大学英语六级考试核心词汇及例句分析(5)

　　六级考试核心词汇及例句分析c2

　　concern v.关于;对有关系(05-1)

　　The story that follows concerns two famous characters of the rocky Mountain gold rush days.(90-1)

　　concise adj.简单的,简练的

　　The new secretary has written a remarkably concise report within a few hundred words but with all the important details included.

　　新来的秘书写了一个十分简洁的报告，只用了几百个字就概括了所有的重要细节。

　　concrete adj.具体的(09-12)

　　If it could be established that life arose independently on Mars and Earth, the finding would provide the first concrete clues in one of the deepest mysteries in all of science: the prevalence of life in the universe.(01-6)

　　conduct v./n.行为, 操行(05-12)

　　It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment.(06-12)

　　conflict n.斗争, 冲突

　　If the world is to remain peaceful the utmost effort must be made by nations to limit local conflicts.

　　In such circumstances no one should be too hard on people who are suspicious of conflicts of interest.

　　conform v.符合, 相似

　　As visiting scholars, they willingly conform to the customs of the country they live in.

　　作为访问学者，他们愿意遵守所在国的风俗习惯。

　　confront v. 使面临, 对抗

　　Thus, a university trying to promote professors primarily on the teaching qualities would have to confront this confusion.

　　consequence n. 结局;结果

　　Such discoveries are likely to have revolutionary consequences for biology, astronomy and philosophy.

　　conservation n. 保护;保存

　　These days conservation is all about efficiency: getting the sameor betterresults from just a fraction of the energy.

　　console v. 安慰, 藉慰

　　But economists say families about to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as studying, can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should yield huge dividends.

　　constant adj.不变的;固定的

　　We humans, like all warm-blooded animals, can keep our core body temperatures pretty much constant regardless of whats going on in the world around us.

　　constrain v. 强逼; 限制，抑制

　　People with poor motives will always exist. He says. Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.

　　consult v. 参考;查阅;咨询

　　The members of Parliament were indignant that the government had not consulted them.

　　consultancy n.咨询，顾问，咨询公司

　　When we learn that the distinguished professor assuring us of the safety of a particular product holds a consultancy with the company making it, we cannot be blamed for wondering whether his fee might conceivably cloud his professional judgment. (05-12)

　　consumer n.消费者

　　Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to buy things they didnt really want or need.

　　contact lens n. 隐形眼镜

　　A new high-performance contact lens under development at the department for applied physics at the University of Heidelberg will not only correct ordinary vision defects but will enhance normal night vision as much as five times, making peoples vision sharper than that of cats.

　　contemplate v. 注视;沉思

　　My grandfather, a retired worker, often contemplates the past with a feeling of longing and respect.

　　content n.内容, 容量 v. 满足 adj. 满足的

　　In addition, that social context affectsboth directly and indirectlythe media and the media content to which you become exposed.

　　contradict v.反驳;与矛盾

　　Recent stories in the newspapers and magazines suggest that teaching and research contradict each other, that research plays too prominent a part in academic promotions, and that teaching is badly underemphasized.

　　contrary adj.相反的

　　on the contrary 相反

　　Contrary to popular belief that classical music is too complex, it achieves a simplicity that only a genius can create.(98-1)

　　compensation n.补偿，赔偿(06-6)

　　The insurance company paid him $10,000 in compensation after his accident.(97-6)

　　complaint v.申诉;控告 n.抱怨;抗议

　　The manager promised to have my complaint looked into.

　　Every year television stations receive hundreds of complaints about the loudness of advertisements.(98-6)

　　complexity n.复杂性(91-1,02-12)

　　complicate v.变复杂

　　And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they had weighed them down and complicate their lives.(06-12)

　　comprehensive adj.全面的;广泛的(05-1)

　　conceive v.构思, 以为, 持有

　　It is hard to conceive of a plan to end poverty.

　　构想一个结束贫困的方案是很难的。