1.COMPUTER security is a contradiction in terms.
PHRASE短语自相矛盾的说法If you say that something is acontradiction in terms, you mean that it is described as having a quality that it cannot have.
【搭配模式】：contradictioninflects
A public service run for profit — acontradictionin terms if there ever was one.
以营利为目的的公共服务机构——这是典型的用词上的自相矛盾（如果真有这种说法的话）。
2.gadget
There is little evidence that these gadgets will be any more trustworthy than their desktop counterparts.
N-COUNT可数名词小器具；精巧的小玩意 a small device or machine with a particular purpose
...kitchen gadgets including toasters, kettles and percolators.
烤面包机、水壶、滴滤式咖啡壶等厨用小家电
...the latest gadget for the technology obsessed: pocket-sized computers that you write on with a pen.
面向科技发烧友的最新玩意儿：可在上面用笔书写的袖珍电脑
3.paranoia
That requires a kind of cultivatedparanoiawhich does not come naturally to non-tech
firms.
N-UNCOUNT不可数名词疑惧；多疑 countable or uncountable an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are going to harm or criticize you
•There's a lot ofparanoiaaboutcrime at the moment.
4.counsel
This is not a counsel of despair.
PHRASE短语将自己的意见保密;不暴露自己的意图 If you keep your own counsel, you keep quiet about your opinions or intentions.
Guscott rarely speaks out, preferring to keep his owncounsel.
古斯科特很少发表意见，他更喜欢把自己的看法埋在心里。
5.disclaimers ； butt up
such as cars or domestic goods, the industry’s disclaimers will increasingly butt up against existing laws.
N-COUNT可数名词不承担责任的声明Adisclaimeris a statement in which a person says that they did not know about something or that they are not responsible for something.
【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式
Thedisclaimerasserts that the company won't be held responsible for any inaccuracies.
免责声明书明确声明公司将不对任何差错负责。
butt up：to have one side or edge touching something, or to put something in this
6.condensed ; interstellar
it condensed ,around 4.6 billion years ago, from the same cloud of dust and interstellar gas that gave birth to the sun and the rest of the solar system.
ADJ-GRADED能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词(液体)浓缩的Condensed liquids have been made thicker by removing some of the water in them.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
...condensed mushroom soup.
蘑菇浓汤
ADJ形容词星际的 Interstellar means between the stars.
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
【语域标签】：FORMAL 正式
...interstellar space.
星际空间
7.debut
Now, though, the date of life’sdebutmay be pushed back even further.
N-COUNT可数名词(表演者或运动员的）首次登台，初次露面；（歌手的）首次录音The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
【搭配模式】：oft with poss
Dundee United's Dave Bowman makes his internationaldebut.
邓迪联队的戴夫·鲍曼首次亮相国际比赛。
...herdebutalbum 'Sugar Time'.
她的首张专辑《甜蜜时光》
8.pore ; gradient
Microscopic pores in the rock might have served as natural cell walls, and the chemistry of the water could provide exactly the sort of energy gradient that a primitive living cell would have needed to go about its bio-chemical business.
N-COUNT可数名词（植物表面的）气孔The pores of a plant are the tiny holes on its surface.
【搭配模式】：usu pl
A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.
植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。
N-COUNT可数名词变化率The gradient of a graph or series of measurements is the rate at which one set of amounts changes in relation to another.
【搭配模式】：with supp
【FIELD标签】：TECHNICAL 术语
9.scrutiny; implication
The find—which will face fierce scrutiny from other palaeobiologists—has otherimplications, too.
N-UNCOUNT不可数名词详细的检查(或审查);仔细的观察If a person or thing is under scrutiny, they are being studied or observed very carefully.
【搭配模式】：oft prep N
His private life came under mediascrutiny...
他的私生活受到媒体的密切关注。
The President promised a government open to publicscrutiny.
总统承诺政府将接受公众监督。
N-COUNT可数名词暗示;暗指;含意The implication of a statement, event, or situation is what it implies or suggests is the case.
【搭配模式】：PHR with cl/group
The implication was obvious: vote for us or it will be very embarrassing for you...
弦外之音很明显：投票给我们,否则你会非常难堪。
The implication that marital infidelity enhances a leader's credibility is preposterous.
婚姻不忠会提升领导人可信度的暗示荒谬之极。
10.well up from the crust
well up:(of a liquid) rise up to the surface and spill or be about to spill.
N-COUNT可数名词地壳The earth's crust is its outer layer.
【搭配模式】：with supp
Earthquakes leave scars in the earth's crust.
地震会在地壳上留下裂痕。
