新视野大学英语读写教程词汇 第四册 Unit 7a

　　<1>　<em>genetics</em>    |n.    |[U] a branch of biology dealing 2 with heredity and genetic 1 variations |遗传学

||   ||Such work is considered essential in studying human genetics. |这种工作被认为在研究人类遗传学方面是很重要的。

||   ||Advances in molecular 3 genetics have reinforced that view. |分子遗传学研究的进步进一步证实了那种观点。

|★  |<2>superiority   |n.  |[U] the quality of being better, more skillful, etc. than other people or things |优越（性）；优势

||   ||The top student was eager to display his superiority over the others. |那位优等生急于显示他强于他人的优势。

||   ||It is hard to tell whether my superiority is because of my genes 4 or because of the lessons I learned as a child. |很难说清我的优势是来自基因还是来自童年读的书。

|@    |<3>bias 5    |vt.   |unfairly in fluence attitudes, choices, or decisions |使有偏见

||   ||We have argued that the broadcasting was biased 6 toward the right wing and the government of today. |我们认为广播偏向于右翼和现政府。

||   ||The witness may be biased. |证人可能持有偏见。

|      |            |n.     |[sing.] a tendency to consider sb. or sth. more favorably than others |偏见；成见

||   ||They are wondering whether bias in the news media contributed to the president's defeat. |他们正想知道是否是新闻媒体的倾向性导致了总统的失败。

||   ||There were fierce attacks on the BBC for alleged 7 political bias. |对英国广播公司值得怀疑的政治倾向性提出了猛烈的攻击。

|     |<4>　<em>biased</em>     |a.   |preferring one person or thing to another |有偏见的；偏袒一方的

||   ||This is an obvious biased report. |这报道明显带有偏见。

<TITLE>Phrases and Expressions</TITLE>

||<5>to date |until now |至今，直到现在

||   |This is the biggest donation I've had to date. |这是到目前为止我所收到的最大一项捐赠。

||   |To date, research on the application of the genetic map is very limited. |至今，对基因图应用的研究工作还是非常有限的。

||<6>nothing less than|used to emphasize how important or surprising sth. is; exactly |简直是；完全

||   |Our aim is nothing less than to make China the best trained and educated nation in the world. |我们的目标就是要使中国成为世界上受到最好培训和教育的国家。

||   |What was needed was nothing less than a new industrial revolution and a thriving market. |我们所需要的就是一场新的工业革命和一个繁荣的市场。

||<7>be conined to|be kept within certain limits |限制于，局限于

||   |His concerns were not confined to property, housing and environmental questions. |他所关心的事不局限于财产、住房、环境等问题。

||   |Criticism and debate should not be confined to academic circles. |批评和辩论不应该仅局限于学术界。

||<8>as of/from  |starting from (the time stated) |从...起

||   |As of now, cigarettes are banned in my house and all the offices. |从现在起，我的屋子和所有的办公室都禁止吸烟。

||   |As of today, we do not believe that the declaration of a state of emergency would increase the flow of supplies. |从今天起，我们不相信宣布处于紧急状态会加大补给品的流量。

||<9>in effect |in reality |in fact |事实上，实际上

||   |In effect, the influence of this government was going down gradually. |事实上，这个政府的影响力正在逐渐下降。

||   |The two economic systems are, in effect, identical. |这两种经济制度实际上一模一样。

||<10>in combination with  |together with |与...一起；共同

||   |The new treatment can be used either alone or in combination with the traditional one. |这新疗法可单独使用，也可以和传统疗法结合使用。

||   |The firm is working on a new product in combination with several overseas partners. |公司正在联合几家海外合伙人制造新产品。

||<11>be descended 8 from |be related to sb. who lived long ago |为...的后裔

||   |Wherever they are now, black people are descended from Africans. |无论黑人在哪儿，他们都是非洲人的后裔。

||   |People say that she is descended from royalty 9. |人们说她是王室后裔。

<TITLE>Proper Names</TITLE>

||<12>Luca Cavalli-Sforza   | |卡瓦里-斯福尔扎（人名）

||<13>Stanford  | |斯坦福大学

||<14>Khoisan  | |（南非）科伊桑人

||<15>Ethiopia | |埃塞俄比亚（位于非洲东北部）

||<16>Basque   | |巴斯克人（欧洲比利牛斯山西部地区的古老居民，绝大多数居住在西班牙北部）

||<17>Cro-Magnon  | |克罗马努人（1968年发现于法国南部克罗马努山洞中，是旧石器时代晚期新人的总称）