[英文 單字集] 戒菸、賓士AMG GT、大恐龍、日本防震計畫

Top 3 words this week
1. 偶然撞見、邂逅: stumble on
Ex: He stumbled on the crumbled remains of the Dreadnoughtus.

2. double as sth (v.): 兼任、同時當作 = act as or has other uses
Ex: Those changes are detected by sensitive ocean pressure gauges that double as tsunami detectors.

2. audacious: 遠大的、雄心壯志的
Ex: The world's biggest scientific drilling ship has the audacious goal of boring into the heart of an offshore earthquake fault.

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Simple measures made hospital patients 70% more likely to quit smoking
1. aid: 幫 =help
2. kick the habit: 改掉壞習慣
Ex: The researchers said they were looking for a way to aid smokers to kick the habit.
3. be admitted to: 進入、住進
Ex: The study involved smokers who were admitted to General Hospital in Boston.
4. withdrawal symptom: 戒斷症候群
Ex: Smokers are offered nicotine replacement therapy to help them deal with their withdrawal symptoms.
5. discharge: 出院、釋放
Ex: Patients who want to remain smoke-free after they are discharged can get help from counselors(輔導人員).
6. cessation: 中斷、終止
Ex: specific tobacco cessation
7. a toll-free line: 免付費專線
8. get motivated = have the desire 渴望、想要
9. measure: 措施
Ex: Simple measures made hospital patients more likely to quit smoking.


Mercedes targets Porsche 911 with all-new AMG GT sports cars

1. put something on notice: 提醒、警告

Ex: Mercedes-Benz put sports cars such as the Porsche 911 and Audi R8 on notice with the introduction of its 2016 Mercedes AMG GT S.

2. coupe: 雙門跑車

3. sedan: 轎車

4. SUV: sport utility vehicle 休旅車

5. venture into: 冒險去做、冒險進入

Ex: We are venturing out into a challenging sports car segment(領域)

6. be loosely based on: 大致上是根據

7. discontinued: 停產

Ex: The GT is loosely based on the AMG SLS supercar that was discontinued and shares the same layout (外觀設計).

8. high-end: 高階的、高級的

9. a stable of: 一批、一系列

Ex: Despite a stable of high-end brands such as Lamborghini, Bentley and Audi, Porsche is the VW Group's most profitable division.

When Dreadnoughtus roamed Earth, other dinosaurs got out of the way

1. roam: 閒晃、遊蕩

Ex: When this huge dinosaur roamed Earth, others got out of the way

2. arid: 乾燥的、乾旱的

3. badlands: 不毛之地

Ex: in the arid badlands of southern Patagonia

4. unearth: 發掘、挖出

Ex: Scientists have unearthed a complete skeleton of a new species of dinosaur

5. hulking: 龐大笨重的 = big and strong

Ex: This hulking dinosaur stood two stories tall at its shoulder.

6. paleontologist: 古生物學家

7. Here is the kicker: 驚人的是

8. gargantuan: 巨大的、龐大的

Ex: The gargantuan creature is still growing

9. crumbled: 粉碎的

10. stumble on: 意外發現、偶然撞見、邂逅

Ex: He stumbled on the crumbled remains of the Dreadnoughtus.

11. blasé: 司空見慣、不稀罕

Ex: Realizing they were pieces of a giant femur bone, Lacovara was blasé.

(Reading articles and example sentences are from News Worthy Clips, Advanced magazine, Feb. 23-25, 2015)

Coastal quake risk: Japan on watch, Northwest ‘essentially blind’
Deep mission: Japan takes aim at the source of megaquakes

1. seafloor: 海床

2. upfront: 事先、預先

Ex: If you expect your sensors to transmit data from the seafloor for a decade or more, it pays to do a lot of testing upfront.

3. fellow: 同事的、同情形的

Ex: his fellow researcher

4. cement: 用水泥固定、黏住

5. borehole: 鑽孔

6. glitches: 小毛病、小故障 = problems or fault

Ex: Once the instruments are cemented into a half-mile-deep borehole, it'll be too late to fix glitches

7. infamous: 惡名昭彰的 = notorious

Ex: Araki's goal is to spy on the infamous Nankai Trough (槽) .

8. fault: 斷層

Ex: an underwater fault

9. on a par with: 同樣的、不相上下的 = be similar to

Ex: Both faults are capable of releasing earthquakes and tsunamis on a par with the disaster that struck Japan's Tohoku coast.

10. fuzzy: 模糊不清的

Ex: Both faults are so far from shore that land-based instruments provide only a fuzzy view.

11. in the cross hairs: 在標靶上、受攻擊的目標 = very vulnerable

Ex: Japan sits in the cross hairs of four of these so-called subduction zones.

12. deploy: 使用

Ex: Araki's sensors will be some of the most sophisticated ever deployed.

13. snap: 折斷、突然斷裂

Ex: Do the world's most dangerous faults signal their intentions by slipping slowly before they snap?

14. seismometers: 地震儀

15. stand sentinel: 站崗 = stand guard, stand watch

Ex: Japan will have more than 200 clusters (unorganized group= bunch) of seismometers and pressure sensors standing sentinel off its shore.

16. tweak: 稍微修改

17. spur: 促使、鞭策

Ex: The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake spurred Japan to action.

18. ferocity: 兇猛、殘暴 = extreme violent or force

Ex: The resulting tsunami shocked scientists with its size and ferocity.

19. blanket: (以厚層)覆蓋 = to be covered entirely

Ex: The Japanese islands are blanketed with more than 1,500 seismometers.

20. twitch: 顫動、抽搐

Ex: The sensitive GPS network is capable of picking up the slightest twitch.

Ex: I feel my eyelid was twitching

21. bulge: 鼓起、突起

22. buckle: 彎曲、變形

Ex: Pressure on the fault causes the seafloor to bulge or buckle.

23. double as sth (v.): 兼任、同時當作 = act as or has other uses

Ex: Those changes are detected by sensitive ocean pressure gauges that double as tsunami detectors.

24. hammer home sth: 解釋清楚、闡明 = make sth explained clearly

Ex: The consequences of being blind to the seafloor were hammered home on March 11, 2011.

25. defy: 抵抗、反抗、違背

Ex: The size of the tsunami also defied conventional wisdom.

26. surge: (急升的)大浪

Ex: They lack instruments to measure the surges racing toward (湧向)shore.

27. audacious: 遠大的、雄心壯志的

Ex: The world's biggest scientific drilling ship has the audacious goal of boring into the heart of an offshore earthquake fault.

28. warp: 彎曲、變形

29. rupture: 斷裂、破裂

Ex: By tracking the way the ocean floor warps, scientists have a better understanding of which sections are locked and likely to rupture during an earthquake.

30. casualty: 死傷人員、死傷人數

Ex: We would have been able to reduce the casualties.

31. mouthful: 繞口的

Ex: The term is so mouthful.

32. stream: 傳送 =continue to pass on

Ex: The instrument packages stream continuous data via underwater cables.

33. waterline: (船的)吃水線

34. vessel: 船艦

35. tower (v.): 高達

Ex: From the waterline to its top, the vessel towers nearly 30 stories tall.

36. bow: 船頭

37. landing pad: 降落坪、降落點

47. jut: (常指建築物)突出

Ex: A helicopter landing pad juts over the bow.

38. crane: 起重機、吊車

39. hoist: (用機器)吊起、抬起(重物)

Ex: The two midship cranes are powerful enough to hoist a Boeing 787.

40. decipher: 破解

41. unleash: 引發、引爆(一發不可收拾的事)

Ex: The goal is to decipher the inner workings of a fault capable of unleashing a disaster far worse than 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.

42. crust: 外殼、硬皮

Ex: The borehole will extend more than three miles into the Earth's crust.

43. jerk: 突然動作

Ex: It's the region where rocks that are normally locked suddenly jerk past each other.

44. extract: 抽取、取出

Ex: By extracting cores from the fault, researchers will be able to analyze the rock itself.

45. run-up: 助跑、引申為重大事情發生之前的醞釀期、前奏

Ex: Scientists hope the instruments will capture the run-up to the next big quake.

46. precede (v.): 在...之前

Ex: If so, that data might help identify warning signs that precede a rupture.

48. seis- : 與地震有關的

(Reading articles and example sentences are from Shaking Things Up, Advanced magazine, Feb. 26-28, 2015)