雅思课外读物--How Shakespeare influenced American ad. industry

Vocabulary

silhouette 剪影;轮廓

deploy 部署;利用

array 阵列;队列

artefact 人工制品

coincide 与......同时发生

imminent 即将到来的

curator 博物馆、展览馆馆长

adage 格言

engraving 雕刻画

speculate 推测;想象

elocution 演说艺术

rebuttal 反驳(n.)

fascination 着迷(n.)

punitive 惩罚性的

subscribe to 订阅;签名

helmet 头盔

leaven 酵母;给......增色

saturate 浸透

sophistication 复杂度;深度;世故圆滑

ielts reading vocabulary

1.Whereas cultural anthropologists will often base their conclusions on the experience of living within contemporary communities, archaeologists study past societies primarily through their material remains - the buildings, tools, and other artefacts that constitutew hat is known as the material culture left over from former societies.(剑4T4P2)

参考译文：文化人类学家经常把他们的结论建立在目前社区的生活经历上，然而考古学家主要通过残存的物质研究过去社会——建筑，工具，和其他人工制品，这些构成了过去社会留下来的物质文化。

2.Baleen species, on the other hand, appear to have some related brain structures but it is not known whether these are functional. It has been speculated that, as the blowholes

evolved and migrated to the top of the head, the neural pathways serving sense of smell may have been nearly all sacrificed.(剑4T1P2)

参考译文：而须鲸虽然有与嗅觉相关的脑部结构，但我们无法判断这些结构是否起作用，据推测，由于须鲸的大脑进化并移到了大脑正中，所以掌管嗅觉的神经纤维几乎全部不见了。

3.It could help to achieve greater uncoupling than the first approach, but road transport would keep the lion’s share of the market and continue to concentrate on saturated arteries, despite being the most polluting of the modes.(剑10T1P2)

参考译文：它比第一种方法更能帮助实现解除车辆结构的连接。但是尽管路面交通是污染最严重的交通方式，它仍占有最大市场的最大比重并且仍将继续聚集在拥挤的干线上。

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