新东方考研词汇下载-2012考研英语词汇表[1]

赵丽老师考研词汇总结

1998 Passage 1

重点词汇：

imagination / ♓❍✌♎✞♓⏹♏♓☞☜⏹ （想象；想象力）←imagin(e)想象+tion名词后缀。

Imagination is more important than knowledge.想象力比知识更重要。imagination —①the highest kite one can fly ②a poor substitute for experience 想象——①一个人能放得最高的风筝②经验

的劣质替代品。

symbol / ♦♓❍♌☜● / （符号；象征）即sym+bol，sym-共同，bol看作ball，“共同喜欢球类运动”→这是现代人的“象征”。Light is the symbol of truth.光是真理的象征。

cement / ♦♓❍♏⏹♦ / （v.胶合；巩固n.水泥；胶接剂）。A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of love.温柔天真的依从是爱情的粘合剂。

deprive / ♎♓☐❒♋♓ / （v.剥夺）即de+priv+e，de-(=away)，priv词根“个人的”（如private →priv+ate→私人的），“使某物离开个人”→剥夺。Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.贫穷常使人丧失全部精神与美德，空袋子是难以

直立的。

persist / ☐☜☎✆♦♓♦♦ / （v.坚持，持续）即per+sist，per-“完全”，sist词根“站立”，于是“自始至终都站着”→坚持。参consistently（始终如一地），1999年Passage 5。To persist in efforts without losing the aim will finally result in success.不失目标地坚持努力终将导致成功。complex / ❍☐●♏♦ / （复杂的；综合的；联合体）即com+plex，com-“一起”，plex 词根“重叠”，“重叠在一起的”→复杂的。参perplex（使困惑，使复杂化）←per完全+plex，2003年Text 2。Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.凡事都比你思考的简单，同时比你想象的复杂。

go-ahead n.批准，允许。

wrong-headed 执迷不悟的。

environmental ♓⏹♋♓☜❒☜⏹❍♏⏹♦●  （周围的，环境的）←environment环境+al形容词后缀。What is the thing called health? Simply a state in which the individual happens transiently to be perfectly adapted to his environment. Obviously, such states cannot be common, for the environment is in constant flux.称为健康的东西是什么？不过是一种状态，处于这种状态的人刚好一时对环境完全适应。这种状态显然不可能常见，因为环境是在不断改变的。environment —everything that isn't me 环境——除我以外的一切。

proper ☐❒☐☜  （适当的；合乎体统的；固有的）。Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.风度的准确定义就是在适当的场合说适当的话。A fool, indeed, has great need of a title; it teaches men to call him count or duke, and thus forget his proper name of fool.傻瓜的确非常需要头衔，那使人们称他为伯爵或公爵，从而忘掉他固有的名字——傻瓜。

resolve ❒♓●  （v.n.决心；解决；决议）←re+solve解决。同根词：dissolve（v.

溶解；解散）←dis+solve。The reason why a great man is great is that he resolves to be a great man.

伟人之所以伟大，是因为他立志要成为伟人。

conflict ⏹♐●♓♦  （v.n.冲突）即con+flict，con-一起，flict词根“打”，“打在一起”→冲突。A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crisis.没有冲突的婚姻几乎与没有危机的国家一样难以想象。

hydroelectric ♒♋♓♎❒☜♓●♏♦❒♓ / （水电的）即hydro+electric，hydro词根“水的”，electric单词“电的”。另记：hydrogen（氢）←hydro+gen，这是化学家创造的英文单词，因为氢气燃烧的唯一产物是水，-gen后缀意为“致……的物质”。

irrigation ♓❒♓♈♏♓☞☜⏹  （灌溉；水利）与irritation（激怒；刺激物）一字母

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