Group 6

(be) required for 被需要（要求）

例 Bauxite is the richest of all those aluminous rocks that occur in large quantities, and it yields alumina, the intermediate product required for the production of aluminum.——GRE No. 7-2, Section A

鋁土礦是所有現(xiàn)存含量比較大的含鋁巖石中含量最豐富的，它產(chǎn)出的氧化鋁是生產(chǎn)鋁的過程中必不可少的中間產(chǎn)品。

(be) interested in 有志于；對……有興趣

例 Hardy was to some degree interested in exploring his characters' psychologies, though impelled less by curiosity than by sympathy.——GRE No. 4-1, Section B

在某種程度上，哈代感興趣的是探索其筆下人物的諸般心理狀態(tài)，盡管與其說是出于好奇心的驅(qū)使，還不如說是受憐憫之心的支配。

(be) preferred for 被……喜歡（向往）——preference for 偏愛；喜歡

例 This preference for exogamy, Gutman suggests, may have derived from West African rules governing marriage, which, though they differed from one tribal group to another, all involved some kind of prohibition against unions with close kin.——GRE No. 4-3, Section B

古特曼表示，這種對于異族通婚的偏愛很有可能緣起于西部非洲制約婚姻的規(guī)定，盡管各個部落群體的規(guī)定不盡相同，但都涉及對近親聯(lián)姻的禁止。

(be) adequate to 勝任；適合；適于；足夠

例 Scientists still do not know the precise distribution of charges in thunderclouds nor how separation adequate to support the huge voltages typical of lightning bolts arises.——GRE 1999年4月，Section B

科學家們?nèi)圆恢览子暝浦须姾傻臏蚀_的分布，也不知道怎樣產(chǎn)生足以支撐閃電球所特有的巨大電壓的電荷分離。

(be) inferior to 不如；次于；低于；比……差

例 Because perceptive processes are not assumed to entail “hard thinking”, nonverbal thought is sometimes seen as a primitive stage in the development of cognitive processes and inferior to verbal or mathematical thought.——GRE 1995年4月，Section A

由于感知過程并不被認為需要所謂的“硬思維”（即理性思維），非言語思維有時被看作認知過程發(fā)展中的原始階段，次于言語思維或數(shù)學思維。