3道magoosh，very hard...求大神解惑~

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1. That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n) ____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense of ____________ pervades once a people has achieved victory. Yet, even were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

Blank (i)
pithy
trite
astounding

Blank (ii)
duty
camaraderie
complacency

Blank (iii)
widely circulated
clearly unassailable
hastily dismissed

答案是C F G

我第一空不太明白，按magoosh的解释，still表转折
但是既然后面说很常见（is rife with），前面说不令人吃惊，那就不构成转折了呀~~
”虽然不令人吃惊，但是很常见“，总觉得很别扭，求大神解释一下~~

2. The bias for ______________ has crept into the current school of physics: superstring theory provides such an all-encompassing--yet tidy--packaging of current streams of thought--quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, among them--that many scientists have been beguiled by the simplicity of the theory into blithely discounting the paucity of data.

thoroughness
inconsistency
elegance
aesthetics
artifice

答案是elegance，表示这题完全找不到clue，magoosh的解释说 all-encompassing 对应 elegance，可是真的不明白这段话在讲什么。。。求大神解释。

3. While Vorotsky sometimes indulges in sentimental notions, surely his entire body of work does not warrant the label ____________.

trite
acerbic
treacly
melancholic
tawdry

答案是treacly（甜蜜的），我选反了，选了melancholic，后半句逻辑关系还是没有理清楚，希望能解释一下后半句的意思。

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自己顶一下，不要沉了~~~

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求大神解惑呀~~~再顶一下！

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1. That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n) ____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense of ____________ pervades once a people has achieved victory. Yet, even were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.
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你赢得了比赛，并且你被你的朋友簇拥，这当然不是一件令人惊讶的事情了。另外pithy的意思是using few words in a clever way and effective way肯定是不符合原文的。 且个人感觉，still 并没有很强的转折意味，因为第二空看来可选的词就是满足感（...not wanting to try to make things better)和flaccid很搭。后面yet开始了转折，即便这个想法再广为流传，没人会太在意，因为as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.“事实上人们总是对未来抱有一定的危机感的（不会满足）”逻辑很清楚了。
2题 3题我估计是词的理解深度的问题了treacly不光有甜蜜的意思 treacly 来源于treacle 是有sentimental的含义的。这题排除法可以选对，如果你不认识treacly的话····

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我这个渣渣来说下自己的理解吧，互相帮助~~
1. That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those friendly to our interests, is in no way a(n) ____________ observation. Still, history is rife with examples where a sense of ____________ pervades once a people has achieved victory. Yet, even were this insight more ____________, few would take notice, as human nature is wont to ignore future threats in times of prosperity.

Blank (i)
pithy
trite
astounding

Blank (ii)
duty
camaraderie
complacency

Blank (iii)
widely circulated
clearly unassailable
hastily dismissed

我的思路，首先是第二空比较好解决，ignore future threats完全是f的意思，所以肯定选F
第三空YET很明显是转折，所以是和few would take notice相反，那么就是widely
接下来，建立在后两空的理解上，很少有人会对未来的危险未雨绸缪，所以绝大多数人都是胜利了之后就飘飘然了（become flaccid after our rivals），因此这绝不是一个令人奇怪的现象（in no way astounding）

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2. The bias for ______________ has crept into the current school of physics: superstring theory provides such an all-encompassing--yet tidy--packaging of current streams of thought--quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, among them--that many scientists have been beguiled by the simplicity of the theory into blithely discounting the paucity of data.

thoroughness
inconsistency
elegance
aesthetics
artifice

这道题我觉得用排除法很好解决，直接选的话，很难知道Elegance还有这个意思（magoosh好爱干熟词生义这种变态事。。。）
逻辑很简单，物理学某学派对简练有偏见，误认为是数据的匮乏。所以空格里肯定填的是简练相关的词
A E直接毙掉
B不和谐的和匮乏的关系实在有些少，也毙掉
D美学，美学和简练只能说有一点点关系，比起C优雅来说关系更弱一点，因为当一个东西很优雅的时候它可以把事情表现的很清楚
然后查找elegance,它果然有简洁的，巧妙的意思，于是就是这个啦

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3. While Vorotsky sometimes indulges in sentimental notions, surely his entire body of work does not warrant the label ____________.

trite
acerbic
treacly
melancholic
tawdry

我觉得逻辑在前半句，while是转折，尽管V有时会沉迷于敏感的感情，他的整个身体并不会保证多愁善感的这个标签。
继续排除法，A、B、E都毫无关系
D是悲伤的，而且通常指非常悲伤
但是敏感不一定是非常悲伤，所以C更好一点
然后查了一下意思，C是contrived or unrestrained sentimentally的意思，完全正确
感觉Magoosh很多题都是考词汇量啊。。。抓狂

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JeremyHide 发表于 2015-4-29 14:50
1. That we may become flaccid after our rivals have been vanquished, and we are surrounded by those  ...

谢谢你~我大概是太纠结与still这个词是不是转折了，没有整体把握这个句子。。。其实我也觉得still这里不作转折词更加合理，但不知道为什么magoosh的解释要说still是转折词呢？

附上magoosh的解释：
The first blank is tricky, and you may find yourself struggling between (B) and (C). If (B) trite, which means overused, and which typically modifies phrases or sayings, were the answer, the sentence would be implying that it is not at all well-known that people become complacent after a victory. In that case, the meaning of this sentence would clash with the second sentence, the one beginning with “still.” “Still” is a contrast word, yet there is a continuation of meaning if we assume the first blank is (B) trite : if the observation is not at all trite/common, then we would expect people to be complacent (because they weren't aware of this observation). Again, there is no need for a shift word.

But there is the shift word “still”. Therefore there has to be contrast between the two parts. (C) correctly captures this: the observation is actually not at all astounding (or surprising), it is actually surprising how often people fall prey to the impulse to relax once they’ve attained victory. Remember, that the element of surprise/running contrary to expectations is a type of shift.

The final “yet” shows us that even if the observation were more common (though the observation isn’t that astounding to begin with), it is human nature to ignore future threats, or become complacent.

Returning to the first blank, (A) pithy just means concise and to the point. The question of whether the observation is not concise doesn’t really bear on the overall meaning of the paragraph, which focuses on how common the observation is. In other words, the observation is not that uncommon, yet in history people don’t heed it. But even if the observation were more common people would continue to disregard it, because it is human nature to do so.

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无敌浩克One 发表于 2015-4-29 15:50
3. While Vorotsky sometimes indulges in sentimental notions, surely his entire body of work does not ...

谢谢！！！

第1题从整体上我能理解了，但是对于still还是有点不确定。。。主要是实在不理解magoosh对这道题的解释。。。不知道你怎么看？

第2题我还是没有弄得太清楚，请问一下冒号前的bias for ______________ 和 后面的句子有什么关系呢？我还是没有找到解题的线索。。。

第3题我明白了，是我词汇没有理解透彻。。。

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yuhaichao10 发表于 2015-4-29 16:28
谢谢！！！

第1题从整体上我能理解了，但是对于still还是有点不确定。。。主要是实在不理解magoosh对这 ...

1题我觉still不是转折是递进，你用递进想一下，我觉得逻辑特别清晰了，yet才是转折啊
意译：居安不思危的现象一点都不令人惊讶，事实上历史上好多这样的例子呢。然后，Even即便这种先见之明（就是很多例子因为居安不思危就毁灭了）的事情很多很多，依然很少有人意识的到，因为(as)这是一种天性
2题，The bias for ______________ has crept into the current school of physics: superstring theory provides such an all-encompassing--yet tidy--packaging of current streams of thought--quantum physics and Einstein’s theory of relativity, among them--that many scientists have been beguiled by the simplicity of the theory into blithely discounting the paucity of data.
红色部分是具体的例子，超炫理论（是不是谢耳朵研究的那个东西）怎么样云云，根本不用理，解题的点就只在：discounting这里，因为it equals to bias，所以空格要填discounting 后面的东西，就是paucity

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无敌浩克One 发表于 2015-4-29 16:35
1题我觉still不是转折是递进，你用递进想一下，我觉得逻辑特别清晰了，yet才是转折啊
意译：居安不思危的 ...

第3题
可是我觉得elegance 和 paucity of data 没有什么联系呀。。。

我突然觉得可以这样理解
bias 对应 beguiled
scientists have bias for ______________.
scientists have been beguiled by the theory.
而 theory 的特点是 all-encompassing--yet tidy--，所以排除法选elegance.

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刚刚做到第一题，我觉得magoosh的思路可能是这样的:
人们在战胜对手之后往往会变得flaccid(不居安思危？)，这种现象是众所周知的; 然而，很多人在明知会有如此现象出现的情况下，还是会不吸取教训，不由自主地自满(即不居安思危)，因为这是人的天性。
个人感觉这样想的话，转折的意思就比较明确了。

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