留学干货：托福考试阅读生词怎么破

一.定义法

在托福的文章里，有时会有定义的方法来对某个生僻的单词或短语进行定义。一些明显的标记词汇就会被使用到，比如or, means, refers to, is ,is called, is defined as, which is 等等。下面我们通过例子，来猜测某些生词的意义。

A court interpreter is anyone who interpr in a civil or criminal court proceeding for a witness or defendant who speaks or understands little or no English.

这个句子是通过“is”对 “court interpreter” 进行定义，我们通过anyone who….就可以对court interpreter 有个清晰的定义。

二.近/反义词法

表示转折和让步的连接词 (如however, on the other hand, despite, in spite of,等)在托福阅读里可以作为一些猜生词的工具。看下面例子

In spite of simplicity, the national flag as we know it today is in no way a primitive artifact.

我们现在猜测primitive的意思，首先in spite of 表示让步，所以simplicity 应当与 no…primitive 意思相反，所以我们可以得出 primitive = simplicity