在有些文章当中,某些生词的词义在下文中得到了解释或说明,这种解释或说明有时以定语从句形式出现,有时用破折号等符号引出,有时以or,that iS,that iS to say,in other words等词语引出;还有些文章下文所列举的例子给读者提供了猜测生词的重要线索。例如:
1 His answer to the Simple question was ambiguous一一not clear. 从破折号我们可得到启示, 划线生词ambiguous的意义与not Clear相同,即“不清楚的,模棱两可的”。
2 You can Select any of these newspaper and periodical S:People’s Daily,Beijing Daily,Guangming Daily and Reader’s Digest.从句子中列举的报刊杂志名中可推出划线生词意思为“期刊”