考研英語歷年真題來源報刊閱讀100篇 Text100

sway

v.搖擺，搖動

ballot

n.選舉票，投票，票數(shù)；vi.投票

［真題例句］Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot (n.) papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interests as they plough through them.［2004年閱讀2］

［例句精譯］求職面試、選舉投票、會議發(fā)言或參加會議等諸多名單，也是按字母表順序排序，當人們費勁地往下查看時，興趣也隨之索然。

predecessor

n.前輩，前任，（被取代的）原有事物

［真題例句］Thus the American president and vice�瞤resident have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush�餾 predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. ［2004年閱讀2］

［例句精譯］如此這般，美國總統(tǒng)和副總統(tǒng)的姓氏分別是以B和C開頭，而且喬治•布什的前任有26位（包括他父親在內(nèi)）的姓氏均在字母表的前半部，而姓氏在字母表后半部的卻僅有16位。

sustain

v.①支撐，撐��；②維持，持續(xù)；③遭受

［真題例句］Mozart, he theorized, may have sustained（③）it in a fall, and that would help explain the severe headaches the composer was said to have suffered more than a year before his death. ［2005年閱讀4］

［例句精譯］他推斷，這可能是由莫扎特摔跤所致；同時，這也為莫扎特去世前困擾他一年多的嚴重頭痛病提供了解釋。

lease

n.租借，租約，租賃物，租期，延續(xù)的一段時間；vt.出租，租出，租得

stream

n.①小河，溪流；②川流不息的事物；v.流出，涌