众所周知，词汇是GRE考试的基础。那么怎样才能掌握GRE必备的词组呢？新东方小编在这里为大家总结一些常用的核心词组，希望对各位备考有帮助。

　　to some degree 一定程度上

　　释义

　　You use expressions such as to some degree, to a large degree, or to a certain degree in order to indicate that something is partly true, but not entirely true.

　　例句

　　Energized to some degree by persistently favorable coverage on Fox News (and perhaps equally energized by less sympathetic treatment in what the Tea Party heroine Sarah Palin has dubbed “the lamestream media”), Tea Party activists rapidly shook up American politics and contributed to the wave of anti-big-government sentiment that made the 2010 elections a significant Democratic defeat.

　　GRE

　　Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters’ psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy.

　　哈迪在一定程度上热衷于剖析他笔下人物的心理状态，尽管这很大程度上源自于同情而非好奇。

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