12月英语六级听力必备词汇（28）

　　271. enthusiasm热情 巨大兴趣

　　Your son certainly shows a lot of enthusiasm on the tennis court.

　　I only wish hed show much for his studies.

　　272. enthusiastic满腔热情的 热心的 倍感兴趣的

　　You didnt seem to be terribly enthusiastic about the performance.

　　You must be kidding. I couldnt have clapped any harder. My hands are still hurting.

　　273. environment环境 周围状况 自然环境

　　Yoga is a corporeal practice which emphasizes on a work on a body in a specific environment.

　　274. epidemic流行病

　　Some people believe that the obesity epidemic is a result of a more evolutionary development of the sedentary life-style in modern society.

　　275. erupt喷发 爆发

　　Mount Etna does erupt frequently, but those eruptions are usually minor, So the overall risk for people living nearby is relatively small.

　　276. especially特别 尤其 格外

　　As immigrants were accustomed to poverty, they were willing to work for very lower wages. This made other workers, especially those in Lab unions, afraid that immigrants would thus lower wage levers and take job away from them.

　　277. establish建立 创办 确立

　　Asians like Koreans and Vietnamese then began to arrive, many of these new comers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land.

　　278. estimate估计 估量

　　In lower paid occupations, where paid wages have been reduced, workers have added hours in over-time or extra job to preserve their living standards. The government estimates that more than 7 million people hold a second job.

　　279. eventually终于 最后

　　Miss Susan Brown felt she needed to change for one thing, and for another, she hoped to eventually become a head nurse.

　　280. evidence根据 证据 迹象

　　The comparatively mild effects of the northern California earthquake in 1999 are good evidence that we do have the technology to prevent vast destruction.