托福外文刊物《The New York Times》词汇学习(一)

2018-05-07 09:33

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　　Innovations like screen readers and talking calculators can help people who cannot see. In letters to the Times, blind readers reacted with heartfelt reassurance and practical guidance to Edward Hoagland’s essay, “Feeling My Way into Blindness,” published in November.

　　Stanley F. Wainapel, clinical director of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, admitted that “adapting to vision loss is a major challenge.” But he disputed Mr. Hoagland’s allusion to “enforced passivity,” pointing out that many advances in technology — from screen-reading software for computers to portable devices that read menus or printed letters “with a delay of only seconds” — can keep productivity, creativity and pleasure very much alive for people who can no longer see.

　　词汇学习：

　　Innovation：in+nov=new(o=w元音互换，v=w形近字母互换)+ation复合名词后缀。由内而外的新，意为n.创新。拓展动词形式：Innovate

　　Heartfelt：heart心，felt感受过去分词。Adj.真沉的，衷心的(人或事)要用心感受

　　Blindness blind盲目的;瞎的名词形式n.致盲;使命。拓展：blunt a.钝的，生硬的(因为瞎的人做事不便很迟钝)

　　Rehabilitation n.复原re再+h脱落+abilit=ability能力+ation使…再获得能力。复原，康复

　　Adapt v使…适应 ad将强语气，使+apt所鞋子appropriate合适的，使…变得合适的，意为使…适应

　　Allusion n.暗示，提及 allude v.暗指;暗示，的名词形式 al表加强，引申化+lud嬉戏，玩。通过开嬉戏的形式告诉别人，其实就是暗指，暗示

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