英語六級高頻詞匯第053期

terminate

英 [?t??m?ne?t] 美 [?t??rm?ne?t]

vt. 使終止；使結(jié)束；解雇

vi. 結(jié)束，終止；結(jié)果

adj. 結(jié)束的

例句：

After a lot of agonizing she decided to terminate the pregnancy.
在多次痛苦的考慮后，她決定終止妊娠。

In American law, you cannot terminate an employee, for the sole purpose of age.
在美國法律中，你不能僅僅因?yàn)槟挲g而解雇員工。

People are often hesitant to terminate a project when they've already invested time or resources into it, even if it might make logical sense to do so.
當(dāng)人們已經(jīng)在項(xiàng)目上投入了時(shí)間或資源時(shí)，他們常常會(huì)猶豫是否要終止項(xiàng)目，即使這樣做是合乎邏輯的。

anticipation

英 [?n?t?s??pe??n] 美 [?n?t?s??pe??n]

n. 預(yù)料，預(yù)期；預(yù)感；預(yù)知；盼望，希望；先發(fā)制人

例句：

There's been an atmosphere of anticipation around here for a few days now.
一種期待的氛圍在這兒已存在幾天了。

He bought extra food in anticipation of more people coming than he'd invited.
他預(yù)料來的客人會(huì)比邀請的多，就多買了食物。

Troops in the Philippines have been put on full alert in anticipation of trouble during a planned general strike.
預(yù)期在計(jì)劃的總罷工期間會(huì)有麻煩，在菲律賓的軍隊(duì)已處于完全戒備狀態(tài)。

tempt

英 [tempt] 美 [tempt]

vt. 誘惑；引起；冒…的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)；使感興趣

例句：

Cars like that may tempt drivers to speed.
那樣的汽車可能會(huì)引誘司機(jī)超速行駛。

Vivien refuses to put down bait to tempt wildlife to the waterhole.
維維恩拒絕放餌到水坑引誘野生動(dòng)物。

Nothing could tempt her to evil.
什么也不能引誘她做壞事。

descend

英 [d??send] 美 [d??send]

vi. 下降；下去；下來；遺傳；屈尊

vt. 下去；沿…向下

例句：

The pilots were told to descend to 2-2,000 feet.
飛行員被告知要將飛機(jī)下降到2-2000英尺。

It expels gas to descend, and expels water from trim bladders to rise.
它通過排出氣體來下降，并通過把水排出氣囊來上升。

The plane began to descend.
飛機(jī)開始降落。

standardize

英 [?st?nd?da?z] 美 [?st?nd?rda?z]

vt. 使標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化；用標(biāo)準(zhǔn)檢驗(yàn)

例句：

There is a drive both to standardize components and to reduce the number of models.
有一種使零部件標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化并減少型號數(shù)量的需求。

This only applies to American space activities, but the hope is that it will help standardize a set of norms in the dawning commercial spaceflight industry throughout the world.
這只適用于美國的航天活動(dòng)，但希望是它將有助于使全世界商業(yè)航天工業(yè)的一套規(guī)范標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。

What Banks don't want is to standardize.
銀行不想要的就是標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化。

回顧

1. terminate
2. anticipation
3. tempt
4. descend
5. standardize