时间:2019-01-22 作者:英语课 分类:大学四六级阅读


英语课

   在英语学习中,我们自然会遇到许多生词。这时,许多人立即翻阅字典,查找词义。其实,这种做法是不科学的。它不但费时费力,而且影响阅读速度。事实上,阅读材料中的每个词与它前后的词语或句子甚至段落有着互相制约的关系。我们可以利用语境(各种已知信息)推测、判断某些生词的词义。猜测词义时,可利用以下线索:


  三、外部相关因素
  外部相关因素是指篇章(句子或段落)以外的其他知识。有时仅靠分析篇章内在逻辑关系无法猜出词义。这时,就需要运用生活经验和普通常识确定词义。
  【例一】Husband: it‘s really cold out tonight.
  Wife: Sure it is. My hands are practically numb 1.
  How about lighting 2 the furnace?
  根据生活经验,天气寒冷时,手肯定是“冻僵的,冻得麻木的”。
  【例二】The snake slithered through the grass.
  根据有关蛇的生活习性的知识,我们可以推断出slither词义为“爬行”。
  四、构词法
  1、根据前缀猜测词义
  【例一】He fell into a ditch and lay there,semiconscious,for a few minutes.
  根据词根conscious(清醒的,有意识的),结合前缀semi(半,部分的,不完全的),我们便可猜出semiconscious词义“半清醒的,半昏迷的”。
  【例二】I‘m illiterate 3 about such things.
  词根literate意为“有文化修养的,通晓的”,前缀il表示否定,因此illiterate指“一窍不通,不知道的”。
  2、根据后缀猜测词义
  【例一】Insecticide is applied 4 where it is needed.
  后缀cide表示“杀者,杀灭剂”,结合大家熟悉的词根insect(昆虫),不难猜出insecticide意为“杀虫剂”。
  【例二】Then the vapor 5 may change into droplets 6.
  后缀let表示“小的”,词根drop指“滴,滴状物”。将两个意思结合起来,便可推断出droplet词义“小滴,微滴”。
  3、根据复合词的各部分猜测词义
  【例一】Growing economic problems were highlighted by a slowdown in oil output.
  Hightlight或许是一个生词,但是分析该词结构后,就能推测出其含义。它是由high(高的,强的)和light(光线)两部分组成,合在一起便是“以强光照射,使突出”的意思。
  【例二】Bullfight is very popular in Spain.
  Bull(公牛)和fight(打,搏斗)结合在一起,指一种在西班牙颇为流行的体育运动---斗牛。
  综上所述,利用各种已知信息推测、判断词义是一项重要的阅读技巧。在实践中,我们可以灵活运用,综合运用上面提到的几种猜测技巧,排除生词的障碍,顺利理解文章的思想内容,提高阅读速度。

adj.麻木的,失去感觉的;v.使麻木
  • His fingers were numb with cold.他的手冻得发麻。
  • Numb with cold,we urged the weary horses forward.我们冻得发僵,催着疲惫的马继续往前走。
n.照明,光线的明暗,舞台灯光
  • The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
  • The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
adj.文盲的;无知的;n.文盲
  • There are still many illiterate people in our country.在我国还有许多文盲。
  • I was an illiterate in the old society,but now I can read.我这个旧社会的文盲,今天也认字了。
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
n.蒸汽,雾气
  • The cold wind condenses vapor into rain.冷风使水蒸气凝结成雨。
  • This new machine sometimes transpires a lot of hot vapor.这部机器有时排出大量的热气。
n.小滴( droplet的名词复数 )
  • Droplets of sweat were welling up on his forehead. 他额头上冒出了滴滴汗珠。 来自辞典例句
  • In constrast, exhaled smoke contains relatively large water droplets and appears white. 相反,从人嘴里呼出的烟则包含相当大的水滴,所以呈白色。 来自辞典例句
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学英语单词
about facing
acoustic output unit
ancillary relief
angle of collimation
animal protection
annect
aporina delafondi
arch-abdomen dam
automatic diesel generating set
bacillus
bathypelagic fauna
blazed grating
bourbon red turkey
breakevens
cabbeling
calibration error
Castelan
chaulmoogrol
cobbling
combining capacity
Corlea
creedy
cullar de baza
data reconciliation
deadhand
deck load certification
dissolved pore
Dormigca
esquire
European thimbleweed
evaders
exchange traded product
executing block
faddity
float grass
format line
frequency multiplier circuit
Gaiaist
give heart to
hydraulic hitch system with unloading function
Hyphochytriomycota
in a word
irreducible algebraic equation
Kocher fracture
Kodisjoki
labial laminae
laser head assembly
lasting machine
least significant byte
libriums
lie in someone's way
line key
local thermal runaway
lone-pairs
Mamabula
Maxwellisation
microstelma japonica
mueshihange
navire
off board price
oil quenching bath
order and confirmation
orthoguarinite
parrot's peach
pastry store
pat down
PHLA
Pleasanton
post-tragus
potassium content
price waterhouse&co.
product assurance
pseudothiourea
Ranunculus oreionannos
re-copper
recovery phase
rootogram
sashless
scheeles
scraper roller
senescence phase
silicon dioxide powder
solid-state study
spelaeologies
staypole
straw ware
synchronized wave
tawz
telecommunications facility provider
theory of pay
time trials
to maintain
transbooster
transmitted pulse envelope
trapezoidal steel box girder
treux
tunica adventitia (vesicul? seminalis)
umbrella convention
unit connection
wind-fallen
wing-control missile
word power