西电研究生英语复习资料

Unit 1

1.除非我们共同快速we are on a trajectory for gloal warming to

become much more intense unless we begin a concerted rapid shift toward a low carbon economy.

2.尽管Some of the dire projection may not occur, but in light of the

warning from our best scientists, it would be beyond irresponsible to take the bet.

3.我们极大地破坏了大气层，By badly disrupting that envelope, we

adversely affect every dimension of human well-being that is tied to the environment.

4.诸如干旱、Extreme weather events, such as drought , floods, and

severe storms, become more intense and inflict greater damage to life and property.

5.即使我们明天停止气体排放Even if we cut off emissions tomorrow,

the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would continue rising since these gases persist in the atmosphere for a very long time—from decades to thousands of years after they are first emitted depending on the specific type of greenhouse gas.

6.如果我们忽视气候变化和依赖石油的风险，。If we ignore the risks

of climate change and oil dependence, or fail to mobilize the political will needed to address them, then we will ultimately be forced into a much more costly and much less effective crash program down the road.

7.敏锐的专家们Alert pundits now foresee a world saturated with

powerful computer chips, which will increasingly insinuate themselves into our gadgets, dwellings, apparel and even our bodies.

8.What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future.

This is the defining moment.

9.在2004年In 2004, Swiss Re warned in a report that the costs of

natural disasters, aggravated by climate change, threatened to double to150 billon a year in 10 years.

10.这些威胁The threat of this major disruption coming from a number

of factors, including the increased costs of damage from extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heat waves, and major storms.

11.S指出Stern also points to the consequences of climate change on the

environment and on human health as economic growth and productivity suffer under the weight of degrading environmental conditions.

12.另外，我们招致Moreover, we would incur a very large opportunity

cost, having lost out on the chance to become the economic leader in developing alternative and more efficient uses of energy.

Unit 4

13.这种自动化That kind of automation is a far cry from the versatile,

mobile, autonomous creations that so many scientists and engineers have hoped for.

14.考虑到我刚才一直在描述In light of what I have just described as a

history of largely unfulfilled goals in robotics, why I believe that rapid progress and stunning accomplishments are in the offing?

15.我声明计算机Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually

be capable of the same kind of perception, cognition and thought as humans is the idea that a sufficiently advanced and sophisticated artificial system can be made and programmed to do the same thing as the human nervous system, including the brain.

16.问题的核心At the crux of the matter is the question of whether

biological structure and behavior arise entirely from physical law and whether, moreover, physical law is computable-that is to say, amenable to computer simulation.

17.这种机器人Such robots would host a suite of software conditioning

modules that would generate positive and negative reinforcement signals in predefined circumstances.

18.计算机恐怖主义分子The computer terrorist can inflict damage on

million of people with a single keystroke, sowing fear and doubt. 19.从国际上看，Internationally, the world economic situation can be

described as ups and downs, complicated and volatile.

20.如果你拒绝接触新人群，If you close yourself off to new people,

you will avoid pain, but also lose out to on meeting some incredible people.

21.目前In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and

ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technolo gy’s rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life.

22.适当的教育Properly educated, the resulting robots will become quite

formidable. In fact, I am sure they will outperform us in any conceivable area of endeavor, intellectual or physical.

23.人类扮演重要Human will play a pivotal role in formulating the

intricate complex of laws that will govern corporate behavior.

Unit 5

24.女权社团Women’s rights societies have been laboring for many years

after equality with man. Begin at the bottom, ladies. Get your feet on the ground, and then rise to theories of mental equality.

25.太阳下山Sundown had seen his pockets empty before; but sunrise

had always seen them lined.

26.他带着满意、Content, light-hearted, ironical, keenly philosophic, he