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Intensive Reading 吉林大学远程教育学院 |
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| vision: (n.)power of seeing or imagining,looking ahead |
| 视力；想象力；洞察力 1.She is a man of vision. 她是个很有眼光的人。 2.The field of our vision need widening. 我们需要开阔视野。 |
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would then be impelled to visit the chief way stations along the route,
reconstructing the lives of those resolute organizers and thankful
fugitives. |
| Meaning:The reader may be eager to read about the way stations along the way the slaves were led to freedom and formed a detailed picture in their minds of everything the fearless organizers had done to help the grateful slaves to escape. 于是他被驱使去观赏沿线主要铁路小站，重现那些意志坚强的组织者和感到欣慰的逃亡者的形象。 |
| impel: (v.)to drive.force,urge 推进；驱使； |
| 1.He had been impelled to
crime by poverty. 他是为贫困所逼而犯罪。 2.His speech impelled me to greater efforts. 他的演说激励我更加努力。 |
| reconstruct: (v.) |
| (1)to construct again
重建；再建 1.A ruined abbey has been reconstructed. 一座被毁的寺院的到了重建。 2.This city has been reconstructed many times. 这座城市已被重建了很多次。 (2)to build up a complete description or picture 重现；重整 1.The police tried to reconstruct the crime from the proof. 警察试图从获得的证据推想罪案发生的过程。 2.He reconstructed the past romance by exhibit old pictures. 他通过展示旧照片来重现昔日的浪漫。 |
| Tradition
says that... |
| Meaning: the legend says that… 传说…… |
| Learning
extends our lives(as Ptolemy said) into new dimensions. It is cumulative.
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| Meaning: True learning enriches
life and it makes us live longer. As we get older, it is quite natural
that we may lose our health and strength, but learning continues to
grow throughout life. 学习会使我们长寿（如托勒密所说），使生活更有新意。学习是积累知识的过程。 |
| dimension: |
| (n.)(1)measurement
of any sort(breath,length) 任何一种尺度（长、宽、高） 1.What are the dimension of the room? 这房间的长、宽、高是多少？ 2.I don’t know the dimension of the building. 我不知道这建筑物的长、宽、高。 (2)(pl) size;extent 范围；程度；面积 1.This is a building of great dimensions. 这是个庞大的建筑物。 2.We don’t know the dimensions of the problem. 我们不知道问题所涉及的范围。 |
| cumulative: (adj.) increasing steadily in amount 积累的 |
| 1.We should learn from their
cumulative experience. 我们应学习他们积累的经验。 2.Failure is a kind of cumulative process. 失败是一种积累的过程。 |
| Provided
that you aim, throughout your life, as you continue learning, to integrate
your thought, to make it harmonious. |
| Meaning:To develop a habit
to organize the fragmentary and departmentalized knowledge, to work
out the contradiction, thus find a balanced point where the similarities
of the things belonging to two totally different categories meet.
Only in this way can you obtain the pleasure or the happiness (a word
used by the author at the end of this article) as your knowledge increases
and deepens. 只要你一生的目标确定了，你就会在学习时联系你的思想，使学习你的目标相互和谐。 |
| provided: (conj.) on condition (that) |
| 假使；倘若 1.Provided that circumstances permit,I will go there. 如果情况允许的话，我就去那里。 2.Provided that you are determined,you will succeed. 只要你下定决心，就会成功。 |
