剑桥雅思3_VOTES FOR WOMEN

1.       corporate (adj.) 集体的、全体的、企业的

 e.g.: By doing so, it became one of the first groups to project a corporate identity.

 

2.       campaign (n. v.) 运动

 e.g.: The WSPU began an educated campaign to put women’s suffrage on the political agenda.

 

3.       counterpart (n.)  (职级地位) 相当的人、物

 e.g.: New Zealand, Australian, and part of the United States had already enfranchised women., and growing numbers of their British counterparts wanted the same opportunity.

 

4.       previous (adj.) 以前的

 e.g.: The WSPU brought the movement the cohesion and focus it had previously lacked.

 

5.       minimal (adj.) 最低限度的、最小的

 e.g.: minimal use of the telephone

→minimum       minimize

 

6. vital (adj.) = critical =crucial 关键的

e.g.: The newspapers produced by the WSPU played a vital role in this communication.

 

6.       invaluable (adj.) 无法估价的、无价的

 e.g.: Both were sold throughout the country and proved an invaluable way of informing members of meetings, marches…

 

7.       sufficient (adj.) 足够的

e.g.: But the paper and merchandising activities alone did not provide sufficient funds for the WSPU to meet organizational costs.

 →反义insufficient

 → adequate    inadequate

 

8.       numerous (adj.) 大量的

 e.g.: Numerous other fund-raising activities combined to fill the coffers of the “war chest”.

 

9.       equivalent (adj. n.) 相等的、相同的；等价物、对等

 e.g.: The Woman’s Exhibition in ten days raised the equivalent of $300,000 today.

 

10. mood  (n.) 心境、情绪、精神状态

  →psyche

e.g.: It clearly reveals the political mood of the day towards the suffragette.

 

10.   oppose (v.) 反对

 e.g.: The programme begins with a short film devised by the “antis”- those opposed to women having the vote.

→ opposition (n.) 反对   opponent (n.)反对者

→anti-       contra-

 

11. original (adj.) 最初的

 e.g.: Original newsreel footage shows the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison throwing herself…

→ origin (n.)   originate (v.)

→ first/ initial