托福每日一词：course
对于托福词汇部分，大家不仅仅要做到量的积累，同时还要对一些重点词汇，进行重点复习，了解词汇的常考释义，知道词汇的用法并且也要进行拓展练习。这样才能够全方位分的攻克一个重点单词。因此下面小编为大家整理了详细的内容，供大家参考。
来源：新东方 《TOEFL终极4300》
course
常考释义
1.n. 课程
a series of lessons or lectures in an academic subject or a practical skill
例：I’m taking a few writing courses at the university.
我现在在大学上一些写作课。
2. n. 过程
progression through a development or period or a series of acts or events
例：In the course of the 1930s steel production approximately doubled.
20世纪30年代间，钢产量几乎翻了一番。
3. n. 路线
the path over which something moves or extends
例：Aircraft can avoid each other by altering course to left or right.
飞行器可以通过向左或向右改变航线来避免相撞。
4. v. 流经，缓缓通过
flow by somewhere very quickly.
例： The water courses through the channel.
水流缓缓通过海峡。
音频中例句
1. Over the course of history, the course of the river changes.
在历史的进程中，河道会发生改变。
2. The car takes a northern course.
车往北方开。
3. The water courses through the pipes.
水流缓缓通过管道。
练习
判断下列句子中course的意思。
1. For example, in the 1800s a monstrous earthquake changed the course of the Mississippi River, a large river flowing in the central part of the United States of America.
2. Over the course of the Fifth Reign (1868-1910), the ties that bound rural people to the aristocracy and local ruling elites were greatly reduced.
3. Thus, the heat is transferred from the outgoing to the ingoing vessels before it reaches the flipper itself. This is the same arrangement found in an old-fashioned steam radiator, in which the coiled pipes pass heat back and forth as water courses through them.
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拓展
易混词：
cause(n.)原因;事业(v.)引起、导致
coarse(adj.) 粗糙的;粗鲁的
练习答案
