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MODERN, Western medicine tends to pooh-pooh its herbal cousin. It is true that synthetic pharmaceuticals are purer, more reliable and often more effective than herbs. But many of them have herbal origins, and the sight of pharmacists botanising (collecting herbs from the countryside for sale as medicine) was common in Europe within living memory.
India, too, has a long tradition of herbal medicine, and its government is keen that this tradition should be brought into the mainstream, to the profit of the country's burgeoning drug industry. To that end, it is spending about $40m on what is known as the Golden Triangle Partnership, to assess the country's herbs scientifically, and select those suitable for serious investigation.
Most Indian herbal remedies are based on the Ayurvedic system of medicine, although Tamil-based Siddha and Unani, which has Persian roots, are also used extensively. Proving their worth is a daunting task. There are 80,000 Ayurvedic treatments alone, involving the products of some 3,000 plants. More than 7,000 firms make herbal compounds for medical use. Establishing the active ingredients and exactly how they work would thus take some time.
怎樣才算舒服而且有效的閱讀呢？
如果上面這段節(jié)選中，只有斜體的這幾個詞讓你稍微駐足的話，那么你的詞匯量已經(jīng)基本達到了雅思水平，你正在進行comfortable and effective reading. 兩段文字中對我們有用的詞也不外乎這幾個，下一步就是各個擊破：
我們就以daunting 為例：(取自LDCE)
對于這個詞，你應該了解的是：
Daunting: frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident: 令人畏懼的
例如：Climbing Everest is a daunting challenge for any mountaineer.
Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.
同義詞： challenging demanding taxing exacting
Daunt : to make someone feel afraid or less confident about something: 使…沮喪；使…畏懼
例如：The book is certainly authoritative but may well daunt the uncommitted reader by its relentlessly hard-nosed factuality.
Dauntless: confident and not easily frightened 不屈不撓的；無畏的
例如：It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land.
如果你能夠每兩天讀一篇ECONOMIST上的文章，對文章中的三個詞作上述工作，兩個月之后，有驚喜。
高級：read whatever you want as long as you are doing some reading (in English) every day.
MODERN, Western medicine tends to pooh-pooh its herbal cousin. It is true that synthetic pharmaceuticals are purer, more reliable and often more effective than herbs. But many of them have herbal origins, and the sight of pharmacists botanising (collecting herbs from the countryside for sale as medicine) was common in Europe within living memory.
India, too, has a long tradition of herbal medicine, and its government is keen that this tradition should be brought into the mainstream, to the profit of the country's burgeoning drug industry. To that end, it is spending about $40m on what is known as the Golden Triangle Partnership, to assess the country's herbs scientifically, and select those suitable for serious investigation.
Most Indian herbal remedies are based on the Ayurvedic system of medicine, although Tamil-based Siddha and Unani, which has Persian roots, are also used extensively. Proving their worth is a daunting task. There are 80,000 Ayurvedic treatments alone, involving the products of some 3,000 plants. More than 7,000 firms make herbal compounds for medical use. Establishing the active ingredients and exactly how they work would thus take some time.
怎樣才算舒服而且有效的閱讀呢？
如果上面這段節(jié)選中，只有斜體的這幾個詞讓你稍微駐足的話，那么你的詞匯量已經(jīng)基本達到了雅思水平，你正在進行comfortable and effective reading. 兩段文字中對我們有用的詞也不外乎這幾個，下一步就是各個擊破：
我們就以daunting 為例：(取自LDCE)
對于這個詞，你應該了解的是：
Daunting: frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident: 令人畏懼的
例如：Climbing Everest is a daunting challenge for any mountaineer.
Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.
同義詞： challenging demanding taxing exacting
Daunt : to make someone feel afraid or less confident about something: 使…沮喪；使…畏懼
例如：The book is certainly authoritative but may well daunt the uncommitted reader by its relentlessly hard-nosed factuality.
Dauntless: confident and not easily frightened 不屈不撓的；無畏的
例如：It is here that the dauntless cavalrymen of Ellyrion rest when they return from their long sweeps through their embattled land.
如果你能夠每兩天讀一篇ECONOMIST上的文章，對文章中的三個詞作上述工作，兩個月之后，有驚喜。
高級：read whatever you want as long as you are doing some reading (in English) every day.