IELTS备考|words&phrases

1.anemia

n.贫血症

So do I have anemia? Is that I've been so tired?

What's going on with your skin there?Anemia or some kind of sun allergy?

你的皮肤怎么啦?是贫血还是某种阳光过敏?

2.vicinity

n.周围地区;邻近地区;附近:the area around a particular place

Unfortunately, trees block the view in the immediate vicinity.

不幸的是,树挡住了附近的景色。

Witnesses place him in the vicinity of the shooting.

目击者指认他曾出现在枪击现场附近。

3.illiterate

adj.(人)文盲的,不会读写的:(of a person) cannot to read or write

Your letter quite clearly shows that you are not illiterate.

你能写信显然说明你不是文盲。

She says there is a huge need for illiterate young women and adults to have a second-chance to read and write.

她说为文盲妇女和成年人提供第二次读写机会的需求巨大。

adj.(对某学科)一窍不通的,外行的

knowing very little about a particular subject such as music, technology or economics etc

I'm so computer illiterate. But I could take a class in computers.

You'd have to be mathematically illiterate to think they'd do as well as a novel.

除非你对数字一窍不通,才会以为它会跟小说一样畅销。

4.syllabus

n.教学大纲:a list of the topics, books, etc. that students should study in a particular subject at school or college

I revised my syllabus for the spring semester.

Anyway, the syllabus was way too ambitious in my opinion.

不管怎么样吧,我们的教学大纲,在我看来,任务量太重了。

5.prestige

n.威信;声望;威望

the respect and admiration that sb/sth has because of their social position, or what they have done.

She loved traveling with him. She loved the prestige and the glory that came from being his wife.她乐于跟他旅行。她喜欢作为爱因斯坦的妻子所带来的声望和荣誉。

I was able to own my meaning and not have it be determined by box office receipts or prestige.我可以决定自己的价值,而不是让票房或名声来决定。

And when Wallenstein married again, he gained even more wealth and prestige.

当瓦伦斯坦再次结婚时,他获得了更多的财富和威望。

adj.令人敬仰的;受尊重的;重要的:that brings respect and admirations; important

The industry certainly has the image of offering low paid, low prestige jobs with no future prospects.这个行业给你的印象是低薪、名声差、没有前景。

A big vodka company wanted to do a prestige ad, and they wanted to get Noel Coward originally for it. 有家很大的伏特加酒公司想打个有影响的广告,一开始他们想请诺埃尔考沃德来做。

adj.名贵的;贵重的;讲究派头的

admired and respected because it looks important and expensive

Eva says that they have registered trademarks on some of the new prestige products.

伊娃说他们已经为一些名贵商品注册了商标。

6.matriculation

n.录取入学,(大学的)入学考试: the process of matriculating

Tobias, what matters here is not matriculation. What matters here is ramification, i.e. the outcome. 托拜厄斯,我被哪所学校录取了并不重要,重要的是结果,即我学到了什么。

Students take an examination known as the matric in grade twelve, their final or "matriculation" year.学生在十二年级时参加大学入学考试,十二年级他们最后一个学年,也被称为入学考试学年。

7.transferable

adj.可转让的,可转移的 

able to be given to another person to use or able to be used for another purpose

This is a transferable skill; you can say, "I have good planning skills"--I'm able to plan something. 这是一种可迁移技能

And Bruce he traded his book to the guidelines that's transferable to anything in life.

李小龙他书中阐述的理念适用于人生的一切。

Are the credits transferable? 那他的学分可以转出么?

8.enzyme 

n.酶 a substance, produced by all living things, which helps a chemical change happen or happen more quickly, without being changed itself

Now, enzymes are simply compounds that exist in all living things.

酶仅仅是一种存在于所有生命中的化合物。

That's the enzyme that breaks down milk sugars for easy digestion.

这种酶可以分解乳糖,让它容易被消化。

9.botany

n.植物学: the scientific study of plants and their structure

Mary like plants so much that she decided to study botany at the university.

玛丽很喜欢种植,所以决定在大学学习植物学。

So botany is the study of plant life, and zoology is the study of animal life.

植物学是研究植物的学科,动物学是研究动物的学科。

10.fungi 

n.真菌:any of various type of organisms that get their food from decaying material or other living things

Mushrooms are merely one of many types of fungi.蘑菇只是众多真菌类型中的一种。

Without the fungi, the dead vegetation would pile so high the living trees would be submerged. 如果没有真菌,死亡的植物会堆积如山,连活着的树木都会被埋没。

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