新概念英语第三册Lesson 54知识点讲解

Section 1: lesson54 · ~wage (a war) on sb 开始, 进行（战争﹑ 运动等）: · We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good. We continually wages war on them, for they contaminate his food, carry diseases, or devour his crops. They sting or bite without provocation; they fly uninvited into our rooms on summer nights, or beat against our lighted windows. We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. Reading about them increases our understanding with out dispelling our fears. Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch. · No country wants to wage a nuclear war. 哪个国家也不想打核战争. · 警方正向毒品分子（drug dealers)开战 · 向邻国开战 · We have been brought up to fear insects. We regard them as unnecessary creatures that do more harm than good.