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PART I 觀念的釐清與建立

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單字與閱讀（一）

單字與閱讀（續）

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PART I 觀念的釐清與建立

單字與閱讀（一）

單字與閱讀（續）

關鍵字彙：

accolade/ adulation/ approbation/ cater to/ commendation/ eulogy/ exalt/ extol/ fawn on/ fulsome/ ingratiate/ laudable/ meritorious/ obsequious/ panegyric/ servile/ subservient/ sycophant/ tribute

1. 「高度讚揚」可用動詞exalt或extol（正式）：

•The model student was exalted to the skies.

•He keeps extolling her goodness.

關鍵字彙：

brawny/ burly/ chubby/ comely/ corpulent/ countenance/ dwarf/ emaciated/ ethereal/ lanky/ lean/ midget/ obesity/ physiognomy/ plump/ portly/ profile/ pygmy, pigmy/ rotund/ sinewy/ stature/ stout/ sturdy/ torso/ visage/ whiskers

1. 「身高」可用stature（正式），「軀幹」叫torso：

•Helen is short in stature.

•Helen's short stature may be very much to her disadvantage if she wants to play basketball.

關鍵字彙：

aghast/ appalling/ astounding/ bully/ consternation/ dire/ dumbfounded, dumbstruck/ duress/ formidable/ ghastly/ grisly/ gruesome/ hideous/ horrendous/ intimidate/ lurid/ macabre/ menacing/ panic/ petrify/ redoubtable/ staggering/ stun/ trepidation

1. 好事情「令人驚訝的」用astounding或staggering。如果是不好的事情，用appalling：

•Although small, he showed astounding strength.

•She performed an astounding feat of magic.

關鍵字彙：

abate/ aggravate/ allay/ alleviate/ ameliorate/ appease/ assuage/ conciliate/ decline/ degenerate/ deteriorate/ escalate/ exacerbate/ mitigate/ mollify/ perk up/ placate/ propitiate/ relieve/ unmitigated

1. 指原本良好的情況轉壞，也就是「走下坡」，用decline或degenerate。decline通常指抽象的層面，如能力、影響力、名聲、健康、權位等。degenerate也可以指這些，但也可以指具體的事物和道德操守方面的墮落：

•The writer's creativity began to decline since the publication of his third novel.

•The old man declined rapidly and soon died.

關鍵字彙：

audible/ blare/ cacophony/ cadence/ clatter/ discord/ dissonance/ eavesdrop/ grating/ hoarse/ husky/ mellifluous/ muffle/ rattle/ raucous/ resonant/ resonate/ resound/ reverberate/ sonorous/ strident/ tinkle

1. 「偷聽」、「竊聽」可用eavesdrop，「聽得見的」叫audible：

•Don't speak so loudly; someone is eavesdropping.

•His voice was barely audible above the noise of the machinery.

關鍵字彙：

adversary/ arena/ eclipse/ emulate/ forestall/ opponent/ overshadow/ peerless/ preemptive/ rival/ scramble/ tournament/ tussle/ vie

1. 「與…競爭」可用rival或vie：

•No one could rival him in boxing.

•Ships can't rival aircraft for speed.

關鍵字彙：

blandish/ cajole/ coax/ entice/ exhort/ induce/ lobby/ snare

1. 強調拿出許多正當理由地或費力地勸導，用induce：

•With much effort, the mother induced her son to stop gambling.

•Nobody could induce the old lady to travel by plane.

關鍵字彙：

abstruse/ arduous/ baffle/ cryptic/ enormity/ facile/ feasible/ hassle/ inscrutable/ intricate/ skein/ strenuous/ toil/ travail/ unfathomable/ viable

1. 「深奧難懂的」可用abstruse或cryptic，若強調「無法深究的」、「不可解的」，用unfathomable：

•This is a very abstruse riddle for a child.

•We found it difficult to decipher the cryptic message.

關鍵字彙：

amnesty/ anarchy/ asylum/ autocratic/ ballot/ coalition/ compatriot/ demagogue/ deport/ despotic/ dissident/ emissary/ envoy/ espionage/ ethnic/ expatriate/ extradite/ hegemony/ ideology/ impeach/ insurgent/ league/ manifesto/ oligarchy/ partisan/ persecute/ petition/ poll/ protocol/ purge/ quell/ rabble/ rapprochement/ referendum/ regal/ regent/ reshuffle/ retinue/ secession/ seditious/ segregation/ serfdom/ severance/ sovereign/ subversive/ suffrage/ totalitarian/ treason/ usurp

1. 指統治者「獨裁的」，用autocratic或despotic；指政府「集權的」， 叫totalitarian。另外，政權由少數人把持的「寡頭政治」稱為oligarchy：

•He was feared by the masses as an autocratic ruler.

•The people rebelled against the despotic king.

關鍵字彙：

anodyne/ antidote/ antiseptic/ charlatan/ diagnosis/ dope/ drug/ efficacy/ elixir/ medication/ narcotic/ obstetrician/ overdose/ panacea/ pediatrician/ pharmacist/ prognosis/ quack/ sedative/ specialist/ therapy/ toxic/ vet

1. drug與medication：這兩個字基本上都能和medicine交互使用。但現在drug可能更常用來指海洛因、古柯鹼等一類的毒品；medication則經常用於片語on medication for（服治療…的藥）中。另外，運動員等不得使用的「禁藥」叫dope：

•This is a new drug aimed at sufferers from Parkinson's disease.

•A lot of young people start taking drugs at school.