Vocabulary1.conscientious 认真的，2.真心实意的3.maniac 疯狂的，4.疯子5.preposterous 反常的，6.荒谬的7.quibble 狡辩，8.摸棱两可难句译注1. the inferiority complex 自卑情绪，指一种由自悲感引起的复杂心理状态，...
Passage Thirty (Fingerprints)The search for latent prints is done in a systematic and intelligent manner. Investigators develop techniques to locate t...
19.talc 滑石20.lampblack 灯黑，21.灯烟22.acacia 阿拉伯树胶，23.金合欢胶24.dragons blood 龙血树脂，25.麒麟血26.sparingly 少量的，27.节约的28.novice 新手，29.初学者30.cellulose tape 纤维带，31.指...
Passage Thirty-one (The Causes of European Separation in 16th Century)For a thousand years and more, the people of Europe had fought about many things...
难句译注1.Thus Europe was divided in every which way, the southern and eastern two-thirds still Catholic, the northern and western one-third what was comi...
Passage Thirty-two (The Young Generation)Old people are always saying that the young are not what they were. The same comment is made from generation ...
17.a rat-race 激烈的竞争18.shrug off 对耸肩表示不19.屑一理，20.轻视，21.摆脱22.spotless 无污点的，23.纯洁的24.shed 摆脱，25.抛弃26.annihilate 歼灭27.bequeath 赠送，28.把传给后代29.sanity 头脑清醒健全...
Passage Thirty-three (Importance of a Computer)As citizens of advanced but vulnerable economies, we must either relentlessly increase the quality of o...
Vocabulary1.relentlessly 始终不2.懈的3.obsolete 过时的，4.大量的，5.绝大部分的6.chunk 大块，7.大量的，8.绝大部分9.abysmal 无底的，10.极端的11.Proteus 希12.腊神话中海神，13.能随意变化。这里指14.flexible, ...
17.a rat-race 激烈的竞争18.shrug off 对耸肩表示不19.屑一理，20.轻视，21.摆脱22.spotless 无污点的，23.纯洁的24.shed 摆脱，25.抛弃26.annihilate 歼灭27.bequeath 赠送，28.把传给后代29.sanity 头脑清醒健全...