考研英语高频词汇
essay n. 散文，论说文；短文
<历年真题考查频次：74次>
真题复现1： In an essay entitled “Making It in America,” the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today,“a man and a dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to keep the man away from the machines.”（2013年英语二text1P1）
真题翻译：在一篇题为《在美国制造》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲述了一个来自棉花国家的笑话，讲述了现代纺织厂的自动化程度：如今，普通纺织厂只有两名员工，“一个人和一条狗。男人在那里喂狗，狗在那里让男人远离机器。”
真题复现2： Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase 'sapere aude ' or ' dare to know', after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?（2020英语一翻译P5）
真题翻译：这种寻求知识和理解我们已经知道的信息的行动被拉丁语短语“sapere aude”或“dare to know”所捕捉，伊曼纽尔·康德在他的文章《问题的答案：什么是启蒙？
真题复现3：Unfortunately, these critics are virtually forgotten. Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket. （2010英语一text1P4）
真题翻译：不幸的是，这些批评者几乎被遗忘了。内维尔·卡杜斯从1917年开始为《曼彻斯特卫报》撰稿，直到1975年去世前不久，他现在只以板球运动散文作家的身份为人所知。
