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【暑假辅导班】
2021年新高二英语暑假精品课程(人教版2019)
第15讲 选择性必修一 Unit 4 Reading and Thinking
【核心知识点讲解】
1. vary vi. (根据情况)变化; 改变
*(2020·天津高考) Galileo was not merely ambitious when he dropped objects of varying weights from the Leaning Tower at Pisa and timed their fall to the ground. 当伽利略从比萨斜塔上让不同重量的物体下落并计算它们落地的时间时, 他不仅仅是雄心勃勃。
*(2019·全国卷Ⅰ)Typing patterns vary from person to person. 打字模式因人而异。
*The students’ work varies considerably in quality.
学生作业的质量甚是参差不齐。
*The menu varies with the season. 菜单随季节而变动。
*One had better see life in its various aspects when young.
一个人最好在年轻时就能看到生活的各个方面。
2. approve vi. 赞成; 同意 vt. 批准; 通过
*I’m afraid your parents won’t approve of your going there.
我担心你父母不会赞成你到那儿去。
*She desperately wanted to win her father’s approval.
她急不可待地想赢得父亲的赞同。
*She wants to be an actress, but her parents disapprove.
她想当演员, 可是她父母不同意。
【词块记忆】
(1)approve of sb. /sb. ’s (doing) sth.
赞成/同意某人(做)某事
(2)approval
n. 赞成; 同意; 批准; 通过
(3)disapprove
v. 不同意
3. employ vt. 使用; 应用; 雇用
*The boss employed a secretary to help him with his work.
老板雇来一位秘书来帮助他的工作。
*The manager employed himself in making a future plan for his company.
经理忙于为公司制订将来的计划。
*More local employment will be created, particularly in service industries.
当地会创造出更多的就业机会, 尤其是服务行业。
【词块记忆】
(1)employ sb. to do sth. 雇用某人做某事
(2)be employed in=employ oneself in 忙于
(3)employment
n. 雇用
employer
n. 雇用者; 雇主
employee
n. 雇员; 雇工
4. interpret vt. 把……理解(解释)为 vi. &vt. 口译
*We have to interpret his words in a modern term.
我们不得不用现代术语来解释他的话。
*I didn’t know whether to interpret her silence as acceptance or refusal.
我不知该把她的沉默看作是接受还是拒绝。
*Would you like me to interpret for you?
要不要我来帮你翻译?
*Theatre creates a new interpretation of Shakespeare’s comedy and aims to build a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds.
剧院创造了一种对莎士比亚喜剧的新诠释, 旨在为聋人和听觉世界架起一座桥梁。
【词块记忆】
(1)interpret sth. in 用(言语或表演)解释某事
(2)interpret as
解释为; 把……理解为
(3)interpret for sb.
为某人做翻译(interpret 主要指“口译”; translate 主要指“笔译”)
(4)interpretation
n. 解释; 翻译
5. differ vi.