GRE词汇:考试复习必备高频词汇

    GRE词汇是正在准备GRE考试的考生们公认的最难复习的一项，但是对于GRE词汇复习我们真的没有什么好方法了吗?小编下面为大家介绍一下新GRE考试中出现的高频词汇，希望大家首先将高频词汇牢牢记住。
　　在GRE词汇复习中我们可能会遇到一些GRE词汇，我们应该对这些新GRE高频词汇加以总结记忆，会对大家的GRE考试有帮助。
　　1 backwater n. 一潭死水;沉寂不活跃;停滞
　　这个词总给人以后海的幻想，注意赶紧打消这个念头，这个叫做停滞或落后的意思。
　　If you refer to a place or institution as a backwater, you think it is not developing properly because it is isolated from ideas and events in other places and institutions.
　　例句： The destruction of the western Roman Empire led to a political and economic fragmentation that made western Europe an economic backwater for half a millennium.
　　2 moonshine n. 空谈;纸上谈兵
　　晚上的月光亮起来了，别幻想了，打住吧!快看英文解释。moonshine 就是empty talk 的意思。
　　If you say that someone's thoughts, ideas, or comments are moonshine, you think they are foolish and not based on reality.
　　例句：The lesson taught by the crash and the GREat Depression was that the glorious dream of a self-regulating economy, free of government intervention and supervision, was moonshine.
　　3 brainchild n. 辛苦想出来的点子;想法
　　如果你的脑子生出了孩子，太可怕啦，没关系，不是脑残也不是脑瘤，而是你辛辛苦苦想出来的东西!
　　Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
　　例句： Facebook, the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg while he was still studying at Harvard University, launched in February 2004.
　　4 deadpan adj. 面无表情的 n. 故意板脸搞笑
　　一个要死的平底锅?别逗了，这就是冰冰上课最常见的，板着脸!所以deadpan这个反义词，就是我们上课经常提到的demonstrative或者expressive。 demonstrative哪里见过?忘了小时代的经典片段了吗?undemonstrative panache!
　　而我们经常也会说deadpan humor。
　　Deadpan humor is when you appear to be serious and are hiding the fact that you are joking or teasing someone.
　　5 sidestep v. 回避，绕开
　　往边上迈一步?看来这个是意思最直接的一个词了。没错就是跟circumvent和bypass一样的意思。
　　If you sidestep a problem, you avoid discussing it or dealing with it.
　　例句： In ways large and small, millions of people are taking active steps tosidestep the medical mainstream, whether by taking herbal remedies for diseases or by placing their hopes for a cure in alternative treatment.，
　　上面就是小编为大家介绍的新GRE高频词汇，希望大家可以对这些新GRE词汇进行记忆总结，在GRE词汇复习时遇到这样的GRE词汇，要记着记下来，上面词汇的分享希望对大家的GRE考试有所帮助。获取更多GRE备考资料，请继续关注新通教育网站。

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