背1遍就想上考场大学英语考研单词 672
[00:01]bland
[00:02]While Phelps may have been the greatest swimming
[00:04]machine in history, he remained a bland, though
[00:07]courteous, young man whose interview range didn't
[00:11]extend much beyond his eating and sleeping habits or, if
[00:15]he stretched, videogames.
[00:20]shove
[00:22]On TV, I saw huge boxes of bottled water on pallets
[00:26]behind the reporters at the airport and people on the other
[00:29]side of the fence desperate for the water. A reporter said the
[00:34]trucks couldn't take the supplies down to the city because
[00:37]people would push and shove to get them.
[00:41]groove
[00:44]When Bill Cowher was contemplating the possibility
[00:47]of a Super Bowl, the Pittsburgh Steelers at the start of the
[00:51]season noted that by the final six games of the regular
[00:55]season, coaches wanted to see their teams in a groove and
[00:59]playing near their peak.
[01:01]jolly
[01:03]The prospect of being home for the holidays isn't as
[01:06]jolly when it means being home alone.
[01:11]belly
[01:12]Participants who were overweight and had a bulging
[01:15]gut were 2.3 times as likely to develop dementia as people
[01:20]with normal weight and belly size.
[01:23]wholly
[01:25]Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of
[01:28]evolution: they "look at an organic being as a savage
[01:32]looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his
[01:36]comprehension."
[01:39]investigate
[01:41]Underpinning it all is the greatest taboo: the creation of
[01:44]any institution such as independent prosecutors, press, or
[01:49]political parties that could challenge or investigate these
[01:52]private empires.
