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extend
v.延长, 延伸
Offshore drilling platforms extend the search for oil to the ocean's continental shelves—those gently sloping submarine regions at the edges of the continents.
海底钻探平台将寻找石油的区域延伸到了海洋大陆架上——陆地附近浅海下缓缓的斜坡。
enhance
v.提高, 增加
Humans instinctively seek structures that will shelter and enhance their way of life.
人类本能地希望可以提供居住并且改善他们生活质量的建筑。
edge
n.边缘
In many semiarid areas there is also a lower timberline where the forest passes into steppe or desert at its lower edge, usually because of a lack of moisture.
这一植被迅速转变的区域被称为上行树带界线或林木线。在许多半干旱地区，林木线通常较低，该线以内的植物经常由于缺乏水分而转变为荒原或沙漠。
due to
因为，由于
Yet an equally important criterion is the ability of a species to survive random global ecological catastrophes due to impacts.
然而还有一个同等重要的准则就是，它们可以从随机的、由天体撞击造成的全球生态灾难中幸存。
domestic
adj.家庭的；国内的
The Arts and Crafts Movement was much more than a particular style; it was a philosophy of domestic life.
工艺美术运动超越了某种特定风格，它是家庭生活的哲学。
dissolved-dissolve
v.分解; 使融化
The organic matter may partially decompose, using up the dissolved oxygen in the sediment.
有机物会局部分解，消耗沉淀里的溶解氧。
consciousness
n.意识；自觉
consciously
adv.有意识地; 自觉地
conscious
adj.有意识的
Advocates for this opinion point to reports from people who have experienced a trance state, a highly suggestive state of low consciousness between waking and sleeping.
支持这种观点的人指出，报道中那些经历过恍惚状态的人，是在一种似睡非睡且意识薄弱时给予的强制暗示状态。
concentration
n.集中; 专心
concentrated
adj.集中的
Saline soils, which have high concentrations of sodium chloride and other salts, limit plant growth,
含有高浓度的氯化钠和其他盐类的盐碱土壤抑制植物生长，
and research continues to focus on developing salt-tolerant varieties of agricultural crops.
于是研究继续集中开发耐盐农作物品种。
coast
n.海岸
coastal
adj.海岸的
coastline
n.海岸线
As Patrick Kirch, an American anthropologist, points out, rather than being brought by rafting South Americans,
正如美国人类学家Patrick Kirch所指出的，比起从南美漂流过来，
sweet potatoes might just have easily been brought back by returning Polynesian navigators who could have reached the west coast of South America.
甘薯更容易被那些到过南美的玻利尼西亚返航者携带来。
apprentice
n.学徒
As master craft workers, they imparted the knowledge of their trades to apprentices and journeymen.
作为师傅，工匠们将自己的手艺传授给徒弟和雇工。
acquired-acquire
v.获得, 取得
When this widespread use of projection technology began to hurt his Kinetoscope business,
随着投影技术的广泛应用，活动电影放映机产业受到冲击，
Edison acquired a projector developed by Armat and introduced it as "Edison's latest marvel, the Vitascope."
爱迪生公司获得了一台由阿玛特发明的投影仪，并推出“爱迪生最新创举-Vitascope”。
watercolor
n.水彩; 水彩画
The year 1850 may be considered the beginning of a new epoch in America art, with respect to the development of watercolor painting.
人们将1850年看作是美国艺术的新纪元，它涉及水彩画的发展。
temperate
adj.温和的
In other words, unlike comparison between temperate and tropical areas, these patterns are still in the documentation phase.
换句话说，不像温和地区和热带地区的比较，这些模式仍处在记录阶段。
serve
v.为...服务; 供应
Applied-art objects are bound by the laws of physics in two ways: by the materials used to make them, and the function they are to serve.
这些应用艺术品受到物理法则的约束，这些物理法则既关于制作艺术品所用的材料，又关于去容纳，支撑，遮蔽的物品。
representative
n.代表, 典型
representation
n.代表；表示；表现
Frequently the myths include representatives of those supernatural forces that the rites celebrate or hope to influence.
故事（神话）在这种仪式中发展起来，这些故事中经常会有仪式庆祝或期望影响的超自然力量的典型。
portion
n.部分
The structure of the backbone shows, however, that Ambulocetus swam like modern whales by moving the rear portion of its body up and down, even though a fluke was missing.
但是，脊椎的结构显示，即使缺少fluke，走鲸通过上下移动其身体后部游动，这一点类似于现代鲸类动物。
