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》和《卫报》中的几篇文章,为墨尔本PTE考生和悉尼PTE考生增加一些词汇和搭配储备。下面开始:
marauding /məˈrɔ:dɪŋ/ 抢劫的,猎食的
topsy-turvy /ˌtɔpsi’tə:vi/ 乱七八糟的
belligerence /bə’lɪdʒ(ə)r(ə)ns/ 好斗性,好战性
bogus /‘bəʊgəs/ 假冒的,假的
coercive /kəʊ’ɜːsɪv/ 强制的
e.g. On the face of it, the action tells the government to stop enforcing coercive measures that force people to buy health insurance and are unpopular.
innermost 内心深处的
resuscitate /rɪ’sʌsɪteɪt/ 使苏醒,使复苏
e.g. resuscitate a country / the flagging economy 复兴一个国家/复苏萧条的经济
doldrums 抑郁,不景气,无精打采
e.g. ……fallen into the doldrums
hamstring n. 后脚腱;v. 挑断……的脚筋
e.g. to be hamstrung by something 因某事而无能为力
anathema /ə’næθəmə/ (天主教的)诅咒;令人厌恶的人或东西
e.g. Others are paying maths and science teachers more, which is anathema to unions, who want to treat all teachers the same.
wrath /rɒθ/ 盛怒
To identify which colleges are the best “engines of upward mobility”, Mr Chetty and his collaborators rank universities on their ability to move large numbers of students from the poorest 20% of the income distribution to the top 20%.
Elite universities justify steep rises in tuition fees by pointing to their generous financial-aid programmes for poor students.
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