Time: 11:19-11：30 大致意思掌握，生词（N 尤其）可以直接过，猜出来65%。（词义+文意）
Day 1 words & phrases
1. condensed
1）adj
A condensed book, explanation, or piece of information has been made shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
The Council was merely given a condensed version of what had already been disclosed in Washington.
2）adj
Condensed liquids have been made thicker by removing some of the water in them.
...condensed mushroom soup.
2. interstellar gas
1）stellar [ˈstelə(r)]
1> adj
Stellar is used to describe anything connected with stars.
A stellar wind streams outward from the star.
（从那颗恒星上不断吹出恒星风）
2> adj
A stellar person or thing is considered to be very good.
...a stellar education at Eton and Oxford.
The French companies are registering stellar profits.
（法国各家公司都获利丰厚）
2) interstellar adj.
between the stars.
[formal]
...interstellar space.
3. stromatolity
[strəʊˈmætəˌlaɪt]
noun
a rocky mass consisting of layers of calcareous material and sediment formed by the prolific growth of cyanobacteria: such structures date back to Precambrian times
n.叠层（石）； 垫藻岩
4. mound
[maʊnd]
1）countable noun （堆）
Amoundof something is a large rounded pile of it.
The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt.
（推土机堆起了大堆大堆的泥土）
The table was a mound of paper and books.
2）countable noun
In baseball, the mound is the raised area where the pitcher stands when he or she throws the ball.
5. debut
[deɪbjuːt]
countable noun
The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.
Dundee United's Dave Bowman makes his international debut.
...her debut album 'Sugar Time'.
6. intriguingly
7. veins and nodules
8. decay
9. crust
1) countable noun
The crust on a loaf of bread is the outside part.
A pie's crust is its cooked pastry.
2) countable noun
A crust is a hard layer of something, especially on top of a softer or wetter substance.
As the water evaporates, a crust of salt is left on the surface of the soil.
Synonyms: layer, covering, coating, incrustation
4. countable noun
The Earth's crust is its outer layer. （地壳）
Earthquakes leave scars in the Earth's crust.
10. contend
1）verb
If you have to contend with a problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
It is time, once again, to contend with racism.
American businesses could soon have a new kind of lawsuit to contend with.
2）verb
If you contend that something is true, you state or argue that it is true.
[formal]
The government contends that he is fundamentalist.
'You were just looking,' contends Samantha. 'I was the one doing all the work.'
Synonyms: argue, hold, maintain, allege
3）verb
If you contend with someone for something such as power, you compete with them to try to get it.
..the two main groups contending for power.
...with 10 U.K. construction yards contending with rivals from Norway, Holland, Italy and Spain.
...a binding political settlement between the contending parties.
Synonyms: compete, fight, struggle, clash
Day 2
1. 神句
1） The team contends that these bear more than a passing resemblance to the networks of bacteria that live in hydrothermal vents--towering, crenellated structures that form in the deep ocean above the boundaries between tectonic plates, where superheated mineral-laden water spurts up from beneath the seabed.
这个团队认为，这些化石可能不仅仅在通道方面相似于以氢分子结构存在的细菌网络。它的塔状的，环绕的结构形成于深海中，地球板块和海床之间的界限。在它形成的地方，有滚烫的富含矿物质的水从海床下方喷射而出。
该团队认为, 这些和生活在深海热泉的细菌群落极为相似——深海热泉指的是: 深海中构造板块交界边缘上方高耸锯齿型的部分,富含矿物质的水从海底喷涌而出。
1）深海热泉；细菌群落
2）tectonic: adjective
Tectonic means relating to the structure of the Earth's surface or crust.
[technical]
...the tectonic plates of the Pacific region. (地壳板块）
3）crenellated [ˈkrenəleɪtɪd]
有雉堞的；锯齿状的；（城墙那种形状--凹凸）
1) plume：
1> A plume of smoke, dust, fire, or water is a large quantity of it that rises into the air in a column.
The rising plume of black smoke could be seen all over Kabul.
...the volcano's towering ash plume.
2> countable noun
A plume is a large, soft bird's feather.
...broad straw hats decorated with ostrich plumes.
Synonyms: feather, crest, quill, pinion
2) lava and magma
1> variable noun
Lava is the very hot liquid rock that comes out of a volcano.
2> molten rock that is formed in very hot conditions inside the earth.
[technical]
The volcano threw new showers of magma and ash into the air.
Both lava and magma are what results from rock superheated to the point where it becomes viscous and molten. But again, the location is the key. When this molten rock is still located within the Earth, it is known as magma.
When magma reaches the surface and erupts from a volcano, it officially becomes lava.
viscous：[vɪskəs] A viscous liquid is thick and sticky.
...dark, viscous blood.
Synonyms: thick, sticky, gooey [informal] , adhesive
1）passing：过关，及格线
more than a passing resemblance 极为相似
2）hydrothermal [haɪdrəʊˈθɜːməl]
adjective
of or relating to the action of water under conditions of high temperature, esp in forming rocks and minerals
3) vent
the shaft of a volcano or an aperture in the earth's crust through which lava and gases erupt
shaft：a long vertical passage （lift）
aperture：a narrow hole or gap
4） bear
1> verb
If youbearsomething somewhrere, you carry it there or take it there.
[literary]
They bore the oblong hardwood box into the kitchen and put it on the table.
...the constitutional right to bear arms.
Synonyms: hold, carry, pack
2> verb
If one thing bears the weight of something else, it supports the weight of that thing.
The ice was not thick enough to bear the weight of marching men.
Synonyms: support, carry, shoulder, sustain
3> verb
If something bears a particular mark or characteristic, it has that mark or characteristic.
The houses bear the marks of bullet holes.
...note paper bearing the Presidential seal.
...a corporation he owned that bore his name.
The room bore all the signs of a violent struggle.
4> verb
If you bear an unpleasant experience, you accept it because you are unable to do anything about it.
They will have to bear the misery of living in constant fear of war.
He bore his sufferings manfully.
Synonyms: suffer, feel, experience, go through
5> verb
If you can't bear someone or something, you dislike them very much.
I can't bear people who make judgements and label me.
I can't bear having to think what I'm going to say.
He can't bear to talk about it, even to me.
Synonyms: bring yourself to, allow, accept, permit
6> verb
If someone bears the cost of something, they pay for it.
Patients should not have to bear the costs of their own treatment.
7> verb
If you bear the responsibility for something, you accept responsibility for it.
If a woman makes a decision to have a child alone, she should bear that responsibility alone.
Synonyms: take on, support, carry, accept
8> verb
If one thing bears no resemblance or no relationship to another thing, they are not at all similar.
Their daily menus bore no resemblance whatsoever to what they were actually fed.
For many software packages, the price bears little relation to cost.
9> verb
When a plant or tree bears flowers, fruit, or leaves, it produces them.
As the plants grow and start to bear fruit they will need a lot of water.
Synonyms: produce, give, provide, develop
10> verb
If something such as a bank account or an investment bears interest, interest is paid on it.
[business]
The eight-year bond will bear annual interest of 10.5%.
Synonyms: earn, make, get, receive
11> verb
When a woman bears a child, she gives birth to him or her.
[old-fashioned]
Emma bore a son called Karl.
She bore him a daughter, Suzanna.
Synonyms: give birth to, produce, deliver, breed
12> verb
If you bear someone a feeling such as love or hate, you feel that emotion towards them.
[literary]
I have lived with him on the best terms and bear him friendship.
Synonyms: exhibit, hold, maintain, entertain
13> verb
If you bear yourself in a particular way, you move or behave in that way.
[literary]
There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself.
Synonyms: conduct, carry, move, deport
14> verb
If you bear left or bear right when you are driving or walking along, you turn and continue in that direction.
Go left onto the A107 and bear left into Seven Sisters Road.
Synonyms: turn, tack, veer, swerve
2） Such a find is doubly intriguing because hydrothermal vents are seen as a plausible candidate for the cradle of life.
这个发现是很值得怀疑的，因为氢分子结构被认为在人类生命进化史中貌似重要实则可有可无的一环。
人们认为深海热泉很有可能是生命的摇篮，这就使得该发现显得更有意思。
1）doubly [dʌbli]
You use doubly to emphasize that something exists or happens to a greater degree than usual.
[emphasis]
In pregnancy a high fibre diet is doubly important.
It is hard to imagine what it is like to sleep rough at any time, but doubly so in the current freezing weather.
2）intriguing：interesting；strange；absorbing；exciting；fascinating
3）plausible
1> adjective
An explanation or statement that is plausible seems likely to be true or valid.
A more plausible explanation would seem to be that people are fed up with the Conservative government.
That explanation seems entirely plausible to me.
Synonyms: believable, possible, likely, reasonable
2> adjective
If you say that someone is plausible, you mean that they seem to be telling the truth and to be sincere and honest.
He was so plausible that he conned everybody.
Synonyms: glib, smooth, specious, smooth-talking
3） Although the sorts of bacteria apparently found by Dr. Papineau and his colleagues are too complicated to reveal much about the very earliest organisms, the suggestion that hydrothermal vents have played host to life for so long is a strike in the theory’s favor.
尽管这种被Dr.和其同事发现的细菌太复杂，以至于不能揭示最早期地球有机体，但是氢分子结构曾经如此长久的支撑了生命体结构的暗示，对于理论界来说是一个巨大的震撼。
尽管P教授和同事们发现的这类细菌太过复杂，无法更深入的揭示早期生命体的情况，但依然表明深海热泉养育生命的历史甚为悠久，这是支撑该理论的有力依据。
逻辑导图
1. 结构树立不够清晰，第一点逻辑导图应该聚焦在本文的具体大结构，结构图or鱼骨or逻辑，然后再进一步。
2. 细节理解不到位。
Day 3
1. 各种事情，做的不够完善。
2. 认真扣了几个单词~ magma and lava， really interesting~ because of the position.
3. control is difficult, only the one with strong wills can manage, maybe 1 out of 1000, and that's why they become outstanding and distinguished from the great normal ones. Why can't it be me ~?
干巴得~！