BOOK 4 词组汇总

Unit 1
1) 大自然的王国the realms of nature
2) 为社会利益服务serve the interests of society
3) 气候环境climatic conditions
4) 在对……的恐惧之中in fear of
5) 日常必须品daily necessities
6) 打着“文明”的旗号in the name of civilization
7) 关注be concerned with
8) 不可替代的自然资源irreplaceable natural resources
9) 动态平衡dynamic balance
10) 不祥之兆ominous sign
11) 崩溃break down
12) 工业废物industrial waste
13) 人工合成材料synthetic goods
14) 从头到脚from head to foot
15) 自然循环the cycle of natural processes
16) 在于lie in
17) 直到目前as yet
18) 回到我们的主题上return to our theme
19) 自然规律laws of nature
20) 结果是turn out
Unit 2
1) 国内生产总值gross domestic product
2) 预期寿命life expectancy
3) 富裕well off
4) 平均on average
5) 永恒的课题an eternal subject
6) 工业革命Industrial Revolution
7) 突破性研究成果groundbreaking work
8) 人类命运human lot
9) 就……而言when it comes to
10) 普遍现象 a universal phenomenon
11) 彩票中奖者lottery winners
12) 幸福感sense of well-being
13) 起作用的原则principles at work
14) 牢记在心keep in mind
15) 没有影响make no difference
16) 好歹for good or ill
17) 身份资料失窃identity theft
18) 想到come to mind
19) 脆弱的隐私fragile privacy
20) 联网的数据库linked databases
21) 被……缠住be stuck with
22) 医疗技术medical technology
23) 在更深层次上on a deeper level
24) 渴望be hungry for
Unit 3
1) 了解一些情况have some grasp of the situation
2) 积极予以肯定have some positive sense of certainty
3) 调查，研究look into
4) 逃走，溜掉slip away
5) 在某种程度上in a way
6) 把……视为/设想成为picture…as
7) 在…末尾at the end of
8) 换言之in other words
9) 无疑，必定no doubt
10) 在寻求……的过程中in one’s quests for
11) 一个学科 a field of learning
12) 惊讶于be amazed at
13) 有幸获得机会luck into an opportunity
14) 比如说，假设let’s say
15) 而不是rather than
16) 更好把握gain a better grasp of
17) 有自信心be sure of oneself
18) 断绝，封锁，使隔离close…off
19) 开拓，开发，开辟open…up
20) 倒过来，相反地the other way around
21) 将……从……中引导/转移出来lead…away from
22) 将……握在手中hold…in hands
Unit 6
1) 人生的艺术the art of living
2) 紧紧把握人生hold fast to life
3) 回首往事in backward glance
4) 褪色的美 a beauty that faded
5) 消逝的爱 a love that withered
6) 严重的心脏病 a severe heart attack
7) 重症监护病房intensive care
8) 辅助检查additional tests
9) 沉醉在这金色的阳光中relished the sun’s golden glow
10) 来去匆匆hurry to and fro
11) 视而不见be indifferent to
12) 为琐碎和低俗的顾虑所困扰be preoccupied with petty and mean concerns
13) 从这次经历中所获得的顿悟the insight gleaned from that experience
14) 太掉以轻心be too careless of
15) 把握每一个小时embrace each hour
16) 矛盾体的另一极the opposite pole of paradox
17) 世界在我们的掌握之中the world is ours to command
18) 满腔热情、全力以赴with the full force of our passion
19) 面对现实confront us with realities
20) 在人生的每个阶段at every stage of life
21) 承受损失sustain losses
22) 开始独立的生命begin independent lives
23) 面对不可避免的死亡confront the inevitability of death
24) 心甘情愿地服从于be reconciled to
25) 倾心地去爱give one’s heart in love
26) 破解这个矛盾resolve this paradox
27) 通向永恒的窗户windows that open on eternity
28) 人类对得到拯救的憧憬the vision of humankind redeemed
29) 永远无求无争forever free of need and conflict
Unit 7
1) 只剩下strip down to
2) 失去兴趣lose taste for
3) “自愿简朴”的理念the concept of voluntary simplicity
4) 结果是It turns out that
5) 局限于restrict to
6) 交换trade for
7) 削减开支curtail consumption
8) 融为一体be all of a piece
9) 节能的房子energy-efficient home
10) 太阳能温室solar greenhouse
11) 非处方药over-the-counter drugs
12) 时刻了解keep track of
13) 充满be saturated with
14) 通勤时代commuter age
15) 加工过的食品processed food
16) 首映电影first-run movies
17) 廉价旧货店thrift shops
18) 渴望更多东西的感觉yearning feeling
19) 不理智的行为irrational behavior
20) 旋转木马merry-go-round。