GMAT考试词汇精选(MP3+文本) 第128期:Unit16-8
日期:2015-12-19 13:01

(单词翻译:单击)

1.foraging n.觅食(the act of searching for food and provisions)

联想记忆:来自forage(n.饲料;v.搜寻)

例:They cannot be replenished through foraging.

2.forecast v./n.预测,预报(to foretell)

词根记忆:fore(预先)+cast(计算)--预先计算出--预测,预报

例:Weather forecasts are more detailed today than they were 36 years ago.//People could not forecast the weather with real precision.

派生词:forecaster(n.预报员)

3.foreclosure n.取消抵押品赎回权(a legal proceeding that bars or extinguishes a mortgagor's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate)

词根记忆:fore(预先)+closure(关闭)叶预先关闭了--取消抵押品赎回权

例:Foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years.

同根词:disclosure(n.公开;揭发)

4.foresee v.预见(to see or know beforehand)

词根记忆:fore(预先)+see(看见)--预先看见--预见

例:How comparable worth will affect the hierarchy of wages is difficult to foresee.

5.foreseeable adj.可预知的(being such as may be reasonably anticipated);能预测的

词根记忆:fore(预先)+see(看见)+able(有能力的)--有能力预先看见的--可预知的

例:Teruvia's total rice acreage will not be expanded in the foreseeable future, nor will rice yields per acre increase appreciably.

6.foreshadow v.成为先兆,预示( to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand)

词根记忆:fore(预先)+shadow(影子)--影子先来--预示

例:Given this failure, Duverger's study foreshadowed the enduring limitations of the behavioralist approach to the multinational study of women's political participation.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss.
生活的悲剧不在于人们受到多少苦,而在于人们错过了什么。

——英国散文家、历史学家卡莱尔(Thomas Carlyle, British essayist and historian)

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重点单词
  • precisionn. 精确,精密度 adj. 以精准的执行而著称的,经得
  • shadown. 阴影,影子,荫,阴暗,暗处 vt. 投阴影于,跟踪
  • comparableadj. 可比较的,比得上的
  • foreseeableadj. 能预测的;可预知的
  • typifyvt. 是 ... 的典型,代表
  • forecastn. 预测,预报 v. 预测
  • approachn. 接近; 途径,方法 v. 靠近,接近,动手处理
  • foreshadowvt. 预示,预兆
  • legaladj. 法律的,合法的,法定的
  • estaten. 财产,房地产,状态,遗产