2019年研究生入学考试英语高频考点词汇串讲Unit 14-AC

Unit 14,A. 单词识记,elite: 【n.】上层人士；掌权人物；实力集团；精英 形近词elitism (n.) n. 精英主义；杰出人物统治论,gradual 【adj.】逐渐的；逐步的,entrepreneur: 【n.】企业家,colony: 【n.】 殖民地；( 某一类人的 ) 聚居地；聚居区形近词colonial(adj.) 殖民地的；殖民主义的；( 建筑或家具 ) 具有英属殖民地时期特色的；美洲殖民地时期的,comply: 【v.】服从；遵守 形近词complicate （v.） 使难以理解；使复杂化complicated（adj.）复杂的；难懂的；难处理的,contact 【n.】( 尤指经常性的 ) 联系；联络 【v.】联系；联络 形近词 contest（n.）竞赛；比赛；( 权力或控制 权的 ) 争夺；竞争 （v.）争取赢得 ( 选举、比赛等 )；角逐；争辩；对提出异议 补充词汇in contact with： 和联系；与相关,historian:【n.】历史学家,inherit:【v.】继承 ( 金钱或财产 )；经遗传获得 ( 特征、特质等 )形近词 inherent（adj.） 固有的；内在的；生来就有的,privilege:【n.】特权；优待 【v.】给予特权；特免形近词privileged（adj.）享有特权的；特殊的,purchase: 【v.】买，购买 【n.】购买的物品,random: 【adj.】 随机的；随意的；任意的 【n.】 随机；随意,description:【n.】描述；形容；叙述；说明；种类；类型形近词describe（v.）描述；记述；形容；作图同义词definition（n.） 定义；规定；明确picture （n.） 描述；描绘；写照,admit【v.】让进入；接纳；承认形近词admission（n.）承认；入场费；进入许可；坦白,adopt: 【v.】采用；采纳；通过；收养；吸收 形近词adoptive（adj.）收养的；有收养关系的,crucial: 【adj.】至关重要的；关键性的同义词essential（adj.） 绝对必要的；至关重要的；基本 的；本质的；根本的 （n.） 必需品；不可或缺之物key （adj.） 关键的；主要的significant （adj.） 重要的；有意义的decisive （adj.） 决定性的,近义词overriding （adj.） 最重要的；高于一切的,quote: 【v.】引用；援引 【n.】引文形近词quotation（n.） 引用；引证近义词cite（v.） 引用；考证,restore: 【v.】恢复；使复原；归还；交还；恢复；重建形近词restoration（n.）恢复；复位；归还同义词revive （v.） (使)复苏；(使)恢复；(使)再次流行；重新上演recover（v.） 恢复；重新获得resume （v.） 重新取得；恢复(职位),enable: 【v.】使能够；使成为可能；准许；许可形近词empower（v.） 使能够；准许permit（v.） 许可；准许同义词endeavor（n.） ( 尤指新的或创造性事物的 ) 努力；尝试（v.） 努力；尽力,词组 strive for： 奋斗；争取同义词 essay v. 尝试；试验,external: 【adj.】外部的；外面的；外来的反义词internal（adj.）国内的；内部的,agenda: 【n.】议事日程；目的；动同义词schedule （n.） 时刻表；进度表；词组flexible schedule： 弹性工作时间表,cell: 【n.】细胞；小囚房；蜂房；电池,clue: 【n.】线索；暗示,context: 【n.】上下文；背景；环境；语境,exert: 【v.】发挥；施加 ( 影响等)词组impose sth. on： 对施加,option: 【n.】 选择；选择权；( 供 ) 选择的事物 ( 或人 )；选课形近词optional (adj.) 可选择的；非强制opportunity(n.)机会；时机exception(n.)例外；除外,permanent: 【adj.】 永久的；持久的近义词durable (adj.)耐用的；持久的,trait: 【n.】特征；特点；特性同义词attribute （n.） 属性feature（n.）特征；特点peculiarity （n.） 特性,cater: 【v.】 迎合；为提供 ( 饮食及服务 )词组cater for： 满足的所有需求cater to： 满足的需求性,capable: 【adj.】有能力的；能够的,Unit 14,C. 单词应用,elite n 精英2006 年阅读 Text 1Instead of intimate shops catering to “a knowledgeable elite,” these were stores “anyone could enter, regardless of class or background.”,entrepreneurn 企业家2014 年阅读 Text 3You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.,colonial adj 殖民地的；殖民主义的2009 年阅读 text 4According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “so much importance attached to intellectual pursuits.”,comply v服从；遵守2013 年阅读 Text 2After all, it has an ad business too, which it says will comply with DNT requests, though it is still working out how.,contested adj 有异议的2012 年阅读 Text 1In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizonas controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federalimmigration law.,inherit v 经遗传获得 ( 特征、特质等 )2009 年阅读 Text 2Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a fathers line or mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down only from mothers.,privilege n 特权2013 年阅读 Text 4The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia, who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the Alien and Sedition Acts.,random adj 随意的2011 年阅读 Text 3According to Paragraph 2, sold mediafeature _.A a safe business environmentB random competitionC strong user trafficD flexibility in organization,description n 描述；形容2011 年阅读 Text 1As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.,admission n 进入许可 2013 年完型He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews, conducted by 31 admissions officers.,adoptive adj 收养的 2011 年阅读 Text 4There are also stories about newly adoptiveand newly singlemom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.,restore v 恢复；使复原2007 年阅读 Text 4Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.,endeavor n (尤指新的或创造性事物的)努力2008 年阅读 Text 2But it goes further than that. It signals a change in what has, until now, been a key element of scientific endeavor.,external adj 外部的 2011 年翻译Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you dont “get” success but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.,agenda n 目的；动机2006 年阅读 Text 4And since these messages have an agendato lure us to open our wallets they make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable.,exert v 施加 ( 影响等 )2012 年阅读 Text 1Theres no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior.,permanent adj 永久的，持久的 2014 年阅读 Text 1But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependencypermanent dependency if you can get itsupported by a state only too ready to indulge your falseh