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Thoreau uses "front" to mean "face". He wants to face The Facts of Life without shying away from our natural tendencies, roots, and the simply way...
What does "frittered away" mean in this context? Wasted. Wasted by the way. Thoreau claims we fritter away our lives praying to modern complex dist...
SAT Reading 3.2 Passage Comparison 176 Views
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SAT Reading: Passage Comparison Drill 3, Problem 2
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- 00:03
如果一个树在森林里没有听见。那么它有没有在发声呢？
- 00:21
In line 17 of Passage 2, "innocuous" most nearly means...什么?
- 00:30
因为我们在回答在上下文中猜单词的问题， 我们需要去寻找上下文和这个单词
- 00:37
去搞定吧
- 00:38
在这个问题中，第17行有一句说了有些科技在刚开始 看起来还行，但是最后会变得很差劲。
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- 00:49
所以我们知道我们在找一个词，
- 00:51
这个词要和电话 刚开始看起来没有危害性的这个意思一致。
- 00:56
好吧，基于我们刚才说的，"dangerous" 很容易去排除。
- 00:59
如果电话刚诞生的时候每一个人都认为电话是个威胁， 那也就没有后来电话这么流行了。
- 01:06
在"counterproductive"中的"counter" 让我们知道了这个词表示停止或者抑制生产力
- 01:13
因此我们知道这个词和我们看起来 无害的电话没有什么关系。
- 01:23
"Magical"表示… 我们根本都不用说。
- 01:26
我们全看过哈利波特吧。
- 01:30
我们还知道(D)很容易被排除。
- 01:33
哦，这里有一个很复杂的单词。
- 01:34
"Fallacious"表示一些基于"fallacy"和不真实的东西。
- 01:39
感觉有点假，是不是？
- 01:44
知道了这点，我们可以确定(E)是令人失望的。
- 01:47
它在尝试去误导我们它是正确的答案。
- 01:50
但是我们不会买账的！
- 01:52
接下来，"harmless"表示在任何方面都不具有威胁。
- 01:57
答案(C)和"innocuous"语意一致。
- 02:02
现在如果我们可以在这个机器人上发现 "innocuous"按键就好了。
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