考研常考的单词辨析三
考研常考单词辨析三experiment [?k?sp?r?m?nt] n.试验；v.（on）做实验
【真题例句】 Science, in practice, depends far less on the experiments it prepares than on the preparedness of the minds of the men who watch the experiments. 【例句精译】 在实践中，科学成果的取得依赖于做有准备的实验，但更依赖于有思想准备的实验观察者。
【真题例句】 He experimented with antibacterial substances for nine years before he made his discovery. 【例句精译】 他是对抗菌物质进行了长达9年的实验才有了这项发明。
fabricate [?f?br??ket]v.①捏造，编造（谎言，借口等）；②建造，制造
【真题例句】 The newly described languages were often so strikingly different from the well studied languages of Europe and Southeast Asia that some scholars even accused Boas and Sapir of fabricating their data. 【例句精译】 这些新近被描述的语言和得到充分研究的欧洲和东南亚地区的语言往往差别显著，以至于有些学者甚至指责Boas和Sapir编造了材料。
fair a.①公平的，合理的；②相当的，尚好的；③晴朗的；④金发的；n.集市，交易会，博览会
【真题例句】 To be fair , this observation is also frequently made of Canada and Canadians, and should best be considered North American. 【例句精译】 平心而论，人们对加拿大人也有这样的评论，因而，应当认为这是北美的普遍现象。
【真题例句】 In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded at country fairs and at the industrial fairs in major cities. 【例句精译】 在美国，奖励新发明的大量奖品在乡村集市和大城市的工业博览会上颁发。
fashion [?f???n] n.①流行式样（或货品），风尚，风气；②样子，方式；vt.形成，制作，塑造
【真题例句】 More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion , companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. 【例句精译】 最近，在网络已被证明不是一时的时髦之后，公司间便开始（在网上）交易产品和服务。
【真题例句】 His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic fashion , chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long-term profitability. 【例句精译】 他的同事迈克?比尔说，太多的企业以机械的方式进行重组，降低了成本却没有考虑到长远效益。 【真题例句】 If the Administration won’t take the legislative initiative, Congress should help to begin fashioning conservation measures. 【例句精译】 假如政府当局没有采取司法行动，议会就应该协助来推广环保措施。
feature [?fit??] n.①特征，特色；②（报纸或杂志）特写；③容貌，面貌；v.给显著地位
【真题例句】 The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined. 【例句精译】 但互相吻合的海岸线和某些似乎跨越海洋的地质特征表明两个大陆曾经连在一起。
【真题例句】 70. This passage appears to be a digest of _____.
a magazine feature 【例句精译】 70、本文似乎是_____的摘要。
一份杂志特写 【真题例句】 68. Kitcher’s book is intended to _____.
expose the true features of creationists 【例句精译】 68、肯切尔的书旨在_____。
披露所谓科学创世论者的真实面目
【真题例句】 Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. 【例句精译】 我们的杂志突出刊登满面春风的名人和美满幸福的家庭。
field n.①田，田野；②运动场；③领域，方面；④实地,野外
【真题例句】 The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take the most shots at the goal — and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity. 【例句精译】 关键在于得分最多者正是那些射门次数最多的球员，而任何领域的创新活动都是如此。
【真题例句】 Anthropology is a field-study oriented discipline which makes extensive use of the comparative method in analysis. 【例句精译】 人类学是一个以实地研究为方向的学科，该学科在研究中常常大量使用对比分析方法。
figure [?f?ɡj?] n.①体形；②数字；③图形；④人物；v.（out）算出，估计，推测
【真题例句】 In the year 2000, the National Cancer Institute estimates that figure will be 75 percent. 【例句精译】 国家癌症研究所估计，到2000年存活率将升至75%。
【真题例句】 Americans no longer expect public figures , whether in speech or in writing, to command the English language with skill and gift.Nor do they aspire to such command themselves. 【例句精译】 美国人不再期望公众人物在演讲或写作文章之时可以巧妙地、富有天分地使用英语了，而他们自己本身也不奢望自己能够做到这一点。
finance n.①财政，金融；②资金；v.为……提供资金
【真题例句】 This also involves the agreements between European countries for the creation of a European bank for Television Production which, on the model of the European Investments Bank, will handle the finances necessary for production costs.【例句精译】 这也要求欧洲国家达成共识，并效仿能解决生产所需资金的欧洲投资银行的模式，来创立一个欧洲节目制作资源库。
【真题例句】The English, the Germans, the Dutch and the French were investing in Britain’s former colony.They financed them.Immigrant Americans built them.Guess who owns them now? The Americans. 【例句精译】 英国人、德国人、荷兰人和法国人都在这个前英国殖民地投资。他们提供资金，美洲移民建造。想想看，现在谁拥有这一切？美国人。
firm a.11坚固的，稳固的；12坚决的，坚定的；n.21公司，商号
【真题例句】 It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. 【例句精译】 广告直接有助于商品以合理的价格销售，由此建立稳固的国内市场，并使商品能以富有竞争力的价格出口。
【真题例句】 Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. 【例句精译】 许多旧式公司被有限责任公司所取代，由领薪经理层构成其管理机构。
horizon n.①地平线；②眼界，见识；③（思想等的）范围，限度；④（on the ～）即将发生
【真题例句】 According to the new school of scientists, technology is an overlooked force in expanding the horizons of scientific knowledge. 【例句精译】 新学派科学家们认为，在拓展科学知识的范围方面技术是被忽视的力量。
【真题例句】 For many of us, the “cashless society” is not on the horizon — it’s already here. 【例句精译】 对于我们很多人来说，“无现金的社会”不是即将来临，而是已经到来。
host n.①主人；②主持人；③东道主；④（a ～ of）许多；v.①举行；②主持；③主办
【真题例句】 In any case, basic computer skills are only complementary to the host of real skills that are necessary to becoming any kind of professional. 【例句精译】 无论如何，基本的计算机技能只是对成为某种专业技术人员所需的各种实际技能的补充。
【真题例句】 There will be television chat shows hosted by robots, and cars with pollution monitors that will disable them when they offend. 【例句精译】 届时，将出现由机器人主持的电视访谈节目以及装有污染监控器的汽车，一旦这些汽车排污超标（违规），监控器就会使其停驶。
immediate [??midi?t]a.①立即的，即时的；②直接的，最接近的
【真题例句】 But a decision among projects none of which has immediate utility is more difficult. 【例句精译】 但是在没有直接效用的项目中做抉择就难多了。
import [??mp?rt] v.进口，输入；n.①进口，输入；②进口商品，进口物资；③重要性
【真题例句】 On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies — to which heavy industry has shifted — have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed. 【例句精译】 另一方面，进口石油的新兴国家由于转向了重工业，消耗能量更大，因此可能会受到石油危机的强烈影响.
【真题例句】 The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP.That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. 【例句精译】 国际经合组织在最近一期的《经济展望》中估计，如果油价持续一年维持在22美元左右，与1998年的13美元一桶相比，这也只会使发达国家的石油进口在支出上增加GDP的0.25%～0.5%。这还不到1974年或1980年收入减少部分的1/4。
【真题例句】 The full import may take a while to sink in. 【例句精译】 该法案的重要性可能需要一段时间才能为人们所理解和接受。
knowledge[?nɑl?d?] n.①知识，学识；②知道，了解
【真题例句】 “Being learned in some branch of human knowledge in one thing, living in public and industrious thoughts”, as Emersion would say, “is something else.” 【例句精译】 正如爱默生说的“在人类知识的一些分支中学习是一回事，在公众的和勤勉的思想中生存就是另外一回事了。”
【真题例句】 The “shareholders” as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good. 【例句精译】 这种股东不了解他们所持股的公司里工人们的生活、思想和需求。他们对劳资关系也不会产生积极的影响。
lean v.①倾斜，屈身；②倚，靠，依赖；a.①瘦的，无脂肪的；②精干的，效率高的；③贫瘠的
【真题例句】 They all seem to look alike --lean , pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at 10:30 a.m. 【例句精译】 他们看起来都一个样（虽然他们从各个地方而来）——瘦削、率直、专注的脸庞，穿着牛仔裤和便鞋，吃着小圆面包，在剧场外的石板上过夜，以便能买得起20张座票和80张站票，这些票都是为那些睡觉的人准备的，并且在票房第二天上午10点半开始售票时就卖给他们。
【真题例句】 Friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in Austin. 【例句精译】 弗里德曼在奥斯汀市只有20人的精干职员队伍。
lesson [?l?s?n] n.功课，课程；教训
【真题例句】 The lesson from dams is that big is not always beautiful. 【例句精译】 建造大坝的教训是：大的未必总是好的。
local[?lok?l] a.①地方的，当地的；②局部的
【真题例句】 The townsfolk don’t see it this way and local council does not contribute directly to the subsidy of the Royal Shakespeare Company. 【例句精译】 但是市民们不这样认为并且当地的理事会也不会直接给皇家莎士比亚公司提供补贴。
【真题例句】 Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local studies in the old way. 【例句精译】 另一方面，业余人员继续以旧的方式从事局部的研究。
locate [?lo?ket, lo?ket] v.①查找；②使……坐落于，位于 【真题例句】 Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machine-readable files, and to program computers to locate specific information. 【例句精译】 计算机技术使人们可以把大量的数据储存到机器可读的文件里，还能通过计算机编程找到某一信息。 【真题例句】 65. We can see from the available statistics that _____. the top 10 states in growth rate of population were all located in the West 【例句精译】 65、从得到的统计资料，我们可以看出_____。 人口增长率排名前十位的州都位于西部地区
maintain v.①维修，保养；②维持，保持；③坚持，主张，支持
【真题例句】 Practice tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material. 【例句精译】 实践（或称复习）就是建立并保持对某一任务或所学材料的记忆。
【真题例句】 George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. 【例句精译】 波士顿大学健康法律系主任乔治?安纳斯坚持认为，只要医生是出于合理的医疗目的开药，那么即使服用此药会加速病人的死亡，医生的行为也没有违法。
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