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55、narrow [5nArEua.狭窄的，狭隘的；v.①限制，限定；②变窄，收缩 【真题例句】 For any job search, you should start with a narrow (a.) concept — what you think you want to do — then broaden it.[2004年阅读1] 【例句精译】 寻找任何职业，你都要从一个狭窄的概念开始，即你想干什么工作，然后再加以扩展。 【真题例句】 Narrowing (v.①) your criteria, for example, may work against you: “Every time you answer a question you eliminate a possibility.” says one expert.[2004年阅读1] 【例句精译】 比如把个人求职要求越具体明确就有可能对你越不利，一位专家说：“你每回答一次问题你就丧失一次机会。” 【真题例句】 It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed (v.②) as other countries grew richer.[2000年阅读1] 【例句精译】 随着其他国家日益强盛，美国从这一优势地位逐渐下降是不可避免的。 nature [5neitFE] n.①自然界，大自然；②性质，本性，天性 【真题例句】 No other species fills so many places in nature (①).[2000年阅读2] 【例句精译】 没有其他物种充斥着自然中如此多的空间。 【真题例句】 The jury agreed that the nature (②) of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury.[1999年阅读1] 【例句精译】 陪审团也认为造成该运动员受伤的是这项运动本身的危险性，而不是头盔。 note [nEutn.①笔记，记录；②按语，注释；③便条，短笺；④钞票，纸币；⑤暗示，建议v.①记下，摘下；②表明，认为 【真题例句】 But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes (n.②) that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river — and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers: “Pluff! Pluff! A hundred and eighty-five kilograms.”[2000年阅读3] 【例句精译】 在某首诗中，未来派诗人用一行文字描写了一名土耳其军官和一名保加利亚军官在桥上发生搏斗的场面，结果双双从桥上掉进河中；看了这首诗，有点让人摸不着头脑；后来看了注解才发现，诗把他们两人落水的声音和体重写在了一起：“扑通！扑通！185公斤。” 【真题例句】 There is a heavy note (n.⑤) of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped — with the educated themselves riding on them.[2000年阅读5] 【例句精译】 他们的说法有着浓厚的虚伪色彩，正如马从马厩跑出来后再关上马厩的门，而受过良好教育的人自己正骑在那些马背上那样的虚伪。 【真题例句】 “The term ‘anti-science’ can lump together too many, quite different things,” notes (v.①) Harvard University philosopher Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti-Science, “They have in common only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more enlight