2012托福考试:托福写作时必备抽象词(九)

2012托福考试:托福写作时必备抽象词(九)

Insufficient

用法：Something that is insufficient is not large enough in amount or degree for a particular purpose. （FORMAL）

例句： Until the turn of the century， most were the production of an individual editor， who might begin with insufficient capital or fail to attract a steady readership. （2004.08）

Integrate

用法：① If someone integrates into a social group， or is integrated into it， they behave in such a way that they become part of the group or are accepted into it.

例句： At that point in time， medical schools started to become more interested in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the basic sciences. （1999.08）

② When races integrate or when schools and organizations are integrated， people who are black or belong to ethnic minorities can join white people in their schools and organizations. （AM）

③ If you integrate one thing with another， or one thing integrates with another， the two things become closely linked or form part of a whole idea or system. You can also say that two things integrate.

Integral

用法：Something that is an integral part of something is an essential part of that thing.

例句： They became an integral part of the gardens of the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth century onward， and， soon after， part of European life as well. （2002.01）

Intense

用法：①Intense is used to describe something that is very great or extreme in strength or degree.

例句： Just as volcanic action， with its intense heat， fuses the elements in certain rocks into a glasslike rock called obsidian， so can we apply heat to earthen materials and change them into a hard， dense material. （2002.05）

② If you describe an activity as intense， you mean that it is very serious and concentrated， and often involves doing a great deal in a short time.

③ If you describe the way someone looks at you as intense， you mean that they look at you very directly and seem to know what you are thinking or feeling.

④If you describe a person as intense， you mean that they appear to concentrate very hard on everything that they do， and they feel and show their emotions in a very extreme way.