【英语词组】恋恋不忘Day 2-3

invest in

Transicent investors,who demand high quarterly profits from conpanies,can hinder a firm’s efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty.
那些要求从公司获得高额季度利润的短期投资者可能会阻碍公司努力投资于长期研究或建立客户忠诚度。
transient =tran（转移）sient（silence沉默）=短暂的对话转移沉默=transient短暂的
quarterly=四分之一年=quarterly季度的

be eager to

According to Hans Sauer,companies are eager to win patents for establishing disease correlation.
根据xxx所说，各公司都渴望获得建立疾病相关性的专利。
拓 be keen to渴望
be keen on 热衷于
yearn for =一年时间为了一件事情=yearn for渴望
long for =很长时间都为了一件事情=long for渴望

come into one’s own

This car really comes into its own on rough ground.
这辆汽车在崎岖的路上才真正显示出它的性能。

keep track of

Your pages will be easier to keep track of that way,and,if you have to clip a paragraph to place it elsewhere,you will not lose any writing on the other side.
以那样的方式，你所写的一页页的内容就容易找到，而且，如果你不得不把某个段落剪切下来放在其他地方，你也不会因为丢掉背面的任何文字。

clip 剪
拓 lose track of 失去联系

clean up

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that,cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions,for example,against hostility from special interests.
xxx正是这么做的，例如，整治股票权和养老金的规则来对抗特殊利益集团的敌意。
exactly 恰恰
拓 clear up 清理

open up

“Each book opens up new avenues of knowledge,”Gates says.
“每一本书都开启了通向知识的新通道”xxx说。

part of

Part of the issue is that airports have only so much room for screening lanes.
造成这个问题的部分原因是机场拥有的安检通道空间有限。
拓 in part 部分的
partially 部分的

common sense

Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem——confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense.
心理健康是一颗种子，蕴含着自信——相信自己和信赖自己常识的能力。

拓 make sense 有意义；讲得通

from the outset

From the outset it was clear that he was guilty.
从一开始他有罪这件事就很明显。
拓 from the very begginning 从一开始

in favor of

But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.
但是20世纪早期的许多人类学家也赞同文化传播论而反对文化特殊论。

拓 be for 赞成
oppose 反对

be seen to be

Prodessor Terence Stephenson，president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health,said that the consumption of unhealthy food should be seem to be just as damaging as smoking or excessive drinking.
xxxx说，吃不健康的食品应该被视为与吸烟和酗酒一样危害巨大。
拓 be seem as 被视为
be considered as/to be 被视为
be regarded as 被视为

or else

Sit down to read and the flywheel of work-related thoughts keeps spinning——or else you are so exhausted that a challenging book’s the last thing you need.
坐下来阅读，而与工作相关的想法却像飞轮一样转个不停——或者，你太疲惫不堪了，读一本有挑战性的书是你最不想做的事情。
spin 旋转
拓 or rather 倒不如说

talk of

Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle”of debt,population decline and lower growth.
现在，即使是该计划最坚定的一些支持者也是在谈论一个面临债务、人口下降和低增长的“百慕大三角”大路。
cheerleader 拉拉队员
debt 债务
拓 talk about 谈论
at the mention of谈论
when it comes to 说起

turn off

Let’s turn the television off and go to the cinema.
咱们关了电视，去看电影吧。
拓 switch off 关掉、关闭

attempt to

Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass（the amount of living biological matter）of fish species in particular parts of the ocean,but rather changes in that biomass over time.
他们的方法并不是试图估算特定海域鱼类种类的实际生物量（活生物体的数量），而是估算生物随时间的变化。
estimate=用一丝提门估计门的重量=estimate 估计

look inside

Each subject was then invited to look inside.
随后每一位调查组对象都会受邀请查看容器内部。
拓 look out=watch out小心

in depth

Graduate students pursue a specific aspect of a subject in depth.
研究生深入研究某一学科的某一方面。
拓 thoroughly 彻底的

so that

To make revising easier,leave wide margins and extra space between lines so that you can easily add word,sentence,and correction.
为了使修改更容易，在行与行之间应留出较大的空白，这样你就可以很容易的添加单词、句子以及做出更正。

work for

Smith have been working for the law firm for more than 20 years.
史密斯已经在这家法律事务所工作20多年了。拓 work as做
work on致力于

come to fruition

Indeed,prediction of such a society have been around for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.
事实上，关于这样一个社会的语言已经存在20年，但尚未实现。
拓 come into being 形成，产生