GRE_Reading Flashcards
papyrus
纸莎草
a fragment of papyrus
tetralogy
四联剧
He won the first prize with his tetralogy.
archon
执政官（古代雅典九名统治者之一）
posthumous
happening, done, or published after someone’s death
amused tolerance
付之一笑；自娱自乐
Similarly, those who are able to view the world with amused tolerance are often equally forgiving of their own shortcomings.
Scholars often fail to see that music played an important role in the preservation of African culture in the United States. They correctly note that slavery stripped some cultural elements from black people—their political and economic systems—but they underestimate the significance of music in sustaining other African culture values. African music, unlike the music of other cultures, was based on a total vision of life in which music was not an isolated social domain. In African culture music was pervasive, serving not only religion, but all phases of life, including birth, death, work, and play. The methods that a community perpetuate itself come into being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that that community perceives as essential. Music, like art in general, was so inextricably a part of African culture that it became a crucial mean of preserving the culture during and after the dislocations of slavery.
inextricably
cannot be considered separately.
vagary
an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion
[S] whim, fantasticism
happenstance
意外事件
Because the potential hazards pollen grains are subject to as they are transported over long distance are enormous, wind-pollinated plants have, in the view above, compensated for the ensuing loss of pollen through happenstance by virtue of producing an amount of pollen that is one to three orders of magnitude greater than the amount produced by species pollinated by insects.
borne
忍受；负荷；结果实；生子女
- The effects of the mechanization of women’s work have not borne out the frequently held assumption that new technology is inherently revolutionary.
- This project has not yet borne any fruit.
- He was borne up by a strong sense of responsibility.
The increase in the number of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century has less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
…… have less to do with …… than it did with ……
siderophore
含铁细胞
iguana
美洲蜥蜴
dynamite
- a powerful explosive that is often used in the form of a stick.
[90.4 A] In field practice, a subsurface is mapped by arranging a series of wave-train sources, such as small dynamite explosions, in a grid pattern. - someone or something that may cause argument or trouble.
