Updating……
短语
In a nutshell: 简而言之
shed some light on: 阐明
as of yet: 到目前为止 This is not in the public domain as of yet!
dispensing with: 免除 And this invitation also makes you dispensing with worry both body and mind.
albeit at: 尽管 This is forecast to continue, albeit at a lower rate.
Owing to: 由于
In analogy to: 类似于
seek to: 设法，企图
be agnostic to: 不可知 Keep the service consumers agnostic to how the services are delivering their functionality.
be comparable to: 相当，相媲美 （comparable: 类似的，可比较的）
To the best of our knowledge: 据我们所知，据了解
in that: 因为
compare favorably with: 优于，媲美 His school record compares favorably with hers.
With this motivation, …
a large panoply of: 一大堆
stemming from: 源于
it is not without……: 并非没有……
irrespective of: 不顾 The weekly rent is the same irrespective of whether there are three or four occupants.
pave the way for …：为……铺平道路
on par with: 与……平分秋色
单词
A
acquire: 获得
alleviate: 缓解
ample: 充足的
arguably: 可以说，按理 Arguably, 1932 was the year of greatest achievement at the Laboratories.
B
backbone: 脊柱，支柱，基础
bedrock: 基本事实 Honesty is the bedrock of any healthy relationship.
bluntly: 直截了当地
brittle: 脆弱的
C
Concurrently: 同时地
Contrarily: 相反地
camouflage: 伪装
catastrophic: 灾难性的，糟糕的
commonality: 共性
compelling: 引人入胜的，不可抗拒的；强迫 A compelling reason to study language and vision jointly is …
confounding: 使困惑惊讶；击败（敌人）
congruity: 一致；调和
consecutive: 连续不断的
counterpart：对应事物 Motivated by the success of textual representation pretraining, various efforts have been made to build the multi-modal (visual and textual) counterpart.
cumbersome: 累赘的
curated: 策划的 … rely heavily on curated training datasets …
curation: 治疗；IT(对数据的)综合处理
D
de-facto: 实际的，事实上的
decipher: 破译；辨认
dedicated: 献身的；专用的 evaluate more dedicated semantics or abilities related to a specific task
deem: 认为 The evening was deemed a great success.
defect: 缺点；背叛
depict: 描绘，描述
derive: 得到；起源
disambiguate: 消岐
dissect: 解剖，仔细研究
distill: 蒸馏，提取
E
Empirically: 经验主义地
Everest: 珠穆朗玛峰
efficacy: 功效
elaborate: 复杂的；详细描述
elicit: 引起，引出
elucidate: 阐明
elusive: 难以捉摸
empower: 授权 it acquires stronger generalization in visual-language understanding that empowers zero-shot image captioning and open-ended VQA.
en vogue: 时髦
endow: 天生赋予，捐赠
entail: 涉及 The job entails a lot of hard work
envision: 展望 They envision an equal society, free of poverty and disease.
eschew: 避开
essence: 本质
F
facilitate: 促进 it facilitates the model with strong generation capability.
forcibly: 强制地；清楚地（It struck me forcibly how honest he’d been.）
G
generic: 通用的
groundbreaking: 开创性的
H
Heretofore：迄今为止 Synonyms: so far, thus far, up to now, as yet, till now e.g. Heretofore, doctors have tried low fat diets to reduce the cholesterol in the blood.
hallmark: 特征，特点
hazardous: 危险的
hinder:
holistic: 全面的，整体的
I
idealistic: 理想主义的
idiosyncratic: 怪异的
indispensable: 不可或缺的
individually: 单独地，个别地 Such models have a tendency to reproduce generic captions from the training data, and to perform poorly on compositionally novel images whose objects may have been seen individually at training time.
individuate: 使个性化
infuse: 注入，全面影响 A union would infuse unnecessary conflict into the company’s employee relations
inherently: 天性地
innovation: 创新
inseparable：不可分离的 e.g. Our economic fortunes are inseparable from those of Europe.
instrumental: 起重要作用的 He was instrumental in bringing about an end to the conflict.
intractable: 棘手的
intricate: 错综复杂的
J
K
L
lexical: 词汇的
M
marginal: 微不足道的
merit: 优点，价值
meticulously: 极仔细地；一丝不苟地
mimic: 模仿
miscellaneous: 混杂的，各种各样的
mitigate: 减轻，缓和
monotonically: 单调地
N
Notably: 尤其是，值得注意的是 Notably, our contextual visual representation is built on top of a pre-trained detector, operating at a level above local visual features.
nascent: 新生的，未成熟的
natively: 自然地，天然地
necessitate: 使成为必要 Increased traffic necessitated widening the road.
nexus: 关系；（错综复杂的）联结
notorious: 臭名昭著的
O
obfuscate: 混淆
on-the-fly: 即时 On-the-fly testing with a model provides a way to handle this situation
ontology: 本体（论）
opacity: 不透明性
P
paradigm: 典范 The prevailing paradigm for learning visual representations is……
perceivable: 可感知的
perturbation: 微扰
plain: 清楚的，浅白的
plausible: 可信的，有道理的，花言巧语的
polysemy: 多义性
ponder: 思考
preclude: 妨碍，排除
prepend: 预先考虑，预置
presume: 假设
prevailing: 盛行的；战胜
prevalence: 流行 prevalent: 流行的
prospective: 预期的；即将发生的
Q
R
rationale: 根本原因，基本原理 However, the rationale for such initiatives is not, of course, solely economic
readily: 便利地
refute: 驳斥
regime: 政体；组织方式
remainder: 剩余物 The remainder of this paper describes……
remedy: 救济，改正，改进
render: 使成为 Hundreds of people were rendered homeless by the earthquake. 给予 ~ sth to sb
resilient：有弹力的，有适应力的，能复原的
resultant: 因此而产生的
rival: 与……相匹敌 You will find scenery to rival anything you can see in the Alps.
S
Specifically: 具体地，特别是
salient: 显著的
scarce: 罕见的，不足的
schematic: 示意图；略图的，严谨的
seamless: 无缝的；不停顿的 Apple also unveiled a more seamless way to discover and access new apps
shoehorn: 鞋钉，把……硬塞进
sophisticated: 复杂的，精密的
spawn: 产卵；引发 The band’s album spawned a string of hit singles
speculate: 猜测
spur: spur significant progress in VQA domain
spurious: 虚假的
substantial: 大量的，价值巨大的，牢固的；本质
substantive: 实质性的；重大的；严肃认真的 I have yet to be convinced that the European Council is capable of reaching such a substantive agreement, given its past record.
succinct: 简明的;言简意赅的
susceptible: 亦受影响的，敏感 If you are susceptible to something or someone, you are very likely to be influenced by them.
synergy: 协同作用
synthetic: 合成的，人造的
T
tackle: 处理(难题或局面);向某人提起(问题或困难情况);抢球;抢断 To tackle the above problems,
tailor: 裁缝；订做 Special programmes of study are tailored to the needs of specific groups.
taxonomy：分类法
tedious: 乏味的, 冗长的
toolkit: 工具包
U
ubiquitous: 无处不在的
undertake: 承担，从事，承诺 She undertook the arduous task of monitoring the elections.
unexceptionally: 无一例外地
unified: 统一的
unravel: 解体；阐释，说明 unravel mechanisms of……
V
vanilla: 普通的
W
whereas：鉴于；然而 1. Whereas 10 years ago I would have worried myself to death about it, now I accept it is part of the game 2. Some of the studies show positive results, whereas others do not.
X
Y
yield: 产出，利润；屈服，产生，提供 VirTex yields features that match or exceed those learned on ImageNet
Z
句子
This is still up for debate.
常用
investigate, explore, probe, analyse
study, research,
adopt, employ
assess, evaluate
acquire, derive