2009年6月英语四级听力备战-听写训练(32)

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In fact, this young man will have to 1 Asians whether he wants to or not. He cannot live forever on the financial, material and human capital 2 his ancestors.At some point soon, his intellectual laziness will seriously 3 his way of life. It will also affect the rest of us. A modern industrial state cannot 4 with an 5,ignorant labor¹ force. Planes will crash. Computers will jam. Cars will breakdown².

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答案：

1. compete with

2. accumulated by

3. affect

4. function

5. idle

■隐藏■

译文:其实，无论他是否愿意，这位年轻人都将不得不去跟亚洲人竞争。他不能永远躺在先辈积累的经济、物质与人力资本上。用不了多久，他懒于用脑的结果将严重影响他的生活方式，也将影响我们其他所有的人。一个现代工业化国家无法靠一支懒散、无知的劳动大军运行、飞机会坠落、计算机会出故障、汽车会抛锚。

accumulate:逐渐地或有规律地增加而累计

accumulation堆积的，积聚，累计物，储蓄

accumulative积累的

accumulator累计者，积聚者，储蓄者

affect：直接对人或物产生强烈的影响或者造成不好影响

affected造作的

affecting感人的

function:作为动词：起作用；作为名词：功能作用

function as 起……作用

idle:作为形容词：无事可做，空闲；作为动词：虚度

idleness无所事事

idler 懒汉

idly懒惰地

1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 breakdown   

n.垮，衰竭；损坏，故障，倒塌

参考例句：

• She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
• The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。