Oblivious和Obvious看起来是不是有点像？Oblivious的感觉和Obvious adj.明显的 这个词是相反的，是没有注意察觉的意思。这个词的中文“未察觉的”可能会给很多同学一个错误的认知，觉得是imperceptible的意思，其实在语境里，oblivious有种贬义一种傻儿吧唧啥都不知道的无知感。想象一个老同学，在聚会的时候一直呱呱地和别人讲自己孩子多么多么厉害，完全他一直就霸占着话头没给别人一点炫耀的机会和时间：he got too absorbed，oblivious to the passage of time。
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The documentation of Earth’s biodiversity is complicated by the (i)___ taxonomists. Those experts in classifying species tent to be (ii)___ North American and Europe, whereas most of the undocumented biodiversity is likely in the tropics.
A. uneven distribution of
B. theoretical commitments of
C. professional rivalries among
D. clustered in
E. oblivious to
F. exported from
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If giant X-ray flares churn circumstellar disks enough to keep newborn planets, such as Earth once was, from spiraling into their suns, it would be an ironic twist on our conception of X-ray flares as __A_E__.
