Unit 10
1.We reason together ,challenge, revise, and complete each other’s reasoning and each other’s conception of reason.
我们在一起推理、挑战、修正，并完善彼此的推理和彼此对理性的认知
reason n.①理由，原因; ②理性，理智;
v. ①推论，推理; ②说服，评理; ③讨论，辩论
Eg1: That’s one reason（理由，原因）why the idea of a national list hasn’t gone anywhere,
while drug costs keep rising fast.
这就是为什么当药物价格持续快速上涨的同时，国家组织清单的想法还是一无所获的原因。Eg2: And so it does — and all would be well were reason（理智，理性，理论）the only
judge in the creationism/evolution debate.
确实如此——如果理论是神创论/进化论辩论中唯一的评判标准，一切问题也就迎刃而解了。All would be well （would be虚拟用法）
were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate虚拟条件状语从句（倒装）
Eg3: He reasoned（推理，推论）that because it is easier to formulate certain concepts and not others in a given language, the speakers of that language think along one track and not along another.
他推测，因为人们很容易使用某一特定的语言形成一些明确的概念（而不是其他混淆的），语言的使用者往往是沿着同一条轨道思考问题（而不是其他轨道）。
2. Soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania.
痴迷于足球的父母们在春季更可能怀孕，这一时期也是每年足球狂热的高峰期
conceive v.想象;相信;设想,构思;怀孕;怀有
Eg1: Our immediate future is hard to conceive（设想，构想）.
我们的近期未来是难以想象的。
Eg2: Leonardo da Vinci conceive(设想，构想)the first mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,”莱昂纳多达芬奇设想了第一台称为“螺旋”的机械装置。
Eg3: I just can't even conceive（想象，设想）of that quantity of money.
那么多钱，我根本无法想象。
Eg4: Can you conceive（想象，构想，设想）of a complete vacuum?
你能想象出一个完全真空的样子吗？
3. We had a notion that he was telling a lie.
我们认为他撒了谎。
have a notion that…认为…
notion n.理念；观念；概念；看法，主张
Eg1: He didn’t have a slightest notion of （没有一点儿概念）what I meant.
他对于我所指的是什么没有一点概念。
Eg2:Online culture thinks highly of the notion（观念，概念）that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request.
网上文化推崇这样一个观念（概念）：即在提出具体的要求之后，信息才会出现在屏幕上。have a good notion of…很懂得
have no notion of…完全不懂，不明白
Eg3: I will examine this notion（观念，概念）below.
我将在下面分析此概念。
，George Osborne,
为了“让生活变得更好”并减少“依赖性”，财政大臣乔治.奥斯本提出了“提前寻找工作”计划。
Chancellor of the Exchequer 财政大臣
chancellor n.总理；大臣；名誉校长；大学校长
Eg1: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the schools chancellor（校长）, Joel I. Klein, have embraced charter schools as a key to their effort to overhaul the city’s school system.
麦克·R·布鲁博格市长和乔尔·I·克莱恩校长都把特许学校看作全市学校体制改革的一个关键点。
Eg2: Mr. Werner Faymann (L), Austrian Federal Chancellor（总理）.
奥地利总理维尔纳·法伊曼
5. Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.
批评家们还认为商业性基因检测的好坏取决于用来与样本作对比的参考数据库
reference n. 参考；参考书目；
提及，涉及；
证明书（人）；介绍人；关联
