漫谈英语词汇

Do You Read English Newspapers and Magazines Regularly?

TEST:

HIV brain drain

baby-boomers hacker

IPRs quality time elevated highways sitcom

emotional quotient ecstasy

DINK bug

walkie-talkie extramarital affairs cybersurfer war-weary shaping subprime Generation X McJob

LCD X-rated

GM food podcast

courier service real estates nanotechnology phobia

karoshi a Catch-22 problem

I. HOW MANY WORDS TO ACQUIRE? CET New V ocabulary Requirement: 7678

一般要求：4795 +256 (net gain)

较高要求：6395 +520

更高要求：7675 +226

In English-speaking countries:

6000 一般学童：读写严重困难12000-18000 寻常教育的一般成年人

（基本读写交际能力）24000-30000 良好教育的职业人士

（读写交际游刃有余）

How to Evaluate My V ocabulary

active vocabulary:

speaking vocabulary; writing vocabulary passive vocabulary:

reading vocabulary; guessing vocabulary

记识词多就一定词汇量高？Complexity:

1)搭配

start the car/begin the car

own goal/self goal

fresh water/plain water

black tea/red tea

total/pure cotton

2)旧词新义

ungreen

engineer protests 策划

semi-detached: 分居而未离婚的男子comprise the quality 危及

standards were comprised 降低

comprise the policy放弃

Deng‟s ideas survive his death

The quality of …justifies the price. Wenzhou boasted 130,000 family-run workshops. 拥有

be torn between family and job

swallow their pride 放下架子

put the nightmare behind them =forget

3)英汉差异

环境：

natural environment cultural circumstances comfortable surroundings

意识：

law awareness competitive spirit religious consciousness

税：

government revenue customs duties

income tax

卫生：

personal hygiene

public health environmental sanitation

II. LEARN TO REMEMBER

1．词缀法affixation

Greek:

anti-, arch-, auto-, cata-, di-, dia-, hemi-, hyper-, hupo-, kilo-, mono-, neo-, pan-, poly-, proto-, pseudo-; -cracy, -ism, -ist, -ite, -ize Latin:

bi-, centi-counter-, en-, ex-, in-, infra-, inter-, mal-, mini-, multi-, post-, pre-, pro-, re-, sub-, super-, sur, trans-, tri-, ultra-, uni-, vice-; -age, -al, -ant, -ate, -ible-, -ive

Roman languages:

de-, dis-, non-; -able, -ary, -eer, -ery, -ic-, -ify, -ion, -ity, -ment, -or, -ous, -sion, -tion

Old English:

a-, be-, fore, mis-, off-, out-, over-, under-, with-; -dom, -ed, -er, -fold, -ful, -hood, -ing, -ish, -less, -like, -ly, -ness, -ship, -some, -ward, -y

词缀的多义性：

in-: incomplete, include

-ish: childish, reddish, fortyish,

-er: cooker, pusher, thriller, best seller, actioner(动作片), splatter(凶杀片), suspenser(悬念片), browser, onliner, blogger, nine-to-fivers

-ism: socialism, feudalism, Darwinism, sexism, elitism(精英统治), euphemism(委婉语), magnetism, materialism, patriotism, tourism, rheumatism(风湿病)

报刊常用词缀：

de-: 否定；取消；去掉；相反；脱离defrost the beef

degrade the environment

devalue the importance

dehumanize homosexuals

demoralize the young

declassify some information 解密deindustrialize

defuse

defuse a crisis =solve

defuse tensions =relieve