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如何猜测句子中生词的意思 What makes words difficult? Idioms: He was beside himself. I can’t go through with it. They solved it once and for all. Words with several meanings Figure, stock, charge, Sub-technical vocabulary Average, approximate, effect, combination, determine Superordinates: words of more general meanings viewed in relation to other words of more specific meaning which could also be referred to by the general term. Building: house, school, factory, cinema, hotel… Household appliances, especially TV sets, washing machines and refrigerators, are selling well these days. The diseased limb was cruelly deformed; leprosy has no mercy. A six-year-old boy recently gave a performance of the Beethoven violin concerto. This feat was reported in the press. Transfer of meaning: metaphor etc. Galloping inflation, profits wiped out, It also reflects the growing muscle of the corporate-accountability movement. Irony Word attack skills Structural clues: The sploony urdle departed. Morphology Inference from context Accumulating meaning: tock 1. She poured the water into a tock. 2. Then, lifting the tock, she drank. 3. Unfortunately, as she was setting it down again, the tock slipped from her hand and broke. 4. Only the handle remained in one piece. 在英语学习中，我们自然会遇到许多生词。这时，许多人立即翻阅字典，查找词义。其实，这种做法是不科学的。它不但费时费力，而且影响阅读速度。事实上，阅读材料中的每个词与它前后的词语或句子甚至段落有着互相制约的关系。我们可以利用语境（各种已知信息）推测、判断某些生词的词义。 　　　　猜测词义时，可利用以下线索： 　　　　一 针对性解释 　　　　针对性解释是作者为了更好的表达思想，在文章中对一些重要的概念、难懂的术语或词汇等所作的解 释。这些解释提供的信息具有明确的针对性，利用它们猜词义比较容易。 　　　　1. 根据定义猜测词义 　　　　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。 The British are the most voracious newspa