2014年12月六级冲刺备考：词汇精讲（64）

　　Destiny n.命运;定数,天命

　　Do you believe marriage is the result of destiny?你认为婚姻是命中注定的吗?

　　Destiny brought us together.命运把我们连在一起.

　　Distort vt.歪曲,曲解;扭曲,使变形 vi.变形

　　Metal distorts under stress.金属在压力作用下变形.

　　Stop distorting what I said.不要曲解我的话.

　　Empirical a.以经验为依据的,经验主义的,经验的

　　Many empirical results supported the hypothesis.很多经验性结论都可证明假设成立.

　　expedition n. 旅行,出行,远征;远征队探险队,考察队,迅速

　　The Eight-Power Allied Expedition captured Beijing and set fire on the Imperial Garden Yuanmingyuan.八国联军攻占了北京,把圆明园付之一炬.

　　Flap n.片状垂悬物;飘动摆动振动;激动,

　　The bird flapped its wings and flew away.鸟振翅飞去.

　　The sails were flapping gently in the wind.船帆随风摆去.

　　Everything was going on smoothly;there was no flap.一切都很顺利,没有慌乱现象.

　　Hamper v.妨碍,束缚,限制

　　Many modernists think that rhyme and metre hamper the poets free expression.很多现代派诗人认为韵律妨碍了诗人的自由发挥.

　　hypothesis n.假设,假说,前提

　　This is only a sort of scientific hypothesis which has not been proved by experiments.这仅仅是一个尚未被实验证明的科学假说.

　　Indefinite a.无限期的;不确定的,含糊的

　　He gave me an indefinite answer.他含糊其词地回答了我.

　　installment n.分期付款,分期交付; 的部分

　　Many white-collar workers buy houses in installments.许多白领人士用分期付款的方式买房子.

　　intuition n.直觉

　　Intuition is the act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes.直觉即是能知道或感觉的行为或能力未经理性的论证过程

　　Linear a.线的,直线的,线状的;长度的;线性的

　　The pupil made great efforts to work out the linear equation.那个小学生费了九牛二虎之力去解决这个一次方程式.

　　Miniature n.缩小的模型,缩影;微型画;微型人物像 a.微小的,缩小的

　　Games are real life in miniature.游戏比赛是现实生活的缩影.

　　Obedient a.服从的,顺从的

　　Do all parents like obedient and well- behaved children?所有父母都喜欢顺从和 循规蹈矩的孩子吗?