最新英语专业考研核心词汇_吴中东，周玉芳主编_9787300208077

《最新英语专业考研核心词汇》是“北京环球时代学校英语专业考研点睛丛书”之一。书中内容以《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》的要求为基础，按照各高校英语院系招收研究生入学考试要求组织安排。本书适合英语专业本科毕业有意攻读英语专业研究生的同学使用，以英语专业四八级、部分GRE词汇为基础，再补充一些经常出现于文学作品和评论中的词汇，以及从历年各校英研入学考试实考试题中萃取的易考词、常考词和难词，共搜集了词汇近五千条。

Part 1 Enter Dr. Thomas Dooley (Ⅰ)
本单元词汇精要
1. emaciated 2. surged 3. tranquil 4. sanctuary 5. ascend
In 1956, LOOK magazine named Thomas Dooley as one of the year’s ten most outstanding men. Just under thirty years of age at the time, Dr. Dooley had already distinguished himself by caring for a half-million sick and emaciatedVietnamese refugees. When fighting broke out in the divided country of Viet nam, the northern forces surged southward, scattering thousands of refugees before them. At that time, Dr. Dooley was a lieutenant, assigned to a tranquil naval hospital in Yoko-suka, Japan. Forthwith he volunteered for duty on a navy ship that had been chosen to transport the refugees to sanctuary in Saigon. The curtain was beginning to ascend on Dooley’s real career.
Sample Sentences
Use the new words in the following sentences.
1. The residents of the Warsaw Ghetto managed to win several skirmishes from the Nazis.
2. A firecracker terminated the climate of the neighborhood.
3. When Richard Ⅲ violated the of the church to seize the princes, he exceeded his jurisdiction.
4. Lakeman put its heaviest players up front, but they were helpless as the Giants’ line toward them.
5. Inexorably the determined climber began to the Himalayan peak.
Definitions
Match the new words with their meanings.
6. emaciated a. to rush suddenly
7. surge b. shelter
8. tranquil c. quiet
9. sanctuary d. abnormally thin, wasted away
10. ascend e. to rise
本单元成语精要
sour grapes: to disparage something which you cannot have (from Aesop’s fable about the fox who called the grapes sour because he could not reach them) 酸葡萄，指因得不到想要的东西便故意说它不好。
该习语源于《伊索寓言》。一个热天，饥渴的狐狸看见几大串葡萄垂挂在葡萄藤上。狐狸怎么也够不着，最后只好离去，嘴里嘟囔着：“这有什么，那葡萄是酸的！”
Marcia said that she didn’t want to be on the Principal’s Honor Roll anyway. But we knew that it was just sour grapes on her part.
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