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英语单词学习(7)

 71. uncontested: used to describe a decision or result which nobody opposes or disagrees with. 没有人争的, 无异议的, 无竞争的

  • an uncontested divorce: If both spouses agree that the marriage is to end and come to a mutually satisfying agreement regarding the final divorce settlement, you have an uncontested divorce.
    协议离婚

  • an uncontested right to ... ... ...有无可争议的权利

72. exceed: v. go beyond, pass; surpass, outdo, excel

  • exceed necessary level

  • when their use of force exceeds that which is necessary to accomplish their lawful purpose ...

  • She was found guilty on three charges of exceeding the speed limit.

  • to exceed one's understanding

  • Lee's performance exceeded all the others.

73. subject sb/sth to something: to make someone or something experience an unpleasant or worrying thing 遭受痛苦,经历不愉快的变化

  • to be subject to unfair treatment

  • what is reasonable, however, is still subject to controversy.

  • "I didn't want to subject him to such a long journey," Mary said.

  • They subjected him to torture.

  • He was subjected to great danger.

  • to subject a solider to discipline.

  • Your salary is subject to change.

  • Any single record could be subject to all kinds of accidental errors.

  • But warm interglacial periods had certainly been subject to big swings of temperature lasting for centuries.

74. subject of controversy 争议的话题

  • The industry has long been a subject of controversy over its environmental impact and working conditions.

  • Racial disproportionality remains subject of controversy.

  • Even the very definition of death, for which we once had an easy answer, is now a subject of controversy, confusion, and soul-searching.

75. disoriented: confused and not knowing where to go or what to do  () 使失去方向感, 使迷惑

  • Whales become disoriented in shallow water.

76. inflictto force someone to experience something very unpleasant () 施以, 加害
          
        --- to escape the injuries being inflicted upon him

        ---The suffering inflicted on these children was unimaginable.

77. impervious:
1) not able to be penetrated, as by water, light, etc; impermeable 透不过的, 不渗透

             2) not able to be influenced (by) or not receptive (to): impervious to argument ; 
                    
describes a person who is not influenced or affected by something  不受影响的,无动于衷的

  • impervious to pain

  • She is impervious to criticism and rational argument.

78. can be interpreted as an attempt to... 可以解释/理解为尝试去做...

  • ... can be interpreted as the attempt to fit the use of force into a pattern that the public could understand and accept...

  • Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is not rejection of the liberative contribution of modernity. Rather his effort can be interpreted as an attempt to integrate these positive elements with a liberating re-interpretation of tradition. With his critique from within the tradition, Gandhi becomes the great synthesiser of contraries within and across traditions.

  • The SPS and TBT Agreements can be interpreted as an attempt to balance the first two uses of standards and to minimize the third.

  • Fiducial inference can be interpreted as an attempt to perform inverse probability without calling on prior probability distributions

79. come into play/bring into play: If something comes into play, it starts to have a use or an effect in a particular situation, and if it is brought into play, it is given a use or an effect .

  • force is brought into play when one's authority is challenged.

  • In the summer months a different set of climatic factors come into play.

  • All the resources and staff available were brought into play to cope with the crisis.

  • It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

  • The additional fact brought into play here is that Jupiter is not the next planet after the Earth.

80. beyond what is necessary: 超出所必需的

  • goes beyond what is necessary to affect a lawful arrest

  • "From the way they came into the camp this morning to the way they acted tonight , they have gone beyond what was necessary," she said.

  • Protest spokeswoman says police action 'beyond' what's necessary.

  • Hyperhidrosis is defined as sweating beyond what is necessary to maintain thermal regulation.



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