retain vt. 保持,保留【re-+tain=保留在后方】
sustain vt. 支撑,撑住,维持,持续【sus-+tain=拿起,举起】
一套历时12年编写而成的、总共60卷的《牛津英国传记大词典》记录了英国历史上最有影响的55,000个人。
Almost 55,000 people who have had a major impact on British society are profiled (记录)in a new 60-volume book that has taken 12 years to compile. It has cost more than £25m and taken 10,000 writers to update the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
1. impact: n. 碰撞,冲击,冲突,影响,效果
【固定搭配】impact on对 产生影响。a speech that lacked impact 毫无影响力的演说
2. compile: v. 编辑,汇编 com-+pile 汇集在一起。
They are compiling a dictionary of new words. 他们正在编写一部新词的词典。
3. update: verb. 校正,更新,up-+date = update
【单词变形】updated(a. 最新的); The immigration information booklet is updated yearly. 移民信息的小册子每年都会更新。
1. In spite of the age-old prejudice, the attitudes towards working women have been
little by little.
A) formed B) informed
C) reformed D) transformed
2. Professor Taylor s talk has indicated that science has a very strong on the
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