SAT作文常用关键词及短语(三)

　　遗产heritage; legacy; inheritance

　　保护protect; safeguard; preserve; shelter

　　了解understand; comprehend; catch the meaning of; catch on

　　汇露reveal; make known; disclose

　　放大amplify; magnify; enlarge

　　动力impetus; driving force; momentum

　　自满的complacent

　　第一流的first-rate; excellent

　　安全处refuge; asylum; haven; sanctuary

　　强调emphasize; stress; highlight

　　短视的决定short-sighted decision

　　真正的genuine; authentic; real

　　怪异的eccentric; peculiar; odd

　　明显的distinct; clear; explicit; obvious

　　得到的注意capture ones attention

　　事事干涉的meddlesome; interfering

　　背景setting; background

　　假的fake; false; counterfeit

　　夸大报导dramatize

　　退步setback

　　古人the ancients

　　古老的old; ancient; archaeic

　　逃犯infringe ; violate

　　使害怕intimidate; frighten

　　带来生气enliven

　　对手rival

　　吸引人的intriguing

　　旁观者onlooker

　　准确地说to be exact; to be precise; precisely

　　突然醒悟it dawned on me that

　　仔细思考之后after long deliberation; after careful thought

　　对比及其相关用词

　　可互换的interchangeable

　　可与相比is comparable with

　　普遍的prevailing; common; prevalent

　　是一个对比is a sharp contrast to

　　比作is likened to; is compared to

　　多样化的heterogeneous

　　单一性的homogeneous

　　写作关系/逻辑用词

　　一般而言in general; generally speaking; by and large

　　满于现状be happy with what you are

　　预测未来project into the future

　　另一个观点是 another way of looking at the matter is

　　不宜取笑 it is not decent to make fun of

　　评估社会文化因素 assess sociocultural factors

　　那并非说 that does not mean that

　　那有这回事 there is no such thing as

　　一个有待克服的困难是 a major hurdle for us to overcome is

　　由造成 caused by; attributable to; due to; resulting from

　　由组成 is made up of; is comprised of; consist

　　必须从两方面考虑此问题this problem needs to be considered on two dimensions:

　　限制limit; restrict; refrain; restrain; keep within limits; confine; keep in check

　　一般人认为 conventional wisdom suggests that

　　这方法有陷阱the method had pitfalls:

　　说服convince; persuade; cause to believe

　　具体的specific; concrete; tangible

　　刻意的intentional; on purpose; intended

　　费时间去了 解take time to acquaint oneself with

　　是此问题的核心 is at the root of the issue

　　无法估计is beyond calculation; incalculable

　　无资格的disqualified