【例】The demonstrators distributed leaflets to the passers-by.示威者向行人分發傳單。
【構詞】dis-(分開)+tribute(贈予)→分開贈予→分配
【同義替換】dispense; allot; scatter, spread
【派生】distribution n.分發;分布;分配
【真題】Look up Homo sapiens in the IUCN’s “ Red List ” of threatened species, and you will read: “ Listed as Least Concern as the species is very widely distributed, adaptable, currently increasing, and there are no major threats resulting in an overall population decline.”
【例】The successive administrations have failed to solve the country’s economic problems.歷屆政府均未能解決國家的經濟問題。
【同義替換】operation, management
【派生】administrative a.管理的,行政的
【真題】But on the more important matter of the Constitution, the decision was an 8—0 defeat for the Administration’s effort to upset the balance of power between the federal government and the states.
【例】The plague of teen violence is an equal-opportunity scourge.令人苦惱的青少年暴力事件,在男女青年中發生的概率均等。
【同義替換】badger, torment, annoy, harass, vex
【真題】For him, order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation.