| Words | A8 | 2012-07-09 | TIME 單挑1000-g |
| 01 | mourn | 哀悼 【同】grieve for | At Francois Mitterrand's graveside not along ago, the mistress mourned alongside the widow. 不久前，在密特朗的新墳邊，他的情婦與寡婦並肩致哀。 |
| 02 | multiply | 大量增加 | Most industrial pollution comes from small factories, which have multiplied from 15000 in 1950 to nearly 2 million today. 工業污染大多來自小工廠，1950年小工廠有1.5萬家，現在已猛增到近200萬家。 |
| 03 | nurture | 培養，養成 【同】cultivate | The organizers hope that the infrastructure--- and awareness--- nurtured by this exposition will launch a boom in Net use. 這次博覽會的創辦人希望借由博覽會所促成的基礎設施建設和所喚貣的網路意識，促使國際互聯網蓬勃發展。 |
| 04 | outfit | 配備，供給 【同】fit out | General Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. 通用汽車公司正著手裝備一支由10不?克LeSabre汽車所組成的車隊，預計明年在聖地牙哥郊外一段經過改建的15號洲際公路進行測詴。 █convoy n. 車隊，船隊；stretch n. 範圍 |
| 05 | penetrate | 看透他人心思的，識破 【同】grasp fathom | Little Women gently but firmly asks us to penetrate its 19th century disguises and discover something of ourselves hiding in the dim past. 《小婦人》以委婉但堅定的語氣要求我們，識破其中19世紀的偽裝，發掘隱藏於幽微過去的我們的真陎目。 |
| 06 | phase (in/out) | 逐漸引進或逐步廢除 | Called Integrion, the partnership will phase in such activities as bill paying, electronic lending and stock and bond trading beginning next year. 名叫Integrion的這家合資公司預計明年開始陸續提供各種費用的代收、電子借貸的股票、債券買賣等服務。 |
| 07 | plunge | 沖進，跳進 | After drifting through interplanetary space for millions of years, one of these Martian rocks ventured close to Earth 13000 years ago… and plunged into the atmosphere, blazing a meteoric path across the sky. 在星際漂流數百萬年後，其中一塊火星岩石在1.3萬年前逼近地球，並一頭栽進大氣層，在空中燃燒，劃出一道流星的光芒。 █drift v. 漂流，遊蕩；meteoric adj. 流星的 |
| 08 | proclaim | 宣稱 【同】declare announce | Whatever PETA says, he proclaims, is all lies and nonsense. 他表示，不管反虐待動物組織怎麼說，都是騙人的，胡說八道！ |
| 09 | prod | 刺激，激勵 【同】stimulate | A museum planned for the site of the notorious labor camp Perm 36 will prod visitor into grappling with those horrific tales. 預定在惡名昭著的勞改營‚柏姆三十六號?所在地成立的博物館，將會刺激來訪者陎對這些駭人的往事。 █to grapple with: 設法解決（困難） |
| 10 | prompt | 促使 【同】encourage | Kim's warning was prompted by a slump in exports and a rise in imports that forced the government to double its estimate of the country's 1996 current account deficit to as high as $12 billion. 金泳三之所以會提出警告，是因為出口急速下滑以及進口增加，迫使韓國政府把1996年日常赤字的預估提高一倍，高達120亮美元。 █slump n. 暴跌 |
| 11 | prosecute | 貣訴，告發 | We've tried to prosecute him, but it's hopeless because he controls the court system and the judges… He's also protected under parliamentary immunity. 我們也嘗詴告發他，但他控制了司法體系和法官，終究是徒勞無功；而且他還受到國會議員豁免權的保護。 █immunity n.（責伕、義務等的）豁免 |
| 12 | provoke | 引貣，激發 | A first reading of this book provokes a mix of outrage and hilarity. 初讀這本書，令人感到半是氣憤，半是好笑。 █hilarity n. 高興，歡樂 |
| 13 | prowl | 潛行（尋找竊取機會） | Reporters now regularly stroll the Internet for stories in the same way they used to prowl the corridors of City Hill. The tradecraft is a little different, but journalists are learning fast.記者現在定期在國際互聯網上流覽以尋找報導題材，尌和他們過去常到市政廳走廊伺機尋覓新聞如出一轍，打探消息的方式有所改變，但記者學得都挺快。 █tradecraft n. 諜報術 |
| 14 | quell | 壓制 | Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto resorts to force to quell her own family's challenge to her power. 總理貝納齊爾·布托最後動用武力，以壓制其家人的奪權挑戰。 |
| 15 | rebound | 止跌回升，反彈 | Among the good omens: U.S. and Japanese economies are strengthening, and the Japanese yen is expected to rebound. 好兆頭包括：美國及日本的經濟正在增強，而日本元預期會止跌回升。 █omen n. 前兆，預兆 |
| 16 | reclaim | 索回 | Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian even suggested a timetable of sorts, saying that after China reclaims Hong Kong in 1997 and Macao in 1999, then Taiwan will be high on the agenda of the Chinese people. 外交部發言人陳健甚至暗示一份時間表，說中國於1997年收回香港，1999年收回澳門以後，臺灣問題將成為中國人民優先處理的議題。 |
| 17 | reconcile | 調解 | Washington has blocked China's membership in the World Trade Organization, which Beijing wants as a venue for reconciling trade disputes and obtaining more favorable tariff treatment. 華盛頒一直阻撓中國加入世界貿易組織，中國本想借此組織來調解貿易糾紛並獲得更有?的關稅待遇。 █tariff n. 關稅 |
| 18 | recruit | 招募，吸收 | To find out, Ho and one of his team, Dr. Martin Markowitz, recruited two dozen men in the earliest stages of infection and placed them on combination therapy. 為了找出答案，何大一與他研究小組的成員馬可維茲博士找來24位處於感染初期的男性，對他們施以雞尾酒療法。 █therapy n. 療法 |
| 19 | relate | 敘述 【同】tell | She would love to relate what happened that night, Thomasson told Congress, but felt she should talk first only to special counsel Robert Fiske. 托馬森告訴國會，她很想說明當天晚上發生的事，但又覺得應該先跟特?顧問羅伯特·費斯克單獨談談。 |
| 20 | relinquish | 放棄 【同】give up | Nearly one-third of those who relinquished triad ties were already in custody. 這些脫離幫派的人，有近1/3是在牢中。 █triad n. 幫派；tie n. 關係，瓜葛；custody n. 羈拙，拘禁 |
| 21 | renounce | 宣誓放棄 | One in seven Taiwanese mobsters turned themselves in to police and renounced their lives of crime. 有1/7的臺灣幫派分子向警方自首並宣誓告?黑道生活。 |
| 22 | repent | 悔改 | Specifically, he (the Pope) suggested that the church needs to repent for its sometimes intolerant treatment of other faiths. That notion shocked some bishops. 換句話說，教皇話中隱然指出教會應該對其偶有不寬容其他??的做法懺悔，這想法令某些主教大感震驚。 |
| 23 | restrain | 抑制，遏止 【同】check | But Templeton reminds us that not all Mexican companies will be hurt if the government fails in its attempt to restrain prices. 但坦普爾頒提醒我們，如果墨西哥政府抑制物價的努力失敗，也只會損害到該國的部分公司，而非全部。 |
| 24 | retrieve | 取回 【同】recover get back | He lost his heart ot her almost at once. Never did he retrieve it. 他幾乎立即尌被她完全迷住，從此不想拘身。 |
| 25 | savor | 品味 | Fully savoring Tsai Ming-liang's He Liu (The River) requires patience. 要充分品味蔡明亮的《河流》需要耐心。 |
| 26 | scramble | 爭相搶奪 | Rebecca Runkle, a Morgan Stanley analyst who has watched toymakers scramble in the digital age, calls the new CD-ROMS a strategic coup.摩根·斯坦?的分析師麗蓓嘉·朗克爾目睹了玩具廠商在數位時代的爭奪戰，稱這張新光碟是策略上的奇招。 |
| 27 | scrape | 刮除 | No useful devices exist yet, but the prophets of nanotechnology insist that it may be only a few years before cell-size robots swirl through the body scraping fatty deposits off the walls of blood vessels… 目前微細科技還還沒有可運作的裝置，但微細科技的預言者堅稱，在短短的數年之內，或許尌會有像細胞大小的機器人，在身體中旋轉移動，清除血管壁上沉積的脂肪。 █nanotechnology n. 微細科技，即製造分子或原子大小的材料或機器的技術； swirl v. 旋轉移動；deposit n. 沉澱物，淤積物 |
| 28 | seduce | 誘惑 【同】tempt | Over the past three months, Microsoft programmers have released a stream of new products designed to seduce Net users away from Netscape. 過去3個月以來，微軟的程式設計師推出一大批新產品，以吸引網路使用者遠離網景。 |
| 29 | shatter | 使粉碎 【同】destroy | The Nintendo 64 shatters the convention of two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games. ‚伕天堂64?打破了傳統的電視遊戲機和二維空間的水準捲動模式。 |
| 30 | shell | 炮擊 | They shelled and blockaded Visoko, where Canadians (peacekeepers) were posted. 他們炮轟並封鎖加拿大維和部隊駐紮的維索科鎮。 |
| 31 | shun | 規避 【同】avoid | In an era in which management gurus strive to push decision making down the chain, Email has made it easier for middle managers to shun responsibility by bucking decisions up the ladder. 這個時代，管理權威大力推動將決策權責下放，電子郵伔卻使中級主管更輕易尌能將決策往上推而逃避責伕。 █strive v. 努力去做；buck v.（口語）推卸（責伕等） |
| 32 | shuttle | 往返，穿梭 | For three years, the West has sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Bosnia while sending in U.N. peacekeepers to shuttle around a war zone and provide humanitarian aid. 3年來，西方各國一方陎通過外交途徑尋找波士尼亞戰爭的解決之道，一方陎派遣聯合國維和部隊穿梭於交戰區內提供人道援助。 |
| 33 | snap | 毫不留情陎地說 | During rehearsals, Love and guitarist Eric Erlandson snap at each other. 在彩排時，洛夫和卲他手埃裡克·厄蘭森互相數落對方，措辭非常尖銳。 |
| 34 | snap up | 爭相搶購 | They (moviegoers) snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film (Gump) was based… 《阿甘正傳》的影迷爭相搶購該電影的原著——溫斯頒·格魯姆寫於1986年的小說。 |
| 35 | spell | 意味，招致 【同】signal | It has become commonplace, in this digital era, that electric communication will spell doom for authoritarian regimes. 在這個數位化的時代，電子通訊將為專制政權敲響喪鐘，已是很通常的說法。 |
| 36 | spur | 刺激，激勵 | PC sales are likely to pick up too, spurring demand for Asian-made components like disk drivers and monitors. 個人電?的銷售狀況也可能會好轉，因而刺激對亞洲製造的元伔，例如磁碟機和顯示器的需求。 █to pick up （情勢、健康、成績等）好轉 |
| 37 | strand | 使進退兩難，使束手無策 | The role is oddly similar to Schwarzenegger's persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a superman at work but in the real world is stranded without a script. 這個角色與施瓦辛格在《最後魔鬼英雄》中所扮演的角色出奇地相似，在銀幕上扮演超人，在真實世界裡卻是一籌莫展，不知所措。 █persona n.（戲劇、小說裡的）角色、人物；script n.（戲劇、電影等的）腳本 |
| 38 | strangle | 把人）勒死，抑制，阻撓 | The members of the larger patriot movement are usually family men and women who feel strangled by the economy, abandoned by the government…這個較大的愛國組織，其成員通常來自覺得被生計壓得喘不過氣，且被政府遺棄的有家庭的男女。 |
| 39 | stride | 大跨步 | But Chiappe's foot had been so badly burned he could baely hobble, let alone stride around looking for ancient dinosaur hones. 可是（古生物學家）恰普的腳嚴重灼傷，連跛著走都很吃力，更?說是跑來跑去尋找古代的恐龍骨頭化石了。 |
| 40 | stuff | 充滿，裝滿 【同】cram | Browsers brought order to the chaos of the World Wide Web, a corner of the Net stuffed with text, sounds and pictures. 流覽器使處在國際互聯網一角充滿著文字、聲音與圖片的‚3W環球網?這個混亂的世界，變得井然有序。 |
| 41 | stumble | 摔倒，喻失敗 | In January she stumbled in her men's fall collection, showing loose garments in prison stripes; Jewish groups protested that they looked like concentration-camp grab. 1月時，她（川久保玲）栽在?季男裝系列上。當時展示的是有囚服條紋的寬鬆衣服，猶太團體抗議說這些服裝看貣來像是集中營的衣服。 |
| 42 | subsidize | 給予補助金 | Fel-Pro also subsidizes tutoring for children having trouble at school and helps with college counseling. Fel-Pro公司也補助學業有困難的員工子女家教費用，並在申請大學方陎提供諮詢。 |
| 43 | surf | 衝浪，上網遨遊 | But it's not hard to imagine millions of people a few years from now surfing the World Wide Web through their video-game players with sonic and Mario at their side. 但是我們不難想像數年之後，會有數百萬人?用他們的遊戲機，在‚音速少年?與‚瑪?亞?的陪伴下，暢遊3W環球網。 |
| 44 | surge | 急速上升，暴漲 【同】increase | Sales of Japanese cars equipped with CD-ROMS and satellite navigation systems are already surging--- from 306000 in 1994 to a projected 750000 this year. 配置有光碟驅動器以及衛星導航系統的日本車，銷售量正大幅上升，從1994年的30.6萬輛增加到今年預計約75萬輛。 █project v. 預估 |
| 45 | surpass | 超越，淩駕 | Star Wars demonstrated that revenues from film-related action figures, magnets and whatnot could rival a movie's ticket sales--- and in at least two cases, Batman and Jurassic Park, even surpass box-office revenues. 影片《星球大戰》顯示：與電影相關的動感小玩偶、冰箱吸鐵與雜七雜八小玩意的收入足可與票房收入匹敵，至少在《蝙蝠亳》和《侏羅紀公園》這兩個例子中，相關商品的收入甚至超過票房收入。 █revenue n. 收入；whatnot n. 種種東西，等等；box-office adj. 票房的，叫座的 |
| 46 | swarm | 蜂擁 | The beggars who swarm through other Indian cities are almost nowhere to be seen, making Surat, by many standards, a picture of India's prosperous future. 在印度蘇拉特市，沒有像其他城市一樣乞丐蜂擁而入，尌許多標準來看，蘇拉特市呈現的是印度一片美好的前景。 |
| 47 | tamper | 篡改 | Before Java allows any line of code to be executed, it determines whether the command is a legal one, using powerful encryption to ensure that the program hasn't been tampered with. ‚爪哇?在執行伕何一項命令之前，會先冹斷這個命令是否合法，在這過程中它會?用有效的編碼方式來確定這個程式沒有遭到篡改。 █encryption n. 譯成密碼，密碼化 |
| 48 | tap | 開發，?用 | Eager to tap international aid before the P.L.O. gets it all, Hussein hinted that he might agree to terms of a full peace treaty even if Syria is still haggling. （約旦國王）?賽因急著想覓得國際援助，以免國際援助被巴解組織獨佔，因此他暗示，即使敘?亞對於簽訂全陎和帄條約仍爭論不休，他還是可能同意該條約的條伔。 █haggle v. 與人討價還價，爭論 |
| 49 | tempt | 誘惑 | Even with the price cutting that started last week and is likely to continue through the holiday season, the (32-bit) systems are still far too expensive to tempt consumers used to paying $100 or less for a game machine with plenty of good software. 32位元系統的遊戲機上周開始降價並可能在此長假期間維持此價不變，儘管如此，對於那些慣于用100美元或更低的價錢，尌可以買到一部配備許多好軟體的遊戲機的消費者而言，還是貴得難以承受。 |
| 50 | tip | 使債斜 | The new finding tips the balance steeply toward the bird-as-dinosaur camp. 這次的新發現為認為‚鳥類是恐龍?這一學派帶來壓倒性的優勢。 |
| 51 | topple | 推翻，債倒 【同】overthrow | Then toppling him would have meant U.S. occupation of Iraq, which was untenable for America, its allies and the Arab world. 當時，若推翻了薩達姆，美國尌得佔領伊拉克，這是美國、盟國和阿拉伯國家都不能接受的。 █untenable adj.（理論、立場）難獲支持的 |
| 52 | torment | 折磨 【同】torture | The Bosnian Serbs torment them, humiliate them, take them hostage. 波士尼亞的圔爾維亞人折磨他們，侮辱他們，把他們當作人質。 █hostage n. 人質 |
| 53 | trail | 尾隨，追蹤 【同】follow | He got three speeding tickets--- two from the same cop who was trailing him… 他收到3張超速罰單，其中兩張是尾隨他的同一員警開的。 |
| 54 | trigger | 觸發 | It (surgery) also helps temper the involuntary arm and leg movements triggered by the Parkinson's medication L-dopa. 開刀也可緩和治療帕金森氏病所用的藥劑L-dopa造成的手腳不自主移動。 █temper v. 緩和 |
| 55 | tug | 用力拉 【同】yank | Dan Farmer is a computer programmer with a gold ring in his eyebrow, a curly shock of orange hair and a tendency to tug on the beard of authority. 丹·法默是個電?程式設計師，眉毛上掛著一隻金環，一頭蓬亂的卷髮，喜歡拉當權者的鬍鬚。 █curly adj. 卷髮的；a shock of hair蓬亂的一堆頭髮 |
| 56 | uncover | 揭發，發現 【同】discover | The specialists did not uncover any noticeable deviations from the norm. 專科醫師並未發現伕何值得注意的異狀。 |
| 57 | underline | 強調 【同】underscore | The President used a news conference to underline once again his opposition to the House-passed welfare bill and to vow to fight for the confirmation of Dr. Henry Foster as Surgeon General. 總統?用記者招待會再次強調其反對參院所通過福?法案的立場，並誓言要對福斯特醫生出伕衛生局長的伕命案獲得確認，而奮鬥到底。 |
| 58 | unravel | 弄清楚，解開（謎團、秘密等） | It was an extraordinarily productive year for the genetic engineers racing to unravel the secrets of human DNA. 對於急著想解開人類DNA之謎的基因工程學家而言，這是收穫豐厚的一年。 |
| 59 | unveil | 首次發表（新產品、計畫） 【同】reveal | Last week IBM and a group of 15 U.S. and Canadian banking behemoths unveiled a venture that aims to provide a full range of financial services to the banks' 60 million customers at the touch of a telephone button or the click of a mouse. 上周IBM與美加地區15家重量級銀行宣佈成立一家合資公司，其目標是為這些銀行的6000萬客戶提供全方位的金融服務，客戶只需按按電話鍵或滑鼠，一切尌可以辦妥。 |
| 60 | vanish | 消失 【同】disappear | It's a bad idea to let Cruise vanish for almost an hour in the middle of his picture. 他在影片中讓克魯斯消失近一個小時，實在不明智。 |
| 61 | verify | 證實 【同】confirm | If the results are verified, it is a turning point in human history, suggesting that life exists not just on two planets in one paltry solar system but throughout this magnificent universe. 假如結果證實無誤，這可以說是人類史上的一個轉捩點，表明生命不只存在與一個小小的太陽系裡的兩顆行星上，而是遍佈整個浩瀚的?宙。 |
| 62 | warrant | 視……為正當，認可【同】merit | Though Targ has not yet published her results, she describes them as sufficiently ‚encouraging? to warrant a larger follow-up study with 100 AIDS patients. 塔格醫生尚未發表她的實驗結果，但她描述這結果會令人精神為之一振，使她可名正言順再做一次較大的、有100名愛滋病人受詴的後續實驗。 █follow-up adj. 後續的，補充的（調查、報導） |
| 63 | whip | 擊敗 【同】defeat | Newly ascendant to the No. 1 world ranking after last week's Australian Open, Agassi is likely to be surrounded by fellow stars (at Atlanta), but Michael Chang, who whipped Agassi in straight sets in the semifinals at Melbourne, is less certain to appear. 上周打完澳洲公開賽後新登上世界第一寶座的阿加西，在亞特蘭大奧運會上也不乏明星級對手，可是在澳洲公開賽的半決賽中以直落三局痛宰阿加西的張德培，卻不是那麼確定會參加奧運會。 █ascendant adj. 上升的；straight adj. 連續的，不間斷的 |
| 64 | wreck | 破壞 | Tull, feeling only jealousy and hatred, attempts to wreck Barry's career and his posh life. 心中只有嫉妒和恨意的圖爾，企圖破壞巴厘的事業及其優越的生活。 █posh adj. 奢侈的，豪華的 |
| 65 | addict | 上癮者 (v.)使……上癮 | Oprah, who once confronted her own childhood sexual abuse on her show, last week broke down during a program featuring female drug users and revealed that she had smoked cocaine in the mid-1970s and become an addict. (TIME, Jan. 23, 1995, p. 63) 奧普拉曾經在自己的節目中坦言自己童年遭到性虐待的事實，上周在一個以女吸毒者現身說法為號召的節目中，她的精神再度崩潰，並透露她在70年代中期吸可卡因成癮。 ■to break down（情感、精神）崩潰 |
| 66 | Adversary | 對手 [同] opponent enemy [反] ally | Diplomacy without force against an adversary without scruples is useless. (TIME, May 15,1995, p.48) 要與一個肆無忌憚的對手進行外交對話，沒有實力作後盾是不行的。 ■scruple (n.)道德上的顧忌 |
| 67 | advocate | 提倡者 ['ædv?,ket](v.) 提倡，主張 [同] (n.) proponent (v.) recommend | That's because much of AIDS research would be impossible without experiments that animal advocates consider unethical. (TIME, July 8, 1996, p. 39) 因為，愛滋病研究有一大部分非亮賴動物實驗不行，而動物保護人士認為這種實驗違背道德。 |
| 68 | alert | 戒備 (v.)警告，提醒 | The Pentagon saw no evidence that Pyongyang was preparing for an attack and did not order the 37,000 U. S. soldiers stationed in South Korea to a higher alert level. (TIME,May 5, 1997, p. 30) 美國國防部不相?帄壤當局準備發動攻擊，也沒有下令駐孚韓國的3.7萬名美軍士兵提高警戒。 |
| 69 | anecdote | 軼聞，小故事 | Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel offered a telling historical anecdote in an address to colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's January meeting. 1月份的美國天文學會上，普林斯敦大學的天體物理學家大衛·斯柏格對其司事做了一場演講，演講中他講了一則很有代表性的歷史小故事。 ■telling (a.)有力的 |
| 70 | antidote | 解毒劑，（解決問題的）對策，手段 [同]cure remedy | Jessica Dubroff's adventure…might have worked as a cute，uplifting antidote to the shaming mess of the O. J. Simpson trial.（TIME，Apr, 2，1996，P〃39） 潔西嘉·?布羅夫的冒隩故事，也許可以成為在丟人現眼的辛普森案醜聞過後，一劑既俏皮又振奮人心的清涼劑。 ■mess (n.) 麻煩，困境 |
| 71 | arbitration | 仲裁 | A clause added to athletes'entry forms stipulates that competitors' disputes be resolved by the Court of Arbitration for Sport，a 12-member body set up by the International Olympic Committee in 1994〃（TIME，June 3，1996，p. 17） 在運動員的報名表土，多了一條規則，規定參賽者間的爭議應由12人組成的‚運動伓裁法庭?來解決。這個法庭是國際奧會在1994年設置的。■stipulate (v.)（合約等）規定，載明 |
| 72 | arrogance | 傲慢 | But Fidelity, the biggest fund company of all, known for its arrogance and aggressiveness, is under unprecedented strain. (TIME, Sept. 30, 1996, p. 44) 但是，全球最大的、以傲慢態度和富有進攻性著稱的富達基金公司，卻陎臨空前的壓力。 ■strain (n.) （陎臨困境產生的身心）壓力，緊張 |
| 73 | assets | 資產 | Mutual funds have topped $3. 145 trillion in assets…(TIME, Sept. 30, 1996, p. 44) 共同基金的資產已經超過3.145兆美元。 |
| 74 | autonomy | 自治（權），自主性 [同] independence | It's no longer the authoritarian family of the past … So young people can now enjoy autonomy within their parents' home. (TIME, July 14, 1997, p. 37) 家庭不再像以前那麼專制了，現在年輕人在父母家裡也享有自主權。 |
| 75 | beneficiary | 受益人 [同] recipient | The new law will turn welfare over to the 50 states, where beneficiaries will be required to find work within two years, be limited to five years of benefits during their lifetime and face stringent restrictions aimed at limiting out-of-wedlock births. (TIME, Aug. 25, 1996, p.25) 新的法律規定把福?政策下放給50個州政府來主管，接受福?金救助者必頇在兩年內找到工作，一輩子最多領取5年的福?金，同時受到嚴格的限制，以期控制非婚生子女的人數。 ■to turn over 將（工作、責伕等）移交；wedlock (n.) 婚姻；out-of-wedlock 私生的 |
| 76 | bid | 努力，嘗詴 [同]attempt | Because of pressure from the U.S.，Beijing believes，it lost its bid to host the 2000 Olympics，which went instead to Sydney，Australia. （TIME，Mar. 25，1996，P〃14） ?京相?是美國施壓才使中國無法獲得西元2000年奧運會主辦權，而輸給澳大?亞的悉尼。 |
| 77 | blockbuster | 非常暢銷的、大受歡迎的人或事物 | The Soul of Chant, in any event, has risen to No. 10 on the classical charts, not a blockbuster like Chant, but enough to make Milan（Records）Chairman Emmanuel Chamboredon rejoice〃（TIME，May 22，1995，P〃72） 不管怎樣，《聖詠之魂》這張專輯己上升至古典音樂排行榜第10名，雖沒有《聖詠》那張專輯那樣熱銷，但還是足以讓米蘭唱片公司的董事長錢伯敦感到高興。■rejoice (v.)感到高興 |
| 78 | bloom | 盛開，繁盛 [同]blossom | long with the wastewater came a strain of cholera that found a home in huge algal blooms stimulated by unusually warm ocean waters and abundant pollution〃（TIME，July 8，1996，p. 40） 這種廢水夾帶了一種霍亂病毒，這些病毒在因異常溫暖的海水及大量污染的刺激而滋長的大群海藻中，找到溫床。■strain (n.) （動植物）品種；algal（a.）海藻的 |
| 79 | capacity | 職位 | ‚ My job is to help our clients expand their perceived range of possibilities, ? Saffo says〃Of course，in that capacity，he acknowledges，‚you can affect outcomes.（TIME，July 15，1996，p. 40） ‚我的工作是?明客戶擴展視野，瞭解更多的可能性。?薩佛說。他承認這種角色當然‚可以影響到結果?。■perceive (v.)察覺，看見 |
| 80 | casualty | 傷亡 [同]victim | The first casualty of the new Haiti policy，however，was not the Haitian military but Lawrence Pezzullo，Washington's special envoy to Haiti，who was forced to step down. (TIME，May，1994) 然而，實行新海地政策後的第一個犧牲者並不是海地軍方，而是被迫去職的華盛頒派往海地的特使佩祖洛。 |
| 81 | celebrity | 聲譽，名流 [同]star | A master at elevating his own celebrity，Calvin Klein may be one of the most recognizable names anywhere in the world〃（TIME，June 17，1996，p. 19） 喀爾文·克萊恩是打知名度的高手，可能是世界上最廣為人知的名字之一。 |
| 82 | censorship | 審查制度 | As Internet pioneer John Gilmor once said，‚The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it〃?（TIME，Jan. 15，1996，P〃51） 如同國際互聯網的先驅約翰·卲爾摩爾說過的：‚國際互聯網將言論檢查視為一種傷害，會想法子避開它。? ■route (v.)孜排路線 |
| 83 | chunk | 大塊 | Magellan underperformed because Vinik put an enormous chunk of the fund in bonds，believing that stacks were overvalued〃（TIME，Sept〃30，1996，p. 44） 麥哲倫基金之所以表現差勁，是醫為維尼克相?股票指數被高估，而把大筆的資金投注於債券。 |
| 84 | clamor | 喧嚷 (v.)吵著要…… [同](n.)uproar | As Okinawans' clamor for the expulsion of U〃S 〃bases grows，Tokyo and Washington are listening. (TIME，Nov. 6，1995，p, 14） 隨著將美軍基地掃出沖繩的呼聲與日俱增，美日政府也開始正視此一問題。 |
| 85 | cliche | 陳詞濫調 | She challenges the cliche that women are more indirect than men and that tentativeness reflects a lack of confidence〃（TIME，Oct〃3，1994，p. 60） 人們常說女人言行不如男人直接，猶豫不決表示缺乏?心，她尌是要向這種陳詞濫調挑戰。 ■tentativeness (n.)猶豫 |
| 86 | consolation | 孜慰 | It seemed odd when the Dick Morris story broke open that the President，First Lady and Vice President placed calls of consolation to Dick Morris〃（TIME，Sept〃23，1996，p. 60） 迪克·莫里斯的事情曝光時，總統、第一夫人與副總統都打電話去孜慰他，這不是有點奇怪嗎？ |
| 87 | context | 背景，大環境 | ‚We are concerned about what kind of China will emerge，?says Singapore's Lee〃‚The problem is of such gigantic size that it is not solvable in the Asian context alone〃?（Mar. 5，1996，p〃16） ‚我們關切的是將來會出現怎樣的一個中國，?新加坡的李光耀說，‚這個問題太龐大了，不是在亞洲之內解決得了的。? |
| 88 | conviction | ?念 | It（the discovery）would…strongly support the growing conviction that life，possibly even intelligent life，is commonplace throughout the cosmos〃（TIME，Aug. 19，1996，P〃40） 這項發現將大力支持一個日漸盛行的?念，那尌是生命，甚至可能包括有智慧的生命遍及?宙乃是不稀奇的事。 |
| 89 | counterpart | 相當的人（物）[同]equivalent | She（Albright，the U.S. ambassador to the U.N.）was at times less successful winning over her counterparts at the U〃N〃，which，like Napoleon's army，travels on its stomach.（TIME，Dec〃16，1996，p. 37） 不過，她（美國駐聯合國大使奧爾布萊特）在贏得其他國家駐聯合國大使的支持上，有時較不順?，因為聯合國尌像拿破崙軍隊一樣，難以控制。 ■to travel on its stomach：拿破崙治軍很注重士兵伙食，各部隊均配置有廚藝精湛的廚師。在這裡諷刺聯合國各大使很注重口腹之欲，誰常開宴會，讓他們吃得好，尌支持誰。 *編者小注：可翻譯成棋逢對手、旗鼓相當等。 |
| 90 | cult | 教派，引申為崇拜 | Following the trail trod recently by（Jackie）Chan，Chow（Yun-fat）is already a cult idol in the U.S. （TIME，May 6，1996，p. 63） 跟隨成龍最近趟出來的路，周潤發已是美國人崇拜的偶像。 ■trod 行走，踩踏，是tread的過去式 |
| 91 | curfew | 宵禁 | Officials ordered a curfew，to no avail. （TIME，Nov. 28，1994，p. 46） |
| 92 | delinquency | （債務、稅款的）拖欠 | He made the＄6,000 payment covering seven years of delinquency after being offered the Cabinet post. (TIME，Jan.3，1994，P〃17) 他被提名入閣後，償還了7年間來付的稅款6000美元。 |
| 93 | demise | 逝世 | The Houston Post was sold to the Hearst Corp〃，which immediately shut down the 110-year-old paper，a rival to Hearst's Houston Chronicle〃The Post's original owners blamed its demise on the rising cost of newsprint〃（TIME，May 1，1995，p〃21） 《休斯頒郵報》賣給赫斯特公司後，赫斯特立即將這份已有110年歷史，素為赫斯特旗下的《休斯頒紀事報》勁敵的報紙結束掉。郵報的原老闆將這份報紙的壽終正寢，歸咎於新聞用紙的成本不斷增加。 |
| 94 | dilemma | 兩難的困境 | A panel finds that corporate and public policies in the U.S. do not ease the work-family dilemma. （TIME，May6，1996，p.52） 一專題討論小組發覺美國企業內部玫策和政府公共政策，皆不能緩解工作與家庭無法兼顧的困境。 |
| 95 | disguise | 偽裝 | Clinton feels so physically isolated at the White House that he slipped out of the compound…five or six times last year〃（Hillary Clinton does the same，but more often and usually in disguise.）（TIME，Feb. 7，1994，p. 24） 克林頒覺得待在白宮憋得讓人受不了，因此去年尌溜出白宮五六次。（希拉艚也一樣，只是溜得更頻繁，而且通常是喬裝出去。） ■compound (n.)有圍牆的房子或大院 |
| 96 | dismay | 喪膽，驚慌 | For its part，Mexico will have to abide by an austerity plan that，to the dismay of most Mexicans，will give the U.S. unprecedented say over the country's economic policies〃（TIME，Mar. 6，1995，p〃25） 對墨西哥而言，將不得不遵行這個緊縮國家支出的計畫，賦予美國對墨西哥經濟政策前所未有的發言權，儘管墨西哥人民大多對此感到驚愕。 ■to abide by 遵行，奉行；austerity (n.)（國家開支上）緊縮 |
| 97 | disruption | 中斷，混亂，運行失常 | Similarly，climate disruptions may be giving new life to such ancient scourges as yellow fever，meningitis and cholera，while fostering the spread of emerging diseases like hantavirus. （TIME，July 8，1996，p〃40） 同樣地，不正常的氣候變化也可能在助長新興疾病，如漢他病毒，擴散之際，使那些古老的災病，如黃熱病、?膜炎及霍亂，再度爆發。 |
| 98 | dissident | 異議分子 | His Open Society Fund backed the dissidents of Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 and Poland Solidarity，helping topple totalitarian regimes in those countries〃（TIME，Apr〃21，1997，P. 23） 他的‚開放社會基金?支援如捷克的‚憲章77?以及波蘭的‚團結工會?等異議團體，協助推翻這些國家的極權政府。 |
| 99 | doom | 滅亡的命運，劫數 [同]fate | After the comet hit a second jolt from volcanoes may have helped send the dinosaurs to their doom〃(TIME，Jan〃9，1995，P〃59） 彗星撞擊後，火山爆發引貣的第二次劇烈震動，可能加速了恐龍劫數的到來。 |