内容正文:
Section Ⅳ Using Language & Assessing Your Progress
难词注解
①look around 环顾四周
②or so 大约
③draw a breath 吸一口气
④in the open air 在露天
⑤have a strong urge 有一种强烈的欲望
⑥so long as 只要
⑦at maximum speed 以最快的速度
教材原文
THE TIME MACHINE[Adapted]
It was at ten o'clock today that the first of all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last check, and sat myself in the leather seat. I pushed the starting lever on the main panel forwards an inch then immediately backwards again. Looking around①, I saw my laboratory exactly as before. Had anything happened? I thought my mind had tricked me. Then I saw the clock. A moment before, it was a minute or so② past ten; now it was nearly half past three!
是强调句,强调时间状语 at ten o'clock today。
是简单句,looking around是现在分词作状语。
I drew a breath③, gripped the lever and pushed it forwards. The laboratory went hazy around me. My niece came in to fetch something, maybe her handkerchief, apparently without seeing me. It probably took her a minute, but to me she moved like a rocket! I pushed the lever further. Night came as if a lamp was being turned out, and in another moment came the day. Tomorrow night came, then skipped to day ,again and again,faster and faster still.
是简单句,drew,gripped,pushed是三个并列的谓语动词。
是and连接的并列复合句,and之前的分句中,as if引导方式状语从句,之后的分句为完全倒装句。
It is hard to explain the strange and unpleasant feeling of time travelling. It felt like I was being driven fast on a winding road. As my pace grew faster, the walls of the laboratory fell away, and I was left in the open air④.The sun and moon looked as if they were being thrown across the sky, but soon there was division between night and day. Around me I saw trees growing like puffs of smoke; they grew, spread,and died in moments. I saw huge buildings rise up, then disappear like in a dream. The whole surface of the earth was being changed,melting and flowing before my eyes. I calculated that I was being pushed through time at hundreds of years a minute.
是and连接的并列复合句,前面分句中,As my pace grew faster是时间状语从句。