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【英语语言学习】说与听

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 Antony Funnell: We're a noisy lot, we human beings. Visually as well as in an auditory sense. When we're not spruiking and selling, we're posting and commenting, elbowing for attention and easily distracted by the tangle1 around us.

We like to tell others what we're thinking, what we're doing and what we're just about to do. Above all else we love to talk about ourselves, and we're encouraged to do so.
But whether we're as good at listening as we are at talking, at being responsive, well, that's the subject for today's Future Tense. Hello, Antony Funnell here.
The English writer GK Chesterton once observed that there was a very big difference between hearing and listening. Today we'll explore that difference, and we'll look at two online initiatives where the value of listening, of actually taking notice of people and what they say, has become a priority.
Anthony DiMeo: There's so much negativity on the web, especially with websites like Reddit and Facebook. There's a lot of people who are often saying personal things or saying stuff that they might be looking for support for, and then they don't get it, instead a lot they get the complete opposite. So we thought we would take some initiative and build up a website to go and actively2 do the complete opposite, to seek out people who were feeling a little bit down and connect them with somebody via our website to try and make them feel a little bit better, counteract3 some of the negativity on the web.
Antony Funnell: Anthony DiMeo in Maryland in the United States, and his website is called CheerUpper. We'll hear more from him later.
Philip Tirpak: My name is Philip Tirpak. I am the president of the International Listening Association, and I am also an instructor4 of communication studies at Northern Virginia Community College.
Antony Funnell: And Philip is our first guest today with a message that our issues with listening go way, way back. His organisation5 alone has been operating since the early 1980s, well before we all became buried in our smart phones.
The devices we now use to connect are great, says Philip, but they can make the act of listening much more difficult.
Philip Tirpak: Part of the beauty of listening is the fact that face-to-face is always the best, and when we're using these social media platforms we're not face-to-face and we are allowed to hide behind the screen, so to speak. We take a look at the platforms that we have—Twitter and Facebook and other social media—they are more attuned6 to people's opinions rather than really formulating7 creative thought or just sitting back and listening, because it's instantaneous and there's no time to really dwell on it.
We've learned that it's rapid response all the time, every question needs to be answered immediately. We react rather than respond. When we react, sometimes it's just an instantaneous thing. When we respond, we take time and we try to analyse things as well. Of course there are some areas that we have to be reactive. But it's almost as if every bit of silence…or maybe it's we can't have silence, we have to fill in every single space rather than stop and be silent and think about it. It goes back to the heart of what our education is. We learn how to read, we teach our kids how to read, we teach our kids how to write, we may even teach the principles of effective speaking, but we believe that listening is just innate8, listening just happens, listening is the same thing as hearing. And unfortunately it's not so.
Part of the fault I think as well is the fact that when we look at trying to assess what listening is, many of the assessments9 actually deal with message retention10, comprehension, learning and listening styles, rather than the real impact that listening has on relationships.
Antony Funnell: So we're focusing too much on the mechanics of it?
Philip Tirpak: I believe so. I look at listening more as a whole sensory11 experience and teach it more in the aspect of interpersonal skills and relationship skills. It's a matter of context, and sometimes we can get caught up in the research itself rather than what listening does to our lives and how it improves our relationships.
Antony Funnell: Philip Tirpak from the International Listening Association.
So, modern communication tools can make it harder to listen to others, but they don't necessarily act as a block to listening. It's all a matter of emphasis, according to Dr Tanja Dreher, an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Wollongong.
Tanja Dreher: I think the claim that that we value speaking more than listening, I would definitely support that. But one important factor to note is that if we think about just what we do, it's probably not true that most of us spend more time broadcasting or speaking than we do listening. So the value question is really important there. When we think about particularly the social media environment, the online environment, it's obviously a sort of proliferation of voices, stories, speaking, exclamations12. Lots and lots of expression can seem incredibly overwhelming.
But if we take a step back and think about what we actually do, most of us still spend most of our online time listening rather than speaking. We might post a couple of Facebook updates, we might send a couple of tweets, but there's also an awful lot of paying attention, listening in the background that's going on.
So there's a wonderful academic Kate Crawford who has made the argument that listening actually provides a better concept for thinking about our online participation13, even though normally we focus on speaking. And she says part of the problem is that we have really undervalued the importance of the listening that we do.
So she looks particularly at the idea of lurking14, which is one way that we…you know, if we do ever pay attention to listening in social media it's often described as lurking, which has very negative connotations, the idea that somehow we are being secretive, we're not speaking up when we should, we are kind of lurking in the shadows. And she says no, no, let's rethink what's happening there when we are listening, when we are paying attention but we are not necessarily speaking up. And she says actually that's crucial for speaking to occur. You know, no one wants to speak into a vacuum. So the kind of lurking, listening work and activity that we do online I think is completely undervalued, but it's actually incredibly significant. It is part of creating that sort of social space in which the speaking happens.
Antony Funnell: Why do we overvalue the speaking side of it? Is it something that we've done for a long time?
Tanja Dreher: Most definitely. I would argue that…and many others do, that certainly in kind of Western cultures, that general trend of undervaluing listening can be traced back a very long way. An American political theorist Susan Bickford actually traces this back all the way through Western philosophy, she goes all the way back to Aristotle and looks at the way in which when we think about social life, particularly when we think about politics or if we think about democracy, the key concept really has been speaking or it has been voice, and it has been assumed that voice is the key way in which we are active, in which we contribute, in which we participate, how we exercise our citizenship15. She puts out a challenge to really bring listening much more to the forefront of our thinking.
Antony Funnell: And you talk about listening being a political and a social concept as much as a personal thing.
Tanja Dreher: Absolutely. I think if we do think about listening, we tend to think about it in terms of our interpersonal relationships or maybe in terms of therapeutic16 interactions, so maybe counselling or psychotherapy. And those things of course are incredibly important and there's lots to be learned and lots to be worked with in terms of thinking in that way.
But listening also operates at a much more complex level, as a social and political process. So one example we might think of here is the national apology to the stolen generations from a few years back. A really crucial landmark17 moment in Australian history, in Indigenous18 and non-Indigenous relationships in this country.
Antony Funnell: This was the Australian government officially apologising to Indigenous Australians for the wrongs of the past.
Tanja Dreher: Exactly, and particularly an apology to the stolen generations and acknowledging that experience. So it was delivered by Kevin Rudd within weeks of coming to power. And if we reflect back on that event, for those of us who participated, most of us would have participated by listening. That would have been our key contribution and participation in that landmark moment. So yes, the television might have been going, there is a visual element, but the crucial thing, particularly for non-Indigenous Australians participating in that day, was to take the time, to pay attention, to maybe shift our understanding a little bit, to reflect, to make that space, to silence other issues and concerns for a time and really pay very close attention, and also to be challenged to think about, well, what comes next, what comes after the apology or what comes after our particular listening moment here?
Antony Funnell: So, tied very much to that idea of appropriate listening or effective listening is the idea of being reflective.
Tanja Dreher: Absolutely crucial. And it's interesting that all the different sorts of definitions that you can find of listening in a whole range of different contexts. This idea of a space for reflection and, I would argue, also reflexivity, is really crucial. And one of the implications of that is that we have to push some other interests or noise aside for that to take place. So it's interesting when we first start thinking about listening, it sounds like it's going to be pretty warm and fuzzy, it sounds like it's going to be a pretty feelgood sort of practice.
But listening is also really important because it opens up the possibility of change, it opens up the possibility that we might be confronted, that we might be unsettled. So it also involves an element of risk. And I think that's also one of the reasons why it's very socially and politically interesting, because the risk is about opening up the possibility that we might see things differently, that we might be challenged to change.
Antony Funnell: And that risk is particularly difficult for politicians to take on, isn't it. I know that politicians are very fond these days of telling us that they are actually listening to us, they are listening to the electorate19 and to the messages that are being sent to them, and yet we constantly hear this refrain from the public that you aren't listening to us.
Tanja Dreher: I think you've really identified a key challenge for our thinking about the contemporary moment and where we might be headed, which is about really unpacking20 different modes of listening and what are the politically effective modes of listening that we are most interested in. So it's very much the case that in this era of proliferating21 voices, you know, every institution and organisation is getting much more feedback than they ever used to, so those in powerful and privileged positions definitely want to be seen as listeners.
One of my favourite stories actually was going into a bank branch a couple of years ago where the signs had been changed, the signs that used to read 'tellers22' had been changed to 'listeners', and I thought that was a wonderful encapsulation of the way in which very, very big organisations, powerful institutions want to be seen as listening.
Antony Funnell: But it's one thing to be seen to be listening, isn't it, it's another thing to actually take on the responsibility of actually listening.
Tanja Dreher: Absolutely, and I think that's the key challenge; trust in politicians and a belief that they are listening is kind of at an all-time low. There's a lot of disengagement, there's a lot of cynicism. So there's really a point at which we need to cut through claims of listening and ask these questions about not simply are you paying a little bit of attention, but is there an openness here? Is there a possibility being opened that things might change, that the proliferation of voices might actually have an impact?
Antony Funnell: There has to be the possibility that things can change from that act of listening.
Tanja Dreher: Precisely23. And we mustn't confuse listening with persuasion24. So we can't say, oh, if you listen you then have to completely agree, or you have to do exactly what you've just been told. That would be a very different model, it's a sort of persuasion model. And listening is more interesting but it's also harder to pin down because it's much more about possibility and potentiality. So to listen is to open up that possibility of changing. But you can give someone a very good hearing, you can be fair and just in your listening without agreeing with every single point or without necessarily taking on the precise details of every single claim.
But I think the underlying25 challenge that I would identify is to think about our listening responsibilities as much as we are increasingly thinking about speaking responsibilities, including in online spaces. So we are increasingly aware and increasingly grappling with the challenges of the way in which new social media and other online spaces have kind of opened up platforms and opportunities for ways of speaking, interactions that are deeply problematic, at times abusive, offensive, all of that. And we've begun a debate about what the sort of speaking responsibilities online might be, a really important debate, but I would like to see…you know, if we are going to take listening as seriously as we take speaking and voice, I would like that debate to be at least as much about what our listening responsibilities might be.
Antony Funnell: Tanja Dreher from the University of Wollongong.
Let's recap now. Philip Tirpak talked about responding rather than reacting, and, as we've just heard, Tanja Dreher also mentioned the need to be reflective and responsive. And that perfectly26 describes what Anthony DiMEO has been doing with his website CheerUpper which is all about listening to others online and providing support.
Anthony DiMeo: For us specifically, the information that we are interested in getting are tweets that have certain keywords such as 'sad', 'depressed27', 'awful', 'stressed'. And so what we do is we query28 the Twitter database using this API and pull out as many tweets as we can that have these keywords. And then from that we use a second API from a company called MetaMind that's a sentiment analysis API, and we run all our tweets through that. And with that, it's a tool kit29 that will give us back a number, so it will say 'this tweet is 75% positive' or '75% negative'. It can actually quantify a qualitative30 emotion. And with that were able to pull out all the tweets are actually sad or depressed, and those tweets are the ones that we put into our database and make available for others to use.
Antony Funnell: So you don't actually respond to these tweets or posts yourself, you just identify them and then you allow others to respond to these, you give other people the opportunity to jump in and respond.
Anthony DiMeo: That's exactly correct. We thought about the idea of either trying to do some type of automated31 response or maybe we have 100 written responses and one will be randomly32 selected, or even us just sitting behind a computer for an hour or so a day. But we thought in the end it would be much more powerful, much more heartfelt if it was another human, if it wasn't a computer and it was somebody who genuinely read your tweet and had an interest in making you feel better. We thought that that would just be a much more human interaction.
Antony Funnell: Okay, could I get you then to give us a taste of some of the sorts of sad tweets that you've picked up, and some of the responses that people have made to those tweets?
Anthony DiMeo: So it's funny you mention that, our website has two tabs, one that is labelled 'Cheer somebody up' and one that's labelled 'Viewer responses', so users can also do this exact same thing and go in and see a couple of tweets and replies that have been put up recently. So just reading off of that, the most recent one we did, a fellow tweeted, he said, 'This is awful, I am heartbroken.' And then only a couple of minutes later somebody via our site tweeted directly right back and said, 'That's really tough, I'm sorry for your loss, whether it's big or small. I'm sending warm thoughts and hugs.' And so that's just something really nice, it probably put a smile on his face.
Antony Funnell: Have you got any direct feedback as to whether the supporting responses help or what people think about the site?
Anthony DiMeo: Absolutely. I'd say probably just on average maybe one in every 50 to 100 tweets we'll get a response saying 'thank you so much, you made me feel so much better', or 'this really made my day'. So we do receive a lot of positive feedback.
Antony Funnell: Is there a possibility though that some of the encouragement might actually irritate people, they might find it odd that a stranger might want to jump in and comment on what they've said?
Anthony DiMeo: In over 3,000 tweets we've only had one instance in which we got a reply where somebody was a little bit wary33 of a stranger tweeting at them and kind of getting into their business. But then we actually tweeted back at him and did a few direct messages and explained what our idea was and what was really going on. And once he kind of understood what we were trying to do, he thought that it made a lot more sense and was much more open to the idea. So I think maybe at first when someone gets a notification on their phone or gets an email saying their tweet has been replied to, they might be slightly weirded out or curious or something like that, but I think once they read into it a little bit more they realise what's going on and they are much more open to it.
Antony Funnell: And what do you personally get out of this website?
Anthony DiMeo: What me and the other founders34 get out of running this website, maintaining it and watching all the tweets that come through, is just happiness really. We don't get any type of monetary35 reward, it's just nice to see other people trying to do a good thing and knowing that we help to facilitate it.
In a world with so much broadcast and so many different streams of information coming into our phones, emails, computers at the same time, a lot of it just turns into noise and we don't actually read or process a lot of what comes through. I think CheerUpper is nice because somebody really does sit down and take the time to process it, to really look at what somebody else is saying, even if the person who said it might just expect it to be part of this stream of noise.
Antony Funnell: Anthony DiMeo and CheerUpper, exactly the sort of responsiveness that's essential to good listening, but one that's often overlooked.
Our next online initiative where the value of listening, of actually taking notice of people and what they say, has become a priority, involves a man named Matt Kulesza.
What pertinent36 details can I tell you about Matt? Well, Matt lives in Melbourne, he spends an awful lot of time in cafes these days, and he has a blog called 1000+ coffees on which he details his meetings with friends, even takes photos. You see, late last year Matt set himself the unusual task of not just having friends online, but getting to know them personally.
Matt Kulesza: I had some amazing experiences while travelling, and essentially37 was inspired by connecting with people from different walks of life. And when I got home I looked at my 1,000-plus Facebook friends and initially38 I wanted to start culling40 people but then I thought I'm sure there's like a cache of really interesting, amazing people that I could either reconnect with or people that I don't really know that well, and instead of cull39 down my list I decided41 that I would try and seek out a one-on-one coffee with each person.
Everyone has a really amazing story to tell and something that they can teach you if you actually give them a few moments to talk to you and you actually really do listen to what they are saying and ask questions and be generally inquisitive42 about their lives. And so far that theory hasn't proven me wrong. Everyone has had something amazing to teach me. Pretty much 99% of the time I walk away from each coffee feeling energised, it has made me feel I guess more open to communicate with people that I don't know, and yes, it's just had a hugely positive impact on my life.
Antony Funnell: Interesting you say it's about listening as much as connecting with people, as much as communicating with people, because our modern world is one in which we tend to broadcast a lot, don't we.
Matt Kulesza: Absolutely, yes. I think that's also something that I found interesting about Facebook is that a lot of the time I will go into these coffees with someone from Facebook, and I have very much this picture in my mind of what sort of person they are going to be based on their output on Facebook. And again, most of the time I find that the way that we promote ourselves online is often very different to the reality of actually sitting down and speaking to someone face-to-face and asking them questions about their life and what they are doing. For me I've just learned that Facebook is just one very small section of what's going on with people.
Antony Funnell: What has been the reaction from your Facebook friends when you've contacted them and you've suggested a real meeting?
Matt Kulesza: So far everyone has been really into it. I think Facebook and social media has reached a point where people are questioning what the purpose of it is. I've had Facebook for I think eight years now, so that's a lot of people that I've built up over the years through different jobs and through university and through ex-girlfriends, groups of friends, and yes, I think it has just reached a point where people are like what are all these people doing here and why do I have these connections? So people so far have been really supportive about just taking that online relationship into the real world.
Antony Funnell: Has anyone the said no yet?
Matt Kulesza: No. But if people don't want to, that's totally fine. There's a bit of an audience there now so I totally understand if people have any privacy concerns. The other thing though that I sort of figure is if you can't get a coffee with someone, what's really the point in being friends with them on Facebook if you can't tolerate that 45-minute coffee.
Antony Funnell: You are at 73, you've had coffee with 73 of your Facebook friends. Do you think you'll make the full 1,000 distance, or doesn't it really matter in a sense?
Matt Kulesza: Yes, it doesn't really matter in a sense. I think I feel that the project has had a hugely positive impact on my life. I hope that it has made people think about the way that they use social media. I don't really like to use the word 'inspired' but I hope it has inspired maybe people to just take a punt and get in touch with someone that they might want to get little bit more and get to know people in their online networks in the real world.
But the catch-22 of this project is that it is impossible to actually maintain this amount of friendships. That is the kind of cruel twist to it, is that I'll have this coffee with someone, I'll really click with them, we'll get along really well, and then it's like, all right, well, can we actually maintain this friendship, because in the next couple of days I'm going to have another coffee with someone else. And that's the hardest thing for me, to balance actually maintaining these new reconnected friendships. But if anything I think it's just important to reconnect with people outside of your usual circle of existence and to share ideas with people that I usually wouldn't speak to has been my biggest take-home message from the whole project.
Philip Tirpak: An effective listener sits down and faces the other person and expresses things like…we call them communication, the minimal43 encouragers, head-nodding, things such as 'mm-mm', 'that's right', 'go on', to encourage another person to talk, to converse44, to dialogue, and doesn't interrupted.
I have one exercise that I might share with you that can help others to try and deal with the distractions46. And this is something I do every semester with my students, I send them outside and I tell them, okay, for 15 minutes, just for 15 minutes, early in the morning, late in the evening, whenever it suits you, just go outside, leave the cell phone in the house, just sit there, you might close your eyes and just listen to the sounds around you. At first you might hear those distracting busy sounds of traffic, but what other sounds do you hear? What's the world saying to you?
And I am always amazed at some of the things that my students say. They started out reporting about the traffic sounds and the machinery47 sounds, and then they go on…I remember one this semester where one of my students said he could actually hear the rustling48 of leaves but what he also thought was insects chewing on the leaves. And so he really allowed his mind to hear the other sounds. So if we practice sometimes just going out, being quiet, being still and listening to the world around us, it could help us with distraction45.
So if I were to give a down and dirty, so to speak, over what an effective listener is, it would be somebody that takes a step back, that allows the other to speak, that gives their full attention, that hears the message with their ears, with their heart, with their mind, with their emotional intelligence, that suspends judgement and makes a connection with the other individual.
Antony Funnell: And our last speaker there was Philip Tirpak from the International Listening Association. We also heard today from Matt Kulesza, Anthony DiMeo and Tanja Dreher from the University of Wollongong.
Thanks to the production team Karin Zsivanovits and Steve Fieldhouse. I'm Antony Funnell, until next time, cheers!

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1 tangle yIQzn     
n.纠缠;缠结;混乱;v.(使)缠绕;变乱
参考例句:
  • I shouldn't tangle with Peter.He is bigger than me.我不应该与彼特吵架。他的块头比我大。
  • If I were you, I wouldn't tangle with them.我要是你,我就不跟他们争吵。
2 actively lzezni     
adv.积极地,勤奋地
参考例句:
  • During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
  • We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
3 counteract vzlxb     
vt.对…起反作用,对抗,抵消
参考例句:
  • The doctor gave him some medicine to counteract the effect of the poison.医生给他些药解毒。
  • Our work calls for mutual support.We shouldn't counteract each other's efforts.工作要互相支持,不要互相拆台。
4 instructor D6GxY     
n.指导者,教员,教练
参考例句:
  • The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
  • The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。
5 organisation organisation     
n.组织,安排,团体,有机休
参考例句:
  • The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
  • His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。
6 attuned df5baec049ff6681d7b8a37af0aa8e12     
v.使协调( attune的过去式和过去分词 );调音
参考例句:
  • She wasn't yet attuned to her baby's needs. 她还没有熟悉她宝宝的需要。
  • Women attuned to sensitive men found Vincent Lord attractive. 偏爱敏感男子的女人,觉得文森特·洛德具有魅力。 来自辞典例句
7 formulating 40080ab94db46e5c26ccf0e5aa91868a     
v.构想出( formulate的现在分词 );规划;确切地阐述;用公式表示
参考例句:
  • At present, the Chinese government is formulating nationwide regulations on the control of such chemicals. 目前,中国政府正在制定全国性的易制毒化学品管理条例。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • Because of this, the U.S. has taken further steps in formulating the \"Magellan\" programme. 为此,美国又进一步制定了“麦哲伦”计划。 来自百科语句
8 innate xbxzC     
adj.天生的,固有的,天赋的
参考例句:
  • You obviously have an innate talent for music.你显然有天生的音乐才能。
  • Correct ideas are not innate in the mind.人的正确思想不是自己头脑中固有的。
9 assessments 7d0657785d6e5832f8576c61c78262ef     
n.评估( assessment的名词复数 );评价;(应偿付金额的)估定;(为征税对财产所作的)估价
参考例句:
  • He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明,约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评;而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
10 retention HBazK     
n.保留,保持,保持力,记忆力
参考例句:
  • They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
  • His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising.人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。
11 sensory Azlwe     
adj.知觉的,感觉的,知觉器官的
参考例句:
  • Human powers of sensory discrimination are limited.人类感官分辨能力有限。
  • The sensory system may undergo long-term adaptation in alien environments.感觉系统对陌生的环境可能经过长时期才能适应。
12 exclamations aea591b1607dd0b11f1dd659bad7d827     
n.呼喊( exclamation的名词复数 );感叹;感叹语;感叹词
参考例句:
  • The visitors broke into exclamations of wonder when they saw the magnificent Great Wall. 看到雄伟的长城,游客们惊叹不已。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • After the will has been read out, angry exclamations aroused. 遗嘱宣读完之后,激起一片愤怒的喊声。 来自辞典例句
13 participation KS9zu     
n.参与,参加,分享
参考例句:
  • Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
  • The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。
14 lurking 332fb85b4d0f64d0e0d1ef0d34ebcbe7     
潜在
参考例句:
  • Why are you lurking around outside my house? 你在我房子外面鬼鬼祟祟的,想干什么?
  • There is a suspicious man lurking in the shadows. 有一可疑的人躲在阴暗中。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
15 citizenship AV3yA     
n.市民权,公民权,国民的义务(身份)
参考例句:
  • He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生,但没有瑞典公民身分。
  • Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后,她选择了澳大利亚国籍。
16 therapeutic sI8zL     
adj.治疗的,起治疗作用的;对身心健康有益的
参考例句:
  • Therapeutic measures were selected to fit the patient.选择治疗措施以适应病人的需要。
  • When I was sad,music had a therapeutic effect.我悲伤的时候,音乐有治疗效力。
17 landmark j2DxG     
n.陆标,划时代的事,地界标
参考例句:
  • The Russian Revolution represents a landmark in world history.俄国革命是世界历史上的一个里程碑。
  • The tower was once a landmark for ships.这座塔曾是船只的陆标。
18 indigenous YbBzt     
adj.土产的,土生土长的,本地的
参考例句:
  • Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
  • Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。
19 electorate HjMzk     
n.全体选民;选区
参考例句:
  • The government was responsible to the electorate.政府对全体选民负责。
  • He has the backing of almost a quarter of the electorate.他得到了几乎1/4选民的支持。
20 unpacking 4cd1f3e1b7db9c6a932889b5839cdd25     
n.取出货物,拆包[箱]v.从(包裹等)中取出(所装的东西),打开行李取出( unpack的现在分词 );拆包;解除…的负担;吐露(心事等)
参考例句:
  • Joe sat on the bed while Martin was unpacking. 马丁打开箱子取东西的时候,乔坐在床上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They are unpacking a trunk. 他们正在打开衣箱。 来自《简明英汉词典》
21 proliferating 45e10aecc1d3b089f65dafcc7343579e     
激增( proliferate的现在分词 ); (迅速)繁殖; 增生; 扩散
参考例句:
  • Computerized data bases are proliferating fast. 计算机化的数据库正在激增。
  • Crown galls are cancerous growths composed of disorganized and proliferating plant cells. 冠瘿是无组织的正在不断增殖的植物细胞所组成的癌状物。
22 tellers dfec30f0d22577b72d0a03d9d5b66f1d     
n.(银行)出纳员( teller的名词复数 );(投票时的)计票员;讲故事等的人;讲述者
参考例句:
  • The tellers were calculating the votes. 计票员正在统计票数。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The use of automatic tellers is particularly used in large cities. 在大城市里,还特别投入了自动出纳机。 来自辞典例句
23 precisely zlWzUb     
adv.恰好,正好,精确地,细致地
参考例句:
  • It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
  • The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
24 persuasion wMQxR     
n.劝说;说服;持有某种信仰的宗派
参考例句:
  • He decided to leave only after much persuasion.经过多方劝说,他才决定离开。
  • After a lot of persuasion,she agreed to go.经过多次劝说后,她同意去了。
25 underlying 5fyz8c     
adj.在下面的,含蓄的,潜在的
参考例句:
  • The underlying theme of the novel is very serious.小说隐含的主题是十分严肃的。
  • This word has its underlying meaning.这个单词有它潜在的含义。
26 perfectly 8Mzxb     
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
27 depressed xu8zp9     
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
参考例句:
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
28 query iS4xJ     
n.疑问,问号,质问;vt.询问,表示怀疑
参考例句:
  • I query very much whether it is wise to act so hastily.我真怀疑如此操之过急地行动是否明智。
  • They raised a query on his sincerity.他们对他是否真诚提出质疑。
29 kit D2Rxp     
n.用具包,成套工具;随身携带物
参考例句:
  • The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
  • The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。
30 qualitative JC4yi     
adj.性质上的,质的,定性的
参考例句:
  • There are qualitative differences in the way children and adults think.孩子和成年人的思维方式有质的不同。
  • Arms races have a quantitative and a qualitative aspects.军备竞赛具有数量和质量两个方面。
31 automated fybzf9     
a.自动化的
参考例句:
  • The entire manufacturing process has been automated. 整个生产过程已自动化。
  • Automated Highway System (AHS) is recently regarded as one subsystem of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). 近年来自动公路系统(Automated Highway System,AHS),作为智能运输系统的子系统之一越来越受到重视。
32 randomly cktzBM     
adv.随便地,未加计划地
参考例句:
  • Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内,分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
33 wary JMEzk     
adj.谨慎的,机警的,小心的
参考例句:
  • He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
  • Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头,突然警惕起来。
34 founders 863257b2606659efe292a0bf3114782c     
n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
  • The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句
35 monetary pEkxb     
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
参考例句:
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
36 pertinent 53ozF     
adj.恰当的;贴切的;中肯的;有关的;相干的
参考例句:
  • The expert made some pertinent comments on the scheme.那专家对规划提出了一些中肯的意见。
  • These should guide him to pertinent questions for further study.这些将有助于他进一步研究有关问题。
37 essentially nntxw     
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
参考例句:
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
38 initially 273xZ     
adv.最初,开始
参考例句:
  • The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
  • Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
39 cull knlzn     
v.拣选;剔除;n.拣出的东西;剔除
参考例句:
  • It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。
  • Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。
40 culling 3de85f6723726749ca816af963f0d3b5     
n.选择,大批物品中剔出劣质货v.挑选,剔除( cull的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • The mathematicians turned to culling periodic solutions. 数学家们转而去挑选周期解。 来自辞典例句
  • It took us a week to find you, a week of culling out prejudice and hatred. 我们花了一个星期的时间找到你们,把偏见和憎恨剔除出去。 来自演讲部分
41 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
42 inquisitive s64xi     
adj.求知欲强的,好奇的,好寻根究底的
参考例句:
  • Children are usually inquisitive.小孩通常很好问。
  • A pat answer is not going to satisfy an inquisitive audience.陈腔烂调的答案不能满足好奇的听众。
43 minimal ODjx6     
adj.尽可能少的,最小的
参考例句:
  • They referred to this kind of art as minimal art.他们把这种艺术叫微型艺术。
  • I stayed with friends, so my expenses were minimal.我住在朋友家,所以我的花费很小。
44 converse 7ZwyI     
vi.谈话,谈天,闲聊;adv.相反的,相反
参考例句:
  • He can converse in three languages.他可以用3种语言谈话。
  • I wanted to appear friendly and approachable but I think I gave the converse impression.我想显得友好、平易近人些,却发觉给人的印象恰恰相反。
45 distraction muOz3l     
n.精神涣散,精神不集中,消遣,娱乐
参考例句:
  • Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注,不能有丝毫分神。
  • Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。
46 distractions ff1d4018fe7ed703bc7b2e2e97ba2216     
n.使人分心的事[人]( distraction的名词复数 );娱乐,消遣;心烦意乱;精神错乱
参考例句:
  • I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions. 我发觉在家里工作很难,因为使人分心的事太多。
  • There are too many distractions here to work properly. 这里叫人分心的事太多,使人无法好好工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
47 machinery CAdxb     
n.(总称)机械,机器;机构
参考例句:
  • Has the machinery been put up ready for the broadcast?广播器材安装完毕了吗?
  • Machinery ought to be well maintained all the time.机器应该随时注意维护。
48 rustling c6f5c8086fbaf68296f60e8adb292798     
n. 瑟瑟声,沙沙声 adj. 发沙沙声的
参考例句:
  • the sound of the trees rustling in the breeze 树木在微风中发出的沙沙声
  • the soft rustling of leaves 树叶柔和的沙沙声
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