高考高頻詞匯:animal 、teach 、speaker 、spend 、

animal ['?n?m(?)l]

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n.動物

【例】n.動物

（2007湖北）As we continue to overheat our weak planet, it can only be hoped that other animal species will adapt as extraordinarily well to change as the desert elephant.

【譯】由于我們正不斷使我們脆弱的星球持續(xù)過熱，我們只能希望其他動物物種能變得像沙漠象一樣很好地適應(yīng)環(huán)境變化。

【形】ancient ['e?n?(?)nt] adj.古老的

【例】adj.古老的

（2012遼寧）Some social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdom to make up for the drawbacks of Westerners philosophy.

【譯】一些社會科學(xué)家建議，西方人應(yīng)該利用中國古代的智慧彌補西方哲學(xué)的不足。

ancestor ['?nsest?(r)] n.祖先；原型

【例】n.原型

（2006重慶）This practice might have been learned from Egyptians even further in the past, but it was from China that it spread over trade routes through India, then across Arab lands, and finally to Europe, where it met up with the other ancestor of the national flag.

【譯】這種做法或許是很久以前從埃及人那里學(xué)來的，但它的傳播卻是從中國開始，經(jīng)由貿(mào)易航路穿過印度，然后跨越阿拉伯的土地，最后到達歐洲。而在歐洲，國旗的另一種原型出現(xiàn)了。

anger ['??g?(r)] n.憤怒

【例】n.憤怒

（2013上海）The researchers from the University of Bristol used Google Ngram Viewer, a facility for finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to search for more than 600 particular words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise.

【譯】來自布里斯托大學(xué)的研究人員用谷歌Ngram Viewer（一種用于查詢被掃描書籍中術(shù)語出達頻率的設(shè)備）搜索出超過600個被認為是表達憤怒、厭惡、恐懼、快樂、悲傷和吃驚（等情緒）的特殊詞匯。

angry ['??gri] adj.生氣的；憤怒的；狂暴的

angel ['e?nd?l] n.天使

anecdote ['?n?kd??t] n.掌故；趣聞；軼事

teach [ti?t?]

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v.教；教授；教導(dǎo)

【派】teacher [?ti?t??(r)] n.教師

speaker [?spi?k?(r)]

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n.揚聲器；說話者；演講者；講某種語言的人

spend [spend]

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v.花費；度過