2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析

>>托福阅读词汇：2017托福考试阅读高频词汇解析

commercialized 商业化的

Some companies have commercialized a process that captures carbon dioxide and converts it to solid material, but those efforts rely on a chemical process to capture carbon dioxide.

annually yearly 每年

Consider this : if you can save $500k, and you average 10% on your investment portfolio, you will gain $50k annually without doing anything other than having the money.

stimulate rouse, excite 刺激, 鼓舞

Dampen

“We have to find a new way — or maybe it’s an old way — to stimulate enough demand for the economy to do what it’s supposed to do without speculative excess, ” Mr. Bernstein said.

consumer customer 消费者

You know only what any consumer has to do to use the service and what any provider must do when implementing it.

livestock 家畜

Dry lands are particularly affected by these trends, as livestock are often the only source of livelihoods for the people living in these areas.

husbandry 饲养, 务农

If you have a skill, such as cooking, animal husbandry, massage, musical ability or basic carpentry, you can barter for free food and accommodation as you travel.

fodder 饲料

They provide us with the environmentally sound renewable resource of wood, fuel for energy and many non-wood products, including food, fodder, medicines, building materials and cosmetics.

flax 亚麻

He understood well the importance of international trade and the potential wealth to be gained from the export of flax, hemp, pitch, furs, hides and timber.

rape 掠夺, 强暴

The rape victim was found dumped in one of the side streets.

hop 跳跃

Save the $1, 000-plus you'd need to fly to Beijing or Seoul and hop on the No. 7 train to the last stop in Queens for a glimpse of this neighborhood galloping to catch up with 21st century Asia.

turnip 萝卜

All I had to do was bring the groceries, which meant a steak — which I thought could fill in for wildebeest or antelope — and a turnip, a mango, some peanuts and potatoes.

horticulture 园艺学

All volunteers first go through orientation sessions, which are followed with one of three more specific training tracks:horticulture, “Ambassadors, ” and animal care.

consumption 消费

Another benefit is that memory consumption is optimized, as objects are only loaded into memory when they are requested.

reclaim 开拓;扩展

These processes have no direct impact on the user experience, and the system can kill them at any time to reclaim memory for a foreground, visible, or service process.

rotation spin,revolution 旋转, 循环

Examples of this type of transformation include such actions as translation, rotation, scaling, shearing, or any combination of these.

fertilization 施肥

If we had all the whales we used to have, they would remove the same amount of carbon in a year as 200 of the most efficient iron fertilization events.

graze 放牧

When I find them I pour a little olive oil into the entrance of the hole. Then I anoint the head and nose of each sheep with the same oil and allow them to graze.

ash 灰

He perceives the scent of old ash, examines with new care and clarity the husks of the buildings around him, and hears a particular sound that was not there before.

soap-boiler 煮皂工 artificial false, fake, mock 人工的 natural, real

But when he had gone the brief round of her he returned discouraged by the thought that all this frankness and innocence were only an artificial product.

justified denfensible, reasonable 有正当理由的,合乎情理的 Unjustified

Some argue that torture is justified if our survival is threatened, but even apart from the elasticity of this justification, it is flawed because it depends on an equivocation.

draining emptying 排水的 Filling

This is a recurring thought for me lately, but a powerful one that has resulted in action: Take notice of where your energy is spent and begin to allow yourself to identify what is draining you.

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