outliers_1 Flashcards
I’ve substituted the players’ birthdays for their names
나는 선수들의 생일을 그들의 이름으로 대체했습니다.
he stops and circles, eluding the Vancouver defense-man February 15
eluding - evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.
it’s simply that in Canada the eligibility cutoff for age-class hockey is January 1
eligibility - the state of having the right to do or obtain something through satisfaction of the appropriate conditions.
적임 적절
In the united states, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically
stream -
a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas.
it seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery
assimilate- take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
Ten Thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.
greatness -the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent.
it was a do-it-yourself contraption that you could assemble at home.
contraption - a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
*신안
new idea, contraption
To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation
*fledgling- 깃털이 갓난 새 새끼
fledgeling, fledgling
he grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon Valley
*epicenter -중심점
node, epicenter, pivot, epicentrum, epicentre
as a teenager he prowled the flea markets of Mountain View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts.
*prowl -기웃거리다
prowl
Jobs not only received the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle a summer job
설복하다
persuade, wrangle, reason, prevail
Tonight the mob takes on their fiercest competition yet
폭도
mob, insurgent, rioter, insurrectionist
all because of a brain that appears to defy description
*defy- 무시하다
disregard, ignore, defy, face it out, fracture, set aside
he could skim through the textbook and ace the test
*skim through -대충 읽다
skim, dip
he did not circle about topics, searching for the right phrase, or double back to restate a previous sentence.
*restate- 다시 말하다
restate, rehash
For the matte, he did not say or use any form of conversational mitigation
*conversational mitigation -완화
mitigation, assuagement
henry Cowell had been raised in poverty and chaos
*in poverty
He had been unschooled since the age of seven
*unschool-
not educated at or made to attend school.
He doled out a constant stream of advice and counsel, all the time recording his findings in thick red volumes entitled Genetic Studies of Genius
*dole out-..을 나누어 주다
dole
Schwartz concedes that his idea has virtually no chance of being accepted
*concede that -인정하다
recognize, acknowledge, concede, ken, grant, allow
The University of Michigan law school uses a policy of affirmative action when it comes to applicants of the students Michigan enrolls each fall are members of racial minorities
*affirmative action -
supportive, hopeful, or encouraging.
There was no place we saw any serious discrepancy
discrepancy -
a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
there’s a discrepancy between your account and his
It’s also the second reason Michigan Law School couldn’t find a difference between its affirmative action graduates and the rest of its alumni.
*affirmative - supportive, hopeful, or encouraging.
the family is usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative influences come
And just because Michigan’s minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn’t mean they don’t have that other critical trait in abundance.
*convergence tests -
the process or state of converging.
the convergence of lines in the distance
And just because Michigan’s minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn’t mean they don’t have that other critical trait in abundance.
*a very large quantity of something.
the tropical island boasts an abundance of wildlife
Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses
*exhaustively -
in a way that includes or considers all elements or aspects; comprehensively.
the book is a scholarly study, exhaustively researched
In a devastating critique
*critique-
a detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, or political theory.
a critique of Marxist historicism
and dispensed with IQs altogether
*dispense -distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people.
he dispensed a gentle pat on Claude’s back
