assemble v. 組合
[同]gather
Prosecutors sought to assemble a detailed chronology of the murder night with a parade of witnesses…
檢察官陸續(xù)訪談了多名證人，以拼組出謀殺案當晚的詳細過程。
chronology n. （事件）發(fā)生過程的記載
assert v. 主張、斷言，宣稱
[同]declare
Finally, since quantum physics asserts that matter and energy are interchangeable, we are not individual beings at all but merely local expressions of an infinite, universal field of energy.
最后，既然量子物理主張物質(zhì)和能量可以互換，那么我們根本不是獨立的個體，只不過是宇宙間無限能量場的局部表現(xiàn)而已。
assign v. 指派
The new top officer of the Navy…promised to speed up plans to assign women to all surface vessels and perhaps even allow them aboard submarines, the Navy’s last all-male bastion.
這位新上任的海軍高級官員承諾，加速推動派遣女兵登上各艦只服務(wù)的計劃，甚至可能讓女兵進駐潛水艇??這個抗拒女性進入海軍的最后據(jù)點。
bastion n. 強力護衛(wèi)某習俗或觀念的體制或組織，堡壘
associate v. 將……聯(lián)想在一起
Comets have long been associated with war, upheaval and disaster.
長久以來，人們總把彗星與戰(zhàn)爭、動亂和災(zāi)難聯(lián)系在一起。
assure v. 保證
[同]guarantee
But even such battle-hardened successes do not assure victory for AmEx in its quest to reclaim the top standing it lost in 1989 in the $562 billion credit-card industry.
這是歷盡艱苦奮斗才得到的成功，即使如此，也不表示美國運通公司必能在營業(yè)額達5620億美金的信用卡業(yè)務(wù)中，如愿重登龍頭寶座。美國運通公司于1989年失去這項寶座。
ban v.&n. 禁止
[同]v. prohibit bar
Beijing bans overseas exhibits of pre-Ming dynasty paintings and calligraphy because of the extreme vulnerability of the ancient brocade, silk and paper.
北京禁止明朝以前的書畫出國展覽，因為年代久遠的錦緞、絲綢與紙張極為脆弱。
注：vulnerability n. 脆弱，易受傷害

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