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Lesson 11
第11課
acute
a.嚴(yán)重的，激烈的；敏銳的；（疾病）急性的；尖的，銳的
One of the most acute problems in the Yellow River Valley is an inadequate water supply.
缺水是黃河流域最緊要的問(wèn)題之一。
SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
SARS的全名是：嚴(yán)重急性呼吸道綜合征。
appliance
n.器具，器械，裝置
Household electric appliances made in China are becoming more popular.
中國(guó)國(guó)產(chǎn)家用電器越來(lái)越受歡迎。
confine
vt.限制，使局限；禁閉 n. （pl. ）界限，范圍
With cars, many people are now able to enjoy their leisure time by making a trip to the countryside or seaside on weekends instead of being confined to their immediate neighborhoods.
有了小汽車(chē)，許多人周末時(shí)可以到鄉(xiāng)下或者海邊盡情享受閑暇時(shí)光，而不必局限于在家附近活動(dòng)。
The cure of liver cancer is still outside the confines of human knowledge.
肝癌的治愈方法仍超出了人類(lèi)知識(shí)范疇。
consist
vi.（of）組成，構(gòu)成；（in）在于，存在于
The beauty of the artist's style consists in its simplicity.
這位藝術(shù)家的風(fēng)格上的美在于它的簡(jiǎn)樸。
The American Congress consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)由眾議院和參議院組成。
deceive
vt.欺騙，蒙蔽
If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself.
如果你抽煙，并且仍然認(rèn)為抽煙和肺癌之間沒(méi)什么確切聯(lián)系，那你肯定是在欺騙自己。
Sincerity is the base of friendship. Good friends shouldn't deceive each other.
真誠(chéng)是友誼的基礎(chǔ)。好朋友之間不應(yīng)互相欺騙。
discard
vt.丟棄，拋棄
Today, one out of five discarded plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States.
在今天的美國(guó)，5個(gè)被丟棄的塑料汽水瓶中有一個(gè)得到回收利用。
Outdated theory should be discarded.
過(guò)時(shí)的理論應(yīng)當(dāng)拋棄掉。
drift
vi.漂流，漂；漂泊，游蕩 n. 漂流，漂流物，吹積物；大意，主旨；趨勢(shì)，轉(zhuǎn)移
Most of the world's volcanoes are found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth's surface.
世界上絕大多數(shù)火山都位于構(gòu)成地球表面的巨大漂流板塊的交接地帶。
The Arctic is an ocean, covered with drifting packed ice and hemmed in by the land masses of Europe, Asia, and North America.
北極是一片海洋，為漂流的冰塊所覆蓋，四周被歐洲、亞洲和北美洲所包圍。
exclaim
v.呼喊，驚叫，大聲說(shuō)
When the result came out that Beijing won its bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, all the Chinese people exclaimed with excitement.
當(dāng)北京申奧2008勝出的結(jié)果出來(lái)時(shí)，所有的中國(guó)人都激動(dòng)地歡呼起來(lái)。
finance
n.財(cái)政，金融； （常pl. ）財(cái)源，資金，財(cái)務(wù)情況 vt. 為…提供資金，為…籌措資金
The government will finance the building of the new roads with the taxes it collects.
政府將用它所征得的稅收為修建新路提供資金。
Finance for the National Health Service comes from taxpayers.
國(guó)家衛(wèi)生局的資金來(lái)自納稅人的稅款。
Are new taxes needed to increase the nation's finances?
需要征新稅以增加國(guó)家的財(cái)政收入嗎？
gross
a.總的，毛的；嚴(yán)重的，顯著的； 粗俗的，粗野的；臃腫的 vt. 獲得…總收入（或毛利）
GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product.
GDP是國(guó)內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值的縮寫(xiě)。
Her manners and language are too gross for a lady.
她的舉止和語(yǔ)言對(duì)于一個(gè)女士來(lái)說(shuō)太粗俗了。
