根据定义猜测词义 一些词在阅读文章中属于专业词汇类,虽然它不会在题目的判断中成为核心考点,但如果出现在题目中还是会令同学们担忧,影响发挥的。此时若能借助文中的释义做合理推断,就会在判断中起到积极正面的影响。如下面的原文: Last week scientists from the University of Manchester revealed that loud music stimulates a part of the inner ear called the sacculus, which is connected to the hypothalamus, the brain’s ‘pleasure centre’. 虽然初看到sacculus 不明白其意义,但通过解释至少知道是“内耳的一个部分(小球囊)”,对于解题已经清除了障碍。 如果生词是句子或段落所解释的定义,理解句子或段落本身就是推断词义。例如: anthropology is the scientific study of man. 由定义可知,anthropology就是“研究人类的科学”。 In slang the term 'jam' constitutes a state of being in which a person finds himself or herself in a difficult situation. 同样,从上下文的定义可知jam一词在俚语中的意思是“困境”。 定义句的谓语动词多为:be, mean, deal with, be considered, to be, refer to, be called, be known as, define, represent, signify, constitute等。