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r a book, film, product, etc: a piece of music inspired by dolphin sounds The design of the car has inspired many imitations. profession n. 1 any type of work which needs special training or a particular skill, often one which is respected because it involves a high level of education: He left the teaching profession in 1965 to set up his own business. The report notes that forty per cent of lawyers entering the profession are women. Teaching as a profession is very underpaid. He’s a doctor by profession. 2 the people who do a type of work, considered as a group: There’s a feeling among the nursing profession that their work is undervalued. 3 the professions jobs which need special training and skill, such as being a doctor or lawyer, but not work in business or industry calculate v. to judge the number or amount of sth. by using the information that you already have, and adding, multiplying, subtracting or dividing numbers: The cost of the damage caused by the recent storms has been calculated as/at over 163。5 million. The new tax system would be calculated on the value of property owned by an individual. [+ question word] At some stage we need to calculate when the project will be finished. [+ that] He’s calculated that it would take him two years to save up enough for a car. 經(jīng)典時(shí)文背誦 The major in Renaissance Studies is a special major in the humanities whose purpose is to contribute to an integrated understanding of the Western cultural tradition (see also Special Programs in the Humanities). It is an interdisciplinary(各學(xué)科間的) program that introduces us to that period in European history conventionally termed the Renaissance very roughly the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, the sixteenth century in northern and western Europe, 15001660 in England. Those choosing the major study several aspects of this rich civilization, including visual arts, social and political history, history of ideas and philosophy, religion, literature, and history of music. Such study of a distant era demands and fosters a capacity for intellectual flexibility。 wh at to be learned are the various languages of the era39。s visual arts, of early Protestantism (新教 ) and the CounterReformation, of records and objects, of Renaissance music, lyric poetry, epic, drama, and prose narrative. The program39。s challenge lies partly in the need to grasp systems of munication different from our own but possessing their own coherence and intricate (復(fù)雜的 ) relationships to each other. [來源 :Zx x k .Co m]