考研英语#2016考研究生英语#熟词僻义(三)

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为了帮助考研的学子们攻克考研词汇，老师为大家精选了一些考研英语中含有“熟词僻义”的词汇，这些词汇都是高频词，希望考研的同学加强词汇的积累，多多学习，争取做到熟练识记和运用考研常见词汇。
1. figure v. 描绘;计算;推测
It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. (真题 2007, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
一个人具备物体空间想象力和计算数字模式的能力，不见得就能够回答连一些最优秀的诗人和哲学家都无法理解的问题。
2.house v. 提供居住场所
Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management. (真题 1996, Text 3, Paragraph 2)
像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城市的兴起是为了给大批“舒适”阶层提供居住场所，这些人靠自己的丰厚收入而不工作，除了领取红利，偶尔参加股东会议向管理人员发号施令外，他们与外界没有联系。
3. issue vt. 发行
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card. (真题 1994, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
三亿美国人的手中至少持有一家银行发行的信用卡。
4. jump v. 暴涨，猛增
Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent — and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance — have jumped eightfold in just one generation. (真题 2007, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
甚至人口统计状况也对中产阶层家庭不利，因为家有一个年迈体弱的父亲或母亲的可能性 —— 以及随之而来对其身体上的照顾和经济上的帮助 —— 在仅仅一代人的时间里就增长为原来的8倍。
5. charge v. 索(价)
Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief. (真题 2003, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
如果客户感到他们被多收费，他们有权上诉到联邦政府的“陆路运输局”以争取价格下调。
6. Elude v. (僻义)不记得, 不理解
It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. (真题 2007, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
一个人具备物体空间想象力和计算数字模式的能力，不见得就能够回答连一些最优秀的诗人和哲学家都无法理解的问题。
7. rate n. 价格, 费用
Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief. (真题 2003, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
如果客户感到他们被多收费，他们有权上诉到联邦政府的“陆路运输局”以争取价格下调。
老师们不断为大家推出和考研相关的学习资料，希望在考研征途中的准研究生们，不断加油，不断努力，坚持就是胜利。