1. selfie 自拍
2. owe 归因于;归功于;起源于;
例句:
1)He owe his success to hard work.
(他的成功是靠勤奋工作。)
2)The play owes much to French tragedy.
这部戏颇受法国悲剧的影响;
3)I owe everything to him.
我的一切都归功于他;
4)I knew that I owed the surgeon my life.
我知道外科医生救了我的命;
亏欠,欠
5)I owe a debt to you. 除了可以翻译为:欠债之外;还可以表示:我需要感谢你;
6)We owe a debt to Edison, because he invented the light bulb.
我们得感谢爱迪生,因为他发明了电灯。
3. embrace 接受,(本意是拥抱,但是考研英语中都是表示接受某个观点。)
4. Fronted by;由…领导;
例句:Fronted by a seasoned politician, the commission was viewed as a potential game-changer in the field.
此协会由资深政治家领导,被视为领域内的潜在变革者。(有没有感觉例句也是知识点满满啊。)
5.Liken A to B 把A比作B;
6.Proliferate:猛增,涌现;
7.hate crimes是个新词,其精准翻译也没有统一标准,其意思就是因为某些言论而引起的仇恨,会被做犯罪,比如如果为“黑人都是小偷”这就是hate crime)
8.trade-off: n 权衡,协调 (在需要而又相互对立的两者间的)
搭配:(trade-off between sth and sth) the act of balancing two things that you need or want but which are opposed to each other
经典例句:There is a trade-off between the benefits of the drug and the risk of side effects. 在这种药的疗效和副作用之间有个权衡利弊的问题。
9. ditch / ditʃ / v 摆脱;抛弃;丢弃:
同义替换:forsake, abandon, discard;
经典例句:
1.The new road building program has been ditched.
新的道路建设计划已废弃。
2.He ditched his girlfriend.
他把女朋友给甩了。
真题例句:
Nostalgia for ink on paper and the rustle of pages aside,there’s plenty of incentive to ditch print. 除开对于报纸油墨(香味)和(翻阅时)沙沙声的怀念之外,有充分的理由抛弃印刷版。(2016年第四篇文章)
10. burnish v. 改善,提升,打磨,抛光
同义替换:polish,refine,perfect, improve
(常用搭配:burnish the image= polish the image 提升形象)
经典例句:
A series of high-profile corporate scandals certainly hasn’t burnished the image of Big Business.
一系列引人注目的公司丑闻当然不能提升大企业的形象。
11. fortune : 机会,运气,运势,;巨款,一大笔钱
Good fortune: 好运 = good luck
牛津例句:Fortune smiles on me. 我交了好运。
By a stroke of fortune he found work almost immediately.
他运气好,几乎立刻找到了工作。
12.with it 随之(作状语,阅读时,见到一般就删除,完全不影响句子意思,翻译的时候也不用翻译)
例句:This change brings with it the greater reward than financial success.
这个改变带来了比经济成功更大的回报
13.inventory: 库存,清单;
14.algorithm 算法 这个词一看到就要想到人工智能!
15. condition 病情(没想到有这个意思吧!)
16. inaugurate 开启,开创
17. the equivalent of 对等于,相当于,表示比喻和解释
18.A depend far more on B than on C: A更多的取决于B而不是C
19. make sense of: 理解
20. have hard time doing sth: 做…有困难
21. self-reflection 自我反思 soul-searching 自我反思
22. outsource: 外包,交外办理
23.Neutral 中立的,不带有倾向性的;
注意:在考研的态度题中出题人常会默认这个词是indifferent的同义词;
会认为这个词与objective是有区别的;objective是客观的,公正的;
而neutral就是完全不关心的意思;
24.administrative burden: 行政负担
25.streamline:(动词)使…效率更高;streamline the process:精简流程
26. what做关系代词连接主语从句/宾语从句/表语从句的时候都可以视为:
Something that;这样有助于理解,而且what做关系代词也是这样来的比如:
Motivation is what gets you started.
= Motivation is something that gets you started.
The habit is what keeps you going.
=The habit is something that keeps you going.
例句:
凯文在做每日一句。有人说凯文的每日一句没什么用,为了加速大家接受每日一句,凯文每天都拼劲全力,精益求精。
Kevin is working on the Daily Sentence task. To accelerate acceptance of what some might deem useless, Kevin spares no effort to perfect it.
27.stop: 站 the inaugural stop 第一站;首站
28.given:(还记得吗?)鉴于,根据,因为
29.Over:关于 great concerns over this matter: 对这件事情的巨大关切
30.将要做什么…Be about to do sth
Be out to do sth
Be set to do sth
Be to do sth