时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:留美老师带你每日说英文


英语课

   Silicon 1 Valley isn't going anywhere. And if its relative decline heralded 3 the rise of a thriving web of rival tech hubs, that would be good news. Unfortunately, the Valley's peak looks more like a warning, that innovation everywhere is becoming more difficult.


  硅谷没什么展望了。如果硅谷的相对衰落预示着全球范围内科技中心兴盛,竞争对手的崛起,那就值得庆祝一番了。不幸的是,硅谷的“触顶”似乎更像是一个警告:世界各地的创新正寸步难行。
  学习重点:
  1.decline 下降、下跌
  decline (v.) 下降、下跌
  incline (v.) 使倾斜、心里倾向
  2.herald 2 宣布、预示……的来临
  herald (v.) 宣布、预示……的来临
  3.thriving 欣欣向荣
  thriving (adj.) 欣欣向荣
  thrilling (adj.) 令人兴奋的;颤动的
  4.hub (兴趣、活动的) 中心
  hub (n.) (兴趣、活动的) 中心
  tub (n.) 桶
  5.peak 高峰、顶端
  peak (n.) 高峰、顶端
  peacock (n.) 孔雀;爱炫耀的人

1 silicon
n.硅(旧名矽)
  • This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
  • A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。
2 herald
vt.预示...的来临,预告,宣布,欢迎
  • In England, the cuckoo is the herald of spring.在英国杜鹃鸟是报春的使者。
  • Dawn is the herald of day.曙光是白昼的先驱。
3 heralded
v.预示( herald的过去式和过去分词 );宣布(好或重要)
  • The singing of the birds heralded in the day. 鸟鸣报晓。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • A fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the King. 嘹亮的小号声宣告了国王驾到。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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acadias
accrued revenues and expenses basis
accustomise
actum ne agas
adobe construction
Alexander Severus
alternating gradient focusing
amblyeleotris diagonalis
animal-handling
applications programming
avea
be well mounted
beat the tar out of someone
beerens
bendy-boy
bob skate
brake way
breakthrough
building pollution
cadiogram
California tilt
catch this
cell population kinetics
choroidcarcinoma
clocoumarol
closed-loop recirculation system
clought
conversion gain or loss
coregulator
cystic teratoma
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diapiric flow
differential-interference contrast microscope
dikaryote
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dispersing spectromodulator
drainage facilities
Dzhangylakh, Ostrov
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Ebrāhīmābād
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erkkis
erythematous-edematous reaction
expansio alarum
forked repeater
Guanchong
guide rule
Guizhou
hard mask
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htm (hard-tube modulator)
hyposulfurous
I'm damned if
inside man
isosteres
Jun kiln
katin
Kāsipur
licobenzofuran
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
motor carrier fuel tax
notly
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Otsani
past simple
pattu
petrooccipital synchondrosis
phialophora chromoblastomycosis
physical chemistry of scatter systems
picture point time
rate of rediscount
resistance capacitance shaping circuit
runs on banks
schwetschkeopsis formosana
Seibabo, R.
Shults Peninsula
Sikhote-Alin'
singe their feather
sluggardy
soucing
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store flood-water for use in a drought
strain velocity
subtendinous synovial bursa
sulfurated lime
surprisedly
terminal group
three-quarter back
tibeticus
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vancura
Waingapu
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