【例】It was a pleasant fertile spot, well wooded and rich in pasture.那是一個富饒的、使人愉快的地方,數目繁茂,牧草豐富。
【同義替換】fruitful, abundant, productive, rich
【派生】fertility n.肥沃;多產;豐富
【真題】Few people are as fertile as in the past. Except in some religious communities, very few women have 15 children.
現在沒有幾個人像過去那樣具有旺盛的生育力了。除了一些宗教社區之外,沒有幾名婦女有15個孩子。
propel
v.推進,推動;激勵,驅使
【例】We should energetically promote IT application and use IT to propel and accelerate industrialization.我們應該大力推進信息化,用信息化帶動并加快工業化進程。
【構詞】pro-(向前)+pel(駕駛)→ 向前駕駛 →推動,推進
【同義替換】push, stimulate, impel
【派生】propellent a.推進的,起推動作用的
【真題】It now appears that they also have an important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe.
現在看來,它們還對推動板塊在地球表面漂移這一地球物理過程有著重要的影響。
bizarre
a.異乎尋常的,稀奇古怪的
【例】The plot of the novel was too bizarre to be believed.這部小說的情節太離奇了,簡直令人難以置信。
【同義替換】fantastic, funny
【真題】Other linguists in the earlier part of this century, however, who were less eager to deal with bizarre data from “exotic” language, were not always so grateful.