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Academic(10次)a. 学院的，学业的a. 学术的n. 学者，大学教师
If the preoccupation of schools with academicwork was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values.[1995年阅读text4]
Mr. McWhorter’s academicspecialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.[2005年阅读4]
Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academicand former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “reengineering” has been crude.[1998年阅读text2]
【同源词】academy学院，学会
National Academy of Science国家科学学院
Fuel(10次)燃料，能源；提供燃料；火上浇油（联想意义）
Energy conservation, a shift to other fuelsand decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.[2002年阅读text3]
On anther level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide（医生协助自杀）debated has been fueledin part by the despair of parents for whom the modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying .[2002年阅读text4]
Address(10次)v. 致函，写姓名地址；v. 向……讲话；v. 处理，解决问题
Prior to his departure, he addresseda letter to his daughter. [1986词汇第3题]
【真题例句】Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different.[2002年阅读Text1]
Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are comprehensive programs that addressthe many needs of the homeless.[2006年完形]
Odd/Odds(9次)a.奇怪的，奇特的a.临时的，不固定的
Oddthough it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary particle physics, and many astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true. [1998年翻译]
【真题例句】Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every variety. [2007年阅读Text4]
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奇数的，不成对的
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【反义词】even 【例】an odd shoe.一只不成对的鞋
odds. n.可能性，概率
Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent – and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance – have jumped eightfold in just one generation. [2007年阅读Text3]
Account (34次)n.帐户, 计算vt.做帐，财务，会计 n. 价值，地位，重要性
Credit card account信用卡帐户
Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted AccountingPrinciples (GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noam of New York’s Columbia Business School. [2007年阅读新题型]
Is it true that the American intellectual is rejected and considered of no accountin his society? [2006年翻译]
常考短语
Take something into account = take account of 把…考虑在内
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account.[2006年阅读Text3]
Account for解释，说明
What might account forthis strange phenomenon? [2007年阅读Text1]
Account for 占…比例
As recently as 1995, the top four railroads accounted forunder 70 percent of the total ton-miles moved by rails. [2003年阅读Text3] |
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