重點講解:
1. a battery of 一系列(測試、檢查等);
We give a battery of tests to each patient.
我們給每個病人都做了一系列的檢查 。
2. an array of 一大批;一大群;
I was confronted with an array of knobs, levers, and switches.
我面對的是一大堆旋鈕、控制桿和開關 。
3. take over 取代;代替;占上風;
Cars gradually took over from horses.
汽車逐漸替代了馬匹 。
4. tease out 套取,套出,巧妙獲得(信息或答案);
To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.
為了找到睡眠、饑餓和生存之間的關系,研究人員同時剝奪了果蠅的食物和睡眠 。
n. 揶揄者,戲弄
v. 欺負,嘲弄