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| 文章出处： 发布时间：2006-06-16 |
[译文]如果你选择去评论邮局或电话局这样的替罪羊，那你就会处于比较 安全 的境地。
schism n．分裂
The schism (n.) between science and the humanities has，if anything，deepened in this century．[1998年阅读]
[译文]本世纪，(自然)科学与人文科学之间的分裂更深了。
sensory a．感觉的，感官的
“By linking directly to our nervous system，computers could pick up what we feel and，hopefully，simulate feeling too so that we can start to develop full sensory (a.) environments，rather like the holidays in Total Recall or the Star Trek holodeck”he says．[2001年翻译]
[译文]他说：“通过直接与我们的神经系统连接起来，计算机可以感知我们感觉到的东西，并且，它有希望模仿感觉，致使我们能够发展全方位感知环境，就像电影《全部回忆》中的假期或特列克星号上的全息舱面。”
shareholder n．股东
The “shareholders(n.)” as such had no knowledge of the lives，thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares，and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good．[1996年阅读]
[译文]这类股东不了解他们所持股的公司里工人们的生活、 思想 和需求。他们对劳资关系也不会产生积极的影响。
shipper n．托运人，发货人，货主
Who’s going to pay for the rest of the bill? Many captive shippers(n.)fear that they will，as Norfolk Southern and CSX increase their grip on the market．[2003年阅读]
[译文]谁来支付其余的费用?许多“被控”客户担心他们会因为南诺弗克和CSX公司将增加对市场的控制。
shortlist n．最后候选人名单
Shortlists (n.) for job interviews，election ballot papers，lists of conference speakers and attendees：all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them．[2004年阅读]
[译文]求职面试、选举投票、会议发言或参加会议等诸多名单，也是按字母表顺序排序的，当人们费劲地向下查看时，兴趣随之索然。
silt n．淤泥，泥沙；v．(使)淤塞，充塞
The Aswan Dam，for example，stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt (n.) that floods left?all in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity．[1998年阅读]
[译文]以阿斯旺大坝为例，它阻止了尼罗河洪水泛滥，但也使埃及失去了洪水冲击过后留下的肥沃土壤,换回来的是这么一个有弊病的水库。现在这个水库积满了淤泥，几乎不能发电了。
sizable a．相当大的，大小相当的
A sizable (a.) portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline．[2002年阅读]
[译文]世界上很多地区才刚刚走出经济衰落。
skepticism n．怀疑论
History and news become confused, and one's impressions tend to be a mixture of skepticism (n.) and optimism．[2005年翻译]
[译文]历史和新闻往往混为一谈，人们的这种印象往往也是怀疑和乐观的混合体。
skyrocket v．暴涨，猛涨
Quebec's Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket (v.) with annual increases from 14．3 percent to 26．8 per cent![2005年阅读]
[译文]A．魁北克省药品 保险 基金发现药品价格一年就从14．3％暴涨到26．8％!
smallpox n．天花
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached to many other groups as well．from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox (n.) virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research．[1998年阅读]
[译文]1996年对新闻报道的调查表明，反科学的标签也贴在了许多其他群体上，这些人包括从提倡消灭所有现存的天花病毒的官方人士到倡议削减基础研究基金的共和党人。
sovereignty n．君主，主权，主权国家
Countries that still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty (n.) might well study the history of infrastructure (the basic structural foundations of a society)in the United States．[2001年阅读]
[译文]那些认为外国投资是对本国主权的侵犯的国家最好还是研究一下美国的基础设施(社会的基本结构基础) 建设 历史。
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