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高中英语语法通过上下文猜测词义的技巧

that is,i.e. ,to be precise

高中英语语法通过上下文猜测词义的技巧

[例] Before the main business of a conference begins the chairman usually makes a short preliminary(i. e. introductory)speech,or make a few preliminary remarks. In other words,he says a few things by way of introduction.

阅读此句时,如果对preliminary speech的意思不是十分清楚,只要接着往下读,意思就会逐渐明朗起来,or和in other words后面的部分都是对preliminary speech的重述,由此可以推断出preliminary speech的意思是在开会之前主席所做的一些简单的介绍,或者说是开场白。

6. 以因果关系为线索猜测词义

因果关系是一种常见的、行之有效的`、能提供生词词义信息的逻辑关系。一定的原因会导致一定的结果;某一结果是由某种原因所引起的,作者在叙述原因的过程中,必然会把词或句子置于一种因果关系的逻辑之中,这无疑为读者推断生词词义提供了很好的线索。作者通常会用一些信号词表示句子之间的因果关系,这些信号词有:

since,as,because,for,so,thus,consequently,therefore,hence,due to,result in,result from,as a result,for this reason,accordingly,so that, sothat,suchthat

[例] Since I could not afford to purchase the original painting,I bought a replica. An inexperienced eye could not tell the difference.