【例】As the result of new research unfold, parallels between birdsong and our own speech behavior become more and more intriguing.隨著新的研究成果的不斷出現,鳥的歌聲和我們人類語言行為之間的類似性越來越引起人們的興趣。
【構詞】un-(相反的)+fold(折疊)→打開,展開
【同義替換】open, reveal
【派生】unfolded a.展開的,打開的
【真題】According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.
【例】Self-actualization is ,according to Maslow, the ultimate achievement of mature human beings.按馬斯洛的說法,自我實現是成熟人的最高成就。
【構詞】ultim(最后的)+-ate(形容詞后綴)→最終的,最后的
【同義替換】last, final
【派生】ultimately ad.最后地,最終地
【真題】Finally, because the ultimate stakeholders are patients, the health research community should actively recruit to its cause not only well-known personalities such as Stephen Cooper, who has made courageous statements about the value of animal research, but all who receive medical treatment.
【例】The ever-growing exchange in the cultural field has promoted the mutual learning between Asian and European cultures.文化領域交往的不斷發展,促進了亞歐文明的相互學習。
【同義替換】reciprocal, common, collective
【派生】mutually ad.相互地;共同地
【真題】Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with its 1998 decision in the so-called State Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.