李剑考研英语相似易混单词-对比记忆第.doc

李剑考研英语相似易混单词-对比记忆第 5 天
rely [ri5lai] vi. 1. (on, upon)依靠,依赖 2. 信赖,信任
reliable [ri5laiEbl] a. 可靠的
reliance [ri5laiEns] n. (on)依靠,信赖
reliability [ri7laiE5biliti] n. 可靠性
liability [7laiE5biliti] n. 1. (for)责任,义务 2. 倾向 3. 不利条件, 障碍
liable [5laiEbl] a. 1. 有义务的 2. 有…倾向的
3. 应受惩罚的,服从的
liability的近义词:
duty [5dju:ti] n. 1. 义务 2. 责任3. 税,关税
1. “While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,” says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA. “we can’t yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic world.”(NETEM 2002, Text 2, Paragraph 3)
“虽然我们知道如何让机器人去纠正一个特定的错误,”(美国)国家航空和宇宙航行局的一个机器人项目经理戴维·拉维里说,“我们仍然不能赋予机器人以足够的’常识’,使它们能够与动态的世界进行可靠的交流。”
2. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding panies liable for their customers’ misfortunes. (NETEM 1999, Passage 1, Paragraph 1)
大约自80年代初以来人们就不再这样认为了,当时陪审团已开始认为更多的公司应对其顾客所遭受的不幸负责。
3. While warnings are often appropriate and necessary — the dangers of drug interactions, for example — and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. (NETEM 1999, Passage 1 , Paragraph 3)
虽然警示语常常是合理而必要的,如对药物副作用而产生的危险的警示语,并且很多是州或联邦法规所要求的,但是当消费者受伤,这些警示语能否真正保护制造商和销售商使之免于责任,这还很难说。
4. But in the executive circle, beauty can e a liability. (CET-6, , Passage 2, Par