托福必備的常見詞匯的積累
對于很多準(zhǔn)備出國留學(xué)的同學(xué)來說,考托福是很多同學(xué)的選擇。小編今天就給大家分享一些托福短語,大家要加油哦
奧運會
athlete 運動員
referee 裁判
volunteer 志愿者
ceremony 開幕式
closing ceremony 閉幕式
medal presentation 頒獎儀式
stadium 體育場
Olympic Village 奧運村
Olympic record 奧運會紀(jì)錄
hold the record 保持紀(jì)錄
break a/the record 打破紀(jì)錄
秋季時尚襯衫
1 To lose one's shirt
Lose的意思當(dāng)然就是丟掉,或者失去什么東西。可是,to lose one's shirt 實際上并不是真的指丟了襯衫。它的確切意思是某個人失去了他所有的一切。
例句:Did you hear what happened to Joe? He's lost his shirt, the poor guy invested all his money in a fancy restaurant and it just went out of business.
你有沒有聽到關(guān)于喬的事?他可真是丟掉了一切,真可憐。他把所有的錢都投資在一家豪華的餐館里。而這家餐館不久前倒閉了。
又如:Be careful of salesmen who call on the phone and offer to sell you land on the beach down in Florida. You can lose your shirt because the chances are the land is under water at high tide.
對那些通過電話來鼓動你買弗羅里達(dá)州靠海濱的土地的推銷員,你得十分小心。你要不小心就有可能會損失一切,因為這些地很可能就是那些在漲潮的時候會被水淹沒的地。
2 To keep one's shirt on
To keep one's shirt on 字面意思就是“穿上你的襯衣。”聽起來是個好主意,可是,它到底是什么意思呢?其實,它是指不要緊張,或者是不要在不了解情況的時候就發(fā)火。
例句:Keep your shirt on, Harry; we have plenty of time to catch the train.
哈里,你別太緊張了,我們有足夠的時間趕到火車站。
To Keep one's shirt on 在更多的場合下意為保持冷靜,在對情況不夠了解之前不要發(fā)火。比如說,丈夫晚了三個小時回家吃晚飯。一到家,他就看到他的太太火冒三丈,于是,他馬上就對太太說:
Honey, keep your shirt on, please! I'm sorry, but the boss made me work late at the office.
親愛的,請你千萬別發(fā)火。我很抱歉。我的老板給了我好多活,弄得我不得不在辦公室加班。
3 To give you the shirt off his back.
從字面上來解釋,to give you the shirt off his back 就是把他的襯衣從背上脫下來給你。一個人要是肯把襯衣脫下來給你的話,那就是一個在你患難的時候能拿出他所有的一切,包括他的襯衣,來幫忙的人。這種朋友是很可貴的。所以,to give you the shirt off his back指盡自己的力量幫助別人。
例如:Of course Dad gets mad at me sometimes for no good reason. But if I ever need it, I know he would give me the shirt off his back.
我父親有時對我發(fā)火也不見得有什么道理。但是,只要我需要,他總是會盡一切力量幫助我的。
又如:Pete never says very much. But when he hears about somebody who's sick in the hospital or lost his job, he's always the first to put his hand in his pocket and bring out money to help. Yes, sir, he's the kind of man who'd give you the shirt off his back.
皮特這個人平時話不多。但是,每當(dāng)他聽說某人有病進了醫(yī)院,或失了業(yè),他總是第一個拿錢出來幫忙。是的,他是這種會盡力幫助別人的人。
4 A stuffed shirt
Stuffed有好幾種解釋,有時是指裝的滿滿的,有時又指吃得過飽。那么,a stuffed shirt 是什么意思呢?A stuffed shirt是指那些愛擺架子,表現(xiàn)得神氣十足的人。對于這種人最好是敬而遠(yuǎn)之。這種人既傲慢,又頑固,自以為了不起,他們參加任何社交活動都屬于不受歡迎的人。
例句:My boss is a stuffed shirt: all he talks about is how important his ancestors are, how he was number one in his class at his university, and the wonderful things he thinks he's done for our company.
我的老板老是愛擺架子,吹噓自己。他一開口就是說他祖先的地位有多么重要,他在大學(xué)念書時如何成為班里的第一名,還自稱對我們公司作出了很大的貢獻等等。
又如:I think I'll vote for Jimmy Brown instead of the other guy James Leland Elegant the third. Jimmy isn't a stuffed shirt like Elegant--he's a friendly, informal guy like us ordinary people.
我想我會投布朗的票,而不投那個看來很高雅的利蘭。布朗不像利蘭那么神氣活現(xiàn)。他很友好、隨和,就像我們普通老百姓一樣。
托福常見單詞釋義
argue
【常用釋義】
v. 爭論
【生僻釋義】
v. 認(rèn)為,主張
托福例句:Some researchers argue that less-expensive programs are just as good as relatively expensive ones, such as Head Start.(TPO 31-2 Early Childhood Education)
解析:在托福中,經(jīng)常會有somebody argues that….這樣的句型結(jié)構(gòu)。很多同學(xué)會以為argue只有“爭吵”的意思。其實在托福中,argue更多的意思就是“主張,認(rèn)為”,用來表達(dá)某人的觀點,如she argued that they should all go,她主張他們都應(yīng)該去。本句理解為,一些研究者認(rèn)為花費較少的項目能夠取得與花費更多的項目同樣的效果,例如智力起航。
evidence
【常用釋義】
1. n.證據(jù);2. n.跡象( e.g. He was nowhere in evidence.哪兒都找不到他。)
【生僻釋義】
v. 證明
托福例句:This period of evolution was relatively recent, as evidenced by the similar appearance of all the western chipmunk species.(TPO 39-1 Habitats and chipmunk species)
解析:evidence通常做名詞,意為“證據(jù);跡象”,我們可以很自然聯(lián)想到它的動詞意思“證明”,常用固定搭配是“as evidenced by sth. 正如某事所證明的”。全句翻譯:這一時期的進化是相對較新的,正如所有西部花栗鼠長得都差不多這一點可以證明。
address
【常用釋義】
n. 地址
【生僻釋義】
v. 處理
托福例句:She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances such as The Sea, in which her dancers invisibly agitated a huge expanse of silk, played upon by colored lights(OG8 Loie Fuller)
解析:address作”處理”的含義,常跟‹task, problem›搭配。句子中,in which her dancers…是介詞提前的定語從句,修飾The Sea; played upon by colored lights做后置定語,修飾a huge expanse of silk. 整句話翻譯為:她開始著手處理更有野心的主題,比如作品大海,在這個作品中舞者們在色光燈所創(chuàng)造的遼闊的隱形絲綢下?lián)u擺。
film
【常用釋義】
n. 地址
【生僻釋義】
v. 處理
托福例句:She began to address more ambitious themes in her dances such as The Sea, in which her dancers invisibly agitated a huge expanse of silk, played upon by colored lights(OG8 Loie Fuller)
解析:address作”處理”的含義,常跟‹task, problem›搭配。句子中,in which her dancers…是介詞提前的定語從句,修飾The Sea; played upon by colored lights做后置定語,修飾a huge expanse of silk. 整句話翻譯為:她開始著手處理更有野心的主題,比如作品大海,在這個作品中舞者們在色光燈所創(chuàng)造的遼闊的隱形絲綢下?lián)u擺。
parallel
【常用釋義】
adj. 平行的;
【生僻釋義】
v.與…媲美,與..相似
托福例句:Her interest in color and light paralleled the research of several artists of the period, notably the painter Seurat, famed for his Pointillist technique of creating a sense of shapes and light on canvas by applying extremely small dots of color rather than by painting lines.(OG8 Loie Fuller)
解析:parallel常見意思為“平行的”,而作動詞時,表示“與…相似或是相媲美”,有比較的意義在里面,比如to parallel someone。這句很長,主句很短,從notably開始的成分都是對畫家Seurat的限定,famed for…by doing something…整句理解為,她對顏色和光線的興趣與同期許多藝術(shù)家的研究相似,最為著名的是畫家Seurat,他以點彩派畫技,通過運用極小的色彩點取代了畫線條的方法在帆布上創(chuàng)造形狀和光線感。
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