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备战2021高考英语之长难句分析与写作(二十三)
一:长难句分析
长难句1:A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you’ll love to live in.
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a grasp of:对……的把握/ 掌握
长难句2:... color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.
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长难句3:They began as a modestly successful musician group and ended the year as show business legends.
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modestly successful:小有成就
show business: 演艺界
长难句4:Thanks to the Beatles, a lot of opportunities were opened up to new faces on the market.
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new face: 新面孔
长难句5:UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying (联合) voice across cultures.
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set:安排,确定
raise awareness of sth:增强对某事物的意识
across cultures:跨文化
长难句6:The music can’t be presented today the way it was in 1908 or 1958.
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present的基本义是“呈上”,即“呈现,展现”在他人面前。
长难句7:Last year, Moran worked on a project that arranged Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music as much as it is concert music,” says Moran.
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arrange:改编
kind of:有点儿
put it back in the mind that ...:将……放回(put it back in themind that,放回头脑里,即头脑里生发出东西,可译为“意识到,认识到”)
Waller is dance music ...:沃勒的爵士乐(人名指代作品)
长难句8:Are we, as humans, gaining any insight on how to talk about ourselves and how something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts?
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二:新题型写作
阅读下面短文,根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
Rain seems to make things clearer, doesn’t it? Rain helps flowers grow and helps keep plants green. It washes the dust off cars and houses. It makes roads look shiny and it leaves a fresh smell in the air.
But rain can be dirty. That’s because, as the rain falls, it gathers up any pollution that’s in the air. It can leave cars looking dirty and windows looking sp