托福阅读中的熟词僻义（1）

　　address

　　熟义:n.地址

　　僻义:V.解决; 向…致辞,演说

　　e.g. You can address this problem with a single gateway event engine.

　　e.g. an address to the European Parliament 致欧洲议会的演讲(向…致辞,演说)

　　novel

　　熟义:n.小说

　　僻义:adj.新奇的

　　It’ll be a novel experience that can be a subject of future conversations and, yes, a promiseof a next date.

　　它将成为一次新奇的经历，可能成为你们今后的谈话的一个话题，是的，也是下次约会的一个约定。

　　Novelty n. 新奇;新奇的事物

　　Though it may be difficult to imagine from a later perspective, a strain of critical opinion in the 1920s predicted that sound film would be a technical novelty that would soon fade from sight. (TPO12 – 2: TRANSITION TO SOUND IN FILM )

　　虽然从后来的角度很难想象，但20世纪20年代的一种批评性观点预测有声电影将是一种技术上的新事物，这种新事物很快就会从人们的视野中消失。

　　sound

　　熟义:n.声音,语音,噪音v.听起来

　　僻义:adj.健全的,合理的,有效彻底的,健康的

　　There are sound reasons for being skeptical of theories like this one(TPO 18 – 2: THE MYSTERY OF YAWNING)

　　对这样的理论持怀疑态度是有充分理由的

　　weather

　　熟义:n.天气

　　僻义:V经受风雨,度过难关

　　Groundwater is stored in the pore spaces and joints of rocks and unconsolidated (unsolidified) sediments or in the openings widened through fractures and weathering. (TPO 12 – 3: WATER IN THE DESERT)

　　地下水储存在岩石的孔隙空间和节理以及未固结(未凝固)的沉积物中，或储存在裂隙和风化作用加宽的开口中

　　might

　　熟义:may的过去式

　　僻义:n.力量,威权( with might and main:尽全力)

　　By the seventeenth century, however, other European powers had taken over, as the Italian cities lost much of their economic might. (TPO 25 – 2: THE DECLINE OF VENETIAN SHIPPING)

　　然而，到了17世纪，随着意大利城市丧失了大部分经济实力，其他欧洲强国取而代之。

　　game

　　熟义:n游戏比赛

　　僻义:n.猎物

　　The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal.(TPO 4 – 1: DEER POPULATIONS OF THE PUGET SOUND)

　　早期的探险者和定居者在19世纪初就谈论过大量的鹿，但几乎是在同一时间，他们都在哀叹这种多肉的狩猎动物的缺乏。