciplines and approaches from natural science offer answers to some of the questions typically raised in social anthropology – concerning, for example, the nature of society, the predicaments of ethnic complexity and so on.

人文学科以及自然科学方法均为一些社会人类学典型问题提供了答案，例如社会属性以及人种复杂性困境等问题。

100. boom 繁荣

A boom in neighborhood surveillance cameras will cause problems in the future.

邻里剪监视摄像头的繁荣在未来会造成问题。

101. recession 衰退

The recession threatened to remove the advertising.

经济衰退会威胁到广告业的生存。

102. decline 下降

Increasingly the Japanese are seeing a decline of the traditional work-moral values.

日本的传统工作道德价值观正在日渐衰退。

No company likes to be told it is contributing to the moral decline of a nation.

任何公司都不希望被告知自己在导致一个国家的道德衰退。

103. recovery 复苏，康复

Setting the proper level for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one.

设定恰当的安全、冗员和复苏的级别是一个管理问题，而不是技术问题。

104. poverty 贫穷

The Internet may be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we’ve ever had. 英特网可以成为我们所能够拥有的最强大的对抗贫困的工具。