托福阅读熟词僻义内容

1 托福阅读熟词僻义内容

在托福考试中，托福阅读的文章中，常常也会消失一些熟词，但是意思与我们平常知道的并不相同，不理解其中的意思很有可能带来托福考阅读中的理解错误，下面我就和大家共享托福阅读熟词僻义内容汇总，来观赏一下吧。

托福阅读熟词僻义内容汇总

1.exercise

【常用释义】

v.熬炼;练习

【生僻释义】

v. 实施， 运用

托福例句：They exercised an influence far in excess of their

numbers.(官方真题Official46-2 The Commercial Revolution in Medieval

Europe)

解析：exercise 常用的含义为名词或动词的“熬炼”。而在托福阅读中，常常会考察到“实施，使用”的意思，常用搭配是to exercise

considerable or a great deal of influence over sb./sth.对某人/某事物产生很大影响，或者to exercise care in doing [something]当心做某事。本句理解为，他们发挥的影响远远超过他们的人口数量。

2.consume

【常用释义】 2 v. 用完, 消耗, 花费(某事物)

【生僻释义】

v. 烧毁;毁灭

托福例句：The explosion is also calculated to have produced vast

quantities of nitric acid and melted rock that sprayed out over much of

Earth, starting widespread fires that must have consumed most

terrestrial forests and grassland. (OG10 Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur

Extinction)

解析：consume大家比较熟识的意思是“消耗;用完”的含义，同义词是destroy。而在托福中，也会考察到consume作“烧毁, 毁灭”的含义。另外，本句需要留意有多个定语从句修饰和现在分词修饰。本句释义：据估量，爆炸过程还产生了大量的硝酸和被溶解的岩浆并喷出地球外，造成了大面积火灾，大部分的森林和草原被燃尽。

3.impact

【常用释义】

n.v. 影响

【生僻释义】

n. 撞击

托福例句：There is increasing evidence that the impacts of

meteorites have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field

of biological evolution.(OG10 Meteorite Impact and Dinosaur Extinction)

解析：impact常见意思为“影响”，可用动词和名词，常常和“on” 3 一起搭配使用，常用短语“have an impact on sth”或者直接当动词使用“impact on sth”。而在天文学的篇章中impact常见的意思为“撞击”，例句中的impact就是“撞击”的意思。整句话的翻译为：“有越来越多的证据表明陨石的撞击对地球有着重要的影响，特殊是在生物进化领域。”

4.picture

【常用释义】

n.图画;照片

【生僻释义】

1.v.描绘

托福例句：Because some paintings were made directly over others,

obliterating them, it is probable that a painting’s value ended with the

migration it pictured.(OG Lascaux Cave Paintings)

解析：picture做“描绘”解，类似于describe，常用词组为be

pictured as：“被描绘为…”。这个含义大家应当能想象到。在本句话中需要留意代词的指代对象，them是指“other paintings”，倒数其次个it是指“a painting”。此外it pictured 为修饰migration的定语从句。整句话的意思，由于有些画直接画在另一些画上面，把原有画面擦掉了，所以有可能这幅画的价值随着它所描绘迁徙过程的结束而结束了。

2.n.情形，状况

托福例句：By contrast, any explanation that focuses strictly on the

dinosaurs completely misses the point. The Cretaceous extinctions were 4 a global phenomenon, and dinosaurs were just a part of a bigger picture.

(官方真题Official42-2 Explaining Dinosaur Extinction)

解析：picture作为名词解，除了图片的意思外还有“情形/状况”的意思，常见的词组有“to be in the picture- 了解状况，to put/keep sb.

in the picture-让某人了解状况，to see the bigger picture-关注大局”。这一意思在托福中也多次考察。本句的翻译为：相反，任何只关注于恐龙的解释都完全偏离了正确方向。白垩纪的灭亡是一个全球性的现象，而恐龙只是整体状况的一部分。”

5.grain

【常用释义】

n. 谷物

【生僻释义】

1. n. 颗粒物

托福例句: The commonest spaces are those among the

particles—sand grains and tiny pebbles—of loose, unconsolidated sand

and gravel.(官方真题Official 1-3 Groundwater)

解析：在这里grain用了颗粒物的含义。整个句子意为，最常见的空间是在松散、未固化的砂砾的颗粒物之间—如沙子颗粒和小鹅卵石。这里的grain和particle的含义类似。

2. n. 纹理

托福例句：Most of the organic matter is buried in clay that is slowly

converted to a fine-grained sedimentary rock known as shale. 5 解析：grain除了“谷物”和“颗粒”的含义外，在托福中还会考察到“纹理”的意思，而最常见的短语结构就是本句中的“fine-grained”，意为“纹理精细的”。这个短语在地质学的文章中消失的频率特别高。整句意为，大部分的有机物质会被掩埋在黏土中，而黏土会渐渐地转变成纹理精细的沉积岩，被称为页岩。

托福阅读背景素材之恋爱能让人更聪慧吗

1. Marry someone similar to you, if a bit smarter

找一个和你一样聪慧、甚至更聪慧的人结婚

A Seattle Longitudinal Study found that the moststable relationships

were those in which people weresimilar in intelligence, flexibility of

attitudes, social responsibility, and education levels. Researchers also

found that after 14 years together, spouses with the better grasp of

verbal meaningsand word fluency had pulled the

lower-functioningspouses up to their level.

一项西雅图纵向讨论发觉，那些在智力、态度敏捷性、社会责任感以及教育水平方面相像的夫妻，关系最稳定。讨论人员还发觉，共同生活14年后，夫妻双方中对语义和语言流畅性把握得更好的一方，会将另一方的力量也提升到和自己相同的水平。

2. Hold hands whenever possible

只要可能，牵住爱人的手

In addition to creating feelings of warmth and closeness, holding

hands can help inoculateyou from stress. One study using brain scans 6 found that when married women were told theywere about to receive

an electric shock, just holding their husbands hands minimized

theirbrains response to the threat. Women in the closest relationships

experienced the greatestdecrease in stress-related brain activity.

手牵手不仅可以让人产生暖和和亲近的感觉，还可以关心你减轻压力。一项讨论通过脑部扫描发觉，当妻子得知她们要接受一次电击，握住丈夫的手会让她们的大脑对于这次威逼的反应减到最小。而妻子和丈夫的关系越亲热，她们的大脑对压力产生的反应也就越小。

3. Kiss at least once a day

每天至少接吻一次

This intimate touch triggers the release of the bonding hormone

oxytocin and lowerslevels of the stress hormone cortisol - but thats not

all. Researchers say that when we kiss, we activate nearly half of the

cranial nerves that affect cerebral function. All of the sensoryinformation

of a kiss - the smell and warmth of your partners skin, the taste and feel

of soft lips - shoots into your brain, delighting your neurons and forging