2016年托福考试重点词汇

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husbandchair老公椅

A man chair, also known as husband chair, is the chair that men sit in while their partner is shopping for long periods of time. They can be found in almost any clothing or shoe store, some even provide waiting men with newspapers or hi-tech products diaplay.

“男士椅”，有时也称为“老公椅”，指女伴长时间购物时男士歇脚的椅子，几乎所有卖衣服和鞋子的商店都有这样的椅子，有些地方还会为等候的男士提供报纸或高科技产品展示。

For example:

Honey, I'll go over here and sit in a man chair. You can come and meet me here when you're done.

亲爱的，我在这边的男士椅坐会儿，你买完东西来这里找我吧。

　　MONALISAhypothesis

“蒙娜丽莎综合症”---MONA LISA hypothesis是取英语Most Obesities kNown Are Low In Sympathetic Activity(意即“大多数的肥胖是由交感神经不够活跃而造成的”)的首字母而拼成的名字。换言之，瘦不下去是因为消耗人体热量的交感神经活动低下。

Obesity is considered a world epidemic, but no efficient therapy is available so far. Different mechanisms were proposed to explain obesity condition. One of those is the MONA LISA hypothesis that states that Most Obesities kNown Are Low In Sympathetic Activity.

肥胖症是一种全球性的“流行病”，但目前来看还没有有效的.治愈方法。人们对肥胖的成因提出了多种原理机制，其中之一就是“蒙娜丽莎综合症”。

MONA LISA (Most Obesities kNown Are Low In Sympathetic Activity) hypothesis postulates that lower sympathetic activity is an initiating event leading to decreased energy expenditure and obesity.

按照“蒙娜丽莎综合症”的解释，交感神经活动低下会导致能量消耗的减少，并引发肥胖。

　icepancakes冰雪薄饼

Unusual 'ice pancakes' normally only found in the Arctic and Antarctic have been spotted in Britain, as temperatures plunged to -11C with almost the whole country in the grip of icy weather.

英国大部分地区遭遇极寒天气，最低气温降至零下11度，出现了只在北极和南极才有的“冰雪薄饼”。

The ice had frozen in a flat, round shape, around the size of a dinner plate, with the unusual patterns often caused by swirling foam floating on a river starting to freeze, usually overnight.

冰块被冻成了平底的、圆形的形状，尺寸跟餐盘一般大。这种特殊的形状是由漂浮在河流上的旋转泡沫冻结而成的，通常在一夜间就出现了。

Commuters were hit with chaos on the roads - including a 14-car pile-up - due to slippery conditions in the aftermath of the snowfall.

极寒天气下，上下班路上也很难通行。暴雪过后，路面湿滑难行，还导致了一起14车连环相撞事故。