1. 直接说“不”。 Not / no none nothing
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12.5. Liberty is not easy, but far better to be an _____ fox, hungry and threatened on its hill, than a _____ canary, safe and secure in its cage.
17.3. Walpole’s art collection was huge and fascinating, and his novel The castle of Otranto was never out of print; none of this mattered to the Victorians, who _____him as, at best, _____.
25.6. Regardless of what _____ theories of politics may profound, there is nothing that requires daily politics to be clear, thorough, and consistent---nothing, that is, that requires reality to conform to theory.
2.否定前缀、否定后缀
Unhappy inappropriate impossible illogical irrelevant disordered atypical nonsense meaningless fruitless careless
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26.4. Freud derived psychoanalytic knowledge of childhood indirectly: he _____ childhood process from adult _____.
57.3. Many of her followers remain _____ to her, and even those who have rejected her leadership are unconvinced of the _____ of replacing her during the current turmoil.
42.6. The _____of gamblers’ unsuccessful decision strategies is one _____of the illusions built into games of chance in order to misguide players and take their money.
55.5. Although Tom was aware that it would be _____ to display annoyance publicly at the sales conference, he could not _____ his irritation with the client’s unreasonable demands.
57.4. Although Simpson was ingenious at _____ to appear innovative and spontaneous, beneath the ruse he remained uninspired and rigid in his approach to problem solving.
58.2. Although the mental process that creates a fresh and original poem or drama is doubtless_____ that which originates and elaborates scientific discoveries, there is clearly a discernible difference between the creators.
63.3. It is disappointing to note that the latest edition of the bibliography belies its longstanding reputation for _____ by _____ some significant references to recent publications.
58.1. In the nineteenth century, novelists and unsympathetic travelers portrayed the American West as a land of _____ adversity, whereas promoters and idealists created _____ image of a land of infinite promise.
3.否定类限定词、副词
never 从不
little few seldom rarely scarcely hardly几乎不 ≈ no
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11.3. Even though in today’s Soviet Union the _____ the Muslim clergy have been accorded power and privileges, the Muslim laity and the rank-and-file clergy still have little _____to practice their religion.
9.6. Comparatively few rock musicians are willing to laugh at themselves, although a hint of _____ can boost sales of video clips very nicely.
36.4. Prior to the work of Heckel, illustrations of fish were often beautiful but rarely _____; this fact, combined with the _____ nature of most nine-teenth-century taxonomic descriptions, often kept scientists from recognizing differences between species.
4. 负义动词
例如： belie 证明为假 Fail 失败/无能 lack缺乏 refuse / decline拒绝 deny / gainsay否认 Undermine破坏/否定 discredit 否定
64.6. Belying his earlier reputation for _____ as a negotiator, Morgan had recently assumed a more _____ stance for which many of his erstwhile critics praised him.
Belie参见：E12.4 E42.7 E56.7 E63.3
43.3. It is _____ for a government to fail to do whatever it can to eliminate a totally _____disease.
Fail 参见：E13.6 E51.4 E62.5
20.7. People should not be praised for their virtue if they lack the energy to be _____; in such cases, goodness is merely the effect of _____.
Lack 参见：E30.4 E45.2
5.4. Since she believed him to be both candid and trustworthy, she refused to consider the possibility that his statement had been _____ .
Refuse/Decline 参见：E45.1 E59.7
70.7. Although _____ in her own responses to the plays She reviewed，the theatre critic was，paradoxically,_____ those who would deny that a reviewer must have a single method of interpretation.
Deny/Gainsay 参见：E6.5 E22.3 E70.7 E3.6 E4.5 E73.7
45.5. She writes across generational lines, making the past so _____ that our belief that the present is the true locus of experience is undermined
Undermine 参见：E24.3 E46.6 E52.1
18.3. The notion that culture and biological influences _____ determine cross-cultural diversity is discredited by the fact that, in countless aspects of human existence, it is cultural programming that overwhelmingly accounts for cross-population variance.
Discredit 参见： E43.4 E55.3
5. 短语
lack of缺乏 free from免于 yet to be(become)尚未成为 stop short of 差一点做
8.2. In spite of the _____ nature of Scotland’s terrain, its main roads are surprisingly free from severe _____.
16.1. Many artists believe that successful imitation, far from being symptomatic of a lack of _____, is the first step in learning to be creative.
56.2. Because many of the minerals found on the ocean floor are still _____ on land, where mining is relatively inexpensive, mining the ocean floor has yet to become a _____ enterprise.
GRE句子填空的否定表达与对立转化分为直接说“不”，否定前缀、否定后缀，否定类限定词、副词，负义动词，短语五种，对于大部分否定表达，我们直接理解题意即可。对于其中的很多所谓“否定”表达，我们已经习以为常，以至于感觉不到它们的存在。
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