为了方便广大托福考生更好的复习，前程百利托福小编收集了托福词汇备考之通过阅读记单词系列，供各位考生复习参考使用，希望对考生记忆托福词汇有所帮助。本文带来的是第八篇，一起来看看。
1. bitterly: 苦涩地，悲痛地;downtown: 闹市区的，商业区的。
2. cajole: 用甜言蜜语哄骗;cross-examine: 盘问;plead with: 向……恳求;to no avail: 毫无效果，徒劳。
3. affection: 喜爱，感情;prevail against: 战胜，击败;loom: (不祥之物)阴森森地逼近，耸现;discount-laden: 常常有打折活动的。
4. milling: 成群乱转的;filter through: 过滤，筛选;wax: 蜡制的;light socket: 电灯插座;doorknob: 门把手。
5. indulge: 纵容，放任;tinkering: (不熟练地、拙劣地)修补，摆弄;can-do-it-ness: 自己动手制作的能力。
6. coat of paint: 漆皮，一层漆;weary: 令人厌倦的，使人厌烦的;lock set: (五金)成套门锁;spin: 使旋转;screwdriver: 螺丝刀。
7. investment: (时间、精力等的)投入;wholesale: 大规模的。
8. cynic: 好挖苦的人，好嘲笑的人;end: 目的，目标;square feet: 平方英尺，1平方英尺大约等于929平方厘米;acre: 英亩，1英亩大约等于6亩或4047平方米。
9. likelihood: 可能性;forsaken: 被抛弃的，孤独凄凉的;wasteland: (精神或文化上的)荒原。
10. rummage: 翻找，搜寻;aisle: (商店、仓库、洞穴、两排树间的)狭长通道，过道;fortress: 城堡，堡垒，此处用于形容大型仓储式商店的巨大空间;wireless door chime: 无线门铃。
11. gloss: 注释，说明。
12. spot: 发现，看到;clerk: 售货员，店员;apron: 围裙。
13. plop: 把……扑通一下扔进。
14. routinely: 通常地，常常地;arcane-looking: 看起来很神秘的，看起来很难懂的;cupped: (双手合在一起)像杯形的。
15. spring into action: 马上行动起来;eclectic: 从不同来源选择的;recess: 隐蔽处，幽深处;precipitate: 成形，显形;genie: (阿拉伯故事中，尤指瓶子或灯里的)精灵。
16. big-ticket: 高价的，昂贵的;snowblower: 吹雪机，除雪机;chain saw: 链锯。
17. deposit: (尤指小心地)放置，搁下;nickel: (美国)五美分硬币;no charge: 免费。
18. cash register: 收银台;stock: 陈腐的，老一套的;admonition: 劝告，警告。
19. associate: (比较资深的)店员，此处作者嘲讽这么一点儿小事也需要资深人士到场才能解决;shortly: 不久，不一会儿。
The rumor proved all too bitterly true: Park’s Hardware, a downtown institution of Orono, Maine, since 1898, would be closing.
Word spread quickly. Locals cajoled, cross-examined, and pleaded with Lin, the owner of the store, to no avail. Running a small, local, family-owned hardware business was no longer a profit maker. The town’s affection for Park’s Hardware was just not enough to allow it to prevail against the giant warehouse stores that loomed, discount-laden, down the road in Bangor.
I was one member of the milling masses that began to filter through Park’s as, day by day, the wax lettering on the front window changed from “20% OFF EVERYTHING” to “30%,” “40%,” and on and on, like the death of a thousand cuts until the only things left were the light sockets and doorknobs.
It’s a difficult thing to see a hardware store go. A hardware store is special because it sells the things that allow us to indulge our tinkering habits, can-do-it-ness, and creativity, and in the process improve our immediate surroundings to suit our tastes. There are few things more satisfying than a new coat of paint on a weary wall, or a new lock set requiring only the knowledge of how to spin a screwdriver. From such a small investment of cash and time, a hardware store affords one a wholesale return of satisfaction.
The cynic might argue that one can accomplish the same end by shopping at the big-box warehouses whose footprints are measured not in square feet, but acres. Well, maybe sometimes, but certainly not always. And the likelihood of feeling forsaken in such a wasteland is high.
I recall the time I was rummaging in one of the aisles of a Bangor hardware fortress for a wireless door chime that Park’s didn’t carry. I found the thing, but didn’t understand the following gloss on the package: “Red light indicates condition of battery.” I spotted a clerk in a brightly colored apron.
“Excuse me,” I said, holding the item out, “I can’t seem to find the red light.” The man took the package, examined it, and, plopping it back in my hand, said, “Neither can I,” before he walked away. I contrast this experience with one I routinely had at Park’s, in which I would walk into the store holding a pile of arcane-looking metal and plastic pieces in my cupped hands.
“Lin,” I’d plead as I held out the offering before him, “can you ... please ... I don’t know ... do you think...?” And quicker than one could say, “little red light,” Lin would spring into action and together we’d voyage off into one of the eclectic recesses of the store to mix and match and measure until the solution precipitated before my eyes like a genie emerging from a lamp.
Was it more expensive to shop at Park’s as opposed to a warehouse? In one way, yes —if I intended to buy a big-ticket item like a snowblower or chain saw. But otherwise, no: I could buy a single screw at Park’s, and have it lovingly deposited in a little bag, for a nickel—no charge for the accompanying pleasant conversation.
At a warehouse I had no choice but to buy a box of a hundred screws, and, if I were fortunate, receive at the cash register the stock admonition: “Have a nice day.”
But I don’t want to be directed to have a nice day. Nor do I want a box of a hundred screws when all I need is one, nor told to wait because an “associate” would be with me shortly. I just want to know the location of the little red light, and now that Park’s is gone, I realize that I never will.
以上就是本期整理的托福词汇备考之通过阅读记单词(8)，希望能够帮助大家备考。前程百利祝大家都能取得理想的托福考试成绩。
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