托福阅读中的熟词僻义

　　在托福阅读考试中，他也经常会出现一些熟词僻义，如果大家不了解这些生僻的释义，很容易让我们误解文章的内容。因此小编在这里整理了考试中比较常见的词汇，供大家参考。

　　address

　　熟义:n.地址

　　僻义:V.解决; 向…致辞,演说

　　e.g. You can address this problem with a single gateway event engine.

　　e.g. an address to the European Parliament 致欧洲议会的演讲(向…致辞,演说)

　　novel

　　熟义:n.小说

　　僻义:adj.新奇的

　　It’ll be a novel experience that can be a subject of future conversations and, yes, a promiseof a next date.

　　它将成为一次新奇的经历，可能成为你们今后的谈话的一个话题，是的，也是下次约会的一个约定。

　　Novelty n. 新奇;新奇的事物

　　Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight. (TPO12 – 2: TRANSITION TO SOUND IN FILM )

　　虽然从后来的角度很难想象，但20世纪20年代的一种批评性观点预测有声电影将是一种技术上的新事物，这种新事物很快就会从人们的视野中消失。

　　sound

　　熟义:n.声音,语音,噪音v.听起来

　　僻义:adj.健全的,合理的,有效彻底的,健康的

　　There are sound reasons for being skeptical of theories like this one(TPO 18 – 2: THE MYSTERY OF YAWNING)

　　对这样的理论持怀疑态度是有充分理由的

　　weather

　　熟义:n.天气

　　僻义:V经受风雨,度过难关

　　Groundwater is stored in the pore spaces and joints of rocks and unconsolidated (unsolidified) sediments or in the openings widened through fractures and weathering. (TPO 12 – 3: WATER IN THE DESERT)

　　地下水储存在岩石的孔隙空间和节理以及未固结(未凝固)的沉积物中，或储存在裂隙和风化作用加宽的开口中

　　might

　　熟义:may的过去式

　　僻义:n.力量,威权( with might and main:尽全力)

　　By the seventeenth century, however, other European powers had taken over, as the Italian cities lost much of their economic might. (TPO 25 – 2: THE DECLINE OF VENETIAN SHIPPING)

　　然而，到了17世纪，随着意大利城市丧失了大部分经济实力，其他欧洲强国取而代之。

　　game

　　熟义:n游戏比赛

　　僻义:n.猎物

　　The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal.(TPO 4 – 1: DEER POPULATIONS OF THE PUGET SOUND)

　　早期的探险者和定居者在19世纪初就谈论过大量的鹿，但几乎是在同一时间，他们都在哀叹这种多肉的狩猎动物的缺乏。

　　panel

　　熟义:n.仪表板,面板

　　僻义:n专家小组

　　It should be a great panel!

　　这将是一支很棒的专家小组!

　　tap

　　熟义:V轻拍,n.水龙头,栓头

　　僻义:V开发

　　The rate of movement may be very slow: in the Indus plain, the movement of saline(salty) ground waters has still not reached equilibrium after 70years of being tapped.(TPO12 – 3: WATER IN THE DESERT)

　　移动速度可能非常缓慢:在印度河平原，经过70年的开采，含盐地下水的移动仍然没有达到平衡。

　　promise

　　熟义:V./n承诺

　　僻义:n有希望,有前途( promising:(形)有希望的,有前途的)

　　V.有望做某事

　　At the same time, operators of the first printing presses run by steam rather than by hand found it possible to produce a thousand pages in an hour rather than thirty. Steam also promised to eliminate a transportation problem not fully solved by either canal boats or turnpikes.(TPO 6 – 1: POWERING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION)

　　与此同时，第一批印刷机的操作人员发现，用蒸汽而不是手工，可以在一小时内印出一千页纸，而不是三十页。蒸汽机还有望消除运河船只和收费公路无法完全解决的运输问题。

　　nature

　　熟义:n自然

　　僻义:n.天性,本质,本性( human nature人性

　　Pluto is not included in either category, because its great distance from Earth and its small size make this planet's true nature a mystery. (TPO 16 – 3: PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM)

　　冥王星不属于这两类，因为它离地球很远，体积又小，这颗行星的真实性质是个谜

　　spell

　　熟义：拼写

　　僻义：一段时间

　　Escape involves such actions as aestivation, a condition of prolonged dormancy, or torpor, during which animals reduce their metabolic rate and body temperature during the hot season or during very dry spells.(26 – 2: SURVIVAL OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN DESERT CONDITIONS)

　　逃逸包括夏眠(一种长期休眠或麻木状态)等行为，在此期间，动物在炎热季节或非常干燥的时期会降低新陈代谢率和体温。

　　readily

　　熟义: adv. 乐意地

　　僻义：adv. 容易地;无困难地=easily

　　Exhibitors, however, wanted to maximize their profits, which they could do more readily by projecting a handful of films to hundreds of customers at a time (rather than one at a time) and by charging 25 to 50 cents admission.(TPO 2 – 3: EARLY CINEMA)

　　然而，放映商想要最大化他们的利润，他们可以更容易地做到这一点，一次向数百名客户放映少量电影(而不是一次放映一部)，并收取25至50美分的入场费。

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