雅思阅读细节知识点总结-单词篇

v. 说明；阐明；给…做插图解释

n. 说明，例证；插图；图解

2 field

n. 实地，野外；领域；田地

3 media coverage

eg. In the face of the frequent and often vivid media coverage, it is likely that children will have formed ideas about rainforests…

coverage: n.新闻报道

注:雅思阅读真题中曾经出现过其与press and publicity有出现过同义转换

4 tuition n.课程讲授

eg. independent of any formal tuition

5 harbour v.心怀 n.海港

eg. Many students have shown that children harbour misconceptions about ‘pure’, curriculum science.

6 logging activity 伐木活动

eg. About 18% of the pupils referred specifically to logging activity.

注：雅思阅读真题中还出现过log, 意思是原木，请注意意思的区分

7 embrace: v包含，包括

eg. in some cases this response also embraced the misconception that rainforest destruction would reduce atmospheric oxygen, making the atmosphere incompatible with human life on Earth.

8 volunteer v.自愿做；自愿提供

eg. Pupils did not volunteer ideas that suggested that they appreciated the complexity of causes of rainforest destruction.

9 be taken back 大吃一惊；吓了一跳=sb. be surprised/ sth. is surprising.

eg. I was taken back.

10 kill off 灭绝；杀光

eg. Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools

11 alternative a.另类的；非主流的

eg. Australia has been unusual in the Western world in having a very conservative attitude to natural or alternative therapies,...

12 standing n. 地位；身份；名望

eg. ‘The high standing of professionals, including doctors, part icularly younger ones, are forming group practices with alternative therapists or taking courses themselves, particularly in acupuncture and herbalism.

13 orthodox a.传统的；正宗的

eg. orthodox doctors

14 medical complaints

complaint: n.疾病

15 in shape 处于健康状态；身材健美

eg. Another has been that it allows young animals to get in shape for adult life by improving their respiratory endurance.

16 look-in 迅速一瞥

eg. With schooling beginning earlier and becoming increasingly exam-oriented, play is likely to get even less of a look-in

17 credit n.信贷

eg. Although small-scale business training and credit programs have become more common throughout the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the need to direct such opportunities to young people.

18 take pride in 以…为自豪

eg. At the same time, there are street children who take pride in supporting themselves and their families...

19 fine a.细小的

eg. fine ash

20 field a.野外的

eg. They range from a carefully planned, intensive field investigation in a foreign country to a casual introspection about one’s mother tongue carried out in an armchair.

21 be in sight看得见；在视线范围内

eg. Limits to human sporting performance are not yet in sight-

22 left and right n.左边和右边

eg. ‘ they would be breaking records left and right.’

23 project v.预计；推断

eg. a kind of doomsday scenario(...) was projected by health administrators, economists and politicians.

24 make order out of chaos 使…有序

eg. Beyond the practical need to make order out of chaos, the rise of dictionaries is associated with the rise of the English middle class.

25 single-handed a.单独的；单枪匹马的

eg. and he would do it single-handed.

26 in instalments 分期付款

eg. He was to be paid￡1,575 in instalments.

27 to hand 在手边；在控制下

eg. and without a library to hand

28 draw on 利用

eg. Working to a deadlin e, he had to draw on the best of all previous dictionaries,…

29 take on同…较量

eg. The fact that Johnson had taken on Academies of Europe…

30 code n.准则