Vocabulary

innovation 革新

discernibly 明顯地

nigh-on 幾乎;差不多

embryonic 萌芽的;胚胎的

overlap 交叉重疊

reverberate 回響

subtle 微妙的;細微的

signpost 標志

obscurity 模糊不清

paralysis 癱瘓

frugality 節儉

epiphany 頓悟

Words in IELTS Reading

1.Authority doesn’t have to inhibit innovation but it often does. (劍10T1P3)

參考譯文：當局并不需要遏止創新，但實際上當局經常這樣干。

2.Innovation is key to business survival, and companies put substantial resources into inspiring employees to develop new ideas.(劍10T1P3)

參考譯文：創新是企業生存的關鍵，企業把大量的資源用于啟發員工形成新點子。

3.There are, nevertheless, people working in luxurious, state-of-the-art centres designed to stimulate innovation who find that their environment doesn’t make them feel at all creative. (劍10T1P3)

參考譯文：那些在奢侈的、一流的機構中心需要刺激創新的人，卻發現他們的環境讓他們難以創新。

4.The flow,thought to be in the form of convection currents, is powerful enough to fracture the 'eggshell' of the crust into plates, and keep them bumping and grinding against each other, or even overlapping, at the rate of a few centimetres a year.(劍4T3P2)

參考譯文：氣流的形式雖然是平流，但是依然足以使“雞蛋殼”似的外殼斷裂為板塊，并相互碰撞碾磨，甚至以一年幾厘米的速率重疊起來。

5.And in the mid-17th century it was common practice for mathematicians to keep their discoveries and proofs secret, by writing them in cipher, in obscure languages,or in rivate messages deposited in a sealed box with the Royal Society.(劍5T2P3)

參考譯文：17世紀中期的時候，數學家將自己的發現和例證用密碼、晦澀的語言來描述，或寫成個人的便條，封存在英國皇家學會的小盒子里以保守秘密，這在當時是司空見慣的事情。

6.However, the major problems of the travel and tourism industry that have hidden, or obscured, its economic impact are the diversity and fragmentation of the industry itself.(劍10T3P1)

參考譯文：然而，旅行以及旅游產業隱藏在經濟效益后的主要問題，是這個產業本身的多樣性和脆弱性。

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