考研英语常考128个熟词僻意词（7）

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考生背单词的时候不只是要记住常用一次，一些生僻的意义也要了解，这也是考察点之一。新东方在线总结了常考的128个熟词僻意词，大家记一下：
    考研英语常考128个熟词僻意词（7）
   
   
    107. might n. 权利;力量;势力
    The might of the army could prove a decisive factor.
    军队的力量最终可能成为一个决定性的因素。
    108. discipline n. 学科;纪律;训练;惩罚vt. 训练，训导;惩戒
    We're looking for people from a wide range of disciplines.
    我们正在寻找各类学科的人才。
    109. assume vt. 承担;假定;采取;呈现vi. 装腔作势;多管闲事
    He managed to assume an air of calm.
    他设法表现出一幅平静的样子。
    110. advantage n. 优势;利益;有利条件 vi. 获利 vt. 有利于;使处于优势
    She took advantage of him even after they were divorced.
    她甚至在他们离婚以后仍然利用他。
    111. preserve v. 储备
    to preserve talents 储备人才
    112. shaky adj. 摇晃的; 无根据的; 不坚定的;不可靠的
    shaky evidence 站不住脚的理论
    13. credit n. 信用;学分;声望 vt. 信任;归功于...
    It would be wrong for us to take all the credit.
    我们把所有的功劳都揽到自己身上就不对了。
    114. element n. 自然环境，成分
    The area where most refugees are waiting is exposed to the elements.
    大部分难民滞留的地区暴露在风雨之中。
    115. novel adj. 新颖的，异常的
    Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil
prices.
    抗议者们找到一种新奇的示威方式来反对石油价格的飙升。
    116.weigh v. 考虑，权衡
    At the same time, the American Law Institute — a group of judges, lawyers,
and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight — issued new
guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of
obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. (真题 1999,
Text 1, Paragraph 4)
    与此同时，美国法学会——该学会由一群法官、律师、学者所组成，他们的建议举足轻重——签署了新的民事侵害法纲要，宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险，或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能造成的危险的清单。
    117. even a. 均匀的;公平的 n. 偶数
    They seemed a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniform in
their bearing; they never referred to anything personal.
    他们看起来像神职人员，尽管道行参差不齐，但举止非常统一;他们从来不谈私事。
    118.odd a. 临时的，剩余的，奇怪的
    Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a
concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel,
information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every
variety. (真题 2007, Text 4, Paragraph 1)
    迄今为止，信息保护工作一直被留给临时的、低层次的信息技术人员承担，并且只被看成是信息资源丰富产业所关切的一个方面，比如银行业、电信业以及航空旅行业，如今，信息保护则成为各类商业老板议事日程中需要优先考虑的问题。
    119.. weather v. 抵抗，克服
    This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by
unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad
times. (真题 2007, Text 3, Paragraph 2)
    这种“额外工人效应”可以支持由失业保险或残疾保险提供的安全网，以便帮助家庭渡过难关。
    120.voice n. 意见，发言权
    Just as on smoking, voices now come from many quarters insisting that the
science about global warming is incomplete, that it’s OK to keep pouring fumes
into the air until we know for sure. (真题 2005, Text 2, Paragraph 3)
    就象吸烟问题一样，来自不同领域的意见坚持认为有关全球变暖的科学资料还不完整。在我们证实这件事之前可以向大气中不断的排放气体。
    121.resume v. 重新开始，恢复
    If they are not looking, the speaker assumes that they are disinterested
and either will pause until eye contact is resumed or will terminate the
conversation. (CET-6, 1997.6, Passage 4, Paragraph1)
    如果听者没有看他，说话人会以为他对话题不感兴趣，因此他会暂停一下，直到眼神交流恢复或者他会结束谈话。