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2017 考研真题单词（英语一）

说明：1. (pl.)代表复数形式；
2. 考研词汇的意思大部分比较抽象，建议结合短语例句理解记忆。

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The answer may be a resounding
resounding adj
“yes”.
Believe it or not, a warm embrace
embrace n might even help you avoid getting sick
this winter.

perceive vt
… examined the effort of perceived
receipt n social support and the receipt of hugs
on the participants’ susceptibility to
susceptibility n developing the common cold after
being exposed to virus.
common cold

marker n Hugging “is a marker of intimacy and

helps generate the feeling that others
are there to help in the face of
intimacy n
difficulty.”

oxytocin n the release of oxytocin

bond n.结合；纽带
bonding n
人们之间的纽带→
attach v.系上→认为…具有→人系到
attachment n 另一个人→
attach+ment n.

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拟声词，模仿碰撞的声音
crash n
类似的还有：crack, clash
But demanding too much of air
travelers or providing too little
undermine vt
security in return undermines public
support for the process.
drag n Wasted time is a drag on Americans’

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economic and private lives, not to

infuriating adj
mention infuriating.
under(下面)+cover(理解为工作)→
undercover adj
地下工作→adj.
sneak 和 snake（n.蛇）长得很像
sneak vt
像蛇一样悄悄地走→
Part of the issue is that the
steep adj government did not anticipate the
steep increase in airline travel.
screen n.屏幕
screener n
在屏幕后面看内容→screener n.
dispute vt The airlines strongly dispute this.

There is one step the TSA could take

remodel vt that would not require remodeling
airports or rushing to hire: Enroll
more people in the PreCheck
enroll vt
program.

eligible adj Passengers who pass a background

check are eligible to use expedited
expedited adj screening lanes.
finance n.财政，金融；资金;→n.
finance vt

The TSA cannot continue diverting

divert vt
resources into underused PreCheck
lanes while most of the traveling
underused adj public suffers in unnecessary lines.

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Juan Carlos fired back with a rare
reign vt public defense of his reign in a recent
speech. (来自网易有道词典)
Star watchers were among the most
esteem vt esteemed members of Hawaiian
society.
observe v.观察
observatory n 是观察天空的机构
去 e 加 atory→observatory
What is beyond the cosmos?
cosmos n (来自网易有道词典)

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At issue is the TMT's planned

worship vt location on Mauna Kea，a dormant
volcano worshiped by some
dormant adj Hawaiians as the piko, that connects
the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

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vocal adj
A small but vocal group of
Hawaiians and environmentalists
reminder n
have long viewed their presence as
disrespect for sacred land and a
occupation n painful reminder of the occupation of
what was once a sovereign nation.
sovereign adj

blame n
Some blame for the current
controversy belongs to astronomers.
controversy n

eagerness n eager v.渴望

prioritize vt
They did not always prioritize the
protection of Mauna Kea’s fragile
fragile adj
ecosystems or its holiness to the
islands’ inhabitants.
inhabitant n

relic n
Hawaiian culture is not a relic of the
undergo vt past; it is a living culture undergoing
a renaissance today.
renaissance n
Dawn n.拂晓，黎明→
dawn n →v.变得明朗，开始
assemble v.组装
disassemble vt dis(不)+assemble →

starry adj Perhaps that is why we explore the

starry skies，as if answering a
primal calling to know ourselves and
primal adj our true ancestral homes.

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The astronomy community is making

compromise n compromises to change its use of
Mauna Kea.
The TMT site was chosen to
visibility n minimize the telescope’s visibility
around the island and to avoid
archaeological adj archaeological and environmental
impact.
There is no reason why everyone
embrace vt
cannot be welcomed on Mauna Kea
to embrace their cultural heritage and
heritage n to study the stars.

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A recent annual study of countries
and their ability to convert growth
convert vt
into well-being sheds some light on
that question.
Rather than just focusing on GDP,
criteria n
over 40 different sets of criteria from
health, education and civil society
engagement n
engagement have been measured to
get a more rounded assessment of
rounded adj how countries are performing.

consistent adj While all of these countries face their

own challenges, there are a number
theme n of consistent themes.

budding adj There has been a budding economic

recovery since the 2008 global crash,
crash n but in key indicators in areas such as
health and education, major
indicator n economies have continued to decline.

sole adj sole n.灵魂 →灵魂是

Does this spell the doom of the

doom n physical book? (来自网易有道词典)

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In a rare unanimous ruling，the US
unanimous adj
Supreme Court has overturned the

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corruption conviction of a former

corruption n Virginia governor，Robert
McDonnell.
conviction n
auto(自己的)+mobile(移动的)
automobile n
自己的移动工具→

adj/
official office n.办公室
n

favor n
The court did suggest that accepting
distasteful adj favors in return for opening doors is
“distasteful” and “nasty.”
nasty adj
I had no concrete evidence.
concrete adj
（来自网易有道词典）
sizable adj size n.尺寸

Elected leaders must be allowed to

bureaucratic adj
help supporters deal with
bureaucratic problems without fear
prosecution n of prosecution for bribery.
The basic compact underlying
compact n representative government,” wrote
Chief Justice John Roberts for the
court，“assumes that public officials
constituent n will hear from their constituents and
act on their concerns.”
But the ruling reinforces the need for
reinforce vt citizens and their elected
representatives, not the courts, to
ensure vt ensure equality of access to
government.
This type of integrity requires well-
integrity n
enforced laws in government
transparency, such as records of
transparency n official meetings，rules on
lobbying，and information about
each elected leader's source of
lobbying n wealth.

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fan vt
Favoritism in official access can fan
public perceptions of corruption.
perception n
Pre(在前)+mise(提出)
premise n
在之前提出→

新题型
From then on his sketches ,which
chronicle n
appeared under the pen name “Boz”
in The Evening Chronicle，earned
modest adj him a modest reputation.
Secure adj.稳固的→对自己有信心
secure vt →感到有保障的→固定住的
v. 使安全→
There were Pickwick coats and
plump adj
Pickwick cigars，and the plump,
spectacled hero, Samuel Pickwick，
spectacled adj became a national figure.
Soon after Sketches by Boz
installment n appeared , a publishing firm
approached Dickens to write a story
in monthly installments , as a
backdrop n
backdrop for a series of woodcuts by
the then-famous artist Robert
woodcut n Seymour, who had originated the
idea for the story.
Shute's prose is stark and chillingly
prose n unsentimental.
（来自网易有道词典）
The comic novel，The Posthumous
posthumous adj Papers of the Pickwick Club（《匹克
威克俱乐部遗稿》），appeared
serially adv serially in 1836 and 1837 and was
first published in book form in 1837.
moralist n
A moralist, satirist, and social
satirist n reformer，Dickens crafted complex
plots and striking characters that
craft vt capture the panorama of English
society.
striking adj

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panorama n
short(短的，缩写的)+hand(手，书
shorthand n
写)
transcribe vt At the same time，Dickens, who had
a reporter's eye for transcribing the
odd adj life around him，especially anything
comic or odd, submitted short
obscure adj sketches to obscure magazines.

paternal adj His paternal grandparents, a steward

and a housekeeper possessed even
steward n less status, having been servants, and
Dickens later concealed their
housekeeper n background.

The humiliations of his father's

humiliation n imprisonment and his labor in the
blacking factory
He could not confide them even to
confide vt his wife，…

plunge vi
After Pickwick, Dickens plunged
into a bleaker world.
bleaker adj
solid adj. 坚硬的，固体的，坚实
consolidate vt
的

翻译
Federalism is intended to diminish
diminish vt the power of the central state.
(来自网易有道词典)

breadth n the breadth of English usage

David Graddol concludes that

monoglot adj
monoglot English graduates face a
bleak economic future as qualified
bleak adj
multilingual youngsters from other
countries are proving to have a
multilingual adj competitive advantage over their
British counterparts in global
counterpart n companies and organisations.

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