Professor Ronald Bracewell, a leading American radio astronomer,argued in Nature that such a superior civilization, on a visit to our own solar system,
假如有如此高級文明生命訪問了我們的太陽系,
新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 43 Are there strangers in space
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
n. 教授;(大學的)講師,教員;自稱者,宣稱者;
?? pro在前面+fess說+or人→在前面說話的人→教授
"With the words he handed Professor Wang a tube."
說著他交給王教授一個試管.
近義:instructor, master, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, teacher, beak
反義:schoolboy, schoolchild, student, trainee, undergraduate, scholar
adj. 重要的,主要的;前列的;首位的;
n. 行距;鉛框;
v. 領導(lead的ing形式);
?? lead領導 + ing...的 → 指導的;最主要的
"a leading human rights campaigner"
人權運動的主要領導人
近義:transportation, conduct, conducting, conduction, driving, interlineation
radio
['red?o]
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詞根: radi
n. 無線電;收音機;無線電廣播臺;無線電收發報機;
vt.& vi. 用無線電發送訊息;作無線電廣播;用X射線拍照;
?? radi 表”射線,輻射,廣播”
"The President gave an address to the nation over the radio."
總統向全國發表廣播演說.
近義:transmit, radiophonics, radiotelephony
n. 自然;天性;天理;類型;
?? nat出生的+ure狀態→出生狀態→天性
"the adversarial nature of the two-party system"
兩黨制的對抗性
近義:milieu, surroundings, circumambiency, medium, ecosystem, environment
adj. (級別、地位)較高的;(在質量等方面)較好的;(數量)較多的;上等的;
n. 上級;較好的人[事物],優勝者;修道院院長;方丈;
?? super在上面+ior表形容詞,較...的 →在上面的,超越的
近義:head, provost, chairman, chief, director, higher
反義:servient, subaltern, subordinate, understrapper, wo, sub