2012新托福考试:托福写作时必备抽象词(二) Identify 用法:① If you can identify someone or something, you are able to recognize them or distinguish them from others. 例句:At the other extreme, the most complex of the fire ants’ signals is probably colony odor, by which the workers of a particular colony or nest identify another worker as local or foreign. (2002.05) ② If you identify someone or something, you name them or say who or what they are. ③If you identify something, you discover or notice its existence. ④ If a particular thing identifies someone or something, it makes them easy to recognize, by making them different in some way. ⑤If you identify with someone or something, you feel that you understand them or their feelings and ideas. ⑥If you identify one person or thing with another, you think that they are closely associated or involved in some way. Illuminate 用法:①To illuminate something means to shine light on it and to make it brighter and more visible. (FORMAL) ②If you illuminate something that is unclear or difficult to understand, you make it clearer by explaining it carefully or giving information about it. (FORMAL) 例句:They use games and drawings to illuminate their subject. Illustrate 用法:①If you say that something illustrates a situation that you are drawing attention to, you mean that it shows that the situation exists. ②If you use an example, story, or diagram to illustrate a point, you use it show that what you are saying is true or to make your meaning clearer. ③ If you illustrate a book, you put pictures, photographs or diagrams into it. 例句:Printmaking derives from two historical sources: early woodblocks into which an image was cut and used to illustrate a book or playing cards, and the medieval practice of decorating metal with incised designs, as in armor. (2004.08) Imperative 用法:① If it is imperative that something is done, that thing is extremely important and must be done. (FORMAL) 例句:With the gradual evolution of society, simple counting became imperative. (1997.12) ② An imperative is something that is extremely important and must be done. (FORMAL) ③ In grammar, a clause that is in the imperative, or in the imperative mood, contains the base form of a verb and usually has no subject. Examples are `Go away’ and `Please be careful’。 Clauses of this kind are typically used to tell someone to do something. ④An imperative is a verb in the base form that is used, usually without a subject, in an imperative clause.
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