寄語考詞雕刻送學員，不再迷茫詞海邊。考場某天忽巧見，春風愜意蕩心間。
一：考點詞再現，挑戰下自己！
8次【sustain】
7次【potential】
7次【converge】
5次【accounted for】
5次【considerably】
5次【severity】
5次【profoundly】
4次【constraints on】
4次【trigger】
4次【aggregation】
3次【reinforce】
3次【magnitude】
3次【furthermore】
3次【accompany】
3次【unfavorable】
2次【ambiguous】
2次【convey】
2次【appropriate】
2次【striking】
2次【outbreak】
二：考點詞學習，考場再相見！
8次【sustain】
2017.7.2
sustain support
2017.10.15
sustain continue
2017.10.28
sustain support
2017.10.29
sustain support
2017.11.12
sustain support
2018.1.27
sustain maintain
2018.6.2
sustain support
2018.10.28
sustain continue
1.VERB 動詞
使持續；保持
If you sustain something, you continue it or maintain it for aperiod of time.
【語法信息】：V n
【語法信息】：V-ed
But he has sustained his fierce social conscience from young adulthood through old age...
而他從青年時期一直到老年都始終保持著強烈的社會良知。
The parameters within which life can be sustained on Earth are extraordinarily narrow.
地球上生命可以存活下來的地域範圍是非常狹小的。
...a period of sustained economic growth throughout 1995.
1995 年全年經濟持續增長時期
2.VERB 動詞
支持；支援；救濟
If something sustains you, it supports you by giving you help, strength, or encouragement.
【語法信息】：V n
【語法信息】：V-ed
【語域標籤】：FORMAL 正式
The cash dividends they get from the cash crop would sustain them during the lean season...
從經濟作物中獲得的收益能幫助他們度過不景氣的時期。
I am sustained by letters of support and what people say to me in ordinary daily life...
這些支持的信件和人們每天對我的鼓勵一直支撐著我。
Sustained by this wonderful breakfast, it was with restored morale that we re-boarded our plane.
這頓豐盛的早餐補充了我們的體力，我們又精神煥發地登上了飛機。
7次【potential】
2016.1.23
potential possible
2016.6.18
potential possible
2016.11.13
potential possible
2018.6.30
potentially possibly
2018.7.7
potentially possibly
2018.7.8
potential possible
2018.10.28
potential possible
ADJ 形容詞
潛在的；可能的
You use potential to say that someone or something is capable of developing into the particular kind of person or thing mentioned.
【搭配模式】：ADJ n
The firm has identified 60 potential customers at home and abroad...該公司已在國內外找到60個潛在客戶。
...potential party members...
有可能發展成黨員的人
We are aware of the potential problems and have taken every precaution.
我們已意識到潛在的問題，並採取了全面的預防措施。
potentially
Clearly this is a potentially dangerous situation...
這無疑是一種潛在的危險局勢。
Potentially this could damage the reputation of the whole industry.
這可能會毀掉整個行業的聲譽。
7次【converge】
2017.2.25
converge on meet at
2017.3.25
converge on meet at
2017.7.15
converge on meet at
2017.11.18
converge come together
2018.1.6
converge meet
2018.1.28
converge come together
2018.10.28
converge come together
1.VERB 動詞
彙集；集中；聚集
If people or vehicles converge on aplace, they move towards it from different directions.
【語法信息】：V on n
Competitors from more than a hundred countries have converged on Sheffield for the Games...
來自100多個國家的選手齊聚設菲爾德參加此次運動會。
Hundreds of coaches will converge on the capital.
數百輛長途汽車將會在首都彙集。
2.VERB 動詞
（路、線等）交會，交叉，匯合
If roads or lines converge, they meet or join at a particular place.
【語法信息】：pl-n V
【語域標籤】：FORMAL 正式
As they flow south, the five rivers converge.
5條大河在南邊交匯。
5次【accounted for】
2016.11.13
account for
2017.9.17
account for
2018.5.19
accounts for explains
2018.10.14
accounts for explains
2018.10.28
accounted for explained
1.PHRASAL VERB 短語動詞
（數量或比例上）佔
If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.
【語法信息】：V P n
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
計算機佔去該國商業用電的5%。
2.PHRASAL VERB 短語動詞
導致；解釋
If something accounts for aparticular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.
【語法信息】：V P n
Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
不過，他們現在發現的基因無法解釋所有的病例。
3.PHRASAL VERB 短語動詞
為…提出理由；對…作出說明
If you can account for something,you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.
【語法信息】：V P n
How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?...
你怎麼解釋這家公司高得令人憂慮的人員流動率？
He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for.
他說火車上的600名乘客中僅有200名乘客的信息得已查明。
5次【considerably】
2017.4.1
considerable a large amount of
2017.5.13
considerably greatly
2018.5.6
considerably significantly
2018.6.10
considerable a large amount of
2018.10.28
considerably significantly
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
相當多的；相當大的
Considerable means great in amount or degree.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
【語域標籤】：FORMAL 正式
To be without Pearce would be a considerable blow...
失去皮爾斯將是一個巨大的打擊。
Doing it properly makes considerable demands on our time...
把這事做好要耗費我們相當多的時間。
Vets' fees can be considerable, even for routine visits.
即使是常規檢查，獸醫的收費也會相當高。
considerably
Children vary considerably in the rate at which they learn these lessons...
孩子們學習這些課文的速度大不相同。
Their dinner parties had become considerably less formal.
他們的晚餐會已經遠不如以前正式。
5次【severity】
2017.11.4
severity harshness
2017.11.18
severity seriousness
2018.1.28
severity seriousness
2018.3.3
severity harshness
2018.10.28
severity seriousness
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
十分嚴重的；極為惡劣的
You use severe to indicate that something bador undesirable is great or intense.
...a business with severe cash flow problems...
有嚴重資金週轉問題的公司
I suffered from severe bouts of depression...
我曾患有嚴重的抑鬱症。
Steve passed out on the floor and woke up blinded and in severepain...
史蒂夫昏倒在地板上，醒來後什麼也看不見了，還感到劇烈的疼痛。
Shortages of professional staff are very severe in some places.
有些地方專業人員嚴重短缺。
severely
The UN wants to send food aid to 10 countries in Africa severelyaffected by the drought...
聯合國希望給非洲 10 個旱情嚴重的國家輸送食物援助。
An aircraft overshot the runway and was severely damaged.
一架飛機衝出了跑道，嚴重受損。
...the severely depressed construction industry.
十分蕭條的建築業
severity
Several drugs are used to lessen the severity of the symptoms.
使用了幾種藥來減輕症狀。
2.ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
（懲罰、批評）嚴厲的，嚴重的，苛刻的
Severe punishments or criticisms are very strong or harsh.
This was a dreadful crime and a severe sentence is necessary...
這一罪行十分惡劣，必須要重判。
Before she could reply, my mother launched into a severe reprimand.
她還沒來得及回答，我媽媽就開始嚴厲地訓斥起她來。
severely
...a campaign to try to change the law to punish dangerous drivers more
severely.試圖修改法律以加重對危險駕車者處罰力度的運動
severity
The Bishop said he was sickened by the severity of the sentence...
主教說他對如此重的量刑大為震驚。
Believers were treated with the same severity as the Christians had been a few years earlier.
和幾年前的基督徒一樣，信徒們受到了同樣嚴厲的對待。
5次【profoundly】
2016.12.11
profound significant
2017.5.27
profound very strong
2017.11.25
profoundly significantly
2018.10.27
profound intense
2018.10.28
profoundly deeply
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
深刻的；強烈的；巨大的
You use profound to emphasize that something is very great or intense.
【語用信息】：emphasis
...discoveries which had a profound effect on many areas of medicine.
對很多醫學領域產生了深刻影響的發現
...profound disagreement...
嚴重的分歧
The overwhelming feeling is just deep, profound shock and anger...
最強烈的感覺就是深深的震驚和憤怒。
Anna's patriotism was profound.
安娜有強烈的愛國心。
profoundly
This has profoundly affected my life...
這給我的生活帶來了深刻的影響。
In politics, as in other areas, he is profoundly conservative.
就像在其他領域一樣，他在政治方面也非常保守。
4次【constraints on】
2016/9/10
constraint limitation
2018.8.25
constraints to restrictions to
2018.10.27
constraint limitation
2018.10.28
constraints on limitations on
N-COUNT 可數名詞
限制；束縛；約束
A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
【搭配模式】：oft adj N
Their decision to abandon the trip was made because of financialconstraints...
他們決定放棄這次出遊是因為財力有限。
Water shortages in the area will be the main constraint on development.
水資源匱乏將是制約該地區發展的一個主要因素。
4次【trigger】
2016.10.22
trigger start
2016.12.10
trigger start
2017.8.27
triggering
2018.10.28
trigger initiate
VERB 動詞
引起；發動；促使
If something triggers an event orsituation, it causes it to begin to happen or exist.
【語法信息】：V n
【語法信息】：V-ing
【語法信息】：V P n (not pron)
【語法信息】：Also V n P
...the incident which triggered the outbreak of the First World War...
導致第一次世界大戰爆發的事件
The current recession was triggered by a slump in consumer spending…
目前的經濟衰退是由消費支出驟跌引起的。
Even a problem as simple as a bad back often has an underlyingtriggering factor.
甚至像背疼這樣的小問題都常常有潛在的誘發因素。
Trigger off means the same as trigger.
trigger off 同 trigger
It is still not clear what events triggered off the demonstrations.
現在仍然不清楚是什麼事件引發了示威活動。
4次【aggregation】
2016.7.3
aggregation collection
2016.9.3
aggregation collection
2018.10.13
aggregation group
2018.10.28
aggregation accumulation
VERB 動詞
合計；總計；彙集
If amounts or things are aggregated,they are added together and considered as a single amount or thing.
【語法信息】：be V-ed into n
【語法信息】：V pl-n
【語法信息】：Also V pl-n into n
【STYLE標籤】：FORMAL 正式
Different economies, with different currencies, should not beaggregated to produce uniform policies...
不同的經濟有著不同的貨幣，不應該視為一體以制定出統一的政策。
We should never aggregate votes to predict results under another system.
我們絕對不可將選票相加來預測另一種制度下的選舉結果。
aggregation
A bigger objection is that aggregation of the results invites distortion.
一種更大的異議是把各種結果集中考慮容易導致曲解。
3次【reinforce】
2016.9.10
reinforce strengthen
2018.3.11
reinforce strengthen
2018.10.28
reinforcing strengthening
1.VERB 動詞
加強；增強
If something reinforces a feeling, situation, or process, it makes it stronger or more intense.
【語法信息】：V n
A stronger European Parliament would, they fear, only reinforce the power of the larger countries...
他們擔心一個更加強大的歐洲議會只會增強大國的力量。
This sense of privilege tends to be reinforced by the outside world.
這種優越感往往會被外部世界強化。
2.VERB 動詞
給予…更多支持；為…提供更多證據
If something reinforces an idea or point of view, it provides more evidence or support for it.
【語法信息】：V n
...films that reinforce the idea that we live in a threatening and risky world.
讓我們更加意識到自己生活的世界充滿威脅和危險的電影
3.VERB 動詞
加固；增強
To reinforce an object means to make it stronger or harder.
【語法信息】：V n with n
Eventually, they had to reinforce the walls with exterior beams.
最終，他們不得不通過增加外梁來對牆體進行加固。
reinforced
Its windows were of reinforced glass.
它的窗戶裝的是強化玻璃。
3次【magnitude】
2016.12.10
magnitude
2017.8.27
magnitude
2018.10.28
magnitude size
1.N-UNCOUNT 不可數名詞
巨大；龐大；重要(性)
If you talk about the magnitude of something, you are talking about its great size, scale, or importance.
【搭配模式】：usu with supp
An operation of this magnitude is going to be difficult...
這麼大的手術實施起來十分困難。
These are issues of great magnitude...
這些問題極為重要。
No one seems to realise the magnitude of this problem.
似乎沒有人意識到這個問題的嚴重性。
2.N-VAR 可變名詞星等
(指星的亮度);震級;(爆炸的)強度
Magnitude is used in statingthe size or extent of something such as a star, earthquake, or explosion.
【搭配模式】：with supp
【FIELD標籤】：TECHNICAL 術語
...the 1.2 magnitude star Fomalhaut...
星等為1.2 的北落師門星
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 had a magnitude of 8.3.
1906年舊金山地震的震級為8.3級。
3.PHRASE 短語
程度;重要性
You can use order of magnitude when you are giving an approximate idea of the amount or importance of something.
【搭配模式】：order inflects
America and Russia do not face a problem of the same order ofmagnitude as Japan.
美俄兩國所面臨問題的重要性與日本的不可同日而語。
4.PHRASE 短語
數量級
In mathematics, if one amount is an order of magnitude larger than another, it is ten times larger than the other. If it is two orders of magnitude larger, it is a hundred times larger.
【搭配模式】：order inflects
【FIELD標籤】：TECHNICAL 術語
The time delay would be smaller by eight orders of magnitude.
如果按8個數量級來看，延時量會顯得小一些。
3次【furthermore】
2016.3.13
furthermore in addition
2017.6.25
furthermore in addition
2018.10.28
furthermore in addition
ADV 副詞
而且;此外;再者
Furthermore is used to introduce a piece of information or opinion that adds to or supports the previous one.
【搭配模式】：ADV with cl
【語域標籤】：FORMAL 正式
Furthermore, they claim that any such interference is completely ineffective.
此外，他們還聲稱任何這樣的干預都是完全無效的。
3次【accompany】
2017.11.18
accompany occur along with
2018.1.28
accompany occur along with
2018.10.28
accompany occur along with
VERB 動詞
伴隨；和…一起發生（或同時存在）
If one thing accompanies another, it happensor exists at the same time, or as a result of it.
【語法信息】：V n
【語法信息】：V-ed
【語法信息】：V-ing
【STYLE標籤】：FORMAL 正式
This volume of essays was designed to accompany an exhibition in Cologne...
這本文集是為配合在科隆舉辦的一場展覽而出的。
The proposal was instantly voted through with two to one in favour,accompanied by enthusiastic applause...
在熱烈的掌聲中，提案以2比1的優勢很快通過了表決。
Perhaps the accompanying illustration will explain it.
可能所附的圖表能對此作出解釋。
3次【unfavorable】
2016.9.3
unfavorable negative
2018.2.4
unfavorable negative
2018.10.28
unfavorable disadvantageous
in AM, use 美國英語用 unfavorable
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
(條件或環境)不利的，惡劣的
Unfavourable conditions orcircumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
【搭配模式】：usu ADJ n
Unfavourable economic conditions were blocking a recovery of the American insurance market...
不利的經濟形勢阻礙著美國保險市場的復甦。
We've got a fairly unfavourable exchange rate at the moment...
眼下匯率對我們不利。
Unfavourable weather has had damaging effects on this year's harvest...
惡劣天氣使今年的收成受到了損失。
The whole international economic situation is very unfavourable for the countries in the south.
整個國際經濟形勢對南方國家非常不利。
2次【ambiguous】
2018.1.27
ambiguous unclear
2018.10.28
ambiguous unclear
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
含糊不清的;不明確的;模稜兩可的
If you describe something as ambiguous, you mean that it is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
This agreement is very ambiguous and open to various interpretations...
這份協議非常含糊，可以有多種解釋。
The Foreign Secretary's remarks clarify an ambiguous statement issued earlier this week.
外交大臣的話對本週較早時候發表的一份模稜兩可的聲明作出了澄清。
ambiguously
Zaire's national conference on democracy ended ambiguously.
扎伊爾關於民主的全國大會結束了，但未有結果。
2次【convey】
2018.1.27
convey transmit
2018.10.28
convey transmit
VERB 動詞
傳達;表達;傳遞
To convey information or feelings means to cause them to be known or understood by someone.
【語法信息】：V n
When I returned home, I tried to convey the wonder of this machine to my husband...
回到家後，我竭力地想把這臺機器的精妙之處描述給丈夫聽。
In every one of her pictures she conveys a sense of immediacy...
她拍的每一張照片中都傳遞出一種臨場感，使人有如親臨現場。
He also conveyed his views and the views of the bureaucracy.
他也表達了自己的看法和官方的看法。
2次【appropriate】
2017.10.15
appropriate suitable
2018.10.28
appropriate suitable
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
適當的;合適的;恰當的
Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for aparticular situation.
【搭配模式】：oft it v-link ADJ that/to-inf
It is appropriate that Irish names dominate the list...
名單上大部分是愛爾蘭名字，這沒什麼不合適的。
Dress neatly and attractively in an outfit appropriate to the job...
著裝要整潔美觀，適合於這份工作。
The teacher can then take appropriate action.
老師到時可以採取適當的行動。
appropriately
Dress appropriately and ask intelligent questions...
穿著要得體，提問要機敏。
It's entitled, appropriately enough, 'Art for the Nation'.
它被恰如其分地取名為“為了國家的藝術”。
appropriateness
He wonders about the appropriateness of each move he makes.
他對自己的每次行動都再三思量是否合適
2次【striking】
2018.6.10
striking dramatic
2018.10.28
striking noteworthy
ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副詞或介詞詞組修飾的形容詞
引人注目的;異乎尋常的;顯著的
Something that is striking is very noticeable or unusual.
The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides...
那些統計數據最引人注目之處是其極高的自殺率。
He bears a striking resemblance to Lenin.
他酷似列寧。
...her striking good looks.
她那驚人的美貌
strikingly
In one respect, however, the men really were strikingly similar.
然而，一方面，那些男人真的非常相似。
...a strikingly handsome man...
絕色美男
Most strikingly, the amount consumers spent in the shops grew much more quickly than anyone expected.
最驚人的是，消費者的購物支出的增長速度遠遠超過了任何人的預期。
2次【outbreak】
2018.1.28
outbreak sudden increase
2018.10.28
outbreak sudden increase
N-COUNT 可數名詞
（暴力活動、疾病等的）爆發，突然發生
If there is an outbreak of something unpleasant, such as violence or a disease, it suddenly starts to happen.
【搭配模式】：usu sing
The four-day festival ended a day early after an outbreak of violence involving hundreds of youths.
一場有數百名年輕人捲入的暴力活動發生後，為期4天的節慶活動被迫提前一天結束。
...the outbreak of war in the Middle East...
中東戰爭的爆發
In Peru, a cholera outbreak continues to spread.
霍亂在秘魯各地相繼爆發。
三：考點詞回顧，都認識了嗎？
8次【sustain】
7次【potential】
7次【converge】
5次【accounted for】
5次【considerably】
5次【severity】
5次【profoundly】
4次【constraints on】
4次【trigger】
4次【aggregation】
3次【reinforce】
3次【magnitude】
3次【furthermore】
3次【accompany】
3次【unfavorable】
2次【ambiguous】
2次【convey】
2次【appropriate】
2次【striking】
2次【outbreak】
朱老師
沃邦託福閱讀老師
復旦大學英語語言與文學專業，中國高級中學英語執教認證，美國大學理事會英語培訓認證。 專注託福、雅思、SAT、ACT 等出國英語閱讀的研究與培訓，培訓同時，以言傳身教的方式培養學生：自學的能力，堅韌的精神，反思的品質。
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