托福听力学科词汇-托福听力词汇解析:Octopus讲座类

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托福听力词汇解析:Octopus讲座类

　　defense mechanism

　　防卫机制

　　octopus

　　n.章鱼

　　creature

　　n.生物

　　If we are here as a mere result of matter, motion, time and chance…what in that makes us think that humans have any more value than any other creaturein the universe?

　　transformation

　　n.变形、变化

　　texture

　　n.质地，纹理

　　Being able to pull every detail out of a wine is something that sommeliers do every day, and to do so they must take stock of the color, texture, taste and smell of a wine.

　　speckle

　　布满斑点、点缀

　　blend in

　　融入

　　coral

　　n.珊瑚

　　The state plans to sue the US Navy to seek compensation for coral ruined when a guided missile cruiser the length of two football fields ran aground near Pearl Harbor in February.

　　cell

　　n. 细胞

　　Whether you are performing an operating system upgrade as part of the migration, or only migrating a cell, you should now have an idea of what options you have available and how to begin.

　　dye

　　n.染料

　　At the same time, though, Macintosh was experimenting with the idea of waterproofing fabric, using waste byproducts from the dye process.

　　muscle

　　n.肌肉

　　shrink

　　v. 收缩

　　contract

　　v.收缩

　　expand

　　v. 扩张

　　The war in Iraq continues, we expand the war in Afghanistan, we spread the war into Pakistan, and we always have on the table the potential danger of Iran.

　　mimic

　　v. 模仿

　　But if we properly understand how organisms in the environment protect us, maybe we can give a vaccine or mimic their effects with some innocuous stimulus.

　　projection

　　n.突出部分

　　Perspective projection works like the real world: when you look down a long, straight road, it seems that the road's boundaries meet at a point at the horizon.

　　flatten

　　v. 变平

　　sandy

　　adj.多沙的

　　On the home front, I named Sandy Thurman of Atlanta, one of America’s foremost AIDS advocates, to head the Office of National AIDS Policy.

　　squirt

　　n.喷射

　　Open and close a few valves on the manifold and the drilling mud from the surface can squirt one of these junk shots down the pipes and into the blowout preventer.

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