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New Concept English
Lesson 29
★taxi n. 出租汽车(美语中为cab)
taxi driver 出租车司机;
taxi stand出租车站;
by taxi乘出租车
take a taxi to...打的去……
You may take a taxi to the station.
你可以坐出租车去车站。
Words study
★land v. 1.着陆2.卸货3.落入
The plane will land in five minutes.飞机将在五分钟后降落。
The pilot landed the plane safely.飞行员将飞机安全着陆。
The ship landed the goods at Shanghai.船在上海卸货。
The ball landed in the lake.球落入湖中。
★plough v. 耕地,犁地n. 犁
plough a field耕田
They plough in spring
他们在春耕。
★lonely adj. 1.偏僻的,人迹罕见的 2.孤单的,寂寞的
The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean.
这个人要飞往罗卡尔-大西洋上的一个孤岛。(前置定语)
When his wife and two little children left him, he was very lonely.妻子和两个孩子离开他以后,他很孤独。(表语)
同义词辨析:alone/lonely
lonely指“孤单的”,“孤独的”
lonely指人孤独,有浓厚的感情色彩!
可作表语,也可做前置定语
alone 指“独自一个人” adj.\adv.
alone表示单独,独自一个,没有感情色彩的
He stays home alone on the weekends.
She watches TV when she is alone .
★roof n. 1.屋顶2.车篷3.顶部,最高点
There is a cat on our roof.
在我们的房顶上有一只猫。
the roof of the world世界屋脊
the roof of heaven天空
the roof of the mouth上颚
roof-roofs
固定搭配:no roof over one’s head无家可归under one’s roof住在自己家里under sb’s roof在某人家做客;寄人篱下;在某人照应下
ceiling 天花板
hit the ceiling/roof [美口] 勃然大怒,暴跳如雷
★ block n.1.大楼,大厦2.街区3,障碍物,阻塞3.块,片(木,石等)
an office block 办公大楼;a block of flats 公寓楼;a block in the pipes管道阻塞
put up a road block设置路障;a block in traffic交通阻塞;a block of block一块石头
Turn left after two blocks.走过两个街区后往左拐。
It’s three blocks from my house to school.从我家到学校有三个街区。
★ flat n.(美) 公寓apartment(英) 公寓adj.1.平的,2.扁的,浅的 3.漏气的(轮胎)
a block of apartments
I hope to have a flat of my own.
我希望拥有一套属于自己的公寓房。
The earth is round, not flat.
地球是圆的,不是平的。
The car tires are flat.
这辆汽车的轮胎瘪了。
★ desert v. 废弃,抛弃,遗弃,舍弃.n. 沙漠
The village had been hurriedly deserted
这个村庄很快被遗弃了.
He deserted his wife and children and went abroad.
他抛弃了妻子儿女,出国去了。
同义词辨析:abandon, desert
abandon作“丢弃”讲时确切含义是“失去控制,或丧失了占有的能力”,或“放弃”某物而不准备再要了。
They abandoned the game because of rain.因为下雨比赛不得不停。
desert的确切含义是“过去占有过’或”过去是伙伴“。狭义地讲,这个词指”抛弃自己的义务“
a deserted street夜里无人的大街
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