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正在备考考研英语的同学们都知道,词汇量对英语考试有着至关重要的作用,无论是阅读、写作还是翻译题型,都需要强大的词汇量基础做支撑。然后苦恼的是,单词总是一边背一边忘,最后直接影响考试成绩。北外网课总结了很多复习技巧,告诉你考研英语怎么复习,记单词最好的办法是语境记忆。每个英文单词的意思很多,但是它在句子中到底是什么意思,需要看具体的语境。备考考研英语的同学除了记住单词的一般意义、常用释义,还要记住在考研英语中最常用的意思。查英语单词一定要有一本好的英语词典。牛津高阶英汉双解词典绝对是考生必备,练习过程中,我们最好不用手机或其他电子设备直接查阅或背诵上面的意思,这样极有可能自己背会了却根本不会用,或者根本就是不明确甚至是错误的意思,而且还不知道如何在英文语境中正确使用。所以用英文来理解英语单词才是正解,我们还可以从例句中学习到这个单词的正确用法,实在是一举多得。北外网课的李老师为我们举例讲解了如何用这个方法背单词。举个例子:在考研英语中,我们会看到imagine这个单词,一般意思是动词,想象的意思,但是imagine在考研英语的宾语从句中,经常是认为的意思,I imagine that:就==I think that。如:It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans, or with no consideration at all.Consideration :基本意思,carefully think about sth,考虑,斟酌但是根据句子的意思,句子中的consideration 实际意思为 关切 更为到位,也就是在牛津字典中的,the quality of being sensitive towards others and think about their feelings and wishes.下面我们来详细的分析下一篇考研阅读文章,并从该文章中展示一下重点单词的记忆方法。Excerpt:1997 Passage 1 paragraph 1 It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group's on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: "We posted bulletins all day long, because this isn't just something that happened in Australia. It's world history."假如说,我现在是一名读者,非英语专业刚刚能过公共四级的水平。那面对这一段,我可能不会的单词可能有如下几个:Parliamentary:(实在觉得查纸质字典浪费时间的同学,先用电子字典查一下,这个词一查,是名词,议会,国家的议事机构的意思,如英国的议会机构啊等等,只是一个简单的指示实物的名词嘛,应该不会有其它熟词辟义了,所以呢,可以不查纸质字典啦) 议会Australia’s North Territory: territory是领土的意思,整体翻译过来就是澳大利亚北边领土的意思,专有名词,不需要特别记忆Legal authority:authority:字典示意如图:摘抄一下,核心意思有:1) the power to give orders to people.权力,威权,当权地位2)the power or right to do sth 职权3)official permission to do sth 批准,授权4) 指人或机构,当局,官方,当权者// 专家,学术权威,泰斗。5)权威,威信,影响力查到这,很多同学说,翻译成法律的权威机构?法律当局?这时候自以为的认识legal,变成了————完了,legal是啥意思?Legal:1)connected with law,与法律有关的,法律的 2)allowed or required by law 法律允许的,合法的显然,这里是第一个合法的机构,合法的当局吧!所以呢,legal authority就是合法当局啦!Incurably: cure----curable-----incurable----incurably 懂构词法的同学猜词可能猜到这是不可治愈的意思,但是也要务实,去查查字典里到底是什么意思。Incurable:that cannot be cured 不能治愈的:incurably:病入膏肓,(基本猜对,暗自窃喜,再接再厉啦~)Convincing:adj, that makes sb believe that sth is true,令人信服的,有说服力的Flash:flash on, V,意思很多,但是根据语境flash on the internet, 是与屏幕有关,我们可以直接看这部分的相关解释就好了。To appear on a television screen,computer screen, etc.for a short time (使)闪现,映出,显示。Executive director:又是一个指认的名词,不会有很多意思的,可用电子词典,行政长官,执行董事,执行理事等Via:介词,prep, 通过,表示渠道,同throughBulletins:普通N,小报像这样,一篇文章的这样庖丁解牛地学完啦,词组,句式等工作也是需要慢慢分析并进行理解记忆的,patience,patience,patience!所以说,切不可忽视单词意思的程度差别和一些很微小的不同,在考研英语中,往往就是考察考生能否正确理解到核心单词在语篇和语境中的意思,并揣测作者的情感倾向及其立场等问题。