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25 真题熟词僻义【2000-2004】
1、handle
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Ahistory of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may
become adriving force.
2、parallel / unparalleled
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
It had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies
ofscale.
3、narrow
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
This primacy should have narrowed as other countries grewricher.
4、fade
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial
competitiveness.
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5、shrink
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face
offoreign competition.
6、rope / ontheropes
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
America’s machine-tool industry was ontheropes.
7、agent
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Since much ofthevariation is due togenes, onemore agent ofevolution has gone.
8、fertile
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
There is another way to commit evolutionary suicide: stay alive, but have fewer children. Few
people are as fertile as inthe past.
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9、community
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Except insomereligious communities,very few women have 15children.
10、class
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
It can hardly be classed as Literature.
11、condition
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Foracentury,past conditions oflifehave been conditionally speeding up.
12、stream
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Wemustpour out alarge stream ofessential words.
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13、fulfill
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry, can hardly be classed as
Literature.
14、introduce
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World War II had
weakened the“Japanese morality ofrespect for parents”.
15、extend
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Fully 76 percent of Japan’s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended
family have been abandoned in favor ofisolated, two-generation households.
16、tell
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
But as theold groupand family values weaken, thediscomfort is beginning to tell.
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17、well
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
In the past decade, the Japanese divorce rate, while still well below that of the United States, has
increased bymorethan 50percent, and suicides have increased bynearly one-quarter.
18、share
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
If thetradition ofambition istohave vitality,itmust bewidely shared.
19、address
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
If you are addressing secretaries, you may want tocomment ontheir disorganized bosses.
20、dawn
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with
work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or justplain nasty.
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21、spell
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when it appeared that transistor circuits
and microprocessors might be ableto copythe action ofthehuman brain bytheyear 2010.
22、jump
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
The priceof crude oil has jumped toalmost $26abarrel, upfrom less than $10lastDecember.
23、grip
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could
push theprice higher stillin theshort term.
24、decision
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician-assisted suicide carry important implications for how
medicine seeks torelieve dying patients ofpain and suffering.
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25、fuel
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has
been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the
physical agony ofdying.
26、initiative
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives
translate into bettercare.
27、margin
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
The winner, by a large margin, was a tiny Virginia company called Open Source Solutions, whose
clear advantage was its mastery of theelectronic world.
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28、firm
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is Straitford, Inc., a private
intelligence-analysis firm based inAustin,Texas.
29、vacuum
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Last week his firm was busy vacuuming up data bits from the far corners of the world and
predicting acrisis in Ukraine.
30、fair
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
A grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a
brochure.
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31、communicate
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Scientists must communicate their message to the public in a compassionate, understandable way—
in human terms, notin thelanguage ofmolecular biology.
32、combine
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
In recent years, railroads have been combining with each other, merging into supersystems, causing
heightened concerns about monopoly.
33、typically
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Railroads typically charge such “captive” shippers 20 to 30percent more than they dowhenanother
railroad is competing for thebusiness.
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34、subscribe
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
It’s a theory towhich many economists subscribe.
35、traffic
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
The railroad industryas a whole, despiteits brightening fortunes, stilldoes not earn enough to cover
the costof thecapital it mustinvest to keep upwith itssurging traffic.
36、consider
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Yet railroads continue to borrow billions to acquire one another, with Wall Street cheering them on.
Consider the$10.2billion bidbyNorfolk Southern and CSXtoacquire Conrail this year.
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37、program
【常见含义】
【生僻考义】
【真题例句】
Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal
conditions.
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