高考高頻詞匯:assist、congratulate、depress、discipline、

assist[??s?st]

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v. 幫助；促進

【派】assistance [??s?st(?)ns] n. 幫助；援助

assistant [??s?st(?)nt] n. 助手，副手，助理；助教

【例】n. 助手，副手，助理2014安徽

Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down.

【譯】露西和她的助手一直躲在車里，直到這些憤怒的蜜蜂平靜下來。

【形】ass [?s] n. 驢子；屁股；蠢人

【例】n. 驢子

（2008江西）The great philosopher Aristotle theorized that there were two types of unicorn—the so-called Indian Ass and the Oryx, a kind of antelope.

【譯】偉大哲學家亞里士多德推測獨角獸有兩類，其實就是所謂的印度驢和劍羚(羚羊的一種)。

assemble [??semb(?)l] v. 集合；聚集；裝配；收集

【例】v. 裝配

（2013上海）The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that ______ .

A.they had no model in their mind

B.they did not have sufficient time

C.they had no ready-made components

D.they could not assemble the components

【譯】制造機器飛蟲時，工程師團隊遇到的困難是_____ 。

A.他們頭腦中沒有模型

B.他們沒有足夠的時間

C.他們沒有現(xiàn)成的零組件

D.他們不會裝配配件

assess [??ses] v. 評定；評估；估價

【例】v. 評估

（2007廣東）In most years, more than five hundred million cases of illness result from the disease, although exact numbers are difficult to assess because many people don't (or can't) seek care.

【譯】多年來，因為許多人沒有(或者無法)尋求治療，所以很難評估具體的數(shù)字，但有超過五億多個病【例】源自這種疾病。

assessment [??sesm?nt] n. 估價；評估；評定；評價

asset [??set] n. 資產(chǎn)；有用的東西；有利條件；優(yōu)點

【例】n. 資產(chǎn)

（2008延考區(qū)）He was living in a big house on a large piece of land he had bought for €400,000. This was exactly the kind of asset my customer was looking for.

【譯】他住的大房子建在一大片土地上，那片土地花了他40萬英鎊。這正是我的顧客正在尋找的那種資產(chǎn)。

assign [??sa?n] v. 分配；交給

assignment [??sa?nm?nt] n. 工作，任務；分配

associate[??s??si?e?t]\[??s??si?t] v. 聯(lián)系；與……為伍；與……交往 n. 伙伴；同事

【例】v. 與……交往

（2014湖北）If some individuals are unable to get information from others because they don't associate with the knowledgeable individuals, or they are too shy to use the information once they have it, information may not travel between all group members, preventing the formation of a culture based on social learning.

【譯】如果有些人因為和有學識的人沒有來往而無法從別人那里獲得信息，或者當他們享有信息后因過于害羞而不能使用信息，那么這些信息就可能不會在全體成員間傳播，這就阻礙了基于社會學習的文化的形成。

association [??s??si?e??(?)n] n. 協(xié)會；社團；聯(lián)合

assume [??sju?m] v. 假定；認為；承擔；呈現(xiàn)；裝腔作勢；多管閑事

【例】v. 認為

（2010湖北）Unfortunately, as long as parents and teens continue to assume that they know more than the other, they’ll continue to fight these battles forever and never make any real progress.

【譯】不幸的是，只要父母和孩子繼續(xù)認為自己比對方知道的多，他們之間就會一直有沖突，并且雙方的關系永遠不會有任何實質(zhì)性的進展。

assumption [??s?mp?(?)n] n. 假定；采取；擔任

assure [?????(r)] v. 保證；擔保；使確信；弄清楚

reassure [?ri??????(r)] v. 消除恐懼或疑慮；恢復信心

congratulate[k?n?gr?t??le?t]

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v. 祝賀；恭喜；慶賀

【派】congratulation [k?n?gr?tj??le??(?)n] n. 祝賀；賀辭

depress[d??pres]

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v. 壓抑；使沮喪；使蕭條

【同】hollow

【派】depression [d??pre?(?)n] n. 抑郁；沮喪；洼地；不景氣；憂愁

【例】n. 抑郁

（2011上海）But some recent studies on people in their golden years are disturbing: they suggest that retirees are more likely to suffer from depression and possibly higher rates of other diseases such as heart disease and high blood pressure.

【譯】但是最近一些關于處于退休人員的研究令人不安：他們說退休人員更可能遭受抑郁的折磨，患其他如高血壓、心臟病等疾病的機率也可能更高。

【形】depressant[d??presnt] n. 鎮(zhèn)靜劑；抑制劑

【詞組】Great Depression：大蕭條(美國經(jīng)濟大蕭條時期)

discipline[?d?s?pl?n]

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n. 學科；紀律；訓練；懲罰

v. 訓練；訓導；懲戒