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二、注释猜词法:通过定义、标点符号及定语从句了解文中的某些词义。直接定义法:这时充分地应用自己所了解的社会背景知识及逻辑等知识。例句:Mark Twins was not the author’s real name itwas a pseudonym.“was not real name”给pseudonym下定义为“笔名”。例句:He’s completely lacking in courage,he is a cow-ard.“lacking of courage”为“a coward”一词下定义为“胆小”。标点符号法:有时作者为了让读者清楚某个词或短语,常用破折号——,冒号:等对前面的词句进行解释说明。例句:A gorilla always makes me think of the wordaloof--not friendly or distance from others.可猜出aloof“不友好的,冷漠的”。例句:The government promise to give millions of de-prived black the essentials in life--housing education,health,facilites and job opportunities.the essentials之词为“生活必需品”。利用定语从句的解释说明:例句:An expedition is a long,organized trip or jour-ney which is made into an unfamiliar area for a particularpurpose by a group of people.which引导的定语从句告诉大家an expedition为:“远征队”的意思。例句:Some computer scientists are developing artifi-cal--intelligence machines that they say will think like peo-ple.that引导的从句说明“artifical--intelligence”为“人工智能”。

三、重复猜词法。作者为了强调或更清楚地表明某些意义,经常在文章中采用重复的方法(reception)例句:Henry received one of the strangest assignmentsever handed to a newspaper reporter.He was working forthe New York Herald and what he was asked to do was togo to the wilds of Africa to find Dr.David livingstone.文中出现一词“assignments everhanded to a newspa-per reporter”,后又重复说:“what he was asked to do wasto go into the wilds of Africa”从通过重复的句子可猜出“assigment”为“特殊任务”。例句:Should the government regulate the cost of re-sources such as oil and gas,some people do not believe thatgovernment control is the solution to the problem of therising cost of fuel.通过文中“government control”“政府控制”这一词组可得知“regulate”为“节制、管理”。以上这些是我在阅读中总结出的一些方法,这些情况并不是独立存在的,而是应该把多种方法结合起来,灵活使用。其实在大量的阅读实践中,还有更多更巧妙的猜词方法。