GRE核心词汇词组

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GRE核心词汇词组：in a sense

in a sense 某种意义上

释义

You use in a sense to suggest to a certain extent.

例句

It is tragic, in a sense, to see a family business destroyed.

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The predator is searchingly aggressive, inner-directed, tuned by the nervous system and the adrenal hormones, but aware in a sense closer to human consciousness than, say, a hungry lizard’s instinctive snap at a passing beetle.

捕食者自我主导的、富有攻击性的搜索是通过神经系统和肾上腺素调节的，这种感知在某种意义上来说与人类的意识更为类似，而不是像饥饿的蜥蜴一样对路过的甲壳虫进行本能的捕捉。

GRE核心词汇词组：fall short of

fall short of 达不到，不尽人意

释义

If something fall short of one's expectation, it fails to reach the satisfactory level.

例句

The performance fell far short of our expectations; only the soprano lived up to her reputation.

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Psychohistorians, convinced of the absolute rightness of their own theories, are also convinced that theirs is the “deepest” explanation of any event, that other explanations fall short of the truth.

心理历史学家坚信其理论的绝对正确性，认为这些理论是对于任何事件的“最深刻”解释，而其他任何解释都无法完全揭示事实的真相。

GRE核心词汇词组：impinge on

impinge on 产生影响

释义

Something that impinges on you affects you to some extent.

例句

Events in one country inevitably impinge on others, particularly because of the advances in communications technology.

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In her novels, Woolf is deeply engaged by the questions of how individuals are shaped (or deformed) by their social environments, how historical forces impinge on people’s lives, how class, wealth, and gender help to determine people’s fates.

在Woolf的小说中，她十分痴迷于个体是如何被社会环境定义(或扭曲)的，历史的发展如何对个人生活产生影响，以及人们的命运如何被阶级、财富和性别所决定。

GRE核心词汇词组：owe to

owe to 得益于，归因于

释义

If someone or something owes a particular quality or their success to a person or thing, they only have it because of that person or thing.

例句

He owed his survivial to his strength as a swimmer and his nerves of still acquired during his service in the Army.

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Innovative as it is, the Acto owes much to the theater traditions of other periods and regions.

虽然本身具有创新性，Acto的成功主要归功于其他时期和地区的戏剧传统。

GRE核心词汇词组：in (the) light of

in (the) light of 考虑到，根据

释义

If something is possible in the light of particular information, it is only possible because you have this information.

例句

In light of this economic depression, a mass layoff is about to happen.

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Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful description of participants that might characterize it in the light of what social history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization.

只有在二月革命这个例子中我们缺乏对于参与者的有用描述，而基于社会历史有关革命动员过程能教给我们的内容，这些描述有可能勾勒出这场革命的性质。