考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2013-Text 3（二）
“宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。”各位同学，为了考研成功，一定要克服困难，认真准备哦。文都教育考研英语老师继续为大家梳理考研英语历年真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2013年Text 3，这篇文章主要探讨了人类对于未来的畅想。So what does our deep future hold? A growing number of researchers and organizations are now thinking seriously about that question. For example, the Long Now Foundation has its flagship project a medical clock that is designed to still be marking time thousands of years hence.
hold“持有”；a growing number of“越来越多的”，相当于more and more；think seriously about“认真思考”；flagship project“旗舰工程”；medical clock“医疗时钟”；be designed to do“为...而设计”；mark“标记”；thousands of years hence“数千年以后”。
Perhaps willfully, it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future. The potential evolution of today’s technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it’s perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage. That’s one reason why we have launched Arc, a new publication dedicated to the near future.
willfully“故意地”；lengthy“漫长的”；timescale“时标”；immediate future“最近的将来”；potential“潜在的，可能的”；evolution“演变”；social consequence“社会影响”；dazzlingly“耀眼地”；complicated“复杂的”；dazzlingly complicated可以理解为“相当复杂的”；science fiction“科幻小说”；futurologist“未来学家”；envisage“想象”；launch“发起”；publication“出版物”；be dedicated to“致力于”。
... that we can say with considerable assurance... the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified ... shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.
with considerable assurance“相当有把握地”；hold the key to可以理解为“掌握...的关键”；identify“确认”；shape“塑造”；evidence-based“基于证据的”；forecast“预测”；descendant“后代”；find oneself可以表示“发现自己处于某种状态”。
This long perspective makes the pessimistic view of our prospects seem more likely to be a passing fad. To be sure, the future is not all rosy. But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce ... that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.
perspective“角度”；pessimistic“悲观的”；prospect“前途”；passing fad“一时的兴趣”；to be sure“诚然，的确”；rosy“美好的，乐观的”；knowledgeable“有丰富知识的”；reduce“减少”；threaten“威胁”；existence“生存”。
以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2013年Text 3后四段的要点。“古之立大事者，不惟有超世之才，亦必有坚忍不拔之志。”不经历风雨，怎能见彩虹？考研尚未成功，同学仍需努力。不管遇到什么样的困难，一定要认真复习。坚持，坚持，坚持！
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