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大学英语第 5 （ 9 ）期
适用人群：不想死记硬背的兄弟姐妹——这会是很好的电子榨菜
单词背了，发现句子还是看不懂的同学
以及老师上课确实比较水的大学生同学们
我们的目标
• 1. 词汇本身不重要，重要的是理解这些词汇在不同语境中的感情
色彩

• 2. 学会读句子，提升自己的理解能力，记住一些“二级结论”
• Companies have also taken it upon themselves to contest each
other's green claims.

• 3. 了解文化背景和知识
例子
• In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly,
played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining
that high fashion doesn’t affect her. Priestly explains how the deep
blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from
fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which
the poor girl doubtless found her garment.
长难句分析：
• .Yet those who stress the achievement of a general consensus among
the colonists cannot fully understand that consensus without
understanding the conflicts that had to be overcome or repressed in
order to reach it.
辨析 private personal
• 为什么迷惑的时候需要看看英英解释？
undermine- 逐渐削弱
• You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students
make a discovery that undermines a cherished theory that they had
put forward.
faculty- 能力
• genius

• faculty

• competence
intrude 入侵
• Bill, for instance, often gets painful" flashbacks", in which unwanted
memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to
see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

• On the overturned provisions the majority held Congress had

deliberately "occupied the field" and Arizona had thus intruded on
the federal's privileged powers.
overturn 推翻

• On the overturned provisions the majority held Congress had

deliberately "occupied the field" and Arizona had thus intruded on
the federal's privileged powers.

• In Arizona v. United States, the majority overturned three of the four

contested provisions of Arizona's controversial plan to have state and
local police enforce federal immigration law.
provision
• There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or,
importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

• If there is a role for government, it should really be getting involved in

providing common goods —making sure there is space for playing
fields and the money to pave tennis and netball courts, and
encouraging the provision of all these activities in schools.
bar
• It sets a new bar for similar initiatives across the county.
bar
• Too many workplace policies effectively prohibit employees from
developing a healthy work-life balance by barring them from taking
time off, even when they need it most.Too many workplace policies
effectively prohibit employees from developing a healthy work-life
balance by barring them from taking time off, even when they need it
most.

• Signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has
ever sat in a hospital waiting room.
obscure 使模糊、使掩盖
• Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and
generalize their subject material to the point that the basic
information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.
• That might seem rather an obscure point, but it sets the tone for an
exhibition that contains a lot of black-and-white photographs and
relatively few natural objects.

• Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and
breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.
disguise 假扮、伪装
• I hate it because it's an obligation disguised as an option.

• obligation- 义务
confront 面对、正视
• As my colleague Vann Newkirk reported, Puerto Rico is still
confronting economic and structural destruction and resource scarcity
from 2017's Hurricane Maria.

• scarcity

• Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts

have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.
plague 困扰、折磨、煎熬
• Plagued by long delays, perpetual mismanagement, and ever saw ring
costs, the airport has become something of a joke among Germans
and a source of frustration for local politicians, business leaders and
residents alike.

• Public health groups applauded the approved tax as a step toward

fixing certain lasting health issues that plague Americans.
groan moan
• The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers
were travelling without cash.

• Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous
losses, and it's just not fair.
agony
• If you've ever started a sentence with, If I were you… or found
yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision
when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.
ego- 自尊自我
• Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional neutrality of indifferent
relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen
one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable
information.

But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings
together great wealth, enormous egos, greed, passion and controversy in a
way matched by few other industries.

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