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

铝土矿是所有现存含量比较大的含铝岩石中含量最丰富的，它产出的氧化铝是生产铝的过程中必不可少的中间产品。

(be) interested in 有志于；对……有兴趣

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

在某种程度上，哈代感兴趣的是探索其笔下人物的诸般心理状态，尽管与其说是出于好奇心的驱使，还不如说是受怜悯之心的支配。

(be) preferred for 被……喜欢（向往）——preference for 偏爱；喜欢

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，这种对于异族通婚的偏爱很有可能缘起于西部非洲制约婚姻的规定，尽管各个部落群体的规定不尽相同，但都涉及对近亲联姻的禁止。

(be) adequate to 胜任；适合；适于；足够

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

科学家们仍不知道雷雨云中电荷的准确的分布，也不知道怎样产生足以支撑闪电球所特有的巨大电压的电荷分离。

(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

由于感知过程并不被认为需要所谓的“硬思维”（即理性思维），非言语思维有时被看作认知过程发展中的原始阶段，次于言语思维或数学思维。