笔者在后面的附录五中列出了这样的一些抽象词和抽象词组,然后由于编写本书的时间太仓促,笔者未能对单词在文章中的用法和其真正意义给出详细的解释,这是本书的一大遗憾。希望在再版时能够把注释补充进来。
需要说明的一点是,抽象词因人而异,无法统一,所以本书所给出的抽象词不应成为所有读者的标准。如果大家发现有些单词可以理解得很透彻,则可以从书中划去;而且笔者也承认,由于没有充足的时间,本书所搜罗的四百余个抽象词和抽象词组也不一定完整。如果读者在阅读当中遇到本书没有给出的抽象词,请自行补充。
Abolitionism Assume Commentary Academic Assumption
Commit Acceptance Attain Competent Accidental
Attitude Complex Accommodate Attune Comprise
Acknowledge Authenticate Conception Acknowledgement Authorization
Conceptual Acquisition Availability Conclusion Address
Beset Conditional Adjustment Boom Configuration
Aesthetic Border Confine Anecdotal Broad
Confrontation Antithesis Capable Confuse Apparently
Channel Congenial Apportion Characteristic Consequently
Appraise Characterization Considerably Approach Charting
Consign Approximation Claim Constitute Apt
Classical Constitution Architectural Clerical Construct
Argue Clinical Construction Art Coexistent
Consume Artifact Coherently Consumption Aspect
Coincidently Contemplate Assess Commend Contemporary
Contend Distinguished Function Contentious Doctrine
Functional Continuously Domain Fundamental Contravention
Draft Gain Conventionalize Dramatize General
Conventionally Drawing Generalization Correspond Corrupt
Council Counteraction Counterexample Critical Crucial
Debate Defend Definition Demanding Democracy
Denote Departure Depiction Derivative Descriptive
Devise Devoted Diagnose Dimension Discernible
Discerning Discharge Discursive Dismal Dismay
Dispute Dissemination Dissension Dissolution Distinction
Distinguish Dubious Ecclesiastical edition Effect
Elementary Emancipation Emotional Empirical Emulate
Encompass Encounter Encouraging Energetic Enfranchisement
Engage Engagement Epistemology Established Establishment
Ethics Ethnic Event Exceed Exclusively
Expense Explanatory Extension Facility Feeling
Fitness Fortuitous Foster Framework Genuine
Genus Given Global Grateful Ground
Hard-nosed Horizontal Identical Identification Identify
Illusory Implication Impression Impulse Inadvertent
Incentive Incidence Incomparable Incompatibility Incorporate
Indicate Individualism Inert Inevitably Infinite
Informal Inherently Inhibit Innocent Innuendo
Inordinately Inquiry Insofar Inspiration Instance
Institution Insufficient Insult Intellectual Intensely
Intensity Intentional Interact Interpretation Intricacy
Intriguing Intuitive Inversion Invert Investigation
Inveterate Irrational Judgment Justification Justify
Law Lawsuit League Legacy literalize
Literally Literary Literature Logic Maintain
Mandate Margin Mastery Means Mechanically
Mechanism Mental Merit Midst Mistakenly
Momentous Morality Multiple Necessarily Negation
Negative Nonviable Notable Nuclear Numerously
Object Objective Observation Observational Occurrence
Official Omission Ongoing Organization Orientation
Originality Panic Particularly Pedagogical Perceive
Percept Perception Perceptive Perceptual Perfunctory
Perplexed Perplexity Pervasive Phenomena Physical
Pictorial Picture Pinpoint Plague Plausible
Pleading Pledge Polarity Positional Positive
Possibility Practical Precisely Presence Pretend
Previously Prey Principal Principle Privacy
Privately Problematic Proceed Process Procure
Prominence Prompt Property Proportionately Proposal
Provision Psychological Psychologist Purposive Pursuit
Qualified Qualitatively Quantitatively Radical Respectively
Striking Rather Respond Strip Ration
Responsible Reaction Readily Reality Realm
Rear Reception Receptive Recognizable Recount
Refute Regional Regulate Regulation Remarkable
Remedy Remembrance Render Repetitive Representation
Repute Rescuer Reservation Resolution Resourceful
Responsive Revise Rightness Rigorously Salvation
Saturated Scheme Secure Seductive Seem
Senate Sequential Servitude Signal Specter
Speculation Speculative Sphere Statement Stationary
Stature Statute Stimuli Strait Structural
Studied Substantial Substitute Suffrage Synthesize
Technical Training Trait Trample Transcription
Unavailing Unconscionable Underlying Underplay Understanding
Unerring Unremitting Untangle Vain Value
Virtual Virtue Visionary whereas
阅读抽象词组
A wide range Be bereft of Constitute for Accede to Account for
Act on Aesthetic experience As it were As long as Attest to
Be aimed at Be bound to Be compensated for Be directed at Biological remains
Composers of Beethoven’s stature Confer on Conferred by Ecological stabilization Economic interest
Emotional life Explain away Farewell performance If only In any event
In favor of In passing In spite of In the first place Intent on
Internal to In the guise of In view of Must be careful about Naturalistic modes of expression
Nonaesthetic emotion Not least by a sense of form One of the questions of interest Only if Order of magnitude
Other than Perceive…as… Point to Properties of reality Psychotic fantasy
Raise issues Regardless of Scholarly journals Selectively neutral Serve to do
Shore up Sit in judgment on So called Substitute for Take into account
Take responsibility for Technically unconventional The notions of Black identity Unattributable to Verges on
Vivid imagination Work on