在我们GRE词汇备考中,小伙伴们很容易忽略一些简单GRE单词,以致于在GRE考试的时候,和那些单词大眼瞪小眼,感觉很熟悉很熟悉,就是说不出个所以然来。在此,留学群小编为大家收集整理了一些GRE考试中的高频生词,希望对大家GRE备考有所帮助!
什么是面熟生词
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 ...