Unit 6 Understanding ideas Longji Rice Terraces Language Points语言点课件-2022-2023学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第一册

Unit6 Longji Rice Terraces Language points 1 Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun. Summer sees the mountains turn bright green with growing rice. During autumn, these same mountains are gold, and in winter they are covered in sheets of white frost. These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces. wrap sth in sth turn bright green cover sth in/ with a sheet of wrapped和shining做宾补,补充说明mountains 用某物裹着某物 变得青翠 某物覆盖着 一大片 2 想象一下:春日,群山被银白色的水包裹着,在阳光下闪闪发光;盛夏,佳禾吐绿,将群山染成一片青翠。秋收,满山黄金,而隆冬,它们又披上了冰霜做成的雪白毛毯。这,就是绚丽多彩的龙脊梯田。 Translation: 3 These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home. Starting in the Yuan Dynasty, work on the terraces took hundreds of years, until its completion in the early Qing Dynasty. Reaching as far as the eye can see, these terraces cover tall mountains, often from the bottom to the very top. 被某人建造 是……的居住地 极目所尽 从底部到顶部 现在分词作状语 be built by sb be home to as far as the eye can /could see from the bottom to the very top n. 工作 4 龙脊梯田的建造者是广西当地的壮族和瑶族居民。梯田从元朝开始修建,历经数百年,直到清初才完工。目之所及,梯田包裹着巍峨的高山,往往从山脚一直盘绕到山顶。 Translation: 5 So why did these people go to so much trouble to turn the entire mountains into terraces? Firstly, there are few large, flat areas of land in the region. Building the terraces therefore meant that they could increase the areas in which they could grow rice. 费力做某事 把A 变成B 平地 地区,区域 种植水稻 go / take to the trouble to do sth turn A into B flat areas of land region grow rice 6 为什么当地人要如此大费周章,把整片山区变成梯田呢?首先,这里缺乏大面积的平原,建造梯田意味着他们可以扩大水稻的种植面积。 Translation: 7 Secondly, although the region has plenty of rain, the mountains are steep and the soil is shallow. The flat terraces catch the rainwater and prevent the soil from being washed away. 陡峭的 浅的 很多 接住雨水 阻止做某事 冲走 steep shallow plenty of catch the rainwater prevent /stop ... (from) doing sth wash away 8 其次,尽管该地区雨水充沛,但山地坡度大,土层浅薄。水平的梯田能够储存雨水,防止土壤被冲走。 Translation: 9 But perhaps what is most significant is the way in which people have worked in harmony w