2011考研英语练习:从阅读中记单词(二)
assert vt. 主张,坚称,断言
例句:You must assert yourself or they will continue to bully you. 你必须维护自己的权利,否则他们还会欺负你。
词组:assert oneself 坚持自己的权利; 表现自己的权威
同义词:affirm、declare、insist on、pronounce、state
advisor n. 顾问,劝告者,指导教师
例句:His amiability condemns him to being a constant advisor to other people's troubles. 他那和蔼可亲的性格使他成为经常为他人排忧解难的开导者。
bidding n. 命令,邀请,出价
例句:He was bidding for popular support. 他在设法争取大众的支持。
词组:at one's bidding/ at sb.'s bidding 依嘱,遵命 do one's bidding/ do sb.'s bidding 照……的命令做,照……的话办
barely ad. 几乎不
例句:He has barely enough money to live on. 他的钱仅够勉强维持生计。
词组:barely enough 勉强够 be barely of age 刚成年 a barely furnished room 陈设简陋的房间
同义词:hardly、just、scarcely
capture n. 抓取,战利品,捕获之物 vt. 抓取,获得,迷住
例句:They would offer a bounty of $100,000 for the capture of the murderer. 他们愿出十万元赏金捉拿凶手。
同义词:apprehend、arrest、imprison、seize
反义词:release
civilized a. 文明的,有礼的
例句:His new theory has caused a sensation throughout the civilized world. 他的新理论轰动了整个文明世界。
反义词:barbarous、uncivilized、wild
dam n. 水坝,障碍 vt. 控制,筑坝 vi. 控制,筑坝
例句:The mouth of the river is dammed and a freshwater lake created behind the dam. 河口筑起了拦河坝,坝后便形成了淡水湖。词组:devil's dam 鬼婆娘(骂妇女的话)
deprived a. 穷困的,丧失了受良好教育权利的,贫穷的
例句:These misfortunes almost deprived him of his reason. 这些不幸的事情几乎使他失去理智。
词组:deprived children 失学的孩子们
drought n. 干旱,缺乏
例句:Soon afterward drought set in. 不久之后又发生了干早。
反义词:wet
environmental a. 周围的,环境的
派生:environment n. 周围环境 environmentalist n. 环境保护者
例句:Living creatures must be adaptable to environmental change. 生物必须能适应环境的变化。
词组:an environmental factor 环境的因素
fascination n. 令人着迷的事物,入迷,魅力
例句:Old churches have a certain strange fascination for me. 旧教堂对我具有某种奇特的魅力。
guarantee n. 担保,抵押品,保证书 vt. 保证,担保
例句:Blue skies are not always a guarantee of fine weather. 蔚兰的天空并不永远保证晴朗的天气。
词组:stand guarantee for... 替……担任保证人
同义词:assure、back、certify、endorse、pledge、promise、secure、sponsor、stand for、swear、underwrite、warrant
反义词:guarantor
hydroelectric a. 水力电气的
词组:a hydroelectric power station 水力发电站
imagination n. 想像,听觉,想像力
例句:Dragons are creatures of Chinese fancy. 龙是中国人幻想出来的动物。
词组:beyond(all) imagination (完全)出乎意料地 draw on (one's) imagination 杜撰,编造
irrigation n. 灌溉,冲洗
例句:Public irrigation is the heart of cotton farming. 公共水利设施是棉花生产的命脉。
词组:an irrigation channel (canal) 灌溉渠 bring the farmland under irrigation使农田水利化
myth n. 神话,虚构的事,虚构的人
例句:He was a myth that had been created out of desperation and poverty and despair. 他是从绝境、贫困和失望中创造出来的一个神话般的人物。
meanwhile n. 其时,其间 ad. 同时,于此时
例句:Meanwhile, two other actors had carried two large food baskets to a shady spot under some trees. 与此同时,另外两位演员把两个盛着食物的大篮子拿到树下荫凉的地方。
symbol n. 符号,象征,代号,信条
例句:The private car was still a cherished status symbol. 私人小汽车仍然是一种地位高贵的标志。
词组:a chemical symbol 化学符号
status n. 状态,情形,地位,要人身份
例子:We celebrate our regained status as a sovereign and independent nation. 我们为重新取得了主权和独立国家的地位而欢欣鼓舞。
词组:the status of affairs 事态,形势 class status 阶级成分 a status seeker 想往上爬的人
同义词:class condition division grade position rank standing state station
silt n. 淤泥 vt. 使淤塞 vi. 淤塞
例句:The cadres were digging up river silt with the commune members. 干部同社员们一起在挖河泥。
词组:silt content/ the total volume of silt淤泥含量
scientific a. 科学的,系统的,符合科学规律的
例句:Scientific statistical figures are from Beijing scientific resources check 2000. 科学技术统计数字为2000年北京市科技资源清查数字。
词组:scientific experiment 科学实验 scientific point of view 科学观点
反义词:unscientific
troop n. 军队,装甲部队,骑兵队,部队 vi. 群集,结队,成群而行
例句:There were troops of friends to see him off. 有很多友人为他送行。
词组:get one's troop 升任骑兵连长 household troops 王室禁卫军
同义词:band、body、bunch、company、crew、crowd、gang、group、mob、party、unit