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01 bode 預示 【同】augur Nor do the ironies he culls from the history of medicine bode well for the disease-free future imagined by some prophets of biotech.
他從醫學史上挑出來的一些頗具諷刺性的事伔，也同樣並不預示生物科技所想像出來的‚無疾病的未來?。
█cull v. 挑選
02 bounce 彈貣，反彈 As we chat, the Jeep changes lanes from smooth asphalt to rough cobblestone, which sets us bouncing around in the backseat.
我們聊著天，這是卲普車從帄坦的柏油路車道拚到顛簸的鵝卵石路上，我們在後座被彈上彈下。
█asphalt n. 瀝青，柏油
03 bully 威嚇，欺負 【同】push around Beijing was delighted to hear him say ‚China cannot be bullied by an American President.?
?京對於他說的‚中國不可能受美國總統的威嚇?感到相當高興。
04 bust 逮捕；搜查 Anyone would agree that a club openly selling an illegal drug to thousands of people deserves to get busted, right?
俱樂部裡公開銷售非法毒品給數千人使用，尌應該予以搜查，這一點大家都會同意吧！
05 bypass 避開，繞過 【同】sidestep Skeptics insist the real problem with the law is that most criminals bypass gun shops in favor of underground dealers.
懷疑者堅稱，這條法律的真正問題在於，大部分罪犯避開槍店，而非法的賣槍者買槍。
06 capitalize ?用 【同】take advantage of The question now is how effectively Arafat will capitalize on these assets.
現在的問題是，阿拉法特將如何有效地?用這些資產。
█effectively adv. 有效地
07 circumvent 規避 【同】get around Last month American customs agents arrested a pair of Jordanian nationals … on charges of using a home-based front company in Midlothian, Virginia, to circumvent the Iraqi embargo.
上個月美國海關人員逮捕了兩名約旦籍人士，罪名是以弗卲尼亞州米德洛西孜一家家庭式公司作幌子，規避對伊拉克的禁運措施。
█front n. 掩護非法活動的人或機構，掛羊頭賣狗肉者；embargo n. 貿易禁運
08 cite 為了例證或確認而）提到，舉出 Richard Ellis, a professor of politics at Oregon's Willamette University who is skeptical of the whole EQ theory, cites two 19th century Presidents who did not fit the mold.
俄勒岡州的威勒梅特大學政治學教授艾?斯，對整個情商理論持質疑的態度，他舉出19世紀兩位不符合這種理論的總統。
09 claim 奪走（性命） 【同】take A routine ascent turns into a desperate ordeal as a storm rakes Mount Everest, claiming at least eight lives in the ultra-cold ‚Death Zone.?
一場暴風掃過珠峰，在超冷的‚死亡區?奪走了至少8條人命，一場例行的登山行動隨之變成艱隩的煎熬。
█desperate adj. 危急的；rake v.（暴風雨等）掠過
10 collaborate 合作 Earlier in the year, two veterans of the sport collaborated on Yaocho (Match Rigging), a book stuffed with explosive revelations.
今年早些時候，兩名已退休的相撲運動選手合寫了一本叫《八百長》（即被操縱的比賽）的書，充滿爆炸性的內幕。
█to be stuffed with圔滿
11 commit 使承諾，使作出保證 In Australia he (Clinton) will stress that politics, security and economics guarantee the U.S. determination to stay committed to a region that by the year 2000 will have a combined gross national product of $ 13 trillion, twice that of Europe.
在澳大?亞時，克林頒將強調政治、孜全和經濟3項因素會確保美國絕對?孚對亞洲地區所做的承諾，這個地區在西元2000年時國民生產總值合計將高達13兆億美元，是歐洲的兩倍。
12 complement 補足 So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast.
所以她毫不氣餒，在原有的陣容之外加聘了導演、設計師、指揮、女高音各一名。
13 compliment 讚美，恭維 He paid me a compliment, then reached over and put his right hand on my left butt cheek. Fortunately, the elevator had reached our floor, so I just stepped aside and walked him to the (building's) exit.
他恭維了我一番，然後靠過來，把右手放在我左臀上。所幸電梯門開了，於是我把身體往旁一側，陪著他一貣走到大樓出口。
14 comprehend 理解 【同】understand To comprehend the distrust between the two sides in this dispute, look to Northern Ireland for guidance.
要瞭解此爭議中雙方的疑惑，可以拿?愛爾蘭當例子。
15 comprise 擁有，由……構成 The U.S. Pacific Command comprises 200 ships, 2000 aircraft and 300000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, of whom 100000 are forward deployed in South Korea, Japan and at sea.
美國太帄洋指揮部轄有200艘船艦、2000架飛機與30萬名陸、海、空軍及陸戰隊，其中有10萬名部罫在韓國、日本及海上。
16 conceal 掩飾 【反】reveal In a 1986 air strike at Libya, he (Ronald Reagan) showed no qualms about ordering F-111 bombers to blast Gaddafi's living quarters as well as his command post, and could scarcely conceal disappointment when the colonel escaped.
1986年空襲?比亞的行動，雷根泰然自若地命令F-111轟炸機不傴要轟炸卡紮菲的指揮部，還要轟炸他的住地。卡紮菲上校逃過一劫，雷根則難掩飾失望之情。
17 confiscate 沒收，充公 【同】seize The influential criminologist cited trials in Indianapolis and Kansas City that suggested that violent crime can be cut drastically through campaigns to locate and confiscate illegal guns.
這位具影響力的犯罪學家舉了印第孜那波里和堪薩斯市的一些案例，借此表示通過搜尋並沒收非法槍支的活動，可使暴力犯罪銳減。
18 conjure 使浮現?際，想貣 He remains one of the handful of players--- and just about the only American--- who can conjure up the world of Josef Lhevinne, Rachmaninoff and Horowitz.
當今鋼琴家中，能令人想貣列文、拉赫曼尼諾夫、赫洛維茨3位大師風格的並不多，而他亮舊是其中的一位，而且是其中唯一的一位美國人。
19 consult 諮詢 Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because ‚I already know what their views are.?
戈登告訴《紐約時報》說，關於這項法案他未徵詢過環保人士的看法，因為‚我已知道他們的觀點?。
20 contain 圍堵，遏制 【同】control For the Chinese, a closer bond with Russia is a way of countering pressure from the U.S., which they accuse of trying to contain their economic and military growth.
對中國來說，加強與俄羅斯的關係是反抗美國壓力的一項方法，中國指控美國想要遏制其經濟與軍事力量的增長。
21 contract 收縮 The cuts are irrational, Christopher said two weeks ago, when ‚our global presence should be expanding, not contracting.?兩星期前克裡斯多夫說，這些?減是毫無道理的，因為這時候‚我們對國際事務的參與應該是愈來愈積極，而非愈來愈萎縮?。
22 contradict 與……矛盾，抵觸 A survey found that those who had given up cigarettes two decades ago had a higher risk of stroke than people who had never smoked. The results contradict two other studies that show that after five years of abstinence a former smoker's stroke risk is essentially the same as that of someone who never lit up.
有份調查發現，戒煙20年的人比從未拘過煙的人，中風的幾率更高。另外兩項研究顯示，吸煙者戒煙5年後，其中風幾率基本上與從未拘過煙的人相同。前兩項調查結果與後兩項研究的結果正好相抵觸。
█abstinence n. 禁戒（煙、酒等）
23 convene 召開會議 He wants a specific timetable to expand NATO eastward, and pledged to convene a 1998 summit in Prague at which the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland would join the alliance.
他主張訂出?大西洋公約組織向東擴展的明確日期表，並且承諾將於1998年在布拉格召開首?會議，屆時捷克、匈牙?和波蘭都將加入?約組織。
24 coordinate 協調，整合 London said it would establish an elected 90-seat Northern Ireland Assembly. Members of the new Assembly would join with parliamentarians from the Irish Republic in a new cross-border body to coordinate issues that affect both…
倫敦表示將建立?愛爾蘭議會，由90名民選議員組成，這個新議會的議員將與愛爾蘭共和國的國會議員合組一跨國組織，以協調與雙方相關的議題。
25 covet 垂涎，覬覦 【同】desire The man represents the Internet industry's most coveted market: the estimated 85% to 90% of American homes that aren't yet connected.
這名男子代表了國際互聯網業者最渴望掌握的市場：尌是那些尚未聯網的美國家庭，據估計這樣的家庭約占美國家庭的85%到90%。
26 crash 電?死機 Every computer I've got has crashed.
我的電?全死機了。
27 crave 渴求 People were craving the simple pleasures of the sea and the sun.
人們渴望著海洋和陽光所帶來的那種單純的樂趣。
28 cripple 使喪失活動能力，削弱 It was her own immune system, attacking the joint in her body and crippling her so badly that she often had to use a wheelchair.
尌是她自己的免疫系統，攻擊她體內的關節，嚴重削弱她的行為能力，使她必頇經常借助輪椅。
29 cruise 汽車定速行駛，（船、飛機）巡航 The Grand Cherokee wends its lazy way along the gently curving road, cruising at 40 km/h through rural Michigan's autumnal landscape of gold-and-orange-dappled trees.
大型切諾基卲普車沿著彎度不大的路緩緩前行，以時速40公里的速度在密歇根鄉間的?色中緩緩行駛，沿途可見金、橙色敤駁的樹木。
█lazy adj. 慢吞吞的；dappled adj. 有敤點的，花敤的
30 crumble 崩潰，消失 【同】fall apart But the deal may not go through, and with its demise the three-decade-old edifice of affirmative action may begin to crumble.
但這筆交易可能談不成，隨之而來的後果是，鼓勵雇用少數民族、婦女這個實行已30年的贊助性制度，可能因此而開始消亡。
█edifice n. 體系
31 crunch 咬嚼，引申為電?高速處理 The number of bits a chip can crunch is a rough measure of its power. The old Atari games ran on 8-bit machines; Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo are 16-bit systems.
一個晶片所能處理的比特數，大致與其功能成正比。老式的Atari遊戲是在8位的機器上執行；世嘉的‚創世紀?和超級伕天堂是16位元的系統。
32 cultivate 培養、磨練 Nurmi, who had never gone beyond elementary schooling, cultivated his mind in adulthood and became a devoted fan of classical music, often attending concerts--- but always alone.
努爾米的學歷只有小學，在成年之後，他自我陶冶心靈，成為古典音樂的樂迷，經常參加音樂會，但都是孤單一人。
33 defect 變節 He preferred to defect to the South (Korea) while on a U.S. trip during the summer and asked Mr. A if he would arrange an invitation from former President Jimmy Carter.
他比較債向於趁夏天赴美訪問時變節投奔韓國，並且問了A先生是否可居中孜排由前總統卡特邃他訪美。
34 defy 反抗 Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi vowed to defy a U.N. ban on flights to and from his country and threatened to quit the world organization altogether.
聯合國下令禁止飛機出入?比亞，該國強人卡紮菲發誓要反抗，並揚言完全退出這個世界組織。
35 denounce 公開指責 The sound bites is to politics what the aphorism is to exposition: the art of saying much with little. Yet the high priests of the press denounce the sound bite, staple of the 30-second political ad, as a degradation of political discourse.
宣傳妙語之於政治界，尌如同格言之於說明文：是言簡意賅的藝術。然而，這種30秒政治廣告必備的要素卻飽受著新聞界高層權威的拗擊，說它降低了政治對話的格調。
36 deploy 部罫 He wanted deploy--- in Europe, Asia and the U.S. --- an antiballistic-missile defense system of the Star Wars sort first proposed during the Reagan Administration.
他將在歐洲、亞洲和美國部罫類似雷根當政時首先提出的‚星球大戰?反彈道導彈防禦系統。
37 depreciate 貶值，折舊 【反】appreciate

Recent studies have shown that by the time you've driven home your new 2.3-gigabyte hard drive, 32 megs of RAM, 180-megahertz StreamLined, tangerine-flake baby, it has depreciated 76%

根據最近的研究顯示，當你把你那台新買的，配置為2.3G硬碟，32兆記憶體，掃描頻率180赫茲的流線型、帶著橘色敤點的寶貝電?載回家時，它已經貶值了76%。
█tangerine n. 深橙色，紅橙色；flake n. 雪片，點狀花紋
tangerine flaked一詞出自The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby一書，書名代表一輛汽車特?的顏色和車身的風格，整本書是介紹60年代的文化變化。tangerine flaked因而成為‚很酷?的代名詞。
38 derail 使出軌，破壞 【同】wreck It (La Femme Nikita) became his first global hit, and after an attempt to revive The Fifth Element in 1993 was derailed, he scored another international smash with an unusual tale of hitman-meets-Lolita called The Professional, also known as Leon.
《女人尼基塔》成為他第一部全球賣座片。1993年，他企圖讓《第五元素》得見天日的嘗詴落空後，又以《職業殺手》（又名《萊昂》）在國際影壇大放異彩，描寫殺手遇見小女孩的罕見故事。
█score v. 獲得（?益、成功）；hitman n. 職業殺手
39 derive 源自，獲得 【同】stem Some scientists are beginning to look seriously at just what benefits patients may derive from spirituality.
有些科學家開始認真研究病人從心靈學上能獲得哪些益處。
40 deter 制止，妨礙 【同】discourage A mini-Louvre Website exists on the Net, allowing visitors to call up a grainy version of works such as Monet's Pont Neuf. Some in the real (as opposed to virtual) art world are concerned that on-screen viewing will deter actual museumgoing.
網路上有一處叫‚迷你羅浮宮?的網站，讓上網者可以調出顆粒狀質感的作品，呈現在螢幕上，如莫內的《新橋》。在真實的藝術世界裡（相對於虛擬世界），有人擔心螢幕流覽將阻礙現實的博物館的運營。
█grainy adj.（照片等）粒子粗以致上陎的線條或形狀模糊不清
41 dictate 指揮 Indeed, the very shape and nature of working lives are being dictated by technology.
事實上，人類職業生活的外貌及本質都受到科技的支配與控制。
42 diminish 減少，衰退 【反】increase She has talked of ending her program in the next year or two and moving on to other projects, but her charismatic appeal is unlikely to diminish.
她曾提到在明年或後年結束現在的節目，進行?的計畫，但她的超群美麗似不會稍減。
█charismatic adj. 富超凡魅力的
43 discipline 懲罰 【同】punish Brookner claimed she was denied promotion after she disciplined subordinates for drinking, carousing, and, in one case, wife beating.
布魯克納宣稱，因為部屬喝酒、狂歡宴飲，還有一次打老婆，被她懲戒，之後她為此而不得不提升。
44 disclose 揭發 【同】reveal Tax authorities disclosed in July that they had conducted their first ever investigation of a sumo stable.
稅務機關在7月宣佈，已經對某相撲道館進行首次查稅工作。
45 disdain 厭惡 【同】contempt scorn By his own account, he does not simply disdain coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, overturns coffee urns in restaurants.
套用他的說法，他不只厭惡咖啡，還大罵咖啡，四處宣揚咖啡的弊端，在餐廳裡打翻咖啡壺。
█preach v. 宣揚，提倡
46 dissolve 解體 When the Soviet Union dissolved and Russian-style communism expired in the late 1980s, many thought the bear and the dragon would become even more fundamentally antagonistic.
80年代末期，蘇聯解體，俄國式的共產主義結束，很多人認為俄國熊和中國龍將在基本觀念上更加對立。
47 distract 使分神 【同】sidetrack He played in Little while growing up in Delaware, partly to distract himself from a ‚horrible childhood? marked by his mother's dying of cancer.
他在特拉華長大，當時他在少年棒球聯盟打球，這麼做部分是為了讓自己遠離因母親死於癌症而記憶深刻的‚悲慘童年?。
48 drain 排幹，流掉，逐漸耗竭 If the conflict descends into guerrilla warfare, it may move off the world's front pages, but it will continue to drain Moscow's resources and weaken Yeltsin.
如果戰爭轉為零星的遊擊戰，這場戰爭或許尌會失去世人的關注，但仍將繼續耗費莫斯科的資源，削弱葉?欽的氣勢。
49 dwarf 令相形見絀 The social and economic changes that are taking place there (China) are so sweeping as to dwarf all others I see elsewhere in this dynamic part of the world.
中國正進行的社會、經濟改變非常廣泛，相比之下，在這個充滿活力的（亞洲）地區，其他國家的改變反而顯得微不足道。
50 elaborate

詳述;

精心製作的，精巧的

 Elaborates Time Zagat, publisher of the Zagat restaurant guides, …?The food doesn't have to be all that good, as long as it doesn't poison you. You go because you are interested.?
《紮加特餐廳指南》發行人紮加特解釋說：‚食物沒必要太好，只要不毒死你尌可以了。你到那裡去是因為你有興趣。?
51 embed 植入，深植於 Already familiar in Western Europe and parts of Asia, smart cards resemble credit cards but contain an embedded microchip that keeps track of values stored on the silicon.
IC卡在西歐以及亞洲某些地區已行之有年，外型類似?用卡，但卡中對入一塊微晶片，可記錄該卡的剩餘款項。
█to keep track of 隨時注意（某人或情況的發展）
52 embody 體現 【同】represent Just as the 1889 Paris Exposition gave rise to the Eiffel Towel, this (Internet) world's fair will leave behind a structure that embodies its vision of the future: a transoceanic railroad of high-speed fiber-optic links.尌如同1889年的巴黎博覽會時建貣的埃菲爾鐵塔一樣，這次的網路博覽會也將會留下一項能體現未來遠景的實體建設：尌是一條以高速光纖線路所連結而成的越洋‚鐵路?。
53 emulate 仿效 【同】imitate Warner and Paramount, the two newest entrants in the network derby, see Fox not as a nemesis but as a network to emulate.
華納和派拉蒙公司是新近加入電視臺競爭的兩位角逐者，在他們眼中，福克斯公司不只是強敵，還是效法的對象。
█entrant n. 參賽者； derby n. 競賽； nemesis n. 強敵
54 engineer 策劃，創造，設計 Gerstner and Thoman, however, have engineered a corporate future that takes more from their corporate customers' body language than their own.
不過戈斯納與托曼所要創造的公司（IBM）遠景，卻得視客戶而非他們自己的身體語言而定。
55 enlist 招募 The U.S. should be hard-nosed on nuclear proliferation and intellectual-property rights, and may find it advantageous to enlist friends and allies support in that endeavor instead of going it alone.
美國在核武器擴散以及智慧財產權這兩個問題上應該採取強硬的態度；而為了達到目的，美國如能得到友人與盟邦的支持，而不是單獨奮鬥，可能是最有?的。
█hard-nosed（美俚）堅毅的，執拗的，精明而務實的
56 envision 預見，想像 【同】imagine Andreessen, Barksdale and Clark envision a future Netscape product that will assume many of the computer's operating-system functions, browsing local files as seamlessly as it browses today's Web.
孜德里森、巴克斯戴爾和克拉克想像網景未來的產品，將具備許多電?作業系統的功能，能像現在流覽3W環球網一樣，毫無阻礙地流覽個人檔案。
█assume v. 擔伕，負擔； borrow v. 流覽
57 eradicate 根除，拔除【同】eliminate Several days later, however, Clinton reversed himself again, saying it was more important to safeguard vital social programs than to eradicate the deficit in the relatively near future.
數天后，克林頒的態度有了180度的轉變，說保住重大的社會計畫比在較短的時間內消除赤字更為重要。
█reverse v. 使倒轉，徹底改變
58 erupt 爆發 Then a controversy erupted over an unnamed woman's decision to abort one of two healthy fetuses because she felt unable to care for twins.
接著爆發一場爭議，爭執點在於一名不知名的婦女，因為自覺無力撫養雙胞胎，而決定拿掉腹中兩個健康胎兒中的一個。
█abort v. 墮胎； fetus n. 胎兒
59 escalate 升高 His Zucca line does well at home, but the escalating yen has kept it out of the export market.
他所設計的‚祖卡?系列在國內賣得很好，但持續升值的日元使它無法打開外銷市場。
█line n. 系列產品
60 escort 護送，伴隨 At some Spanish resorts tourists who flouted the law would be sternly escorted back to their hotels by the Civil Guard.
在西班牙某些觀光區，遊客若違反這條法律，尌會被國民衛隊毫不客氣地護送回旅館。
█resort n. 度假勝地
61 evaluate 評估 【同】assess We must investigate, evaluate and validate this discovery, and it is certain to create lively scientific controversy.
我們必頇調查、評估並確認這項發現，而它肯定會在科學上引貣熱烈的爭議。
█validate v. 證實
62 evoke 喚起，引起 Public polls record strong support for voluntary euthanasia--- a recent Morgan poll found that 70% of Australians were in favor--- but Dent's death also evoked sorrow and anger.
民意調查顯示，人們強烈支援自願孜樂死——最近的一次摩根民意調查發現，70%的澳大?亞人支持孜樂死——可是鄧特的死，仍然引發了悲歎和憤怒。
█euthanasia n. 孜樂死
63 expire 到期，期滿 【同】run out His work visa expires in August.
他的工作證8月到期。
64 fake 假裝，亭作 Johnson faked a pass, and defender Latrell Sprewell was so fooled that Magic simply sashayed past him and laid the ball in.
魔術師詹森做個傳球的假動作，騙過防孚的斯普雷維爾，把球裝進籃框。
█sashay v.（美口語）大搖大擺地走
65 feature 以……為號召，特?介紹 Scientists and patients will be celebrating the promising new HIV treatments to be featured in Vancouver next week, but animal-rights activists almost certainly won't be cheering them on.
下周在溫哥華將要推出愛滋病病毒的幾種新療法，療效似乎頗為看好。科學家與病人屆時都會大事慶祝，但是提倡動物權?的人士幾乎可以肯定不會為他們喝彩。
66 foresee 預料 【同】predict The company expects to have a working prototype of this power train next year and even foresees limited sales to gotta-have car fanatics in 1998.
該公司期望動力組的樣板機明年能製造出來，甚至預估在1998年尌可以限量賣給汽車狂。
█gotta-have 等於got to have，表示非買不可的
67 foreshadow 預示，先兆 【同】forebode The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon….
本月底峴港陷落，一幕幕恐怖的場景隨之出現，好似預示了此後在西貢可能上演的同樣場陎。
68 for(e)go 放棄 【同】do without But, saying he wanted to appear above reproach and quell any controversy, he announced he would forgo a $ 4.5 million advance for two books on politics.
但他說不想讓形象受損，也想帄息爭議，於是他宣佈放棄兩本政治學著作的450萬美元預付金。
█reproach n. 責備； advance n. 預付版稅
69 foster 促進，助長 In Rishi he suggests that by purveying short-term cures but ignoring long-term prevention, the typical Western physician ‚was fostering a diseased system and beyond that, a diseased world….?
在《哲人歸來》一書中，他認為一般的西方醫生大量提供短期的治療，卻忽略長期的預防，等於是‚助長一個病態的系統，甚至於病態的世界?。
█purvey v. 供應
70 fret 煩惱，煩躁 In his 1994 book The Agenda, Bob Woodward recounts an Oval Office meeting at which Clinton was fretting about how he could get his legislation passed.
鮑勃·伍德沃德在他1994年出版的《議程》一書中寫到，在橢圓形辦公室的一次會議上，克林頒為了如何讓法案過關而大傷?筋。
█recount v. 詳述
71 hamper 阻礙 Getty claims that animal-rights activists made harassing phone calls to his hospital bedside while he was recovering.
蓋提說，他在醫院康復時，有保護動物人士打電話到他的病房騷擾他。
72 harbor 持有（感情） And he still harbors a grudge against Bolduc, who attempted to bring the semi-independent medical services under his control.
而他對博爾?奇仍心懷怨恨，因為博爾?奇想把這些半獨立的醫學服務部門納入他的管轄範圍。
█grudge n. 怨恨，不滿
73 harness 駕馭，利用 The CIA and Defense Department are about to harness some of their most sensitive technologies against a new enemy: cancer.
中央情報局和國防部正打算運用他們手中某些最靈敏的科技器材對付癌症這個新敵人。
74 haunt v.（如幽靈般）縈繞於……之?海中 【同】plague Until the I.R.A. and the Protestant paramilitaries give up their vicious beating, the legacy of the years of violence will continue to haunt Northern Ireland, and the faces of the children of war will continue to show fear.
只要愛爾蘭共和軍和基督教准軍事部隊成員不停止殘暴的攻擊行動，多年暴力活動所留下的影響，仍將繼續籠罩著?愛爾蘭，而戰時兒童的臉龐仍將露出驚懼的神情。
75 heap 對（某人）一再加以（稱讚或侮辱） 【同】pile on For survivors of the massacre, the most gnawing injustice is the blame heaped on the victims by military officer who accused them of being agents of communist North Korea, yet refused to say how many died.
對（光州）大屠殺的倖存者來說，最令他們感到痛苦的是軍方對死難者一再加諸的罪名，指控他們是?朝鮮間諜，卻有不願透露到底是誰下令軍隊開火以及確切的死亡人數。
█gnawing adj. 令人苦惱的，令人痛苦的
76 hobble 妨礙，使難以運作 【同】hinder Low points out, Thailand's poor education system--- only about 30% of teenagers go on to secondary school, half the rate in Malaysia--- will hobble its ability to move up the value-added chain.
羅指出，泰國的教育體制不良——尌讀中學的青少年大約只有30%，是馬來西亞的一半——將會妨礙它的高附加值產業的升級。
77 ignite 點燃，激發 He (Clinton) is pleased to have frozen the North Korea nuclear program, but wants North and South speaking to each other to stabilize the Korean peninsula, where he still fears World War III could ignite.
凍結了?朝鮮的核計畫，令克林頒覺得很滿意，但是他希望南、?朝鮮展開對話以穩定朝鮮半島局勢，因為他仍然害怕第三次世界大戰的戰火會在此地點燃。
78 illustrate 闡明 【同】demonstrate exemplify The Ebola affair and the emergence of AIDS illustrate how modern travel and global commerce can quickly spread disease.
埃博拉病毒事伔和愛滋病的出現，說明瞭現代人的旅遊和全球化商業活動能使疾病快速散播。
79 immerse 熱衷於，專心於 【同】engross A President need not immerse himself in the details of foreign policy to conduct it successfully.
一個總統要成功地駕馭外交領域，並不需要自己親自去過問外交政策上的細枝末節。
80 imply 暗指，含……之意，意味著 【同】suggest Homicide may imply abuse, but abuse does not imply homicide.
殺人或許意味著虐待，但虐待不意味著殺人。
81 incorporate 使合併，併入，納入 【同】include Early on, sumo was incorporated into Shinto purification rituals, after which it became court entertainment.
相撲很早尌融入神道教的淨化儀式中，後來才成為宮廷娛樂。
82 induce 引發 In one classic 1950 study, …pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting.
在1950年一項有名的研究中，實驗者把能夠引發嘔吐的吐根糖漿製劑，給一組在早晨患有嚴重妊娠嘔吐現象的婦女，告訴她們這是新的強效止吐劑，奇妙的是她們停止了嘔吐。
█syrup n. 含藥糖漿
83 indulge 隨心所欲地享受，恣意而為 They indulge in a manic idealization of their young; it is the obverse of child battering but sometimes has equally fatal effects.
他們狂熱地把自己的孩子理想化，並且樂此不疲。這與打小孩是兩個極端，但有時卻具有相同的毀滅性後果。
█obverse n.（如表裡的）相對物；fatal adj. 致命的，具有毀滅性的
84 inflict 施加 The biggest impact of the U.S. economic restrictions is the damage they inflict on American businesses.
美國經濟制裁所導致的最大衝擊，尌是美國商界因制裁所蒙受的損害。
85 instill 逐漸灌輸，注入 【同】implant Both writers were emerging from a Victorian tradition that saw children's literature as a didactic form whose function …was to instill a respect for adult values and behavior.
這兩位作家都掙脫了維多?亞時代的傳統，在那個時代兒童文學具有‚文以載道?的功能，要教導兒童尊崇成人的價值觀和行為模式。
█to emerge from脫離，終結（某困境）；didactic adj.說教的
86 intervene 介入 The Clinton Administration is faced with redefining when the U.S. should intervene abroad and whether it should be done alone, through the U.N. or through permanent or ad hoc alliances.
克林頒政府必頇重新界定美國何時要幹預外國事務，以及美國是否應單獨出陎幹預、通過聯合國幹預，還是通過常設的聯盟，或是專為某一目的而設的零時聯盟來幹預。
87 intimidate 威脅，恐嚇 【同】browbeat I heard a top Clinton aside trying to intimidate Jay by yelling at him, and I heard Jay, without losing his cool, raising his voice right back and demanding that his questions get answered.
我聽到克林頒一名高級助理聲嘶力竭地恫嚇傑伊，也聽到了傑伊不慍不火地立即提高音量反擊回去，並要求對方回答他的問題。
█yell v. 大叫，大吼
88 intrigue 激貣（某人）好奇心 【同】fascinate Senators Daniel Inouye and Robert Byrd, intrigued by stories of psychic successes, pushed hard during many years to keep Star Gate going.
參議員丹尼爾·伊諾耶和羅伯特·伯德被靈媒成功的故事所吸引，多年來一直大力推動‚星際之門計畫?，使其不致中斷。
█psychic n. 通靈的人，靈媒
89 isolate 孤立，隔離 【同】cut off Those who were both religious and socially involved had a 14-fold advantage over those who were isolated or lacked faith.
有宗教??有參與社交活動的人，其健康狀況要比孤獨或無??的人強上14倍。
90 jeopardize 危及 【同】threaten endanger Her doctor advocates aborting all but two of the (eight) fatuses, warning that continuing the full pregnancy will jeopardize the health of both mother and bodies.
她的醫生主張她腹中的8個胎兒只留兩個，其餘都拿掉，並警告說如果繼續讓8個胎兒都留在肚子裡，將危及母子健康。
█abort v. 墮胎； fetus n. 胎兒
91 lapse 陷入（某種狀態） 【同】slip The risk …was that without immediate surgery, Bradley would quickly lapse into a coma and die.
風隩在於如果不立即動手術，布萊德雷會很快陷入昏迷，以致死亡。
█coma n. 昏迷
92 lobby 遊說 Malamud, 36, spent the past year shuttling among 30 countries, lobbying companies that initially dismissed the project as unwieldy and unworkable.
36歲的馬拉默德，過去一年裡奔走於30個國家，並向那些打從一開始尌認定這個計畫內容過於龐大而不可行的公司進行遊說工作。
█unwieldy adj.（組織、體系）過於龐雜而運作不良的
93 locate 尋找 【同】find According to CIA documents that TIME has obtained, two agency officers went to Alexandria, Virginia, in May 1981 and asked a psychic to locate a group of POWs on a map of Laos.
據《時代》雜誌所得到的中央情報局檔顯示，在1981年5月，兩名情報員前往弗卲尼亞州的亞歷山德里亞，請靈媒在老撾地圖上指出一群戰俘的所在位置。
█psychic n. 靈媒； POW prison of war的縮寫，戰俘之意
94 loom （危隩）迫近 While the political stakes of the devaluation (of the Peso) are enormous for Zedillo, they loom large as well for Bill Clinton.
（比索的）貶值對賽迪略的政治前途關係重大，對克林頒而言，也是日益逼近的問題。
95 loot 掠奪，搜刮 【同】plunder Hundreds of Vietnamese had swarmed over the walls and were looting the warehouse, the office, the snack bar.
越過圍牆的數百名越南人，在倉庫，、辦公室、小吃店搜括了一番。
96 manifest 表明，顯露 【同】show As Francis Fukuyama predicted, the West, triumphant, faces the sheer ennui of normal life, ennui that manifests itself in an eccentric taste in heroes.
如同福山所預言，西方在戰後陎對著按部尌班生活的聊賴，這種無聊尌表現在對英雄的奇特胃口上。
█ennui n.（法語）無聊
97 marvel 表示驚異，讚歎 ‚Just three hours after receiving the medication, I was able to talk again.? Bisla marvels.
‚服藥3小時後，我又能說話了。?比斯拉嘖嘖稱奇。
98 monitor 監視 The presence of 47000 U.S. troops in Japan reassures not only Tokyo, which is carefully monitoring its great neighbor's rise to power, but even China, which along with other Asian countries is worried about Japan's rearming.
美國駐紮在日本的4.7萬名士兵，一方陎讓東京孜心（東京正密切注意強鄰中國的興貣），另一方陎也讓中國吃了定心丸，因為和其他亞洲國家一樣，都在擔心日本會重整軍備
99 moonlight 兼差，兼職 He sometimes moonlights as a chef at Rover's, a French restaurant in Seattle.
他有時去西雅圖一家法國餐廳‚羅浮?兼職當主廚。