在英语四级阅读中,我们自然会遇到许多生词。这时,许多人立即翻阅字典,查找词义。 其实,这种做法是不科学的。我们可以利用语境(各种已知信息)推测、判断某些生词的词义。猜测词义时,可利用以下线索。
一、针对性解释
针对性解释是作者为了更好的表达思想,在文章中对一些重要的概念、难懂的术语或 词汇等所作的解释。这些解释提供的信息
具有明确的针对性,利用它们猜词义比较容易。
1、根据定义猜测词义如果生词是句子或段落所解释的定义,理解句子或段落本身就是推断词义。例如:anthropology is the scientific study of man. 由定义可知,anthropology就是研究人类的科学。In slang the term jam constitutes a state of being in which a personfinds himself or herself in a difficult situation. 同样,从上下文的定义可知jam一词在俚语中的意思是困境。定义句的谓语动词多为:be, mean, deal with, be considered, to be, refer to,be called, be known as, define, represent, signify, constitute等。
2、根据复述猜测词义
虽然复述不如定义那样严谨、详细,但是提供的信息足以使阅读者猜出生词词义。 复述部分可以适当词、短语或是从句。同位语Semantics, the study of the meaning of words, is necessary if you are tospeak and read intelligently.
此例逗号中短语意为对词意义进行研究的学科。该短语与前面生词semanties式同位关系,因此我们不难猜出semanties指语义学。
在复述中构成同位关系的两部分之间多用逗号连接,有时也使用破折号,冒号,分 号,引号,和括号等。Capacitance, or the ability to store electric charge, is one of the most common characteristics of electronic circuits.
由同位语我们很快猜出生词capacitance词义――电容量。需要注意的是:同位语前还常有or, similarly, that is to say, in other words, namely, or other,say i. e. 等副词或短语出现。定语从句Krabacber suffers from SAD, which is short for seasonal affective disorder,a syndrome characterized by severe seasonal mood swings. 根据生词SAD后面定语从句which is short for seasonal affective disorder和同位语a syndrome characterized by severe seasonal mood swings, 我们可以推断出SAD含义,即季节性情绪紊乱症。根据举例猜测词义恰当的举例能够提供猜测生词的重要线索,例如:The consequences of epochal events such as wars and great scientific discoveries are not confined to a small geographical area as they were inthe past.
句中战争和重大科学发现是生词的实例,通过它们我们可以猜出epochal的 大致词义重要的,这与其确切含义划时代的十分接近。
二、内在逻辑关系
根据内在逻辑关系推测词义是指运用语言知识分析和判断相关信息之间存在的逻辑关系,然后根据逻辑关系推断生词词义或大致义域。
根据对比关系猜测词义
在一个句子或段落中,有对两个事物或现象进行对比性的描述,我们可以根据生词或难词的反义词猜测其词义。例如:Andrew is one of the most supercilious men I know. His brother, in contrast,is quite humble and modest.
该例中supercilious对许多人来说可能是个生词,但是句中短语in contrast,(相对照的,相对比的)可以提示我们supercilious和后面词组humble and modest(谦卑又谦虚)是对比关系。分析出这种关系后,我们便能猜出supercilious意为目空一切的,傲慢的。
表示对比关系的词汇和短语主要是unlike,not,but,however,despite,in spite of,in contrast 和while 引导的并列句等。A good supervisor can recognize instantly the adept workers from the unskilled ones. 该句中并未出现上面提到的表示对比关系的词或短语,但是通过上下文可以判断出句子前后是对比关系,即把熟练工人与非熟练工人区分开。这时我们也能够推断出生词adept的词义,熟练的。
2. 根据比较关系猜测词义
同对比关系相反,比较关系表示意义上的相似关系,例如:Green loves to talk,and his brothers are similarly loquacious.该句中副词similarly表明短语loves to talk与生词loquacious之间的比较关系。以此可以推断出loquacious词义为健谈的。表示比较关系的词和短语主要是similarly,like,just as,also等。
3. 根据因果关系猜测词义
在句子或段落种,若两个事物、现象之间构成因果关系,我们可以根据这种逻辑关系推知生词词义。例如:Tom is considered an autocratic administrator because he makes decisions without seeking the opinions of others.
根据原因状语从句的内容,我们可以推断出生词autocratic指独断专行的。There were so many demonstrators in the Red Square that he had to elbow hisway through the crowd.
此句为结果状语从句,根据从句的描书许多示威者,我们便可推知elbow的词意挤,挤过。
4. 根据同义词的替代关系猜测词义
在句子或段落种,我们可以利用熟悉的词语,根据语言环境推断生词词义。例如:Although he often had the opportunity, Mr. Tritt was never able to steal money from a customer. This would have endangered his position at the bank,and he did not want to jeopardize his future.
作者为避免重复使用endanger一词,用其同义词jeopardize来替代它,由此推知其词义为使... 陷入危险,危及、危害。Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to your health. They also regard drinking as harmful.
句中detrimental四个生词,但判断出harmful替代detrimental后,不难推断出其词义为不利的,有害的。
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三、外部相关因素
外部相关因素是指篇章(句子或段落)以外的其他知识。有时仅靠分析篇章内在逻辑关系无法猜出词义。这时,就需要运用生活经验和普通常识确定词义。例如:Husband: its really cold out tonight. Wife: Sure it is. My hands are practically numb.How about lighting the furnace?
根据生活经验,天气寒冷时,手肯定是冻僵的,冻得麻木的。例如:The snake slithered through the grass.根据有关蛇的生活习性的知识,我们可以推断出slither词义为爬行。在猜测词义过程中,除了使用上面提到的一些技巧,我们还可以依靠构词方面的知识,从生词本身猜测词义。
根据前缀猜测词义 例如:He fell into a ditch and lay there, semiconscious, for a few minutes.根据词根conscious(清醒的,有意识的),结合前缀semi(半,部分的,不完全的), 我们便可猜出semiconscious词义半清醒的,半昏迷的。Im illiterate about such things.词根literate意为有文化修养的,通晓的,前缀il表示否定,因此illiterate指一窍不通,不知道的。
2. 根据后缀猜测词义 例如:Insecticide is applied where it is needed.后缀cide表示杀者,杀灭剂,结合大家熟悉的词根insect(昆虫),不难猜出insecticide意为杀虫剂。Then the vapor may change into droplets.后缀let表示小的,词根drop指滴,滴状物。将两个意思结合起来,便可推断出droplet词义小滴,微滴。
3.根据复合词的各部分猜测词义例如:Growing economic problems were highlighted by a slowdown in oil output.Hightlight或许是一个生词,但是分析该词结构后,就能推测出其含义。它是由high(高的,强的)和light(光线)两部分组成,合在一起便是以强光照射,使突出的意思。Bullfight is very popular in Spain.Bull(公牛)和fight(打,搏斗)结合在一起,指一种在西班牙颇为流行的体育运动――斗牛。
综上所述,利用各种已知信息推测、判断词义是一项重要的阅读技巧。在实践中,我 们可以灵活运用,综合运用上面提到的几种猜测技巧,排除生词的障碍,顺利理解文章的思想内容,提高阅读速度。
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