复习SAT词汇时备考过程中的第一步，也是必过的一关，今天文都网校小编要为大家讲的SAT真词是acute，希望对大家有帮助。

　　acute

　　adj.尖的，锐的; 敏锐的，敏感的; 严重的，剧烈的; [医]急性的;

　　1.ADJ-GRADED(情况)严重的;(感觉)强烈的You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense.

　　The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis...

　　战争加剧了原本已很严重的经济危机。

　　2.ADJ急性的An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long.

　　...a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis.

　　患急性风湿性关节炎的病人

　　3.ADJ-GRADED(感官)灵敏的If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful.

　　In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.

　　黑暗中我的听觉变得异常灵敏。

　　4.ADJ-GRADED敏锐的;有洞察力的If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly.

　　Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful...

　　虽已年届九旬，她依然头脑敏锐，个性很强。

　　acuteness

　　Everything he writes demonstrates the acuteness of his intelligence.

　　从他的文笔可以看出他思维敏捷。

　　5.ADJ-GRADED锐角的An acute angle is less than 90°.

　　6.ADJ(标在元音等上面的符号)尖音的，重音的An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.

　　例句：

　　1.That precipitated the current acute financial crisis.

　　这个决定促成了眼下严重的金融危机。

　　2.Acute bronchitis is usually caused by viral infections.

　　急性支气管炎通常是由病毒感染引起。

　　3.He is more than an acute analyst. He is also brave.

　　他不仅是一位思想敏锐的分析家，而且还很勇敢。

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