It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. (真題 2007, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders’ meeting to dictate their orders to the management. (真題 1996, Text 3, Paragraph 2)
One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card. (真題 1994, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
三億美國人的手中至少持有一家銀行發行的信用卡。
4. jump v. 暴漲,猛增
Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent — and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance — have jumped eightfold in just one generation. (真題 2007, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief. (真題 2003, Text 3, Paragraph 3)
如果客戶感到他們被多收費,他們有權上訴到聯邦政府的“陸路運輸局”以爭取價格下調。
6. Elude v. (僻義)不記得, 不理解
It’s not obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers. (真題 2007, Text 2, Paragraph 1)
Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief. (真題 2003, Text 3, Paragraph 3)