2010考研英語：歷年真題來源報刊閱讀100篇(24)

　　[真題例句] They believe the data support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the “shifting (v.②) baseline”.[2006年閱讀3]

　　[例句精譯] 他們相信數(shù)據(jù)支持了目前海洋生物學家的一個觀點，就是“移動的基準線”。

　　[真題例句] Another major shift (n.①) in the model for Internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing.[1999年閱讀2]

　　[例句精譯] 網(wǎng)絡商業(yè)模式的另一個重大變化體現(xiàn)在營銷策略上。

　　fertile[ˈfə:tail]

　　a.①肥沃的，富饒的;②能生育的

　　[真題例句] The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile (①) silt that floods left—all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.[1998年閱讀1]

　　[例句精譯] 以阿斯旺大壩為例，它阻止了尼羅河洪水泛濫，但也使埃及失去了洪水沖擊過后留下的肥沃土壤，換回來的是一個巨大但有弊病的水庫�，F(xiàn)在這個水庫積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發(fā)電了。

　　[真題例句] Few people are as fertile (②) as in the past.[2000年閱讀2]

　　[例句精譯] 現(xiàn)在沒有幾個人像過去那樣生育后代了。

　　accelerate[əkˈseləreit]

　　v.加快，促進

　　[真題例句] (71) Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs.Others are reasonable consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self�瞐ccelerating.[1996年翻譯]

　　[例句精譯] (71)在這些原因中，有些完全是自然而然地來自社會需求。另一些則是由于科學在一定程度上自我加速而產(chǎn)生某些特定發(fā)展的必然結(jié)果。

　　transfer[trænsˈfə:]

　　v.①轉(zhuǎn)移，調(diào)動;②轉(zhuǎn)車;③轉(zhuǎn)業(yè)，轉(zhuǎn)學;④轉(zhuǎn)讓，過戶;n.轉(zhuǎn)移，轉(zhuǎn)變

　　[真題例句] NBAC members also indicated that they would appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer (n.).[1999年閱讀4]

　　[例句精譯] NBAC的成員明確表示，他們呼吁由私人提供資金的研究人員和機構(gòu)不要試圖通過人體細胞核轉(zhuǎn)移去克隆人。

　　[真題例句] (73) During this transfer (n.), traditional historical methods were augmented by additional methodologies designed to interpret the new forms of evidence in the historical study.[1999年翻譯]

　　[例句精譯] (73)在這種轉(zhuǎn)變中，歷史學家研究歷史時，那些解釋新史料的新方法充實了傳統(tǒng)的歷史研究方法。