GRE考试中最常考的短语盘点

考GRE不仅单词要背会,短语也非常重要!

因为在考场上很多单词往往不是独立出现,而是和各种介词搭配使用。大家如果对单词的固定搭配不熟悉,很可能会错误划分句子结构,导致无法理解句子,这也往往是同学们考试的失分点之一。

要知道,记忆短语和单词又有很大不同:短语数量多,词组相似,难以记忆...不少小伙伴们在记忆短语时是叫苦连连。

为了方便大家理解与记忆,掌握好短语这一块,咱们精心筛选了考场上经常考到的高频短语给到大家,搭配例句和常考考点,部分还有官方真题,绝对是备考GRE的超强干货!

a measure of 相当大数量;很大程度

【释义】相当大数量;很大程度:

measure of a particular quality, feeling, or activity is a fairly large amount of it

【例1】The colonies were claiming a larger measure of self-government.

殖民地正要求获得更大程度上的自治。

【例2】It is ironic that a critic of such overwhelming vanity now suffers from a measure of the oblivion to which he was forever consigning others, in the end, all his self-adulation has only worked against him. 这是一个讽刺,那就是如此强烈的自负的一个人,现在竟然遭受着相当大程度的遗 忘,而这种遗忘一直都是他置之于别人身上的,到头来,所有的他的自负都是对自己不利。

attribute…to… 把…归因于

【常考1】把…归因于;把…归咎于:

if you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation

【例句】Women tend to attribute their success to external causes such as luck.

女性倾向于将她们的 成功归因于外部因素,比如运气。

【常考2】将(品质或特征)加于…;认为…为…所有:

If you attribute a particular quality or feature to someone or something, you think that they have got it.

【例句】People were beginning to attribute superhuman qualities to him.

人们开始觉得他超人一等。

【常考3】认为(文章、艺术品或评论)出自…:

if a piece of writing, a work of art, or a remark is attributed to someone, people say that they wrote it, created it, or said it

【例1】This, and the remaining frescoes, are not attributed to Giotto.

这个,还有那些残存的湿壁画,都不是乔托的作品。

【例2】A Madonna and Child attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti.

被认为出自彼得罗·洛伦泽蒂之手的作品《圣母子》。

【注】该词的名词形式依然保留介词的搭配形式,例如:There's usually a lot of attribution of evil intent to those who have different views. 那些持异议者通常多被认为心怀邪念。

bestow sth on/upon sb 给予;赠与

【释义】给予;赠与;授予;赐予:to bestow something on someone means to give or present it to them 【例】

【例】The Queen has bestowed a knighthood on him. 女王已经授予他爵士头衔。

【官方真题】Famous among job seekers for its largesse, the company, quite apart from generous salaries, bestowed on its executives annual bonuses and such perquisites as low-interest home mortgages and company cars.

它在找工作的人中因为它的慷慨而知名,这个公司,除了它慷慨的 工资外,还提供每年的分红和一些额外补贴,例如低利息的房屋抵押和公司的小车给它的经理们。

【注】该句中,为倒装句,因为句中的 sth(从 annual 到 cars.)部分过长,所以会出现倒装。此外,句中的 low-interest 为很低的利息的意思。

be bound to 一定会;必然会;

【常考1】(对某事并不确定或无确凿证据时,认为其)肯定会,确定是:

if you say that something is bound to happen or be true, you feel confident and certain of it, although you have no definite knowledge or evidence

【例1】 I'll show it to Benjamin. He's bound to know.

我会把它给本杰明看,他肯定会知道。

【例2】However original they might be, Roman poets were bound to have some favorite earlier author whom they would emulate. 不管罗马诗人们多么富有原创性,他们所喜爱的早期作者肯定 是他们模仿超越的对象。

【常考2】一定会;必然会;注定会:

if you say that something is bound to happen, you mean that you are sure it will happen, because it is a natural consequence of something that is already known or exists

【例句】 If you are topless in a public place, this sort of thing is bound to happen. 如果你在公共场所裸露上身,这种事情一定会发生。

subject to sth. 使经受;使遭受

【常考1】使经受;使遭受:

if you subject someone to something unpleasant, you make them experience it

【例1】Innocent civilians are being arrested and subjected to inhumane treatment.

无辜的平民正被逮捕并遭受非人的虐待。

【例2】Because the potential hazards pollen grains are subject to as they are transported over long distances are enormous,wind pollinated plants have,in the view above, compensated for the ensuing loss of pollen through happenstance by virtue of producing an amount of pollen that is one to three orders of magnitude greater than the amount produced by species pollinated by insects.

由于花粉粒在长距离的运输过程中面临着潜在的巨大危险,按照上述观点,风媒授粉植物补偿了由随机事件造成的花粉损失,其途径是,制造出大于虫媒授粉植物所产生的花粉量的一至三个数量级的花粉量。

【常考2】受…支配的;服从于…的:

if someone is subject to a particular set of rules or laws, they have to obey those rules or laws

【例】arguing that as a sovereign state it could not be subject to another country's laws

争论说作为一个主权国家其不受其他国家法律的约束

【常考3】可能受…影响的;易遭受…的:

to be subject to something means to be affected by it or to be likely to be affected by it

【例】a disorder in which the person's mood is subject to wild swings from mania to depression

患者情绪在狂热和抑郁之间疯狂起伏的紊乱状态

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