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小编:小雅 24雅思阅读猜词技巧四:根据例子猜词
雅思阅读中的一些举例能够提供猜测生词的重要线索,例如The consequences of epochal events such as wars and great scientificdiscoveries are not confined to a small geographical area as they were in thepast. 句中“战争”和“重大科学发现”是生词的实例,通过它们我们可以猜出epochal的大致词义“重要的”。
雅思阅读猜词技巧五:根据常识猜词
这是指根据篇章(句子或段落)以外的其他知识来猜测词义。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。例如:The cat came quickly through the grass towards the birds ,when itwas just a few from the feet from the victim, it gather its legs under itselfand pounced.如果pounce 是生词。推测该词我们可以凭借我们的常识,我们知道当猫看到鸟时,通常它会先把爪子收起来,然后再突然向小鸟发起进攻。由此可以推断pounce一词的意思是“突然攻击”。
再如It's reallycold out tonight. My hands are practically numb. 根据生活经验,天气寒冷时,手肯定是numb“冻僵的,冻得麻木的”。
雅思阅读猜词技巧六:根据阐述猜词
虽然进一步阐述不如定义那样严谨、详细,但是提供的信息足以使我们猜出生词的词义。复述部分可以是适当的词,短语或者句子。例如Experts in kinesics, in their study of body motion as related tospeech ,hope to discover new methods of communications. 逗号中短语的意思是“对肢体语言进行研究的学科”。短语与前面生词kinesics是同位关系,因此我们不难猜出kinesics指“肢体语言学”。在这种复述当中,构成同位关系的两部分之间多用逗号连接,有时也使用破折号,冒号,分号,引号,和括号等。另外同位语前还常有or, similarly, that is to say, in other words, namely, or other, 等副词或短语出现。另外一种会以定语从句的形式出现如从句Obesity, which is a medical disorder that affects approximately20-30% of the population of the United States of America. It is an excessiveaccumulation of body fat that results from the storage of excess food energycalories in the body's fat cells. 根据生词obesity后面的非限制性定语从句whichis a medical disorder that affects approximately 20-30% of the population ofthe United States of America. It is an excessive accumulation of body fat thatresults from the storage of excess food energy calories in the body's fatcells. 我们可以推断出obesity的含义,即“过度肥胖”。
雅思阅读猜词技巧七:根据比较猜词
在雅思阅读的一个句子或段落中,有对两个事物或现象进行对比性的描述,我们可以根据生词或难词的反义词猜测其词义。例如:Unlike her gregarious sister, Jane is a shy, unsociable person whodoes not like to go to parties or to make new friends. Gregarious, 对许多人来说可能是个生词,但是句中单词unlike可以提示我们Gregarious和后面的词unsociable person是对比关系。分析出这种关系后,我们便能猜出意为Gregarious是“爱交际的”。