GRE备考中，词汇是考试成败的基础，而其中有一些重点词组是大家必须掌握的，词组的记忆起来也比单个单词的记忆更加容易，今天小编就为大家整理汇总了一些重点词组，希望对大家有所帮助。
be tied to 与……紧密相关
释义
If one thing is tied to another or two things are tied, the two things have a close connection or link.
例句
Toxicological evidence suggests that certain cancers are clearly tied to exposure to air pollution.
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Fertilizer prices, largely tied to the price of natural gas, huge amounts of which go into the manufacture of fertilizer, will continue to represent an enormous and escalating economic burden on modern agriculture, spurring the search for alternatives to synthetic fertilizers.
化肥的价格与制造化肥所需要的天然气的价格密切相关，进而会变成现代农业所需要承担的越来越重的经济负担，这促使人们寻求合成化肥的其他途径。
be premised on 以……为前提
释义
If the conclusion is premised on an assumption, it is true when the assumption is correct.
例句
The plan is premised on continuing abundant profits.
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Research should certainly continue on controlled nuclear fusion, but no energy program should be premised on its existence until it has proven practical.
关于可控核聚变的研究当然应该继续，但是在它的实用性被证明之前，不能仅仅因其存在就开展相关能源项目。
be consistent with 与……保持一致
释义
If one fact or idea is consistent with another, they do not contradict each other.
例句
These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that the shutdown of North Atlantic Warm Current can lead to rapid cooling on a global scale.
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Brown’s results are clearly consistent with Fuch’s argument that discrimination by consumers has a greater impact on the earnings of women than does discrimination by either government or private employers.
Brown得到的结果明显与Fuch的理论相符合，即来自顾客的歧视比政府或私人雇主的歧视更能影响女性的收入。
TIPS：GRE词汇零距离：加为好友
现在各类社交网站都有“加好友”的功能，而且friending一词在几年前就已是网络流行热词。可是你知道吗?这个词最早是大文豪莎士比亚发明的。
Friending means to act as the friend of someone or to include (someone) in a list of designated friends on a person's social networking site.
Friending的意思是“做某人的朋友”或者“将某人在社交网站上加为好友”。
The word comes from a term coined by Shakespeare in Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you.
这个词最早来源于莎士比亚戏剧《哈姆雷特》第一场第五幕中的一句对白：像哈姆雷特这样贫苦的人，要怎样向你表达他的爱意和友情呢。
The coinage was largely overlooked for centuries. With the advent of the social network Facebook in 2004, friending became widely adopted.
这个说法被人们忽视了很久，直到2004年社交网站Facebook迅猛发展，friending(加好友)一词才被广泛使用。
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