四六级熟词僻义单词.doc

四六级常考熟词僻义单词1. Academic a.学校的，学院的；学术的；n.学者，大学教师 例句 If the academic (a.) work in school was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values. 例句 Mr. McWhorters academic (a.) 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.例句 Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic (n.) and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “reengineering” has been crude.2. Accommodate v.留宿，收容；供应，供给；使适应；使符合 例句: And they also need to give serious thought to how they can be best accommodate () such changes. 3. Acknowledge v.承认，认为；致谢；确认 例句: Dr. Worm acknowledges () that these figures are conservative, one reason for this is that fishing technology has improved.4. Act v.行动，做事；（on）起作用,认为；表演；（for）代表，代替；n.行为，动作；（一）幕；法令，条例 例句: Governments throughout the world act (v.) on the assumption that the welfare of their people depends largely on the economic strength and wealth of the community.例句: The paid manager acting (v.) for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.例句 The commercial TV channels ITV and Channel 4were required by the Thatcher Governments Broadcasting Act (n.) to become more commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs.5. address n.地址，通讯处，致词；v.致函，写姓名地址；向讲话；处理 例句: Depending on whom you are addressing (v.), the problems will be different.例句: Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are comprehensive programs that address (v.) the many needs of the homeless.6. Aggressive a.侵略的，好斗的；大胆的，积极的 例句: Now it is a social policy, the most important and aggressive () promoter of gambling in America is the government.7. Anchor n.锚；新闻节目主持人；v.抛锚，停泊, 位于例句 Fast-food eaters, news anchors (n.), text messengers, all smiling, smiling.例句 Hot spots, anchored (v.) in the deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the question. 8. Appreciate v.感谢，感激；正确评价，欣赏，赏识 The change in Japanese life-style is revealed in the fact that _. D the Japanese appreciate () their present life 9. Apprehensive a.有理解力的；忧虑的，担心的 例句: What is many captive shippers attitude towards the consolidation in the rail industry? D Apprehensive10 argue v.争论，辩论；认为，主张，论证；说服 例句: The point is this: without agreement on the rights of people, arguing () about the rights of animals is fruitless.例句 He is not arguing (), as many do, that we can no longer think straight because we do not talk proper. 11. Attach v.（to）缚上，系上，贴上；使依附，使隶属，使依恋；附加，附带；把放在 例句 A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the anti-science tag has been attached () to many other groups as well, from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research. 例句: They (particularly Quebec and Alberta) just want Ottawa to fork over additional billions with few, if any, strings attached ().例句: The modern school that hails technology argues that such masters as Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and inventors such as Edison attached great importance to, and derived great benefit from, craft information and technological devices of different kinds. 12. Contend v.竞争，斗争；坚决主张，声称，认为 例句 It is the playgoers, the RSC contends (), who bring in much of the towns revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.13. cook n.炊事员，厨师；v.烹调，煮，烧；伪造 例句If we intend to have friends to dinner, we plan the menu, make a shopping list, decide which food to cook first, and such planning is an essential for any type of meal to be served.例句 Like other human beings, he encounters moral issues even in everyday performance of his routine duties- he is not supposed to cook (n.) his experiments, manufacture evidence, or doctor his reports. 14. beam n.（横）梁，桁条；（光线的）束，柱；v.微笑；发光 例句 Our magazines feature beaming (v.) celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. 15. Cement n.水泥；胶泥，胶接剂；v.胶合；巩固，加强 例句 Egypts leadership in the Arab world was cemented (v.) by the Aswan High Dam. 16. Chair n.椅子；主席（职位）；vt.主持，担任 例句“Its your dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair (n.) of psychology at Chicagos Medical Center,“If you dont like it, change it.” 例句 Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment although no one had proposed to do so and asked an independent panel of experts chaired (vt.) by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning.17. climate n.气候；风气，社会思潮 例句 The flight from overcrowdedness affects the migration from snow belt to more bearable climates (). 例句 When the work is well done, a (43：climate) () of accident-free operations is established (44：where) time lost due to injuries is kept at a minimum. 18. code n.代码，代号，密码；法典，法规，规划 例句Native American languages are indeed different, so much different so that Navajo could be used by the US military as a code () during World War II to send secret messages. 例句(49) But his primary task is not to think about the moral code (), which governs his activity, any more than a businessman is expected to dedicate his energies to an exploration of rules of conduct in business. 19. column n.圆柱，柱状物；列；（报刊中的）专栏例句 “The test of any democratic society,” he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column (), “lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however disputable or irritating the results may sometimes be.” 20. contend v.竞争，斗争；坚决主张，声称，认为 例句 It is the playgoers, the RSC contends (), who bring in much of the towns revenue because they spend the night (some of them four or five nights) pouring cash into the hotels and restaurants.20. Coverage n.新闻报导（范围）；保险项目 例句With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporations news coverage (), as well as listen to it21. Crack n.裂纹，缝隙；破裂声；v.（使）开裂；解决；（get ing）开始 例句 As the dome grows, it develops deep fissures (cracks) (n.); in at least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean. 例句 Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked (v.) rearview mirror and a faulty steering wheel例句 So when the premiers gather in Niagara Falls to assemble their usual complaint list, they should also get cracking (v.) about something in their jurisdiction that would help their budgets and patients. 22. Craft n.工艺，手艺，技巧；飞机，飞船；行业；v.精工制作 例句 The modern school that hails technology argues that such masters as Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and inventors such as Edison attached great importance to, and derived great benefit from, craft (n.) information and technological devices of different kinds that were usable in scientific experiments. 例句The irony of the historian s craft (n.) is that its practitioners always know that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process .23. Deliver v.交付，递送；发表，表达，陈述；释放；接生 例句 Most notably, the Pointcast Network uses a screen saver to deliver () a continually updated stream of news and advertisements to subscribers computer monitors. 例句 Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver () in a relaxed and unforced manner. 24. digest v.消化；n.摘要，文摘 例句 70. This passage appears to be a digest (n.) of _.A a book review 25. Discipline n.纪律；学科；训练，训导；惩罚，处罚；vt.训练，训导；惩罚，约束 例句(72) Interest in historical methods has arisen less through external challenge to the validity of history as an intellectual discipline (n.) and more from internal quarrels among historians themselves. 例句 As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported, “With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline (n.), the American boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman.” 例句The cruel discipline (n.) of the strike and lockout taught the two parties to respect each others strength and understand the value of fair negotiation. 26. Dismiss v.免职，解雇，开除，解散；.不理会，不考虑 例句 He dismisses () a lot of the work of reengineering consultants as mere rubbish “the worst sort of ambulance-chasing.” 27. dock n.船坞，码头；v.入坞，停靠码头 例句 He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat docked at 5 a.m , then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m. 28. Doctor n.博士；医生；v.伪造，篡改 例句 “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, thats God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks hes a doctor (n.).” 例句 Like other human beings, he encounters moral issues even in everyday performance of his routine duties- he is not supposed to cook his experiments, manufacture evidence, or doctor (v.) his reports. 29. document n.公文，文献；vt.记载，证明例句 Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents (vt.) is unmistakable. 30. draft n.草稿，草案，草图；v.起草，草拟 例句 That group the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft (n.) of their recommendations. 例句 “Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities,” says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft (v.) the new guidelines. 31. Dramatic a.戏剧的，戏剧性的；剧烈的，激进的；显著的，引人注目的 例句 Yet, dramatic () instances of sudden forgetting can be seen to be adaptive.例句 As a physician, I know the most costly and dramatic () measures may be ineffective and painful. 例句 Straitfords briefs dont sound like the usual Washington back-and-forthing, whereby agencies avoid dramatic () declarations on the chance they might be wrong.32. Element n.元素；组成部分；人员，分子 例句 They are different (46：in that) their elements () are arranged differently, and each vitamin (47：performs) one or more specific functions in the body.例句 Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element () in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.例句 The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element () and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.33. Engage v.（in）从事，忙于；（to）与订婚；聘用；吸引 例句 Nevertheless Williamss suit charged that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling” intentionally worked to “lure” him to “engage () in conduct against his will” well.例句 The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging () a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders.例句 To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage () sympathy.34. experiment n.试验；v.（on）做实验 例句 Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments (n.) it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. 例句 He experimented (vi.) with antibacterial substances for nine years before he made his discovery. 35. Fabricate v.捏造，编造（谎言，借口等）；建造，制造 例句 (63) The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating () their data. 36. Fair a.公平的，合理的；相当的，尚好的；晴朗的；金发的；n.集市，交易会，博览会 例句 To be fair (a.), this observation is also frequently made of Canada and Canadians, and should best be considered North American. 例句 In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded at country fairs (n.) and at the industrial fairs in major cities. 37. Fashion n.流行式样（或货品），风尚，风气；样子，方式；vt.形成，制作，塑造 例句 More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion (n.), companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. 例句 His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic fashion (n.), chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. 例句 If the Administration wont take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning (vt.) conservation measures. 38feature n.特征，特色；（报纸或杂志）特写；容貌，面貌；v.给显著地位 例句The complementary coastlines and certain geological features (n.) that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. 例句 70. This passage appears to be a digest of _. C a magazine feature (n.) C 一份杂志特写 例句 68. Kitchers book is intended to _. B expose the true features (n.) of creationists 例句Our magazines feature (v.) beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes.2006年阅读4 39. field n.田，田野；运动场；领域，方面；实地,野外 例句 The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take the most shots at the goal and so it goes with innovation in any field () of activity. 例句 Anthropology is a field-study () oriented discipline which makes extensive use of the comparative method in analysis. 40. Figure n.体形；数字；图形；人物；v.（out）算出，估计，推测 例句 In the year 2000, the National Cancer Institute estimates that figure (n.) will be 75 percent. 例句 Americans no longer expect public figures (n.), whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift.Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. 41. finance n.财政，金融；资金；v.为提供资金 例句 This also involves the agreements between European countries for the creation of a European bank for Television Production which, on the model of the European Investments Bank, will handle the finances (n.) necessary for production costs. 例句 The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britains former colony.They financed (v.) them.Immigrant Americans built them.Guess who owns them now? The Americans. 42. firm a.11坚固的，稳固的；12坚决的，坚定的；n.21公司，商号 例句 It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. 例句 Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. 43. horizon n.地平线；眼界，见识；（思想等的）范围，限度；（on the ）即将发生 例句 According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons () of scientific knowledge. 例句 For many of us, the “cashless society” is not on the horizon () its already here. 42. host n.主人；主持人；东道主；（a of）许多；v.举行；主持；主办 例句 In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host (n.) of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. 例句 (71) There will be television chat shows hosted (v.) by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend.43. immediate a.立即的，即时的；直接的，最接近的 例句 But a decision among projects none of which has immediate () utility is more difficult.44. import v.进口，输入；n.进口，输入；pl.进口商品，进口物资；重要性 例句 On the other hand, oil-importing (v.) emerging economies to which heavy industry has shifted have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.例句 The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import (n.) bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP.That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980.例句 The full import (n.) may take a while to sink in.45. knowledge n.知识，学识；知道，了解 例句 “Being learned in some branch of human knowledge () in one thing, living in public and industrious thoughts”, as Emersion would say, “is something else.” 例句 The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge () of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good. 46. lean v.倾斜，屈身；倚，靠，依赖；a.瘦的，无脂肪的；精干的，效率高的；贫瘠的 例句 They all seem to look alike (though they come from all over) -lean (a.), pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m. 例句 Friedman relies on a lean (a.) staff of 20 in Austin.47. lesson 5lesn n.功课，课程；教训 例句 The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful.48. Local a.地方的，当地的；局部的 例句 The townsfolk dont see it this way and local () council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. 例句 Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local () studies in the old way. 49. Locate v.查