Test 1 Flashcards
Perkin’s curiosity prompted early interests in the arts,
His curiosity prompt him to ask more questions
It was a chance stumbling upon a run-down
لغزش
The young man’s enthusiasm for chemistry
اشتیاق
Pekin became immersed in the study
غوطه ور شدن
His talent and devotion to the subject were perceived by his teacher
از خود کذشتگی
درک
… eminent scientist Steven Hawking at the Royal College
برجسته
Perkin made the scientific breakthrough that would bring him both fame and fortune
دستیابی به موفقیت
The drug is derived from the bark of the cinchona tree
استخراج
… demand for the drug was surpassing the available supply,
پیشی گرفتن
coal tar
قطران زغال سنگ
animal excretions
کود حیوانی
glandular mucus of snails
مخاط غده ای
حلزون
… were difficult to obtain and outrageously expensive.
فوق العاده
… the new dye had commercial possibilities
رنگ
Robert who assured him that…
اطمینان دادن
… the public clamoured for more
تقاضای بیشتر
Perkin’s synthetic dye discoveries had outcomes far beyond the merely decorative
فراتر از
صرفا. فقط
We may now stand poised on the brink of the answer to that question,
آماده ایستادن
لبه
terrestrial
زمینی
… searching intermittently for three decades
بطور متناوب
it should communicate with its fellows
همکار، رفیق
are severely attenuated while traversing
به شدت
رقیق مردن. ضعیف کردن
Implementing of renewable energy sources can help attenuate the effects of climate change
پیمایش
… to conduct a thorough search for
هدایت کردن
… enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land…
اقدام مهم و مبتکرانه
… even to the most parched deserts
خشک شده
fluid
مایع
prior invasion
تهاجم قبلی
… abandoned their hard- earned terrestrial re-tooling,
رها کردن
… cease
متوقف ساختن
Reverte
He reverted to his old habits after a few months
The land will revert to the original owner if the lease expires
… having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation
برابر در ارزش
اب شش
تجسم
In many ways, the job he took was the equivalent of his previous position
all vertebrate returnees to the water
مهره داران
Turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor
فرود امدن
زمینی
only fragments are found
قطعه قطعه
… forelimbs
اندام جلویی
these amphibious species
دو زیست
… to the primeval bactria
باستانی