GRE考试常考的熟词僻义
hold, advance, strong, freedom ....
以上这些词汇，你认识几个？
hold
【常考1】v.控制，抑制：to impose control or restrainton.
【近】curb, inhibit, restrain, refrain
【例】She held her temper.她控制住自己的脾气。
【常考2】n.. 影响，支配力：a bond or force that attaches or restrains, or by which something is affected or dominated
【近】curb, inhibit, restrain, refrain
【例】Because he once loved her, she still has a hold on him. 因为他曾经爱过她，她现在仍能对他产生影响。
最新官方填空真题（要背一下答案哦）：
1，Charlotte Salomon's biography is a reminder that the currents of private life, however diverted, dislodged, or twisted by overpowering public events, retain their holdon the individual recording them.
浅析：夏洛特·傻二儿的传纪是一个提醒---个人生活的思潮，不管是如何被强大的公众事情所扭曲与偏离，仍然保留着对记录它们的个体的影响。
2，Until quite recently research on diabetes had, as a kind of holdingaction, attempted to refine the treatment of the disease, primarily because no preventive strategy seemed at all likely to be practicable.
浅析：直到最近，对糖尿病的研究一直作为一种抑制疾病的手段，尝试改进治疗效果，主要因为根本没有预防性的方案看上去是可行的。
freedom
【常考1】n. 摆脱;免除;不受…影响的状态：exemption froman unpleasant or onerous condition
【例】all the freedom from pain that medicine could provide. 医药可以提供的对痛苦的解脱
【常考2】n. 自由，自由行为：The condition of beingfree of restraints
【近】liberty
【例】freedom of speech 言论自由
【注】在填空考试中，考生要注意该词的第一个常考释义和搭配，有时候freedom的搭配介词from会被其他成分所隔开。
例如真题：From the outset,the concept of freedom of the seas from the proprietary claims of nations was challenged bya contrary notion--that of the enclosure of the oceans for reasons of national security and profit.
翻译：从一开始起，海洋应独立于国家宣布对其私有权的思想就受到一个相反的观点挑战，这个相反的观点是出于国家安全和利益的原因而对海洋私有化。
strong
(人)坚定的，坚决的，自信的
Someonewho is strong isconfident and determined, and is not easily influenced orworried by other people
反义词就是diffident的意思。
【官方真题】
Althoughnormally-------, Alison felt so stronglyabout the issue that sheput aside her reserve and spoke up at the committee meeting.
(A) diffident
(B) contentious
(C) facetious
(D) presumptuous
(E) intrepid
解析：该题中，关键词是although, 逗号前后取反义词。 也就是空格和后面的strongly应该是反义词。所以答案选A。 意思是：尽管通常很自卑，但艾莉森对于这个观点非常有信心以致于她抛弃了拘谨沉默的做法并且在委员会会议上发言。
advance
【常考1】n.预付，贷款：a provisionof something (as money or goods) before a return is received also : the money or goods supplied
【例】 She was paid a £100,000 advance for her next two novels. 她接下来的两部小说得到了10万英镑的预付稿费。
【常考2】v.贷给；预付；预支：if you advance someone a sum of money, you lend it to them, or pay it to them earlierthan arranged
【例】The bank advanced $1.2 billion to help the country with debt repayments. 银行预支12亿美元帮助该国偿还债务。
【官方真题】
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In France cultural subsidies are __________ : producers of just about any film can get an advancefrom the government against box-office receipts, even though most such loans are never fully repaid.
A ubiquitous |
B invaluable |
C sporadic |
D scanty |
E questionable |
F omnipresent |
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