六级The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.

2001年，丹尼斯·蒂托（Dennis Tito）乘坐一艘俄罗斯宇宙飞船，耗资2000万美元，成为一名富有冒险精神的百万富翁工程师，太空旅游的概念开始深入人心。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级And although anxious parents may not welcome the notion, educators could turn adolescent recklessness to academic ends.

尽管焦虑的家长可能不欢迎这种想法，但教育者可能会将青少年的鲁莽行为转变为学术目的。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

六级That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope,' Doctor Snyder said, 'Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.

斯奈德博士说，这一概念不够具体，它模糊了希望的两个关键组成部分，有希望意味着相信你有实现目标的意愿和方法，不管目标是什么。

2010年12月听力原文

四级The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.

科学家昨天说，普遍认为老年人比年轻人需要更少的睡眠是一个神话。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right

在设计一种科学评估希望的方法时，斯奈德博士超越了希望只是一切都会好起来的简单概念

2010年12月听力原文

考研It can catch someone's attention in a crowded room, "eye contact and smile" can signal availability and confidence, a common-sense notion supported in studies by psychologist Monica Moore.

在拥挤的房间里，它能引起某人的注意，“目光接触和微笑”能表明你有空和自信，心理学家莫妮卡·摩尔的研究支持了这一常识概念。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级However, the relatively inexpensive computer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way inferior to more highly structured classroom education.

然而，相对便宜的计算机技术，今天是现成的，导致一些人质疑的概念，即家庭教育在任何方面都不如更高度结构化的课堂教育。

2013年12月听力原文

四级finally, she addresses self-respect and the notion that a person's sense of beauty must include more than how much a person weighs.

最后，她谈到了自尊，以及一个人的美感必须包括比一个人体重更多的东西。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.

更好的办法是帮助提升美的概念，使之超越特定行业的物质标准。

2016年考研阅读原文

六级In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.

在设计一种科学评估希望的方法时，斯奈德博士超越了希望只是一切都会好起来的简单概念。

2010年12月听力原文

六级The central notion of social learning theories is that people learn attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors through social interaction.

社会学习理论的核心概念是人们通过社会互动学习态度、信念和行为。

2013年6月阅读原文

考研It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work, Hagel says.

哈格尔说：“现在是时候重新设计工作方式了，因为我们仍然依赖于20世纪的工作观念。”。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级tim Joseph was fascinated by the notion that sunlight brings energy and wealth to mankind.

蒂姆·约瑟夫被阳光为人类带来能量和财富的观念迷住了。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Notions of modesty restricted women in the victorian era, but they still swam.

在维多利亚时代，谦逊的观念限制了女性，但她们仍然会游泳。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

六级The third type of feedback is disconfirmation, which occurs when others fail to respond to your notion of self by responding neutrally

第三种类型的反馈是不确认，当其他人没有对你的自我概念做出中立的反应时，就会出现这种情况

2013年6月听力原文

六级Isaac Asimov evaded the whole notion of morality in devising his three laws of robotics, which hold that Robots cannot harm humans or allow humans to come to harm; Robots must obey humans, except where the order would conflict with law 1; and Robots must act in self-preservation, unless doing so conflicts with laws 1 or These laws are programmed into Asimov's robots-they don' t have to think, judge, or value.

艾萨克·阿西莫夫在设计机器人三定律时回避了整个道德概念，该定律认为机器人不能伤害人类或允许人类受到伤害；机器人必须服从人类，除非该命令与法律1相冲突；机器人必须自我保护，除非这样做与定律1或这些定律被编程到阿西莫夫的机器人中，他们不必思考、判断或评估。

2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷二）

六级We also need to abandon the notion that agriculture can be “zero impact”.

我们还需要摒弃农业可以“零影响”的观念。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U. S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to understand how they have been buying into the notion that you have to be thin to be happy or successful.

自2001年以来，美国已有1000多名高中生和大学生参加了“身体项目”，该项目旨在让女孩们了解她们是如何接受这样一种观念的，即你必须瘦才能快乐或成功。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds.

但大自然对人类的公平观念漠不关心，鱼类和野生动物管理局的一份报告显示，北大西洋几种海龟的数量出现了令人担忧的下降，尤其是红海龟，它们可以长到400磅。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级’ In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snyder went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.

“在设计一种科学评估希望的方法时，斯奈德博士超越了简单的概念，即希望只是一切都会好起来的感觉。

2010年12月英语六级真题

六级'That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two key components of hope,’ Doctor Snyder said, 'Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.

斯奈德博士说：“这个概念还不够具体，它模糊了希望的两个关键组成部分，拥有希望意味着相信你有意愿和方法来实现你的目标，无论它们是什么。”。

2010年12月英语六级真题

四级The notion that all stress makes you sick also ignores a lot of what we know about people.

所有压力都会让你生病的想法也忽略了我们对人的很多了解。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级White believes our notions of a more child-centered, it’ a way of talking about treating our children like commodities(商品).

怀特认为，我们的观念更以儿童为中心，这是一种把我们的孩子当作商品对待的方式(商品).

2008年12月英语四级考试真题

四级The notion that animals can weep has no scientific basis.

动物会哭泣的观点没有科学依据。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级The development of self-consciousness and the notion of individual identity, or ego; storytelling about the origins of the world, the creation of humanity and life after death; and the ability to feel others, sadness—all were critical parts of the neurobiological changes that made us human.

自我意识的发展和个人身份的概念，或自我；讲述世界的起源、人类的创造和死后的生活；感受他人的能力，悲伤——所有这些都是使我们成为人类的神经生物学变化的关键部分。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the idle old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled.

但是，工作的年轻人和无所事事的老年人之间的急剧划分的概念忽略了一个新趋势，即技术人员和非技术人员之间的差距越来越大。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套)

四级Scientists have found that dreaming about a task we’ve learned is associated with improved performance in that activity (suggesting that there’s some truth to the popular notion that we’re “getting” a foreign language once we begin dreaming in it).

科学家们发现，梦到我们所学的任务与提高该活动的表现有关（这表明，一旦我们开始做梦，我们就会“学会”一门外语这一流行观点是有道理的）。

2020年7月大学英语四级真题

四级“The notion that as parents we need to schedule every minute of their time is not doing them a great service,” he said.

他说：“作为父母，我们需要安排他们每一分钟的时间，这对他们来说并不是一个很好的服务。”。

2020年9月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级That comment, says Mothering Justice director Danielle Atkinson,“was meant to shame and relied on the familiar notion that a woman of color concerned about income inequality and programs that pro-mote mobility must by definition be a single mom, probably with multiple kids.

《母亲正义》导演丹妮尔·阿特金森表示，这一评论“意在羞辱并基于一种熟悉的观念，即关注收入不平等和促进远程流动的有色人种女性必须是单身母亲，可能有多个孩子。”。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研Most contemporary physicists reject the notion that man can ever discover what these mysterious forces “really” are.

大多数当代物理学家拒绝接受这样一种观点，即人类可以发现这些神秘力量“真正”是什么。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The non-specialist will be able to obtain at least a notion of the sorts of data and argument that support evolutionary theory.

非专家将至少能够获得支持进化理论的各种数据和论据的概念。

1996年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request.

网络文化高度重视这样一种观念，即屏幕上的信息是根据特定的要求而来的。

1999年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Computerue011education advocates forsake this optimistic notion for a pessimism that betrays their otherwise cheery outlook.

Computerue011教育倡导者放弃了这种乐观的观念，转而悲观，这背叛了他们原本乐观的前景。

1999年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Although both Sapir and Whorf emphasized the diversity of languages, Sapir himself never explicitly supported the notion of linguistic determinism.

尽管萨皮尔和沃尔夫都强调语言的多样性，但萨皮尔本人从未明确支持语言决定论的概念。

2004年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past.

这个概念是，人们没有发现海洋中发生的巨大变化，因为他们只回顾了相对较短的过去。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研For example, notions of evidence and fact, of basic rights and public interest are at work in the process of journalistic judgment and production just as in courts of law.

例如，证据和事实、基本权利和公共利益的概念在新闻判断和制作过程中发挥作用，就像在法庭上一样。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions of significance and make their own judgments.

虽然律师的评论和反应可能会加强报道，但记者最好依靠自己的意义观念，做出自己的判断。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题