托福聽力TPO中的固定搭配（2）

　　控制;駕馭

　　get something under control

　　●TPO25L4 – Animal Behavior

　　Apparently,it also contributes to the development of a brain that's flexible, a brain that's quickly able to get a handle on unfamiliar situations.

　　很顯然，它對大腦靈活、快速的適應陌生環(huán)境有著重要幫助。

　　heavenly body

　　天體

　　planet

　　●TPO18L1 – Astronomy

　　That's because of their belief at the time that the heavenly bodies, the Sun,Moon,Stars and Planets, were perfect, without any flaws or blemishes.

　　這是因為他們堅信所有的行星，太陽，月亮等等，都是完美無瑕的。

　　high and low

　　到處

　　everywhere

　　●TPO5C1 – Student & Counselor at the University Counseling Center

　　And it so happened that the cellist graduated last year. They’ve been searching high and low for a replacement, someone with experience.

　　大提琴手去年畢業(yè)了，他們到處尋找有經(jīng)驗的接班人。

　　how come

　　為什么，怎么會

　　disbelief or surprise

　　●TPO26L3 – Astronomy

　　I mean, how come Halley’s is still there? After four and a half billion years. How could it be?

　　我意思是，經(jīng)過了45億年哈雷彗星怎么還在那，怎么可能?

　　let alone

　　更不必說;不打擾

　　to say nothing of…

　　●TPO22L2 – Astronomy

　　we know the Sun’s current rate of mass loss, but if we assume that this rate has been steady over the last four billion years, the young Sun wouldn’t have been massive enough to have warmed Earth, let alone Mars, not enough to have caused liquid water.

　　我們知道太陽現(xiàn)在質量在衰減，如果我們假設太陽質量衰減的速度是恒定的，那么經(jīng)過40億年，太陽將不再有足夠的質量給地球提供熱量，更不用說火星了，這些熱量都不夠形成液態(tài)水。

　　off the hook

　　擺脫困境;脫身

　　avoid sth.

　　●TPO15C2 – Student & Biology Professor

　　And that's supposed to be a quiet environment? Not exactly. My brother and parents try to keep it down when I am studying, but the phone pretty much rings off the hook, so ...

　　本該是一個很安靜的環(huán)境吧?事實卻不是這樣，在我學習的時候都爸爸和哥哥放低聲音，但是電話卻響個不停。

　　pros and cons

　　利弊

　　advantages & disadvantages

　　●The question is how. I mean no one really thinks that, say a bee goes through weighing thepros and cons of pollinating this flower or that flower.

　　問題在于怎樣做到的。沒有人會認為蜜蜂給花朵授粉的時候會去權衡一下這朵花和那朵花的利弊。

　　put two and two together

　　根據(jù)事實推理

　　reach a correct conclusion from the evidence; making inference

　　●TPO3L4 – Astronomy

　　So he put two and two together, and decided there was an element in the sun that hadn’t been discovered here on the earth yet.

　　所以他根據(jù)現(xiàn)有情況推斷，太陽里有一種元素是我們至今都沒有發(fā)現(xiàn)的。

　　rule of thumb

　　經(jīng)驗法則

　　approximately

　　●T2C1 – Student & Professor

　　.. like your parents. That’s usually my rule of thumb: would my parents understand this?

　　...例如你的父母。按我的經(jīng)驗法則，我會問：我的父母能理解嗎?

　　spot on

　　完全正確

　　exactly right

　　●TPO29L4 – Structural Engineering

　　There’s a reason I mentioned that figure of 36,000 kilometers. That’s about how high an object would have to be orbiting straight up from the equator to constantly remain directly above the exact same spot on the rotating planet Earth.

　　就像我剛提到的，36000公里是近地同步衛(wèi)星的最低軌道高度。