加拿大留学标化考试托福听力中常见的一词多义
加拿大留学标化考试托福听力中常见的一词多义
加拿大留学考试、很多练习托福听力的同学经常只是大量做题，而忽视词汇量的积累。于是常常发现某些句子中词汇是熟悉的，句子里却理解不通，这通常是由于一词多义造成的。这里和大家分享托福听力考试中常见的一词多义。
and
会误解为“并且”,实际上还可理解为“然后”,带有一定的逻辑关系在其中，而并非单纯的并列。
英文释义：then;following this然后；接着
真题例句
You’ll need to go to the printing station and you’ll see a list of all documents that people have sent to the printer.Find your document on the list,click on it,and it’ll print.
responsible
说起“负责”,其实本身就有“导致”的意思
英文释义：~(for sth)being the cause of sth作为原因；成为起因
真题例句
And even today,for the most part,when parents and teachers choose literature for children isn’t that mainly what they’re looking for?Well,from your reading,who is mostly responsible for this notion of Children’s literature?Paul?加拿大标化托福
suggest
在托福里,suggest很少表示“建议”,更多的是“表明”的含义。
英文释义：~sth(to sb)to put an idea into sb's mind;to make sb think that sth is true使想到；使认为；表明
真题例句
Well,one theory suggests that polar bears may have been able to find a few remote cold icy places,such as,well,this Svalbard islands to live on until the climate eventually cooled again.Controversially,because the last warming period was actually warmer than the one now,the one more presently experiencing.
game
“野生猎物”的意思初学者几乎全军覆没。
英文释义：<U>wild animals or birds that people hunt for sport or food猎物；野禽；野味
——see also big game,fair game
真题例句
They had experienced great difficulty finding game west of the Rockies and not until the second of December did they kill their first elk.
chemical
名词表示化学物质。很多人不知道哦
英文释义：a substance obtained by or used in a chemical process化学制品；化学品
真题例句
Take food for example.When an ant finds food it takes that food back to the nest and on its way back,it secretes a chemical,which leaves a trail that can be detected by other ants.
grain
grain的基础含义为谷物，但是也可以衍生出“颗粒”的意思。
英文释义：[C]a small hard piece of particular substances颗粒；细粒
真题例句
The earliest record’s from 500 million years ago,show that sediment in the river deposits was largely composed of coarse grains of sand,and gravel,and that tells us the rivers weren’t defined,they were very shallow and wide,almost like floods,but around the time of the rise of plant life the content of those sediment layers began to change,the coarse grains became much finer,and we see evidence of mud.
impact
除了“影响”,不能不知道“冲击、撞击”。
英文释义：(on/upon/with)sth(formal)to hit sth with great force冲击；撞击
真题例句
I mean,we’re all familiar with how impact events can affect life on earth,like it’s now generally agreed that a meteor triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.Of course,since that theory’s been widely accepted it’s tempting to look to space to explain all extinction events.
setting
不仅仅是“设置”,还要知道“背景”
英文释义：a set of surroundings;the place at which sth happens环境；背景
真题例句
And you know,when we’re considering a residential or an urban setting let’s face it,space is usually at a premium.It’s a valuable,limited commodity.Unfortunately though,when you have a group of propeller turbines at a wind farm,they undergo a decrease in power output the closer they’re placed together.
complex
还有“建筑群”“综合大楼,”的意思，常误解为“复杂”。
英文释义：a group of buildings of a similar type together in one place（类型相似的）建筑群
真题例句
He built a large complex that included baths and bath buildings,libraries,sculpture gardens,theatres and temples in Egyptian,Greek,and Roman styles.
population对人类来说是“人口”,对于其他物种而言是“数量”。
英文释义：a particular group of people or animals living in a particular area（统称）某领域的生物；族群；人口
真题例句
Professor:It seems so,in the late 1990s with populations of two butterfly species in England.Climate data had shown that the butterflies’habitat was experiencing warmer temperatures which was directly affecting their ability to reproduce.
perspective
“观点”,不仅仅是“透视”。
英文释义：[C]~(on sth)a particular attitude towards sth;a way of thinking about sth态度；观点；思考方法
真题例句
And we didn’t even know about these until aerial photographs revealed markings that weren’t evident from the ground.And this is just one example of how a new perspective,in this case made possible through aerial photography,helped us realize that evidence,or the lack of it,could lead to false conclusions.
episode
更多是指“事件”,不能说成“集”。
英文释义：an event,a situation,or a period of time in sb's life,a novel,etc.that is important or interesting in some way（人生的）一段经历；（小说的）片段，插曲
真题例句
The K-T extinction 65 million years ago is the best known of the five major extinction
episodes since the Cambrian period
readily
其实是“容易地”,并非“准备”之类的
英文释义：quickly and without difficulty快捷地；轻而易举地；便利地
真题例句
The release of heat energy is retarded by the tall vertical city walls that do not allow infrared radiation to escape as readily as does the relatively level surface of the surrounding countryside.
edge
“优势”的说法其实不算多见,但“边缘”虽知道的人多,其实也不多见。干脆两个都记住好了。
英文释义：[sing.]~(on/over sb/sth)a slight advantage over sb/sth（微弱的）优势
真题例句
It seems likely that Teotihuacan's natural resources,along with the city elite's ability to recognize their potential,gave the city a competitive edge over its neighbors.The valley,like many other places in Mexican and Guatemalan highlands,was rich in obsidian.
principal
除了名词的意思,就是形容词的意思了,表示“主要的”。
英文释义：[only before noun]most important;main最重要的；主要的
真题例句
The principal insect enemies of the North American morning glory feed mainly on its flowers or fruits rather than its leaves
largely
不能望文生义为“大”,而是应理解为“在很大程度上”。
英文释义：to a great extent;mostly or mainly在很大程度上；多半；主要地
真题例句
Other oxide in regolith include aluminum oxide,aluminum is largely responsible for the moon’s color even though it comprises only 6%of regolith;there is also iron oxide and a few others.
