考研英语100句–Day16

Sentence 76

Today, widespread social pressure to immediately go to college in conjunction with increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world often causes students to completely overlook the possibility of taking a gap year.

如今，高中毕业后即刻升入大学这一普遍的社会压力，加之快速发展的世界对学生寄予越来越高的期望，这常常导致学生完全忽略了选择间隔年这一可能。

单词

• widespread
• immediately
• expectation
• conjunction
• overlook

词组

• widespread social pressure
• go to college
• increasingly high expectations in a fast-moving world
• in conjunction with
• the possibility of taking a gap year
• cause sb. to do sth.

Sentence 77

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

这可能是因为我们发展出了两类社会科学家群体：一类是学科导向型并在高度专业的期刊上发表文章，另一类是问题导向型并在如政策简报等其他地方发表文章。

单词

• evolve
• community
• discipline-oriented
• problem-oriented
• brief

词组

• two communities of social scientists
• publish in highly specialized journals

Sentence 78

Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money.

炼钢工人、航空公司职员，以及现在那些在汽车行业的员工都正在加入那些不得不担心利率股市波动和退休金不够用这一残酷现实的数百万家庭的行列。

单词

• steelworkers
• worry about
• interest rate 利率
• fluctuation
• harsh
• outlive

词组

• the harsh reality
• retirement money

Sentence 79

After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position — no matter how much “soft pressure” is put upon them.

毕竟四十年的事实现已表明，不管被施加多大的“软压力”，欧洲和美国的企业一直在回避英才管理制度，限制女性晋升到高层。

单词

• decade
• corporation
• evade
• meritocratic
• promotion

词组

• after all
• four decades of evidence has now shown that ..
• no matter how ..
• as well as
• the meritocratic hiring

Sentence 80

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

有些人可能认为英语的全球地位如此稳定以至于英国的年轻一代不需要获得额外的语言能力；他的分析应该会结束那些人的自满情绪。

单词

• self-contentedness 自满
• stable
• generation
• additional
• capability

词组

• end any self-contentedness among those who ..
• the global position of English
• the young generation of the United Kingdom
• additional language capabilities