新视野大学英语(第三版)读写教程第二册课文词汇(8)

adequately

ad.

足够地；充分地

Some students are not adequately prepared for higher education. 有的学生没有充分地准备好接受高等教育。

competent

a.

having enough skills or knowledge to do sth. to a satisfactory standard 合格的；能干的My secretary is perfectly competent, but she doesn‘t have much patience. 我的秘书非常能干，但是她没有多少耐心。

jerk

n.

[C] a sudden quick movement 猛的一动；猝然一动

The old bus started with a jerk, so the passengers shook all of a sudden. 那辆旧的公共汽车猛地一动，车上的乘客都突然摇晃了一下。

jerky

a.

moving roughly with many starts and stops （在行进中）不平稳的，颠簸的

After the bus came to a jerky halt, the passengers got off the bus hurriedly. 公共汽车颠簸着停下来以后，乘客们都匆忙下车了。

function

n.

[C, U] the purpose that sth. has, or the job that sb. or sth. does （事物的）功能，作用；（某人的）职责

One of the chief functions of education is to equip future citizens with their places in society.教育的主要职能之一是帮助未来的公民在社会上找到自己的位置。

vi.

work or operate in the correct way 正常工作；正常运转

If the Internet stopped functioning, the consequent losses could be measured in tens of billions of dollars. 如果因特网停止运作，由此产生的损失可用数百亿美元来衡量。