【真題】Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers.
【例】Your story approximates to the facts we already know.你所說的與我們已經了解的事實很接近。
【構詞】ap-+proxim(接近)+-ate→接近
【同義替換】approach
【派生】approximately a.大約,近似地 approximation n.接近;近似值
【真題】Still, Jefferson freed Hemings’s children——though not Hemings herself or his approximately 150 other slaves.
雖然Hemings本人及其他約150名奴隸沒有得到自由,杰弗遜還是給了Hemings的孩子們自由。
appetite
n.食欲,胃口;欲望;愛好,趣味
【例】He has an amazing appetite for hard work.他出奇地喜歡艱巨的工作。
【構詞】ap-(加強)+pet(喜愛)+-ite→非常喜歡→欲望;愛好
【同義替換】belly; desire, lust, wish; hobby, delight
【真題】Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.