★ scenery
n.风景,舞台布景
【例1】Some parks are famous for their scenery; others have special significance for students of geology or cultural anthropology.有些公园以风景著名,有些对于地质学或人类学的学生具有特别意义。
【例2】The scenery is constructed for a theatrical performance or movie production.布景是为戏剧表演或电影制作设置的。
【同义替换】scene, landscape
【派生】scenic a.风景优美的
★ accidental
a.偶然的;意外的;无意中的
【例1】We are different and unequal in spirit—it is only the social differences that are based on accidental material conditions.在精神上我们是不同的,是不平等的。只有社会地位的不同才是由于偶然性的物质条件造成的。
【例2】With an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table; accidental poisoning; an accidental shooting.无意之中她碰掉了桌子上的花瓶,意外中毒,走火。
【构词】accident(意外)+-al(形容词后缀)
【同义替换】haphazard, unanticipated, adventitious
【派生】accidentally ad.意外地,偶然地
★ account
n.叙述,说明;账目,账户
vi.说明,解释
【例1】Almost 20% of the UK working population did not possess a bank account。英国的从业人员差不多有20%没有银行账户。
【例2】His account of the incident approximates to that of the other witness.他对该事件的报告和其他证人所报告的情况接近。
★ essay
n.文章,短文
【例】They have been repelled by the apparent sophistry of parts of his essay on “Civil Disobedience”。对他在《论公民的不服从》一文中某些显而易见的诡辩,他们颇为反感。
【同义替换】article, composition
【派生】essayist n.(文章的)作者
★ evaporate
v.蒸发,挥发;沉淀;发射;消失
【例1】Although liquid water on Mars will quickly evaporate, photographs transmitted back to Earth by previous NASA missions to the planet reveal giant flood channels, dry river beds, and flood plains on the surface.虽然火星上的液体水会很快蒸发,但国家航空和航天局以前勘测火星时发回地面的照片显示,火星表面有一些洪水流过的巨大沟渠、干枯的河床及 漫滩地带。
【例2】He was humiliated. He felt all his self-esteem and all the confidence evaporate like moisture under a blazing sun. The sudden evaporation chilled him to the narrow.他受到了侮辱。感觉自尊与自信如同烈日下的湿气一样消逝了。它们的突然消逝使他感到寒冷刺骨。
【构词】e-(出)+vapor(蒸汽)+-ate(动词后缀)→使水汽溢出→使蒸发
耐心之树,结黄金之果。前进的路看似曲折,但只要认准方向,并抱着坚定的信念“耗”到底,就终会得到自己想要的,怕就怕半途而废。马克思说过一句话:生活就像海洋,只有意志坚强的人,才能到达彼岸。考研也一样,祝各位考生都能成为最后的胜者