读后续写描写动物之家畜语料积累讲义 2023届高考英语作文备考

描写动物之家畜语料积累：猫、狗、马等 I. Domestic animals ▲ A Cat with Hind Legs Tucked in and Tail Coiled A cat sprang up upon the bench, stretched herself, tucked her hind legs under her and coiled her tail tightly round them as though to prevent them from accidentally working loose. ——Dorothy L.Sayers; Unnatural Death,Chap.XI 【生词】tuck /tʌk/ to put sth into a small space, especially to hide it or keep it safe or comfortable 把…塞进狭窄的空间；把…藏入；收藏 coil  /kɔɪl/~ (sth) round, around, etc. sth~ (sth) up=to wind into a series of circles; to make sth do this（使）缠绕，盘绕 【译文】一只猫跳上长凳，伸了个懒腰，把后腿缩在身下，把尾巴紧紧地盘绕在腿上，好像怕尾巴不小心松了似的. 【赏析】：一连串的动作描写，生动形象点出了猫咪的优雅和轻盈. ▲A Grey Cat The grey cat seated itself between and behind them again. It blinked slowly. The skin over its shoulders jerked forward under a flea, and then slipped slowly back. The cat lifted a paw and inspected it, flicked its claws out and in again experimentally, and licked its pads with a shell-pink tongue. —John Steinbeck:The Grapes of Wrath,Chap.6 【生词】blink=when you blink or blink your eyes or your eyes blink , you shut and open your eyes quickly眨眼睛 jerk /dʒɜːk/=If you jerk something or someone in a particular direction, or they jerk in a particular direction, they move a short distance very suddenly and quickly. 使…猝然一动; 猝然一动 flick /flɪk/=If something flicks in a particular direction, or if someone flicks it, it moves with a short, sudden movement. 迅速地移动 lick vt. 舔； pad  /pæd/ ；n. 衬垫；便签簿；(猫或狗的）爪垫 shell-pick粉红色；贝壳粉色 【译文】灰猫又在他们中间和后面坐了下来.它慢慢地眨了眨眼睛.它肩膀上的皮肤在一只跳蚤下面向前一缩，然后慢慢地滑了回来.这只猫抬起一只爪子检查了一下，又试着把爪子朝里朝外弹了几下，然后用贝壳般粉红色的舌头舔舐脚垫. 【赏析】 本段通过连续的动作描写，快慢结合（jerk的快和slip slowly慢）;用了inspect，含有拟人的意思，从视觉角度（shell-pink tongue),写出了猫的动作的轻盈和慵懒的样子. ▲ A Female Dog  The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess. —Jr. Kurt Vonnegu