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对于将计算机引入课堂的运动的核心错误，几乎没有任何作假予以探讨。

173. circumstance环境

Each set of circumstances, however bad, offers a unique opportunity for growth.

任何的综合环境，不管多么糟糕，均为成长提供了独特的机遇。

174. efficiency效率

The strength of a country’s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry.

一国经济的盛衰与其农业和工业效率直接紧密相连。

175. contempt蔑视

Several companies are already starting to use similar technologies to push messages to customers about special sales, product offerings, or other events. But push technology has earned the contempt of many Web users.

一些公司已经在开始使用类似技术来将讯息推送给用户，这些信息包括特别销售，产品供应或其它。但是这种推送技术遭到很多网络用户的蔑视。

176. stability稳定性

This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy. 该现象带来了人们对小公司角色的严重担忧，以及对国家商人和世界经济的极端稳定性的严重担忧。

177. decline衰退

Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? 过去那种经济衰退的糟糕日子又要来临了吗？

178. inflation通货膨胀

Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. 过去的两次危机均导致两位数通货膨胀和全球经济衰退。

179. counterpart对照物

Yet the research revealed that the U.S. factories of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese counterparts -- a result of the training that U.S. workers received on the job.

然而研究表明，本田、尼桑和丰田公司的美国工厂的生产率达到了其日本工厂的95%，这一结果归功于美国雇员所受的工作培训。

180. welfare福利

Governments throughout the world act on the assumption that the welfare of their people depends largely on the economic strength and wealth of the community. 全世界的政府都相信这样一个假设，那就是，人民的福利很大程度上依赖经济状况以及社会的福利状况。

二、 形容词

181. dominant占主导的

It was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium.

直到19世纪，报纸才成为电子传媒之前的主导媒体。

The dominant modelfor understanding health is the disease model, which focuses on biologicalprocesses, and on the behaviors that directly produce these.

疾病模型是理解健康的主导模型，它专注于生物学过程，以及导致该过程的行为。

182. pervasive无处不在的，流行的

We live in a society in which the use of drugs is pervasive. 在我们生活的社会中，药物使用很流行。

183. literary文学的

This could be no more than a passing literary craze.

这可能仅仅是短暂的文学狂热。

184. illiterate文盲的

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English-speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry's work. 研究者们最近在研究房屋建造时发现，德克萨斯州的不会说英语的墨西哥劳工能够一贯地达到最佳生产率标准，尽管建造工作相当复杂。

185. desirable值得追求的

But his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared. 自给自足不可避免，也是值得追求的，这一信念受到广泛尊崇。

186. vast巨大的，大量的

Regionally, the Rocky Mountain states reported the most rapid growth rate -- 37.1 percent since 1970 in a vast area with only 5 percent of the US population.

从地区上看，落基山脉各州享有最高增长率：自1970年以来，仅占美国5%人口的广阔土地达到了37.1%的水平。

187. enormous极大的

These designers exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture. 这些设计者对美国建筑发挥极大影响。

188. massive巨大的，大量的

They attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule. 他们由于违背了规则，因此受到极大关注。

189. considerable相当大的

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

然而20世纪出版的相当多的重要评论主要都是报刊评论。

190. immense极大的

For them, history did nothing, it possessed no immense wealth nor battles: “It is man, real, living man who does all that.”

对于他们而言，历史什么也没做，既不拥有极大财富，也不没有战争：“是活着的真实的人做了这一切。”

191. sophisticated复杂的，老谋深算的

Sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.

复杂的表象掩盖了事实，那就是他设计的空间既小又有效率，而不是大而空洞。

192. controversial有争议的

But compulsory treatments for chronic diseases arecontroversial. 但是对于慢性病的强制治疗是有争议的。

193. analogous类似的

The function of an intellectual is analogous to that of a judge. 知识分子的作用与法官类似。

194. opposite对立的

IQ was negatively correlated with leadership – that is, it predicted the opposite. 智商与领导力成反比关系，也就是说，预测的与结果恰相反。

195. chronic慢性的，长期的

Not everyone experiences the kinds of severe chronic stresses he describes. 并不是所有人都经历过他描述的那种长期而严重的压力。

196. fragile易碎的，脆弱的

Works of several historians reveal the moral compromises made by the nation’s early leaders and the fragile nature of the country’s infancy.

一些历史学家的工作表明了国家早期领导人的道德妥协和早期国家的脆弱性。

197. vulnerable脆弱的，易受攻击的

Encouraging kids to reject the life of the mind leaves them vulnerable to exploitation and control. 如果鼓励孩子放弃精神生活，就会使他们易于遭到剥削和控制。

198. susceptible易受影响的

Women are particularly susceptible to depression and anxiety in response to stress compared to men.

在压力中，女性比男性更易受到抑郁和焦虑的影响。

199. physical物质的，身体的

Laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness.

笑可能最身体健康没什么影响。

200. spiritual精神的

Many peoplebelieve that the inner world provides membership in nonmaterialrealms of being—perhaps involving a soul, a spiritual essence, or evena spark of the divine.

很多人相信，内心世界提供了非物质世界的存在，这或许包含灵魂，精神本质，抑或神性的光辉。

201. excessive过多的

There are many reasons for this. One is the excessive costs of a legal education. 存在很多理由，其中一个是法学教育过高的成本。

202. superfluous多余的

Much more superfluous products have been provided following the development of productivity. 生产力发展带来了大量剩余产品。

203. prominent突出的，卓越的

In the last hundred years or so, several prominent social scientists havebeen concerned about the problems of trying to apply logic tosocial systems.

在过去几百年，一些社会科学家已经在担忧是否应当把逻辑应用到社会制度中。

204. recurring不断出现的

He believes one can exercise conscious control over recurring bad dreams.

他相信可以通过有意识的练习来控制不断出现的恶梦。

He believed strongly insystematic comparison and in the existence of recurrent patterns in sociallife at all times and in all places.

他非常相信，在任何时间任何地点，都可以将社会生活不断出现的模式进行系统化比较。

205. inner内部的

This is the doctrine that societies or cultures are qualitatively different andhave their own unique inner logic.

该学说认为不同社会或文化在性质上具有差别，都具有自身独特的内在逻辑。

206. intrinsic内在的

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us. 这些花园显得想要表达另一种内在冲动或需求，我们则几乎意识不到这种冲动或需求对于我们的持久控制。