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考研英语阅读理解真题解析第四篇“美国元首” 考研英语阅读理解真题解析第四篇“美国元首” 考研英语阅读理解真题解析第四篇“美国元首” 5 年前，牙齿就几乎已经掉光了。他特地请牙医从他的奴隶口中 2 0 0 8 T e x t 4 In 1784, five years before he became president of the United States, George Washington, 52, was nearly toothless. So he hired a dentist to transplant nine teeth into his jaw – having extracted them from the mouths of his slaves. 1784 ，52 岁的乔治 ?华盛顿在成为美国总统 拔出九颗牙齿种在自己的身上。 transplant [tr?nspl ɑ:nt] vt. 移居 ,移植 , 迁移 vi. 【例】 Santillan waited three years for the first transplant.  移居  , 移植  n. 移居者 , 移植 为了找到合适的心肺进行移植，桑提连已 经等了足足三年。 That ’ s a far different image from the cherry -tree-cho