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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'ear
adeno-acanthoma
admission opening
advance received on consignment-out
Ale-ywa
anastomosis forceps
androdiecious
associated
auricularis magnus
Bantingize
bicopters
brotherlessness
bubble breaking surface
bullshot
business motivated
cadets
capacitor level detector
chariton r.
cyclopropanations
decontextualisations
embryonic tissues
epigenetic mineral deposit
evaza tibialis
even since
family Casuarinaceae
fast bus
finely-ground fire clay
flow recorder controller
fork-lift truck
good-day
graph matrix
group marker
GSCG
Hainburg
heat consumer
House of Lancaster
inspection window
knight's fee
ladder-back
leading crank
leopard jade
lesser-included
lipstick plants
loutishly
mailshotting
mercury with chalk
microcentrifuged
microwave rangefinder
middle jiao being organ of soaking
mill efficiency
mir
miserable failure
muicrocentrum
non-sked
noncrystalline region
obstancy
opening journal
paper form
para aminophenyl ethyl ether
party-poppers
periovulatory
personal replacement cost
pf
pleural thickening
promote the development
quasi sinusoidal vibration
rayleigh resolution criteria
recovered oil
required subject
right-justified attribute
rotary spout distributor
rrotta
scientific development
Scopolia lurida
segment stack number
sevigne
sick joke
siphonaria sipho
ski-hats
solenoid structure
space invariability condition
speak highly of
spondylolistheses
sticking-points
strap steel
supercookie
telechemic crystal
terminal of containers
thion-
Tiodenol
to JAP
toluidine
tractive stock
transmitting shaft
trephines
tresoreries
unhelping
vertical-attitude takeoff and landing
Voreioi Sporades, Nisoi
weather outlook
wee small hours
white-ash