中财网如何投资证券:考研英语词汇复习（36）：wonder、miracle、marvel
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考研英语词汇复习（36）
wonder、miracle、marvel
佳中
wonder
miracle
marvel
这组词都可表示“奇迹”。
wonder 通常指使人惊奇的事迹、成就、奇景等，主要指人创造的奇迹。可用作动词表示“惊奇”。
1) The Great Wall is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
（长城是世界七大奇迹之一。）
2) Until man invested ways of staying underwater for more than a few minutes, the wonders of the world below the sea were almost unknown.
（直到人类能在水中呆较长的时间, 海底世界奇景才为人们所知。）
3) I wonder that you were not hurt more seriously in terrible accident.
（在这次可怕的事故中你没有伤得很重，我有点惊讶。）
4) I wonder at how big courage an adult man needed to endure such insult and pressure!
（我感到惊叹，一个成年男子需要多大的勇气才能忍受这种侮辱和压力呀。）
miracle 指被认为是人力所办不到的奇异之事。
1) The doctor said that his recovery was a miracle.
（医生说他的康复是个奇迹。）
2) Transplant surgeons work miracles. They take organs from one body and integrate them into another.
（器官移植医生创造奇迹，他们能从一个人的器官移植到另一个人的身体里。）
marvel 指令人感到惊奇、赞叹之事。可用作动词表示“惊叹”。
1) The computer, the marvel of the machine age, has been in use since 1946.
（计算机是机器时代的奇迹, 自1946年以来一直使用至今。）
2）It is really a marvel that he remained alive after dropping from the roof of a ten-storied building.
(他从这一幢十层楼房子的屋顶上跌下仍然活着，这确实是一个奇迹.)
3) Many foreigners are marveling at the great achievements having been made in the economic field of our country.
(许多外国人对我国在经济领域取得的伟大成就惊叹不已。)
4) The more time scientists spend designing computers, the more they marvel at the human brain.
（科学家们越是花时间设计电脑,他们越是对人的大脑感到惊叹。）