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UNIT 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(二)
1．I grabbed(v.攫取，抓住) my camera and carefully positioned(熟词生义：v.采取某种姿势
或位置以适应某种情况或环境)myself to take this wildlife encounter(n.偶遇)．
2．I was there to shoot(熟词生义：v.拍摄电影、照片等) a story about island restoration in the
Seychelles，far off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
3．Until roughly(adv.粗略地，大约) the middle of the past century，the small island nation
showed signs of real environmental killing—local vegetation cleared(独立主格结构) to make
way for(为……让路) coconut plantations，foreign rats and mice running uncontrolled(独立主
格结构)，native sea turtles and giant tortoises being exploited(独立主格结构)．
4．In the late afternoon or early evening，whenever(引导让步状语从句) they’d finished
eating，the tortoises would drop themselves down and fall asleep(入睡) with their heads
outstretched(with的复合结构：with＋宾语＋宾补)
5．Last week，in a public debate in San Francisco，a software program called Project
Debater(过去分词短语作定语) beat(v.打败) its human opponents，including Noa Ovadia，
Israel’s former national debating champion.
6．Brilliant though it is(though引导的让步状语从句的倒装结构)，Project Debater has some
weaknesses.
7．This can lead to(导致) the kinds of errors no human would make(此处为省略关系词的定
语从句修饰errors)．
8 ． As Kristian Hammond ， professor of electrical engineering and computer science at
Northwestern University，put it(as...put it正如……所说): “There’s never a stage at which the
system knows what it’s talking about.”
9．What(引导主语从句) Hammond is referring to(提及，指的是) is the question of meaning，
and meaning is central to what distinguishes the least intelligent of humans from(使……有别
于……的特征；区别……和……) the most intelligent of machines.
10．What matters(此处是动词，意为“重要，关键”) is not just the outside of a string of
symbols，but the inside too，not just how they are arranged(v.排列) but what they mean.
arrange for sb to do sth安排某人做某事
arrange to do sth安排做某事
arrangement n.安排，筹备
11．Meaning emerges through a process of social interaction，not of computation，interaction
that shapes(熟词生义：v.塑造；形成) the content of the symbols in our heads.12．This in turn(反过来) can be dangerous，both for dolphins and humans.
13．Rescue biologist Brittany Baldrica said，“The goal was just to be a barrier that was
novel(熟词生义：adj.新奇的，新颖的) to the animal...”
14．Horses，SpongeBob and the Monkey King from Chinese legend(n.传说)—you probably
wouldn’t expect to see this collection of animals，pop cultural icons and mythological creatures
flying(see的复合结构：see＋宾语＋doing)together in the sky，but this event happens every year
in Weifang，the World Kite Capital in Shandong Province.
15．More than 10,000 participants(n.参与者) from over 30 countries and regions around the
world compete(v.竞争) in the festival every year.
compete v.竞争；参加比赛，常用作不及物动词，后接宾语时需加介词。
compete in参加比赛或竞赛,compete with/against 与……竞争/比赛
compete for为了……而竞争
