考研英语词汇分类总结（屠皓民）

3. 社会媒体类

press 媒体行业 coverage 新闻报道 issue 出版、发行 newsstand 报摊

mass media 大众媒体 entertainment 娱乐 journalism 新闻业 journal 期刊

exclusive news 独家新闻 workaholic 工作狂

ambitious 雄心壮志的、野心勃勃的 flow of personnel 人才’动 competitive 竞争激烈的 a fat salary 收l颇丰

a decent job 一份体面的工作 chance of promotion 升迁机会

kinship (..)亲属关系 u 真题例旬

Among the most popular: paternity and kinship testing, which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put up for adoption.

ancestor (n.)祖先 u 真题例旬

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

succession (n.) 继承，继任 u 真题例旬

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don3t get the nod also may wish to move on.

depart (v.) 离职 u 真题例旬

When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up.

domestic (a.) 家庭的 u 真题例旬

The kinds of interpersonal violence that women are exposed to tend to be in domestic situations, by, unfortunately, parents or other family members, and they tend not to be one-shot deals.

obligation (n.) 义务，责任

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u 真题例旬

But most women today are coping with a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain.

peer(n.)同辈 u 真题例旬

A journal editor would then remove the authors3 names and affiliations from the paper and send it to their peers for review.

recruit (v.) 招募 u 真题例旬

In the case of NBA players, their increase in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice of recruiting players from all over the world.

father (v.) 生养，f.....的父亲 u 真题例旬

They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings.

retiree (n.) 退休人员 u 真题例旬

For much of the past year. President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a savings-account model， with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns.

divisive (a.) 引起分歧的；引起争议的 u 真题例旬

Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America?

turbulent (a.)动荡的；”乱的 u 真题例旬

But particularly when viewed against America3s turbulent past, today3s social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.

resident (n.)居民 u 真题例旬

The worthy residents of Stratford doubt that the theatre adds a penny to their revenue.

humanity (n.) 人(总称), 人类; 人性，普通人具有的特性; 仁慈，博爱，同情心 ;［用复数］人文学科(尤指文学、 语言、 历史和哲学)

u 真题例旬

4Those things that do not show up in the test scores2personality, ability, courage or humanity2are completely ignored,\says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party3s education committee.

impoverished(a.)贫穷的 u 真题例旬

To take advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment.

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4. 法律政治类

arbiter 仲裁者

validity 有效性，合法性 suspension 中止，悬而未决 parliament 国会，议会 bureaucratic 官h主义的 self-governing 自治的 jury 陪审团 privilege 特权

withdraw 撤退，取钱 assume office 就任 launch 开始

legal ground 法律c据

legislation (..)法律，条规 u 真题例旬

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

federal (a.) 联邦的 u 真题例旬

(同上)

clause (n.)条款 u 真题例旬

The southern states would not have signed the Constitution without protections for the “peculiar institution,” including a clause that counted a slave as three fifths of a man for purposes of congressional representation.

policymaker (n.) 政策制定者 u 真题例旬

Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes，but few have looked at the side effect family risk has risen as well.

revolution (n.) 革P u 真题例旬

The victims of this revolution, of course, are not limited to designers.

propose (v.) 提 议 u 真题例旬

In December 2010 America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed adding a “do not track (DNT) option to internet browsers, so that users could tell advertisers that they did not want to be followed.”

administration (n.) 管理，行政部门 u 真题例旬

On a five to three vote, the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona’s immigration law Monday---a

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modest policy victory for the Obama Administration.

provision (n.) 规定，条款 u 真题例旬

In Arizona v. United states, the majority overturned three of the four contested provisions of Arizona’s controversial plan to have state and local police enforce federal immigrations law.

Congress (n.) 国会 u 真题例旬

On the overturned provisions the majority held the Congress had deliberately “occupied the field” and Arizona had this intruded on the federal’s privileged powers.

executive (a.) 执行的 u 真题例旬

The 8-0 objection to President Obama turns on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as“ a shocking assertion of federal executive power”.

statute (n.) 条例，法令 u 真题例旬

The White House argued that Arizona’s laws conflicted with its enforcement priorities, even if state laws complied with federal statutes to the letter.

legitimate (a.) 合法的 u 真题例旬

In effect, the White House claimed that it could invalidate any otherwise legitimate state law that it disagrees with.

civil servants 公务员 u 真题例旬

If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servants.

authorize (v.) 授权,许可 u 真题例旬

Now the nation’s top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

ruling (n.) 裁决；裁定 u 真题例旬

That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies truing to stake out executive rights to specific types of online transactions.

formula (n.) 准则，方案 u 真题例旬

The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Electoral College.

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