【真題】That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to shake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.
【例】The entrance door is a 5-meter-high, 3-sheet-folding iron structure that inserts into a lateral marble wall.入口大門有5米高,3層可折疊的鐵板結構,旁邊的支撐墻用大理石裝飾。
【同義替換】adjacent
【派生】bilateral a.雙邊的
【真題】A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming “I wanted to spend more time with my family”.
【例】The new law was quite controversial.新頒布的法律具有很大的爭議。
【構詞】contro(相反)+vers(轉)+ial→意見轉向相反的方向→有爭議的
【同義替換】disputable, debatable
【派生】controversy n.爭議
【真題】In Arizona vs. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona’s controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigration law.