赵丽老师考研词汇总结
a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.我独居乡间,注意到平静生活的单调是如何地激发着创
造力。
depressant ♎♓☐❒♏♦☜⏹♦(抑制剂;镇静剂)←depress+ant物。参depression,2003年Text 4。
Some actors think they are elevating the stage when they're merely depressing the audience.当一些
演员不过是在败坏观众情绪的时候,他们还以为自己在提高着戏剧艺术。
hallucinogen ♒☜●◆♦♓⏹☜♎✞☜⏹(致幻剂)看作hallucin+o+gen,hallucin谐音“喝露性”,-o-连接字母,-gen后缀“致……之物”(参hydroelectric,1998年Passage 1),“喝下去会使
人露出本性的东西”;
hallucination ♒☜●◆♦♓⏹♏♓☞☜⏹(幻觉)←hallucin+ation。
psychedelic ♦♋♓♓♎♏●♓(致幻的;致幻剂)看作psyche+del+ic,psyche=psycho精神(e与o都可视为连接字母),del即DOC命令“删除”,-ic后缀,“能把精神删除的”→
致幻的→致幻剂
1997 Passage 4
重点词汇:
corrupt ☜❒✈☐♦(腐败的v.贿赂)即cor+rupt,cor-一起,rupt词根“打破”,“全部被糖衣炮弹打破了”。同根词:bankrupt→bank银行+rupt→破产的;interrupt→inter+rupt→打断。
Heaven is above all yet: there sits a judge that no king can corrupt.苍天高于所有的人:那里坐着
一位法官,任何国王都无法贿赂。
❒♓♦☐⏹♦☜♌♓●♓♦♓(责任;职责)是responsible(见2001年Passage 2)
的名词形式。A democracy in which everybody had an equal responsibility in everything would be
oppressive for the conscientious and licentious for the rest.所有的人对所有的事都负有同等义
务的民主,对勤恳负责的人是重负,对其余的人是放纵。responsibility — the price every man
must pay for freedom 责任——每个人都必须为自由而付出的代价。
property ☐❒☐☜♦♓(财产;性质)←proper固有的+ty名词后缀;参proper,1998年Passage 1。Property has its duties as well as its rights.财产既有权力也有义务。Regrets are the natural
property of grey hairs.懊悔是老年人的天性。
impatiently ♓❍☐♏♓☞☜⏹♦●♓(不耐烦地)即im+patient+ly,im-否定前缀,patient耐心的,-ly副词后缀;去ly即为形容词impatient。The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is
shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and
is bored by repetition.耳朵往往偷懒,渴望熟悉的东西,为意料之外的事情而震惊;眼睛则偏
于急躁,渴望新奇的东西,由于重复而生厌。
latitude ●✌♦♓♦◆♎(纬度;言行的自由度)即lati+tude,lati-(=lateral),-tude名词后缀。
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make latitudes and
longitudes.没有什么比得上有朋在远方更使地球显得如此巨大,他们构成了纬度和经度。
●✌♦♓♦◆♎(v.激怒),名词形式为irritation,与irrigation(1998年Passage 1)一字母之差。An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.
警句是一半的真理,只讲一半以便激怒相信另一半的人。
compromise ❍☐❒☜❍♋♓(v.n.妥协;折中)即com+promise,com-一起,promise答应,“对别人的要求全部答应”→妥协;“对各方的要求一起答应”→折中。All life is essentially
the contributions that come form compromise.整个人生基本上是妥协的结果。compromise —
①the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece ②simply
changing the question to fit the answer ③the most honest way to dissatisfy both parties 折中—
—①将一个蛋糕分开,让每个人都相信自己分得的一块最大的艺术②简单地改变一下问题,
使之适合于答案③使双方都不满意的最可靠办法。
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