考研英语100句–Day15

Sentence 71

Infants are wired to look at parents’ faces to try to understand their world, and if those faces are blank and unresponsive — as they often are when absorbed in a device — it can be extremely disconcerting for the children.

婴幼儿天生会观察父母的表情，试图理解他们的世界，如果父母的脸上毫无表情和反应——沉浸于电子设备时经常如此——这会让孩子们极其不安。

单词

• infant
• unresponsive
• absorbed
• extremely
• disconcerting

词组

• are wired to do .. 天生就会做..
• try to understand their world
• when absorbed in a device
• be extremely disconcerting for sb.

Sentence 72

Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.

科学家们已经发现：虽然我们易于快速做出过度反应，但是如果我们花点时间考虑一下我们可能会做何反应，就可以减少，甚至是消除我们快速、本能的反应所带来的消极影响。

单词

• prone 易于的，俯卧的，有倾向的..
• snap 折断，快照，突然的
• overreaction 过度反应
• reduce
• eliminate 消除

词组

• have found that ..
• be prone to do sth.. 易于，有倾向于做某事
• be prone to snap overreactions
• take a moment and think about how ..
• how we are likely to react
• be likely to do ..
• reduce the negative effects of our hard-wired responses
• hard-wired responses

Sentence 73

Further arrangements — and there may be many — between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

英国国民医疗服务体系（NHS）和DeepMind之间的进一步的协议——也许还有很多协议——将受到仔细审查，以确保从病人那里获得了所有必要的许可，以及所有不必要的数据都已被清除。

单词

• arrangement
• scrutinize 审查
• ensure
• permission

词组

• further arrangements
• be carefully scrutinised to ensure that
• necessary permission

Sentence 74

Studies of both animals and humans have shown that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response, causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals than do males under the same conditions.

对动物和人类的研究表明：性激素会以某种方式影响应激反应，使处于压力下的雌性比处于相同条件下的雄性产生更多的能触发不良反应的化学物质。

单词

• hormone
• somehow
• affect
• chemical

词组

• sex hormones
• affect the stress response
• under stress
• causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger chemicals
• under the same conditions
• trigger chemical

Sentence 75

“Carry a book with you at all times” can actually work too – providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

如果你能经常翻阅的话，“随时携带一本书”这种方式也能奏效，从而让阅读成为你的常态，你可以在需要处理事务的时候从书中暂时抽离出来，之后再重新开始阅读。

单词

• actually
• temporarily
• dip 浸入，深入

词组

• Carry a book with you at all times
• dip in often enough
• default state
• drop back down