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辛达代报在本文整理了25个黄金托福词汇，期望对我们托福备考有所协助。

　　1 Irony

　　What you think it means: Something that is funny. 你以为单词的意义是：诙谐的事。

　　What it really means: Contrary to what you are expecting.单词的真实意义是：适得其反的。 This is a famous one because so many people get this wrong so often. It’s also kind of hard to explain, so we’ll use an example. The Titanic was boasted about as being 100% unsinkable and then in 1912 it was sunk anyway. That is what is called cosmic irony. When a starving vegetarian eats a pepperoni pizza, that is what is called situational irony.

　　这是一个典型的单词，由于常常有人用错。解说起来可能有点困难，所以我们还是举例阐明吧。泰坦尼克号声称100%不会淹没，但1912年它还是意外淹没了，这就叫“宇宙反讽”。要是某个饿得不可的素食者不由得吃了块香肠披萨，那就叫“情境反讽”。

　　There are other kinds too, such as dramatic irony and Socratic irony. Believe it or not, sarcasm is actually irony. When you say something sarcastically, your tone and your words mean two opposite things. That is ironic. Irony can be funny but not everything funny is irony.

　　当然还有其他分类，比方“喜剧式反讽”和“苏格拉底式反讽”。不论你信不信，irony其实和sarcasm(挖苦)是一个意思。当提到某件事很挖苦时，你的语谐和用词意在表达彻底相反的两种状况。这就是ironic(反讽)。反讽可所以诙谐的，但并不是一切诙谐的事都能够称得上“反讽”。

　　2 Travesty

　　What you think it means: A tragedy or something unfortunate. 你以为单词的意义是：悲惨剧或不幸的事。

　　What it really means: A mockery or parody. 单词的真实意义是：低劣的仿照或恶搞。 This is another one that people have wrong fairly frequently. You've heard people call 9/11 a travesty. Truth be told 9/11 was a tragedy. A travesty is actually a mockery or a parody. One might say that a Weird Al Yankovic album is a travesty. With how often this word is associated with tragedy, we wouldn't be shocked if that definition were eventually added as an acceptable meaning. Until then, it doesn't mean anything bad happened.

　　这也是人们常常用错的一个单词。有人把9.11工作说成travesty，其实他是想说是个tragedy(悲惨剧)。Travesty其实是指低劣的仿照或恶搞。你能够说艾尔?扬科维奇的专辑是travesty(恶搞的)。鉴于travesty这个单词总是被人们和tragedy(悲惨剧)搞混杂，或许今后travesty里边也能参加“悲惨剧”的意义吧。不过到目前为止，这个单词跟“不好的工作”彻底扯不上联系。

　　3 Ultimate

　　What you think it means: The one, the only. The best. 你以为单词的意义是：某个，仅有的，最好的。

　　What it really means: The last item of a list. 单词的真实意义是：列表中的最终一项。 Some people do actually use this one properly. You may see someone list off a bunch of things and hear them say, “Okay, at the store we need eggs, milk, juice, and ultimately, butter.” That is actually the proper use of ultimate. There is no other context or added context. It simply means the last one.

　　确实也有人能够正确使用这个单词。你或许看到过他人写出一串列单，然后听到他们说：“嗯……我们要去商铺买点鸡蛋、牛奶、果汁，最终(ultimately)还有黄油。”这才是ultimate的正确使用方法。这里不存在其他内容或弥补内容，ultimate就表明“最终一个”。

　　4 Conversate

　　What you think it means: To have a conversation. 你以为单词的意义是：进行攀谈。

　　What it really means: Nothing. 单词的真实意义是：压根没有这个词。 Conversate actually doesn’t exist and I’ll prove it to you. Go into a program that underlines words with red if they’re spelled wrong. Now type out conversate. Did you see the red line? Conversate was meant to be a mixture of conversation and converse and be used as a verb. However, converse is a verb and there really isn’t a need for a second verb to describe the same action.

　　Conversate这个单词其实是不存在的，这我能够证明。找个能标红过错拼写的程序，然后输入conversate这个单词，你应该能看到这个单词被标了赤色下划线吧?conversate应该是conversation(攀谈)和converse(攀谈)的混合词，词性是动词。但是，converse(攀谈)自身就是动词，根本就没必要再造一个动词来描绘同一个行为了。

　　5 Peruse

　　What you think it means: To skim or browse. 你以为单词的意义是：略读或阅读。

　　What it really means: To observe in depth. 单词的真实意义是：深化调查。 When you peruse something, you are actually taking a very close look at it. When you're at a record store and you're just running through a stack of records, you are just browsing. If you pick up a record and look at the artist, track list, and additional information on the back, then your are perusing.

　　当你peruse(深化调查)某事物时，阐明你看得十分细心。假定你在唱片店穿过一排排的唱片架，那就是“阅读”。如果你拿起一张唱片检查背面的艺术家、目录和其他信息，那就叫peruse(深化调查)了。以上就是辛达代报为同学们带来的文章，期望我们获得了自己想要知道的信息。最后，辛达代报预祝广大考生早日实现梦想，飞跃重洋。