【聚创考研英语】湳神带你背单词 Day 83【Position】

  徐俊湳老师是聚英考研信息网特邀英语老师，已经为我们开了很多场英语讲座，从基础备考到复试英语口语都受到同学们热烈欢迎，现湳哥将每天带大家背单词，从一个基本单词找出以其为基础的其他单词，不要多，每天一个就好！

 

 

  （一）今日主角词：Position 考研出现次数20次

  (n)位置，职位，职务；姿势，姿态；见解，立场

  E.g.：The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional. (2011 Text2)

  参考翻译：为了寻找一个更好的职位而辞去高管的职位并不符合传统。

  (二)衍生词

  1.opposition：(n)反对，敌对；反对派，在野党

  E.g.：Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observingthe bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strongopposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. Only a decadeearlier, such an act would have required legislative approval in Virginia. (2008 Text4)

  参考翻译： 华盛顿 目睹了解放战争中黑人士兵的勇敢后，开始相信人人生而平等，他不顾亲人的强烈反对，在遗嘱中赋予他的奴隶自由。而在那之前的十年的 弗吉尼亚州，这种行为的实施会被要求得到法律上的批准。

  2.proposition：(n)命题，提讧；主题，讧题(v)向……提讧

  E.g.：This, though it fulfills the laws and requirements of Futurist poetry, can hardly be classedPositionas Literature. All the same, no thinking man can refuse to accept their first proposition:that a great change in our emotional life calls for a change of expression. The wholequestion is really this: have we essentially changed? (2000 Text3)

  参考翻译： 尽管这种写法符合未来派诗歌的规则和要求，但是却很难被归入文学之列。同样，任何一个有思想的人都不会拒绝接受他们的基本主张：情感生活的巨大变化要求表达方式也随之变化。但实际问题是：我们发生了根本的变化吗？

  3.composition：(n)作文；作曲；极成，合成物

  E.g.：For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one. To besure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is notnecessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interestingorchestral music. (2011 Text1)

  参考翻译： 就我而言，我不知道吉伯特是否是一名伟大的指挥家或者是一名好的指挥。至少我能确定的是，他确实演奏出很多有趣的乐章，但是我没必要去艾弗里费舍尔礼堂或者去其他地方听一场有趣的交响乐。

  4.disposition：(n)性情；倾向；处置；部署

  E.g.：48 While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon theirdisposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults. (2009 翻译)

  参考翻译： 虽然在与年轻人的接触中我们容易忽视自己的行为对他们性情所产生的影响，然而在与成年人打交道时这种情况就不那么容易发生。

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