provincialist [prvinlist] n.地方主義者，地方居民
[真題例句] Quebec’s resistance to a national agency is provincialist ideology.[2005年新題型]
[例句精譯] 魁北克省拒絕加入全國性代理機構是出於地方保護主義思想。
profitability [prftblt] n.收益性，利益率
[真題例句] His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability.[1998年閱讀2]
[例句精譯] 他的同事邁克·比爾說，太多的'企業用機械的方式進行重組機構，在沒有充分考慮到長期效益的情況下就降低了成本。
presumptively [prizmptivli] ad.據推測
[真題例句] He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear ... that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.”[2002年閱讀4]
[例句精譯] 他說，行醫資格理事會“必須明確表明——病人痛苦地死亡，可以推定，是由於醫生處理不力造成的，應該因此吊銷其從醫資格”。
prescientific [pri:saintifik] a.科學以前的，近代科學以前的
[真題例句] It will not solve our problems, however, until it replaces traditional prescientific views, and these are strongly entrenched.[2002年翻譯]
[例句精譯] 然而只有當這種技術手段取代傳統科學出現前的觀點時才能解決這些問題，而這些傳統觀念相當根深蒂固。
