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托福写作:写作时必备抽象词(19)

Rational
用法:①Rational decisions and thought are based on reason rather than on emotion.
例句:These criteria were interpreted in a variety of styles, ranging from rational and geometric to romantic or naturalistic.(2000-10)
②A rational person is someone who is sensible and is able to make decisions based on intelligent thinking rather than on emotion.

Readily
用法:①If you do something readily, you do it in a way which shows that you are very willing to do it.
例句:Neoclassical sculptors seldom held a mallet or chisel in their own hands, readily conceding that the assistants they employed were far better than they were at carving the finished marble.(1997-05)
In turn Native Americans readily incorporated European steel knives, firearms, and linen hunting shirts into their hunting routines. (2005-05)

②You also use readily to say that something can be done or obtained quickly and easily. For example, if you say that something can be readily understood, you mean that people can understand it quickly and easily.
例句:Unlike the silver coins from which they were made, silver articles were readily identifiable.(1997-12)
It is lightweight impermeable to liquids, readily cleaned and reused , durable yet fragile, and often very beautiful.(1998-01)
Small climbing animals may reach twigs readily, but it is harder for them than for large climbing animals to cross the wide gaps from on tree crown to the next that typify the high canopy.(2000-01)
This was natural because these areas were nearest England and France, particularly England, from which most capital goods (assets such as equipment) and many consumer goods were imported Merchandising establishments were, accordingly, advantageously located in port cities from which goods could be readily distributed to interior settlements.(2008-08)
The explanation was that while nobody can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. (1997-05)
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