2017年GRE填空练习题及答案解析(10)
2017年GRE填空练习题及答案解析(10)
With the emergence of scientific history-writing in the late nineteenth century, several authors sought to ignore the glowing myths surrounding George Washington and uncover the human being within, but their biographies were still (i)___ enough that Washington remained a marbled and remote figure. Indeed, by the 1920s Washington had become such (ii)___ personage that inevitably someone had to go to the other extreme and try to (iii)___ the legend.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
A. ponderous
D. a deified
G. debunk
B. empirical
E. an ignored
H. aggrandize
C. laudatory
F. a misunderstood
I. reproduce
选 CDG
翻译:随着十九世纪晚期,科学的历史写作的兴起,一些作者力图忽略那些赞美乔治·华盛顿的虚构故事,但他们的传记作品仍然足够赞美,以至于华盛顿仍然像大理石雕像一样不接地气。实际上,到 1920 年代以前,华盛顿已经被如此神话,以至于难免有人走到另一个极端,试图拆穿这个传奇人物。
glowing 热烈的,热情赞扬的
uncover 揭开(盖子等覆盖物),揭露,使显现
ponderous 沉重的,(因负重而)笨拙难以操作的,沉闷乏味的
empirical 经验的,以观察和实验为根据的(不是根据理论的)
laudatory 称赞的,赞赏的
marbled 大理石制成的,(肉)肥瘦相间的(纹路像大理石)
remote (时间或空间上)远的,(因为远而)偏僻的、微弱的、无关联的,远亲的,态度疏远的,遥控的
deified 被奉若神明的,被理想化的
personage 个人,要人,名人,文艺作品中的人物角色
debunk 拆穿 … 的名不副实(欺诈、吹嘘等)
aggrandize 扩充,增大,提高,夸大
reproduce 复制,回想起,再造