【例】With his new play, he has consolidated his position as the country’s leading dramatist.他新創作的劇本鞏固了他作為國內杰出劇作家的地位。
【構詞】con-+solid(堅實的)+-ate(使)→使牢固→鞏固
【同義替換】solidify, reinforce, merge, amalgamate
【派生】consolidation n.鞏固;合并
【真題】Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.
【例】If the failures of this world could realize how desperate half the present-day geniuses once felt, they would take heart and try again.世上的失敗者若能了解到當今的天才有半數一度感到過那么絕望,他們就會振作精神更加努力。
【構詞】desper(=despair絕望)+-ate(形容詞后綴)→絕望的
【同義替換】despairing, venturesome
【派生】desperately ad.不顧一切地 desperation n.不顧一切
【真題】Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.