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什么是面熟生词
面熟生词,是冰冰在备考GRE时自己发明的一个词汇问题。上过强化班的同学应该记得,我在课堂上总结过5类词汇问题:第一,同反义词;第二,重要词根词缀;第三,熟词僻意;第四,词义误读;第五,就是面熟生词。今天就想跟大家开个头,也算是为冰冰词汇课堂系列文章写出第一篇文章。
面熟生词,顾名思义,就是这个单词有些部分你认识,或者每个部分你认识,可是合起来就不知道什么意思了。这些单词是我们在背诵词汇时,最容易忽略的单词,为什么呢?因为你一眼扫过去,以为自己认识,可在考场上真的一较真就未必真的知道。这必然是一件十分危险的事情。因此从今天我们每天都一起来学习5个面熟生词,为你的GRE考试加油打气。
1 backwater n. 一潭死水;沉寂不活跃;停滞
这个词总给人以后海的幻想,注意赶紧打消这个念头,这个叫做停滞或落后的意思。
If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions.
例句: The destruction of the western Roman Empire led to a political and economic fragmentation that made western Europe an economic backwater for half a millennium.
2 moonshine n. 空谈;纸上谈兵
晚上的月光亮起来了,别幻想了,打住吧!快看英文解释。moonshine 就是empty talk 的意思。
If you say that someone's thoughts, ideas, or comments are moonshine, you think they are foolish and not based on reality.
例句:The lesson taught by the crash and the Great Depression was that the glorious dream of a self-regulating economy, free of government intervention and supervision, was moonshine.
3 brainchild n. 辛苦想出来的点子;想法
如果你的脑子生出了孩子,太可怕啦,没关系,不是脑残也不是脑瘤,而是你辛辛苦苦想出来的东西!
Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
例句: Facebook, the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg while he was still studying at Harvard University, launched in February 2004.
4 deadpan adj. 面无表情的 n. 故意板脸搞笑
一个要死的平底锅?别逗了,这就是冰冰上课最常见的,板着脸!所以deadpan这个反义词,就是我们上课经常提到的demonstrative或者expressive。 demonstrative哪里见过?忘了小时代的经典片段了吗?undemonstrative panache!
而我们经常也会说deadpan humor。
Deadpan humor is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
5 sidestep v. 回避,绕开
往边上迈一步?看来这个是意思最直接的一个词了。没错就是跟circumvent和bypass一样的意思。
If you sidestep a problem, you avoid discussing it or dealing with it.
例句: In ways large and small, millions of people are taking active steps to sidestep the medical mainstream, whether by taking herbal remedies for diseases or by placing their hopes for a cure in alternative treatment.,
快速检测
今天的词汇微课堂最后让我们快速检测一下你的学习效果吧,快速大声说出这些单词神马意思! brainchild / sidestep / moonshine / backwater / deadpan
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