2016 考研英语阅读常见熟词僻义(27 个)

三、2016 考研英语阅读常见熟词僻义（27 个）

address, diet, cause, novel, realize, stop, sound, firm, might, weather, panel, keep, promise, buy, catch, game, slip, tap, ground, lean, anchor, chair, nature, spell, stress, trust, policy

1) Address

熟义：n.地址僻义：v.向...致辞, 演说

(02-01) Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different.

根据与你谈话的不同对象，问题也有所不同

2) Diet

熟义：n. 饮食习惯僻义：n. 减肥,瘦身；议会

(00-01) American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted.

美国的工业已经改变了结构，学会了明智

3) Cause

熟义：n./v. 原因，导致僻义：n. 事业，理想，目标

(03-02) One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling out their use in research. 一个这样的事业现在正在寻求终止生物医学的研

究，因为有这样一种理论说，动物享有权利禁止它

们被用于实验。

4) Novel

熟义：n. 小说僻义：adj. 新颖的

(00-03) (第60 题题干) When a novel literary idea

appears, people should try to determine its purposes

当一种新的文学理念出现时，人们应该试着去了解

它的意图。

5) Realize

熟义：v. 意识到僻义：v. 实现，发挥

(03-04) Former Colorado governor Richard Lamm has

been quoted as saying that the old and infirm "have a

duty to die and get out of the way", so that younger,

healthier people can realize their potential.

据说，Colorado 州前州长Richard Lamm 曾经说，

老年多病者“有责任死去和让位”，以让更年轻、更

健康的人们去发挥他们的潜能。

6) Stop

熟义：n./v. 停止僻义：n. 句号

(00-03) We must pour out a large stream of essential

words, unhampered by stops, or qualifying adjectives, or

finite verbs.

我们必须大量使用基本词汇，摆脱句号，修饰性形容

词及限定动词的羁绊。

7) Sound

熟义n. 声音, 语音, 噪音v. 听起来

僻义adj. 健全的, 合理的, 有效彻底的, 健康的

（sound and safe: 安然无恙）

(05-02) If we are ever going to protect the atmosphere, it

is crucial that those new plants be environmentally

sound.

如果我们准备保护大气，关键要让这些新发电厂对环

境无害。

8) Firm

熟义adj. 结实的，稳固的

僻义n. 公司，商号

(07-04) Until California recently passed a law, American

firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when

data went astray.

直到加利福尼亚最近通过了一项法律，美国的公司不

必告知任何人信息何时泄露，甚至包括受害人。

(04-02) It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories.

人们早已知道在客户翻阅电话簿时，名叫AAAA 的出租汽车公司要比Zodiac 出租汽车公司有很大的优

越性。

(01-04) This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy.

这个现象造成了人们对小型企业和民族资本的作用以及世界经济的最终稳定的严重忧虑。

9) Might

熟义may 的过去式僻义n. 力量，威权(with might and main: 尽全力)

(01-04) The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might.

这个浪潮从异常活跃的美国席卷到欧洲，并以不可比拟的威力影响到正在崛起的国家。

10) Weather 熟义：n. 天气僻义：v. 经受风雨，度过难关

(07 -03) This “added- worker effect” could support the

safety net offered by unemployment insurance or

disability insurance to help families weather bad times.

这种"附加工人效应"可以支持失业保险或残疾保险

所提供的保障制度，以帮助家庭渡过困难时期。

11) Panel

熟义：n. 仪表板，面板僻义：n. 专家小组

(05- 02) The latest was a panel from the National

Academy of Sciences, enlisted by the White House, to

tell us that the Earth's atmosphere is definitely

warming and that the problem is largely man-made.

最近的行动是由白宫召集了一批来自国家科学院

的专家团，他们告诉我们，地球气候毫无疑问正在

变暖，而这个问题主要是人为造成的

(99- 04) The panel has not yet reached agreement on a

crucial question, however, whether to recommend

legislation that would make it a crime for private

funding to be used for human cloning.

然而，该小组尚未在一个关键问题上达成一致，即

是否建议立法机关把将私人资金用于克隆人的行

为视为犯罪。

12) Keep

熟义：v. 保持僻义：n. 生计

(03-01) Open-source spying does have its risks, of

course, since it can be difficult to tell good

information from bad. That's where Straitford earns

its keep.

当然公开来源的谍报活动的确有它的风险，因为

很难区分正确与错误的信息。这正是Straitford

公司赚得生计的地方。

13) Promise

熟义：v./n. 承诺僻义：n. 有希望，有前途

（promising: (形)有希望的，有前途的）

(04-04) Hofstadter says our country's educational

system is in the grips of people who "joyfully and

militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their

eagerness to identify with children who show the

least intellectual promise."

Hofstadter 说，掌握我们国家教育体系的人“沾沾

自喜地、霸气十足地公然宣称敌视才学，迫不及

待地认同那些看来在才学方面最无前途的孩子。”

14) buy

熟义：v. 购买僻义：v. 听信，认同