考研英语100句–Day8

Sentence 36

In a workplace that’s fundamentally indifferent to your life and its meaning, office speak can help you figure out how you relate to your work—and how your work defines who you are.

在一个根本不关心你的生活及其意义的职场中，办公室用语能帮助你理清自己和工作的关系，以及工作对你的身份的定义。

单词

• fundamentally

词组

• is indifferent to your life and its meaning
• figure out
• how you relate to your work

Sentence 37

Conversations are links, which means when you have a conversation with a new person a link gets formed and every conversation you have after that moment will strengthen the link.

交谈是一种联系，这意味着当你和一个刚认识的人交谈时，一种联系就形成了，而在那之后的每一次交谈都会强化这一联系。

单词

• strengthen

词组

• which means ..
• have a conversation with a new person
• a link gets formed
• strengthen the link

Sentence 38

Researchers measured people’s cortisol, which is a stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.

研究人员测量了人们在工作和在家时的皮质醇，它是一种压力标志，并发现在家这个理应是庇护所的地方，人们的皮质醇水平更高。

单词

• measure
• cortisol
• refuge

词组

• a stress marker
• what is supposed to be
• a place of refuge

Sentence 39

While Washington and Jefferson privately expressed distaste for slavery, they also understood that it was part of the political and economic bedrock of the country they helped to create.

尽管华盛顿和杰斐逊私下都表达过对奴隶制的不满，但是他们也明白，奴隶制是他们帮助创建的这个国家的政治和经济基础的一部分。

单词

• privately
• express
• distaste
• slavery
• political
• economic
• bedrock 基石

词组

• it is part of the political bedrock
• privately expressed distaste for ..

Sentence 40

When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it’s not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers—but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.

当小孩子们学习计算机科学的时候，他们会发现它并不仅仅是一串令人困惑的、无穷无尽的字母和数字——它还是一种工具，这种工具能编写应用程序、创作艺术作品或测试假设。

单词

• confusing
• hypotheses

词组

• a tool to build apps
• test hypotheses