3利用标点符号了解词义
有些标点符号,如:逗号、破折号、冒号、括弧等,其后或括弧里的内容往往是对前面词语的解释。例:
1)Over the next few days I read voraciously and indiscriminately: biographies of everyone from Amelia Earhart to Herbert Hoover,history and things of little significance.
分析:冒号后的biographies of everyone...解释了“什么人的自传都看”,即可猜测voraciously意为“贪婪地,不厌地”;而history and things of significance又说明(我)不但看历史书,而且看“杂书”,猜中 indiscriminately意为“随意地”。
2)Globalization—one world one economy integration,is the buzz word of the 1990s.
分析:破折号后的词是“全球经济一体化”的释义。
4利用文中的比喻推测词义
比喻是一种修辞手段,给人以生动形象之感觉。当难以理解的词后面有比喻时,不妨借助于其后的比喻细心体会。例:
The check fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.
分析:句中的“like...wing”这一比喻形象地说明flutter是“飘落”的意思。 |