tpo阅读详解那些容易理解错的单词!在积累词汇的过程中，同学们难免会记错一些单词，因为量比较大，记忆起来也是一个大工程，但是这不能作为同学们的理由，只有你会的足够多，才有机会成功，才能顺利通过给大家总结了那年我们容易理解错的单词，希望对大家有帮助。
1.and
会误解为“并且”，实际上还可理解为“因此、所以”，只要看出“and”左右两边的事情不是同时发生就可明白意思。
As a result of crustal adjustments andfaulting, the Strait of Gibraltar,
where the Mediterranean now connects to the Atlantic, opened, and water cascaded
spectacularly back into the Mediterranean. (TPO7 The Geologic History of the
Mediterranean)
2.in turn
会误以为是字典里的头条注释：“反过来”。实际上可以理解为“接着会…(发生)…”
The conventional theory is that people yawn when bored or sleepy because
yawning raises blood oxygen levels, whichin turnraises alertness. (TPO18 The
mystery of yawning)
3.allow
往往会理解为是“允许”，其实常见的是指“使…可能发生”，带有因果逻辑在里面。
Within the turtle's flippers, there is a countercurrent exchange system
thatallowscolder blood vessels to absorb heat from nearby warmer blood vessels
and then return warmed blood to the turtle's body. (TPO15 A Warm-Blooded
Turtle)
4.permit
同上，也存在“使有可能”的释义，且确实在
Extracting heat from very hot, dry rocks presents a more difficult problem:
the rocks must be fractured topermitthe circulation of water, and the water must
be provided artificially. The rocks are fractured by water pumped down at very
high pressures.(TPO21 Geothermal Energy)
5.responsible
说起“负责”，其实本身就有“导致”的意思，比如机场爆炸案，恐怖组织宣布“负责”，意思就是“我导致的，我造成的”，并非是常见的涉及“关爱”的那种“负责”，这个和日常交流带来的理解偏差有关系。
Higher temperatures and pressures promote sedimentation ， which is
responsiblefor petroleum formation. (TPO4 Petroleum Resources)
6.yet
作为连词，应该要理解为“但是”。
Of course, the contrast is not quite so stark: in Alexander the Great the
Greeks had found the greatest territorial conqueror of all time; and the Romans,
once they moved outside Italy, did not fail to learn the lessons of sea
power.Yet the essential difference is undeniable. (TPO7 Ancient Rome and
Greece)
7.account for
根据个人实际教学，“(比例上)占…”与“解释”这两个意思，很多人只知道任意一个。
#Heavy rain accounts formost of the water that enters into lakes. (TPO24 Lake
Water)
#Scientists will not be able toaccount forclimate changeover the past century
until they learn more about the urban heat island. (TPO48 Climate and Urban
Development)
8.suggest
在托福里，真的很少见到“建议”这种说法，倒是往往与下结论有关，可理解为“表明”。
Timberline trees are normally evergreens, suggestingthat these have some
advantage over deciduous trees (those that lose their leaves) in the extreme
environments of the upper timberline. (TPO1 Timberline Vegetation on
Mountains)
9.though
若是副词，就该理解为“然而”，可是多数人不明此事，老师在课上应该多强调这种看似简单其实会导致理解有误的词汇。
If true,though, why did cold-blooded animals such as snakes, lizards,
turtles, and crocodiles survive the freezing winters and torrid summers? (TPO8
Dinosaur Extinctions)
话题词汇
10.precipitation
除了常见的“沉淀”，学生易忽略“降水”的意思。
Ordinary meteoric water is water that has soaked into the ground from the
surface, fromprecipitation (rain and snow) and from lakes and streams. (TPO1
Ground Water)
11.game
“野生猎物”的意思初学者几乎全军覆没。
They had experienced great difficulty finding gamewest of the Rockies and not
until the second of December did they kill their first elk. (TPO4 Deer
Populations of the Puget Sound)
12.mine
“矿”的意思有三分之一的人不清楚。
This scenario begins with the planting of hyperaccumulating species in the
target area, such as an abandoned mineor an irrigation pond contaminated by
runoff. (TPO5 Plants and Minerals)
13.crater
托福阅读里多数都是指“撞击坑”或者“火山口”。
The Mariner spacecraft found that the surface of Mars, as well as that of its
two moons, is pitted with impact craters formed by meteoroids falling in from
space. (TPO25 The Surface of Mars)
14.solution
除了“解决方案”，还要知道“溶液”也是常见说法。
Mineral deficiencies in many plants can be cured by misting their roots with
a nutrientsolutionor by transferring the plants to a soilless nutrientsolution.
(TPO5 Plants and Minerals)
15.plate
哪能只知道“盘子”的意思?还要知道“板块”之意。
Someplatescarry islands or continents others form the seafloor. All are
slowly moving because the plates float on a denser semi-liquid mantle, the layer
between the crust and Earth’s core. (TPO27 The Formation of Volcanic
Islands)
16.current
“洋流、电流、气流”等，常客了。形容词词性的注释却更为人所知晓。
The same thing happens to this day, though on a smaller scale, wherever a
sediment-laden river or stream emerges from a mountain valley onto relatively
flat land, dropping its load as thecurrent slows: the water usually spreads out
fanwise, depositing the sediment in the form of a smooth, fan-shaped slope.(TPO1
Ground Water)
17.chemical
名词表示化学物质。约一半的人不清楚。
The Biological Approach. Numerous biological structures and chemicals appear
to be involved in aggression. (Official Guide Aggression)
18.browse
“觅食”这个意思，在托福阅读里其实不算很多见，但是比大家熟知的“浏览”要多见。
Where the forest inhibits the growth of grass and other meadow plants, the
black-tailed deer browseson huckleberry, salal, dogwood, and almost any other
shrub or herb. But this is fair-weather feeding. (TPO4 Deer Populations of the
Puget Sound)
19.tension
除了“紧张”，还有“张力”，文本里有时候会给解释。
It is held there by the force of surface tensionwithout which water would
drain instantly from any wet surface, leaving it totally dry. (TPO1 Ground
Water)
20.grain
可以衍生出“颗粒”的意思。
A few chondrules containgrainsthat survived the melting event, so these
enigmatic chondrules must have formed when compact masses of nebular dust were
fused at high temperatures—approaching 1,700 degrees Celsius—and then cooled
before these surviving grainscould melt. (TPO22 The Allende Meteorite)
21.impact
除了“影响”，不能不知道“冲击、撞击”。
In view of these facts, scientists hypothesized that a single large asteroid,
about 10 to 15 kilometers across, collided with Earth, and the resulting fallout
created the boundary clay. Their calculations show that the impact kicked up a
dust cloud that cut off sunlight for several months, inhibiting photosynthesis
in plants; decreased surface temperatures on continents to below freezing…(TPO8
Dinosaur Extinctions)
22.setting
不仅仅是“设置”，还要知道“背景”。
Other statues were designed to be placed within an architectural setting, for
instance, in front of the monumental entrance gateways to temples known as
pylons… (TPO11 Ancient Egyptian Sculpture)
23.complex
“建筑群”，常误解为“复杂”。
It had over 2,000 apartmentcomplexes, a great market, a large number of
industrial workshops, an administrative center, a number of massive religious
edifices… (TPO8 The Rise of Teotihuacán)
24.population
不能一概理解为“人口”，其他物种可以直接说成“数量”。
when Fort Vancouver became the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company,
deerpopulationscontinued to fluctuate. (TPO4 Deer Populations of the Puget
Sound)
25.reflection
“反思”这个意思不算很常见，但既然出现了就要记住。
Teachers, it is thought, benefit from the practice ofreflection, the
conscious act of thinking deeply about and carefully examining the interactions
and events within their own classrooms. (TPO9 Reflection in Teaching)
与其他有关
26.perspective
“观点”，不仅仅是“透视”。
The Freudian perspective, in a sense: sees us as “steam engines”… (Official
Guide Aggression)
27.episode
更多是指“事件”，不能说成“集”。
The K-T extinction 65 million years ago is the best known of the five major
extinctionepisodessince the Cambrian period. (TPO33 Extinction Episodes of the
Past)
28.readily
其实是“容易地”，并非“准备”之类的。
The release of heat energy is retarded by the tall vertical city walls that
do not allow infrared radiation to escape as readily asdoes the relatively level
surface of the surrounding countryside. (TPO48 Climate and Urban
Development)
29.edge
“优势”的说法其实不算多见，但“边缘”虽知道的人多，其实也不多见。干脆两个都记住好了。
It seems likely that Teotihuacán’s natural resources, along with the city
elite’s ability to recognize their potential, gave the city a
competitiveedgeover its neighbors. The valley, like many other places in Mexican
and Guatemalan highlands, was rich in obsidian. (TPO8 The Rise of
Teotihuacán)
30.critical
背词汇书的人，恐怕并太清楚有“重要的”这个释义，挺常见的。
First, primary groups are critical to the socialization process. Within them,
infants and children are introduced to the ways of their society. (TPO13 Types
of Social Groups)
31.principal
除了名词的意思，就是形容词的意思了，表示“主要的”。
The principal insect enemies of the North American morning glory feed mainly
on its flowers or fruits rather than its leaves.(TPO34 Protection of Plants by
Insects)
32.largely
不能望文生义为“大”，而是应理解为“在很大程度上”。
The distinctive look of ancient Egyptian sculpture was determined largely by
its function. (TPO11 Ancient Egyptian Sculpture)
33.prevailing
除了“流行的”，还要知道“普遍的”。
The nature of plant life in deserts is also highly dependent on the fact that
they have to adapt to the prevailingaridity. (TPO26 Survival of Plants and
Animals in Desert Conditions)
34.considerable
“值得考虑的”这个意思，讲真在托福里基本没见到过，只见过“相当大的”、“相当多的”。
The existence of competition has been long known to naturalists; its effects
were described by Darwin in considerabledetail. (TPO29 Competition)
35.evident
都说成“证据”就不对了，还要知道“明显的”。其实证据就是让一样被隐藏的东西变得“明显”，可以这么去记。
Wind velocity also increases with altitude and may cause serious stress for
trees, as is made evidentby the deformed shapes at high altitudes. (TPO1
Timberline Vegetation on Mountains)
36.collectively
不能望文生义为“收集地”，还有“共同地”这个释义较为常见。
Eventually, six round forms of handwriting, composed of three pairs of big
and little s known collectivelyas the Six Pens, became the standard repertory of
every calligrapher.(TPO34 Islamic Art and the Book)
37.course
光知道“课程”怎么行，最起码还要知道“路线”。
In paragraph 2, why does the author mention that some insect populations were
separated from each other by a change in thecourse of Mississippi River caused
by an earthquake? (TPO31 Speciation in Geographically Isolated Populations)
38.evenly
和“甚至”无关，因为“甚至”对应的“even”本来就是个副词，不能再加“-ly”了，此处在托福阅读里有“均匀地”这个意思。
Petroleum forms best when organic matter is evenlydistributed over ... (TPO43 The Origin of Petroleum)
以上就是网总结的tpo阅读详解中有哪些单词容易使同学们理解错，希望大家能够用心对待托福考试，再努力一把胜利就在前方了。祝福大家托福考试成功!
