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同义词解析
  • 以下这些连接副词均有"因此,所以" 的意思
    accordingly :书面用词,强调根据某种原因而得出的结果,其前可用冒号或分号,但不用逗号。
    consequently :正式用词,侧重符合逻辑的结果。
    hence :较正式用词,指接下来的东西是理所当然的必需的东西,但强调其重要性。
    so :用于比较随便的场合,口语中多用。
    therefore :通常指引出一个推断出的必然结论。
    thus :多用于书面语中,可与therefore换用。
词组
  • and so on (或 forth)
    and similar things; et cetera 等等
  • just so much
    (chiefly derogatory)emphasizing a large amount of something (主贬)(物)太多的
  • not so much —— as ——
    not —— but rather —— 与其说…,还不如说…
  • only so much
    a limited amount 有限的
  • or so
  • so as to do something
    in order to do something 为使,以便
  • so be it
    an expression of acceptance or resignation [表示接受、顺从用语]就这样吧
  • so far
    到目前为止
  • so far so good
  • so long!
    (informal)goodbye till we meet again (非正式)再见
  • so long as
  • so many (或 much)
    indicating a particular but unspecified quantity 那么多
  • so much as
    [with negative]even 甚至
  • so much for
    indicating that one has finished talking about something [暗示谈话结束]…到此为止 suggesting that something has not been successful or useful [表示不成功或没用]不过如此
英语四级真题
  • Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.
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  • The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.
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  • So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by honoring the egg.
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  • Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.
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  • In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.
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  • I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.
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  • And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • So they’re cheap almost everywhere.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • It began to make her feel bad that some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Facebook was so convenient.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The daughter feared her mother would be ignored there, and so she decided to move her into a more welcoming facility.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So, Soupios explains, it is not worth it to waste our physical, intellectual and spiritual energy worrying about things that are beyond our control.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So take a step back, switch off the automatic pilot and actually stop and reflect about things like our priorities, our values, and our relationships.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • After a point, countries can become so dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • There were no petrol pumps and few garages, so every driver had to be his own engineer for the frequent breakdowns.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • So if you really want to do your job well, don’t forget to get some sleep.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • How can they go about this? OK, Nathan, so we are talking about driving.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • However, he points out that many countries have not done so.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • How can I help you?The massive decline in sleep happened so slowly and quietly that few seemed to notice the trend.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Wireless devices will transmit signals so as to activate the alarm once something wrong is detected.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The teachers must be free to teach in their own way—the curriculum should be flexible enough so that they can use their individual talents to achieve the goals of the course.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • The odds of a criminal using technical means to bypass a security system are so small that the FBI doesn't even track those statistics.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So, too, would the motion detectors in your home, so the thief will need to continue jamming once he's inside and searching for things to steal.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So it isn't surprising that you'll find plenty of strong opinions about the potential vulnerabilities of popular home-security systems.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Snow White is available for everyone to use, but the dwarfs are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters ( ' , Grumpy Gus, Dopey Dan) to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.
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  • One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Many oil producers built up huge reserve funds when prices were high, so when prices fall they will draw on their reserves to support government spending and subsidies ( ' , 补贴) for their consumers.
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  • In the workplace, feedback may not be so welcome to managers with a fixed mind-set.
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  • However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So like any other business, you have to make choices.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Crews have managed to provide heat packs and blankets to the miners so that they can keep warm during the rescue operation, Verfuss said.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification ( ' , 快乐 ) so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.
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  • Spending money is so fast and easy.
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  • So while there're plenty of hackers ( ' , 电脑迷 ) who could start startups, there's no one to invest in them.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So I've watched a lot of children—talking, playing, arguing, eating, studying, and being young.
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  • Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource ( ' , 外包 ) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Once you have worthy opponents, set some ground rules so everyone understands responsibilities and boundaries.
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  • Of course, I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age, so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.
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  • Make sure you check in with your opponents so that they are not carrying the emotion of the battles beyond the battlefield.
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  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
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  • In the so-called effective schools, children are taught self-control under a set of strict rules.
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  • If you spend much time with educators and policy makers, you'll hear a lot of the following words: standards, results, skills, self-control, accountability, and so on.
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  • I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris ( ' , 得意忘形 ) or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.
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  • Her expectations were high—impossibly so.
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  • But what did Carnegie-Mellon yield in Pittsburgh? And what happened in Ithaca, home of Cornell University, which is also high on the list?I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I can answer for both.
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  • Although frozen dinners were invented in the '40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.
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  • A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • To his classmates and even to his teachers, he was thought of as the dumbest kid in the class,according to his own not so fond memories.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Of course, I didn’t know she couldn’t read, so there I was submitting thesereports, he said, She would put check marks on them like she hadbeen reading them.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "I prefer take home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research," says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • "It unties the hands of the pharmaceutical制药的industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects," he said.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "It's so rare that we get an opportunity to affect so much change on one life," White wrote.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • "Meals are the foundation of the family," says Carole Counihan, a professor at millersville University in Pennsylvania, "so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties."
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "Of course, I didn't know she couldn't read, so there I was submitting these reports," he said, "She would put check marks on them like she had been reading them.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • "Snow White" is available for everyone to use, but the "dwarfs" are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters Grumpy Gus, Dopey Da to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "Women want to be able to do it all—volunteer for school parties or cook delicious meals—and so their answer to any request is often "Yes,I can."
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • "You'll want an iPad just so you can wear this " is the slogan for one of the new lab coats designed with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • After new legislation demanded their removal from the roads, a low interest loan scheme was set up with three Egyptian banks so drivers could buy new cars.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And my boyfriend's English is so good that we just basically speak English all the time.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • And so all this means more traffic jams on the road.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • And so far, this green sea slug is the only known animal that can be truly considered solar-powered, although some animals do exhibit some plant-like behaviors.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • And so we picked those up and carried on.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • And there are so many cars.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • And there's so many things I'd like to do with it.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Anyway, I'm only going to be there for a year, doing my masters, so it's pretty good.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • As global surface temperatures increase, so does the likelihood of extreme weather.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But I don't understand why you're so excited.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • But I'll need a receipt, so I can charge it to my company.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But maybe what's inside is not so natural.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Companies like Intel developed faster microprocessors, so personal computers could process the incoming signals at a more rapid rate.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Companies soon discovered that work could be done at home and submitted online, so a whole new class of telecommuters began to earn a living from home offices unshaven and wearing pajamas (睡衣).
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Even so, relatively few young women 15% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Even so, relatively few young women 16% say they have been discriminated against at work because of their gender.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Eventually, my cough got so much worse that I couldn't sleep at night, so I decided to give it a try.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • Government is concentrated in capitals, so is the money.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Her expectations were high — impossibly so.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • However, bacteria have been shown to live on cabin surfaces, so wash your hands frequently.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
英语六级真题
  • The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Children were not always raised so differently.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • So recently, I’ve looked at young people’s drinking and it’s obviously a major concern to government at the moment.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • That's why school reform is so critical.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So what you need to know is that there's no evidence whatsoever to back these claims.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So the evidence contradicts the claim that we're mainly suffering from structural unemployment.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Or so the industry hopes.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • It turns out today's teenagers aren't so scary after all.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • As a country's wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • So, how long have you been a Market Research Consultant? Hello.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • So really, those supplements aren’t going to give you that perfect memory in the way that they promise.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • So Mike, you managed the innovation  project at CucinTech.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So, it is argued, stripping cartons of their branding will trigger no mass movement to quit.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So why has it taken so long? The Department of Health declared its intention to consider the move in November 2010 and consulted through 2012.
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  • So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So much of what CES has been about is the cool.
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  • Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.
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  • Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
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  • But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.
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  • Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • So I quickly designed a skirt on my computer, and I loaded the file on the printer.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Okay, so let’s get started.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.
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  • So a heavy object, like a football player moving at a high speed, has a lot of momentum — that is, once be is moving, it is hard to change his state of motion.
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  • Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.
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  • And if we're not going to make rational decisions about the future, others may have to help us to do so.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.
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  • 5 percent of the second group thought so.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "Make mathematics more available," Draujlcova says. Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences."
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness," Jarrat continued.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "So here's the job opening, here's the job seeker, match them together under one roof," she says.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • "The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • A bathing machine was rolled down to the sea shore, so women would not be seen in swimwear.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • A lot of clever people are terrified about artificial intelligence, fearing that robots will one day become so smart that they'll murder all of us.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • All the universities are owned by the government, so there is the ministry of Education in charge of creating the curriculum for the universities and so there's not much room for flexibility.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • And about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And so there is nothing inherently wrong about stereotypes.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • And so, at 11pm on the night of Georgia State University's GSU midnight deadline, I applied online.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And these big food corporations have so much money to spend on clever tactic design to make young children want to buy their products.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable and even more so too for the levels that are likely if we don't get those global agreements.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Apparently, we look down on acquaintances more so than friends.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As for our customers, they are all animal lovers, so they would never try to hurt the rabbits.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • As it grew more popular, the company sold rights to bottle the soda, so it could travel easily.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • As she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • As smartphones have multiplied, so have questions about their impact on how we live and how we work.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • As Vaclav Smil points out, "All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • As wood was so plentiful, it was cheaper to use than the stone used in the buildings of other European cultures.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.
    2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Bria Dunham, a mother in Somerville, Massachusetts, was so excited to watch a moment of brotherly bonding while her first-grader and baby took a bath together that she snapped a few photos.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • But frequently my tech use was not so benign.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But she was so nervous that she kept forgetting what to say, and she spoke almost in a whisper.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • But this does not apply to everyone, so it is essential to establish your own rhythm.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you'v apparently matured is not a great sign of brilliance.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Dehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Even people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Even so, the levels in these countries are also rising.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Even so, they can rarely without subsidized support address serious personal needs.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Exercise, diet, cognitive stimulation showed some positive effects, although the evidence was not so strong that we could actually consider these firmly established.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Flamingos have evolved very leathery skin on their legs so they can tolerate the salt water, says David Harper, a professor at the University of Leicester.
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • For one thing, they are reliable and so far as they are based on unbiased samples.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Google and Apple have made it far too difficult to adjust these settings so it's up to us to take steps to ensure we set these triggers to suit our own needs, not the needs of the app makers.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Have young people never had it so good?
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it's likely that the 27 climatic envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Here is the most malignant threat to our personal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace has been shifted so dramatically from worker to boss.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization
  • Adjective
    1. conforming to truth;
    "I wouldn't have told you this if it weren't so""a truthful statement"
    2. marked by system; in good order;
    "everything is in order""his books are always just so""things must be exactly so"
  • Adverb
    1. to a very great extent or degree;
    "the idea is so obvious""never been so happy""I love you so""my head aches so!"
    2. in order that;
    "he stooped down so he could pick up his hat"
    3. in such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied;
    "They're happy and I hope they will remain so""so live your life that old age will bring no regrets"
    4. to a certain unspecified extent or degree;
    "I can only go so far with this student""can do only so much in a day"
    5. in the same way; also;
    "I was offended and so was he""worked hard and so did she"
    6. in the way indicated;
    "hold the brush so""set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant)
    7. (usually followed by `that') to an extent or degree as expressed;
    "he was so tired he could hardly stand""so dirty that it smells"
    8. subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors);
    "then he left""go left first, then right""first came lightning, then thunder""we watched the late movie and then went to bed""and so home and to bed"
    9. in truth (often tends to intensify);
    "they said the car would break down and indeed it did""it is very cold indeed""was indeed grateful""indeed, the rain may still come""he did so do it!"