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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alarm sound
angle bisector
Bender's bodies
Bolax
buttwelding
calcium sulfhydrate
calcium sulphates
Camellia scariosisepala
candidate image
Caudebec-lès-Elbeuf
character mode input
cheque deposit
chicken-fried steak
chossy
cinder concrete lintel
condenseries
constant US dollar
contracting-out
counter-current separation
cuddlecore
current law
detonating relay
diffusion network
diggest
dog and maggot
feeder gage
finnan haddies
fully-automatics
gas detection system
hammer swing sledge mill
hard power
hengartner
high-moor
imaginary element
impulse tank
infinite classical group
information systems manager
interstate lines
iracundulous
ischuretics
Laurent half-shade plate
liability to equity ratio
load intensity diagram
market rate of exchange
martial-laws
methyl-dopa
mqw semiconductor optical amplifier
Mérida, Estado de
Newton Solney
nonrecognition
northrops
oak tree
octa-klor
Olea glandulifera
one bucket excavator
outwashes
paging channel
palaeophyte
parsnip r.
plungertype dust gun
posted-offer monopoly
potential circle
preferred values
professional consultant
programar
pseudopolycoria
public relations officer
rectifier type instrument
rhinoceros horn
roller current collector
rounded sand
routing machine
Salgada
San Vito Chietino
schlang
scientifical method
Sea Train Line
Serissa foetida Comm.
set at naught
sight gravity feed oiler
societies
soda-triphylite (arrojadite)
source restoration
source-coding
suppurant
surface configuration
taxanes
tea bread
tetovo
the beauty of life
the National Audit Office
top level
treponemal antigen test
tricot knitting
turn out for the best
unclement
unspelled
Valle Hermoso
vertical instability
volumised
work-box
woven glass