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abound
pick up
aspire
contract
elite
supreme court
jury
dim
comprise
intervening
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先来看看abound这个词
aboundv. 大量存在,丰富
用法:abound 跟in, with 都可以,小心完型!
注意!
主语可以是丰富存在的事物,意思为大量存在于……
Fish abound in the sea.鱼类大量存在于海洋里。
也可以是包含丰富事物的主体,意思为拥有着大量的……
Some languages abounds in idioms. 有些语言拥有大量习惯用语。
上考研例句!
2011考研阅读
As the economy picks up,opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.
先试试翻翻看,再比较查查老师的参考译文。
重点:
abound
注意!在这里pick up 不是拾起的意思,而是提升,好转。
看例句
● Industrial production is beginning to pick up.
工业生产开始好转。
有的伙伴还记得该词组还有学习,习得、顺路接某人的意思。hin不错哎!
这里查查老师再补充pick up的其他几个重要用法
1、发现,找到,识别(特点或模式)
● Consumers in Europe are slow to pick up trends in the useof information technology.
欧洲消费者在辨别信息技术应用的潮流上表现迟缓。
2、重提,接过(观点或话题)
● Can I just pick up that gentleman's point?...
我能接着那位先生的意思往下说吗?
3、得(病);染上(疾病)
● They've picked up a really nasty infection from something they've eaten.
他们因吃错东西而得了很严重的感染症。
拓展:
近义词拓展:contract 感染,患(病)
● He contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion...
他因为输血而感染了艾滋病。
再来看 aspire
① (VERB) 向往;渴望;有志于
● ...people who aspire to public office...
渴望担任公职的人
● They aspired to be gentlemen, though they fell far shortof the ideal.
他们想要成为君子,虽然离这个理想还差得很远。
注意:
aspire to sth 渴望拥有 to是介词 小心完型!
aspireto do sth 渴望去做 to 是动词不定式引导词
2014年6月六级阅读
Most mothers do not aspire to elite, competitive full-time positions: the Swedish policies have given them the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they prefer.
重点: elite
① (N-COUNT) 精英;杰出人物
● ...a government comprised mainly of the elite...
主要由精英组成的政府
● We have a political elite in this country.
我们国家有一群政治精英。
② (ADJ-GRADED) 精英的;精锐的;最优秀的
● ...the elite troops of the President's bodyguard.
精锐的总统卫队
英语二很喜欢考查elite这个词
下面两句话分别是当年的阅读原文,试着翻译一下,每个句子三分钟。再对比一下查查老师的参考译文,尤其关注红色部分,是当年题眼所在。
2010年英语二阅读 遇到法律题材尤其要小心!
Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws.
2012年英语二阅读 dim是考点!
The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.
dim这个词确实低频,但考一次就2分啊!
① (ADJ-GRADED) 昏暗的,隐约的,模糊的
●She stood waiting, in the dim light...
她站在昏暗的光线下等待。
●Pete's torch picked out the dim figures of Bob and Chang.
皮特的火把映出了鲍勃和张的模糊身影。
●It seems that the '60s era of social activism is all but a dim memory.
20 世纪 60 年代的社会激进主义似乎只是一个模糊的记忆。
② (ADJ-GRADED) (前景)灰暗的,渺茫的,不光明的
●The prospects for a peaceful solution are dim.
和平解决的希望非常渺茫。
③ (V-ERG) (使) 变昏暗;变暗淡;(使)(记忆)变模糊
●The houselights dimmed.
观众席的灯暗了下来。
●Their memory of what happened has dimmed...
他们对所发生事情的记忆变得模糊了。
●The intervening years had dimmed his memory.
经过了其间那么多年他的记忆已经不大清楚了。
④(V-ERG) (使)(前景、希望等)变渺茫;(使)(感情等)淡化
●Their economic prospects have dimmed...
他们的经济前景变得很暗淡。
顺便说一句 点心: dim sum
相关参考译文:
As the economy picks up,opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.
随着经济好转,对于有抱负的领导者来说,市场机遇将会大量出现。
大多数母亲并不向往职场精英们的那些竞争性强的全职岗位。瑞典警方给予了这些母亲相当大的自由度,让她们有机会去实现自己向往的生活。
2010年英语二阅读
Although the Supreme Court of the United States had prohibited intentional racial discrimination in jury selection as early as the 1880 case of Strauder v. West Virginia, the practice of selecting so-called elite or blue-ribbon juries provided a convenient way around this and other antidiscrimination laws.
尽管早在1880年斯特劳德对西弗吉利亚州的案件中,最高法院就已经禁止在陪审团选择过程中带有故意的种族歧视,但是诸如选择精英陪审团或者蓝带陪审团的做法却方便地绕过了这个禁令和其他反歧视法律法规。
2012年英语二阅读
The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed:those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise would have been if they had graduated in better times; it is the masses beneath them that are left behind.
来自哥大经济学家Till Von Wachter的研究表明即使在经济衰退期,并不是所有人的人生机遇都会变得暗淡(并不是所有人都会面临惨淡的人生),那些名牌大学毕业生会非常快速地赶上经济繁荣时期他们能够达到的水平,并快速超过其他非名牌大学毕业生。
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