PTE考试题材覆盖广泛，各个领域词汇的积累不可缺少。下面，墨尔本悉尼文波PTE培训学校的小编就通过《经济学人》中关于日本人口老龄化的几篇文章，为墨尔本PTE考生和悉尼PTE考生增加一些词汇储备。下面开始：
browbeat 威逼
e.g. to browbeat someone into doing something
grandee 大人物
repatriation 遣返，调回本国
grapple 扭打，努力应付
e.g. to grapple with someone or a problem
clientele 委托人，顾客
decrepit 老弱的，破旧的
e.g. The people of Tama and their apartments are all growing old and decrepit at the same time.
bedridden 卧床不起的
dementia 痴呆
e.g. By 2025, officials in Tama predict, almost one in four elderly residents will be bedridden and one in seven will suffer from dementia.
municipality 自治市／镇／区，市政当局
frantically 发狂的，拼命的
e.g. Cities like Tama are therefore playing not a zero-sum game but a negative-sum game, frantically chasing an ever-diminishing number of young adults and children.
fecund 多产的
tentacle 触须，影响范围
e.g. Jellyfish, an education firm with tentacles in several countries……
stringent 严格的，严厉的
e.g. a stringent economic climate 紧缩的金融气候
sprightly 精神矍铄的，轻快的
e.g. Tsuneo Watanabe is a sprightly 90.
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