考研词汇
regulate
v.①管制，控制；②调节，校准
［真题例句］Who is going to supervise, regulate (①) and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? ［2001年阅读4］
［例句精译］ 如果合并后如此巨大的银行出现，谁来充当最终的借贷者，发挥监督、规范和运作的作用呢？
［真题例句］ Thus, price is the regulating (②) mechanism in the American economic system.［1994年阅读1］
［例句精译］ 因此，价格是美国经济体制中的调节机制。
manipulate
v.①操作，控制；②应付，处理
［真题例句］ As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out, “A technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal process...The designer and the inventor... are able to assemble and manipulate (①) in their minds devices that as yet do not exist.”［1996年阅读4］
［例句精译］ 正如尤金·弗格森曾指出的：“技术人员思考那些不能被简化成用明确的语言进行描述的物体；这些物体在他的头脑中以视觉性的、非语言性的方式被处理加工……设计者和发明者……能把那些尚不存在的机械在头脑中组装和操作。”
［真题例句］ Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate (②), reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.［2004年阅读4］
［例句精译］ 智力寻求的是理解、运用、整合和调节，而才学则是审视、思考、探究、形成理论、批判和想象。
susceptible
a.易受影响的，易感动的，敏感的；n.（因缺乏免疫力而）易得病的人
［真题例句］ Women are particularly susceptible to developing depression and anxiety disorders in response to stress compared to men.［2008年阅读1］
［例句精译］ 和男性比较起来，女性更容易受到发展的压力和焦虑情绪的伤害。
underlying
a.①含蓄的，潜在的；②在下面的
［真题例句］ Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying (①) assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance.［2005年阅读1］
［例句精译］ 这种行为被认为是人类独有的，因为人们潜在地认为其他动物没有能进化出这种抱怨他人的情感。
akin
a.同族的，类似的
［真题例句］ Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders akin to physical disabilities.［2006年新题型］
［例句精译］ 在科学的推动下，或者是在被称为科学的推动下，社会将曾经被认为是性格缺陷和道德缺陷的重新划归为和丧失行为能力同类的个性混乱。
expose
v.①（to）使暴露，受到；②使曝光；③揭露
［真题例句］ (73) Owing to the remarkable development in masscommunications, people everywhere are feeling new wants and are being exposed (①) to new customs and ideas, while governments are often forced to introduce still further innovations for the reasons given above.［2000年翻译］
［例句精译］ （73）大众通讯的显著发展使各地的人们不断感到有新的需求，不断接触到新的习俗和思想，由于上述原因，政府常常得推出更多的革新。
obverse
n.对应部分, 对立面
