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；使結束；解雇

vi. 結束，終止；結果

adj. 結束的

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，你不能僅僅因為年齡而解雇員工。

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.
當人們已經(jīng)在項目上投入了時間或資源時，他們常常會猶豫是否要終止項目，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. 預料，預期；預感；預知；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.
他預料來的客人會比邀請的多，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.
預期在計劃的總罷工期間會有麻煩，在菲律賓的軍隊已處于完全戒備狀態(tài)。

tempt

英 [tempt] 美 [tempt]

vt. 誘惑；引起；冒…的風險；使感興趣

例句：

Cars like that may tempt drivers to speed.
那樣的汽車可能會引誘司機超速行駛。

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.
飛機開始降落。

standardize

英 [?st?nd?da?z] 美 [?st?nd?rda?z]

vt. 使標準化；用標準檢驗

例句：

There is a drive both to standardize components and to reduce the number of models.
有一種使零部件標準化并減少型號數(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，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)范標準化。

What Banks don't want is to standardize.
銀行不想要的就是標準化。

回顧

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