2014年12月英语六级考试核心词汇及例句(3)

　　英语将在2014年12月份进行，如果同学们没有太多的时间把5500词汇都背诵下来，那么就来奋力搞定核心词汇吧，这些词汇都是在历年考试中经常出现的单词，同学们一定都要记住并且会用。

　　candidate n.候选人, 投考者

　　Your qualities will exhibit to employers why they should hireyou over other candidates.

　　capital n. 首都;资金，资本

　　It will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders.

　　characteristic adj.表示特性的;典型的;特有的 n. 特征，特性

　　If you display these characteristics, with just a little luck, you ll certainly succeed in the typicalpersonnel interview.

　　circumstance n.环境, 详情, 境况

　　Losing everything you own under such circumstances can be distressing.

　　citizen n.市民, 公民

　　In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips into space to private citizenscould be worth billions of dollars.

　　claim v.要求，认领，索赔

　　Mothers have always claimed that they could see their newborns looking at them as they heldthem, despite what they have been told.

　　It is often claimed that nuclear energy is something we cannot do without.

　　clip n.小夹子;回形针不及物动词 vi. 夹上,夹住

　　Even after graduation, young people find their wings clipped by skyrocketing housing costs.

　　cluster n.一串;一束;一群 vt. 群集，聚集

　　When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken.

　　coincidence n.巧合;巧合的事

　　It is no coincidence that a large number of violent crimes are committed under the influence ofalcohol.

　　大量的暴力犯罪都是在酒精的作用下发生的，这一点并非巧合。

　　combine v.联结;结合

　　This information is combined with a map database.

　　commodity n. 货场;商品;物品

　　In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity that could be carried, orstolen.

　　communicate v. 交流;通信

　　With stunning speed, the Internet is profoundly changing the way we work, shop, dobusiness, and communicate.

　　community n.社区

　　Why do some non-native speakers of English claim that it isa difficult language to learn, while infants born into English-speaking communities acquire their language before they learnto use forks and knives?

　　为什么英语非母语者认为英语难学，而英语环境出生的幼儿在学会使用刀叉前就已经掌握英语了呢?

　　compensation n.补偿，赔偿

　　The insurance company paid him $10,000 in compensation after his accident.

　　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 ofadvertisements.

　　complexity n.复杂性 complicate v.变复杂

　　And once all those things were no longer there, she and her husband saw how they hadweighed them down and complicate their lives.

　　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。

　　convince v. 使确信, 使信服

　　Knight convinced the company s officials of the potential for its product in the U.S.

　　coordinate vt. 协调，调节n.同等的; 坐标

　　Clearly, protecting will come only through coordinated international efforts to control humanpopulation, stabilize the composition of the atmosphere, and preserve intact Earth s complex weblife.

　　corporate adj.全体的，公司的

　　There, men are still expected to be breadwinners climbing the corporate ladder; traditionally-minded bosses are often unsympathetic to family needs.

　　correlate vt.叙述，使联系

　　It is true that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before, and that, inmany cases, being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease.

　　count v .数, 计算; 认为，看作

　　When labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be countedas a violent event?

　　creature n. 人，动物， 创造物

　　In an attempt to find out how different creatures see the world, psychologists at BrownUniversity in the USA have been comparing the behaviour of birds and humans.

　　crime n. 犯罪，犯罪行为

　　The suspect alleged that he had not been in the neighbourhood at the time of the crime.

　　critical adj. 批评的，危急的, 评论的

　　You can t be too careful in making the decision as it was such a critical case.

　　The transition from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for everybody.