3、利用文中的举例猜测词义。
常见的举例的提示词有:for example,such as,for instance等。 Example: (1)Today young couples who are just starting their households often spend lots of their money On appliances,for instance,washing-machines,refrigerators and color televisions.
如不知道appliances的意思,从文中的举例washing-machines(洗衣机),refrigerators(冰箱),colortelevisions(电视机)可以猜出该词的意思为“家用电器”。
4、利用文中的并列关系猜测词义。
表示并列关系的词和短语主要是similarly,like,just as,also等。 Example:
(1)Tile female mosquito is a vampire and lives on blood.
不知道vamptre的词义,从上文lives on blood(靠吸血而生存)则可得知其词义为吸血昆虫
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1、Some rtists plan their paintings around geometric forms like squares,circles and triangles.
如不知道“geometnc forms”的意思,可从文中所列举的三角形、正方形、圆形来猜得其意为“几何图形”。
2、The consequences of epochal events such as wars and great scientific discoveries are not confined to a small geographical area as they were in the past
句中:“战争”和“重大科学发现”示生词的实例,通过它们我们可以猜出epochal的大致词义“重要的”,这与其确切含义“划时代的”十分接近。
3、The old man put on his spectacles and began to read.
如不知道spectacles的词义,从下文“戴上"spectacles后开始阅读可猜得其词义为“眼镜”。
4、Green loves to talk,and his brothers are similarly loquacious.
该句中副词similarly表明短语lovestotalk与生词loquacious之间的比较关系。以此可以推断出loquacious词义为“健谈的”。
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