怎样背高阶词汇(词汇真记讲解)(1)

Lecture

1.collect [kə'lekt]

v. 收集,搜集;领取,接走;收(税等);聚集,堆积

【同义词】

gather;

[真题例句]

She is collecting material for her latest novel.

参考译文:她在为其最新的小说收集素材。(1988考研英语阅读text4)

2.collection [kə'lekʃən]

n. 收藏(品),收集(物)

[真题例句]

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

参考译文:批评家还指出,商业化的基因检测的效果好坏取决于用于样本比对的参照基因库。(2009考研英语阅读text2)

3. collective [kə'lektiv]

n. 集体 a. 集体的,共同的

[真题例句]

For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.

参考译文:对这一代人而言,“社会的分选机制应该是利益”已成为集体信条。(2015考研英语阅读text4)

4. college['kɔlidʒ]

n. 学院,高等专科学校,大学

[真题例句]

I struggled a lot to get the college degree.

参考译文:为了拿到大学文凭我努力拼搏。(2008考研英语阅读text1)

5. recollect[,rekə'lekt]

v.回忆,想起,记起,忆起,记得

【同义词】

【真题例句】

recommend[,rekə'mend]

v. 推荐,介绍;劝告,建议

【同义词】

present advise

【真题例句】

First two hours, now three hours - this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight.(2017阅读1)

参考译文:以前是2小时,现在是3小时——这就是当局建议旅客提前到机场赶国内航班的时间。

6. dialect['daiəlekt]

n. 方言

7. diligent['dilidʒənt]

a.勤奋的,用功的

[同义词]

hardworking

[真题例句]

Workers tend to be diligent for the first few days of the week in any case, before hitting a plateau and then slackening off.(2010完形)

参考译文:不管在什么情况下,工人在每周的前几天往往都会努力工作,然后进入停滞期,随后懈怠下来。

8. elect[ɪˈlekt]

v.选举,推选;选择,作出选择

[同义词]

choose

[真题例句]

But the ruling reinforces the need for citizens and their elected representatives, not the courts, to ensure equality of access to government.(2017考研英语阅读Test4)

参考译文:公民和他们所选举的代表,不是法院,需要确保公平接触政府,但是这个判决强化了这一需要。

9. elegant['eliɡənt]

a.优雅的;端庄的;雅致的

[同义词]

graceful

[真题例句]

People are absorbed into “a culture of consumption” launched by the 19thcentury department stores that offered vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere.(2006 考研英语阅读Text 1)

参考译文: 人们沉迷于一种由19世纪的百货商店掀起的“消费文化”中。这些商店在高雅的环境中供应琳琅满目的商品。

10. intellect

11. intellectual[,intə'lektjuəl]

n. 知识分子 a. 智力的,理智的,有理解力的

真题例句

The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the history of the New World are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth century New England.(2009考研英语阅读Text 4)

参考译文:对北美新大陆的历史研究得最彻底的知识分子是17世纪新英格兰的牧师和政治领袖。

12. intelligent [in'telidʒent]

a. 聪明的,明智的,理智的

这才是它的非凡价值之一 —— 它的盲目的愚蠢。

真题例句

As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor.(2002考研英语阅读Text 2)

参考译文:由此引起的,现代世界充斥着越来越多的智能仪器,虽然我们几乎都注意不到他们,但他们的普遍存在却节省了许多人类劳动。

13. intelligence [in'telidʒəns]

n. 智力,聪明;理解力;情报,消息,报导

同义词

mentality;wit

真题例句

How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields? (2007考研英语阅读Text 2)

参考译文:智力的内涵有多少能够研究清楚?借助神经学、基因学、计算机科学以及其他学科,我们又可以了解多少有关智力内涵?

14. neglect [ni'ɡlekt]

v./n. 忽视;疏忽,漏做,忽略

【同义词】

ignore;oversight

【真题例句】

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.(2013考研英语新题型)

参考译文:但是,这一初衷并不是要忽略社会科学,而是恰恰相反。

15. negligible ['neɡlidʒəbl]

a. 可忽略不计的,微不足道的

16. select [si'lekt]

v. 选择,挑选 a. 精选的,选择的

【同义词】

pack choose from

【真题例句】

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials, those select people will do most of the work for them.(2010 Text 3)

参考译文:营销人员接受了这个两级流动理论,因为该理论表示,如果他们能够找到并影响有力人士,那么这些精挑细选的人就可以为他们完成大部分的工作。

17. selection [si'lekʃən]

n. 选择,挑选;选集,精选物

【同义词】

chose choice

【真题例句】

The grand mediocrity of today means that natural selection has lost 80% of its power in upper-middle-class India compared to the tribes.(2000阅读2)

参考译文:今天这种大规模的均一化意味着与部落比,自然选择在印度中上阶层已经失去了 80%的效能。

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