assault ★

　　構詞as表強調+sault跳→表強調跳起來→進攻

　　v.to make an assault 猛烈地攻擊，襲擊

　　n.a violent physical or verbal attack 突然而猛烈的攻擊

　　真題連線2000 Passage 4

　　Last year Japan experienced 2125 incidents of school violence, including 929 assaults on teachers. 去年日本發生了2125起校園暴力事件，其中包括929起襲擊老師事件。

　　assemble★

　　構詞as表強調+semble相類似，一樣→不斷使東西相同→組裝[東西]

　　v.1.to bring or call together into a group or whole:召集

　　2.to fit together the parts or pieces of裝配

　　vi.to gather together; congregate集合

　　真題連線1998 Passage 3

　　Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as “the Flight from Science and Reason,” held in New York City in 1995, and “Science in the age of (Mis)information,” which assembled last June near Buffalo. 科學的捍衛者們也在一些會議上表示了他們的擔憂。比如，1995年在紐約舉行的“遠離科學和理性”會議，以及去年6月在布法羅附近召開的“信息(迷信)時代的科學”會議。

　　assert★

　　構詞as表強調+sert加入，插入→強行插入觀點→斷言

　　vt.1.to state or express positively; affirm斷言

　　2. to defend or maintain維護，堅持(自己的權利)

　　n.1.the act of asserting.武斷的行為

　　2.something declared or stated positively斷言

　　鏈接assertion n.主張, 斷言, 聲明

　　習慣用語assert oneself堅持自己的權利; 表現自己的權威

　　真題連線2008英譯漢

　　He asserted, also, that his power to follow a long and purely abstract train of thought was very limited, for which reason he felt certain that he never could have succeeded with mathematics.他此外還斷言，在深入理解冗長且完全抽象的觀點上，他的能力有限。有鑒于此，他曾確信自己在數學方面不會有成就。

　　assess ★

　　構詞as表強調+sess坐→坐在一旁→評審→估價

　　vt.to estimate the value of (property); determine the value; appraise評估(財產、收入);征稅;評價

　　真題連線2007 Text 2

　　In his article “How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?”, Sternberg notes that traditional test best assess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success.在其名為“智力測試如何明智?”這篇文章中，斯頓伯格指出，傳統的測試最恰當地評估了分析能力和語言表達能力，但沒有測量創造性和實際知識，這些也是解決問題、在生活中取得成功的關鍵因素。

　　asset ★

　　構詞as朝向+set充足→走向富裕→有財產

　　1.valuable or useful quality or useful person有價值的, 有用的特性, 有用的人

　　2.thing, especially property, owned by a person, company, etc資產

　　真題連線2007 Text 4

　　Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore - and that few things are more likely to destroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.當然，對于最懷疑的管理人員來說，顯而易見的應該是，誠信(最珍貴的經濟財產)被輕易破壞，而要恢復誠信卻代價高昂，此外，很少有什么比一個公司聽任敏感的個人信息落入不妥當人之手更可能破壞誠信的了。

　　assign★

　　構詞as表強調+sign記號，信號→不斷給人信號→指定

　　vt.to set apart for a particular purpose;select for a duty;appoint派給，分配;選定，指定

　　習慣用語 assignment n.分配，指派;(分派的)任務

　　真題連線2002英譯漢

　　As the interaction between organism and environment has come to be understood，however，effects once assigned to states of mind，feelings，and traits are beginning to be traced to accessible conditions. 然而，由于人(生物)和環境之間的相互作用已經逐漸被人們所認識，所以現在正開始從已知的環境去尋找一度認為是心態、情感和性格特征所造成的影響其根源所在。