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We found a gadget that odorlessly keeps a bedroom-size area mosquito-free for an entire evening.

Researchers at MIT have found a way to grow the carbon nanotubes that manufacturers need to build smaller, faster computer chips.

麻省理工學院（ MIT）的研究人員已找出一個生成奈米碳管的方法，廠商需要用它製造更小、更快的電腦晶片。

As chipmakers like Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices inc. work endlessly to find ways to build smaller and smaller chips, they often run into a multitude of problems.

在英特爾及超微等晶片製造商不斷努力尋找方法以製造越來越小的晶片之際，它們經常遇到許多問題。陳成良

The Washington Post and USA Today lead with the official start of the three days of ceremonies and parties to celebrate the inauguration of the country's first black president. Around 400,000 people gathered in the frigid Washington, D.C. weather to attend a concert at the Lincoln Memorial that included some of the most recognizable names in the entertainment industry. "There is no doubt that our road will be long, that our climb will be steep," Obama told the crowd. The WP slathers on the groan-inducing imagery in its Page One story: "At times, the multitudes seemed to dance as one, Americans from every corner of the country, of every generation."



Like all car makers, Toyota has slathered on incentives to try to boost sales, but such moves have had little impact. Dealers say tight credit and low consumer confidence are keeping buyers away from showrooms and threatening to hold down car sales in the coming year. John Bergstrom of Bergstrom Automotive, a dealer of Toyota and other makes in Wisconsin, said consumer confidence is so low "it's almost like they need permission to buy something."

run into：片語，（使）陷入（困境、債務等）。例句： Never run into debt. （千萬不要陷入負債中。）

multitude：名詞，許多。例句：There are a multitude of reasons against it.（有許多反對理由。）

multitude  
noun FORMAL
a multitude of a large number of people or things:
The city has a multitude of problems, from homelessness to drugs and murder.
This case has raised a multitude of questions.

the multitude noun [S] FORMAL
1 a large crowd of people:
He stepped out onto the balcony to address the multitude below.

2 the ordinary people who form the largest group in a society

the multitudes plural noun FORMAL
large numbers of people:
the multitudes using the Internet
slather 
verb [T]
to spread something thickly on something else:
She slathered lotion on/all over her body.
She slathered her toast with butter.

Repellent

驅蟲劑

repellent の定義

形容詞

1

able to repel a particular thing; impervious to a particular substance.

water-repellent nylon

同義語:

impermeableimperviousresistant-proofrare:imperviable

2

causing disgust or distaste.

the idea was slightly repellent to her