托福閱讀中的熟詞僻義（1）

　　在托福閱讀考試中，他也經(jīng)常會(huì)出現(xiàn)一些熟詞僻義，如果大家不了解這些生僻的釋義，很容易讓我們誤解文章的內(nèi)容。因此小編在這里整理了考試中比較常見(jiàn)的詞匯，供大家參考。

　　address

　　熟義:n.地址

　　僻義:V.解決; 向…致辭,演說(shuō)

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

　　e.g. an address to the European Parliament 致歐洲議會(huì)的演講(向…致辭,演說(shuō))

　　novel

　　熟義:n.小說(shuō)

　　僻義: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.

　　它將成為一次新奇的經(jīng)歷，可能成為你們今后的談話的一個(gè)話題，是的，也是下次約會(huì)的一個(gè)約定。

　　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 )

　　雖然從后來(lái)的角度很難想象，但20世紀(jì)20年代的一種批評(píng)性觀點(diǎn)預(yù)測(cè)有聲電影將是一種技術(shù)上的新事物，這種新事物很快就會(huì)從人們的視野中消失。

　　sound

　　熟義:n.聲音,語(yǔ)音,噪音v.聽(tīng)起來(lái)

　　僻義:adj.健全的,合理的,有效徹底的,健康的

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

　　對(duì)這樣的理論持懷疑態(tài)度是有充分理由的

　　weather

　　熟義:n.天氣

　　僻義:V經(jīng)受風(fēng)雨,度過(guò)難關(guān)

　　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)

　　地下水儲(chǔ)存在巖石的孔隙空間和節(jié)理以及未固結(jié)(未凝固)的沉積物中，或儲(chǔ)存在裂隙和風(fēng)化作用加寬的開(kāi)口中

　　might

　　熟義:may的過(guò)去式

　　僻義:n.力量,威權(quán)( with might and main:盡全力)

　　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世紀(jì)，隨著意大利城市喪失了大部分經(jīng)濟(jì)實(shí)力，其他歐洲強(qiáng)國(guó)取而代之。

　　game

　　熟義:n游戲比賽

　　僻義:n.獵物

　　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)

　　早期的探險(xiǎn)者和定居者在19世紀(jì)初就談?wù)撨^(guò)大量的鹿，但幾乎是在同一時(shí)間，他們都在哀嘆這種多肉的狩獵動(dòng)物的缺乏。