考研英语历年真题阅读要点之2015-Text 3（二）

 　各位同学，就考研英语真题而言，最后三套建议用来进行考前模拟。小编为大家梳理历年考研英语真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2015年考研英语真题阅读Text 3，这篇文章主要探讨了对期刊论文中统计数据的进一步审查问题。

　　John Ioannidis, a physician who studies research methodology, says that the policy is “a most welcome step forward” and “long overdue.” “Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish. I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says. But he noted that biomedical journals ... pay strong attention to statistical review.

　　physician“医师”;research methodology“研究方法论”;policy“方针，政策”;step“措施”;forward“向前的”;long overdue“姗姗来迟”;be weak in“不擅长”，反义词组be good at，do well in;statistical review“数据审查”;damage“损害，毁坏”;quality“品质”;for the majority of“对于大多数的...”;essential“必要的”;note“特别提到，指出”;biomedical journal“生物医学期刊”;pay strong attention to“格外重视”，pay great attention to可以表示“密切关注”。

　　Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux ... Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in 2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”. Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

　　professional“专业的，职业的”;be expected to do“被期望做某事”;analyze“分析”，名词形式analysis;alarmingly“惊人地，让人担忧地”;common“普遍的”，be common to“为...所共有”;according to sb.如果翻译中出现，可以译为“某人认为”;standard“标准”;take a tough line“采取强硬措施”;engage“雇佣”;literate“受过教育的”;verify“核实”;pass...to...“传递”;merit“优点，价值”;weakness“缺点，劣势”;rely on“依赖”，也可以用depend on/ upon;identify“确定”;in the first place“首先”，写作中要用到这样的表示层次的短语。