DAY 1 Words &phrases
-myth
①an idea or story that many people believe, but which is not true 〔许多人相信的〕错误观念；荒诞说法
文中译为"谬误，误区"比较恰当
「SYN」fallacy
[+ of ]the myth of male superiority
男性优越的错误思想
myth that
It was important to dispel the myth that Aids was a gay disease.
一定要消除艾滋病是同性恋疾病的错误认识。
②an ancient story, especially one invented in order to explain natural or historical events 〔古代的〕神话
→ mythology ; urban myth
a book of Greek myths
一本关于希腊神话的图书
the giants of myth and fairytale
神话和童话里的巨人
[+ of ]the myth of Orpheus
关于俄尔甫斯的神话
-conceptualize
to form an idea 形成概念，使概念化
How do older people conceptualize their health?
上了年纪的人是怎样看待自己的健康的？
It's hard to conceptualize the finished building.
很难想像大楼竣工后会是什么样。
-plug
n.
①blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
「SYN」 stopper / stopple
②a wad of something chewable as tobacco
「SYN」 chew / chaw / cud
③blatant or sensational promotion
「SYN」 ballyhoo / hoopla / hype
v.
①fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
plug the hole
②persist in working hard
Students must plug away at this problem
③deliver a quick blow to
「例句」The plug on my iron needs changing. 我熨斗上的插头需要更换了。
an electric plug电源插头
「SYN 」socket especially BrE AmE 【尤英，非正式】 【美】
＊put/get in a plug (for sth)
During the show she managed to put in a plug for her new book.
在节目中她设法将自己的新书推销了一番。
＊plug the gap
to provide something that is needed, because there is not enough 填补空缺
With so few trained doctors, paramedics were brought in to plug the gap. 训练有素的医生很少，所以引进了医务辅助人员来填补空缺。
-regress
n.
①the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
②returning to a former state
v.
①go back to a statistical means
②go back to a previous state
③get worse or fall back to a previous condition
「例句」
The night regressed into utter silence and solitude. 黑夜重归孤寂。
If your child regresses to babyish behaviour, all you know for certain is that the child is under stress.
如果你的孩子退步到幼稚的行为，你可以肯定的是孩子正处在压力之下。
-doggedly
with obstinate determination
「SYN」tenaciously
Find your passion, and pursue it doggedly.
找到你所热爱的，顽强地追求它。
-visually
①in appearance
Chairs should be visually attractive as well as comfortable.
椅子既要美观也要舒适。
②visually impaired
unable to see normally – used especially when you want to be polite about this condition → blind
③in a way that involves the eyes
The process is easy to understand when it is demonstrated visually.
用直观演示，这个过程就容易理解了。
-sinful
①against religious rules, or doing something that is against religious rules
→ wicked
Dancing was believed to be sinful.
跳舞曾被认为是不道德的。
a wicked, sinful man
邪恶、不道德的人
②very wrong or bad
a sinful waste of taxpayers’ money
对纳税人钱财的可耻浪费
-proliferation
n.
①growth by the rapid multiplication of parts
②a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)
the proliferation of nuclear weapons
-perusal
「N-UNCOUNT 」Perusal of something such as a letter, article, or document is the action of reading it.
They undertook to send each of us a sample contract for perusal.
他们答应给我们每人寄送一份合同样本以供阅读。
-relegate
①to give someone or something a less important position than before formal 降低…的地位；贬低
＊relegate sb/sth to sth
Women tended to be relegated to typing and filing jobs.
妇女往往被安排去做打字、归档等较不重要的工作。
②if a sports team is relegated, it is moved into a lower division 将〔运动队〕降级
「OPP」promote
＊relegate sth/sb to sth
We were relegated to the Fourth Division last year.
去年我们被降为丁级队。
-nibble
V.
①to eat small amounts of food by taking very small bites 啃；一点一点地咬[吃]
He nibbled the biscuit cautiously.
他小心地啃着饼干。
[+ at ]
There’s a fish nibbling at my bait.
有条鱼正在咬我的鱼饵。
[+ on ]
He nibbled on a piece of raw carrot.
他啃着一根生胡萝卜。
N.
①[C] a small bite of something 一小口
[+ of ]
She took a nibble of her cookie.
她咬了一小口曲奇。
②nibbles
[plural 复数] small things to eat, like crisps and peanuts,especially at a party informal 〔尤指聚会上的〕小吃
③[singular 单数] a small amount of interest in something 对某事略微的兴趣
We’ve had the house on the market for a month and not even had a nibble yet.
我们把房子挂牌出售一个月了，至今仍无人问津。
-digested
「注」动词读作dɪˈdʒɛst 名词读作ˈdaɪdʒɛst
①When food digests or when you digest it, it passes through your body to your stomach. Your stomach removes the substances that your body needs and gets rid of the rest.
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.饭后几小时内不要做剧烈运动，以让食物消化。
She couldn't digest food properly. 她无法正常消化食物。
②If you digest information, you think about it carefully so that you understand it.
They learn well but seem to need time to digest information.
他们学得很好，但似乎需要时间来吃透这些知识。
③If you digest some unpleasant news, you think about it until you are able to accept it and know how to deal with it.
All this has upset me. I need time to digest it all.这一切让我心烦意乱。我需要时间来承受。
-trival
not serious, important, or valuable
a trivial sum一笔极小的金额
Her feelings for Simon seemed trivial by comparison .
相比之下，她对西蒙的感情就显得微不足道了。
「搭配」trivial problem/matter/complaint etc
We were punished for the most trivial offences.我们稍有过错就会受到惩罚。
「SYN」important
-boldface
a way of printing letters that makes them thicker and darker than normal technical
-Italicized
to print (textual matter) in italic type 用斜体字印刷
-redundancy
①a situation in which someone has to leave their job, because they are no longer needed
「SYN 」lay-off BrE 【英】
The closure of the export department resulted in over 100 redundancies.
出口部关闭导致一百多人被解雇。
Two thousand workers now face redundancy.
2,000 名工人现在面临失业。
＊voluntary/compulsory redundancy
We were offered a £3,000 cash bonus to take voluntary redundancy.
给我们发了3,000英镑的现金补贴，叫我们自动离职。
②when something is not used because something similar or the same already exists
In addition, each piece can be clustered so that you have redundancy at the layer level.
另外，每个部分都可以使用集群，这样就可以在层次级别上具有一些冗余。
-repetition
①doing or saying the same thing many times
Children used to learn by repetition.
过去小孩子是通过背诵来学习的。
[+ of ]The job involved the constant repetition of the same movements.
这份活儿需要不断重复同样的动作。
②something that happens again, especially something bad 再次发生的事〔尤指不好的事〕
[+ of ]a repetition of the same problem
同一问题的再次出现
-absorb
①liquid/gas
to take in liquid, gas, or another substance from the surface or space around something
Plants absorb nutrients from the soil.
植物从土壤中吸收养分。
absorb sth into sth
Water and salts are absorbed into our blood stream.
水分和盐被吸收进我们的血液中。
②information
to read or hear a large amount of new information and understand it
Her capacity to absorb information is amazing.
她吸收信息的能力令人称奇。
③interest 兴趣
to interest someone so much that they do not pay attention to other things
The movement and noise of the machines absorbed him completely.
机器的运转和声响把他完全吸引住了。
be absorbed in sth
Judith lay on the settee, absorbed in her book.
朱迪思躺在沙发椅上专心致志地看书。
-restate
to say something again in a different way, so that it is clearer or more strongly expressed
He is not changing the rules; he is simply restating the policy that was established last year.
他没有改变规定，只是把去年定下来的政策重新表述了一下。
补充
1.Book-of-the-Month Club
The Book of the Month Club (founded 1926) is a United States subscription-based e-commerce service that offers a selection of five new hardcover books each month to its members.
2.Pavlvovian-like rereading
巴甫洛夫式重读
However, this is not to imply that an unthinking Pavlovian-like rereading is necessary to understand and retain materials.
Pavlvovian 经典条件反射，是一种关联性学习，巴甫洛夫将这种产生条件行为的学习形态描述为“动物对特定制约刺激的反映”。
DAY 2 Logical lines
感悟与体会
在文章中找到了很多以前百思不得其解的问题答案，那些所谓的"误区"也正是我曾经头疼过的地方，阅读是我最薄弱的一处，而偏偏各种考试中，它占据的比例也最大，曾经的我就遵循着"不读完全文理解就不够全面"的大忌，以至于每次考试都答不完题，后来渐渐找到了答题技巧，学会带着问题去阅读，挑选重点
文章里有句话我很喜欢
Sir Francis Bacon once said that some books are to be nibbled and tasted, some are to be swallowed whole, and a few need to be thoroughly chewed and digested no matter how trivial the content.
培根曾说，有些书可供一尝,有些书可以囫囵吞枣，有不多的几部书则应当咀嚼消化。
我们常讲"因人而异"，书也是如此，不同种类得书，有不同的作用和参考价值，我们读不尽世上所有的书，但可以尽量多读书。
对于文章最后给出的提取主要思想方法也很实用，此类方法我们专业老师也讲过，例如抓关键词，中心句，注意主副标题等，接触阅读越多，越能感觉到方法的重要性，在这方面还有很多欠缺，需要继续积累努力。
