(六) Be contingent on/upon, contingency;
(1) The company’s future is contingent on the outcome of the trial.
Whether or not we arrive on time is contingent on the weather.
(2) the Chinese contingent of Olympic athletes; (代表团)
(3) We should put aside some money for future contingencies. (可能性;意外事故)
(4) We have contingency plans ready in case there is a flood.(应变计划)
Contingency fund; (应急基金)contingency reserve;(应急储备金)
(七)derivable, derivative adj./n. derivative/ness;
Do you think that pleasure is only derivable from drinking?
(八)faculty;
(1) the faculty of hearing/memory/thinking; his digestive faculty;
Healthy people are in possession of all their faculties. (心智健全)Collect one’s faculties;
(2) He has an extraordinary faculty for management/learning languages.(天赋,能力)
(3) the Faculty of Law/Science;
I have been teaching on the faculty/staff for twenty years.
(4) (AmE.) the faculty ( the school’s staff); an excellent mathematics faculty; a faculty position; a faculty party; faculty adviser(美语);
(九) orientate/orient(AmE.), orientation, disorientate;
(1) The new comer took some time to orientate himself. (熟悉环境,使适应))
Some universities have an orientation week for freshmen.
(2) He orientated himself by finding a familiar landscape/landmark. (确定方位)
(3) In Germany, college education is orientated towards training working force.(以。。。为目标的)
An export-oriented company(以出口为主的); an education-oriented family(重视教育的)
(十)Integrate, integration; Integrative, integrated;
(1) The best treatment is to integrate traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine.(相结合)
(2) Many young people successfully integrated themselves into their new surroundings.( 适应)
It is not easy for immigrants to integrate into the local culture and community. (融入)
(3) Many high schools are integrating computer programs into their curriculum.(纳入)
(4) The integration of manual labor and mental work makes people really healthy.
(5) an integrated school(兼收的); an integrated personality(完整的); an integrated/ Integrative program(综合的); a more closely integrated economic and political system(相互协调的); a poorly-/well-integrated parson;
(6) If a man is to integrate himself, he must discover his springs of action. |
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