At the same time, the American Law Institute — a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight — issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. (真題 1999, Text 1, Paragraph 4)
They seemed a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing; they never referred to anything personal. (CET-6, 2003.6, Passage 2, Paragraph 4)
他們看起來像神職人員,盡管道行參差不齊,但舉止非常統一;他們從來不談私事。
3.odd a. 臨時的
Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every variety. (真題 2007, Text 4, Paragraph 1)
This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. (真題 2007, Text 3, Paragraph 2)
這種“額外工人效應”可以支持由失業保險或殘疾保險提供的安全網,以便幫助家庭渡過難關。
5.voice n. 意見,發言權
Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. (真題 2005, Text 2, Paragraph 3)
If they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the conversation. (CET-6, 1997.6, Passage 4, Paragraph1)
Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. (真題 2002, Text 2, Paragraph 4)