GRE 单词背诵心得

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先介绍一下基本情况：09年6G待考，从08年10月开始背红宝，到09年1月背完第一遍，发现只记住了20%左右。郁闷之下，开始求变。我发现大家背红宝有着一些共性的问题：

1. 死看单词，就盯着看啊看，觉得面熟了，以为记住了，结果逆序的时候就还是看着眼熟，模糊的记得单词的意思，但是仔细深究的时候和原意相去甚远。

2. 对于意思相近的词分辨能力差，就是即使记住了，作类反的时候还要重新背，因为根本没有分辨能力

3.红宝本身的问题也很严重，每个单词给出来的解释都是非常概括而模糊的，比如有很多词的中文解释都是一样的，比如“挑剔，吹毛求疵”这样的解释就有,carp, cavil, captious, fastidious等等。但是具体到每个单词的使用语境都不太一样，背单词的时候这些都没法区分。

4.用红宝背单词效率比较低，比如有人用书签遮挡中文释义，然后在单词前面画星星，三角等等标记背诵次数，记忆程度，往往书被不同颜色的笔画的乱七八糟的都没啥效果，到时候还是忘。

后来我尝试了如下方法感觉效率和准确度都有提高，并且意思相近的词汇的区分程度也有很大进步。

1.准备一个本子，把红宝上单词意义相似的词都放到一起。尤其是形容词和动词，可以一个本子从前往后记形容词，从后往前记动词，然后可以各自分为贬抑和褒义，中性三部分，就是把感觉类似的词放在一起。
2. 用colin Cobuild来查找各个单词的例句。因为Colin Cobuild的软件非常出色，可以省去查merrianwebster的麻烦。也达到区分意思相近相反词的使用方法的目的。如果不愿意装这种软件，可以直接用google来搜索网上释义和使用方法。大多数GRE单词都会有搜索结果。

3.把看书和网上复习的方法结合起来。因为红宝背诵的效率低，所以可以在上网方便的时候用背单词的软件。可以用新东方的，但是比较推荐langlib的在线背诵方法(一个付费网站，非常便宜，比买书至少便宜很多)，省去了书签和不同颜色的笔，非常简便容易操作，而且可以逆序和随机，不用买逆序词典了。对于红宝背了2-3遍的人来说这个网站比较好用，可以随机检查自己背诵的情况。另外有星级标注熟练度的操作和英文释义，这些都是红宝没有的优点。如果每天上网时间比较长，甚至可以考虑不用红宝，只用网络/软件背诵方法。当然最好是书，电脑结合起来。

4.为了让自己尽量多的接触单词，利用易贴便签，把遇到的一些总是记不住的词写下来随便贴到宿舍显眼的地方，最后你发现整个屋子都是这些单词，每天都能看到，看到就想想什么意思怎么用。

现在我大概按照上面的方法把单词基本搞定。希望对大家有用

kris19851314UID: 2606399

又是做广告的吧~~~呃，，，现在的人越来越聪明了。

i2000sUID: 2108019

2.2是柯林斯词典吧？
呵呵   不错      
记单词是个体力活，有点技巧更省劲

fanfenghongUID: 2627196

?????

slipingUID: 2584903

其实不一定要利用那些软件记单词的 不过楼主说的单词总结 我觉得很有用

bilboUID: 2627211

2# kris19851314

我是觉得这些真的比较好用才推荐的。可能每个人有每个人不同的方法。但是我强烈建议不要听信那些什么10天，17天背完单词的那种说法。如果真的有这样的方法，那么那些天天背，天天磨的人岂不是傻子？都去学速成法好了。而事实上，我所知道的1400+的人没有一个不是把单词背过5次以上的。也没有一个背诵时间少于300个小时的

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恩 单词确实是体力活

whinnyUID: 189834

的确很有用。

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还不错，有点收获

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多管奇下方法挺好

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The Russification of Kyrgyzstan

By Baktybek Abdrisaev Page 1 of 1


Posted April 2009


How Russia pushed the U.S. out of a Central Asian stronghold.

STRONGHOLD:要塞
T

he remote and mountainous Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan has long been viewed as something of an outlier. Unlike its expansive northern neighbor, Kazakhstan, it has no hydrocarbon wealth. But Kyrgyzstan has something that is fairly precious and rare in the developing world: a well-educated population that values democracy and freedom.
OUTLIER:离群
HYDROCARBON: any of a class of compounds of hydrogen and carbon that are found in petrol, coal and natural gas 烃; 碳氢化合物

Lately, however, a shadow has fallen over Kyrgyzstan. Last month a prominent political leader, Medet Sadyrkulov, was found dead following a car crash that burned his body beyond recognition. Sadyrkulov was previously the chief of staff to President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who took power with great fanfare in the 2005 Tulip Revolution. But he, like a number of other reformers attached to Bakiyev's government, had left it and appeared to be sounding an alarm -- charging that Bakiyev was intent on turning the country into a dictatorship. In the post-Soviet space, suspicious dead-of-night car accidents are a popular method of assassination. And in Kyrgyzstan today, it's difficult to find a political figure who isn't convinced that Sadyrkulov was murdered.
FANFARE: short ceremonial piece of music, usu played on trumpets 仪式上用的短曲（通常用小号吹奏）: A fanfare was played as the queen entered. 女王驾到时, 小号奏起欢迎乐曲.
INTENT: intention; purpose 意图; 意向; 目的

A Siberian wind is now blowing through Kyrgyzstan's political landscape. It is viewed by many as a process of Russification. That is to say, Kyrgyzstan is becoming much more like Russia. It maintains a semblance of democratic institutions, but in fact it is looking more and more like a presidential dictatorship where the men of power are prepared to use the most ruthless methods to quiet opposition voices.

But there is a second aspect of this Russification -- namely, the Kremlin's influence is clearly on the rise. Russian investment in Kyrgyzstan has long been pervasive and very welcome. But Russian political influence has gradually become more overt. Most recently, Bakiyev received a commitment of $2.1 billion in economic assistance from the Kremlin -- money his cash-strapped country badly needs. The assistance package coincided with Bakiyev's decision to shut down the United States' Manas Air Base, a principal supply post for allied military operations in Afghanistan, and a longtime thorn in Russia's side. Because Bakiyev's main interest in maintaining the base has long been its economic value -- a point about which Kyrgyzstan has always been perfectly open -- it's easy to understand the Russian aid package as an incentive to close the base.
COMMITMENT：承诺，保证；信奉，献身；承担的义务
CASH-STRAPPED: adj. 没有足够资本的,缺钱的
THORN: sharp pointed growth on the stem of a plant （植物的）刺, 棘刺

Still, Russification does not mean that the country is falling entirely under Russia's influence. The strongmen of Central Asia have learned how to pursue a delicate balancing act. A region that once was viewed as a Soviet backwater now is an international borderland where great powers such as the United States, Russia, and China compete with regional players like Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and India for influence. In a sense, this competition is very ancient, though the United States is decidedly a newcomer. America inserted itself aggressively into the region after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and Kyrgyzstan was its main beachhead.
BACKWATER:回水

The example of the U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan shows just how easily the geopolitical game can be played in Central Asia. The Americans acquired the base as a supply point for a campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan. But nearly eight years later, they were still there, with no signs of departure on the horizon. The base fit well into former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's notion of a system of "lily pads" -- almost skeletal military outposts scattered widely around the globe that would give the United States the ability to project its military power and resources into regions where U.S. military operations were previously unthinkable.
SKELETAL:骨骼
OUTPOST: (group of soldiers at an) observation point some distance away from the main army 前哨（站）.
While American diplomats sought to play down the long-term strategic element of the U.S. plan, the Kremlin obsessed about it. In Soviet times, Kyrgyzstan was so secure and safe that it furnished an excellent testing ground for sensitive weapons systems. Now it was the site of the aggressive extension of the growing U.S. military presence in the region. The Kremlin therefore sought to shut down the U.S. operation. Chinese interests aligned with the Russians'. NATO interests aligned with the Americans'. Bakiyev himself had no inherent interest in the base or its removal; he was happy to allow the outcome to go to the highest bidder. At the moment, the high bid is the Kremlin's, but it's possible that many bids and counterbids will follow.
ALIGN: join sb as an ally; come into agreement with sb 与某人结盟; 与某人一致
COUNTERBID:还价
Successful navigation of these waters for the Americans as well as the Russians will turn on a sober appreciation of Bakiyev's motivations and objectives. His conduct since the Tulip Revolution reveals two primary forces at work. One is the steady accumulation of wealth for himself and those in his immediate entourage. The other is the consolidation of his political position and his power base in Kyrgyzstan's strong-president parliamentary system. He has been quite successful in achieving both goals.

For four years, Bakiyev has offered Kyrgyzstan a reasonable measure of economic freedom, but at the same time, key investment opportunities have been taken by members of his inner circle. Both the Americans and the Russians have played off these kleptocratic tendencies in their dealings with the Kyrgyz government, as a study of U.S. contracting practices connected to the air base and Russian large-scale investments will show. But in the end, Russian investment far outstrips that of the West, and Russian investments are deeply entangled with Bakiyev and his key retainers.
RETAINER:聘
Bakiyev has also worked effectively to consolidate his control over the main pillars of political power in his country. He embraced a modest reform of the Constitution that shifted power to the parliament, but at the same time carefully planned a thorough takeover of the parliament by his supporters. As the vote (78 to 1) to close the Manas base proves, the parliament today is little more than Bakiyev's rubber stamp.
CONSOLIDATE: become more solid, secure, or strong 使某事物巩固; 加固; 加强

Now, however, opposition to Bakiyev is slowly consolidating, and he is very conscious of the springtime uprising that toppled his predecessor and brought him to power. The Kyrgyz alone among the peoples of Central Asia have the civil courage to take a stand against their government and take to the streets to voice their dissent -- a trait they have repeatedly demonstrated. Will Bakiyev face a tulip revolution of his own?
TOPPLE: be unsteady and fall 不稳而倒下
DISSENT: holding opinions which differ from common or officially held ones 持有异议

The odds are still against that. But with economic conditions rapidly worsening -- thanks to both the global financial crisis and Bakiyev's own mismanagement -- he has decided to rush ahead with presidential elections, which have now been set for July.

The circumstances will provide the toughest test yet for Kurmanbek Bakiyev. And they offer renewed hope for Kyrgyzstan's democrats, who are fearful of yet another form of Russification -- sham elections that extend the power of a wannabe autocrat. In the meantime, tulip season is just on the horizon in Kyrgyzstan, and with the spring thaw, citizens have begun again to focus on politics and their uncomfortable relations with those who govern them.
WANNABE:辣妹的一首歌
THAW:
v.(使)融化；(使)变得友善 n.融化；缓和

Baktybek Abdrisaev is a visiting professor of history and political science at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. He served as Kyrgyzstan's ambassador to the United States and Canada from 1997 to 2005.

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关于网上学习的方法值得借鉴

VERONICA.CUID: 2608568

嗯~觉得光在那傻背效率是不高~……有时候还是自己动笔总结总结记得牢点~:)

amberxjjUID: 2698036

我觉得把每个单词都认真查一遍应该会有效果 的吧。
就要开始背了……
已经被众说纷纭的红宝经给吓住了……