1.There are few social phenomena, for which television is not being held responsibility by someone or others: the increase in obesity, the decline of family meal, the erosion of morality, the worship of celebrity, the promotion of violence, and the spread of democracy.
Obesity 肥胖；erosion 腐蚀，侵蚀；worship 崇拜；celebrity 名人
2.My weekends were precious and the idea of getting up before dawn on a Saturday, renting a car, and driving across the entire state of New Jersey to deliver a lecture was repellent. As I recall, the honorarium offered would have barely covered the expense. Dawn 黎明；repellent 令人反感的，令人讨厌的; honorarium 报酬
3.At the end of my first interview with Oppenheimer, immediately after I had driven cross-country from Los Alamos in a convertible with a large hole in the roof and had been summoned to the interview while still covered in grime, he said to me that he and his wife had some pictures I might like to look at sometime .
Cross-country 横穿全国；越野的
Convertible 敞篷车
Summon 召唤，召集~ sb to sp 召唤某人去某地
Grime n. 尘垢；污点
Sometime adv. 改天；来日；在某一时候
4.In no time, the Del Monte Gold took the market by storm, rapidly becoming the world’s best-selling pineapple variety, and delivering natural levels of sweetness in the mouth, up until then only found in tinned pineapple.
Take sp by storm 在某处大获成功
Tinned adj. 罐头的
5.Those companies argued successfully that Del Monte’s attempts to keep the golden pineapple for itself were just a way to knock them out the market.
Knock sb out of ... 淘汰
6.Wilson suggests changing this situation by looking into ten thousand species that could be made use of, which will be a way to reduce the clearing of the natural homes of plants and animals to enlarge farming areas.
7.Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany's University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person.
8.The researchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is used in research to cause coughing and as a sign of how well the medicine are stopping coughs.
9. It really is an honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
Go out of one's way to do sth 不怕麻烦，不辞辛劳
10.Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir (回忆录) of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.
11.Born in Chicago in 1902, brought up and schooled in Nebraska, the 19-year-old college graduate Ralph Tyler became hooked on teaching while teaching as a science teacher in South Dakota and changed his major from medicine to education.
Be hooked on 沉迷于...