重点讲解:
1. a battery of 一系列(测试、检查等);
We give a battery of tests to each patient.
我们给每个病人都做了一系列的检查 。
2. an array of 一大批;一大群;
I was confronted with an array of knobs, levers, and switches.
我面对的是一大堆旋钮、控制杆和开关 。
3. take over 取代;代替;占上风;
Cars gradually took over from horses.
汽车逐渐替代了马匹 。
4. tease out 套取,套出,巧妙获得(信息或答案);
To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.
为了找到睡眠、饥饿和生存之间的关系,研究人员同时剥夺了果蝇的食物和睡眠 。
n. 揶揄者,戏弄
v. 欺负,嘲弄