真题链接：（1）In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate

relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.（2009）

此外，公司用来评估人际关系的计算机程序可能已经申请了专利，不需要接受同行评审或外部评估。

(2)Subjects exposed to fast-food flashes

also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long. (2013-2)

接触快餐闪光标识的受试对象也往往认为一段音乐持续时间过长。

2. file 【熟义】n. 文件夹（或箱、柜等）；（计算机的）文档；档案

【僻义】v. 申请（专利、诉讼）

真题链接：Companies are unlikely to file many more patents for human DNA molecules-most are already patented or in the public domain. （2012-2）

公司不太可能为人类DNA分子申请更多的专利——大多数已经申请了专利或者已经在公共领域了。

3. block 【熟义】n. 大块；街区；

【僻义】v. 阻碍

真题链接：Some Congress members are trying to block the plan…

一些国会议员正试图阻止该计划。

4. post 【熟义】n.邮政，邮递 v. 张贴

【僻义】n. 岗位

真题链接：47) nowadays anyone applying for a research post has to have published twice the number of papers that would have been required for the same post only 10 years ago.（2019-1翻译

）

如今，任何申请一个研究职位的人必须发表的论文数量是10年前的两倍。

5. plant 【熟义】n. 植物; v. 种植；栽种

【僻义】n. 工厂

真题链接：Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running. (2012-1)

相反，该公司做了一件它一直承诺不会做的事:在联邦法院挑战佛蒙特州规定的合宪性，这是为了保持佛蒙特州扬基核电站(Vermont Yankee)运转而做出的绝望努力的一部分。

6. build 【熟义】v. 建造；修建

【僻义】n.体形，体格，身材

真题链接：body build （2014-2）

体格

7. blow 【熟义】v. （风）刮，吹

【僻义】n. 打击，挫折

真题链接：Gap year experiences can lessen the blow… (2017-2)

间隔年的经历可以减轻这种打击…

8. benefit 【熟义】n. 好处，益处 v. 对（某人）有用，使受益；

【僻义】n. 退休金，救济金

真题链接：What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”— protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants

received their benefits. （2014-1）

我们可以理解，激励他的是他对“基本公平”的热情——保护纳税人，控制支出，并确保只有最有资格的人得到救济金。

9. weather 【熟义】n. 天气；气象

【僻义】经受住；度过

真题链接：Outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.

外部董事应该能够在自己经历过危机的基础上提出建议。

10. fuel 【熟义】n. 燃料；能源

【僻义】v. 提供燃料；火上浇油

真题链接：On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted- suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. （2002）

在另一个层面上，许多医疗界人士承认，关于协助自杀的争论已经被火上浇油，部分原因是由于病人的绝望情绪，对他们来说，现代医学已经延长了死亡的身体痛苦。