【真题例句】 Either way, one benefit of a “national” organization would be to negotiate better prices, if possible, with drug manufacturers. [2005年阅读新题型]
【经典译文】不管国家是何种含义，“国家”机构的好处之一就是能够通过谈判从医药生产商哪里获得更优惠的价格。
【僻义熟性】n. 退休金，救济金，保险费
【真题例句】 37. Corporations and labor unions have ________ great benefits upon their employees and members as well as upon the general public.
[A] conferred [99年词汇37题]
【经典译文】公司和工会已经给它们的雇员、会员以及广大公众提供了许多福利待遇。
【僻义熟性】v. 得益于 (from, in)
【真题例句】What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition -- if not always their own then that of their parents and grandparents. [2000年阅读Text5]
【经典译文】奇怪的是他们或许已经从雄心壮志中受益匪浅――如果不是他们自己的雄心，那么就是他们父辈或祖父辈的雄心。
Argue(24次)
【熟义熟性】v. 争论，辩论
【真题例句】 The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless.[1997年翻译]
【经典译文】关键问题是：如果对人的权利没有共同认识，那么讨论动物的权利就是毫无结果的。
【僻义熟性】v. 认为，主张，论证；说服
【真题例句】 He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer think straight because we do not talk proper.[2005年阅读Text4]
【经典译文】不像其他大多数人，麦克沃特先生并不认为我们说话方式不规范就会造成我们的思维混乱。
Climate(15次)
【熟义熟性】n.气候; (气候)地带
【真题例句】 The flight from overcrowdedness affects the migration from snow belt to more bearable climates.[1998年阅读Text4]
【经典译文】逃离人口过度稠密区的做法改变了以前那种离开寒冷地带去气候宜人之地的趋势。
【僻义熟性】n. 风气，社会思潮
【真题例句】 When the work is well done, a climate of accident-free operations is established where time lost due to injuries is kept at a minimum.[1999年完形]
【经典译文】如果此项工作做得好的话，就会形成无事故作业的好风气，因此那儿的因工伤事故所造成的时间损失就会被控制在最低限度。
Academic(10次)
【熟义熟性】a. 学院的，学业的
【真题例句】 If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values.[1995年阅读text4]
【经典译文】如果学校对学业的强调减少一些，也许就有更多的时间教孩子更重要的价值观念。
【僻义熟性】a. 学术的
【真题例句】 Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.[2005年阅读4]
【经典译文】麦克沃特先生的学术专长在于语言史和语言变化，举例来说，他认为“whom”一词的逐渐消失是很自然的，并不比旧式英语中词格的消失更让人惋惜。
【僻义僻性】 n. 学者，大学教师
【真题例句】 Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “reengineering” has been crude.[1998年阅读text2]
【经典译文】哈佛学者伦纳德·施莱辛格是一家迅速扩张的美味面包店的前总裁，他说，许多“企业重组”都不成熟。
【同源词】academy学院，学会
National Academy of Science国家科学学院
Fuel(10次)
【熟义熟性】燃料，能源
【真题例句】Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.[2002年阅读text3] |
