①The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT[微博], a standardized exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.②Dr Simonsohn and Dr Gino discovered that their hunch was right. If the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.③This might sound small, but to undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been necessary。
【高頻考點】
1.以800分為滿分進行打分:be marked out of 800 points
2.X和Y共同決定:X be used in conjunction with Y to make a decision
3.是否錄取某人:whether to accept someone
4.平均減少0.075分:drop by an average of 0.075 points
5.消除X所帶來的影響:undo by an effects of X(Leon解詞:undo=to try to remove the bad effects of something you have done)
【翻譯練習】
①The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardized exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her。
結構提示:or GMAT, a standardized exam which is marked out of 800 points,作為the Graduate Management Admission Test的同位語。
②Dr Simonsohn and Dr Gino discovered that their hunch was right. If the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points。
結構提示:If the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points。作為found的賓語;If the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that,是條件狀語從句。
③This might sound small, but to undo the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been necessary。
結構提示:to undo the effects of such a decrease作為目的狀語。