考研英语:必须牢记的熟词辟义
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考研英语词汇中,如果说核心词汇是重点的话,那么熟词僻义,即常见词的非常见意义就是难点。不少同学对于熟词僻义的掌握较差,一个重要原因是不能理解各个词义之间的关系,如本义与引申义之间的关系。一般而言,本义是词的常见义,引申义是词的非常见义。例如,embrace的本义是“拥抱”,引申义是“包括,接受”。由“拥抱”的动作可以联想“包括”之义,因为“拥抱”就是将对方“包括”在手臂之内。由“拥抱”的象征意义也可以联想“接受”之义,因为“拥抱”对方,一般表示“接受”对方。下面老师将结合真题例句给大家介绍几个考频比较高的熟词,大家需牢记这些词汇的僻义。

1. odd a. 临时的

Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every variety. (2007, Text 4)

迄今为止,信息保护工作一直被留给临时的、低层次的信息技术人员承担,并且只被看成是信息资源丰富产业所关切的一个方面,比如银行业、电信业以及航空旅行业,如今,信息保护则成为各类商业老板议事日程中需要优先考虑的问题。

2. weather v. 抵抗,克服

This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. ( 2007, Text 3)

这种“额外工人效应”可以支持由失业保险或残疾保险提供的安全网,以便帮助家庭渡过难关。

3. voice n. 意见,发言权

Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. ( 2005, Text 2)

就象吸烟问题一样,来自不同领域的意见坚持认为有关全球变暖的科学资料还不完整。在我们证实这件事之前可以向大气中不断的排放气体。

4. spell n.一段时间

Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. ( 2002, Text 2)

虽然起初在20世纪60年代和70年代有过一段乐观的时期,因为在当时看来,似乎晶体管电路和微处理器的发展将使他们在2010年能够模仿人类大脑的活动,但是最近研究人员已经开始将这个预测延后数十年,如果不是数百年的话。

5. weigh v. 考虑,权衡

At the same time, the American Law Institute — a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight — issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. (1999, Text 1)

与此同时,美国法学会——该学会由一群法官、律师、学者所组成,他们的建议举足轻重——签署了新的民事侵害法纲要,宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险,或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能造成的危险的清单。

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